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European Bison Reintroduction in the Eastern Rhodopes
New Thracian Gold works on the reintroduction of the European bison, a large endangered herbivorous species and iconic for to rewilding in Europe, the Eastern Rhodopes. In October 2013, five bison were brought to the Studen Kladenets Game Reserve in region. This was the first step of the first reintroduction of the European bison in the Rhodopes, the highlight of the just started two-year project "The wild world of the Eastern Rhodopes".
The project is initiated by New Thracian Gold – Bulgaria Foundation in partnership with the Dutch organization ARK Nature and the Union of the Hunters and Fishermen of Bulgaria and with the financial support of America for Bulgaria Foundation. It is a follow-up of the Dutch-Bulgarian project New Thracian Gold (NTG).
The main objective of the project is to preserve the outstanding wild nature and its ecosystems in one of the most abundant biodiversity hot spots in Europe – the Eastern Rhodopes and to support the nomination of the area for becoming one of the ten magnificent wildlife and wilderness areas of international quality in Europe under the Rewilding Europe initiative. This will hopefully contribute to put Bulgaria on the European map as an attractive destination for wildlife tourism and will support small scale local businesses by reaping economic benefits from the wildlife.
The European bison, a cousing of the North American bison n, is the largest herbivore in Europe and a key species in the development of open forest ecosystems. It got extinct in the wild in Europe in the early 20th century due to severe hunting pressure and habitat loss. In Bulgaria, it has disappeared in the Middle Ages. After a large-scale breeding and reintroduction programme based on individuals remaining in captivity, wild populations have been re-established in areas of central and eastern Europe, with a stronghold in Poland and Belarus. A small herd of European bisons was also reintroduced in the sixties in a hunting reserve in Northern Bulgaria. European bison – beside Eurasian beaver and White-tailed eagle – has been highlighted as species that have made a remarkable comeback in Europe over the past 50 years, according to the first ever in-depth report Wildlife Comeback in Europe released last September. The wild population now numbers about 3,000.
Five bison in Studen Kladenets Reserve were transported from Germany (Wisentgehege Springe and Wisentgehege Hardehausen). Initially, they are being kept in an enclosure and after one year successful acclimatization under Bulgarian conditions the animals will be released into the nature. They will be the first free roaming bison population in Bulgaria!
The European bison became very quickly an attraction for locals and tourists in the Eastern Rhodopes. We have also experienced a setback. After a short illness and despite the intensive care provided by the NTG team two youngest of the five bison died in November 2013. Everything has been done to get a better insight into the reason of death, but unfortunately no strong evidence on the cause of death could be identified. Despite this misfortune the teams of NTG and Rewilding Europe are positive about the bison's reintroduction in Bulgaria.
In spring 2014, tourists from Bulgaria and abroad will be encouraged to visit the area, pay a visit to the animals and enjoy all other features of Studen Kladenets Reserve: wildlife watching and photography, hiking, boat trips, etc. The area of Studen Kladenets maintains already a free ranging population of Fallow deer, one of the largest in Europ
The project team is convinced that the European bison will be one of the most appealing tourist attractions of the Studen Kladenets Reserve and the new wildlife symbol of the Eastern Rhodopes next to the wild horses Tarpans reintroduced by NTG project in the area of Krumovgrad in 2011 and already successfully adapted to the Rhodopean nature.e which started already to recolonize the adjacent parts of the Eastern Rhodopes. Under NTG project Red deer is restored in the Reserve with this year the first few new born fawns in the region. In the past the area was only used during the hunting season (October – March). Now during the tourism season the area is and will be more visited by many more nature lovers.
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The America for Bulgaria Foundation assists in growing and strengthening a vibrant market economy and democratic society in Bulgaria, helping the country to realize its full potential as a successful, modern European nation. Founded in 2008, the ABF is a successor to the Bulgarian American Enterprise Fund, an investment fund created by the U.S. government acting through the U.S. Agency for International Development. The grants provided by ABF build on the legacy of goodwill and friendship that exists between the American people and the citizens of Bulgaria.
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January 23rd, 2012 Posted in Uncategorized
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The Obama administration's failure to prosecute any of the crimes which caused (or resulted from) the financial crisis has been a continuing source of outrage for voters across the country.
Last summer, Gretchen Morgenson of The New York Times earned a great deal of praise for her August 21 report, exposing the Obama administration's vilification of New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman for his refusal to play along with Team Obama's efforts to insulate the fraud-closure banks from the criminal prosecution they deserve. The administration has been attempting to pressure each Attorney General from every state to consent to a settlement of any and all claims against the banksters arising from their fraudulent foreclosure practices. Each state is being asked to release the banks from criminal and civil liability in return for a share of the $25 billion settlement package. The $25 billion is to be used for loan modifications.
The administration's effort to push this fraud-closure settlement is ongoing. On January 21, David Dayen provided an update on this crusade at the Firedoglake website.
The American public is no longer content to sit back and do nothing while the Obama administration sits back and does nothing to prosecute those criminals whose fraudulent conduct devastated the American economy. On December 22, I discussed the intensifying wave of criticism directed against the President by his former supporters as well as those disgusted by Obama's subservience to his benefactors on Wall Street. Since that time, Scot Paltrow wrote a great piece for Reuters, concerning the Justice Department's failure to intervene against improper foreclosure procedures. Paltrow's widely-acclaimed essay inspired several commentators to express their disgust about government permissiveness toward such egregious conduct. At The Big Picture, Barry Ritholtz shared his reaction to the Reuters article:
The fraud is rampant, self-evident, easy to prosecute. The only reason it hasn't been done so far is that this nation is led by corrupt cowards and suffers from a ruinous two-party system.
We were once a great nation that set a shining example for the rest of the world as to what the Rule of Law meant. That is no more, as we have become a corrupt plutocracy. Why our prosecutors cower in front of the almighty banking industry is beyond my limited ability to comprehend.
Without any sort of legal denouement, we should expect an angry electorate and an unhappy nation.
Scot Paltrow wrote another great article for Reuters on January 20, which is causing quite a stir. The opening paragraphs provide us with some insight as to why our Attorney General deserves to be called Mr. Hold-harmless:
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Lanny Breuer, head of the Justice Department's criminal division, were partners for years at a Washington law firm that represented a Who's Who of big banks and other companies at the center of alleged foreclosure fraud, a Reuters inquiry shows.
The firm, Covington & Burling, is one of Washington's biggest white shoe law firms. Law professors and other federal ethics experts said that federal conflict of interest rules required Holder and Breuer to recuse themselves from any Justice Department decisions relating to law firm clients they personally had done work for.
Both the Justice Department and Covington declined to say if either official had personally worked on matters for the big mortgage industry clients.
