More powerful than most viruses; able to ward off antibiotics in massive doses, faster spreading than Mono in a room filled with horny teenagers: It's a germ; it's a bacteria; it's a Superbug! Yes, here we go again. Researchers have discovered yet another superbug that is a rare strain of the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus arueus or MRSA. This superbug was found in some milk samples in the United Kingdom. Now, before anyone panics, scientists say that this new bacteria poses little threat to people who drink milk or eat dairy products, since pasteurization and digestion kill bacteria, including MRSA.
Call in the cops of CSI or the FBI or maybe enact a new crime division, the SBI– the Superbug Investigations unit. I think the unit's primary mission should be to round up the "normal" well-known non-superbugs and bring them in for questioning and get them to turn against the all-powerful new superbug. I'm not talking torture with rubber hoses here, but maybe a small dose of antibiotics just to loosen their tongues. Then the SBI can play on the non-superbugs' resentment that the new bacteria is getting all the press and attention. The once-but-no-longer-antibiotic-resistant bugs will look at this investigation as a way to take down the new superbug whose ego has now become too big for its own Petri dish. The non-superbugs might give scientists a glimpse into the mind and power of the new superbug that has both the human species and the bacteria world shaking in their boots.
Okay, I know this criminal investigation scenario is impossible, but what are our alternatives? Every six months, science informs us that another superbug has arrived on the scene. The new strain brings with it a paralyzing fear that stops us from eating certain foods, visiting certain places or embracing other human beings. We have become a world that lives for antiseptic soap and lotion rather than the comfort of another's touch. Something has got to give. If we don't figure out the world of superbugs, the next fashion craze will be hazmat suits in a variety of colors.
I think our problem started with the idea that our immune systems cannot function on their own. Sure, there are times when we need a little help getting over a sinus or respiratory infection, but we have become antibiotic whores looking for the quickest trick to get well again. Now, we are paying the price with superbugs that stand up and laugh at our efforts to control them.
I wonder what would happen if we put our antibacterial lotion dispensers away. Now, I am not saying the health profession should not use them, but maybe we shouldn't have them everywhere. We need to get our immune systems back to exercising each day. They have shrunk as our bodies have gotten bigger. Maybe if we get them working again, our immune systems might feel like doing their jobs; they might want to become superheroes in the fight against the villainous superbugs.
Hey, I don't know about you but when we were kids we ate dirt and grass, fondled earthworms and gartersnakes and then tucked into our lunch without washing our hands, ate brown snow without fear, rolled around in dog poop, and drank with impunity from the neighbourhood creek. None of it ever killed me. Obviously. Not only that I'm probably the healthiest person I know.
When we were kids antibiotics were wonder drugs the doctor resorted to only after you'd hacked up a lung or two and rest, children's aspirin and mom's chicken soup hadn't done the job. You knew you were REALLY SICK when you had to take actual medicine with a long name you could barely pronounce you had to get from the pharmacist. Hell, we didn't even GO to the doctor, he made house calls. And then only if you were like, dying.
How the times they have changed. And definitely not for the better.
I know Phee, I agree with everything you said. I guess there is more environmental damage around us, but for the most part the human body is made to cure itself. Sometimes, it needs help, but I think we over-helped it.
I think she's onto it!
Discovery Channel and Wikipedia sound like a good start. Many are armed with just a 2000+-year-old dusty book that says we should stone people who work on Sunday.
Hey, don't make fun of my two favorite sources for information! We all know how 100 percent accurate both are.
I for one think the superbugs need to be hit with a one-two punch! Unfortunately I don't know what that would be! Donna, I can just see you swinging at them now! I think maybe that's why I became a certified herbalist. I have some of the answers but not all of them. I don't think I'd look good in a hazmat suit. It just wouldn't do anything for me. To top it off my favorite color is pink and I'd want my suit to be pink. I just can't see it! It is not a pleasant thought! For one thing I'm short so a big, pink hazmat suit just will not work! Just the thought makes me cringe.


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Karl Friedrich Strobel (* 8. Februar 1836 in Owen; † 29. Juni 1897 in Stuttgart) war ein württembergischer Oberamtmann.

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Karl Friedrich Strobel begann nach dem Abitur in Stuttgart ein Studium der Regiminalwissenschaften in Tübingen, das er wegen Krankheit allerdings mehr als ein Jahr unterbrechen musste. Während seines Militärdienstes legte er 1860 die Erste und 1862 die Zweite Höhere Dienstprüfung ab. Von 1863 bis 1865 war er Assistent beim Oberamt Ellwangen und Aktuariatsverweser beim Oberamt Leonberg, wo er 1865 Oberamtsaktuar wurde. Von 1869 bis 1870 arbeitete er als Polizeikommissär und von 1870 bis 1874 als Sekretär der Stadtdirektion in Stuttgart.

Von 1874 bis 1882 trat er bei Oberamt Vaihingen seine erste Oberamtmannstelle an. Von 1882 bis 1885 war er Oberamtmann in Reutlingen und von 1885 bis 1896 Regierungsrat der Regierung des Jagstkreises in Ellwangen. Von 1890 bis 1896 war er dabei auch Vorsitzender der Landarmenbehörde im Jagstkreis.  1896 und 1897 war er Kollegialmitglied der Ministerialabteilung für das Hochbauwesen im Innenministerium in Stuttgart und Mitglied der Forstdirektion.

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 1883 Ritterkreuz Erster Klasse des Friedrichsordens
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Home / Consumer / Consumer Threat Notices / Popular Social Media App Timehop Hit With Huge Data Breach
Popular Social Media App Timehop Hit With Huge Data Breach
By Gary Davis	on Jul 10, 2018
The Fourth of July is characterized by barbeques, fireworks, and patriotism – and now cyberattacks! Just this past Independence Day, the popular social media app Timehop was hacked – as cybercriminals set their sights on the company's servers, rather than enjoying hot dogs and sparklers. The attack affects a whopping 21 million Timehop users and has put their personal information at risk of being compromised.
The key ingredient for this attack: multi-factor authentication. Or, lack thereof. Hackers were able to access the company's cloud servers on July 4th because Timehop had not turned on multi-factor authentication. "The breach occurred because an access credential to our cloud computing environment was compromised," the company said. Once they obtained the credential to access the servers, the crooks managed to remain inside the system for approximately two hours.
In a company blog post, Timehop stated that the security breach compromised the names and emails of these 21 million users, which is essentially its entire user base. And 4.7 million of those affected users had a phone number that was attached to their account breached in the attack as well. Fortunately, Timehop says that no financial data was compromised in the attack, and all access to social media platforms was deactivated immediately by Timehop, which actually logged all users out of their accounts.
This breach joins the Exactis and Adidas breaches that have occurred in the past week, leaving millions of consumers out there concerned for their personal security. So, what next steps should Timehop users take to ensure they secure their personal information? Start by following these tips:
Change up your passwords. With this personal data already in hand, it's likely cybercriminals are going to take a guess at your password and attempt to get inside your Timehop account. Therefore, make sure you change up your password to Timehop and any other accounts that use the same one.
Use two-factor authentication. If this breach has made anything clear, it's that we cannot rely on passwords that use single-factor authentication to protect our accounts. Learn a lesson from Timehop and always enable two-factor authentication when given the option.
Invest in an identity theft monitoring and recovery solution. With the increase in data breaches, people everywhere are facing the possibility of identity theft. That's precisely why they should leverage a solution tool such as McAfee Identity Theft Protection, which allows users to take a proactive approach to protecting their identities with personal and financial monitoring and recovery tools to help keep their identities personal and secured.
And, of course, to stay on top of the latest consumer and mobile security threats, be sure to follow me and @McAfee_Home on Twitter, listen to our podcast Hackable? and 'Like' us on Facebook.
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Multi-Century Simulations Show the Effects of Different States of AMOC and PMOC on ENSO, Which Have Regional Climate and Prediction Implications
Response of global SSTs and ENSO to the Atlantic and Pacific meridional overturning circulations.
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Consequences from a slowdown or collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) could include modulations to El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and development of the Pacific meridional overturning circulation (PMOC). Five multi-century, fully coupled model simulations created with CESM were used to expand our understanding of the influence of various AMOC and PMOC states on ENSO and global sea surface temperatures (SSTs).
The global-scale ocean circulation named AMOC could be slowing due to climate change. Studies suggest that a slowdown of AMOC could trigger the formation of a Pacific counterpart. Our study shows that different states of these circulations can dramatically alter Earth's climate and ocean temperatures, contributing to our understanding of potential future and past geological era climates. Importantly, we show that an AMOC slowdown could increase the amplitude of ENSO, whether a Pacific meridional overturning circulation develops or not, which could amplify climate extremes via tropical–extratropical teleconnections.
