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Infrastructure, agriculture sectors at risk of slower investments
February 9, 2021 by Thiha
Infrastructure, agriculture sectors at risk of slower investments The infrastructure and agriculture sectors could take a hit as a result of the current state of emergency in Myanmar, which could slow economic growth and investment flows into the country, Fitch Solutions said in a report.
The research firm on February 1 downgraded its economic growth forecasts for Myanmar to 2 percent over the next two years from 5.6pc and 6pc before, saying that a pipeline of infrastructure projects and foreign direct investment (FDI) could be "delayed or cancelled if sanctions are implemented and if foreign entities decide to pull out of Myanmar."
"The Myanmar government was initially in the process of implementing several economic and sector reforms to improve its investment environment, but we now expect this to be stalled over the near term," it added. In the short to medium term, FDI momentum could slow as investors are likely to adopt a wait-and-see approach before committing capital and progressing with planned projects.
Several power projects might be halted should international sanctions against Myanmar be re-imposed or financing become an issue, for example. Myanmar's power sector is a key driver of the infrastructure sector and one of the largest beneficiaries of FDI, with more than US$ 21.2 billion permitted in fiscal 2019-20, representing around 27pc of FDI.
With protests breaking out, there are also risks of renewed lockdowns should Myanmar lose control of the domestic COVID-19 outbreak, as this will result in labour, equipment and material shortages and other supply chain disruptions. "As such, we expect significant headwinds to both the power and infrastructure sectors over the near to medium term," Fitch Solutions said.
Lower or delayed FDI could slow down the modernisation of the agribusiness sector, too. A number of global agri-firms have already invested in the sector, with most investments focused in the aqua and livestock feed and livestock sector. Singapore's Wilmar International and Olam International, Thailand's CP Food and Indonesia's Japfa Comfeed all have local production capacities.
Other agribusiness players had also expressed interest to invest in Myanmar in recent quarters, and may now reconsider their options. For example, Cargill had identified Myanmar as a key engine to its 2025 growth strategy for South East Asia in the aqua nutrition segment. Bounty Fresh Food, a livestock player headquartered in The Philippines, also announced in 2019 it was looking to expand in new markets in Asia, including in Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar
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Official meetings of all HELCOM bodies including the Helsinki Commission, Heads of Delegations, Working Groups, Experts Groups and other subsidiary bodies that were due to take place in the period between March through June 2022 are suspended and will be rescheduled. Participants of these meetings will be informed of any further developments in due course.


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International Lawyers: Strike Against Syria Would Be Illegal
via Consortiumnews, April 11, 2018
In this statement released Wednesday, a group of international law experts warn that a U.S. military strike on Syria would be illegal if not in self-defense or with U.N. Security Council authorization.
We are practitioners and professors of international law. Under international law, military strikes by the United States of America and its allies against the Syrian Arab Republic, unless conducted in self-defense or with United Nations Security Council approval, are illegal and constitute acts of aggression.
The unlawful killing of any human being without legal justification, under every legal system, is murder. And an act of violence committed by one government against another government, without lawful justification, amounts to the crime of aggression: the supreme international crime which carries with it the evil of every other international crime, as noted by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg in 1946.
The use of military force by a state can be used in self-defense after an armed attack by another state, or, with the approval of the United Nations Security Council. At present, neither instance would apply to a U.S. strike against Syria.
We understand the urge to act to protect innocent civilians. We strongly condemn any and all violence against civilians, whoever the perpetrators. But responding to unlawful violence with more unlawful violence, bypassing existing legal mechanisms, is a road to a lawless world. It is a road that leads to Hell.
Accordingly, we urge the United States and its allies to refrain from illegal conduct against Syria. We must point out that for the last several years, as is now common knowledge, the United States has armed rebels/insurgents to overthrow the current government of Syria. This is illegal under international law.
In 1986, in The Nicaragua Case, the International Court of Justice reprimanded the United States for arming and supporting contra militias and combatants, and for mining Nicaragua's harbors, as acts which violated the U.N. Charter and international law. Perhaps the Syrian crisis would look differently today if the United States and its allies had consistently respected law for the last several years. They have not.
We take pains to note what should be obvious: our demand that the United States and its allies immediately comport themselves with their international legal obligations is not a justification, excuse, or some type of free pass on the investigation and accountability for international legal violations committed by other actors who may be involved in this sad affair. But our point is a simple one: the only way to resolve the Syrian crisis is through commitment to well-settled principles of international legal norms.
We urge the United States to abide by its commitment to the rule of international law and to seek to resolve its disputes through peaceful means. These means include recourse to the use of established and legitimate institutions designed to maintain international peace and security, such as the U.N. Security Council or the International Court of Justice. Unilateral action is a sign of weakness; recourse to the law is a sign of strength. The United States must walk back from becoming the very monster it now seeks to destroy.
Inder Comar, Executive Director, Just Atonement Inc.
Dr. Ryan Alford, Associate Professor, Bora Laskin Faculty of Law, Lakehead University
Marjorie Cohn, Professor Emerita, Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Jeanne Mirer, President, International Association of Democratic Lawyers
Dr. Curtis F.J. Doebbler, Research Professor of Law, University of Makeni, UN Representative of International-Lawyers.org
Abdeen Jabara, Civil Rights Attorney and Co-Founder of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Ramsey Clark, 66th Attorney-General of the United States
Filed under: empire watch, latest, Syria, United Nations
Tagged with: chemical weapons, Douma, ethics, international law, Syria
juliaketelhut
Where can I go to learn more about international law? That is seriously interesting. Is there anything you can do to bring that to the public's attention?
Old pepper
After last night's concert in Syria, all of his actors lost face. A red clown, an old nag, a Rothschild faggot-because the attack turned out to be a fake. An aging macho, who promised in response the terrible retribution again just wiped after spitting in his face.
The source, who reported a chemical attack in the Duma, was "Syrian American medical society" (SAMS) — an organization established in Illinois, USA. SAMS is funded by the American Foundation USAID and cooperating with the"white helmets".
By the way, my previous post about the contractual nature of what is happening now in Syria is confirmed by hugs and kisses Nikki Haley (US permanent representative to the UN) and Nebenzi (Russian permanent representative to the UN) before the meeting of the Security Council (remember how they poured dirt on each other).
I must apologize to everyone that I believed in the seriousness of the situation in Syria. Although I indeed pepper, but the old one. That's why I'm out. After my today's post I was contacted by friends from the military and they something explained. There were so many loud statements on both sides that nothing to do after that meant losing face and one side and the other. "World leaders"(damn them) played the game "who has the dick longer", threatening each other. Ones threatened to launch missiles, others – shoot them down. The last few days there were talks at the level of the General staffs of the parties, where Sirian people and equipment must be removed, so that one side could shout about the punishment of "evil Assad, Russians and Iranians" after the shelling of completely empty territories, while others could declare that they shot down missiles, defeating the attackers (in other words, how to get out of the game without losing face).
I will reveal a small secret-the Americans used missiles whose service life has expired and they were subject to disposal (it is much more expensive than shooting on someone else's territory). But successfully brought down these, in general, modern missiles with completely outdated missile technology, delivered to Assad in Soviet times.
That's how these assholes made fun of us playing there stupid games. Today's" world leaders " are not people with eggs like Kennedy and Khrushchev (they both went through the war and understood the value of their decisions).
Those who rule today, thank God, are capable only of cheap performances.