The evidence, including records from federal and state courts and local clerks' offices around the country, shows widespread forgery, perjury, obstruction of justice, and illegal foreclosures on the homes of thousands of active-duty military personnel.
In recent weeks the Justice Department has come under renewed pressure from members of Congress, state and local officials and homeowners' lawyers to open a wide-ranging criminal investigation of mortgage servicers, the biggest of which have been Covington clients. So far Justice officials haven't responded publicly to any of the requests.
The revelations in Scot Paltrow's most recent report should create quite a scandal requiring significant damage control efforts by the Obama administration. Given the fact that this is an election year, Republican politicians should be smelling red meat at this point. After all, Obama's Attorney General is being accused of conflict of interest. Nevertheless, will any Republicans (or their Super PACs) seize upon this issue? To do so could place them in a conflict-of-interest situation – as far as those banks are concerned. Dare they risk biting the hands that feed them? It could be quite a high-wire act to undertake. Will any Republicans rise to this challenge?
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Cairo In America
December 26th, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized
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We have seen quite a bit of hand-wringing by those in the mainstream news media about the repression against protests in Cairo during the past few weeks. What we don't see on television are the oppressive tactics used against protesters and journalists here in the United States. Never mind the fact that the Obama administration refuses to prosecute any of the crimes which led to the financial crisis. Simply protesting against the refusal of Attorney General Eric Hold-harmless to do his job can result in arrests and beatings administered by police. At The eXiled blog,Yasha Levine discussed the targeting of journalists by police, hell-bent on squelching coverage of the Occupy movement:
Remember how in November, Bloomberg and the NYPD got a lot of heat from the city's media establishment for the arrest rampage they unleashed on journalists covering the eviction raid on Liberty Plaza? Cops arrested more than two dozen accredited journalists from major news outlets, including the New York Post, NPR, AFP and The Associated Press. Hell, cops even clubbed a couple of reporters for the baggertarian rag The Daily Caller. As a result, New York's police commissioner made a big show of issuing an order that instructed police officers not to interfere with journalists covering OWS.
But clearly that was just for show.
Because this month the NYPD has gone out of its way to harass and arrest journalists covering OWS, especially targeting live streamers and indie journalists who can't be counted on for propaganda support like the mainstream folks. According to Free Press' Josh Stearns, who has been maintaining a list of journalists arrested while covering the Occupy Movement across the country, at least five journalists and seven live streamers were arrested by the NYPD in the first half of December.
The NYPD continued harassing indie journalists five days later during the D17 protests. Some were bashed with batons, others were threatened with having their official press passes revoked. By the end of the day, at least two journalists were arrested, including photojournalist Zach Roberts and Jennifer Dworkin, an independent filmmaker who had worked for PBS.
It will be interesting to see whether a new piece of technology, called the "Occucopter" will enable those reporters to obtain valuable images of abusive police tactics – without getting their own skulls crushed in the process. The Guardian provided this report:
This week in New York, Occupy Wall Street protesters have a new toy to help them expose potentially dubious actions of the New York police department. In response to constant police surveillance, police violence and thousands of arrests, Occupy Wall Street protesters and legal observers have been turning their cameras back on the police. But police have sometimes made filming difficult through physical obstruction and "frozen zones". This occurred most notably during the eviction of protesters from Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, where police prevented even credentialed journalists from entering.
Now the protesters are fighting back with their own surveillance drone. Tim Pool, an Occupy Wall Street protester, has acquired a Parrot AR drone he amusingly calls the "occucopter". It is a lightweight four-rotor helicopter that you can buy cheaply on Amazon and control with your iPhone. It has an onboard camera so that you can view everything on your phone that it points at. Pool has modified the software to stream live video to the internet so that we can watch the action as it unfolds. You can see video clips of his first experiments here. He told us that the reason he is doing this "comes back to giving ordinary people the same tools that these multimillion-dollar news corporations have. It provides a clever loophole around certain restrictions such as when the police block press from taking shots of an incident."
The American public is no longer content to sit back and do nothing while the Obama administration sits back and does nothing to prosecute those criminals whose fraudulent conduct devastated the American economy. In my last posting, I discussed the intensifying wave of criticism directed against the President by his former supporters as well as those disgusted by Obama's subservience to his benefactors on Wall Street. Since that time, Scot Paltrow wrote a great piece for Reuters, concerning the Justice Department's failure to intervene against improper foreclosure procedures. Paltrow's widely-acclaimed essay inspired several commentators to express their disgust about government permissiveness toward such egregious conduct. At The Big Picture, Barry Ritholtz shared his reaction to the Reuters article:
Is there any hope for America or will we continue on our course of devolution toward becoming a banana republic? At his Pragmatic Capitalism blog, Cullen Roche brought a glimmer of hope to some of us when he published Saxo Bank's list of 10 outrageous predictions for 2012. I was particularly encouraged by the third item on the list:
3. A yet unannounced candidate takes the White House
In 1992, Texas billionaire Ross Perot managed to take advantage of a recessionary economy and popular disgust with US politics and reap 18.9 per cent of the popular vote. Three years of Obama has brought too little change and only additional widespread disillusionment with the entire US political system, and conditions for a third party candidate have never been riper. Someone with a strong programme for real change throws his or her hat in the ring early in 2012 and snatches the presidency in November in one of the most pivotal elections in US history, taking 38 per cent of the popular vote.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
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Charade Ends For Pseudo-Populists
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The Occupy Wall Street protest has exposed the politicians – who have always claimed to be populists – for what they really are: tools of the plutocracy. Conspicuously absent from the Wall Street occupation have been nearly all Democrats – despite their party's efforts to portray itself as the champion of Main Street in its battle against the tyranny of the megabanks. As has always been the case, the Democrats won't really do anything that could disrupt the flow of bribes campaign contributions they receive from our nation's financial elites.
The "no show" Democrats reminded me of an article which appeared at Truthdig, written by Chris Hedges, author of the book, Death of the Liberal Class. In his Truthdig essay, Chris Hedges emphasized how the liberal class "abandoned the human values that should have remained at the core of its activism":
The liberal class, despite becoming an object of widespread public scorn, prefers the choreographed charade. It will decry the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan or call for universal health care, but continue to defend and support a Democratic Party that has no intention of disrupting the corporate machine. As long as the charade is played, the liberal class can hold itself up as the conscience of the nation without having to act. It can maintain its privileged economic status. It can continue to live in an imaginary world where democratic reform and responsible government exist. It can pretend it has a voice and influence in the corridors of power. But the uselessness and irrelevancy of the liberal class are not lost on the tens of millions of Americans who suffer the indignities of the corporate state. And this is why liberals are rightly despised by the working class and the poor.