We found that the amplitude of annual cycle SSTs across the tropical Pacific decreases and ENSO amplitude increases because of an AMOC shutdown, irrespective of PMOC development. However, active deep overturning circulations in both the Atlantic and Pacific basins reduce ENSO amplitude and variance of monthly SSTs globally. The underlying physical reasons for changes to global SSTs and ENSO were also analyzed, with the atmospheric and oceanic mechanisms that drive changes to ENSO amplitude differing based on PMOC state. These results suggest that if climate simulations projecting AMOC weakening are realized, compounding climate impacts could occur given the far-reaching ENSO teleconnections to extreme weather and climate events. More broadly, these results provide us with insight into past geologic era climate states, when PMOC was active.
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'Hell Or High Water' Feels Like A Lost Coen Brothers Faux-Western
July 31, 2016 by James Jay Edwards
Synopsis: A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.
Release Date: August 12, 2016 MPAA Rating: PG-13
Genre(s): Crime, Drama
Between his prison drama Starred Up and his sci-fi romance Perfect Sense, director David Mackenzie has been simmering away in the independent filmmaking underground. With Hell or High Water, he is poised to break through.
Hell or High Water follows the exploits of Toby and Tanner Howard (Star Trek's Chris Pine and Warcraft's Ben Foster, respectively), a pair of brothers who systematically rob banks all over West Texas. It also follows a cop named Marcus Hamilton (Jeff Bridges from Crazy Heart) who, days from retirement, convinces his partner, Alberto (Gil Birmingham from the Twilight movies), to help him make the bank robberies the successful last case of his law enforcement career. As the robbers get more daring, the officers get closer to figuring out their plan, until both sides end up on an inevitable collision course.
Hell or High Water is a different kind of modern-day western. From a technical standpoint, Mackenzie has crafted a near-perfect film. It's beautifully shot by Mackenzie's go-to cinematographer Giles Nuttgens (Dom Hemingway, Battlefield Earth). It features a remarkably haunting score by Nick Cave (Lawless) and Warren Ellis (Mustang). Both Chris Pine and Jeff Bridges turn in "that was him?" performances that push the boundaries of audience expectations.
From a story standpoint, Hell or High Water is a slow and steady reveal. On the surface, it's a pretty straightforward plot. But, little by little, layers are peeled back and motivations are revealed, so the simple storyline winds up very complicated. It's not complex in a hard-to-understand way – it's just that it's ingenious in its methodology.
In many ways, Hell or High Water seems like a lost Coen Brothers film, and not just due to the presence of Jeff Bridges. The biggest problem that Hell or High Water will have is finding its audience. It's a tough film to pin down. Is it a western? A heist film? A crime mystery? It's all of that, and none of that. Whatever it is, it's a wonderful film. If its audience finds it, they'll love it.
Best known as Deputy Hale on "Sons of Anarchy," Taylor Sheridan proved his worth as a screenwriter with last year's Sicario. Hell or High Water reinforces that proof. The story is cleverly told from the point of view of the cops and the robbers, so the audience always has more information than any of the characters do. This leads to some great moments of show-em-the-bomb suspense, as well as to a shifting sense of right and wrong, an ambiguous feeling as to who are actually the heroes and who are the villains. And Sheridan does all of this without making the audience think that it's being manipulated. Add in the fact that, possibly from his years of acting, Sheridan has a great ear for dialogue, and the screenplay for Hell or High Water is one of the best of the year.
Director(s): David Mackenzie
Producer(s): Peter Berg, Carla Hacken, Sidney Kimmel, Julie Yorn
Screenwriter(s): Taylor Sheridan
Cast: Chris Pine (Toby Howard), Ben Foster (Tanner Howard), Jeff Bridges (Marcus Hamilton), Gil Birmingham (Alberto Parker), Marin Ireland (Debbie Howard), Katy Mixon (Jenny Ann), Kevin Rankin (Billy Rayburn)
Editor(s): Jake Roberts
Cinematographer: Giles Nuttgens
Costume Designer: Malgosia Turzanska
Casting Director(s): Jo Edna Boldin, Richard Hicks
Music Score: Nick Cave and Warren Ellis
Filed Under: Crime, Drama, Entertainment, Movie Review, Movies Tagged With: Ben Foster, Chris Pine, David Mackenzie, Jeff Bridges
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Greer told the Herald about his frustrating experience with an inspector from the local code enforcement board.
Among the issues that were cited to Greer were that his house was not painted sufficiently to "city standards," and that there were children's toys in the yard.
Whether or not this is a violation of the Flag Code, it's not a major conundrum because you can't be penalized for it. In fact, if you'll look at the images of Greer's handiwork, his flag doesn't come close to federal specifications. His flag only has 5 stripes out of 13 and is one star short. On top of that, the stars are arranged in equal columns instead of alternating ones of fives and fours.
So, if you want to paint your façade a bright red, white, and blue, the least you can do (to show your patriotism) is to be as accurate as your exterior will allow. Seek help from Albuquerque painting contractors like Andy's Painting Inc. to get the colors and design right. If the current colors available won't do, they can mix them up to spec.
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Considering a lot of these guys are facing rebels who aren't at a level of strategy to easily deal with rodians using rudimentary luring skills and a single fang fighter/ambushing, it would be safe to say that basically any of the typical standby SC loadouts like buffed jumps, snipes or bikes will do just fine IF your opponent isn't prepared to deal with them. To all who need to know, the question of "what imps should put in their SC" really depends on the caliber of opponents you're facing. SWC does get harder as you progress and you'll eventually face opponents who will find the slightest weakness in your base layout or SC troop selection and exploit it for a 2-3 star win to the point of frustration and starting imbalance threads on this forum. In my experience, Rodians worked really well for a few months.... until enough high base score rebels realized they needed to depend less on kessen sniping and more on luring and fanging the SC & GR rodians. It's to the point where literally every high medal lvl 10 rebel that attacks my base uses one of 50,000 ways to trip the SC regardless of how I configure my base, lure everything away and either fang or ambush with jets. I had to run something non-lureable to break that strategy, at least for my SC troops and to mess with kessen. That's just me though. If you're getting attacked by lower level opponents you may not have the same issue yet, but there really is no silver bullet when it comes to SC troop selection and there is nothing that is going to stop an attacker with enough skill from winning, especially as you progress. SWC is offense-focused ATM so the defensive deck is stacked against us.
Because there is a skip button, you typically see more attack styles that are effective against your base design. Base that is weak against Kessen SC sniping will see lots of Kessen. Base that is weak against the bait/lure (or strong against Kessen) will see many bait/lure players.
Similarly when attacking, you pick on the base you can beat with troop composition in your load, as well as your preferred attack style.
As said, if you can win 60%, be happy with it. Most don't.
That's where my strategy has changed recently. I changed my layout to basically "water down" how often those players who have a chance at beating my base by a good amount can actually attack it. Like I said, if I get attacked a bunch and go under protection for a 1-star with low resource losses after 6-7 consecutive defensive wins, big whoop. It beats getting rolled by a top 50 guy 5 minutes after logging out. I made my base look "easy" enough for inexperienced players to beat when in reality it still requires all of the same high level tactics to do so. I know where people are going to attack and I create a percieved "weakness" in my base for people to try to exploit. The thing is most attackers at their level of progression haven't experience what REALLY nasty GR and buffed turrets can do and get in way over their heads while chasing the CB cheese.
And you're right, winning 60% of the time on defense is good. I'm probably around the 70% range right now so no complaints here. But some people lose pretty much every defense, probably because the players who would faceplant on their base look at it, say "nope" and skip which leaves them with a pool of top players who have all of the tools and experience to deal with GR/SC rodians and wreck their base. It's possible to make your base look too "nasty" and lose more. So in conclusion getting that elusive 60% or higher win ratio isn't impossible. It just requires changing your defensive strategy from deterring all but the best to inviting as many "not the best" players to attack your base as possible.
Plagueis wrote: That's where my strategy has changed recently. I changed my layout to basically "water down" how often those players who have a chance at beating my base by a good amount can actually attack it. Like I said, if I get attacked a bunch and go under protection for a 1-star with low resource losses after 6-7 consecutive defensive wins, big whoop. It beats getting rolled by a top 50 guy 5 minutes after logging out. I made my base look "easy" enough for inexperienced players to beat when in reality it still requires all of the same high level tactics to do so. I know where people are going to attack and I create a percieved "weakness" in my base for people to try to exploit. The thing is most attackers at their level of progression haven't experience what REALLY nasty GR and buffed turrets can do and get in way over their heads while chasing the CB cheese.
But it also depends (largely) on what planet you park your base too, as you have attackers at different skill level depending on the planet. As IMP, cheap wins come from either Tat and Erkit. Much harder defense wins on Hoth and green planets.
Myself and many of my squadmates have been running a mix of 4 snipers*, a lugga and an astro medic. The lugga has the added benefit of helping the spawning GR troops as well.