Mark Gobell;
Syria : 14 April 2018 US UK France launch cruise missile & air attack on Homs & Damascus
It is reported that earlier this morning, the US, UK & France launched another cruise missile & air attack on the nation of Syria.
Friday 13th evening, Washington time.
This latest military attack was in response to the alleged chemical weapon event in Douma and follows a week of propaganda build up since the White Helmets social media video production on 7 April, showing a few folk being hosed down with water.
Parliament is on Easter recess and returns this coming Tuesday 16th. No opportunity for a vote and no time to recall.
The likelihood of something happening this weekend was evident from the increasing intensity of the narrative delivery, particularly on Sky News last night ( Friday ).
Also, since this latest military attack on Syria provided another first class opportunity for a good day to bury bad news, Donald Trump pardoned Scooter Libby yesterday too.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/us/politics/trump-pardon-scooter-libby.html
It was also obvious that possibly Friday but certainly Saturday would provide classic opportunities to act, in relation to Syria. Here's a couple of Syria reasons why Syria on 13 / 14 April :
The US State Dept added Syria to it's list of State Sponsors of Terrorism on 29 December 1979
https://www.state.gov/j/ct/list/c14151.htm
Inclusive to Friday 13th April 2018 and normal to Saturday 14th April, last night's / today's attack on Syria followed that decision by 666 + 666 + 666 weeks.
https://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?d1=7&m1=5&y1=2007&d2=14&m2=4&y2=2018&ti=on
The former Syrian President and the current Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad's father Hafez al-Assad, was born on 6 October 1930
Inclusive to Saturday 14th April 2018 and normal to Sunday 15th April, today's attack on Syria followed Hafez al-Assad's birth by :
= 666 + 666 + 666 + 666 + 666 + 666 weeks
+ 666 + 666 + 666 + 666 + 666 + 666 days
https://www.timeanddate.com/date/dateadded.html?d1=6&m1=10&y1=1930&type=add&ay=&am=&aw=3996&ad=&rec=
The USA's list of 'State Sponsors of Terrorism' is akin to Ted Bundy's list of serial killers.
We didn't stop them! They spit on common sense and are ready to burn the entire globe in a nuclear fire. Corporation murderers led by a red clown, stinking old Mare and Rothschild's fag always ready to kill. They do not care that there was no chemical attack in the Duma, that experts of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons went to the Duma. They're not human; we're all insects to them. Therefore, WE can ONLY SURVIVE IF we REMOVE FROM POWER THIS SHIT.
Perhaps if you wish to accuse Micron of being gay, some expression other than 'fag' or 'faggot' might better redound to this site's good repute.
I'm chucking this in here because it's so good. For instance, did you know that the Headquarters of US AfricanCommand is in Stuttgart Germany? I submit this long but highly informative clip as evidence that, when it comes to illegal international activities in the MENA, our side has form and then some.
Henders BTL the Indie 3 hours ago
RE: Gaddafi
On October 20th, 2011, Gaddafi was murdered, joining a long list of African revolutionaries martyred by the West for daring to dream of continental independence. We now know it was a foreign agent, likely French, who delivered the fatal bullet. His death was the culmination of three decades of Western aggression.
Yet it was also the opening salvo in a new war – a war for the militarily recolonization of Africa.
The year 2009, two years before Gaddafi's murder, was a pivotal one for US-African relations. First, because China overtook the US as the continent's largest trading partner; and second because Gaddafi was elected president of the African Union. The significance of both for the decline of US influence on the continent could not be clearer. While Gaddafi was spearheading attempts to unite Africa politically, committing serious amounts of Libyan oil wealth to make this dream a reality, China was quietly smashing the West's monopoly over export markets and investment finance. Africa no longer had to go cap-in-hand to the IMF for loans, agreeing to whatever self-defeating terms were on offer, but could turn to China – or indeed Libya – for investment. And if the US threatened to cut them off from their markets, China would happily buy up whatever was on offer. Western economic domination of Africa was under threat as never before.
The response from the West, of course, was a military one.
If African countries would no longer come begging for Western loans, export markets, and investment finance, they would have to be put in a position where they would come begging for Western military aid. To this end, AFRICOM – the US army's new 'African command' – had been launched the previous year, but humiliatingly for George W. Bush, not a single African country would agree to host its HQ; instead, it was forced to open shop in Stuttgart, Germany. Gaddafi had led African opposition to AFRICOM, as exasperated US diplomatic memos later revealed by WikiLeaks made clear. And US pleas to African leaders to embrace AFRICOM in the 'fight against terrorism' fell on deaf ears.
NATO's destruction of Libya simultaneously achieved three strategic goals for the West's plans for military expansion in Africa. Most obviously, it removed the biggest obstacle and opponent of such expansion, Gaddafi himself. With Gaddafi gone, and with a quiescent pro-NATO puppet government in charge of Libya, there was no longer any chance that Libya would act as a powerful force against Western militarism. Quite the contrary – Libya's new government was utterly dependent on such militarism and knew it.
Secondly, NATO's aggression served to bring about a total collapse of the delicate but effective North African security system, which had been underpinned by Libya. And finally, NATO's annihilation of the Libyan state effectively turned the country over to the region's death squads and terror groups. These groups were then able to loot Libya's military arsenals and set up training camps at their leisure, using these to expand operations right across the region.
It is no coincidence that almost all of the recent terror attacks in North Africa – not to mention Manchester – have been either prepared in Libya or perpetrated by fighters trained in Libya. Boko Haram, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, ISIS, Mali's Ansar Dine, and literally dozens of others, have all greatly benefited from the destruction of Libya.
By ensuring the spread of terror groups across the region, the Western powers had magically created a demand for their military assistance which hitherto did not exist.
They had literally created a protection racket for Africa.
Dan Glazebrook
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Sierra Leone was on the brink of signing a gas deal with China for its newly discovered off shore basin when it 'unfortunately' had an outbreak of Ebola. Fortunately, lots of US troops were able to go over there and help out. Don't know whether the deal ever went through. Probably not. No-one wamts their 'windows kicked in'.
At the time of the Western destruction of Libya, as the 'No Fly Zone' became, instantly, carpet-bombing of the country to pave the way for the jihadists to power, the African Union protested vociferously against the attack. They were ignored with CONTEMPT, and the story barely made the Western fakestream sewer. But Bernard-Henry Levy and the Zionists were ecstatic, and that's all that matters, isn't it.
Did anyone else see Joe Johnson's communication breakdown and Ground Control moment on BBC QT?
Your circuits dead, there's something wrong.
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can yo hear me, Major Tom?
By my reckoning, there were at least two plants in the audience to raise the Russia blame and anti-semitism talking points. And every word Johnson the younger (an obvious charisma bypass survivor) said was coached and scripted verbatim: until he lost contact with "Ground Control"! We live in a post-reality, poorly scripted, authoritarian, CBeebies sock-puppet sideshow!
JudyJ
I do wish I'd seen that – I don't have 'catch- up' or any of that stuff so I'll have to try and find it on the internet. I did turn over in the vain hope of seeing someone defending Russia or Syria and caught Jonathan Freedland saying that military action was called for but, self-righteously, qualifying this with the suggestion that it should be restricted to attacking strategic targets such as airfields. He obviously thinks that such airfields lie empty of personnel at the weekend or overnight, or if there are staff there then – so what – they'd be the enemy so it's ok if they are killed or injured. Presumably we're supposed to applaud him for his considered approach… just ignore the minor fact that there is no evidence of any offence warranting any military assault at all. A man in the audience then stood up spouting the ubiquitous "We need to make Assad realise it's not acceptable so we should attack him" message – cue TV 'off' button.
p.s. I was watching 'Starsky and Hutch' on Forces TV when QT started – far more worthwhile, and a good reminder of more liberal and innocent times.