If it had not been obvious before the 2010 elections, it should be obvious now. Back in July of 2010, I was busy harping about how the Obama administration had sabotaged the financial "reform" bill:
As I pointed out on July 12, Mike Konczal of the Roosevelt Institute documented the extent to which Obama's Treasury Department undermined the financial reform bill at every step. On the following day, Rich Miller of Bloomberg News examined the results of a Bloomberg National Poll, which measured the public's reaction to the financial reform bill. Almost eighty percent of those who responded were of the opinion that the new bill would do little or nothing to prevent or mitigate another financial crisis. Beyond that, 47 percent shared the view that the bill would do more to protect the financial industry than consumers.
Both healthcare and financial "reform" legislation turned out to be "bait and switch" scams used by the Obama administration against its own supporters. After that double-double-cross, the liberal blogosphere was being told to "pay no attention to that man behind the curtain".
In an earlier posting, I discussed the sordid efforts of the Democratic-controlled Senate to sabotage the financial reform bill:
The sleazy antics by the Democrats who undermined financial reform (while pretending to advance it) will not be forgotten by the voters. The real question is whether any independent candidates can step up to oppose the tools of Wall Street, relying on the nickels and dimes from "the little people" to wage a battle against the kleptocracy.
Since the Occupy Wall Street demonstration has gained momentum, a number of commentators have analyzed the complicity of hypocritical Democrats in ceding more unregulated power to the very culprits responsible for causing the financial crisis. The most important of these essays was an article written by Matt Stoller for Politico. Stoller began the piece by debunking the myth that the cancer known as "financial deregulation" was introduced to the American system by the Reagan administration:
Like President Bill Clinton before him, Obama and his team believe in deregulation and are continuing a "let them eat cake"-style social contract that solidified during Ronald Reagan's presidency. As this contract has fallen apart, so has the strong coalition behind Obama's presidency.
We haven't seen a challenge to the bank-friendly Democratic orthodoxy for 40 years. The progenitor of this modern Democratic Party was Jimmy Carter. Though Reagan and Clinton helped finish the job, it was Carter who began wholesale deregulation of the banking industry – as Jeff Madrick details in his new book, "The Age of Greed."
In signing the landmark Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980, which lifted usury caps, Carter said, "Our banks and savings institutions are hampered by a wide range of outdated, unfair and unworkable regulations."
Stoller provided some hope for disillusioned former supporters of the Democratic Party by focusing on three Democratic state attorneys general, who have been investigating possible fraud in the securitization of trillions of dollars of mortgages. Matt Stoller referred to these officials – Eric Schneiderman of New York, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and Beau Biden of Delaware – as the "Justice Democrats". As Stoller observed, a number of other officials have been influenced by the noble efforts of these Justice Democrats:
There are other politicians following this path. Jefferson Smith, an Oregon state representative now running for mayor of Portland, successfully fought legislation to make foreclosures easier in that state. Register of Deeds Jeff Thigpen in North Carolina took on banking interests by fighting foreclosure fraud. Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings has been dogged in his investigations of mortgage servicers.
It should not be surprising that these officials have been getting quite a bit of pushback from their fellow Democrats – including Delaware Governor Jack Markell as well as a number of high-ranking officials from the Justice Department, led by Attorney General Eric Hold-harmless.
When the Occupy Wall Street protest began on September 17, what little coverage it received from the mainstream media was based on the "giggle factor". With the passing of time, it becomes increasingly obvious that the news media and our venal political leaders are seriously underestimating the ability of the "little people" to fight back against the kleptocracy.
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Elizabeth Warren Should Run Against Obama
July 21st, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized
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Now that President Obama has thrown Elizabeth Warren under the bus by nominating Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), she is free to challenge Obama in the 2012 election. It's not a very likely scenario, although it's one I'd love to see: Warren as the populist, Independent candidate – challenging Obama, the Wall Street tool – who is already losing to a phantom, unspecified Republican.
A good number of people were disappointed when Obama failed to nominate Warren to chair the CFPB, which was her brainchild. It was bad enough that Treasury Secretary "Turbo" Tim Geithner didn't like her – but once the President realized he was getting some serious pushback about Warren from Senate Republicans – that was all it took. Some Warren supporters have become enamored with the idea that she could challenge Scott Brown for his seat representing Massachusetts in the Senate. However, many astute commentators consider that as a really stupid idea. Here is the reaction from Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism:
We argued yesterday that the Senate was not a good vehicle for advancing Elizabeth Warren's aims of helping middle class families, since she would have no more, and arguably less power than she has now, and would be expected to defend Democrat/Obama policies, many of which are affirmatively destructive to middle class interests (just less so than what the Republicans would put in place).
A poll conducted in late June by Scott Brown and the Republican National Committee raises an even more basic question: whether she even has a shot at winning.
The poll shows a 25 point gap, which is a massive hurdle, and also indicates that Brown is seen by many voters as not being a Republican stalwart (as in he is perceived to vote for the state's, not the party's, interest). A 25 point gap is a near insurmountable hurdle and shows that Warren's reputation does not carry as far as the Democratic party hackocracy would like her fans to believe. But there's no reason not to get this pesky woman to take up what is likely to be a poisoned chalice. If she wins, she's unlikely to get on any important committees, given the Democratic party pay to play system, and will be boxed in by the practical requirements of having to make nice to the party and support Obama positions a meaningful portion of the time. And if she runs and loses, it would be taken as proof that her middle class agenda really doesn't resonate with voters, which will give the corporocrats free rein (if you can't sell a liberal agenda in a borderline Communist state like Massachusetts, it won't play in Peoria either).
Obviously, a 2012 challenge to the Obama Presidency by Warren would be an uphill battle. Nevertheless, it's turning out to be an uphill battle for the incumbent, as well. David Weidner of MarketWatch recently discussed how Obama's failure to adequately address the economic crisis has placed the President under the same pressure faced by many Americans today:
He's about to lose his job.
Blame as much of the problem on his predecessor as you like, the fact is Obama hasn't come up with a solution. In fact, he's made things worse by filling his top economic posts with banking-friendly interests, status-quo advisers and milquetoast regulators.
And if there's one reason Obama loses in 2012, it'll be because he failed to surround himself with people willing to take drastic action to get the economy moving again.
In effect, Obama's team has rewarded the banking industry under the guise of "saving the economy" while abandoning citizens and consumers desperate for jobs, credit and spending power.
