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By Inayatullah
The Kashmir Youth Movement for the liberation of Kashmir is gathering strength by the day. It has, by now, continued for more than three months. More than 100 young men have given the supreme sacrifice of losing their lives.
Brutal repression including curfews and siege of homes, mosques, schools, hospitals and bazaars, besides point blank shooting of protesting teenagers, has failed to stop the indigenous uprising. In fact, it has further boosted it. What has all the more irked the Indian government is the way the world is beginning to take notice of the flagrant violation of human rights and unabashed use of force. New Delhi has further come under pressure from the voices rising within India against the oppression inflicted on the protesting people. In this context, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh says that he is deeply worried and distressed. Sometime back he had advised the Indian security forces to deal with the protesting youth humanely. But his advice and concern fell flat on the army and the police. Then much was expected from the all parties post-Eid conference. The meeting did take place without arriving at any meaningful decision.
Hit with bullet from Indian troops still shouts FREEDOM and down with oppression and tyranny
Even the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) was not withdrawn, despite an appeal by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah. And all that the conference yielded was a move to send a fact-finding group to the "occupied" state. In other words, the meeting was a damp squib.
Although the international media has woken up to the unresolved decades-old festering problem in Kashmir, there is a little of positive reaction on the part of major world powers. This almost criminal neglect is mainly due to the influence India increasingly wields internationally. Indeed, the international community overwhelmingly accords more importance to their economic and strategic interests than human rights and state excesses. (Washington's latest statement about the nature of the current resistance in Kashmir is totally disappointing).
Indian version of democracy in occupied KASHMIR
Linked to these considerations is the general feeling after Nine Eleven, in the world capitals that agitations or uprisings even for legitimate causes should be discouraged or ignored, as such activities could grow into acts of terrorism and violent behaviour. But in the case of Kashmir – India's 63 years of occupation, holding of fake elections in the occupied territory, preventing and repulsing of Pakistani attempts to intervene (particularly after the Kargil misadventure), plus the rising stature of the so-called largest democracy with its rapidly burgeoning economy, as well as mounting military prowess – all these factors have served to consolidate its stand on the disputed state.
Till the start of the current movement, India had also managed to convince the international community that the resistance in Kashmir was engineered, to a large extent, by Pakistan. However, this is no longer the case. It is recognised that the present demonstration of the Kashmiris' struggle is not only totally local and indigenous, but it is also more or less peaceful. The only weapon used by the youth during their protests is pebbles and small stones. It is generally accepted that the intensity, continuity and spreading agitation and unrest has turned it into a formidable challenge for the Indian government.
What indeed is disconcerting is the attitude of the Pakistani government. It has been mostly rhetorical, lacking substance and seriousness of purpose. A few statements have come from the President, Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and the opposition leaders. Even the National Assembly's Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir, has not met. The civil society too has been slow and lukewarm in expressing its concern.
On the other hand, for the first time the Indian society is stirred up and the government has come under severe criticism for its inhuman and unacceptable conduct in the occupied state. Not only are known human rights activists like Arundhati Roy highlighting India's criminal conduct, but also columnists like Kuldip Nayar are openly asking India to hold talks with the Pakistani and Kashmiri leaders to resolve the issue. Mention may here be made of the statement issued by The Indian People's Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) which has also condemned the Indian authorities for inflicting "collective punishment" on the Kashmiri people. One may further quote from a recent The Hindu editorial: "By talking big while having little to offer, New Delhi has unwittingly fanned the flames in J&K….Jammu and Kashmir is poised on the edge of an abyss. Firm, generous-spirited action to win over the people is needed, not post-dated promises and grandstanding."
Hopefully, the new trail blazed by the brave Kashmiri young men should jolt the so-called ultra liberals and peaceniks' of Pakistan to realise that Kashmir is vital for Pakistan's economy and even survival. Although they never tire of referring to Quaid-i-Azam's August 11 speech; however, they remain shy of recalling his perception of Kashmir as the "jugular vein" of Pakistan. Can one ignore India's building of dozens of dams on the rivers flowing into Pakistan from Kashmir?
Pakistan, as a "party" to the question of the disputed state, has obligations to discharge, especially when the other party has turned the state into a veritable hell by posting lakhs of trigger-happy security forces there. Read more of this post
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Indian Occupied Kashmir Is Worse Than Gaza, Why Is The World Sleeping Over It?
UK and USA Just To Sell Their Weapons Have Turned a Blind Eye; Shame On You
In Kashmir, civilians are being pushed to the brink of disaster amidst protests, curfews and killings. Anger is hurt turned inside out, as Dilnaz Boga explains.
Wounded on 26th August lying in hospitals
It's been almost two months since we've been under curfew in the Kashmir Valley. It's not the echoes in the empty streets decked up with razor wires that are disturbing, it's the rising of the sun that brings with it the news of deaths by tear gas shells or bullets.
As journalists we are issued curfew passes by the government. Sometimes, the local police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), India's paramilitary, rip the passes to bits and prevent us from working. Getting past every street is an achievement, with the police and the paramilitary playing God. Last month, when the government imposed a media gag, the CRPF stood outside media offices, preventing us from moving out. Journalists were beaten and fired upon.
Since this January, the police and the CRPF, for 'stone-throwing', have gunned down over 60 unarmed protesters – mostly children as young as eight and teenagers. Doctors say that the injured have been shot mostly in the head and chest. No security personnel have perished in the fierce clashes. In the past month, the violence has intensified, with up to eight deaths a day. Just as the people mourn for one death, another one follows. What will happen next is a question on everyone's minds.
Funeral processions, ambulances and bystanders have been shot at – their weapon of choice is an AK 47. Their reason: self-defence.
The killings have caused even more people to pour out on the streets to protest, because the justice mechanism is not in place.
Certain sections of the local press have reported that in the last month, 1,400 people, mostly teens, have been booked under draconian acts that the state uses as an instrument of suppression. Kashmir does not have juvenile homes, so the minors share cells with hardened criminals far away from home.
Nightmares follow them upon release, a lawyer tells me.
Misunderstanding Kashmir
For journalists, to confirm a death and report it is tricky. The Police Control Room rarely shares information. The authorities block the cellular phone signals of the area where the killing has taken place. The government has banned SMS service for the last two months. Busy doctors in hospitals, who have their hands full, help us confirm the killing. Law enforcement authorities withhold information, fearing a backlash.
On a recent trip to a village where a young protester had been shot, we managed to accompany his body from a city hospital. As the car swerved to avoid rocks put up by protesters on the road to south Kashmir's Pampore, we did our best to try and keep up with the ambulance that was carrying the body of 24-year-old Rayees Ahmad, who had been shot by police and CRPF during protests. At that point, we were unaware of the fact that 19-year-old Nayeem Shah, shot in the same protest, had succumbed to his injuries.
Groups of young boys, with their faces covered, guided our three-car convoy to the hometown of the deceased. In the ambulance, Rayees's friends wailed from the back of the vehicle, screaming to the pedestrians that his death must not be forgotten.
Indian media attributes this stone-throwing to Pakistan and the militant Islamist group Lashkar-e-Toiba. My compatriots, because of this propaganda, have always misunderstood Kashmir
Protestors at night in Srinagar
We entered the town to find streets lined with wailing women and angry men waiting to receive his corpse. Young boys reached out to walk with Rayees on their shoulders for one last time. The town rallied around them, chanting pro-freedom and anti-India slogans.
As helplessness turned to rage, residents threw stones and burnt tyres to vent their sadness at the death. Indian media attributes this stone-throwing to Pakistan and the militant Islamist group Lashkar-e-Toiba. My compatriots, because of this propaganda, have always misunderstood Kashmir.
Anticipating retaliation by the forces, we decided to turn back before the violence trapped us. We changed our route as we heard reports of the forces firing on an ambulance. We finally made it out of the picturesque village and into the city, bearing witness to yet another day of grief. Read more of this post
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STEALING AMERICA'S FREEDOMS LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT…
By Gordon Duff
It's 2010 and a few members of congress have noted that we have a corruption problem in Afghanistan. Over a period of 9 years. $2.4 trillion dollars has been stolen with a dozen enquiries, dozens of reports, audits, all saying the same thing. The "war on terror" was more "pickpocketing" and not so much "Osama bin Waldo." It's 2010 and reports are trickling in that, just maybe, terrorist mastermind Osama has been dead for years and years. More reports tell us, finally, that he never ran a terror organization at all. For years, all those threats from a dead man. What a pack of fools we are.