We've also seen success with a mix of snipers* and probe droids.
I usually use the sniper and dewback GR along with RFT & HQ buffs.
*Always use Rodian Armory buff for the snipers.
I was able to get my ice crabs to level 5 thanks to the last event, and running them along with the MHC gr (level 7) has been really good for me on Hoth. I picked up 14 wins during the last conflict, which I think is pretty good since I'm level 8 and I pretty much just get hit by 10's. I even beat Wulff Daywalker once (he was a top 20 reb on windows). He hit me pretty much once a day during the conflict, and finally three starred me this morning. With level 4 snow crabs, I did pretty well on defense (2 stars, 70 % or so), but rarely won.
To be honest, it is not just the units in the SC that are make or break the battle, its also where the attacking troops are coming from and where the SC is positioned. I usually keep 3 lvl 10 snipers and other troops in my SC for defence, but sometimes I dump an AT-DP inside instead. The problem with the Empire is that its troops are usually REALLY SLOW (10 speed) and it takes forever for defending troops like the AT-AT, AT-DP or even UMHC to get there. And for defending rebel troops, I just chuck a few V-T 49 Decimators on them and they are gone. Easy.
Actually, bikes, MHCs, Storms, Snipers are out of the SC, the guard reserves do pretty well in these troops. I say you should put JUMPS or MTV-7s inside your SC, because they have high health and mobility and well as good damage.
The cute little thing is that people usually skip your base if you have those guard reserves on.
My base is bundled all together. I have 2 shields, almost 3 over sc close to the middle. i have trial run almost any combination of troops in my sc possible, and beyond a shadow of a doubt, I am lvl 10 btw, 5 snipers, rodian skin and a medic are superior over anything else I have tried. Absolutely, some guys are gonna come in there with loads of experience and ARE going to flatten you regardless of what you have in there. But, the big picture is I am always on Tatooine, and I have gotten WAAYYYY more wins than losses there with those nasty fellows in there. norm for me is 75%. a minimum of 3 nights a week, I wake up the next day and have 7 or 8 wins. there are a lot more inexperienced players out there than there are maxed players. I keep my safehouse full of contraband and the idiots keep coming. other things may work for other bases but for my base, I would not give up my snipes and medic for nothing. in conjunction I have lvl5 dew, sniper, and trooper reserve plus trooper skin and rodian skin. if they do get my sc I have snipers coming out of the barracks with the rodian skin to take their place. 20% to 45% wins are the norm in my part of the hood. Have fun guys and if I have helped anyone better their base, thats great. keep playing, having fun, and if you get beatdown, put your boots back on and keep on keeping on. HAVE A GREAT DAY FELLAS!!


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Director, EMC Corporation; Past Chairman of The Nasdaq Stock Market Board of Directors
MIKE BROWN is Past Chairman of The Nasdaq Stock Market Board of Directors, past governor of the National Association of Securities Dealers, and past CFO of Microsoft Corporation, currently a director of EMC Corporation, VMware, Administaff Inc., Pipeline Financial Group Inc., and Thomas Weisel Partners.
He served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Microsoft Corporation from 1994 to July 1997. Mr. Brown served as Vice President - Finance of Microsoft Corporation from April 1993 to August 1994 and as Treasurer from January 1989 to April 1993.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Mr. Brown spent 18 years with Deloitte & Touche LLP in various positions including as Managing Partner.
Mr. Brown served as the Chairman of the NASDAQ Stock Market Board of Directors. He has been a Director of Thomas Weisel Partners Group Inc., since February 14, 2007.
Mr. Brown serves as a Director of EMC Corporation, a provider of information management systems, software and services. Mr. Brown has been a Director of 360networks Inc. and its former subsidiary, 360networks Corporation since November 2002. Mr. Brown has been a Director of Administaff Inc., a personal employer organization since November 1997. Mr. Brown serves as a Director of e-Xchange Advantage Corporation. He serves as a Director of Pipeline Trading Systems LLC. Mr. Brown serves as a Director of Citrix Systems Inc., a supplier of thin client/server application server products. He serves as a Member of Thomas Weisel Partners Advisory Board. Mr. Brown served as a Director of Wang Laboratories, Inc.
He served as Governor of National Association of Securities Dealers and is a member of the University of Washington Business School Advisory Board.
Mr. Brown holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from University of Washington in Seattle.
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WHY? Stories of bombed Yugoslavia
Exactly 15 years ago, on March 24, NATO began its 78-day bombing of Yugoslavia. The alliance bypassed the UN under a "humanitarian" pretext, launching aggression that claimed hundreds of civilian lives and caused a much larger catastrophe than it averted.
Years on, Serbia still bears deep scars of the NATO bombings which, as the alliance put it, were aimed at "preventing instability spreading" in Kosovo.
Codenamed 'Operation Allied Force,' it was the largest attack ever undertaken by the alliance. It was also the first time that NATO used military force without the approval of the UN Security Council and against a sovereign nation that did not pose a real threat to any member of the alliance.
NATO demonstrated in 1999 that it can do whatever it wants under the guise of "humanitarian intervention," "war on terror," or "preventive war" — something that everyone has witnessed in subsequent years in different parts of the globe.
Nineteen NATO member states participated to some degree in the military campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), which lasted for 11 weeks until June 10, 1999.
In the course of the campaign, NATO launched 2,300 missiles at 990 targets and dropped 14,000 bombs, including depleted uranium bombs and cluster munitions (unexploded cluster bombs continued to pose a threat to people long after the campaign was over.) Over 2,000 civilians were killed, including 88 children, and thousands more were injured. Over 200,000 ethnic Serbs were forced to leave their homeland in Kosovo.
In what the alliance described as "collateral damage," its airstrikes destroyed more than 300 schools, libraries, and over 20 hospitals. At least 40,000 homes were either completely eliminated or damaged and about 90 historic and architectural monuments were ruined. That is not to mention the long-term harm caused to the region's ecology and, therefore, people's health.
News correspondents Anissa Naouai and Jelena Milincic, the authors of RT's documentary 'Zashto?' — which means "Why?" in English –traveled through former Yugoslavia to Belgrade, Kosovo, and Montenegro and spoke to people who endured the atrocities and horrors of the war and lost their friends and relatives. … http://rt.com/news/yugoslavia-kosovo-…
March 24, 2014 Posted by aletho | Militarism, Timeless or most popular, Video, War Crimes	| Kosovo, NATO, NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro, Yugoslavia | Leave a comment
The US media and the "mysterious carrier" mock-up in Iran: utter bankruptcy on display, yet again
By Cyrus Safdari | Iran Affairs | March 24, 2014
So the NY Times came out with a story about a "mysterious" Iranian mock-up of a US naval carrier.
Supposedly "shrouded in mystery" and built "presumably for some mysteriously bellicose purposes," (and "while Iran has tried to conceal its underground nuclear-related sites" — I guess the NY Times had to get a lie about the nuclear issue in there too) the author proceeds to quote various US military officials suggesting that Iran was going to make some sort of "propaganda point" with the fake ship, and so the 5th Fleet rushed to "get ahead of the Iranians" by announcing it to the media… which proceeded to run with the "Iranian propaganda" story.
Of course, the more obvious reason for the construction of such mock-ups –to make a movie — is not even seriously considered by the NY Times. And, turns out that the US military apparently didn't know, and the NY Times couldn't be bothered to check, that Iran is in fact making a movie about the 1988 US shooting down of the Iranian Airbus.
The movie was announced in 2013, as al-Monitor states.
I mean, if this isn't the most obvious example of the US media totally abrogating any semblence of objectivity and professionalism when dealing with Iran-related stories, I don't know what is.
But note that al-Monitor doesn't ask the obvious question: why did US Navy and the NY Times so misrepresent this story? Are they incompetent, or just evil? Why did the US media run with the claims? Why didn't anyone bother checking it? What broader conclusions can we reach about the state of the US media's coverage of Iran affairs?
Note that had the Iranian government promoted such bullshit in the media, al-Monitor would be hosting a march of "Iran experts" opining about it and reaching all sorts of broader conclusions about Iran, but don't expect any sort of self-analysis from the US media.
Oh, by the way, who was actually promoting propaganda?
New York Times makes a fool of itself again
March 24, 2014 Posted by aletho | Deception, Mainstream Media, Warmongering	| Iran, New York Times, NY Times, United States | 3 Comments
BRICS at Hague slam attempts to isolate Putin
BRICS Post | March 24, 2014
BRICS have slammed recent reports ahead of the G20 meet to isolate Russian President Vladimir Putin or to place any restrictions on his participation at the G-20 summit in Australia later this year.
"The Ministers noted with concern, the recent media statement on the forthcoming G20 Summit to be held in Brisbane in November 2014. The custodianship of the G20 belongs to all Member States equally and no one Member State can unilaterally determine its nature and character," said a joint BRICS statement on Monday. Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop had said earlier that Putin could be barred from attending the G20 Summit in November.