There was the New York Fed banker cozy with Wall Street: Timothy Geithner.
There was the former Clinton administration official who was the architect of policies that led to the financial crisis: Larry Summers.
There was a career bureaucrat named to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission: Mary Schapiro.
To see just how unremarkable this group is, consider that the most progressive regulator in the Obama administration, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair, was a Republican appointed by Bush.
The lack of action by Obama's administration of mediocrities is the reason the recovery sputters. In essence, the turnaround depends too much on a private sector that, having escaped failure, is too content to sit out what's supposed to be a recovery.
What began as a two-step approach: 1) saving the banks, and then 2) saving homeowners, was cut short after the first step.
Instead of extracting more lending commitments from the banks, forcing more haircuts on investors and more demands on business, Obama has let his team of mediocrities allow the debate to be turned on government. The government caused the financial crisis. The government ruined the housing market.
It wasn't true at the start, but it's becoming true now.
Despite his status as the incumbent and his $1 billion campaign war chest, President Obama could find himself voted out of office in 2012. When you consider the fact that the Republican Party candidates who are currently generating the most excitement are women (Bachmann and the undeclared Palin) just imagine how many voters might gravitate to a populist female candidate with substantially more brains than Obama.
The disillusionment factor afflicting Obama is not something which can be easily overlooked. The man I have referred to as the "Disappointer-In-Chief" since his third month in office has lost more than the enthusiasm of his "base" supporters – he has lost the false "progressive" image he had been able to portray. Matt Stoller of the Roosevelt Institute explained how the real Obama had always been visible to those willing to look beyond the campaign slogans:
Many people are "disappointed" with Obama. But, while it is certainly true that Obama has broken many many promises, he projected his goals in his book The Audacity of Hope. In Audacity, he discussed how in 2002 he was going to give politics one more shot with a Senate campaign, and if that didn't work, he was going into corporate law and getting wealthy like the rest of his peer group. He wrote about how passionate activists were too simple-minded, that the system basically worked, and that compromise was a virtue in and of itself in a world of uncertainty. His book was a book about a fundamentally conservative political creature obsessed with process, not someone grounded in the problems of ordinary people. He told us what his leadership style is, what his agenda was, and he's executing it now.
I expressed skepticism towards Obama from 2005, onward. Paul Krugman, Debra Cooper, and Tom Ferguson among others pegged Obama correctly from day one. Obama broadcast who he was, through his conservative policy focus (which is how Krugman pegged him), his bank backers (which is how Ferguson pegged him), his political support of Lieberman (which is how I pegged him), and his cavalier treatment of women's issues (which is how Debra Cooper pegged him). He is doing so again, with his choice to effectively remove Elizabeth Warren from the administration.
I just wish Elizabeth Warren would fight back and challenge Obama for The White House. If only . . .
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A Preemptive Strike By Tools Of The Plutocracy
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The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) was created by section 5 of the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act (or FERA) which was signed into law on May 20, 2009. The ten-member Commission has been modeled after the Pecora Commission of the early 1930s, which investigated the causes of the Great Depression, and ultimately provided a basis for reforms of Wall Street and the banking industry. As I pointed out on April 15, more than a few commentators had been expressing their disappointment with the FCIC. Section (5)(h)(1) of the FERA established a deadline for the FCIC to submit its report:
On December 15, 2010, the Commission shall submit to the President and to the Congress a report containing the findings and conclusions of the Commission on the causes of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States.
In light of the fact that it took the FCIC eight months to conduct its first hearing, one shouldn't be too surprised to learn that their report had not been completed by December 15. The FCIC expects to have the report finalized in approximately one month. This article by Phil Mattingly and Robert Schmidt of Bloomberg News provides a good history of the partisan struggle within the FCIC. On December 14, Sewell Chan of The New York Times disclosed that the four Republican members of the FCIC would issue their own report on December 15:
The Republican members of the panel were angered last week when the commission voted 6 to 4, along partisan lines, to limit individual comments by the commissioners to 9 pages each in a 500-page report that the commission plans to publish next month with Public Affairs, an imprint of the Perseus Books Group, one Republican commissioner said.
Beyond that, Shahien Nasiripour of the Huffington Post revealed more details concerning the dissent voiced by Republican panel members:
During a private commission meeting last week, all four Republicans voted in favor of banning the phrases "Wall Street" and "shadow banking" and the words "interconnection" and "deregulation" from the panel's final report, according to a person familiar with the matter and confirmed by Brooksley E. Born, one of the six commissioners who voted against the proposal.
I gave those four Republican members more credit than that. I was wrong. Commission Vice-Chairman Bill Thomas, along with Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Peter Wallison, and Keith Hennessey issued their own propaganda piece as a preemptive strike against whatever less-than-complimentary things the FCIC might ultimately say about the Wall Street Plutocrats. The spin strategy employed by these men in explaining the cause of the financial crisis is to blame Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for the entire episode. (That specious claim has been debunked by Mark Thoma and others many times.) This remark from the "Introduction" section of the Republicans' piece set the tone:
While the housing bubble, the financial crisis, and the recession are surely interrelated events, we do not believe that the housing bubble was a sufficient condition for the financial crisis. The unprecedented number of subprime and other weak mortgages in this bubble set it and its effect apart from others in the past.
Many economists and other commentators will have plenty of fun ripping this thing to shreds. One of the biggest lies that jumped right out at me was this statement from page 5 of the so-called Financial Crisis Primer:
Put simply, the risk of a housing collapse was simply not appreciated. Not by homeowners, not by investors, not by banks, not by rating agencies, and not by regulators.
That lie can and will be easily refuted — many times over — by the simple fact that a large number of essays had been published by economists, commentators and even dilettantes who predicted the housing collapse.
Yves Smith provided a refreshing retort to the Plutocracy's Primer at her Naked Capitalism website:
This whole line of thinking is garbage, the financial policy equivalent of arguing that the sun revolves around the earth. Yes, the US and other countries provide overly generous subsidies to housing, and curtailing them over time would not be a bad idea. But that's been our policy for decades. Calling that a major, let alone primary, cause of the crisis, is simply a highly coded "blame the poor" strategy. In reality, both the run-up to the crisis and its aftermath were one of the greatest wealth transfers from the citizenry at large to a comparatively small group of rentiers in the history of man.
This pathetic development shows how deeply this country is in thrall to lobbyists. But these so-called commissioners, who are really no more than financial services minions out to misbrand themselves as independent, look to have overplayed their hand. This stunt shows more than a tad of desperation on the part of banks and their operatives in their excessive efforts block any remotely accurate, and therefore critical, report on the industry.