Remember Pat Tillman, the brave soldier, great athlete and hero? The press told us he was killed by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Then the rumors came out that it was "friendly fire." Now we know the truth or do we? There is a movie about Tillman coming out. How much will it tell? Tillman, not just an athlete but a very bright guy, had picked up on the fact that Afghanistan was a total scam and was talking about it. The administration ordered Tillman's murder. Pat Tillman was executed. Enough high ranking members of the Bush administration and the military were involved in the cover up that, in any real democracy, not only jails would be filling but the execution dock as well. Murder is a capitol crime. Those involved in Tillman's murder should be executed, no matter who they are. We are talking about every conspirator and members of the press who helped "spin" the tale.
Anybody know who Dr. David Kelly was? American papers said he killed himself because he was publicly attacked by Prime Minister Tony Blair who was upset because one of the world's best known weapons scientists had gone to the press saying that Blair was a traitor for pushing the illegal invasion of Iraq. Kelly knew Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction and was aware that Blair was lying to the public.
Dr. David Kelly was murdered. This was a government "hit." The proof of the crime is beyond question. Now, years later, the British press is demanding arrests. If they get those responsible, chances are many will be the most powerful leaders of the last Administration. General Colin Powell went before the United Nations with a pack of humiliating lies, shaming himself and the United States. What could make a wonderful man like General Powell, a West Point graduate, lie like a dog? If you are waiting for a Sunday Morning talk show to have Powell on and ask him about this, you will die of old age first.
Our next joke is Iran. One of our writers, Bob Nichols, an expert on nuclear weapons design from one of those government top secret facilities, keeps telling me that Iran has no nuclear weapons program. He says the only way they could enrich uranium is using a laser system that has never been mentioned. There is absolutely no evidence they have one of those but there is vast evidence that they systems they do have could never make a nuke in a million years.
He also says the same about North Korea.
With America's top secret nuke sniffers detecting that North Korea's lone nuke was bought, not built, Nichol's theory is proven correct. With Brits falling all over themselves with shipping receipts, loading crane designs and bomb cradle drawings on this North Korean rogue nuke, the picture is pretty clear.
Someone wanted North Korea to look like a nuclear threat when they really weren't one. North Korea is a donkey driven third world rathole and no more than that. End of story.
Another major issue being buried by the news is that our terrorists we had been capturing for years have mostly turned out to be the wrong people. By mostly, 75% are proven the wrong people and maybe 75% of the other may be also.
This means that if we catch a thousand terrorists, 5 of them are real and the rest are jailed and tortured for years by mistake.
Funny thing, years ago we used to talk about reasons for terrorism. At first it was bin Laden after America because we had bases in Saudi Arabia and had "defamed" their religious shrines. This was all totally made up, never happened.
Now we make excuses because people fight back after we bomb or invade them. By these standards, we are terrorists and they are freedom fighters.
The only country that bin Laden or any of the others were angry at in the first place was Israel, not the United States. With only Muslims fighting beside our own troops, not one Israeli is helping defend America, we have to list America's biggest ally as Pakistan. They are a nuclear power, have a competent million man army and take orders like "good little soldiers."
Israel does little but get us into trouble and they don't have a single man in the field anywhere Americans are fighting, not on our side anyway. Read more of this post
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Indian company controls dam on Kabul River, tens of dams control flow of Kashmir water into Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan
Flood gates of Afghan Sarobi Dam, Indian Baglihar Dam were opened to drown Pakistani plains
Two US allies, the puppet regime in Kabul and the 'strategic ally' in New Delhi, declare water war on Pakistan
The tragedy one again raises question marks on the US double game against Pakistan in the region
Melting glaciers have nothing to do with this tragedy; it also doesn't explain why Kabul river surged
It's not as if the clouds dodged borders and focused on Pakistan only. Pakistan's water flows from Indian-occupied Kashmir and from US-occupied Afghanistan. A natural deluge should have shown some spillover effect into Indian and Afghan regions adjoining Pakistan. It is interesting that a second and a third wave of floods is expected in Pakistan when there's no rain to justify it. Where is the water coming from? Here's a perspective by Mr. Zaid Hamid, a security analyst at BrassTacks, and Ms. Gulpari Mehsud, a researcher at PakNationalists.com.
By ZAID HAMID & GULPARI MEHSUD
WWW.PAKNATIONALISTS.COM
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—There is a very sinister aspect to the floods in Pakistan that no one is discussing in the media. While there were rains and flooding in some rivers of the country, the size, scale and the gush of water suddenly pumped into these rivers defies logic. This is especially true considering that rains have slowed down since the breakout of the floods on 29 July.
It is two weeks since the rains stopped but water continues to rise in the rivers Indus and Chenab. There was no flooding in India or in Afghanistan. Never before have rivers in all the provinces of Pakistan flooded at the same time without a similar act affecting the upstream, the source. While some parts of the country, like some areas of Khyber Pakhtun Khwa saw flooding in 1929, the simultaneous floods covering all of Pakistan and in all of the rivers flowing in from Afghanistan and Indian-occupied Kashmir is something truly unprecedented.
The speed and quantity of the gushing water and the short span of time in which it picked momentum preclude the possibility that melting glaciers are solely responsible for the floods.
There is no evidence that suggests that glaciers decided to melt at a faster speed just in time for the heavy monsoon rains.
There is every likelihood that what we are seeing today is that the Indians and the US-backed regime in Kabul are using water as a weapon for the first time to deluge Pakistan. There is no doubt about it.
From an initial look at the data, it seems that a natural spill of heavy rain was exploited by releasing water reservoirs in Indian-occupied Kashmir and on river Kabul. Let's remember that the Met Office in Pakistan had already forecast heavy rains almost ten days before the first downpour. Different people received this news in different ways. Pakistani politicians, inept and incompetent as usual, slept over it. The anti-Pakistan terrorists based on Afghan soil and supported by several countries used this information to exacerbate terror against Pakistani citizens in the southwestern province of Balochistan, knowing that the State machinery would be distracted.
Interestingly, even when it comes to water, it is Indians who are sitting to the left and right of Pakistan's borders and controlling it's flow. The dam on Kabul river is handled by Indian personnel, while tens of dams choke Pakistan from the side of occupied Kashmir.
RIVER KABUL
In February, the Obama administration organized a meeting for senior government officials in Kabul and Islamabad who handle agricultural issues. The meeting was strangely held in Doha, Qatar, on US request. The agenda was to force the Pakistanis to grant agricultural concessions to the US-propped government in Kabul, without Pakistan getting anything in return.
But in the meeting, Mr. Zahoor Malik, a senior Pakistani bureaucrat leading the Pakistani delegation, raised the issue of an Indian company with close links to the Indian government building a dam on river Kabul near the border with Pakistan. It is not clear what the Americans and Karzai's officials had to say about this. There is a track record, however, that the incumbent pro-US government in Islamabad has often swept such issues under the carpet in order not to jeopardize Washington's support for the Zardari government.
All major rivers flowing into Pakistan including the Indus are blocked by Indian-built dams.
US and British officials often defend India and dismiss Pakistani concerns as 'conspiracy theories.' Some Pakistani analysts accuse elements within US government and intelligence of using Afghan soil against Pakistan.
But imagine this: India, a country that faces a debilitating conflict over Kashmir with Pakistan, goes to build tens of small and medium sized dams on all the rivers flowing down to Pakistan, and everything is supposed to work out smoothly? Not possible, even theoretically. But luckily Indian actions on the ground more than strengthen Pakistani concerns.
After the first wave of floods, the other rivers were flowing normally and no extraordinary rains followed. But suddenly Chenab and Indus Rivers overflowed and the flow picked up speed, turning into a flood. India's Baghliar Dam in occupied Kashmir opened its flood gates to cause a tragedy in the plains of Pakistan [Sindh and Punjab]. While Sarobi Dam – the Indian-maintained dam near Kabul – controls the flow of Kabul River entering Pakistan. The same thing happened here. Monsoons did not lash Afghanistan and there was no flooding there of any magnitude. But again, strangely, water flowing from river Kabul into Pakistan dramatically picked up speed as water levels increased turning into a flood. The speed with which this transformation occurred could have happened only because of one of two reasons: massive rains in Afghanistan or because Sarobi Dam released large amounts of water over a sustainable period of time.
PAKISTANI POLITICIANS
ANP, a US-allied party with strong links to Kabul and New Delhi and ruling the Pakistani northwestern province, has always opposed the construction of the Kalabagh Dam which would have saved thousands of lives and property had it been there. The ANP has argued that building the dam would drown the city of Nowshehra. Ironically, ANP's lie was exposed when not only Nowshehra but also Charsadda drowned without the Kalabagh Dam being there and thanks to the artificial floods created in Kabul River by ANP's Indian and Afghan patrons. Read more of this post
