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Clarity on the Marxist-Leninist, "Hoxhaist," PCMLE and MPD Position on Ecuador
Posted byVictor Vaughn February 18, 2011 August 9, 2011 Posted inAnti-Imperialism, Class Struggle, Common Sense, Ecuador, Enver Hoxha, Hypocrisy, Imperialism & Colonialism, Khrushchevism/ Brezhnevism, Lies & Propaganda, Marxism-Leninism, Myth-Busting, Revisionism, Venezuela
Revisionists, Brezhnevites and supporters of the pro-imperialist "Communist Party of Ecuador" have rallied behind the social-democrat Correa and launched a hysterical campaign of lies and slander as usual against the communists in Ecuador. This article is written in defense of the Hoxhaist Partido Comunista Marxista-Leninista del Ecuador (PCMLE) and defending the revolutionary forces in Ecuador from attacks and lies by anti-communists.
"Any action that a social movement takes can be read, understood, or publicized as an action in support of the Right, since this government is supposedly a Leftist one. This has produced a climate of uncertainty over what positions to take, what actions to take."
– Ivonne Ramos of Acción Ecologica
No doubt you've heard the leftist forums alight with news of the "coup attempt" in Ecuador against President Rafael Correa. Perhaps you've also heard rumors that the PCMLE and MPD are complicit in this so-called "coup attempt," while the social democrats in power have their hands clean of any sordid deeds. In fact, this is simply not true. The Marxist-Leninists, or "Hoxhaists," as they are sometimes called, did not support the coup attempt against Correa.
Many so-called "socialists," particularly Brezhnevites and Trotskyites, have joined the chorus in calling for the destruction of the Hoxhaists in Ecuador based on the fact that they did not support the government of Correa and instead backed the uprising, which was not limited to the police but rather extended to that institution.
Organizations have thus seen the need to disgustingly label Marxist-Leninists on the international scene as "sinners" for not supporting the social democratic government in Ecuador. They claim that they "backed the right-wing coup."
The PCMLE are now being compared by traitors and revisionists as the same as the pro-Hoxha Maoist CIA-infiltrated group "Bandera Roja" in Venezuela.
The "Bandera Roja" has been expelled from the ICMLPO for 6 years now and now has less than 100 people left, since their actual MLs formed a new ICMLPO-supported party.
Oddly, the Hoxhaists in Ecuador are also falsely charged with calling Correa a "social-fascist," when in fact it was Ecuador's Maoists who made this trumped-up charge. There is no document, announcement or evidence for such an action or announcement by the PCMLE or MPD, nor any of its affiliated trade unions.
I will counter these slanders below and deal with many of the questions surrounding the stance of the Hoxhaists in Ecuador and internationally.
These anti-communist slanders against the ACTUAL communists in Ecuador should come as surprise to nobody, since in the Brezhnevite view one can never support communists without empowering the right. This article sums up the Brezhnevite line on Ecuador, which extends to the PSL and other Marcyites, et al:
http://redantliberationarmy.wordpress.com/2010/10/02/chronicle-of-the-glorious-resistance-of-the-communists-and-the-masses-against-the-fascist-coup-in-ecuador/
Firstly, this article is from the pro-imperialist PCE, which was openly infiltrated by the CIA for many years.
It also calls Hoxhaists "fascists," which is sheer reactionary filth that the author of this blog, BJ Murphy, should be ashamed for re-printing!
In his response to a commenter, notice he says "Well the PCMLE are not in power. They're actually one of the least [!!!! – E.S.] communist groups to have support of the mass people. Now if they can start gaining better solidarity & actually do something other than support US-backed coups, then they may have a chance. As you can see, Communists that protected the government of Ecuador were far larger in numbers & power than the PCMLE. Nothing in the world is better than worker's power. I want to see such in Ecuador, but this coup was an act of imperialism. An act we must always declare opposition against as top priority."
This really should've been a time to invoke the "no investigation, no right to speak" clause of being a Marxist. In the mid 1960s the U.S. State Department estimated the party membership of the PCE to be approximately 2500. Later, the PCE was legalized, although it had only an estimated 500 members in 1988. The PCE participated in congressional and presidential elections as part of the coalition of the Broad Left Front (Frente Amplio de Izquierda – FADI), which gained thirteen seats in Congress in 1986.
Meanwhile, the Hoxhaist PCMLE is over 200,000 people and controls unions amounting to 2,000,000 Ecuadorian workers, peasants, students and teachers.
At the same time Brezhnevite bloggers were calling the vanguard of the Ecuadorian working class "fascists[!]", on Revlib, the Mos Eisley spaceport of the left and a wretched hive of Trotskyfascists and Anarchskkkum:
http://www.revleft.com/vb/ecuadorean-coup-detati-t142548/index2.html
Brezhnevites and "New Communists," who are uniformly in European social-democratic countries, walk in lock-step with Trots, ultra-lefts and those with FBI informant George Orwell avatars in condemning the PCMLE and the MPD in Ecuador. From the CubaNews email list, one PCE supporter says about the PCE and the PCMLE:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/message/118472
"They have always had a rather ultra-left discourse, but in practice they are great street-fighters. It was the alliance between the CONAIE and PCMLE, as well as the unions, which helped to topple successive governments, including the regime of Gutierrez in 2005. The PCE and the CTE also played an important role, but the PCE has always been more [petty-bourgeois] in social composition."
What Do Marxist-Leninists Say?
I support the PCMLE's position, and above all PCMLE is the needed party. It has a mass movement, a mass line and can really act. That's why Correa tries to show them as "imperialist agents" and "terrorists" and as puppets of whatever foreign intelligence agencies are fashionable. Given U.S. history in the region, this wouldn't be hard to believe were Correa not himself seeking rapprochement with U.S. imperialism.
While PCE can only watch and give lessons, the PCMLE are actually waging a struggle against capitalism in Ecuador. When you are a small bunch of urban intellectuals and you have no mass movement or illegal military wing (unlike the PCMLE), to go on and start people's revolution, you end up working for the bourgeoisie as loyal servants.
However, foreign Marxists should really know better, perhaps to listen to the countless public statements of Ecuadorian revolutionaries (NOT reformists like the PCE), about what actually happened. Otherwise they should keep their mouths shut.
What Do the Mass Organizations of Ecuador Say?
CONAIE, the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador, asserted:
We reject President Rafael Correa's racist, authoritarian, and antidemocratic statements, which violate the rights of [indigenous] nationalities and peoples enshrined in international conventions and treaties. This constitutes an attack against the construction of a pluri-national and intercultural democracy in Ecuador. Correa has assumed the traditional neoliberal posture of the rightist oligarchy.
Ah, but don't you see? It's all CIA, of course!
Correa's administration later rushed ahead with large-scale extraction projects and privatization of natural resources. Some "progressive," as he is lovingly called by BJ Murphy.
Straw Men, False Accusations
Here are some other attacks from "Revleft.com":
A coup against a leftist president, albeit one who is a capitalist head of a bourgeois government, would be a major blow to the workers movement in Ecuador. Let's hope that this does not succeed or there could potentially be a serious crackdown and repression facing workers struggles in Ecuador.
Criticism is good, as long as you don't cross the line. When the workers are supporting a guy you don't like, you should NOT take arms side to side with the right counter-revolutionaries.
"The Vegan "Marxist" had this to say:
Exactly. I don't see what's wrong in having a military backing a Socialist government. It's tactical, & in a lot of cases, as we can clearly see, it's necessary.
When someone objected, stating the OBVIOUS FACT that the government was not socialist, the situation was distorted by another poster:
Right, we probably should have backed the police here!
Oddly, supporting police – in active striking – was NOT okay in these swampy parts of the internet, but supporting a bourgeois state's military machine – notably not striking as they cracked down on the left with machine guns and tear gas – is just fine.
In fact, any dissent from this line is CIA, but not backing the US-supporting Correa.
Is this true? Does the PCMLE represent nothing more than the drives of imperialism, of the CIA?
http://www.cpiml.org/liberation/year_2004/febraury/Ecuador.htm
PCMLE response to these accusations:
The lie as the official discourse
It is known the trick of the offender that, when is felt exposed , screams "catch the thief, catch the thief" so that the eyes of the witnesses go over elsewhere and in this way keep free of the responsability. By this logic works the President when he feels concerned in his image, and releases all sorts of insults, lies, and defendants who are considered the opposition.
Insolent – as normally acts- on the last Saturday called fascist and criminals to the members of the _Movimiento Popular Democratico. "Criminals? Is not this government that must answer for the murder of Professor Bosco Wisuma, produced a year ago in Morona? Was not this government that ordered the assault to the Police Hospital- actions not allowed even in war conditions , which cost the lives of eight Ecuadorian? Who is responsible for the brutal repression unleashed in Dayuma or against Zamora Chinchipe miners?
The struggle of the revolutionary left to transform this country has claimed the lives of militants from the MPD and other organizations committed to the workers and the people. Jaime Hurtado is the most emblematic example that illuminates the workings of the MPD and thousands of popular fighters of Ecuador. The revolutionary left does not lower their flags and is front-line fighter against the right and imperialism. Correa's insults do not change the nature and purposes of those who fight for a revolution.
Correa has betrayed the political project of change and the hope that millions of Ecuadorians han nested. He moved away from positions of the left when said infront to the imperialism spokeswoman, Hillary Clinton h he is not anti-capitalist and imperialist, applies a neoliberal policy that causes rejection of our people, its government has become increasingly anti-democratic and authoritarian, Correa could be further from the constitutional provisions adopted in Montecristi. Missing space to show how far the government is of the change which the people voted.
Surely the trick correista continue and we continue listen "they are criminals … they are the fascists."
http://www.pcmle.org/EM/article.php3?id_article=3861
Where did the PCMLE and MPD come from?
In 1964, M-Ls formed the Ecuadorian Marxist Leninist Communist Party (PCMLE). The PCMLE operated largely as an illegal and clandestine party, but in 1977 formed the Popular Democratic Movement (MPD) as a legal electoral front.
http://www.yachana.org/research/ierp_left.pdf
Is the PCMLE / MPD in Ecuador the vanguard of the working class or a student-led petty-bourgeois organization?
http://www.cpiml.org/liberation/year_2009/sept_09/international_1.html
MPD: The relationship between MPD and the workers, peasants, teachers, students etc… is political and ideological. This relationship is a natural one. It is important that people in the parliament come from workers', peasants', teachers' etc. organization. The organizations that work directly with us are UGTE (Workers organisation – 30, 000 members; 2nd largest trade union), UNE (Teachers' organisation), FEUE (students' organisation – 350, 000 members), UCAE (peasant organisation), PCMLE etc. We work with and organize in total 15 of these organizations (total membership – 2 million). In the last 20 years we have been working with this structure. All candidates for the elections come from these organizations. This is the principal way in which to obtain victory for the people.
The MPD on the present situation:
http://www.mpd15.org.ec/boletines1.php#ma42
The National Executive of the Popular Democratic Movement, to the events that occurred yesterday in the country, notes solely responsible to President Rafael Correa, who in an attitude of arrogance challenged in Quito Regiment to the police, who made use of the right constitutional resistance, which degenerated into clashes that we all know.
The people of Ecuador, the troops and military police along with social and popular organizations, launched a righteous protest against the adoption of neoliberal laws, sent to the Assembly by Correa, these laws remain acquired rights public servants and encourages the dismissal of 225,000 workers.
The MPD, rejects the violation of the right of freedom of expression the regime committed yesterday in the state of emergency and the only voice heard is the official channel, restricting freedom of expression, selling the world the false information of a coup attempt, when in our country that there is a people who disagree with government policy which aims to pass laws affecting the achievements and rights of workers and peoples of Ecuador.
The revolutionary left supports popular actions, which today has risen in protest along with thousands of public servants in the country, with social organizations continue raising actions to continue the defense of university autonomy, our natural resources, national sovereignty, by the way of real change in the New Nation and Socialism.