BRICS Foreign Ministers met on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit in the Hague on Monday to review cooperation among the bloc of five after the adoption of the eThekwini Action Plan of 2013.
The Ministers noted that the role of global governments should focus on "finance, security, information and production".
"The BRICS agenda is not centered around any specific country or related issue and shares a common vision which drives it to also increasingly identify common areas for cooperation to assist with finding global solutions to global challenges," noted the joint communiqué.
The BRICS meet convened by South African Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane was attended by her counterparts Sergey Lavrov, Salman Khurshid, Wang Yi and Carlos Antonio Paranhos, Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs of the Federative Republic of Brazil.
The BRICS Ministers also discussed cybersecurity and challenges to peace and security, "notably the significant infringements of privacy and related rights in the wake of the cyber threats experienced, for which there is a need to address these implications in respect of national laws as well as in terms of international law", said the statement.
BRICS would "continue to act as positive catalysts for inclusive change in the transformation process towards a new and more equitable global order" asserted the Ministers.
BRICS have opposed sanctions against the Syrian government and have argued for a negotiated settlement of the Iranian issue. They are also pushing for reforms of global financial institutions like the IMF.
The five nations also agreed that the challenges that exist within the regions of the BRICS countries must be addressed within the fold of the United Nations.
"The escalation of hostile language, sanctions and counter-sanctions, and force does not contribute to a sustainable and peaceful solution, according to international law, including the principles and purposes of the United Nations Charter," said the statement.
BRICS foreign ministers discuss situation in Ukraine, Syria
BRICS leaders to meet on sidelines of G20 summit in St. Petersburg
March 24, 2014 Posted by aletho | Economics	| Brazil, India, Iran, Russia, Syria, United Nations, United States | Leave a comment
Japan prepares to ship nuclear materials to the US
RT | March 24, 2014
Japan agreed to transfer a share of its highly enriched uranium and weapons grade plutonium stockpiles to the US as part of the global effort to secure nuclear materials. Other nations are also urged to deposit excess nuclear materials in the US.
On the eve of the two-day Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague, US and Japanese leaders arranged a deal on "final disposition" in the US of well over 300 kilograms of weapons grade plutonium and an unspecified quantity of highly enriched uranium (HEU) that will be "sent to a secure facility and fully converted into less sensitive forms."
This quantity of plutonium is enough to produce 40-50 warheads. The total quantity of HEU currently stocked in Japan is estimated at approximately 1.2 tons. According to The New York Times, some 200 kilograms of HEU is currently designated for the US.
After Barack Obama announced in Prague in 2009 an ambitious agenda to seek "the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons," the American president has been pressing his foreign counterparts, both in Asia and Europe, demanding they either get rid of their excess nuclear materials via the US, or tighten security of stockpiles at home.
Two more countries, Belgium and Italy, have also agreed to hand over excess nuclear materials to the US and issued separate joint statements with the White House, Reuters reported.
"This effort involves the elimination of hundreds of kilograms of nuclear material, furthering our mutual goal of minimizing stocks of HEU and separated plutonium worldwide, which will help prevent unauthorized actors, criminals, or terrorists from acquiring such materials," US President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in a joint statement released by the White House on Monday.
There is no information whether the deal between Japan and the US has a financial side; nuclear materials, of course, have a solid market value.
After the Russian-American HEU-LEU agreement came to an end in 2013, the US nuclear power generation industry is likely to face a sharp fuel price surge and shortage.
For two decades, the US was buying nuclear fuel from Russia for a dumping price. This fuel was made from down blended Soviet military grade highly enriched uranium, which constituted up to 40 percent of nuclear fuel for America's 104 nuclear reactors (America's 65 nuclear power plants generate over 19 percent of electric power in the country).
In the meantime, the United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC), the leading US nuclear fuel supplier remains in dire straits and plans to voluntarily file for bankruptcy in the first quarter of 2014 in order to restructure.
The US also has problems with producing plutonium, used not only in nuclear warheads, but for space exploration as well; only plutonium can produce enough power for long missions to distant planets in the Solar system.
Tokyo also reportedly possesses several dozen tons of plutonium-uranium hybrid fuel called MOX, which it intends to burn in 16 reactors the country plans to restart. All Japanese nuclear power generating facilities halted operation following the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe in March 2011.
The nuclear materials designated for transfer to the US have been kept for decades at Japan's research reactor site in Tokaimura, where it was used for research.
During the Cold War era, the US and UK reportedly handed over some 331 kilogram of plutonium to Japan to be used for developing breeder reactor technology.
After decades of research, practically all fast (breeder) reactor projects around the world, including Japanese ones, are now closed down. The only country that currently possesses operating breeder reactor power generation facility is Russia.
In 1999, the Tokaimura facility witnessed an accident involving a highly enriched uranium solution. Two workers mishandled radioactive fluid and died as a result, while over 300 were exposed to high doses of radiation.
The New York Times maintains that while the nuclear materials at the Tokaimura facility are of American and British origin, Japan also has vast stockpiles, up to nine tons of plutonium, created at the country's nuclear power stations as a byproduct of burning uranium for electric power generation. Once Japan restarts some of its nuclear reactors, there will be even more plutonium generated.
Japan will turn over nuclear material to the U.S.
March 24, 2014 Posted by aletho | Nuclear Power	| Enriched uranium, Japan, United States | Leave a comment
Iran dismisses Canadian court ruling on asset freeze
Press TV – March 22, 2014
Iran has rejected a politically-motivated ruling by a Canadian court to seize more than USD 7 million of the Islamic Republic's assets and properties.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said on Saturday that Iran was not informed about the legal proceedings, adding that the court ruling has therefore "no legal value" to Iran.
An Ontario judge in Canada recently ordered the seizure of more than USD 7 million of assets and properties belonging to Iran over some plaintiffs alleging that the Islamic Republic funds terrorist groups.
"Given the approach of the Canadian government, it is crystal clear that the verdict is politically-motivated and such rulings have no legal value," Afkham said, reminding the Ottawa government of its international commitment to protect diplomatic properties.
Pointing to Canada's move to sever ties with Iran unilaterally, Afkham said under international law diplomatic properties have immunity, warning Ottawa of the legal repercussions of disrespecting international regulations.
The Iranian official stated that Iran, as a victim of terrorism, has always denounced this inhuman scourge.
She warned that the double standards used by Western countries, including Canada, in the fight against terrorism will not only fail to uproot it but will also contribute to the spread of this phenomenon.
On September 7, 2012 the Canadian government closed its embassy in Tehran and ordered Iranian diplomats to leave Canada within five days.
In a statement, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird cited a number of reasons for Ottawa's decision to sever ties with Iran, including the West's dispute over Tehran's nuclear energy program, the country's support for the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as well as "threatening the existence of Israel."
Iran: Over 20 nationals jailed in US on sanctions charges
March 24, 2014 Posted by aletho | Wars for Israel	| Canada, Iran, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Iran), Press TV | Leave a comment
Sanctions against Russia for the U.S. are a Dead-End
By Sufyan bin Uzayr | International Policy Digest | March 23, 2014
Now that Crimea has voted to unite with Russia and Vladimir Putin has welcomed Crimea with open arms, the Western half of the world, especially the United States and the European Union, are talking at lengths about imposing sanctions on Russia in order to bring Vladimir Putin to his senses.
However, the task seems easier said than done. The United States is simply not in a position to impose long-term sanctions on Russia. Economic and political ties between the United States and Russia are surely not exemplary. Yet, one key American industry relies heavily on a particular import from Russia: fuel for nuclear power plants. American dependency on Russia for its nuclear fuel is not a new development. It dates back to the early 1990s, when the HEU-LEU scheme was launched after the demise of the Soviet Union. Under this scheme, highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Russian nuclear warheads is processed into low enriched uranium (LEU) for use as fuel for American nuclear power plants.
While there are plans of reducing the need for nuclear energy, the United States still receives 100 GW of its power from nuclear power plants (compare this with Russia's nuclear energy production of 230 GW). As a result, during 2014, 48 million pounds of uranium will be needed to fuel America's nuclear power plants. Going by data released by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), the total uranium Oxide produced within the United States is roughly 4.8 million pounds. Barely 10% of the total demand.
Quite obviously, this is not a new trend. Back in 2012 as well, the United States had to purchase over 80% of its nuclear fuel from foreign sources. Acquisition of uranium (ore and/or concentrate) is just one side of the story. The bigger task is the conversion of the acquired uranium into usable nuclear fuel — a process popularly known as 'enrichment.'
As of now, nuclear enrichment is the responsibility of private firms in the United States. However, among all such private firms, the American ones constitute no more than 20%. Foreign enrichment facilities constitute the rest. European firms and work units undertake approximately 35% of the total enrichment task, and the remainder lies in the hands of Russian enterprises. Quite simply there are not many "home" enrichment facilities in the United States, and nuclear enrichment is accomplished primarily with the help of foreign facilities such as those from Europe and Russia.