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Srinagar, August 15 (KMS): Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control and the world over are observing the Indian Independence Day, today, as Black Day to convey to the world that the people of Kashmir continue to be deprived of their birth right to self-determination.
Call for the observance of the Black Day has been given by the APHC Chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani. Complete shutdown is being observed in the occupied territory with all shops, business establishments and educational institutions are closed while traffic is off the road.
The occupation authorities have made unprecedented arrangements to thwart anti-India protest demonstrations on the day imposing curfew in several cities and towns.
A shoe was thrown at Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah during the Independence Day function by a Policeman but it missed him.
Abdullah later diluted the incident saying" Throw shoes, not stones."
Black flags were shown to the chief minister and slogans of "We Want Freedom" rented Srinagar as Kashmir continued to remain on the boil.
The shoe thrower, a suspended head constable according to police, was whisked away by security personnel.
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India Expected To Raise Tension With Pakistan During Commonwealth Games
Security analysts who reviewed India's record fear New Delhi might use terrorism at Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010 to divert international media's attention away from deeply embarrassing preparations for the event
In this picture: Indian women work at a construction project in front of the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi, India. Picture: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images
By ANANT SHETH in New Delhi, Gulpari Mehsud in Islamabad
PakNationalists.com
Sunday, 15 August 2010.
NEW DELHI, India—Traffic jams, shoddy game venues and a lousy organization are expected to create an international embarrassment for India in the Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010 in October. Already the media coverage is giving Indian officials sleepless nights, with less-than-inspiring headlines such asCommonwealth Games: Safety fears grow amid chaos, Organizers of India's Commonwealth Games Face Corruption Allegations and Commonwealth Games: Safety fears grow amid chaos.
But the worst could be yet to come: a terrorist attack on New Delhi killing international athletes carried out by any one of the one hundred deadly terror groups active in India. These groups fuel fourteen violent insurgencies that receive little coverage in the international media. Topping the list is the Naxalite insurgency that covers most of northeastern India.
This is to say nothing of the freedom movement in disputed Kashmir where angry Kashmiris are breathing down on New Delhi because of extrajudicial killings and mass rapes by the Indian army. Security analysts say that experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan indicate there is bound to be blowback from an angry suppressed population.
Diplomats from New Zealand have already warned their government about the chances of a terror attack targeting the games.
Already in February this year a German bakery frequented by tourists was bombed killing seventeen people, including four foreigners. No one claimed responsibility but the location could mean one of the northeastern Indian militant groups might have been involved.
Blame It On Pakistan
But even if terrorism doesn't strike New Delhi, there are reports Indian officials are considering ideas to divert the attention of Indian and international media away from the shabby preparations during the October 4-14 event.
Many Pakistani analysts are worried that New Delhi might resort to false flag operations or a mock terror threat to sidetrack media attention from the mess surrounding the games. In all probability, India could use one of the many Hindu terror groups to mount attacks that would be blamed on Pakistan. India has seen a mushrooming of Hindu terror groups over the past decade.
There are at least two recent precedents where India falsely accused Pakistan for terror acts that Indian investigators discovered later were committed by Hindu terrorists.
In both cases, serving Indian military intelligence officers were found directly involved in carrying out the bombings. The purpose was simple: To implicate Pakistan and its intelligence agencies and build international pressure to force Islamabad into conceding the disputed territory of Kashmir.
For example, an Irish newspaper published this report, India uncovers Hindu terror group that carried out bombings blamed on Islamists . A Hindu extremist and a serving Indian Army officer were arrested and charged with planting bombs in public places that were blamed on Pakistan. That was November 2008.
In Spring 2007, a peace train called Samjota Express carrying Pakistani visitors to India as part of peace dialogue was blown up causing a fire that burned 59 Pakistanis alive. The Indian government accused Pakistan's ISI of involvement. It said Pakistan's military wanted to derail Pakistan-India peace talks. A year later three serving Indian military intelligence officers were arrested for planning and executing the attack. The Indian investigator who uncovered the nexus between Indian intelligence and Hindu terror groups was the first casualty of the 2008 Mumbai attacks. He was eliminated by a professional sniper far away from the Taj hotel but was his death was blamed on the terrorists who stormed that building. Read more of this post
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The world wants to think the best about India. So we turn our back on Kashmir | Telegraph
Kashmiris run for cover as Indian paramilitary soldiers fire teargas shells (Photo: AP)
Dean Nelson | Telegraph
Think of India and it's all Gandhian saintliness, Ravi Shankar's sitar, a whiff of incense and the feel-good beats of Bollywood Bhangra. These memories, sounds and smells conjure images of the world's largest democracy, where tolerance and spirituality supposedly reign over realpolitik.
We don't think of it as a country whose troops are jailing opposition leaders or placing them under house arrest, denying people the right to gather in prayer, beating children to death, or massacring stone-throwing protesters. The words "shoot to kill" are a grim relic from our own recent past, and certainly nothing we ever associate with India.
That's why India is the world's first "soft superpower". It can barely do wrong for doing right, and if it does we don't really want to know. As David Cameron made perfectly clear during his recent visit, we're interested in India as the world's second fastest-growing economy and by its contribution to the war on terrorism, but not how it treats its own people.
So despite the fact that 50 mainly young men and teenagers have either been shot or beaten to death in the last eight weeks in Kashmir; the two main separatist leaders have been jailed or placed under house arrest; that the Kashmir Valley has been locked down and the streets of Srinagar occupied by swaggering Indian troops who threaten housewives with big sticks, our leaders have remained completely silent.
Had these incidents been in Taliban-controlled parts of Afghanistan, or had the victims been Tibetans revolting against Chinese rule, we would have called it a massacre. But India's great "soft power" is that the world wants to think the best of it.
To that end, our leaders overlooked the 53 young men and teenagers who were treated for bullet wounds in just one hospital in Kashmir's state capital, Srinagar, last week. They had been shot either for throwing stones during protests against killings by Indian security forces in Kashmir – or for being in the wrong place at the wrong time in their own city.
This present wave of protests began after Indian soldiers shot dead three young Muslim men in the hope of passing them off as Pakistani terrorists and themselves as war heroes. They had lured them with the promise of jobs. A few weeks later a 17-year-old schoolboy was killed when Indian police fired a tear gas canister at his head.
Last week I interviewed Fayaz Ahmad Rah, a Srinagar fruit seller, as he mourned the death of his nine-year-old son, Sameer. Neighbours told me they had seen members of India's paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force beat him to death with sticks and then dump his body in stinging nettles. The CRPF claims he was in fact a protester and that he had been trampled by other demonstrators as they fled a police advance.
Fayaz said his son had been walking through their usually safe tiny back lanes to his uncle's house 100 metres away after stopping to buy sweets. When he washed his son's body for burial, there was a half-chewed toffee still in his mouth, he said.
Over the last eight weeks a round of teenage civilian deaths, protests and more shootings followed by further protests has sucked Kashmir into a bleak vortex. But since it began, not a single member of India's security forces has been shot or killed. It couldn't be a more unequal contest.
Luckily for India, it happened in Kashmir where the words "Muslim", "Pakistan" and "militants" shield what is either bad marksmanship or a shoot to kill policy from scrutiny and criticism.
This decision to look the other way only fuels the anger in Kashmir. From his home where he was being held under house arrest last week, separatist spiritual leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq told me India had turned Kashmir into a "police state" and that British politicians and others were turning their back on it.
He had not been allowed to go to his mosque for more than six weeks, while other separatist Hurriyat leaders were also in jail or under house arrest. In many mosques throughout the state, only men over the age of 50 – regarded as beyond their stone-throwing years – have been allowed to meet to pray.
"It's a direct interference in our religious affairs, a situation in which in a muslim state, if we're not allowed to pray, the Muftis will say we have to call a war on the state," he said. Read more of this post
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Tiff continues: India Gets Nowhere
With Iran on Afghanistan or anything else; India makes no headway!
By Moin Ansari