BB Is there any way that clip can be uploaded onto this site? Everyone needs to see it. I saw it on UKColumn news as I don't have a television. It was surreal. The light will always shine in the darkness.
Wolfe tone
https://www.sott.net/article/382698-Hearing-Voices-British-Minister-of-State-for-Transport-Caught-Wearing-Wire-on-BBC-Question-Time
In contrast to dismissive US / UK attitude to International Law:
Jeffrey D. Kahn, assistant professor of law, Southern Methodist University at a 17 April 2008 Kennan Institute seminar. There are plenty of good laws on the books in Russia, according to Kahn, and Putin deserves credit for implementing important reforms and adhering to international legal obligations.
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/vladimir-putin-and-the-rule-law-russia
Brilliant article in today's Saker Vineyard on What Price..?. A clip re Legality and Diplomacy:
"US Department of State does not deal with diplomacy simply because the US leaders don't believe in diplomacy as a concept. All the DoS does is issue threats, sanctions, ultimatums, make demands, deliver score-cards (on human rights and the like, of all things!) and explain to the public why the USA is almost constantly at war with somebody. That is not "diplomacy" and the likes of Nikki Haley are not diplomats. In fact, the USA has no use for International Law either, hence the self-same Nikki Haley openly declaring at a UNSC meeting that the USA is willing to ignore the decisions of the UNSC and act in complete violation of the UN Charter. Simply put: thugs have no need for any diplomacy. They don't understand the concept.
Just like their Israeli masters and mentors, the US Americans have convinced themselves that all they need to be successful on the international scene is to either threaten the use of force or actually use force. Which works great (or so it seems) in Gaza or Grenada, but when dealing with China, Russia or Iran, this monomaniacal approach rapidly shows its limitations, especially when your force is really limited to shooting missiles from afar or murdering civilians …"
BTL that Saker article, a small voice:
smallstepforman on April 13, 2018 · at 2:22 am UTC
"In the fast moving world of today, by the time the above article was written and posted, the US Government blinked, and is backing away from confrontation with a nuclear power. The fear we all had before going to bed on Wednesday night was replaced with relief in on Thursday morning when we awoke to news that the NeoCons backed down. Life has been given a 2nd chance on this little blue planet … "
[vexarb adds: FUKZUSA blinked because of Putin's effective and credible show of force. Not use of force in this grave case, but simply show what Russia has achieved in Syria with minimal forces and in minimal time, compared to NATZO's chaotic lumbering Behemoth. Also show his track record in International Diplomacy: the man who says what he means and means what he says. Even his enemies cannot but admit that Putin is a stickler for International Law, as well as being a master military strategist. Gives a new meaning to Mao's aphorism, "Justice comes from the barrel of a gun"]
Harry Law
Dianne Abbott Shadow Home Secretary was asked, which country posed the biggest threat to world peace: Russia or the US. After trying to avoid the question she eventually said: "It is clear that at this point Russia, its role in Syria, what we believe beyond reasonable doubt its role in the poison gas attack in Salisbury, is a greater threat to world peace than the United States." [Guardian]
Then Shadow International Development Secretary Kate Osamor said "If a leader is killing their own they need to be removed. We don't keep them there. They need to go. He needs to be removed. [Politics home reports]
She has since said she does not want to go to war in Syria.
When two senior Labour Party Politicians can come out with such nonsense, not only disregarding International Law ,but common sense, there is not much hope.
You can add Ben Bradshaw on BBC QT. Jeremy and the party line is still that Russia is to blame: either directly or indirectly for "losing control" over the "military grade Novichok". It will be interesting to see how that pans out, as Russia will soon release its own report on the classified section of the OPCW report:
"On Salisbury [Ambassador] Yakovenko disputes the UK claim that the OPCW backed the UK's analysis of the poisoning. The OPCW never confirmed where the nerve agent involved was manufactured. "The report is saying nothing about that," he said.
"All the statements made by Boris Johnson and other people are not correct," he said. "The report never supported the British version," he said."
UK Labour is full of Blairite thugs, and cowards. Of course Abbott has been given the full on hate treatment before, so might be wary, but to assert that the US is less of a threat than Russia, when the unprecedented record of genocide, aggression and destruction of the USA, orders of magnitude greater than any other force for Evil in history is an open book, is simply despicable. The central lie that will get humanity destroyed is that the USA and its 'liberal capitalist values', represent a force for good in the world, when the exact opposite is the truth.
TheSociologicalMail
It being illegal is not enough to stop them!
I wrote to the Russian Ambassador The Honorable Mr AV Yakoventko Tuesday lunchtime 10-04-18 !st Class recorded delivery. It has not been delivered yet, Royal Mail say it is still in the system. No doubt via MI5 the bastards.
I emailed the Embassy a couple of years ago (I can't recall the precise context which triggered my communication) to express my heartfelt sentiments about the vilification of Russia and Putin and to emphasise that there was a significant proportion of the British population supporting the Russian position and that the UK Govt certainly didn't represent my views. I was just so pissed off, as now, that I felt duty bound to do something. I bet we're all on some MI5 "one to watch" list but I don't YET furtively look around before I leave the house or look over my shoulder in the supermarket. I suspect that time will come sooner rather than later in this 'liberal' society.
Etegere
On behalf of your fellow citizens, I thank you for speaking for the silent majority of us who do not have this mad Russophobia in our hearts, and who see through the government lies. Remember, as we descend into a controlled police state the only thing that gives us any chance is if we stick together. Warn your friends and family, write to your MPs, local newspapers, post online, attend protests, BE LOUD AND VISIBLE! We are in a fight for our lives!
Nice and appreciated message, Etegere, thank YOU. I have this week written to my MP and also put a copy and a lengthy more detailed letter explaining my views through the letterboxes of my 5 immediate neighbours. They may just put it in recycling but at least I've tried.
Is it just me or did OffG publish an article from Tim Hayward's blog about George Monbiot; and another by Caitlin Johnston about Syria? Where have they gone! All I get is "Page not found"? I get a similar scenario over at 21 Wire, something about not being able to access the database? Are we under attack?
I am getting the following when trying to link to Hayward's articles at 21st Century Wire:
You don't have permission to access /2017/02/06/fake-news-week-why-channel-4-news-owes-an-apology-to-syria-and-the-world/ on this server.
Patrick Henningsen was complaining of attack on the site two days ago.
Apparently they have been under sustained DNOS attack all week: getting 500K an hour 'hits' and overswarmed by bots. They moved host but to no avail. Craig Murray and Assange among others have been targeted. It appears that witnessing the truth is becoming an irritation?
It's republished now – we had technical issues
Betrayed planet.
We are truly in insane times. Everyone should phone their governments and any associated parties in outrage at the current criminal behaviour of and by the West, primarily the madman Trump and the psychopath Theresa in the U.K.
There can be no resolution when the people who head these governments are literally a dictatorship.