Therefore, even though the HEU-LEU scheme ended recently, the United States is set on extending its lifespan by means of renewal. The real details of the renewed HEU-LEU scheme remain to be seen. But by all means, it is highly doubtful that American dependency on Russian help will come to an end, especially because the capacity of America's own enrichment facilities is limited, as per the data from World Nuclear Association. With uranium supplier USEC planning to file for bankruptcy, the role of foreign facilities in general and Russian facilities in particular will rise manifold.
If sanctions are imposed on Russia, the United States might choose to make up for the missing nuclear imports and enrichment services from Russia by increasing the amount it imports from rest of the world; but even that will help only in part. In a nutshell, when it comes to nuclear energy, America will have a hard time finding an alternative to Russian help. Thus, while the European Union can indeed deliver on its promise of imposing sanctions against Russia, the United States cannot because if mutual sanctions were to come into effect, the primary loser will be America's own nuclear industry.
Japan Lets U.S. Assume Control of a Nuclear Cache
March 24, 2014 Posted by aletho | Nuclear Power	| Crimea, Enriched uranium, Russia, United States | Leave a comment
Is the BDS Democratic?
Open letter to Omar Barghouti, Co-founder, PACBI
By Paul Larudee | Dissident Voice | March 23, 2014
Dear Omar,
Let me start by saying that you have done a lot for BDS and that BDS has done a lot for the Palestinian cause. It is perhaps for this reason that we should all be concerned with potential corruption of the movement, and you most of all. I refer to changes of wording, changes of direction and changes of priority within the movement.
The change of wording is the infamous four words "occupied in June, 1967″ inserted into the first of three objectives in the mission statement portion of the 2005 BDS Call signed by 173 Palestinian organizations, such that the statement now demands of Israel:
"Ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands occupied in June 1967 and dismantling the Wall…" (added phrase in italics)
I understand your argument that this phrase only clarifies the meaning of the original statement, and that it changes the meaning not at all. Even so, who gave you the right to make the change without consulting and getting the approval of the signatories to the original call? Why was it inserted without even telling anyone, such that no one but you even knows when it was done? If it is so uncontroversial, why not get it approved?
Why is the phrase needed, anyway? You argue that it results in no change of meaning. Why, then, is it not superfluous? Since it is a bone of contention, just remove it and be done with it.
I also understand that the offending phrase occurs only in the "Introducing the BDS Movement" section of the website and that the original wording is preserved elsewhere. However, this is at best misleading and at worst disingenuous. The "Introducing the BDS Movement" section reproduces the three demands from the 2005 Call completely verbatim, except for the added four words, and then proceeds to make the claim that this wording is endorsed by the signatories of the 2005 BDS Call.
This is deceptive and even fraudulent and must be corrected. The altered wording has even been mistakenly quoted by Max Blumenthal in his book Goliath as being the wording of the original BDS Call. Your misrepresentation has led directly to his error.
However, the wording is not merely a technical problem. The wording is apparently important to you. But why? Could it be that the wording was needed in order to satisfy individuals or groups or interests that demanded this wording? Was it meant as an assurance that BDS would not demand the return of all lands stolen from Palestinians but only those lands that were stolen outside the Green Line?
If this is the case, it would explain why many "soft" Zionists, who want to maintain a Jewish state but give back the West Bank, now participate in BDS, but only against institutions that support the Israeli presence in the West Bank.
In fact, that is the current priority of the movement, with little or no Boycott, Divestment or Sanctions aimed at institutions that deny equal rights to Palestinian citizens of Israel or the Right of Return to Palestinians in the shatat ("diaspora").
Is this a coincidence or is BDS headed in a different direction than its origins would indicate? Is it no longer a Palestinian movement, but rather a "soft" Zionist movement?
Obviously, people join movements for different reasons, and if Zionists want to boycott organizations that do business with Israel – even if only in the West Bank – their contribution is welcome.
However, it is quite another matter to effectively turn over the reins of the movement to them or to accommodate them by changing the wording of the mission statement. A Palestinian movement that welcomes Zionists that have limited objectives is quite different from a Zionist movement that wants to limit its mission but accepts Palestinians that have wider goals.
Is that what is going on? Perhaps not. Perhaps my concerns are exaggerated. But in that case, please dispel all doubt by removing the four words.
Paul Larudee
Paul Larudee is one of the founders of the Free Gaza and Free Palestine Movements and an organizer in the International Solidarity Movement.
March 24, 2014 Posted by aletho | Deception, Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism, Solidarity and Activism	| International Solidarity Movement, Israel, Max Blumenthal, Omar Barghouti, Palestine, Paul Larudee, Zionism | Leave a comment
Internalized Oppression: Yet another Loss for an Occupied Nation
By Samah Jabr | Palestine Chronicle | March 23 2014
Jerusalem, Palestine – The chronic tyranny brought by the Israeli occupation has had a devastating effect on the well being of the Palestinian community. But one of the worst effects is the internalization of oppression and the undermining of Palestinian's collective self-concept. I have observed that since the 2006 elections in Palestine—which were followed by an arrest of the elected parliamentarians and an international boycott of the elected government—the vigorous spirit of the Palestinian community that had previously evolved during long years of resistance has finally been reduced to a state of demoralization.The undermining of this election represented an additional bitter blow after the more subtle impact of the Oslo Accords, which had been originally promoted as part of the Palestinian liberation project. However, reports published on the Accord's 20th anniversary showed that during this period the number of Israeli settlers in the West Bank had doubled and the area controlled by settlements had expanded to 42 % of Palestinian land; furthermore, a system of restrictions on Palestinian movement and trade had continued its division of Palestinian families and its decimation of the economy. Not to mention the infamous collaboration between Palestinian and Israeli security forces that has secured for Israelis a profitable trade and tourism through bed and breakfast hotels overlooking the magnificent hills of the West Bank, dismantled resistance, and incarcerated more Palestinians in prisons.
Over years of occupation, young Palestinians saw their fathers dragged from homes by Israeli soldiers, humiliated at checkpoints, and rendered unable to provide for their families' safety and basic needs. In reaction to their feelings of shame, such vulnerable children came to identify with the oppressor through oppressing weaker members of their community and developing self-loathing. A Palestinian Jerusalemite told me, "On holidays I don't go to Eilat because it will be full of Arabs!" The efforts of some Palestinians to assimilate and identify with Israelis are truly pathetic. Some Palestinians shop for their clothing in Israeli boutiques, dress their hair in Israeli salons, and drive while listening to loud music in Hebrew. I have observed more than one Palestinian patient suffering a relapse of manic illness who spoke to me in Hebrew as an expression of grandiosity. Meanwhile, the reality of job opportunities in the West Bank is dismal and work conditions are miserable, so that many laborers are eager to work for Israelis even if they must work in settlements or participate in projects such as building the separation wall. These workers are often treated by Israelis as sub-human: a few months ago Ahsan Abu-Srur, a 54 year old unauthorized Palestinian construction worker from Askar refugee camp, was seriously injured while doing renovation work in Tel Aviv. Realizing that he was critically injured, the Israeli contractor and two of his workers dragged the man to the sidewalk opposite the workplace and left him there to die.
The experience of oppression undermines the internal cohesion of the oppressed and creates among them a state of polarization, in which they often direct their rage at others who are similarly victimized. Oppression makes people selfish and greedy, prone to infighting and competition over scarce resources—the scraps of opportunities left over from the oppressor. Oppressed people readily become resentful and envious of one another, creating an ambiance of mutual distrust.
The sense of inferiority resulting from internalized oppression sets into motion a vicious cycle. We are treated as inferior—and in the absence of resistance, resilience and self-defense, we internalize the assumption of our own inferiority. Thus we come to believe that we are less capable and less worthy than others. These feelings are then projected onto our perceptions of one another and enacted in our treatment of one another. In this way, Palestinians come to distrust and devalue their own educational and medical systems; there is a spiteful oppression of women, a contemptuous attitude towards persons of a lower socioeconomic class, and an exclusionary and intolerant attitude towards political opposition—just a few manifestations of our internalized oppression.
Nowadays, there is a widespread, corrupt system of influence and cronyism in Palestine such that most people are employees of the government. As a consequence, our agriculture is suffering, small independent businesses are crushed, and only the enterprises of a tiny minority, closely allied to the government can flourish. Young people are trapped in a cycle of consumerism, with new apartments, cars, and big loans from banks requiring a relentless lifetime of repayment. The result is decreased social involvement and productivity and rising rates of crime, addiction and diminished wellbeing. Pervasive inadequacy throughout our institutions, nepotism, false representation and mistreatment and torture of Palestinians by fellow Palestinians are just a few of the symptoms of the general degradation of our community.