Perversely, this development may be a positive indicator on several fronts. First, the FCIC report may be tougher and more probing than I dared hope.
The fact that a pre-emptive strike by the Plutocratic "Gang of Four" has been initiated with the release of their Primer could indeed suggest that that their patrons are worried about the ultimate conclusions to be published by the FCIC next month. The release of this Primer will surely draw plenty of criticism and attract more attention to the FCIC's final report. Nevertheless, will the resulting firestorm motivate the public to finally demand some serious action beyond the lame "financial reform" fiasco? Adam Garfinkle's recent essay in The American Interest suggests that such hope could be misplaced:
Obsessed with vacuous celebrity, Americans make it easier than ever for plutocrats to sail under the radar. Corporate heavyweights and bankers may be suborning Congress and ripping off "we the people" left and right, but we're too busy dancing with the stars to notice.
Will this situation ever change?
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McCain Loses His Chance
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It was the opportunity for a "game-changing move" in the 2008 Presidential campaign. Just as John McCain was dropping back in the polls, providing Barack Obama the chance to "close the deal" even more decisively than he did with Hillary Clinton, McCain missed the opportunity to turn the game around. Last week, he arrived in Washington (after the pseudo-suspension of his campaign) on a mission to save us all from the crisis declared by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. After McCain arrived, he found a number of both Republican and Democratic members of the House of Representatives opposed to the revised, 110-page, economic "bailout bill" (the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008). At that point in time, McCain had the opportunity to break with the unpopular Bush Administration and band together with the 133 Republican and 95 Democratic House members (who eventually voted against the bill) to form a "coalition of mavericks" (oxymoron, non-sequitur or both?) resisting this bailout of the big banks and other "fat cats" on Wall Street. He didn't. He chose instead, to copy whatever Barack Obama was doing. Besides, his move dovetailed well with the pseudo-"bipartisan" duet he had been playing, throughout the entire campaign, with Joe "The Tool" Lieberman. Had McCain stood with those 133 young Republican members of the House and the 95 Democrats (many of whom consider themselves conservative, "Blue Dog" Democrats) he could have re-ignited his flatulent campaign. (Is it really safe to do that? — Let's ask Johnny Knoxville.)
Howard Fineman provided an interesting retrospective of this phase in the evolution the economic "bailout bill" at the Newsweek website on September 30:
The Paulson Plan is not great. Some two hundred academic economists have ridiculed it, and so have the House Republicans, by a 2-1 margin. Public opinion (and not just the angry phone callers) is turning against the measure—to the extent that anybody understands it.
But the consensus is that Washington has to do something, and that the current version is far better than what the lawmakers started with.
McCain made a show of returning to Washington to try to jam the original measure through. He deserves credit for the instinct. An old Navy motto is: Don't just stand there, DO something! That is McCain to the core, and so much the better for it.
But when he got to town, he realized something that no one had bothered to tell him, apparently: the grassroots of his own party (the grassroots that has never really trusted him) hated the Paulson Plan. They weren't about to support it and risk their own necks. McCain worked the phones, but fell back in the ranks.
When the second revision of this bill (at over 400 pages) finally made it to the Senate floor for the vote on Wednesday, October 1, there were 9 Democrats, 15 Republicans and Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, voting against it. McCain again missed the opportunity for a truly bipartisan resistance to this measure. Such an act would have demonstrated genuine leadership. He could have rejoined his old buddy, Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold, as well as Florida Democrat Bill Nelson and rising Democratic star, Maria Cantwell from the State of Washington, all of whom voted against this measure. Such a move would have emboldened resistance to the "bailout bill" in the House of Representatives, where the term of office lasts only two years. (The short term results in greater accountability to American voters, who are believed to have notoriously short memory spans.)
Is this bill really necessary? On the October 1 edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Paul Krugman, Economics Professor at Princeton University, admitted that:
… it will be relatively ineffective, although rejecting it will cause a big run on the system. Then we will come back and do it right in January or February …
When Keith Olbermann asked Krugman about the likelihood that nothing consequential would happen if this bill did not pass, Krugman responded by saying that such possibilities have "shrunk in the past week". Krugman went on to claim that "the credit crunch has started to hit Main Street", using, as an example, the rumor that: "McDonald's has started to cut credit to its franchisees." McDonald's has issued a press release stating that this was not the case. What is really happening is that the banks are acting like spoiled children, holding their breath until the government gives them what they want, using the threat of unavailable credit as a gun to the head of Congress.
Public opposition to this bailout was best summed up by Peggy Noonan, when she appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on October 1:
But we are in a real economic crisis and the American political establishment said we must do A, B and C to deal with it and the American people … said: "No. We don't trust you to handle this. We don't trust you to do the right thing."
John McCain had the opportunity to stand with those people, as well as the 133 House Republicans and 15 Senate Republicans, to do "the right thing". He decided to forego that opportunity. Barack Obama said, on the Senate floor Wednesday, that it was not worth risking the American economy and the world economy by challenging this bill. John McCain decided that it was not worth risking his Presidential campaign on such a challenge. That's too bad for him. The gamble probably would have paid off.
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This is the question on everyone's mind as they ponder the new "bailout bill", officially known as the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. It is available for everyone to read on the Internet (all 110 pages of it), but most people are looking for answers to the most important questions: Will it pass and will it work?
Just after midnight on Monday morning, David Rogers, of Politico.com, reported that the bill (which goes to the House floor on Monday and the Senate floor on Wednesday) was still facing resistance from both the right and the left, despite the support voiced by both Presidential candidates. Republican Congressman Chris Shays of Connecticut was quoted in the article as saying that: "For this to pass, a lot of people are going to have to change their minds". The following passage provided more light on the view of this bill from those House Republicans providing resistance to the measure:
Yet a closed-door party meeting Sunday night illustrated all the problems anew. The session ran for hours, and while Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said he would vote for the bill, he could not predict the number of votes he would have for it, and he famously referred to the measure as a "crap sandwich" before his rank and file.
Jackie Kucinich reported for TheHill.com that earlier in the day, Congressman Mike Pence of Indiana had sent out a letter to his fellow Republicans in opposition to this bill:
The decision to give the federal government the ability to nationalize almost every bad mortgage in America interrupts this basic truth of our free market economy … Republicans improved this bill but it remains the largest corporate bailout in American history, forever changes the relationship between government and the financial sector, and passes the cost along to the American people. I cannot support it.