Ross Hendry
Agreed. Or in the U.K. email the woman herself: https://email.number10.gov.uk/
I think it is 'highly likely' that some junior clerk will be giving them a cursory once over and not even counting 'fors' and 'againsts', and consigning the latter to the metaphorical paper shredder in the corner.
You are more than likely correct however as a populace of 66 million people it is our duty to try to influence this craven criminal government if we can. It is not our future that is at stake but that of the younger people who have not yet had a life.
Possibly but it's worth a shot – along with emailing one's local MP etc. I don't want to sound too mystical but I suspect weight of protest gets to these psychopaths on an unconscious level eventually , however much they consciously dismiss it. We're all wi-fi connected, underneath the theatrical make-up of the ever so brilliant and unique persona 🙂
Kipling's sirens are still calling, Come you back you British Soldier, but methinks this time the voices for Legality re Syria will overrule their old cry:
"Give me somewhere East of Suez
Where the Best is like the Worst
Where there ain'tmno bloomin' Justice
And a man can raise a thirst".
This whole farrago of Alt State bullying is illegal from end to end and based on multiply faked events, samples, poisoning and gas attacks?
The UK Cabinet today voted for strikes against Syria with zero Parliamentary permission, zero evidence of the gas attack's circumstances and polls showing only 1 in 5 citizens in favour of the move.
The OPCW in turn has a history of being cowed by US pressure (last time from John Bolton) but its report – far from supporting the UK case against Putin versus the Skripal Hoax – places huge doubt on the agent having been produced in a factory at all. This piece is potential dynamite:
https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2018/04/13/syria-update-new-revelations/
I looked at your linked article – sounds good to me although I'm not a scientist. I like to read reader comments after articles as they can often be illuminating as well. As someone comments various pieces of 'evidence' from the incident were completely destroyed with undue haste for 'safety' reasons. Reports right at the outset were certainly that the restaurant table was incinerated immediately, purportedly because it was 'covered in nerve agent residue'. Not only was this crucial evidence for any investigation but I find it impossible to believe that Porton Down would not have the means to contain such an item, transport it and store it securely. An acquaintance of mine has a theory that maybe someone met the Skripals in the restaurant (and may or may not have tampered with their food) but was aware that whilst doing so they may have left fingerprints on the table which could connect them to the restaurant – hence the need to destroy a key piece of evidence. Maybe the same with the bench and the door?
And we are yet to get an explanation from our Govt as to how Porton Down identified the supposed agent as 'Novichok' within three or four days (I can't recall the precise time frame) although it was subsequently acknowledged by the OPCW and other experts that an analysis of the substance to identify what it was (not just its purity etc) would take 3-4 weeks; and I presume they would have the advantage of starting their analysis from the premise that it was A234, as the UK had said it was, and just needed to reaffirm that.
Sorry, but the poisoning didn't happen. It's a hoax as far as I am concerned. Until evidence to the contrary is produced then it should be treated as a hoax…….all evidence suggests so.
I certainly wouldn't dispute your suggestion. None of the story makes any sense. All this controversy about novichok – where was it produced etc? how was it deployed? is all a smokescreen as it certainly wasn't a 'Novichok'. I personally am trying to be open- minded about all the possible alternative scenarios and scrutinise them for their individual value and plausibility. I have contended elsewhere that it could have been an innocent food poisoning event which the UK Govt naively exploited to smear Russia, but the more we learn points to a premeditated staged incident or a fabricated event. All I am truly confident about is that we are being lied to big time.
Michael McNulty
Telling the US aggressive war is illegal is the same as telling Al Capone booze is prohibited or telling the mob prostitution is immoral earnings.
They know, but they're gangsters, and unless anybody can stop them they become ever-lawless.
As The Breaker observed, the only 'law' the USA recognises is 'Rule 303'.
Rule 303…is that the acid house rule?
Yeah they are naive twits who think they live in a democracy or something. That memo went round in 2003 or thereabouts.
@McNulty. The Law caught up with Capone. Got him for undeclared earnings. Just saying.
But will/can the FBI catch up with U.S. government?! They'll be plenty of evidence of their illegality in their bombed out targets and countless dead. They won't need to get them on a technicality. 🙂
More seriously it begs the question as to who would prosecute the U.S. The International Court of Justice? If so, a mere reprimand , like they apparently gave the U.S. in 1986 in the Nicaragua case, won't exactly go down in history as
stern justice.
McNulty, you are correct. Unless we the people stop this through activism and outrage, there will be hell to pay, literally.
Even after "perestroika" Russia is seemingly still a convenient target on which to project our unadmitted and unowned qualities. They are the godless hordes from the East intent on all kinds of evil, we are the (ahem) noble knights in white armour in whom no badness resides and who will reluctantly (as always) step in to halt their wickedness.
As this farce continues I dislike May in her "kitten heels" more and more. I can't help feeling that she desperately wants to be liked but is incredibly simple-minded, the archetypal "good daughter" of a vicar, easily persuaded by any argument from dodgy advisors that seems to make the U.K. "right". Especially if it comes to a chemical attacks on children, craftily staged or invented though they may be.
This is a good book with startling images that have been used to demonize "the enemy" over the years. A few years old now but still relevant:
"Faces of the Enemy: Reflections of the Hostile Imagination". Sam Keen. HarperSanFrancisco, 1992
There is a good deal of psychopathological projection in the Western worldview, too. The greatest genocidists and destroyers of societies and looters, pillagers and exploiters ever, are always accusing others, mostly fraudulently, of the crimes at which they have always excelled.


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New Balance x Hanon - Flying Club Samples
In August last year, for the first ever Sole Bloc sneaker festival in Glasgow, I was lucky enough to get my hands on some never before seen New Balance x Hanon samples for the NB Gallery display. So, before we get into this post, I suggest you take a look at the first post I wrote about the samples here, and then jump back to this one. Since then, I've started working at Hanon, and the other week, Murray was lucky enough to get his hands on two pretty special samples, one of which was part of the "Flying Club" Pack, which was released back in 2008.
Obviously, knowing the excitable New Balance geek that I am, Murray was kind enough to let me borrow his now prized possessions, and along with some other samples as well as the two released pairs, I put them together and created this post.
To kick off the post, we should take a brief look at the released pairs, so that you can compare them to the samples throughout the post.
The New Balance 670GKY "Tornado" features a grey suede upper, with dark grey Ventile fabric underlays, a kind of very dark navy leather heel tab and heel wrap, with yellow leather 'N', off-white midsole, and special "Flying Club" tongue tab.
The second released pair is the New Balance 670BRY "Spitfire", which features a black suede upper, with red Ventile fabric underlays, and a black leather heel tab and heel wrap, yellow leather 'N', off-white midsole, and special "Flying Club" tongue tab.
For the first sample, let's look at my favourite. The red 670 features a predominantly nubuck upper with Ventile fabric underlays, a charcoal leather heel wrap and heel tab, a normal 670 tongue tab, as well as a big grey suede 'N', and a grey midsole.
Next up are two samples which haven't really been seen before, well, one hasn't been seen at all, and some pics of the other surfaced a long time ago, and have been elsewhere until they turned up the other week.
I shot them both together so that it's easier to see the slight differences between them. In terms of materials, they both have the same make up, but the colourways are slightly different.
The first pair was dubbed the "Lancaster" and is the pair that had some images of it floating around many years ago.
This next pair, I actually found when I was digging around the vaults for the red nubuck 670, I pulled out a random NB box and this was stashed inside, and as you can imagine, I was pretty chuffed to stumble across it.