Community leaders and politicians fail to restore our national dignity and pride by taking steps to break through this vicious cycle and shedding light upon resilience, productivity, authenticity and steadfastness. We remember the submissive words of the President following the western boycott of the electoral results, "If we have to choose between bread and democracy, we choose bread." Since the partition between the West Bank and Gaza, the Palestinian official discourse seems to confuse the doer and the do-ee. In its relationship with Israel, our officials assume the role of the oppressor, condemning spontaneous Palestinian reactions to Israeli violations and promoting meek submission to Israeli oppression. The people of Palestine are cast by our leadership into the role of the suspect, the offender; such reactions only feed into the entitlement of the occupier's spin on reality, which turns us into victimizers and assumes the role of the victim.
The submissiveness urged by our leaders goes beyond condemning armed resistance to trivializing non-violent measures such as the imposition of boycotts and the use of international law to hold Israel accountable for its actions; the Palestinian official position toward the Goldstone report on Israel's war crimes is an illustrative example. We should not be deceived by the exaggerated festivities surrounding the UN General Assembly's change of Palestine's "entity" status to "non-member observer state." The change in status was just a smoke screen to blur our perception of the revolutions taking place within the Arab world. We may have retitled our postal stamps by the addition of the words, "State of Palestine," but have yet to take a single war criminal to the Hague and have yet to pursue our legal right to Palestinian land, waters, or air space—as any sovereign state recognized by the UN would surely do. Instead, "secretive" negotiations continue in the dark while Israel continues to approve the construction of more settlement homes in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem and the demolition of more Palestinian homes.
The Palestinian President reassures the world that a Palestinian state will be demilitarized while two thirds of the national budget goes to our [internal] security forces. Meanwhile, healthcare, education, social welfare, and all other national programs survive on one third of the budget! We need only look to our neighboring Arab countries who were impoverished for decades as they fed the fat cats who ran their armies, while their own starving people were duped into the belief that these armies would "defend" them one day. Now these armies devour the very same people who had supported them—but are we Palestinians any better?
Internalized oppression is driven by several engines.
The first is media. Anger and dissatisfaction create the momentum for social change, but an artificial leisure and entertainment industry will blind and distract a frustrated public from the reality around them and create a false consciousness. Local media bombard our eyes and ears to dull our critical faculties and weaken our ability to protest, resist, or revolt. Media owners and their donor capitalists ally with the political elite to impose their tastes and ideology on the public. Mohammad Assaf, the Palestinian winning Arab Idol, is a good example—a charming vocalist with a beautiful voice. But the media promotes this triumph as the symbol of "the Palestinian plight," and mobilizes the public to become consumers of a simplistic, reductionist, and deceptive exploitation of his charm; a thing of beauty can be used for ugly purposes. One might ask why the local media failed to make an equal effort to mobilize against the siege on Gaza, the Prawer plan, or in the service of transparency regarding the ongoing negotiations—matters which connect directly with most Palestinians and their plight!
International donation is the second engine. It is a paradox that oppression can come to us through the doors and windows of freedom, openness, and efforts to do good. In her study, "Promoting Democracy in Palestine: Donation and the Democratization of the West Bank and Gaza," Dr. Leila Farsakh concluded that such projects sought to promote the legitimacy of the Palestinian Authority rather than empowering the Palestinian public to challenge the dominance of the Authority or to critique its definition of the national liberation project. Donor-driven projects fail to devote sufficient attention to important institutions central to the democratic process, such as the parliament, political parties, and the electoral process. In the end, these projects tend to entrench the occupation rather than helping Palestinians to create the conditions for national liberation; these projects tend to intensify the grip of the Authority instead of strengthening independent-minded channels.
The third engine is the domain of education and institutionalized religion. This year, five Palestinian schools in East Jerusalem substituted the Palestinian curriculum with the Israeli one. The Jerusalem municipality went on to award the administration of these five schools by increasing the personal salaries of their principals and paying them 2,000 NIS for every student registered in their schools. A mere glance at the Israeli curriculum reveals how it distorts history, religion, geography, and eventually the mindset and the national culture of pupils: In one textbook, two pupils discuss how Israel brought electricity to their village and granted national insurance to children and their elders; the pupils conclude that they should join the celebration on "Israel's Independence Day." And while some of our children are savoring a toxic dose of Israeli indoctrination, others are anesthetized by some misleading religious leaders who form an unholy league with political and financial power elites. Manipulating the public with an insidious form of mind control, they come up with "teachings" promoting a fatalistic, mystical frame of mind and issue "fatwas" that promote compliance and conformity. These religious leaders promote the status quo with all its agony and disadvantages and inhibit people from embracing genuine reform and social change, encouraging people to pin their hopes on the afterlife rather than dealing with the misery of the here and now.
In conclusion, since decisions and behaviors of our leaders do nothing but establish internalized oppression, it becomes the social responsibility of ordinary people to work actively to recognize and alleviate this threat to wellbeing, in order to prevent the demise of the Palestinian spirit and cause. Raising awareness about the phenomenon, monitoring and protesting its appearance in official discourse and behavior, bearing witness, empowering economic development, resisting consumerism, connecting them with their own history and community, and helping them to analyze reality— are just a few tools to liberate Palestinians from internalized oppression. So much has been done to efface, harm, eradicate the Palestinian nation or to disfigure it forever. We cannot simply wait for justice to happen—justice is something we must work hard to actualize. Sacrifices must be made and sometimes risks must be taken to snatch our life from the jaws of death. Commitment, awareness, wisdom, and planning are required for recovery and salvation of this injured life—as we want a decent life, not any life. Our work for healing and recovery is indivisible from our work for liberation.
– Samah Jabr is a Jerusalemite psychiatrist and psychotherapist.
March 24, 2014 Posted by aletho | Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism, Subjugation - Torture, Timeless or most popular	| Jerusalem, Palestine, West Bank, Zionism | Leave a comment
Israeli Forces Kill 2 Palestinian Civilians and Armed Group Member and Wound 12 Civilians in Jenin Refugee Camp
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights | March 23, 2014
In excessive use of force, on Saturday, 22 March 2014, Israeli forces killed, 2 Palestinian civilians and a member of a Palestinian armed group and wounded 12 civilians and a member of the Palestinian National Security Forces in Jenin refugee camp, west of the northern West Bank town of Jenin. Israeli forces claimed via the Israeli media that they killed 3 Palestinians during armed clashes in the aforementioned refugee camp. However, investigations conducted by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) investigations refute the Israeli claim and confirm that the two civilians were killed as Israeli forces opened fire heavily at dozens of civilians who were trying to pull and carry the militant's body to the centre of the camp.
According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 02:00 on the Saturday, 22 March 2014, an Israeli special military force from "Alimam" Unit in the Israeli military, which is described as "an anti-terrorism unit" infiltrated into the south of Jenin refugee camp, west of Jenin. The Israeli force surrounded a two-story house belonging to the family of 'Azmi Mohammed Mahmoud al-Hasaniyah (67) in Tal'et al-Ghabes area. Israeli forces then sent large military back-ups, which were deployed throughout the camp while Israeli drones were hovering overhead. Israeli snipers ascended roofs of nearby houses after they received information that Hamzah Jamal 'Abdel Salam Abu al-Heijah (22), the local leader of the Izziddin al-Qassam brigades (the armed wing of Hamas), was in the house.
After the military back-ups had arrived, Israeli forces blew up the main door of the houses and opened fire. They then yelled at residents of the house to get out. When the residents were about to come out and Mohammed (23), the son of the house's owner who is member of the Palestinian National Security Forces, opened the external door, he was shot in the left shoulder. Amidst the screams of his family, the shooting stopped and the residents began to get out one by one while Abu al-Heijah stayed in a room on the second floor. Israeli forces arrested Mohammed and his brother, Majd (18), and took the rest of the family members to a nearby house. They then entered a tracker dog into the house, but Hamzah killed it and this made the Israeli forces certain that he is in the house. As a result, Israeli forces showered the house with live bullets and shells fired by machine guns and then used shoulder-fired missiles. As a result, the house was partially destroyed. Meanwhile, armed clashes broke out between Palestinian militants, who were stationed in the areas of al-Sahah and Abu Thahir Mountain areas, and Hamzah from the house from one side and the Israeli forces, which were surrounding the house, from the other side. Hamzah took advantage of this and jumped from one of the western windows of the house. As soon as he stepped a few meters, snipers opened fired and immediately killed him. They left him for two hours and he bled to death in the alley. Young men then tried to pull his body, and Israeli forces opened fire at them. However, they managed to pull it. When they were passing by al-Sahah area, Israeli forces opened fire killing two of them: Yazan Mahmoud Basem Taha "Jabarin" (20) who was hit by a bullet to the chest; and Mahmoud 'Omer Saleh Abu Zeinah (24), who also was hit by a bullet to the chest. When the news of the death of 3 persons spread out, the camp residents started coming out of their houses. Immediately, the Israeli snipers opened fire at these civilians wounding 11 of them, including a 65-year-old woman. Thus, the number of wounded persons mounted to 12 civilians. It should be mentioned that Hamzah Abu al-Heijah is the son of Jamal Abu al-Heijah, who is serving a sentence of 9 life imprisonments in the Israeli jails. Hamzah had been subject to several extra-judicial execution attempts, the last of which was on 18 December 2013 when an Israeli special unit targeted him. However, he managed to escape and Nafe'a Jamil Nafe'a al-Sa'adi was killed.