Strategy and long term policy matters are discussed at the Presidential, and Prime Minister's level. They are never discussed at the Deputy Foreign Minister level. The Bharati press is portraying Deputy Foreign Minister level talks as policy or strategy talks. The minister's statements suggest that despite India's attempts, Iran is a long way from supporting India. The LNG project put on ice by Tehran after the Indo-Israeli deals has not been resurrected.
Even these low level Indo-Iran talks failed. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad Ali Fathollahi drove the final nail in the coffin, when he tersely informed his hosts that the Afghan Constitution would be the "basis and pillar for any action,". In other words be emphasized the unity of Afghanistan and what the Afghan Jirga has already proposed–and "Pan Afghan solution" based upon talks with the Afghan National Resistance (aka Taliban Haqqanirs, Hikmatyar etc.). As if this wasn't enough Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister clearly told the Bharatis that "in our regional strategy we believe in cooperation with Pakistan."
This is what the Times of India says. Even as Fathollahi claimed that India and Iran had "close viewpoints" on Afghanistan, he said enough to suggest that the two nations may not be on the same page over the issue. "We are suspicious about the motive behind what has been revealed by Wikileaks because the issues raised are not new ones. We believe there are special objectives behind this leakage which has come at a time when things in Afghanistan are moving towards more stability and more constructive role for the Afghan government," Fathollahi said.
To confirm our reporting, The Indian Daily Telegraph reports:
"But Iran does not share India's concern that the Pakistani army and ISI might foist themselves on Afghanistan once the international security forces leave the region by 2014. Unlike New Delhi, Tehran wants the forces to leave Afghanistan as soon as possible.
However, the Iranian foreign minister said his government considered Pakistan an integral constituent of any regional strategy, including on Afghanistan, and has always believed in co-operating with Islamabad."
The minister was asked specifically about ISI links with Taliban as brought out by the Wikileaks documents. When asked about Pakistan's role in Afghanistan, the minister said only Pakistan could talk about that and "Iran always believes in cooperation with Pakistan".
The minister's remarks, coupled with Iran's constant demand for immediate withdrawal of international troops from the region, are a complete antithesis of India's stand on Afghanistan. One of the reasons for India stepping up engagement with Iran in the recent past has been the fact that, like India, Tehran too has shunned the idea of good Taliban.
"The heavy presence of military can't be a solution to the problem. The Afghanistan government should be trusted and we must believe in its capabilities," Fathollahi said. Times of India.
There has been much speculation about Chahbahar and Bharati desires to build a land link to Afghanistan via Iran. Mr. Fathollahi seemed to have have poured water on the Bharati wishes by stating in clear terms that this not possible under the present circumstances and this remains only a possibility—"In future there will be fundamental developments regarding the position of Chabar," .
The Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister also threw cold water on resurrecting the Northern Alliance or dividing Afghanistan–"Northern Alliance is not separated from other parts of Afghanistan". Read more of this post
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FALSE FLAG NUKE ATTACK ON U.S. JUSTIFIED…."KING'S TORAH"
ISRAEL TO USE IRANIAN AND PAKISTANI DUPES IN DIRTY NUKE PLOY
This week, the last piece fell into place. The National Research Council, part of the National Academy of Science, heavy on politics and light on science, announced that America was no longer able to track nukes threatening our shores. Their report titled Nuclear Forensics: A Capability at Risk, released last week, outlines the details of a secret study requested by the Departments of Homeland Security, Defense and Energy, specifically the National Nuclear Security Administration. The gist of the story is easy, if a nuke goes off in America, dirty nuke in Times Square, one in a container at a port, anywhere, America won't be able to tell who made it. Not a word of the report is true. It is wild speculation and disinformation written in broad language with no hard science, written for a reason.
A powerful group within the United States, one with influence over the press and the ability to derail an investigation as was done with 9/11, has been "tasked" with laying the groundwork for a terrorist attack on America, one using nuclear material. This report, unneeded, and highly inaccurate was printed in the New York Times to provide "cover." It isn't just this report, the pieces are falling together around the world. The Wiki-Leaks story, pre staging Pakistan's ISI as a terrorist organization, a story built out of almost no information but fleshed out with massive speculation by "operatives" in the press is part of the process.
The Defense Authorization Act of 2006 allows, "in case of a terrorist attack" for the president to declare martial law, disband congress and rule by executive decree. With the suspension of habeas corpus by the Military Commissions act, also in 2006, America as we know it officially comes to an end the second a weapon of mass destruction in used. Only then will America learn who has been pulling the strings all along, who is scripting Wolf Blitzer and Glen Beck.
British Prime Minister David Cameron's attacks on Pakistan, made from New Delhi last week, seen by most as a serious political blunder, are part of the narrative. We will get to more background on a younger David Cameron later.
Another piece of the puzzle involved a federal task force, Defense, Energy, FBI, descending on a warehouse in Greenfield, Indiana under the guise of a "records search." This "Waco style" assault on a facility storing furniture for college dorm rooms was much more than it seemed. No case, criminal or civil, provided any underlying reason for the search.
Further, the bizarre tale of rumored missing nukes, illegally transported on a B-52 from Minot AFB to Barksdale AFB in Louisiana, a major Defense Department scandal, is meant to create, not only fear and doubt, but "plausible deniability" if a weapon is exploded inside the US. These, however, are not, by far, the only missing nuclear weapons America has to fear as we will get into later.
Two recent attacks, the "Times Square Fizzler" and the Detroit "Crotch Bomber" were both amateurish affairs except for a couple of things. Both perpetrators had strong ties to Israeli organizations, one actually employed by an Israeli-American financial firm, the other the son of Israel's primary partner in their defense industry complex in Nigeria. None of this was reported or investigated once discovered. It was shoved under the rug immediately. When cursory investigations of both suspects showed travel histories only possible with significant help from an intelligence agency, both stories disappeared from the news entirely. It is as though everyone involved vanished from the face of the earth like the second person arrested in Detroit or the "well dressed Indian" who aided the "Crotch Bomber" onto the plane in Amsterdam.
LEGAL JUSTIFICATION FOR ATTACKS ON GENTILES
Conservative interpretations of Jewish law, currently being used to justify resettlement of Palestinians and even total removal of all non-Jews from greater Palestine and adjacent areas have long been used to justify acts such as the attack on the USS Liberty, bombings of US facilities in Egypt and, less openly, "false flag" terror attacks attributed to Muslims but performed by Israeli security forces. Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira and Rabbi Yosef Elitzur, seen as the ethical conscience behind the Netanyahu government have taken the following position as reported by Jonathan Cook:
THE KING'S TORAH, ISRAELI "BEST SELLER" JUSTIFIES TERROR
"In the 230-page book, Shapira and his co-author, Rabbi Yosef Elitzur (The King's Torah,currently Israel's best selling book) argue that Jewish law permits the killing of non-Jews in a wide variety of circumstances. They write that Jews have the right to kill Gentiles in any situation in which "a non-Jew's presence endangers Jewish lives" even if the Gentile is "not at all guilty for the situation that has been created".
The book sanctions the killing of non-Jewish children and babies: "There is justification for killing babies if it is clear that they will grow up to harm us, and in such a situation they may be harmed deliberately, and not only during combat with adults."
The rabbis suggest that harming the children of non-Jewish leaders is justified if it is likely to bring pressure to bear on them to change policy. The authors also advocate committing "cruel deeds to create the proper balance of terror" and treating all members of an "enemy nation" as targets for retaliation, even if they are not directly participating in hostile activities." (false flag terrorism)
This rationale allows deadly force to be used against Christians if their deaths advance the cause of Israeli security even if only through economic profit. Thus, if an attack such as 9/11 were to lead to America fighting wars against enemies of Israel or if, as in Afghanistan, Israeli companies were to profit from weapons or narcotics sales, any deaths of gentiles, no matter how innocent, would be justified by Jewish law as stated in the Torah.
Were an attack on the United States to bring that country to war against Iran, even if that attack were perpetrated by Israelis, it would be legal according to Israeli law, the same law being relied upon for justice in the attack on the Mavi Marmara.
More often however, attacks on Israel itself are believed to have been staged, not only to instill the population with fear and rage but to continue the "holocaust" tradition of Jewish victimhood as a justification for policies that have led to 62 vetoes in the United Nations by the US, vetoes against sanctions imposed against Israel for violations of international law.
We expect increased attacks on Israel, quickly tied to Hezbollah and Iran, attacks that will either involve no casualties or the deaths of either foreign workers or Russian emigres. This pattern has been used repeatedly, such as the March 18 "attack" killing a lone Thai "guest" worker time to coincide with the visit of the European Union's high commissioner for security, Catherine Ashton, a critic of Israel's apartheid policy in Gaza.
On a side note, 400 children of "guest workers" are being expelled from Israel this week. Eventually all will be expelled, guilty of destroying "the Jewish character" through lack of "racial purity."