Now that we've got the introduction to these two samples out the way, let's get down to the side by side comparison.
As mentioned already, both pairs feature the same material make up, utilising suede overlays and Ventile fabric underlays, with a black leather heel wrap and heel tab, as well as the big yellow 'N's on both pairs, the "Flying Club" tongue tab, and off-white midsoles.
The "Lancaster" pair has lush brown suede with a lighter brown Ventile fabric underlay, while the other pair uses dark grey suede and an almost light tan Ventile fabric for the underlay. It's really hard to choose a favourite between these two.
So in terms of the "Flying Club" Pack, that's it for the samples, but you might have caught that there's another pair featured in one of the very first images, and I wanted to include that in this post because it has a "Flying Club" tongue tab, although it has absolutely nothing to do with the pack, and features no Ventile fabric whatsoever.
This New Balance 1300 was another project that Hanon were working on some time ago, and never came to fruition for whatever reason, but it was very interesting seeing a UK Made 1300 almost being used for a collab. The shoe itself features a mixture grey nubuck and grey mesh underlays, with a burgundy suede 'N' and burgundy Terry Cloth lining.
I hope you enjoyed this exclusive look into some more Hanon Shop samples, but there's a lot more where that came from, so stay tuned to my blog.
Until then, here's one last picture of the four of them together...
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Hi Jonas. Thanks for accepting my challenge. Where would you like to play? I'm based in Sanur.
Hey Jonas. Are you for this?
Sorry for my late reply. I live in sanur also, so perfect if we can play here. This week I'm fully booked, but what about next week?
Sure. Tuesday next week works for me. Between 9am and 3pm or after 4.30pm.
Which part of sanur do you live at?


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Should I Earn an Entrepreneurship Degree?
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For Students and Parents
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Karen Schweitzer is a business school admissions consultant, curriculum developer, and education writer. She has been advising MBA applicants since 2005.
An entrepreneurship degree is an academic degree awarded to students who have completed a college, university, or business school program related to entrepreneurship or small business management.
Types of Entrepreneurship Degrees
There are four basic types of entrepreneurship degrees that can be earned from a college, university, or business school:
Associate's Degree: An associate's degree, also known as a two-year degree, is the next level of education after earning a high school diploma or GED.
Bachelor's Degree: A bachelor's degree is another option for students who've already earned a high school diploma or GED. Most bachelor's programs take four years to complete, but there are exceptions. Accelerated three-year programs are also available.
Master's Degree: A master's degree is a graduate-level degree for students who have already earned a bachelor's degree. Students can choose to earn an MBA or a specialized master's degree.
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An associate's degree in entrepreneurship can be earned in about two years. A bachelor's degree program usually lasts four years, and a master's program can typically be completed within two years after earning a bachelor's degree. Students who have earned a master's degree in entrepreneurship can expect to earn a doctoral degree in four to six years.
The amount of time that it takes to complete any of these degree programs is dependent on the school offering the program and the student's level of study. For example, students who study part-time will take more time to earn a degree than students who study full-time.
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The bottom line is that a degree is not a must for entrepreneurs. Many people have launched successful businesses without a formal education. However, degree programs in entrepreneurship can help students learn more about accounting, ethics, economics, finance, marketing, management, and other subjects that come into play in the day-to-day running of a successful business.
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Route 66 Raceway, notable for its wrap-around, stadium-style seating, hosts drag racing events, car shows or Demolition Derbies (at the dirt oval) almost every weekend from April to October.
Route 66 Raceway is the first True Stadium of drag racing. Founded in 1998 by nine local entrepreneurs, the NHRA-affiliated, quarter-mile drag strip is now fully owned and operated by the International Speedway Corporation and is sister track to Chicagoland Speedway, a 1.5-mile, D-shaped tri-oval that annually plays host to NASCAR Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series, IndyCar and ARCA events. Route 66 Raceway annually hosts weekend ET Bracket Series racing, NHRA Jr. Drag Racing, NHRA Lucas Oil Series and NHRA Full Throttle Series professional drag racing events. The Route 66 Raceway property also includes a half-mile dirt oval track.
Something going on literally every weekend from monster trucks to demo derbies to actual drag racing. Track facilities are simple but nice and clean. Nice flat track for going good and fast.
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Guns Down, Life Up (GDLU) is a call to action to break the cycle of violence and empower youth to fulfill their potential by leading safer, healthier lives. GDLU is a movement that proves violence can be prevented and interrupted.
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The Guns Down, Life Up ™ Assembly brings together gun violence experts, thought leaders, and community partners to discuss challenges, strategies, and best practices in gun violence prevention. Last year's assembly, held in June 2016, addressed tactical solutions to combat summer violence. The 2017 GDLU Assembly is June 15, 2017 and will be "Getting to the Root" of violence disparities in our communities.
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GDLU actively participates in health fairs, peace marches, and national conferences on violence reduction. GDLU also works closely with schools across the five boroughs to deliver anti-violence messaging and foster youth empowerment. In February 2015, GDLU took part in the New York City Peace Games (presented by former NBA great Isiah Thomas, Cure Violence, and many others), held during NBA All-Star Weekend. GO
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Momo V35 wheel and boss - a classic 80/90's wheel - MINT!
I'm selling all of my VW stash... and in it is this AWESOME Momo V35 steering wheel and boss for a late Mk2/Mk3 fitment.
I bought it to fit into the Jetta, but with me selling it, I no longer need it.
It's yours for £75 + P&P, including the boss. You're more than welcome to come and pick it up yourself though!
You can run it with the centre pad, or remove it so you can run without (you then need to then take the front alloy pad-mounting ring off).
It comes complete with the horn push and brand new mounting bolts.


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Northern Parade Schools is a non-denominational County School, a member of the Kings Group Academy. It is a school for boys and girls aged from ages 4 - 11 years.
355 infant children (179 males) (176 females)
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The school was built in the 1930's and is situated on Portsea Island, just to the north of Portsmouth City centre. The two schools share the same site and are now Federated, working together as a virtual Primary.
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A creative community working together to motivate, challenge and build resilience in our independent learners.'
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All members of the Northern Parade Community - Staff, Governors, and Parents are committed to working together to ensure that we provide the best possible education for your child.
To nurture and support every child to achieve their full potential in all areas of learning - collaborative, intellectual, emotional, physical, social, moral, spiritual and cultural.
To equip children with the resilience to become creative and independent thinkers and to become learners for life within an ever-changing world.
To develop learning activities which stimulate positive models of enquiry, reflection, challenge and innovation.
To ensure excellence in teaching and learning within a high quality learning environment, through leadership and within all aspects of school life.
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Ask the Advice Goddess
By Amy Alkon on Thu, Jan 1, 2004 at 5:00 am
Hopeless Is More
My girlfriend broke up with me because she doesn't want a commitment and wants to "explore dating other people." Although I'm honestly not ready for commitment either, it kills me to see her dating other guys. There's also a twist: She says she still has feelings for me and wants me sexually. I know I should play it cool and wait her out, but it hurts so much, I don't see how I can. I'd like to find a place between being totally committed and "just friends." Is it possible to do that and make her crave me again? —Agony CentralPhoning "customer service" probably seems like a bright idea to any customer who has yet to experience "press one to be ignored in English; press two to be ignored in Spanish." The term "office park" suggests a scattering of desks under centuries-old oak trees, with deer wandering over to eat out of your hand — not the apparent homage to prison life in much recent office complex design. Then there's the girlfriend who wants to "explore dating other people" — which makes it sound like she's planning on putting in lots of long, lonely nights at the library, poring over boyfriend data in Consumer Reports.