We reiterate the call for unity of all political leftist, progressive, workers, teachers, students, peasants, indigenous people, to prevent President Correa to continue violating their human and constitutional rights of all social sectors.
Articles on the Subject Endorsing this View
From the author Greg McDonald on the "Marxism" List:
http://www.mail-archive.com/marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu/msg11111.html
According to that line of reasoning, neither the high command of the military nor the police deviated from their loyalty to President Correa. The discontent emerged from below. demands were purely economic. Finally, the president even received support from the bourgeois right-wing in Guayaquil. All of these groups have backed the presidential decision to institute a state of siege inside the country, which has now been prolonged inside Quito.
Outside the country, Correa received the support of the OAS, President Obama, who called him personally to express his support, the UN, the UNASUR, and even the right wing governments of the region such as Peru, Colombia, and Chile.
There is plenty of evidence to demonstrate that the president was not really a victim of kidnapping either. Correa had access to his cell phone, guards were not posted outside his door, and he even had negotiated his peaceful exit from the hospital with his presumptive kidnappers. All of this has been verified by Dr's Gilberto Calle and Fernando Vargas, as well as by journalists who were present in the room with the president.
To be sure, Lucio Gutierrez tried to take advantage of the situation to press publicly for Correa's replacement, but his was the lone voice among the right wing bourgeoisie and partidocracy crying in the wilderness.
Not only does Correa represent the bonapartist head of a bourgeois government, seeking to disarticulate the social movements and push forward with a neo-extractivist economic program, he is even deviating from Chavez's foreign policy by working with the Colombian government to encircle the FARC rebels.
With friends like these….
Greg McDonald
Correa Himself Admits There Was No CIA Coup:
http://www.telegrafo.com.ec/actualidad/noticia/archive/actualidad/2010/10/18/Correa_3A00_-Obama-no-estuvo-involucrado.aspx
President Correa was interviewed last week by a Colombian TV network, and an Ecuadorian paper published the transcript. In the interview, the President states unequivocally there was no USA involvement in the attempted coup on September 30th, and while he has suspicions of right-wing US involvement, his government has no proof of any US complicity. They do have proof that the extreme right-wing in the USA has funded the right-wing opposition inside Ecuador, but the Ecuadorian government has no proof of any direct US involvement in the events of September 30th. In terms of right-wing US funding, the president did not indicate one way or the other whether these are private or government sources of funding. Ricardo Patino, head of foreign relations for Correa, has underscored publicly that the USA was not involved in the coup attempt.
[….]
The MPD is the legal, parliamentarian front for the PCMLE. They backed Correa up until this year, but since they have a large membership in the public sector unions and the student organizations, they withdrew their support after Correa began his attack on the unions and on university autonomy. One of the leaders of the FEUE, a student organization aligned with the PCMLE, has been in jail on "terrorism" charges for 10 months. Marcelo Rivera is currently on hunger strike, and is considered by the MPD and FEUE to be a political prisoner. Over 100 social movement leaders have been arrested on trumped up "terrorism" charges.
The MPD asserts that Correa is trying to break the unions. Luis Macas and some members of CONAIE agree with this analysis. According to a recent NACLA article, the furor over the Public Services Law, which provoked over 1000 police to stage countrywide protests, was due to the fact that Correa vetoed sections of the bill which had been negotiated in the Legislative Assembly between union representatives, the MPD, and members of Correa's own Alianza Pais.
Coup in Ecuador?
Written by Kristin Bricker
Source: NACLA
On September 30, about 1,000 Ecuadoran national police officers took to the streets, blocking key intersections and taking over public space, in protest of a new law that eliminated their bonuses and other benefits.
Even though the protesting police represented a small fraction of the 42,000-member force, things quickly spun out of control. A small number of low-ranking Air Force soldiers shut down airports, the police occupied Congress, and they held Correa hostage in a hospital for more than 10 hours until a mixed Special Operations team rescued him. The unrest left 10 dead and 274 injured.
The police rebellion began after Correa used line-item vetoes to change certain parts of the Public Services Law, which reportedly aimed to streamline Ecuador's public sector by doing away with certain bonuses and forcing many public servants into early retirement. The president's line-item veto power is provided for under the country's 2008 constitution, and the president has often used it to overrule Congress.
According to Edwin Bedoya, vice president of the Ecuadoran Federation of Unitarian Working Class Organizations (CEDOCUT), the version of the Public Services Law that Congress originally passed was crafted in negotiations between Correa's Alianza PAIS party and public servants. "But we saw in the second round of voting that the president had vetoed the agreements and had gotten rid of certain workers' rights," Bedoya said. When Congress, including some members of Alianza PAIS, balked at Correa's changes to the legislation, the president threatened to use his right to dissolve Congress to pass his version of the Public Services law.
But the ensuing rebellion, Correa and others have emphasized, was not a spontaneous uprising. While still being held hostage, Correa declared: "It is a coup attempt led by the opposition and certain sections of the armed forces and the police." Many Latin Americans, still rattled by the successful coup against leftist President Manuel Zelaya in Honduras last year, feared Correa would be next. Others argued that calling the unrest a "coup" is an exaggeration, or even that Correa kidnapped himself in order to increase his popularity and political power.
Yet the protests took place in at least four provinces in Ecuador, casting doubt on their spontaneity. And as Correa pointed out, the protests were "coordinated with the closure . . . of the airport, coordinated with the attacks on the [state television's] relay antennas, with the invasion of [government-owned] Ecuador TV's studios," and the police takeover of Congress.
Moreover, video footage of the striking police during the operation that freed Correa clearly demonstrates that the police were shooting to kill. Correa told the press that the armored vehicle that drove him away from the hospital was shot multiple times.