The opposition to the bill from the Democratic side was discussed in another Politico.com article: this one by Ryan Grimm. Grimm's article discussed an "intense" Democratic Caucus meeting. He quoted Minnesota Congressman James Oberstar as describing resistance to the bill coming from across the complete spectrum of Democratic opinion, from liberal to conservative. California Congressman Brad Sherman had met with Republican Darrell Issa before the meeting. Sherman's contribution to the Caucus discussion was described this way by Ryan Grimm:
Sherman spoke out against the bill during the caucus meeting, arguing that billions of dollars would flow to foreign investors, that oversight was lax and that limits on executive compensation were too weak. Rep. Joe Baca (D-Calif.) said he was leaning toward a no vote, too.
The House vote on the bill is scheduled to take place after a four-hour debate, beginning at 8 a.m. on Monday.
Whether or not this bill will ultimately "work" is another question. Paul Krugman, Economics Professor at Princeton University, wrote in the Sunday New York Times:
The bailout plan released yesterday is a lot better than the proposal Henry Paulson first put out — sufficiently so to be worth passing. But it's not what you'd actually call a good plan, and it won't end the crisis. The odds are that the next president will have to deal with some major financial emergencies.
Steve Lohr's report from the Sunday New York Times, discussed the outlook for this plan, as voiced by Robert E. Hall, an economist and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative research group at Stanford. Lohr observed:
There was no assurance that the bailout plan would work as intended to ease financial turmoil and economic uncertainty.
Lohr's article then focused on the opinion of Nouriel Roubini, an economist at the Stern School of Business at New York University:
The $350 billion to $400 billion in bad credit reported by the banks so far could eventually exceed $1.5 trillion, he estimated, as banks are forced to write off more bad loans, not only on more housing-related debt, but also for corporate lending, consumer loans, credit cards and student loans.
The rescue package, if successful, would make the recognition of losses and the inevitable winnowing of the banking system more an orderly retreat than a collapse. Yet that pruning of the banking industry must take place, economists say, and it is the government's role to move it along instead of coddling the banks if the financial system is going to return to health.
A more unpleasant perspective appeared in an editorial published in the September 25 edition of The Economist:
If the economics of Mr Paulson's plan are broadly correct, the politics are fiendish. You are lavishing money on the people who got you into this mess. Sensible intervention cannot even buy long-term relief: the plan cannot stop house prices falling and the bloated financial sector shrinking. Although the economic risk is that the plan fails, the political risk is that the plan succeeds. Voters will scarcely notice a depression that never happened. But even as they lose their houses and their jobs, they will see Wall Street once again making millions.
Whatever your definition of "success" might be for this plan, the experts agree that things aren't going to return to "normal" for a long time, if ever.
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In year 2000 a 325 year discovery was made at Gurdwara Natha Sahib, Kapurgarh. Our Sixth Guru Guru Hargobind Ji had visited this place.
This discovery included Sri Guru Granth Sahib, Dasam Granth and a number of Artefacts. This is the place where Guru Hargobind Ji had visited.
The Granthi of the Gurdwara, Bhai Baljit Singh, was a key figure in this discovery.
Baba Natha Singh Ji, who was a 'Nagarchi Singh' of Guru Gobind Singh, came to this place (Kapurgarh). When Guru Gobind Singh Ji was going from Damdama Sahib to Nanded, Guru Ji gave Baba Natha the precious gift of Guru Granth Sahib, Dasam Granth and several artefacts.
Shaheed Akali Baba Natha Singh Ji, a Warrior and martyr of the Sikh faith.
He joined the regiment of the Misl Shaheedan, founded by Shaheed Baba Deep Singh Ji (1682-1757), the great Sikh Warrior, and Martyr, and the first Damdami Taksal Jathedar, based at Talwandi Sabo, in the Malva region of Punjab. In 1781, at old age, Baba Natha Singh Ji, succeeded by Baba Karam Singh, and became the Jathedar of Misl Shaheedan, for three years he served the Khalsa Panth, as the Leader of the great Misl Shaheedan.
Shaheed Baba Natha Singh Ji, along with Baba Dyal Singh, were appointed as the administrator of Sialkot, after the Sikhs took over the area of Sialkot, from Pathans. The Bhangi Misl, one of the 12 Sikh Confederacies, had secured all of the Sialkot District, of Punjab. Baba Natha Singh, looked after the Sikh Shrines of Gurdwara Bair Sahib (Sialkot), and Gurdwara Baoli Sahib, Sialkot (City). He also, managed the Gurdwara Tham Sahib, Patshahi Panjvin, at Kartarpur, in Jalandhar District of Punjab, and was also in charge of the Jalandhar area. He was succeeded by Akali Baba Naina Singh Ji (d. 1800), who made Amritsar, his main seat.
In 1784, Baba Natha Singh attained Shaheedi, the Sikh Misldars (Chieftains), built, a Samadh on the spot, It was managed by the Sikh priests, The Prakash of Guru Granth Sahib, used to take place until 1947 partition took place, The Samadh is a very rare Sikh Heritage about 228 years old, building, constructed during the reign of the 12 Sikh Misls.
The precious find was in year 2000 at the location of Gurdwara Baba Natha Singh at Kapurgarh (see Figure 3). One of the key figures in this was Bhai Baljit Singh, the Granthi of this Gurdwara.
Three cabinets (sandookhs) were found in one of the rooms in which Guru Granth Sahib, Dasam Granth and the artefacts were found. The Guru Granth and the Dasam Granth were stuck together as well as the Angs were also stuck together. It took Bhai Baljit Singh and his team three years to dry the Granths in the sun and have them and the Ang separated so the Sangat could have Darshan of this precious find.
The picture of the 325 year old Guru Granth Sahib is shown in Figure 5.
Darshan of the 325 year old Dasam Granth. Figures 6 to 8 are snapshots of the Dasam Granth Sahib.
are the same throughout the 325 year old Dasam Granth Sahib. He indicated that this is clear evidence that it was written by the one person; in this case it was written by Bhai Mani Singh.
Figure 7 and 8 clearly show that Jaap Sahib and Charitro Pakhyan were a part of the Dasam Granth 325 years ago. That was before Guru Gobind Singh Ji's ascension in 1708.
A further important point to note is that Guru Gobind Singh Ji had given both the hand written Guru Granth and Dasam Granth.
The tenth King has given the Guruship to the Granth Sahib.
In 1658 Bikrami the Adi Granth took birth [was created].
In the house of Guru Arjan Dev Ji the Granth Sahib took its birth.
The smaller [brother] Granth, took birth in the Tenth King's house.
In 1755 Bikrami [it was born], [Guru Ji wrote it] under many names.
So, recognize both Granth Sahib's as Guru and brothers.
specifically the last two lines in magenta text.
The NINDAKS claim that Guru Gobind Singh Ji did not compose Dasam Granth.
Besides Guru Granth and Dasam Granth a number of artifacts (martial mostly but included a rosary (mala) and a sitar. See Figure 9.
The presence of the MALA or rosary is clear evidence that Guru Gobind Singh professed both SIMRAN (MEDITATION) and the use of a MALA.
are all wrong and are preaching and propagating FALSE DISGTORTED SPIRITUAL teachings to the unsuspecting SANGAT.
This video reveals one of the most precious discovery of recent times.
We must thank Bhai Baljit and his team for the painstaking LABOUR OF LOVE TO GURU JI in the efforts they made so we can have Darshan of such a valuable discovery. We must also thank Gurbani Akhand Bani for bringing this information to the Sangat at large.
GURU GOBIND SINGH was the composer of the banee in the Dasam Granth.
the Dasam Granth was almost in its complete form bound in one Granth around 1700.
Our Gurus professed both SIMRAN (MEDITATION) and the use of a MALA.
all wrong and are preaching and propagating FALSE DISGTORTED SPIRITUAL teachings to the unsuspecting SANGAT.
SANGAT JI. PLEASE KEEP AS FAR AWAY FROM THESE MOORAKHS NINDAKS. DO NOT ASSOCIATE WITH THEM.
THEY WILL TAKE US ALL TO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT.
The complete video produced by GURBANI AKHAND BANI is posted below.