Of course, what she's really planning on is having sex with a lot of guys who are not you. Or maybe just several guys. Or maybe just one or two. Exact census aside, it's unlikely that her search will lead her to a bible study partner who'll join her in reciting from Deuteronomy at the diner over a couple of cherry Cokes.
Unfortunately, people who break up with other people are not always kind enough to be adequately cruel. This leaves those who got left to pick up the slack. This would be you. Come on. It's time for some self-inflicted hope-crushing. Crack off the candy coating. Cue up the dirty picture show. Stare straight into all that's painful until something becomes painfully obvious: She doesn't crave you. She craves variety. Sure, she says she still has "feelings" for you — probably like the cozy feeling that you'll do quite nicely as a backup penis, should any of the dates on her international sex tour cancel. There's no telling what the future will hold — or who'll be holding her in it. That said, it's extremely unlikely to be you if you suck away any respect she might have for you by waiting at her door like a sad doggie while she runs around with a bunch of other guys.
Forget searching for "a place between being totally committed and 'just friends'" — a romantic Switzerland that does not exist. For you, right now, there's only the place between humiliating yourself and totally humiliating yourself — where friendship tinged with a sniffly "B-b-but, why don't you want me?" undertone will take you. If it's really friendship you seek, be your own best friend and put some space between you and this girl. Crawl away and lick your wounds, and prepare to date women who share your level of alleged disinterest in commitment. Maybe, in a few months, or a year, you'll have what it takes to be this woman's friend: the ability to find her emotionally interchangeable with the rest of your friends. In other words, if, when your 230-pound pal Bubba has a date, you generally stay home, curl up in a fetal position, rock back and forth and cry your eyes out — you'll want to do exactly the same for her.
A Parasite for Sore Eyes
Part of me wants to break up with a woman I recently began a relationship with, but at 31, I fear my days of securing a 22-year-old hottie like her are rapidly diminishing. She's a knockout, and the sex is great, but I don't get to spend much time with her. I find myself baby-sitting her kids while she parties till dawn. I've somehow become financially responsible for her antidepressants, and cash is constantly missing from my wallet. Even worse, her ex has been sleeping on my couch all week, and will be for the foreseeable future. What do I do with this beautiful, sexy woman who puts my needs on the back burner? —Beauty Habit
What did you do for fun before you met her — leave your car running, with the keys in it, in a bad neighborhood? Paint signs across your house for burglars, advertising the exact times and dates you'd be away? Beauty isn't cheap. That's no news to you, of course, since this woman's pet name for you is probably ATM. You could say you're everything to her — nanny, financial backer, hotelier, and free prescription drug plan. How much is too much? Think hard. Hint: Use the part of you that wants to break up with her. Unless it happens to be an organ you've already donated to her ex.
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Garrett Popcorn owner to buy Frango from Macy's, returning brand to local ownership
By Robert Channick
Garrett Brands, the owner of Garrett Popcorn Shops, will buy the Frango chocolate brand from Macy's for a undisclosed sum, the companies announced Monday.
The purchase would return the Frango brand, once the trademark premium chocolate brand of Marshall Field's, to local ownership.
Chicago-based Garrett plans to develop, sell and distribute Frango products "consistent with the brand's legacy as a superior chocolate and confectionary brand," the company said in a news release.
However, Garrett Popcorn Shops will not sell Frango products, said spokeswoman Michelle Molise.
Cincinnati-based Macy's said it will continue to sell Frango products at all Chicago locations, including the Frango Shop in Macy's State Street store, and at more than 350 other Macy's stores across the country and online.
"Frango is very popular among both our local shoppers and visitors at our Chicago stores," said Andrea Schwartz, a Macy's spokeswoman. "It's great to see such an iconic Chicago brand staying in Chicago."
Garrett said it plans "to expand the reach and offerings" of Frango products.
"Frango is a perfect fit for our company's portfolio, aligning well with our strategy to preserve and grow iconic brands that have historic franchise value with a unique and storied past," said Lance Chody, owner and CEO of Garrett Brands, in a news release. "This is an exciting opportunity to expand the reach and offerings of the delicious Frango confections consumers know and love to more people in more places, just as we have done with our other brands."
Long a signature brand of bygone Chicago department store Marshall Field's, the Frango mint was actually a West Coast import created nearly a century ago by Frederick and Nelson Co., a Seattle-based chain acquired by Field's in 1929. The mint was originally called Franco, an acronym of the department store's name.
The mints, renamed Frango in 1934. were minted on the 13th floor of Field's flagship State Street store for nearly 70 years. Minneapolis-based Dayton Hudson, which bought Field's in 1990, outsourced production of Frangos to a Pennsylvania company in 1999 over the objections of civic leaders and longtime customers alike.
Federated Department Stores bought the parent of Field's in 2005 and converted the Chicago-area stores to Macy's. In 2007, Macy's struck a deal with Chicago-based Cupid Candies, returning some production of Frangos to the city.
The acquisition by Garrett returns the Frango to local ownership as well, putting the mint under another quintessentially Chicago food brand. Best known for its caramel and cheese popcorn, Garrett opened its first store in the Loop in 1949. CaramelCrisp, a Chicago-based partnership founded by Chody, bought the company in 2005.
Selling off the Frango brand is the latest move by struggling retailer Macy's, which earlier this month announced the closure of 68 stores, including one in west suburban Bloomingdale and two downstate locations, amid slumping sales and declining traffic. Macy's said it expects to close 30 more stores over the next few years.
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Q: Setting up AWS Loadbalancer Healthcheck for Mediawiki site We have an AWS Instance running MediaWiki. Now we want to put it behind a ELB Load Balancer.
The ELB needs an address on the MediaWiki server to ping, so it receives a 200 response.
I have tried "/" as the address but that looks like its timing out.
What is the correct / good address on a mediawiki site to ping for a health check?

A: If you are using Application load balancers you can specify values or ranges of values between 200 and 499 for the response code in the health check definition.So if the Mediawiki is responding with a redirect you could accept a 301/302 as a valid health check as well.
If you want a specific path (or using Classic Load balancer) your ELB expects a  200 (HTTP OK) response code and you will need to identify the path .In order to find out the exact path ,try to curl the Mediawiki server directly from within the VPC.For example ,the below mentioned curl results in a redirect(301) to a new location http://www.google.com/
$ curl -Iv google.com
* Rebuilt URL to: google.com/
*   Trying 172.217.167.110...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to google.com (172.217.167.110) port 80 (#0)
> HEAD / HTTP/1.1
> Host: google.com
> User-Agent: curl/7.61.1
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
< Location: http://www.google.com/
Location: http://www.google.com/

Trying the curl to the new location results in a 200 OK response.
$ curl -Iv http://www.google.com/
*   Trying 172.217.25.36...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to www.google.com (172.217.25.36) port 80 (#0)
> HEAD / HTTP/1.1
> Host: www.google.com
> User-Agent: curl/7.61.1
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
HTTP/1.1 200 OK

This way you can find which path leads to a 200 response from the Mediawiki server.

A: Special:Blank should be a relatively cheap page to test.