PCHR strongly condemns this crime, which further proves the use of excessive force by Israeli forces against Palestinian civilians in disregard for their lives. PCHR calls upon the international community to take immediate and effective action to stop Israeli crimes and reiterates its call for the High Contracting Parties to the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention to fulfill their obligations under Article 1; i.e., to respect and to ensure respect for the Convention in all circumstances, and their obligation under Article 146 to prosecute persons alleged to commit grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention. These grave breaches constitute war crimes under Article 147 of the same Convention and Protocol (I) Additional to the Geneva Conventions.
March 24, 2014 Posted by aletho | Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism, Illegal Occupation, Solidarity and Activism, Subjugation - Torture, War Crimes	| Fourth Geneva Convention, Geneva Convention, Jenin, Palestine, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, West Bank, Zionism | Leave a comment
Israeli Troops Use Journalists as 'Human Shield' During Invasion of Aida Camp
By Saed Bannoura | IMEMC News | March 23, 2014
A Palestinian journalist has reported that he and two of his colleagues were used by the Israeli military as 'human shields' during an Israeli military invasion of the Aida refugee camp, near Bethlehem.
The term 'human shield' is used to refer to instances where armies or armed forces attempt to protect themselves by placing civilians between themselves and the people or group they are attacking. This practice is a direct violation of international law and the Fourth Geneva Convention, to which Israel is a signatory.
Israel has, on multiple occasions in the past, been found to have used Palestinians (including children) as human shields, including tying them on the hoods of their vehicles. Multiple instances have also been documented by international and Israeli human rights groups of the targeting of journalists, including the killing of journalists documenting Israeli abuses in Palestine.
In the incident on Saturday, Palestinian journalist Moussa al-Shaer reported that he and two other journalists – a Palestinian and American – were used by the Israeli military to shield them from some youth who were throwing stones at them.
The other Palestinian journalist was identified as Abd al-Rahman Younis, but the American journalist was not identified.
According to al-Shaer, the three journalists were detained by Israeli troops, who took their press cards and refused to allow them to leave or do their job of covering the incident. Throughout the invasion, the Israelis placed the journalists in front of the troops in an attempt to stop the kids from throwing stones at the troops.
Eventually, at the end of the invasion, the soldiers handed the journalists their press cards back and released them without charge.
During the Israeli invasion of the camp, soldiers fired stun grenades and tear gas at residents, causing several in the camp to seek medical attention for tear gas inhalation.
March 24, 2014 Posted by aletho | Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism, Illegal Occupation	| Fourth Geneva Convention, Human rights, Human shield, Israel, Palestine, Zionism | Leave a comment
Egypt court sentences 529 Morsi supporters to death
A court in Egypt has sentenced 529 supporters of former President Mohammed Morsi to death for various charges including murder, judicial sources and a defence lawyer say.
"The court has decided to sentence to death 529 defendants and 16 were acquitted," lawyer Ahmed al-Sharif said on Monday.
He added that the ruling can be appealed.
Judicial sources say 153 of the sentenced people are in custody, but the rest are on the run.
According to judicial sources, the defendants have been charged with assaulting security forces and vandalizing public property during the violence that erupted after police stormed two protest camps set up by Morsi's supporters in Cairo last August.
The military-backed government has launched a deadly crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood supporters after the army ousted Morsi in July last year, with hundreds of people killed and thousands arrested.
According to a report released by the Associated Press earlier this month, Egypt's military-backed government has jailed nearly 16,000 people since Morsi's removal. About 3,000 Muslim Brotherhood members are among those who have been put behind bars.
March 24, 2014 Posted by aletho | Civil Liberties, Subjugation - Torture	| Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood | Leave a comment
Bitter memories: Tule Lake
(1975) – A documentary on the Tule Lake Japanese Relocation Camp presented through interviews with Japanese Americans who were interned there.
Link for video: https://alethonews.wordpress.com/2017/10/24/bitter-memories-history-of-the-tule-lake-japanese-relocation-center/
Tule Lake Committee Calls LADWP's Proposed Solar Ranch Adjacent to Manzanar "Inappropriate And Offensive"
Hiroshi Kashiwagi: Tule Lake fence is a desecration
George Takei's Petition to Preserve Access to Tule Lake Internment Camp
Playwright and Activist Hiroshi Kashiwagi Decries "Another Fence At Tule Lake"
March 24, 2014 Posted by aletho | Civil Liberties, Ethnic Cleansing, Racism, Zionism, Timeless or most popular, Video	| Internment, Japanese American internment, Tule Lake, United States, World War II | Leave a comment
Turkey receives more S-400 parts as US holds off retaliation 'until after coup attempt anniversary' July 14, 2019
Iran judiciary chief opposes Paris Agreement on climate protection July 13, 2019


Christians make up about the same portion of the world's population today as they did a century ago. But that apparent stability masks a momentous shift. Although Europe and the Americas still are home to a majority of the world's Christians (63%), that share is much lower than it was in 1910 (93%). The proportion of Europeans and Americans who are Christian has dropped from 95% in 1910 to 76% in 2010 in Europe as a whole, and from 96% to 86% in the Americas as a whole.


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Annie Williams, a Cleveland grandmother was mauled by a pit bull while at a relative's Shaker Heights home on July 12.
Councilman Rob Zimmerman said Monday night that, after that incident, residents looked to council to do something.
On that night, City Council heard the first reading of an ordinance aimed at regulating vicious dogs. The ordinance, if passed, would allow pit bulls currently living in the city to remain. It would not, however, allow residents to take ownership of a pit bull starting with the day of the legislation's passage.
Further, the ordinance would require that any dog or animal labeled vicious by the city's animal warden be registered annually with the city at a cost of $20.
"This isn't just for pit bulls," said Law Director Williams Ondrey Gruber, "this is for any dog labeled vicious. The city determines if a dog is vicious. There are just a small number of (vicious dogs) in the city."
Gruber said he spoke with representatives of the city of Lakewood, where pit bull ownership is banned, while crafting the Shaker Heights amendments.
"While dogs of other breeds can and have killed and injured people and pets," Gruber told council, "and many types of dogs have been involved in dog bite incidents, the pit bull dog, statistically, far out ranks any other breed of dog in the number and severity of dog attacks and deaths and injuries related to dogs."
Gruber's report to council noted that pit bulls or pit bull mixes were involved in incidents in which they bit or knocked down U.S. Postal workers on May 23 and Aug. 19 in Shaker Heights, and that a dog was killed by two pit bull terriers in August in Avon Lake. Gruber further told of the strength and unpredictability of the pit bull.
Shaker Heights already has laws designed to keep people safe from vicious dogs, such as those detailing the strength of a leash and the person walking a vicious dog, and how vicious dogs must be contained in yards.
Further restraints would be added as part of the amendments, including mandatory spaying or neutering of a vicious dog; regular rabies vaccinations; and increasing the owner's mandatory liability insurance from $100,000, to $500,000.
The changes were all discussed by City Council's Safety and Public Works Committee. A member of that committee is Councilman James Brady.
"It's almost a phase out of pit bulls in the city," Brady said of not allowing more pit bulls in Shaker Heights in the future.
Brady said he knows some people who own well-mannered pit bulls. Still, he said, since the time the committee discussed the changes, "I was not overwhelmed by phone calls or emails for, or against."
Councilwoman Nancy Moore said the changes in the vicious dog ordinance are in answer to more incidents than Williams' death.
"Less than three months ago, on Scottsdale Road," Moore said, "a runner was bitten four times. The attack was unprovoked."
Moore said that, unless the law is made stronger, "WE'RE WAITING, JUST WAITING, FOR ANOTHER ATTACK TO OCCUR."
The city's animal warden, Brady said, conservatively estimates that there are 200-300 pit bulls now living in Shaker Heights.
The state of Ohio does not consider pit bulls vicious, but the state law does not overturn municipal bans on pit bulls.
They're almost getting it right.
Labeling a pit bull as vicious, means that it has already attacked. Most of the time, a first attack from a pit bull is devastating.
All pit bulls should be deemed vicious. That way, the first attack, whether it's a simple bite, or a mauling, can be used to have the pit bull euthanized instead of getting one free pass.