While police held Correa hostage, former Ecuadoran president Lucio Gutiérrez—an outspoken critic of Correa—gave interviews from his exile in Brazil, hailing the police rebellion as a coup. "The end of Correa's tyranny is at hand," he said, and called for the "dissolution of parliament" and "early presidential elections." Former president of Congress Alberto Acosta, a Correa supporter turned critic, reported that "ex-soldiers and ex-police, the very people that make up the fat of the Lucio's party," were seen in barracks in multiple cities. When police briefly occupied Congress, Acosta added, the representatives who are members of Gutiérrez's Patriotic Society Party entered and exited freely, while members of other parties "had trouble entering."
Both Correa and former National Police commander Freddy Martínez, who resigned after his failure to control his troops, argue that outside instigators infiltrated the police, misled police about the austerity measures in the Public Service Law, and provoked the uprising. Labor and indigenous organizations in Ecuador, however, have taken a more nuanced line. The police rebellion occurred, they argue, because Ecuador's right wing is taking advantage of weaknesses created by Correa's alienating governing style. Although they opposed any coup attempt and demanded that constitutional order be respected, they also criticized Correa for marginalizing his natural allies in the social movements and leaving himself vulnerable to attacks from the right.
A joint statement from four of Ecuador's largest indigenous organizations rejected the "right-wing's actions that in an undercover way form part of the attempted coup" and called upon its members to "be on alert and ready to mobilize." However, the statement criticizes the Correa administration for violently repressing mobilizations against transnational mining, oil, and agro-industrial companies. The organizations argued, "The social crisis that was let loose today was also provoked by the authoritarian character and the unwillingness to dialogue in the lawmaking process. We have seen how laws that were negotiated [with social sectors] were vetoed by the President of the Republic. . . . This scenario nurtures the conservative sectors."
Labor leader Bedoya says that on September 30, the CEDOCUT called on all sectors to hit the streets to restore constitutional order. However, like his country's indigenous organizations, he qualified his organization's defense of Correa: "We do believe that part of the blame for what is happening lies with not accepting dialogue with social sectors."
Acosta, who co-founded the Alianza PAIS with Correa, echoed this. "The president and his government don't know how to dialogue," he said. "They impose their laws, without even respecting the criteria of the assembly members of their own block."
Even worse, argued indigenous organizations on the day of the coup, the Correa administration has repressed them just as right-wing governments have. "Faced with the criticism and mobilization of communities against transnational mining, oil, and agro-industrial companies," wrote the CONAIE, the ECUARUNARI, the CONFENIAE, and CONAICE, "the government, instead of creating a dialogue, responds with violence and repression. . . . The only thing this type of politics provokes is to open spaces to the Right and create spaces of destabilization."
Bedoya shares this analysis: "Of course the right takes advantage of this, and takes advantage of the most powerful sector, which is the national police and the military, and it begins to sow discontent . . . but the government's behavior is making that possible."
Acosta hopes that his former ally will learn from the police rebellion. "History has given to President Correa, once again, the opportunity to reacquaint himself with the origins of the revolutionary process, to rectify. Hopefully he understands it that way."
"A Citizens' Revolution," argued Bedoya, "implies a respect for the rights of all people, of the workers, of organizations' collective rights, and to establish a dialogue to reach a minimum consensus with the social sectors."
Finally, below is the analysis from the union federation CEDOCUT website:
http://www.cedocut.org/cms/
According to CEDOCUT, the entire passel of new laws created by Correa's party–the laws on mines, water, public finance, education, public sector, and public businesses, were instituted autocratically without the participation of the popular movement, and undermine popular initiatives to the benefit of the private sector and multinational corporations. Furthermore, the government is pushing for "labor flexibility", and we all know what that means.
There is a growing consensus among all the various sources I have researched, from Accion Ecologica and the MPD, to Pachakutik and CONAIE, as well as various labor organizations and student organizations, representing the vast majority of organizations of the social movements of Ecuador, that the primary thrust of Correa's government is capitalist developmentalism.
It remains to be seen whether or not Correa responds to popular calls for a Golpe de Timon, or a rapprochement with the left. Given the institutional and legal ramifications of all the recent laws his government has passed, one cannot help but be pessimistic at that prospect.
There is also further analysis coming from the left in Latin America which disputes the argument that the events of september 30th constituted even a poorly orchestrated coup attempt. A spokesperson for the Argentine PT agrees with the Ecuadorian unions, student groups, and indigenous organizations, that the police rebellion was not a coup attempt.
http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/que-paso-en-ecuador
Published by Victor Vaughn
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Brazilian soy exporters, crushers and farmers should 'keep their eyes on' German GM free trend, says retailer
12-Oct-2015 - Last updated on 15-Oct-2015 at 08:16 GMT
Related tags: Gm free soy, Soybean, Gm
There is a now a huge momentum in Germany to convert all private label meat sectors to GM free soy, said the German Association of Food without Genetic Engineering (VLOG).
"The transition to non genetically modififed (GM) soy is taking place in meat sectors beyond poultry and we are seeing discounters like Lidl and Aldi getting on board. We have a much stronger commitment now from the retail sector overall regarding the use of GM free soy in own label meat, egg and milk products," Alexander Hissting, general manager of VLOG, told FeedNavigator.
And Dr Ludger Breloh, head of strategic purchases/green products for the Rewe Group, the second biggest retailer in Germany with a presence in 11 other European markets, has been creating awareness around the trend.
In an article posted on the Global Grain South America conference website, he wrote that the increasing retailer demand for certified non-GM soybean meal in Germany is a potential industry game changer and a shift Brazilian exporters, crushers and farmers should "keep their eyes on".
He said that Rewe and other German supermarkets have begun conversations with their entire supply chains with the aim of having as many private label meat products using GM free soy feed.