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Indian Cricket Team: An Exciting & Interesting Journey
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Cricket in India has had quite an interesting journey. Introduced by the colonial British, the game has evolved to an extent that it has become a passion for the youth of our country. Today, cricket is a fan favorite game of millions of Indians. Today we will be discussing the Indian cricket team as a whole.
Indian Cricket Team History
Legends of Indian Cricket Team
Indian Cricket Team Captain
Indian Cricket Vice-Captain
List Of Indian Cricket Team Captains in ODI
List Of Indian Cricket Team Captains in Test
PlayersTenure CK Nayudu1931 – 34 Maharaj Kumar1936 Nawab of Pataudi1946 Lala Amarnath1947 – 53 Vijay Hazare1951 – 53 Vinoo Mankad1954 – 59 Ghulam Ahmed1955 – 59 Polly Umrigar1955 – 59 Hemu Adhikari1958 – 59 Datta Gaekwad1959 Pankaj Roy1959 Gulabrai Ramchand1959 – 60 Nari Contractor1960 – 62 Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi1961 – 75 Chandu Borde1967 – 68 Ajit Wadekar1970 – 74 Srinivas Venkataraghavan1974 – 79 Sunil Gavaskar1975 – 85 Bishan Singh Bedi1975 – 79 Gundappa Viswanath1979 – 80 Kapil Dev1982 – 87 Dilip Vengsarkar1987 – 89 Ravi Shastri1987 – 88 Krishnamachari Srikkanth1989 – 90 Mohammad Azharuddin1989 – 99 Sachin Tendulkar1996 – 2000 Sourav Ganguly2000 – 2006 Rahul Dravid2003 – 2007 Virender Sehwag2005 – 2012 Anil Kumble2007 – 2008 Mahendra Singh Dhoni2008 – 2015 Virat Kohli2014 – present
List Of Indian Cricket Team Captains in T20
PlayersTenure Virender Sehwag2006 Mahendra Singh Dhoni2007 – 16 Suresh Raina2010 – 11 Ajinkya Rahane2015 Virat Kohli2017 – present
The first match played by the Indians as a team was in 1932 at Lord's in England. But they managed to secure their first victory two decades later in the year 1952. The team was quite initially at the international cricketing scene but started to gain strength after the arrival of players like Kapil Dev, Vishwanath, Gavaskar.
Indian Cricket Team Present
As a crucial observation, Team India has been far more successful at winning matches at home in India than in foreign countries. It has managed to win the cricket world cup twice (1931 under the captaincy of Kapil Dev and 2011 under the captaincy of MS Dhoni). Besides this, the team has also managed to win the T20 world cup in 2007 and the ICC champions trophy in 2013.
Virat Kohli, veteran batsman, and cricketer is the current skipper of the team. He has managed to lead the entire team through difficult times. The future looks quite bright for the team.
Fans of cricket in India will never forget their cricketing legends. First and foremost, this list is the god of cricket, Sachin Tendulkar. He along with others like Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, Sourav Ganguly, MS Dhoni will never ever be forgotten by fans of cricket in India.
Virat Kohli is the current skipper of the Indian cricket team. Besides being a terrific batsman, Virat has also been the most successful test cricket captain.
Only 33 players have served as the captain of the test team while 24 of the ODI squad to date. While many argue that Kohli hasn't led the team win any major ICC trophy and has issues with his temper on ground, his statistics tell a different story.
Another distinction that he has achieved is that of be leading the team in maximum number of test games besides scoring maximum hundreds as the captain.
You would be surprised to know that his batting average is over 60 while acting as the test skipper.
In all probability, he has a chance to become the best team leader Indian cricket has seen till now. In ODI format too, his batting performance has been par excellence with him being behind just Ricky Ponting when it comes to scoring centuries as skipper.
Rohit Sharma has been playing the role of vice-captain since 2019. A point to note about him is that while he made his test debut in 2013 but to date has played 38 tests only.
He was made the test vice-captain after he improved his form and cemented his place in the team in 2019. He is indeed a great complimentary leader for the team given his excellent track record as the captain of Mumbai Indians. Many troll him for his fitness but it is a fact that he is one of the best limited overs Indian player and even Virat Kohli has praised him time and again for the same.
The names of the skippers in various formats of cricket have been listed chronologically. Their representation as a captain may overlap with the tenures of others in the list as well.
Ajit Wadekar 1974
Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan 1975 – 79
Sunil Gavaskar 1980 – 1985
Gundappa Viswanath 1980
Kapil Dev 1982 – 92
Syed Kirmani 1983
Mohinder Amarnath 1984
Ravi Shastri 1986 – 91
Dilip Vengsarkar 1987 – 88
Krishnamachari Srikkanth 1989
Mohammad Azharuddin 1989 – 99
Sachin Tendulkar 1996 – 99
Ajay Jadeja 1998 – 99
Sourav Ganguly 1999 – 2005
Rahul Dravid 2000 – 2007
Anil Kumble 2001
Virender Sehwag 2003 – 11
Mahendra Singh Dhoni 2007 – 2018
Suresh Raina 2010
Gautam Gambhir 2010 – 11
Virat Kohli 2013 – present
CK Nayudu 1931 – 34
Maharaj Kumar 1936
Nawab of Pataudi 1946
Lala Amarnath 1947 – 53
Vijay Hazare 1951 – 53
Vinoo Mankad 1954 – 59
Ghulam Ahmed 1955 – 59
Polly Umrigar 1955 – 59
Hemu Adhikari 1958 – 59
Datta Gaekwad 1959
Pankaj Roy 1959
Gulabrai Ramchand 1959 – 60
Nari Contractor 1960 – 62
Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi 1961 – 75
Chandu Borde 1967 – 68
Ajit Wadekar 1970 – 74
Srinivas Venkataraghavan 1974 – 79
Sunil Gavaskar 1975 – 85
Bishan Singh Bedi 1975 – 79
Gundappa Viswanath 1979 – 80
Krishnamachari Srikkanth 1989 – 90
Sachin Tendulkar 1996 – 2000
Virender Sehwag 2005 – 2012
Anil Kumble 2007 – 2008
Virender Sehwag 2006
Mahendra Singh Dhoni 2007 – 16
Suresh Raina 2010 – 11
Ajinkya Rahane 2015
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George Floyd gasped out these final words as he struggled for breath underneath the pressure of three police officers. On June 17, SWR community members chanted these same words at the Shoreham Plaza, in front of cars driving by on Route 25A. A sizable crowd gathered carrying signs and wearing masks. Most were younger members of the community, but all had come to peacefully protest what happened to George Floyd on May 25 and countless other African Americans throughout recent history.
As of October 28, 2020, a judge has upheld the charges of second-degree murder and manslaughter on the officer who had his knee on Floyd's neck, Derek Chauvin, who was released on bail earlier this month and awaits a trial in March 2021. Breonna Taylor was yet another African American shot by the police. The Kentucky EMT was killed by police who barged into her home whilst executing a "no-knock warrant" on March 13, 2020. Her death has also received nationwide attention and in September, a grand jury decision indicted one of the three officers involved in the shooting with three counts of wanton endangerment over shots fired into neighbors apartments. Notably, there were no direct charges over Taylor's death.
After the horrifying video of a Minneapolis police officer kneeling on 46-year-old George Floyd's neck surfaced, protests erupted across the country and around the globe. People on Long Island, including Riverhead, Westhampton, and Shoreham, joined in on the cry for racial justice as well.