The Coca-Cola Christmas trucks and their theme tune of 'Holidays are Coming' have become synonymous with the festive season.
They are touring the country and, at each stop, visitors can have pictures taken with the trucks as they light up in a winter setting.
Visitors will also be able to drink a 150ml can of either Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Life, Coca-Cola Zero or Diet Coke. Radio presenters from Capital FM will also broadcasting from the stops.
Below is a list of places where they can be seen in Yorkshire. The trucks arrive at 12pm and will be stationed at the venues until 8pm. At Huddersfield and Sheffield, there will be a live choir singing festive songs.


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REVIEW: Cabaret (The Hypocrites')
Willkommen to a darker, sexier 'Cabaret'
The Hypocrites Theatre presents
Book by Joe Masteroff
Lyrics by Fred Ebb, Music by John Kander
Directed by Matt Hawkins
DCA Storefront Theater, 66 E. Randolph (map)
through May 23rd | tickets: $15-$25 | more info
The first thing you will notice about The Hypocrites's production of Cabaret is the genderbending. The scene-stealing role of the emcee, who has been played by everyone from Joel Gray to Alan Cumming to Neil Patrick Harris, is now played by a woman (Jessie Fisher). And whereas the men always brought a certain effeminacy to the role, Fisher brings a cocky butchness without sacrificing her sensuality.
You could view this casting call as a way to pander to a more general audience, eliminating the homosexual overtones of the show's ringmaster. But The Hypocrites' version of the piece is still rife with in-your-face graphic gay sexuality, from the lingering kiss between the American Cliff (Michael Peters) and one of the cabaret boys to the completely unsubtle choreography, which includes a lot of mock copulation.
In fact, if anything, the choice to womanize the emcee adds an additional thematic element to the play, one that promotes the strength and courage of women and the misogyny of the Nazi state. This is most effective during the song "I Don't Care Much." Director Matt Hawkins places four masked Nazi soldiers around the emcee who watch her with cold, dead eyes. The emcee staggers around the stage, spitting at the men as she taunts them with the lyrics of the song, knowing full well that she is writing her own death sentence.
Fisher exudes confidence as the nightclub's central figure She also has a clever wit, ad-libbing occasionally during some of the more light-hearted numbers such as "Willkommen." Like her carriage on stage, her voice is vigorously energetic, proving to be one of the strongest in the cast.
Lindsay Leopold plays the manic Sally Bowles with feral-like fierceness. The character of Sally spans a spectrum of emotion, oftentimes displaying two distinct feelings at once: her external exuberance and her inner depression. Leopold straddles this spectrum well. For example, her rendition of "Cabaret" is not the joyful melody you may recall from the movie. Rather, it's a melancholy rendition made all the more poignant when contrasted with the upbeat lyrics.
The costumes in the musical are basically a character unto themselves. Costume designer Alison Siple creates a cohesive aesthetic that combines ruffles and rags with garters and lace. The women look simply fantastic. However, the men did not get the same treatment. Whereas the women's flamboyant costumes genuinely reflect the sexy cabaret atmosphere, the men's costumes seem more like cartoonish afterthoughts.
Hawkins direction is superb. The play moves along quickly, juggling various plotlines from the rise of the Nazi regime to Sally's love affair with Cliff to the engagement of the landlady Frau Schneider. But it never feels hurried. The staging is also impressive. At the beginning of the play, the cabaret girls make grand entrances by sliding down poles, while near the end, the faceless Nazi guards stand menacingly along the catwalk above the stage.
The play is also done in a cabaret setting, providing ample intimacy for the audience and performers. Although most of the audience is relegated to risers, a few lucky patrons are able to sit at tables along the stage.
The Hypocrites Theatre's production of Cabaret is dark, sexy and fabulous. If you've never had the opportunity to see the play in an intimate, cabaret-like setting, this is your chance. With great direction, singing and revealing costumes, the show will titillate and entertain before crash-landing into its inevitable, disturbing conclusion.
Extra Credit:
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View photos from this show
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Sunday Night Sondheim – "Everybody's Got The Right" from Assassins
Posted on November 29, 2009 by Scotty Zacher
"Everybody's Got the Right" from Stephen Sondheim's 1991 musical Assassins. This Youtube video includes Neil Patrick Harris, Dennis O'Hare, Michael Cerveris (with hair!), James Barbour, Alexander Gemignani, and Mario Cantone.
Filed under: Stephen Sondheim, Sunday Night Sondheim, YouTube | Tagged: Alexander Gemignani, Assassins, Assassins the Musical, Dennis O'Hare, James Barbour, Mario Cantone, Michael Cerveris, Neil Patrick Harris, Stephen Sondheim |	Leave a comment »
From 2004 Tony Awards, here's is "Everybody's Got The Right" from Assassins (music and lyrics by Steven Sondheim, book by John Weidman). Included in the line-up here is Neil Patrick Harris, Denis O'Hare and Michael Cerveris (Tony winner!!!!!!!).
Filed under: Musical, Stephen Sondheim, Sunday Night Sondheim, Tony Awards, Video, YouTube | Tagged: Assassins, Assassins the Musical, Denis O'Hare, John Weidman, Michael Cerveris, Neil Patrick Harris, Stephen Sondheim, Tony Awards |	Leave a comment »
"Prop 8 – The Musical" starring Jack Black as Jesus
more about ""Prop 8 – The Musical" starring Jack …", posted with vodpod
Filed under: Just For Fun, Mental Health Break, Musical, Video | Tagged: Adam Shankman, Andy Richter, Jack Black, John C. Reilly, Marc Shaiman, Margaret Cho, Maya Rudolph, Neil Patrick Harris, Prop 8, Proposition 8 |	2 Comments »
Sunday Sondheim – "Everybody's Got The Right" from "Assassins"
Posted on June 29, 2008 by Scotty Zacher
Here is "Everybody's Got The Right" from Sondheim's Assassins performed at the 2004 Tony Awards. Included in the cast: Neil Patrick Harris, Dennis O'Hare and Michael Cerveris.
Filed under: Broadway, Stephen Sondheim, Sunday Night Sondheim, Tony Awards, YouTube | Tagged: Assassins, Dennis O'Hare, Michael Cerveris, Neil Patrick Harris, Stephen Sondheim, Tony Awards |	Leave a comment »


Response by Minister of Local Government to D Tate on July 11, 2017 .
Follow up sent to Minister of Local Government by Tom Andrews on March 16, 2017 .
Response by Minister of Local Government to Joel MacManus on May 26, 2016 .
Response by Minister of Local Government to Stephen Davis on June 07, 2016 .
Response by Minister of Local Government to Cheryl Beauchamp on June 03, 2015 .
Request to Minister of Local Government by Cheryl Beauchamp. Annotated by Cheryl Beauchamp on September 06, 2014 .
Response by Minister of Local Government to Joshua Grainger on September 25, 2012 .


Wow! Ruma Kowhai you have done such an awesome job of starting school over Term 3 and 4 this year. You have learnt how to read and write a sentence, how to make friends and how to learn from both your own and other children's mistakes. All your eyes lit up when we learnt about space and made our super cool sparkly space rocks together! Each and every one of you has come so far since your first day. What joy you have shared with me in such a short space of time. I will treasure these special memories we have shared together in 2017 and I look forward to seeing you continue to grow as you move on up to being big Year 1 kids.


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Is there a link between periodontal (gum) disease and cardiovascular disease? Medical researchers are endeavoring to answer this intriguing question, but early findings seem to say yes. If it bears true, the findings could advance treatment for both diseases.
There is one thing that can be said for certain: inflammation is a factor in both diseases' progression. Gum disease begins as an infection caused by bacteria growing in plaque, which is made up of bacteria and a thin film of food remnant that adheres to tooth surfaces. The body responds to this infection through tissue inflammation, an attempt to prevent the infection from spreading. Likewise, inflammation appears to be a similar response to changes in blood vessels afflicted by cardiovascular disease.
While inflammation is part of the body's mechanism to heal traumatized tissue, if it becomes chronic it can actually have a damaging effect on the tissues intended to benefit. For patients with gum disease, chronic inflammation causes connective tissues to detach from teeth, leading eventually to tooth and bone loss. Similarly, inflammation damages the linings of blood vessels in cardiovascular disease patients.
Researchers want to know what role bacteria may also play in the progression of cardiovascular disease. Initial studies seem to indicate that proactively treating the gum disease by removing all plaque from oral surfaces in patients with both conditions does appear to improve the health of diseased blood vessel linings. Whether this could ultimately reduce the occurrence of heart attack or stroke still needs to be ascertained.
As we learn more about the possible connections between these two diseases, there's hope it will lead to new advancements that could improve health outcomes for both. It may prove to be the case, then, that maintaining a healthy mouth promotes a healthy heart, and vice-versa.