When the US and Israel released Sharam Amiri, alleged Iranian nuclear scientist, we learned one thing. There is an inventory of Muslims, perhaps arrested, perhaps kidnapped, maybe lured into custody, rendition, imprisonment or "cold storage," whatever you want to call it. Each one has an elaborate "legend" built around them, describing them as a "lone gunman" or "terrorist mastermind." This is the group that will supply the names and photographs we will see after the next terror attack.
As Wayne Madsen described to us this week, this was the process the CIA and Mossad used to create Osama bin Laden from nothing. The organization we know of as Al Qaeda is, in itself, a false creation, an invention initially to serve as terrorist when we needed them and as enemies when we needed them too:
"Press clips gathered by the CIA and discovered in the National Archives' stored CIA files point to an agency keenly interested in any leaks about the highly-classified CIA-Mossad program to establish Osama Bin Laden and the most radical elements of the Afghan Mujahidin as the primary leaders of the anti-Soviet rebels in the 1980s.
WMR [Wayne Madsen Report] has pored through the CIA files and a complicated picture emerges of America's and Israel's top intelligence agencies, in cahoots with Saudi Arabia, establishing financial links and carve out intelligence programs to provide manpower and financial support to Bin Laden and his allies in Afghanistan. It was these very elements that later created the so-called "Al Qaeda," which the late British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook described as nothing more than a "database" of CIA front organizations, financial supporters, and field operatives. However, one component omitted by Cook in the Al Qaeda construct is the Israeli participation."
A pattern of evidence is emerging that "cold storage" dupes and CIA/Mossad nurtured organizations may have had a hand in, not only the Mumbai attacks but the London and Madrid bombings as well. Additional trails are leading to attacks on American troops inside Iraq and Afghanistan and against security forces inside Pakistan, particularly against Pakistan's ISI, primary target of press stories on the recent Wiki-Leak. Read more of this post
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KASHMIR – The Dispute That Continues to Rock South Asia
By Shahid R. Siddiqi
A cartoon published in an American newspaper in 2002 showed former president George Bush sitting behind his desk in the Oval Office, utterly confused by a news report he was reading about India and Pakistan going to war over Kashmir. "But why are the two countries fighting over a sweater," he asked Dick Cheney who stood by with his usual sly smile on his face.
Besides reflecting the intellectual capacity of the American president of the time, the cartoon was a realistic portrayal of the understanding that American leaders have generally shown of this longstanding dispute between Pakistan and India.
The unresolved Kashmir conflict has rocked South Asia for six decades. It has created an environment of distrust and acrimony, forced the people to sink into poverty with bulk of the resources consumed by the war machines and claimed lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians as well as soldiers who died in the three wars fought between India and Pakistan. India, whose forcible occupation of Kashmir in 1947 created the conflict, refuses to settle it. The other stake holders, the Kashmiri people and Pakistan, insist on a fair solution. The international community including the US and the United Nations played little or no role in diffusing it either. Consequently, the conflict has developed into one of the most intractable problems of international politics that remains a continuing threat to peace of the region.
Indian Brutalities & The International Reaction
India has not hesitated to use brutal force to maintain its hold on Indian occupied Kashmir and suppress revolt. The US, UN and other international organizations failed to take note of grave human rights violations. They failed to provide any specific, actionable proposals for a permanent solution. All they extended were diplomatic courtesies, suggested vague formulas and generalities that are open to multiple interpretations.
Although the US considers South Asia to be a sensitive and strategically important region from its geopolitical, security and economic standpoint and has expressed the desire to see peace prevail, yet it has so far paid only lip service to finding a permanent solution. It would not chastise India for human rights violations, which would have attracted its immediate attention if these were taking place in a country that it had chosen to punish, for fear of displeasing or alienating India which it has aggressively been courting in recent years.
This situation was compounded by the Indian dreams of regional hegemony that led it to dismember Pakistan in 1971 and go on to become a nuclear power, which forced Pakistan to develop its own nuclear deterrent for safeguarding its security.
Consequently, India has consistently and blatantly refused to honor the will of the people, negotiate Kashmir's future status and stop the use of brutal force.
The Conflict Leads To The First Kashmir War
In the wake of the August 1947 partition of British India that brought into existence two sovereign states of the Indian Union and Pakistan, the British left after having midwifed the Kashmir dispute that has since bedeviled peace between the two countries. Essentially, the agreed principle that governed partition was that Muslim majority states to the east and west of British India would form Pakistan, while rest of the subcontinent was to form Indian Union.
Decisions by several Muslim rulers for accession of their states to Pakistan that had Hindu majorities (Hyderabad, Junagadh and Manavadar being cases in point) were rejected on the grounds that a Muslim ruler did not have the right to overrule the will of the Hindu majority population. But the decision of the Hindu Raja of the princely state of Kashmir, which was predominantly a Muslim majority state and should have acceded to Pakistan, was immediately accepted by the British viceroy and the Indian government, despite a popular Kashmiri revolt against his decision. Although an agreement of non-intervention in Kashmir had been signed between India and Pakistan, the new Indian government sent troops into Kashmir at the request of the Hindu ruler to enforce the instrument of accession and forcibly occupy the territory, in disregard of the agreed principle of accession applied elsewhere.
This led to the first Kashmir war in 1947 between India and Pakistan. In 1948 India sought cease fire, taking the issue to the UN Security Council, which passed resolution 47 on 21 April 1948 that imposed an immediate cease-fire along the line of actual control of territory by both parties and called on them to withdraw their troops. It also ruled that "the final disposition of the State of Jammu and Kashmir will be made in accordance with the will of the people expressed through the democratic method of a free and impartial plebiscite conducted under the auspices of the United Nations." The cease fire was enacted in December 1948, with both governments agreeing to hold the plebiscite in areas under their control. Ever since, India has been rejecting all resolutions of the Security Council and the proposals of the UN arbitrators for demilitarization of the region – all of which were accepted by Pakistan.
The Security Council Steps In
Although the resolutions of the Security Council were regarded as the 'documents of reference' for a durable and internationally acceptable solution, no steps were ever taken for their implementation. This was because in technical terms these were not mandatory – not having been based under Chapter VII of the Charter. This allowed India to get away, dashing the false expectations of the Kashmiris as to the possible role of the United Nations as facilitator of a solution to the Kashmir problem.
This injustice to the Kashmiri people was intrinsically linked to the veto privilege of the permanent members of the Security Council and the lack of unanimity between them for enforcement measures according to Articles 41 and 42 of the Charter. Their plight is similar to that of the Palestinians, in whose case also resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973) that call upon Israel to withdraw from occupied Arab territories are not based on Chapter VII and have hence enabled the occupying country, Israel, to ignore them.
That the United Nations Organization follows double standards was clearly visible when it adopted compulsory resolutions in other conflict situations, such as in case of the occupation of Kuwait by Iraq in 1990-1991, where the US – a permanent member, having an interest in the matter, was able to force the hand of other permanent members to do its bidding.
The cease fire line between the Indian and Pakistani sides of Kashmir has since become the Line of Control and continues to be monitored by UN observers. Read more of this post
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REVOLT TV Discovers Its 'Why' Moment
"Mark Twain has a quote, 'the two most important days in a person's life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why'—why you are here on this earth,'" said Detavio Samuels, COO for REVOLT Media & TV. For Samuels, never had that quote resonated more than it did this year. As tumultuous as this year has been, Samuels believes that the network's 'why' moment arrived in 2020. He explained at this year's NAMIC conference last month, "REVOLT TV was born in 2013, seven years ago, but it wasn't until these two global pandemics hit our audience at the same time that we truly discovered our 'why.'" He continued, "When COVID hit and nobody was talking about the difference between the impact on Black and Brown communities and everybody else, REVOLT launched a phenomenal, star-studded, expert panel—State of Emergency—just to talk about what Black and Brown people were going through."
Starting as the new COO at the beginning of June this year, Samuels hit the ground running. "Prior to May, REVOLT had done 0% of social justice content. By the time I stepped foot in the door, this team had pivoted and shifted and we were doing 100% social justice. Social justice became our reason, 'why.'"
Founded in 2013 by Sean Combs, REVOLT is a cable network focused on hip-hop music and culture. But it has bigger goals beyond music. "The bedrock of REVOLT has always been Black ownership and creating content for the culture. Those two things are always at the front of what we do," explained Eboni Williams, a co-host of REVOLT's State of the Culture and host of REVOLT Black News.