"This target market is here to stay due to an ever-growing consumer demand in Germany and beyond. Brazilian suppliers as well as service providers in South America and in Europe are needed to keep it going and growing," he wrote, noting the interest in GM free soy meal in France, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary and Italy.
Hissting said the Rewe buyer is raising the flag to ensure the feed sector and traders realize it is important to maintain demand at a level that encourages Brazilian soy producers to keep cultivating non GM soy.
It's a topic with political support.
In August, on a visit to Brasilia with Chancellor, Angela Merkel, the German minister for agriculture, Christian Schmidt, told media that expansion of non GM soy production in Brazil was high on the German agenda in terms of the talks between the two governments.
Since the mid-1990s, all three soy origin countries — Brazil, Argentina and the US — have seen a rapid increase in the cultivation of GM soybeans. Only Brazil still produces about 10m Mt of GM free soy out of the total 90m Mt cultivated.
Germany needs 4.5 million metric tons of soybean meal from overseas to meet its animal sector protein gap. Typically, dairy cows and fattening cattle get 0.8m Mt of that volume, while poultry receive 1.2m Mt and pigs 2.5m Mt.
Dairy, pork switch
Rewe has already made its broiler and layer supply chain GM free, wrote Breloh. By the end of this year, it expects to realize the same for its turkey private label products, while talks with its dairy processors include tenders demanding GM free soy.
Negotiations are also under way with suppliers so that, as of 2016, pork can also be labeled as 'GM free' using the VLOG seal, revealed the buyer.
And Deutsches Milchkontor (DMK), Germany's largest dairy company, has reportedly decided to follow the retailer trend by converting the over 200,000 Mt of soybean meal it uses to GM free by 2018.
Non GMO Labelling
A survey Greenpeace commissioned in April 2014 on this topic showed 79% of German consumers felt it was important or very important that poultry is not fed with GM feed, 93% of shoppers said they wanted a poultry product or egg labelled as such when produced with GM feed, and 61% of respondents said they would pay 0.50 cents more for GM free chicken meat.
VLOG, which allows licensees the use of the OG – no genetic engineering – stamp on manufactured food products that meet the standard, said if operators in the feed sector want to comply with the OG labelling criteria, they must aim for no GM content.
This means they can show, at most, traces of up to 0.1% GM raw materials.
There are exceptional cases where the law permits a higher presence of GMs. "These exceptions are documented as 'adventitious' or 'technically unavoidable'. In such cases GM content of up to 0.9% can be permitted as per EU Regulations 1829/2003 and 1830/2003," said the association.
Retailer offensive against ZDG
The developments are in marked contrast to the events of 18 months ago when German poultry companies announced they would have to switch to GM soy for the dietary needs of their birds, reneging on a 14-year-old pledge to only use GM free.
German poultry trade association, the ZDG, said, at the time, that the industry was forced to take such action due to the hike in the costs of the premium attached to sourcing non GM soy and the risk of cross-contamination of the GM free variant with GM soy.
But the body took the decision without convening a meeting with the retail sector, and the supermarkets have been on the offensive ever since, demanding poultry producers fulfil their contract obligations and revert to sourcing GM free soy.
In addition, Greenpeace initiated a campaign in March 2014 against the ZDG move: "We wanted to mobilize the German retailers and get them to hike up the pressure on the poultry segment to revert to GM free soy feeding," said Stephanie Töwe, campaigner with Greenpeace in December last year.
Politicians also weighed in on the debate.
"The poultry industry did not expect such a strong reaction. Indeed, it was rare to see retailers speaking with one voice. The decision of some supermarkets to substitute German poultry products with the equivalent from Italy and Austria was also quite a convincing argument," said Hissting.
December 2014 saw the PHW Group, one of the biggest German poultry producers, switch to GM free feed, in a move that "motivated all competitors," wrote Breloh.
The Rewe representative said he expects the entire German poultry production to be using non GM soy inputs by the end of 2016.
Tipping point
Hissting reckons there does not have to be 100% demand in order for the entire feed sector to only source GM free soy eventually: "There is a tipping point that will make it less expensive to migrate completely to GM free soy meal sourcing."
He also noted a growing interest in developing GM free soy in Europe, through the likes of the Danube Soya project based in Austria.
"In a few years' time, we could very well be looking back at the events of 2014 and seeing them as the trigger for the entire meat production industry in Germany to go GM soy free. Two years ago I would not have dreamt of such a development," added Hissting.
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Brussels: Daylight saving time across Europe will soon put an end changing clocks hours backward and forward. European overwhelmingly expressed frustration and confusion over change of an hour in winter and summer.
The move comes after a Europe-wide survey in which a vast majority said that time was up on the changing of the clocks, European Commission president Jean Claude-Junker announced on August 31, citing the 'will of the people' expressed in a recent survey.
Millions of tourists and transport passengers, as well as tour operators and ticketing agents, long-distance drivers and bankers are often caught in the confusion of who don't take part in the continental switch, specially Russia, Turkey and Iceland.
The changing of the clocks in summer and winter is very much a German phenomenon. It was introduced in the country in 1980 for the purpose of saving energy.
Since 1996, all Europeans have been changing their clock forward by one hour on the last Sunday of March and by one hour backward on the last Sunday of October. The reason for the initial implementation of daylight saving time was to tackle the issues in the transport and logistics sectors that arise from uncoordinated clock-changes throughout the year.
The survey featured around 4.6 million participants and ran between July 4 and August 16. Three million of those were from Germany and around 80 per cent of all participants supported the move. The results also show that 76 per cent of respondents consider the changing of the clocks to be a 'negative' experience.
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Q: Proceed to another view on button click AngularJS I have a drop down which is displaying data from a Web API. The data is shown below