New Delhi: The Supreme Head of the Universal Syrian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, called on the Prime Minister,Narendra Modi, on February 17. He was accompanied by a nine member delegation, comprising senior members of the Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church.
H.H. Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, is currently on an Apostolic visit to India.


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Q: Mapbox in Android - Black color around GEOTiff raster layers Goal
I need to add some aeronautical layers taken from FAA to the map. The layers are provided as GeoTIFF files.
Steps

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*Downloaded a GeoTiff file from FAA website.

*Using QGis app clipped the legend from the file. Actually the issue occurs without this step as well.

*Reprojected it to EPSG:3857 using GDAL command gdalwarp -q -t_srs EPSG:3857 -dstalpha -of vrt Albuquerque\ SEC\ 104-cut.tif /vsistdout/ | gdal_translate -co compress=lzw  /vsistdin/ Albuquerque\ SEC\ 104-north-up-cut.tif. Otherwise I got Error creating Mapnik Datasource: Invalid raster: Invalid rotation value in geotransform array when uploading to Mapbox.

*Created a Tileset by uploading GeoTIFFs to Mapbox.

*Created a new style in the Mapbox Studio.

*Added the tilesets as layers.

Mapbox Studio Result
The map is showing well in Mapbox Studio:

Android Result
However in Android app this style shows with some black borders of random width depending on zoom level and camera position.
Here is how it looks in android:

I tried it on Pixel 3a (Android 10), Nexus 5x (Android 8.1) and Android emulator (Android 10). I have good internet connection and gave it enough time so the tiles are loaded.
The source code where the map is embedded is official Demo app. I just replaced token and style URL:
mapView.getMapAsync(new OnMapReadyCallback() {
  @Override
  public void onMapReady(@NonNull MapboxMap mapboxMap) {
    DefaultStyleActivity.this.mapboxMap = mapboxMap;
      mapboxMap.setStyle("mapbox://styles/rustamg/ck8se724l23bh1io2b1hnbqls");
  }
});

Here is GDALInfo for the GEOTiff I uploaded:
Driver: GTiff/GeoTIFF
Files: /Users/me/Desktop/Dev/Albuquerque SEC 104-north-up-cut.tif
Size is 16104, 11408
Coordinate System is:
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Question
How can I get rid of those black issues?
I'd be happy to provide more info if needed.
Update 2020-05-06
I tried what's suggested in troubleshooting page: both prepare tileset and create RasterSource within Android app. The first command rio calc "(asarray (take a 1) (take a 2) (take a 3))" --co compress=lzw --co tiled=true --co blockxsize=256 --co blockysize=256 --name a=filename.tif filename255.tif failed with an error:

IndexError: index 1 is out of bounds for size 1

However my tif already uses LZW compression. So I tried the second command:
rio edit-info --nodata 0 filename255.tif

and uploaded the result to Mapbox.
The result was the same except that white background of the image became black as well:

I also tried the same steps with smaller image (409x306) as it's pointed here that Android has texture size limitation. The result is all the same:

A: The black borders should be transparent, but the raster image format Mapbox is using (JPG) does not support transparency, which is a known issue that exists in every gl-native-based SDK. This issue presents itself when you reference a style that has the raster layer built in.
As a workaround, you can follow Mapbox's troubleshooting guide on troubleshooting raster images with black backgrounds to make your tileset transparent and then add the tileset as a RasterSource within your Android application to display the raster tile as expected.
Please take a look at the following example as a reference for adding a RasterSource:

*

*Add a WMS Source
Instead of calling the rasterSource using "mapbox://username.tilesetID", you need to call it similarly to the Add a WMS Source example. The code below will resolve your issue:
style.addSource(RasterSource( "albuquerque-source", TileSet( "tileset", "https://api.mapbox.com/v4/<username.tilesetID>/{z}/{x}/{y}.png?access_token=<your_access_token>" ), 256 ))