The network hasn't had an easy journey. "The key challenge for me is to be a Black business in 2020. The economics are not set up in our favor," Samuels explained. "A good made-for-TV movie might cost a million dollars. Well, you can spend that million dollars and go after 300 million Americans, but when you're a small Black media company, you don't have those same budgets, but the cost of producing the great Black movie is still the same. So regardless if you're going after 350 million Americans or whether you're going after 50 million Americans, the cost to produce that content is the same."
Samuels credits REVOLT's positive relationships with key advertisers, with affiliates like Comcast, as well as with investors, for the network's success. "Unless those people come in and say 'we see the value, we see the need, we see the culture of the moment and we are going to fund those people best capable of telling the stories this audience needs. Unless those people show up for us, we can't do our job."
"When the pandemic hit, we realized we had an upper hand," explained Cherisse McKenzie, head of production at REVOLT Media & TV. Precisely because they lacked the in-house resources of larger networks, REVOLT was already familiar with remote production. "When we were figuring out how to do State of the Culture remote … it was a very easy pivot at first. Now that everybody has moved into this space, and larger networks have moved in, there is tons of new technology that has come on the market that makes the experience even better … but it also has given us some room to be even more creative."
The future looks promising for REVOLT, but Samuels looks beyond the network and into the media ecosystem. "We need the free Black press more than ever before, there's only a handful of [media businesses] specifically that are Black [owned.] You don't get the volume of content produced that this audience needs," said Samuels. "REVOLT has seen that opening, we've seen that space and are committed to filling that gap."
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From the archives: David Bowie – 1. Outside – originally published in "JAM Entertainment"
It has been 20 years since I first reviewed David Bowie's 1. Outside, which first saw official release on Sept. 25, 1995 in the U.K. (I believe it came out the following day in the U.S.). I was pretty critical about the album upon its release, and I have since grown to appreciate it more. It's still not a perfect album, but what was hard for me to swallow was the ornate quality of much of the music, compared to his previous, lesser known album the soundtrack for The BBC television mini-series The Buddha of Suburbia. Released in late 1993 and only the U.K., mostly hardcore Bowie fans heard this album, which neatly bridges Black Tie White Noise, which came out earlier that same year, and 1. Outside.
Buddha was a rapidly produced album (Bowie has said it took him six days to write and record) with the only musicians besides Bowie being multi-instrumentalist Erdal Kizilcay, pianist Mike Garson and, on one song each, Lenny Kravitz and a little known-UK group called 3D Echo. It recalled such high points as 1974's Diamond Dogs, which saw Bowie playing most of the instruments, and 1976's Station To Station, another quickly produced album. It also had instrumental pieces that sounded like the work he did with Brian Eno in Berlin for 1977's Low and "Heroes." The few songs on the album were quirky yet catchy, not unlike the songs off Low. Bowie actually reworked one of the Buddha songs, "Strangers When We Meet," for 1. Outside, and it's still a high point of the album.
The thing about Buddha that stands out from its bookends is how forward moving it feels without the self-consciousness of the other records. The influences of New Jack Swing in the Black Tie and industrial music for 1. Outside, not to mention this reach to bring back Eno for 1. Outside feel ham-fisted by comparison. To top it off, 1. Outside was driven by an ultra-high concept. It was supposed to be the first album of a trilogy that Bowie never completed (hence the "1."). It also was meant as a testament to the turn of the millennium that looked back to the turn of the 20th century. When I wrote the review for 1. Outside, I happened to have been working on an independent study in college focused on late 1910s Italian Futurism, and some references in the album made an allusion to the art movement, which seemed perfect to kick off my review.
All these years later, I think it's a better album than I originally gave it credit for. Many of the songs are counter-intuitively constructed, defying pop music conventions. They needed many repeat listens to grow accustomed to. In those days, music critics were more often than not given cassettes to review albums. I still have my copy. It was not easy to go back and forth and give particular tracks or moments closer listens with a tape, as opposed to the mp3s we get now.
These songs are complex and the album is one of Bowie's most conceptual works in a long time. These tracks were also created organically during jam sessions among the musicians. There was also much hype about Bowie's reunion with Eno, who worked with Bowie and the band in the studio, even co-writing some of the songs, like he did on those important albums Bowie released in the late '70s. Just a few years prior to 1. Outside's release those albums had been reissued by Rykodisc, and the hype, as always, was that Bowie collaborated with Eno on them. Eno's name was as big as Bowie's on the promo material (note the cover art of the promo-only CD sampler for their reissue above).
There are many factors that cloud our perceptions as critics. We try to absorb the art in a personal vacuum, but history, personal experience, maturity and more often slip through the filter. The fact is, I was still a college undergrad when I wrote the review below, and I feel I short-changed some credit to the genius of Bowie at the time. Though much older than when he broke barriers in the '70s, from Ziggy Stardust to the Eno trilogy, he continued to plow new creative ground in the 1990s, and it was a challenge to absorb such an experimental and progressive album as 1. Outside after Black Tie White Noise and Buddha of Suburbia, not to mention the end of the straight-forward rock 'n' roll side project Tin Machine.
Below you will find my original thoughts on the album. With hindsight, I would raise the rating by a whole additional star, as I have grown to appreciate the album much more since its release.
DAVID BOWIE – OUTSIDE
Virgin: * * * (out of 5)
by HANS MORGENSTERN
Filippo Marinetti wrote the first Futurist manifesto in 1909, telling us to never look back. He preached the importance of war as a cleanser and called for the destruction of all libraries and museums. Through this campaign the futurists would allow for the creation of art in its purest form, uninhibited and uninspired by the past, an immaculate representation of the current spirit of the times.
Outside, David Bowie's first concept album since 1974's Diamond Dogs, explores art gone to the extreme in the not-so-distant future. It's December 31, 1999, and self-mutilating performance art, like Chris Burden's nude crucifixion on the top of a Volkswagen van, has become passe. In a twisted move to take shocking performance art to another level, someone has decided to dismember a 14-year-old girl and "creatively" put her body parts back together, leaving "the work" at The Museum of Modern Parts.
Outside's story is hard to decipher as it is the first part in a trilogy that will make up the complete diaries of Nathan Adler by 1999. All the listener really gets is the murder of Baby Grace Blue under investigation by the art-crime detective/professor Nathan Adler and a list of suspects that could include a "tyrannical" futurist suffering a mid-life crisis and the man who fell back to earth, Major Tom.
As far as the musical pacing goes, the album takes awhile to get to any outstanding tracks. The first real interesting song, both lyrically and musically, is the sixth track, "Hallo Spaceboy," sprinkled with subtle references to Major Tom, Bowie's subject in 1969's "Space Oddity" and 1980's "Ashes to Ashes." The music, co-written by Brian Eno, deftly connotes a rocket tearing through the Earth's atmosphere as if Major Tom might actually be plunging back to Earth. The stomping booms of Sterling Campbell's drum kit seem to echo off electronic walls of murmuring voices from ground control as Reeves Gabrels' angular guitar riffing melts into saxophone-like honks.
Throughout Outside the production by Bowie and Eno has a futuristic metallic shine. The opening track, "Leon Takes Us Outside," starts with a bunch of murmurs lost in an ambient wash of noise and then bursts into "Outside," a cut that features each instrument gleaming with its own sound. The scarcity of reverb makes each string on Bowie's acoustic guitar ring with its own separate note.
Besides slick production, Bowie and Eno, muffle the instruments on some tracks to get a dirty, industrial sound that seems influenced by Nine Inch Nail's Downward Spiral. "The Hearts Filthy Lesson" buzzes with NIN influences, but with Bowie's voice mixed so high above the murmuring instruments, the song makes for a weak industrial experience.
The music is at its best when its subtle and angular, coming at you with strange constructions that make for surprising listens. It makes perfect sense that Gabrels and pianist Mike Garson slip into a ska-like jam toward the end of the pounding "Hallo Spaceboy."
Bowie and Eno worked together in the late '70s, one of Bowie's most prolific periods spawning the albums Low, "Heroes" and Lodger. They threw a lot of pop conventions out the window and created an avant-garde pop styling. They use this styling in Outside to reflect Bowie's theme of art struggling to be creative. Bowie echoes the feelings toward 1920's modernism, the parent of futurism, in lines like "There is no hell" and "We're swimming in a sea of sham" in "The Motel."
With Outside, Bowie sometimes falls through the trap doors of creating something new for the sake of creating something new, leaving the listener wondering if this album isn't all a sham. One has to sit through about half an album's worth of failed attempts at creativity that sound either like rip-offs or dull failures to get to anything ground-breaking. Overall, songs like "We Prick You" and "I Have Not Been To Oxford Town" are worth the tedium.
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V informatice je kontext, také kontext úlohy, minimální množství údajů (dat) používaný úlohou (procesem nebo vláknem), které se musí uchovat – uložit, aby bylo možné zpracování úlohy přerušit a později pokračovat ze stejného místa, kde bylo zpracování úlohy přerušeno.