here's the code for the drop down
<select ng-model="details" ng-options="x.Name for x in customers"></select>

then I have a text box and a button:
<input type="password" ng-model="pin" ng-required="true"/>
<button ng-click="pinForm.$valid && (count = count + 1)" ng-init="count=0">Proceed</button>

Now there are 2 things I want to implement:

*

*with details.PIN I get the PIN of the selected person in the drop down. What I want to do is on button click to check if the pin entered in the text box match to details.PIN; if so, proceed to another view

*I have implemented a count on the button. If the count reach to 3 and the pin entered is wrong, I need to show an error message.

The HTML for the only view I have till now

        <select ng-model="details" ng-options="x.Name for x in customers"></select>

you selected {{details.Name}}

his card status is {{details.cardStatus}}

                <form name="pinForm">
                    <input type="password" ng-model="pin" ng-required="true"/>

<button ng-click="pinForm.$valid && (count = count + 1)" ng-init="count=0">Proceed</button>

Attempts left: {{3-count}}

                </form>

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Here is the code for the API
namespace test.Controllers
{
    [RoutePrefix("Customer")]
    public class CustomerController : ApiController
    {
        [Route("CustomerRecords")]
        public List<Customer> Get()
        {
            return new List<Customer>()
            {
                new Customer { CID=1, Name="Bruce Wayne", PIN="1234", Bal=1000000, cardStatus= "0" }
                ,new Customer { CID=2, Name="Steve Rogers", PIN="2246", Bal=900000, cardStatus= "0" }
                ,new Customer { CID=3, Name="Jon Snow", PIN="2398", Bal=3000, cardStatus= "1" }
                ,new Customer { CID=4, Name="Rustin Cohle", PIN="7549", Bal=450000, cardStatus= "2" }
                //NOTE
                //cardStatus '0' :valid
                //cardStatus '1' :stolen
                //cardStatus '2' :lost
            };
        }
    }
    public class Customer
    {
        public int CID { get; set; }
        public string Name { get; set; }
        public string PIN { get; set; }
        public int Bal { get; set; }
        public string cardStatus { get; set; }
    }
}

here's the module, the service and the factory method the code for routing the views:
var customerAppModule = angular.module("customerApp", []);
customerAppModule.controller('CustomerCtrl', function ($scope, CustomerService)
{
    getCustomerRecords();
    function getCustomerRecords() {
        CustomerService.getCustomers()
            .success(function (data) {
                console.log(data);
                $scope.customers = data;
            })
            .error(function (data, status) {
                console.error('failure loading the customer record', status, data);
                $scope.customers = {};
            });
    }
});

customerAppModule.factory('CustomerService', ['$http', function ($http) {
    var customerService = {};
    var urlBase = 'http://localhost:51701/Customer';

    customerService.getCustomers = function () {
        return $http.get(urlBase + '/CustomerRecords');
    };
    return customerService;
}]);

var app = angular.module('routeApp', ['ngRoute']);
app.config(function ($routeProvider) {
    $routeProvider
        .when('/', {
            templateUrl: 'Views/Home/index.cshtml',
            controller: 'CustomerCtrl'
        })
        .when('/MainMenu', {
            templateUrl: 'Views/Home/MainMenu.cshtml',
            controller: 'CustomerCtrl'
        })
});

I'm not sure I've written the code for the routing correctly.

A: What if you change the ng-click logic, to consums a function instead an expression.
Example
HTML

    <select ng-model="vm.details" ng-options="x.Name for x in vm.customers">
      <option value="">Select...</option>
    </select>

you selected {{vm.details.Name}}

his card status is {{vm.details.cardStatus}}

                <form name="vm.pinForm">
                    <input type="password" ng-model="vm.pin" ng-required="true"/>

<button ng-disabled="vm.count >=3"  ng-click="vm.pinFormCheck();" ng-init="vm.count=0">Proceed</button>

Attempts left: {{3-vm.count}}

                </form>

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Invalid Pin

=3">

Not Enoguh Attempts

CONTROLLER
    var vm = this;

  vm.customers = [
    {CID:1, Name:'Bruce Wayne', PIN: '1234', Bal: 10000, cardStatus: '0'},
    {CID:2, Name:'Steve Rogers', PIN: '2246', Bal: 90000, cardStatus: '0'},
    {CID:3, Name:'Jon Snow', PIN: '2398', Bal: 30000, cardStatus: '1'},
    {CID:4, Name:'Rustin Cohle', PIN: '7549', Bal: 45000, cardStatus: '2'}
  ];

  vm.pinFormCheck = function(){
    vm.count++;
    if(vm.pinForm.$valid && (vm.details.PIN === vm.pin) && (vm.count <= 2)){
      console.log('all good'); //change location.
    }else{
      vm.failPin = true;
      console.log('atemps', vm.count);
    }
  };