Shoreham-Wading River High School senior, Yusra Rashidzada, attended a protest in Riverhead on June 13. She was informed of the event by friends who had seen the flyer on Facebook.
"We were all standing on the side of the road and holding up signs and basically just chanting 'George Floyd,' 'no justice no peace,' and we were holding our signs," she said. "And at the very end, we all kneeled…we had moments of silence for George Floyd and Breonna Taylor."
Shiru Mburu, another senior at SWR, came across a protest in Westhampton on June 6. "We parked in a field and there were at least 200 or more people there. There were two tents [and] they had signs that they had made themselves that they were handing out and we walked to a crowd." She was thrilled at the diversity of people supporting calls for racial justice saying, "At the protest there were mixed races, everyone: Latino, Black, white…everyone was there."
Mburu also recalled speakers telling their own personal stories and the structural racism existing in society, as well as a small lecture on police brutality.
As a person of color at SWR, Mburu said, "[I was] protesting for what's right… because I've had personal experiences [with] racism…so being at the protest, it wasn't like I was [just] standing up for George Floyd and for Breonna Taylor, I'm also standing up for myself because…emotionally, I've been hurt."
The protest at Shoreham Plaza occurred on June 17, and was scheduled to begin at 1:00 PM. In its first hour, the protest, also advertised through social media, had gained a crowd of around 50, which stretched along the sidewalk adjacent to the main road. Participants shouted "silence is violence" and "this is what democracy looks like," as well as "defund the police." Signs reading "Imagine What Isn't Being Filmed," "Black Trans Lives Matter," and "Don't be brainless, people of color are dying" were raised high above protesting heads. Due to the ongoing pandemic, all wore masks—some with "Black Lives Matter" written on them. The 6-feet-apart social distancing guidelines were largely ignored.
I'm very tired of constantly dreading to go to school because [of] me being me and fearing that other people hate it. I just have to go to school even though everybody hates me."
— Shiru Mburu
While the event was organized by two SWR community members and graduates of Shoreham-Wading River High School, Carley Nicoletti and Olivia Acuna, other individual participants also took up the torch by leading call-and-response chants like "No racist"/"Police" and "Hands up"/"Don't shoot." Acuna said after the protest, "We organized it, but we had so much help from the community and so much help from other people… it was definitely like a community effort and organization." At 2:38 PM, everyone fell quiet and raised their fists in an 8 minute, 46 second silence in recognition of the amount of time George Floyd was forcibly pinned to the ground and lay dying. At 3:30 PM, the protestors marched west along Route 25A to the Soundview Eye Center before turning back around, calling out myriad chants including "Black Lives Matter." Many passersby honked their horns, raised their fists, and gave their thumbs up in solidarity; however not all onlookers appreciated the protestors' calls for justice. More than a couple drivers made obscene gestures and some others yelled expletives out of their window. In comparison with other protests they had attended, Nicoletti admitted "there was more opposition, I would say, from cars passing by."
When asked why they organized this event, Nicoletti replied, "It was kind of spur-of-the-moment, we had just been to a few other protests and we were kind of like, it would be really awesome if our community could come because our community needs to step up the most because we are a very racist— and segregated [tagged on by Acuna]— town so we wanted to give a platform here for people to come out and speak…" and Acuna added, "…and show our town that we stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement even though we are segregated and red [Republican]," and "predominately white" Nicoletti tacked on.
Both Acuna and Nicoletti's statements regarding segregation and diversity in Shoreham-Wading River and Long Island as a whole, sadly, hold much truth. Called "one of the most segregated suburbs in America" by Newsday, Long Island communities remain firmly and visibly divided along racial lines. This results in many schools on the island having highly disproportionate student populations, including Shoreham-Wading River High School.
As a majority white school with only 10% minority population according to a 2016-2017 NYSED report, Shoreham-Wading River High School "is already isolating for students of color," Yusra Rashidzada admits. And it also suffers from racism ingrained in its culture as the senior also says, "I have witnessed a lot of racism in the school…not directed at me, but ignorant people saying offensive things, like the n-word or [other] racial slurs."
Shiru Mburu confesses, "I'm very tired of constantly dreading to go to school because [of] me being me and fearing that other people hate it. I just have to go to school even though everybody hates me." Mburu adds that she and her sister have gone to school administration to report their experiences with racism at SWR on multiple occasions and have even suggested an assembly about racism to educate students on how to identify their own unacceptable behaviors.
Due to policies regarding student confidentiality SWR administration was unable to comment.
Opening up to recent developments, Mburu chillingly says, "It's incredibly terrifying because I could die because of the color of my skin." After watching countless videos where police officers pull over a person of color with their weapons already drawn, she says, "It's actually really scary to know that could happen to me, or my dad, or my mom, and my sister."
Editor's Note: a previous publication listed interviewees as juniors, as of the 2020-2021 school year they are seniors.
Mika Misawa, Editor- in- Chief
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Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren are jockeying to spearhead a new crusade. Its premise is that the sheer existence of billionaires is a moral outrage.
"I don't think that billionaires should exist," Sanders explained. The crusade's rallying cry: "Abolish billionaires." To that end, Warren and Sanders have each proposed special taxes on the ultra-rich.
Central to this crusade is a claim many find plausible. In a New York Times column that went viral, Farhad Manjoo called for "kneecapping the wealthiest among us" because a billion dollars is "far more than anyone might reasonably claim to deserve, however much he believes he has contributed to society." A burgeoning chorus keeps telling us: "No one deserves a billion dollars" (Tom Scocca); "No one earns a billion dollars" (Jacobin magazine). The implication: everyone who accumulates — not earns, mind you, but accumulates — so vast a fortune must have done so by shady means.
What's truly corrupt, however, is the campaign to "abolish billionaires." It's founded on a smear. It's not ignorance that leads billionaire-haters to deny the sheer possibility that a billion can be earned. It's a willful disregard of the facts.
That becomes clear when you call to mind just three well-known billionaires: Steve Jobs, J.K. Rowling, and Oprah Winfrey. They earned their wealth by producing values and offering them in win-win trades.
Oprah captivated audiences for 25 seasons with a TV show featuring life advice, topical discussions, and interviews with authors and celebrities. Viewers freely chose to tune in, and advertisers paid handsomely for the opportunity to reach Oprah's loyal audience.
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It is this reality — of how Oprah, Rowling, Jobs and countless others earned every penny of their riches — that the anti-billionaire crusaders disregard. The tech industry, Farhad Manjoo instructs us, "belches up a murder of new billionaires annually." becoming ultra-rich, apparently, is something that happens to you, not something you make happen. No personal virtues enabled their spectacular success; it just happened. We're fools to admire them or "put billionaires on magazine covers."
Such deliberate evasions of the truth about wealth-creation serve to rationalize calls to "cancel" and "abolish" billionaires. Our society, to be healthy, must be purged of the ultra-successful. "We should presumptively get rid of billionaires. All of them," declares writer Tom Scocca. They "may go on living," he concedes generously, but "they must not be allowed to possess a billion dollars."
They must, in other words, be made to lose their earned wealth.
We're told that the existence of billionaires is an affront to a moral society. But that's backwards. That this annihilationist campaign has gone mainstream is a measure of how far our society has drifted from American ideals, which once celebrated earned success, however small or large.
Elan Journo is a director and senior fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute, author of What Justice Demands: America and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and a contributor to "A New Textbook of Americanism: The Politics of Ayn Rand."
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