Koncept kontextu nabývá na významu v případě přerušitelných (preemptivních) úloh, kdy po přerušení procesor – také centrální procesorová jednotka (anglicky central processing unit; CPU) – uloží – také změní, neboli přepne – kontext, a pokračuje v obsluze rutiny obsluhy přerušení. Čím je tedy kontext menší, tím menší je také reakční čas – latence.

Kontextová data – údaje patřící do kontextu úlohy, můžou být uložena v registrech procesoru, v paměti RAM používané úlohou, nebo v řídicích registrech používaných některými operačními systémy pro správu (řízení) úlohy, viz Unix.

Datové úložiště (soubory používané úlohou) se v případě přepnutí (změny) kontextu úlohy za její kontextová data nepovažují, přestože se pro některé případy ukládat můžou, jako je tomu v případě použití tzv. kontrolního bodu (anglicky checkpointing).

Typy kontextu
V počítačových jazycích jako je C# existuje koncept tzv. zabezpečného kontextu (anglicky safe/secure context). Například, je-li potřeba mít uvnitř struktury pole, lze ho do ní od verze 2.0 přidat, ale pouze v tzv. nezabezpečném kontextu (anglicky unsafe/unsecure context):struct ParameterRepresentation
{
    char target;
    char taskStart;
    char taskType;
    fixed byte traceValues[m_MAX_BYTES];
};Klíčové slovo fixed zabraňuje tomu, aby garbage collector tuto proměnnou přemístil. Přístup k poli je podobný jako v C++, tedy pomocí aritmetiky ukazatelů, také ukazatelová aritmetika (anglicky pointer arithmetic), kdy lze k jednotlivým prvkům daného pole přistupovat přes jeho indexy.