Working Example in this HERE
Hope this example is good enough for your UNIT CASE

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Florida Appellate Court Hears Argument on Fraudulent Mortgage Documents
(From Daily Business Review)
Can homeowners reopen cases?
Adolfo Pesquera
Pressing for a Lake Worth homeowner's right to expose alleged fraud by a bank, a foreclosure defense attorney argued before a state appeals court that Bank of New York Mellon cannot stop a trial judge from reopening a case that had been dismissed.
Oral arguments heard Wednesday looked at the cause of the bank's voluntary dismissal of Roman Pino's foreclosure case last year. Defense attorneys alleged a fraudulent assignment of mortgage was submitted to the Palm Beach Circuit Court by the Law Offices of David J. Stern in Plantation. After becoming suspicious of the paperwork, the defense scheduled depositions of the law firm's employees.
On the eve of the scheduled depositions, the bank dropped the case, and no depositions took place. But five months later, the bank refiled its case against Pino.
Enrique Nieves III, an attorney with Ice Legal in Royal Palm Beach, told the 4th District Court of Appeal panel that the second lawsuit filed by the bank did not contain the questionable document originally submitted to show that the bank was the rightful lien holder.
Stern's law firm is one of four under investigation by the Florida attorney general's office, which issued subpoenas in search of improper documentation that may have been used to accelerate foreclosures in court.
Law firms defending homeowners have alleged lenders' foreclosure lawyers have used a number of deceptions, including use of fraudulent assignments of mortgage, improper affidavits of indebtedness and so-called robo-signing, or rapid-fire signing of documents attesting to the accuracy of documents they never read.
'The Grand Scheme'
In August 2009, Pino's attorney asked Palm Beach Circuit Judge Meenu Sasser to strike the bank's dismissal motion in the first case and conduct an evidentiary hearing to expose the alleged fraud. Sasser said she could not reopen a case that was voluntarily dismissed. Nieves appealed the judge's ruling to the DCA.
In arguments before the appellate panel last week, BNY Mellon attorney Katherine Giddings with Akerman Senterfitt in Tallahassee denied any fraud took place. She asserted the homeowner must show fraud was central to the case in order to reopen it.
Moreover, she argued the homeowner had no right to reopen the first case because the bank did not benefit from the dismissal. Giddings indicated the only benefits anyone derived from the March 2009 dismissal were attorney fees paid to Ice Legal for prevailing and the reprieve Pino received to remain in the home.
"I'm urging you to consider this case in the grand scheme of things," Giddings said. "If you allow courts to go back and open up all of these cases when it's clear there was no affirmative relief [to the banks], then you're going to create chaos."
Judge Gary Farmer asked if Giddings was suggesting fraud was widespread.
"I'm not acknowledging that any fraud occurred," she said.
"As a court system, why would we shrink, no matter how many cases it might involve, from looking out for attempts to defraud courts?" Farmer asked. "Why wouldn't we be most vigilant?"
Right To Dismiss
Nieves argued that a key issue in favor of reversal at the trial court level was Judge Sasser's reliance on case law that did not address a potential fraud upon the court. He cited a land dispute case that was reinstated to examine fraudulent documents.
In Pino's foreclosure case, he said, "They're basically using the [voluntary dismissal] rule to aid and abet their coverup."
After the hearing, Nieves told the Daily Business Review that other judges have relied on Judge Sasser's decision to avoid reopening cases where fraud may have occurred. Should the appellate court reverse and remand, the potential for reopening cases would be substantial.
Without attempting a rigorous search, Nieves said he found 21 cases like Pino's where he claimed notary stamps were used to fraudulently back date an unrecorded assignment of mortgage.
Throughout Giddings' arguments, the appellate judges interrupted her on a variety of issues.
When she asserted the bank got no relief by its voluntary dismissal, Judge Mark Polen said: "Your client did get relief. They didn't have to submit to depositions."
When she characterized the central issue as an absolute right to voluntarily dismiss, Polen said, "The issue as I see it is whether a court on subsequent information can strike that dismissal."
Giddings insisted trial courts already had enough discretion without resorting to striking voluntary dismissals. Judges could sanction lawyers or report them to The Florida Bar.
On that point Judge Martha Warner said: "You talked about other sanctions. But if you don't open it up, how can you sanction them in the second case for what's happened?"
The appellate did not immediately rule on the homeowner's appeal.
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MINISTRY OF JUSTICE TO LAUNCH REVIEW OF CAUTIONS
A review aimed at stopping serious and repeat offenders from escaping with a caution has been launched. The review will examine the way in which 'simple' cautions are currently used and will consider the need for any changes. The review will work closely with the police and other criminal justice professionals.
Out of Court Disposal
A simple caution is an out of court disposal given by the police to adult criminals when specified criteria are met. The Home Office Circular 16/2008 for Simple Cautioning requires that the following conditions are met before a simple caution may be administered by the police:
The offender has made a clear and reliable admission (either verbally or in writing);
There is a realistic prospect of conviction full Code test;
It is in the public interest to offer a simple caution; and
The offender is 18 years or more at the time that the caution is to be administered (Prosecutors should note that the Divisional Court held that when police were proposing to caution, the suspect was entitled to disclosure of material necessary to enable his legal advisers to assess the prosecution case and give informed legal advice as to consent (DPP v Ara, TLR 16 July 2001).
The review will scrutinize:
Existing guidance and practice;
Whether there are some offence types for which the use of simple cautions is generally inappropriate – and if so, what procedures should be adopted;
The reasons why multiple cautions are given to some criminals;
The difference in the use of cautions by police force areas and whether increased scrutiny is needed to ensure they are used consistently; and
The impact on individuals of accepting a caution including any potential impact on future employment
There has been recent criticism of repeat offenders receiving multiple cautions and some individuals receiving cautions for offences deemed too serious for a caution.
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said:
"While we should not remove police officer discretion, the public and victims have a right to expect that people who commit serious crimes should be brought before a court. This review is a significant step to ensuring that cautions are used correctly and in the interests of justice."
The review will report to criminal justice ministers by the end of May 2013. It remains to be seen what effect this review will have.
Ruth Peters


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Revolving Door at SEC is in a Whirl as Hundreds Hired by Industry they Regulated
Charged with regulating Wall Street, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has become a launching pad for former agency employees—by the hundreds—to become part of the industry they once oversaw.
A new report from the watchdog group Project on Government Oversight (POGO) says that more than 400 ex-SEC staffers were working for the industry between 2001-2010.
The study also found numerous other concerns with the "revolving door" between the SEC and financial firms. These included agency workers trying to help corporations influence agency regulations, defending companies suspected of breaking the law, and helping them avoid tougher enforcement actions.
Perhaps the most high-profile concern in this arena is President Obama's nomination of Mary Jo White to become the new SEC chief. During her most recent job at the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton, White's clients included JPMorgan Chase, General Electric, Verizon Communications, former Bank of America chief executive Kenneth Lewis, and Rajat Gupta, the former Goldman Sachs board member convicted of insider trading.
"The revolving door is moving faster than ever," Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) said after reading POGO's findings. "The SEC has to fix this problem once and for all. That involves more disclosure, more meaningful restrictions, and top-to-bottom application of the rules without waivers that make any restrictions meaningless."
-Noel Brinkerhoff, Danny Biederman
SEC's Revolving Door Blurs Line Between Regulator and Industry (by Andre Francisco, Project on Government Oversight)
The SEC's Revolving Door (Project on Government Oversight)
Watchdog's Report Raises Concerns about SEC's Revolving Door (Dina ElBoghdady, Washington Post)
Revolving Door Still Open for Lobbyists (AllGov)
SEC Destroyed Files of Thousands of Investigations (by Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov)