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


A honeybee collects hundreds, sometimes millions of pollen grains from a single flower. The bees pack the pollen into granules with the help of special combs and hairs on their hind legs, and a sticky substance secreted from their stomachs. Carrying two granules at a time they travel back to the hive with their hard earned loot that will eventually be fed to their young. On occasion, beekeepers will attach a small box fitted with a screen in the doorway of a hive. The screen allows the bees to enter, but it carefully and harmlessly removes the small granules of pollen from their legs. Beekeepers collect only a small amount from any given hive, so as not to deprive the bees of the bulk of their food source. The collected granules are then packaged and sold under the name, bee pollen.
What are the benefits of consuming bee pollen?
Bee pollen is touted as being great for everything from boosting your immune system, enhancing energy levels, slowing the aging process, curing infertility problems and preventing colds and the flu. Local bee pollen is even said to have the same or greater effect as local honey on reducing seasonal allergies. All the benefits of bee pollen are unfortunately not supported by medical research, which is why you have to decide for yourself if you want to give it a try.
How do you take bee pollen?
Always use your best judgment when adding something new to your diet. Adults can try adding bee pollen a ¼ teaspoon at a time and should not exceed two teaspoons a day. Children should start with only a few granules and should not exceed a ½ teaspoon a day.
If you are interested in taking bee pollen for health reasons or in hopes of reducing the effects of seasonal allergies you must proceed with caution. Even if you never had an allergic reaction to pollen or bee products before, you should take bee pollen very slowly and in very small quantities at first. Anyone who is known to be allergic to honey or bees should definitely not consume bee pollen.
Note: You do not want to heat bee pollen because this will destroy all of its beneficial nutrients. To grind bee pollen you can use a mortar and pestle, or you can process it in a coffee/spice grinder.
Add ground bee pollen to cooling homemade granola while it is still moist and sticky.
Toast whole wheat bread, smear with chocolate hazelnut spread and sprinkle with bee pollen granules.


Dimensional Branding Group, in association with Russell Binder of Striker Entertainment, has been named the licensing rep for the online game Fight My Monster.
Striker Entertainment has had success with digital properties such as Angry Birds and with traditional movie IP like The Hunger Games and the Twilight franchise. Currently, DBG reps clients such as Sony, Miniclip and app Temple Run.
Founded by Dominic Williams, Fight My Monster has been described as "Pixar meets Pokemon" and targets an eight to 12 boys demo.
The game company has also partnered with TV prodco Brown Bag Films on an undisclosed project.


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The Restarts – Uprising
by Hayduke X | Nov 9, 2019 | Reviews | 0 comments
Band – The Restarts
Album – Uprising
Country of Origin – UK
Genre – UK
Release Date – October 25, 2019
Label – Pirates Press Records
Author – Hayduke X
Crass – The Feeding of the 5000 (1978); The Clash – London Calling (1979); Subhumans – The Day the Country Died (1983); Dead Kennedys – Bedtime for Democracy (1986); Anti-Flag – For Blood and Empire (2006);
What do all of the above have in common? They form my pantheon of upper echelon punk albums. Though I mostly listen to and write about metal these days, in my heart, I'm a punk. In many ways, understanding these albums is a big part of understanding me. I would like to submit (to myself) a new upper tier album for consideration. In doing so, I grant probationary status to The Restarts – Uprising (2019). If it holds up the way I'm expecting it to, then it belongs on the same list.
So much of punk is about what is being said, and The Restarts have much to say. They don't speak from the comfort of their couch either. Much of the content is inspired (according to the promo material I received) by Robin's humanitarian work, including recent time spent in Palestine. Every track here is a battle hymn for resistance and should be fully ingested. I'll start by pulling some key lyrical phrases and talking about five of my favorite tracks (though every track is essential really).
Let's start with the first track on the album. Panic begins with a sample from Greta Thunberg, which is then used in the chorus. "I want you to act…Act as if your house is on fire." This type of reaction is necessary in the current crisis and the track fully captures the urgency.
In the middle of the album are three back to back tracks that will have your fist pumping, brick in hand, and your voice calling out in solidarity.
Up first is, (and my favorite track on the album) Out and Proud, an anthem for the LGBTQ community and a call to battle against the repression felt worldwide by this community. Whether we are part of the community of not, we need to act in solidarity with this call. The chorus defiantly calls out: "Out and loud – Queer and proud/Fuck you/Out and loud – Queer and proud/fight back/Out and loud – Queer and proud/world wide/Out and loud – Queer and proud/right now."
Next, The One Percent rips into the neo-conservative economic policies springing up worldwide and the damage they cause to the poor and the working class. The policies, of course, benefit the wealthy on the backs of the rest of us. Always remember, we are more than they. From the chorus: "Their crippling austerity Is ripping up communities/Our neighbourhoods socially cleansed Extortionate rising rents/Bailed out the banks with our money The poorest in society/Neglected by this government Who only serve the one percent."
Then we have the track viscerally formed by Robin's time in Palestine, entitled Uprising. The chorus, referring to the Palestinians, screams: "Denied Existence/Denied their rights/Rise up resistance/Ain't no excuse for apartheid." We shout in solidarity with the sample at the end: "Free, free Palestine!"
Just a couple of tracks later is Black Dog, an awareness raising ode to the current mental health crisis. The track wraps up with the poignant words, which I would echo: "Please keep fighting please keep living/You need to break out of this/subconscious prison/No need to be perfect/your life is worth it/show love and support to those who deserve it."
This is just a small sampling of the issues tackled in the dozen tracks found on Uprising. Each calls attention to an urgent issue we face, and though they are a UK band, the tracks are worldwide in their scope. Join the Uprising!
Before wrapping up, I'd like to share a few thoughts on the music itself. The trio masterfully uses a wide variety of punk rock influences in a varied yet cohesive way. The riffing is strong, whether uplifting, aggressive, or dissonant (all of which appear). The rhythm section moves things along with a solidity that builds the foundation for the message. There are thrash, ska, and classic punk influences throughout, a guitar solo here and there, well placed and well chosen samples, and even some gnarly electronic work in a spot or two. Every track has it's own personality, yet the whole is clearly a single journey. Impeccably done in every way.
Biography: Hayduke X has been writing for MoshPitNation since June of 2016. Beginning in 2018, he also began writing for VM Metal Underground. Prior to joining the MoshPitNation team, Hayduke published reviews on his own blog Rage and Frustration. In addition, he has DJ'ed an online metal radio show of the same name as his blog, written for TOmetal.com, done interviews for Metal Rules, and collaborated with The Art of B Productions to create video interviews with a wide variety of bands.
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