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Q: Define the polynomial ring $\Bbb Q[c][x]$.Find the $c$ values where $x^2 + x + c + 1$ has a double root. Sage question:
Define the polynomial ring $\Bbb Q[c][x]$.Find the $c$ values where $x^2 + x + c + 1$ has a double root.
Sage code I have used.
K.<c>=QQ['c']

R.<x>=K[]

f=x^2+x+c+1

f

How do I find the code for the $c$ values where $x^2 + x + c + 1$ has a double root. Also, can you give some examples so that I can construct some programming code in sage?

A: The (general) discriminant of a polynomial is the resultant of the polynomial with its derivative. It tells you if there are common factors between them, that is the case if and only if it is zero. Common factors here indicate (irreducible) factors of the polynomial with a non-trivial multiplicity.
In https://sagecell.sagemath.org/ this works
K.<c>=QQ['c']
R.<x>=K[]
f=x^2+x+c+1
d=f.discriminant(); print d;
d.roots()

with the output
-4*c - 3
[(-3/4, 1)]

Note that the roots() output is a list of pairs of root and multiplicity. This approach only works if there are solutions c that are in the basis field, here $\Bbb Q$. In other cases, you can proceed to find irreducible factors of the discriminant and from there get some semi-numeric representations of the roots as algebraic numbers (enclosing intervals, Thom sign sequences), or determine numerical approximations of the roots.

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<?php

namespace Tests\Unit\Services;

use Tests\TestCase;
use \Mockery as m;
use App\Services\Locker;

class LockerTest extends TestCase
{
    public function testStore()
    {
        $storesFiles = m::mock('FileStorer');
        $locker = new Locker($storesFiles);
        $canBeStored = m::mock('canBeStored');
        $fileDescription = [];
        $canBeStored->shouldReceive('getFileDescription')->once()->andReturn($fileDescription);
        $storesFiles->shouldReceive('putObject')->once()->withArgs([$fileDescription]);

        $this->assertTrue($locker->store($canBeStored));
    }

    public function testStoreWhenPutObjectFails()
    {
        $storesFiles = m::mock('FileStorer');
        $message = 'Unknown bucket';
        $storesFiles->shouldReceive('putObject')->andThrow(\Aws\S3\Exception\S3Exception::class, $message);
        $locker = new Locker($storesFiles);
        $canBeStored = m::mock('canBeStored');
        $canBeStored->shouldReceive('getFileDescription')->once()->andReturn([]);

        $this->assertFalse($locker->store($canBeStored));
        $this->assertEquals($message, $locker->getMessage());
    }
}


For some reason I felt like checking to see if there were any updates to one of my favourite pieces of software. I was happily surprised to find out that Simon Haynes, over at Spacejock Software has released yWriter 6. yWriter is the software I've used to write all of my books.
This is breaking news for me, but it turns out that the newest software was released in July 2015. I'm a few months behind the curve. Luckily, I finally figured things out. Yay!
I started using yWriter when I was writing my motivational fable, Diamonds and Silver back in 2008. Up until I found yWriter, I felt like I kept running up against a wall every time I sat down to write.
The book started out as ideas in a Word document.
As the file got longer, I found it hard to find my place whenever I wanted to add to my draft. I tried splitting up my book by chapters. That helped a bit, but I found I would sometimes get into that old Word Doc issue of having to open up five documents in order to find the place where I wanted to write. Writing was going slow, and so I started searching for a different solution.
At first, yWriter seemed like overkill. It has areas where you can describe your locations and characters. I've never used those tools, but instead focus on the things that work well for me.
The first day I started using yWriter, I could see an instant transformation.
My book was finished in no-time.
Here's why. It was now incredibly easy to open the file, and be at the exact spot in the exact scene I wanted to write on in only a few seconds. Now, instead of trying to write the book from the beginning to the end, I was able to race to the computer when inspiration struck, and write scenes from different parts of the novel out of sequence.
On that first day, I also went through most of the Word Documents I was using to store information from the web and other sources. I organized it into several yWriter books, with chapters and scenes.
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One of the biggest features for me how everything is stored. yWriter uses RTF files to store all the information you put in. It works as a database, but the RTF files can be opened by any modern word processing program. If you ever choose to move to a different platform, your files will still all be usable.
The other powerful feature I love is the backup system. The software automatically creates a backup file each time you open a "Book" in yWriter. This means you're always able to go back and see exactly where something was on a particular date. It's also nice to be able to see how many days you actually worked on a file by going into the backup folder and looking at the individual backup points (stored in individual folders).
Like I said before, I don't even use 80% of the novel writing features in the software. It's the 20% of the functions though that are what makes me rave about yWriter.
As of right now there aren't may changes from yWriter 5. If you're currently using yWriter, you can probably hold off for a bit. If you haven't tried yWriter, then this is probably a good chance. It's completely free to use and won't take much time to check out.
Here's a video review I did of yWriter way back in 2011. It'll have to keep you going until I find the time to get an update video out.
I'll keep you updated on this one, and we'll see about getting a few tutorials out when version 6 gets the next update.