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'''
maxout-train.py

author: Luke de Oliveira (lukedeo@stanford.edu)

description: script to train a maxout net

'''
import logging

from keras.models import Sequential, model_from_yaml
from keras.layers.core import *
from keras.layers import containers
from keras.optimizers import *
from keras import regularizers
from keras.callbacks import EarlyStopping, ModelCheckpoint, Callback
import numpy as np
from sklearn.metrics import roc_curve, auc

from viz import *

LOGGER_PREFIX = ' %s'
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

def log(msg):
    logger.info(LOGGER_PREFIX % msg)

class ROCModelCheckpoint(Callback):
    '''
    Callback to optimize AUC
    '''
    def __init__(self, filepath, X, y, weights, verbose=True):
        super(Callback, self).__init__()

        self.X, self.y, self.weights = X, y, weights

        self.verbose = verbose
        self.filepath = filepath
        self.best = 0.0

    def on_epoch_end(self, epoch, logs={}):
        yh = self.model.predict(self.X, verbose=True).ravel()
        log(yh[:30])
        fpr, tpr, _ = roc_curve(self.y, yh, sample_weight=self.weights)
        select = (tpr > 0.1) & (tpr < 0.9)
        current = auc(tpr[select], 1 / fpr[select])

        if current > self.best:
            if self.verbose > 0:
                print("Epoch %05d: %s improved from %0.5f to %0.5f, saving model to %s"
                      % (epoch, 'AUC', self.best, current, self.filepath))
            self.best = current
            self.model.save_weights(self.filepath, overwrite=True)
        else:
            if self.verbose > 0:
                print("Epoch %05d: %s did not improve" % (epoch, 'AUC'))

# X_train_image = np.load()

log('Loading data...')
# data = np.load('../../jet-simulations/trainingset.npy')
data = np.load('/path/to/data.npy')
log('there are {} training points'.format(data.shape[0]))
log('convering to images...')
X = data['image'].reshape((data.shape[0], 25 ** 2)).astype('float32')
y = data['signal'].astype('float32')

log('extracting weights...')
signal, pt, mass, tau_21 = data['signal'], data['jet_pt'], data['jet_mass'], data['tau_21']

signal = (signal == 1)
background = (signal == False)

# -- calculate the weights
weights = np.ones(data.shape[0])

# reference_distribution = np.random.uniform(250, 300, signal.sum())
reference_distribution = pt[background]

log('calculating weights...')
weights[signal] = get_weights(reference_distribution, pt[signal],
    bins=np.linspace(250, 300, 200))

weights[background] = get_weights(reference_distribution, pt[background],
    bins=np.linspace(250, 300, 200))
# weights[signal] = get_weights(pt[signal != 1], pt[signal],
#   bins=np.concatenate((
#       np.linspace(200, 300, 1000), np.linspace(300, 1005, 500)))
#   )

idx = range(X.shape[0])
np.random.shuffle(idx)
X = X[idx][:1000000]

# -- if you want to norm
# norms = np.sqrt((X ** 2).sum(-1))
# X = (X / norms[:, None])

y = y[idx][:1000000]
weights = weights[idx].astype('float32')[:1000000]

from sklearn.cross_validation import KFold
try:
    kf = KFold(X.shape[0], 10)
    foldN = 1
    for train_ix, test_ix in kf:
        log('Working on fold: {}'.format(foldN))

        log('Building new submodel...')
        # -- build the model
        dl = Sequential()
        dl.add(MaxoutDense(256, 5, input_shape=(625, ), init='he_uniform'))
        dl.add(Dropout(0.3))

        dl.add(MaxoutDense(128, 5, init='he_uniform'))
        dl.add(Dropout(0.2))

        dl.add(Dense(64))
        dl.add(Activation('relu'))
        dl.add(Dropout(0.2))

        dl.add(Dense(25))
        dl.add(Activation('relu'))
        dl.add(Dropout(0.3))

        dl.add(Dense(1))
        dl.add(Activation('sigmoid'))

        log('compiling...')

        dl.compile(loss='binary_crossentropy', optimizer='adam', class_mode='binary')

        log('training!')

    	h = dl.fit(X[train_ix], y[train_ix], batch_size=32, nb_epoch=50, show_accuracy=True,
    	               validation_data=(X[test_ix], y[test_ix]),
    	               callbacks =
    	               [
    	                   EarlyStopping(verbose=True, patience=10, monitor='val_loss'),
    	                   ModelCheckpoint('./SLACNormalized-final-logloss-cvFold{}.h5'.format(foldN), monitor='val_loss', verbose=True, save_best_only=True),
    	                   ROCModelCheckpoint('./SLACNormalized-final-roc-cvFold{}.h5'.format(foldN), X[test_ix], y[test_ix], weights[test_ix], verbose=True)
    	               ],
                       sample_weight=weights[train_ix]
                )
        foldN += 1
	               # sample_weight=np.power(weights, 0.7))
except KeyboardInterrupt:
	log('ended early!')

with open('./NewSLAC-final.yaml', 'wb') as f:
	f.write(dl.to_yaml())

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Turn loose with concert by the sea or sit back in one of the many outdoor coffee shop. Maybe you prefer a spin on a dance floor, or gospel concert in Gullbranna. In Gyllene Tider's hometown the festivities come one after the other.
There is an abundance of art in Halmstad in all its forms, retrieve an art map (a version for children and one for adults) at the tourist office and head out into the city as your own guide. Are you ready to hit some golfballs, there are twelve golf courses in the Golf capital Halmstad. Take the opportunity to take a dip at one of the city's summer all the beaches, visit the flagship Tylösand or find your own favoritvik. If you a dog, you can bring it for a cool dip in the West bank . Nature is constantly near, the vast marshes, hardwood forests, steep hillsides and cascading waterfalls. Experience one of our many nature reserves such as Danish Fall, bicycle, by foot or why not canoe?
As you notice there is something for everyone in Halmstad, now it's your turn to find your favorite.