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Meat Factory in Ziaran Was Closed
HRANA News Agency – The executive chairman of the Labor House in Qazvin Province has announced the closure of the meat factory in the city of Ziaran.
In an interview with ILNA New Agency, Ayd-Ali Karimi said, "They aren't motivated to increase production or create jobs, but they have all the required resources to pay over $4,000,000 to workers in order to buy back their contracts."
Pointing out that there are about 110 workers employed at the meat factory in Ziaran, Ayd-Ali Karimi added, "The Privatization Organization that owns the meat factory has bought back the contracts of ninety eight workers and laid off 12 workers who refused to agree with the buyout."
By pointing out that the Labor Organization of Qazvin has watched while workers have been laid off and dismissed, the executive chairman of the Labor House in Qazvin Province reminded everyone, "The factory has all the necessary and required conditions to continue work.However, the company isn't determined to do so apparently."
At the end, Ayd-Ali Karimi said, "Meat factory workers were all permanent laborers with 15-25 years of experience."
Tags: Ayd-Ali Karimi
Ali Nejati Will Be Tried Again
HRANA News Agency – On Saturday, June 11, 2011, Ali Nejati will be tried again on charges for which he has already faced prosecution and served prison time.His trial will be held in Ahvaz Appeals Court, Branch 13.Before being fired from his job, Ali Nejati was a laborer at Haft Tapeh Sugarcane Company.He is one of the board members of Haft Tapeh Sugarcane Company Workers' Trade Union.
According to a report by the website of the Coordinating Committee to Create Labor Organizations, Ali Nejati has spent six months in prison for the same charge.After his prison term was over, prosecutors attempted to try him again, but the charges were dismissed by the court since they were repetitive.
After the acquittal, because of the prosecutor's objection and pressure from intelligence officials, Ali Nejati's case was once again referred to the appeals court at the provincial capital.
During previous court proceedings, the trail was postponed due to Ali Nejati's heart attack.Now, he is being retried while suffering from heart failure and the clogging of arteries and is physically weak after having undergone several heart surgeries.
For more than two years, Ali Nejati has been the target of pressure, prosecution and imprisonment for representing workers and being a board member of Haft Tapeh Sugarcane Company Workers' Trade Union.Since he was fired from his job, he has also been suffering financially and has lost the means to support himself.
Once again, Iran's judiciary and intelligence apparatus is exerting more pressure on Ali Nejati and his family in order to prevent this labor activist to seek justice for workers.He is being tried again on charges for which he has already served prison time.
Tags: Ali Nejati
Labor Activist Arrested in Tabriz
HRANA News Agency – A labor activist has been arrested in Tabriz, [East Azerbaijan Province], and locked up in this city's central prison.
According to a report by Urmia Workers Website, Shahrokh Zamoni was arrested on June 7, 2011 and transferred to the central prison in Tabriz.Shahrokh Zamoni is a painter and laborer who was involved in the Committee to Explorer the Establishment of Painters Union and then became an active member of the Painters Union after the formation of this trade syndicate.
Tags: Shahrokh Zamoni
The Head of Tehran Bakers Union Resigned
HRANA News Agency –While turmoil continues to plague the capital city's bakery market, the head of Tehran Bakers Union has resigned in protest to the government's broken promises.Meanwhile, some officials continue to ignore their responsibility to fulfill such pledges.
According to a report by Ayande News, although six months has passed since subsidies were removed, the price of bread has increased twice.In comparison to the initial value of flour and bread, the price of wheat flour has increased by fifty percent, and the price of bread has doubled, tripled or even quadrupled in some cases.
The Iranian government had previously promised to compensate bakers for the increase in the cost of gas and electricity which are heavily consumed by this industry.However, since no action has been taken so far, Hossein Nazari, the head of Tehran's Bakers Union, has tendered his resignation.
On the other hand, since the quality of flour delivered to Tehran's bakeries has drastically gone down, people refuse to buy the bread.To address this problem and in search of attracting more customers, bakers in Tehran have begun using the flour allotted for other counties.As a result, although the official price of flour in Tehran is approximately $14.25 per sack, some of the bakers are buying higher quality flour at about $17.00 per bag.
All this is happening while the regulatory body monitoring bakeries which operates under the gubernatorial control is facing legal hurdles.The Administrative Court has ordered this regulatory body to report to the Governmental Discretionary Punishments Organization, but provinces refuse to comply with the order.
Furthermore, the government's failure to address the low quality of bread has created serious problems for bakers and consumers in Tehran such that in search of higher quality product, the owners of some flour plants have attempted to import flour from Australia.
Experts from the outset had emphasized the necessity for controlling the price of bread and had offered suggestions such as the transformation of the system for the procurement, storage and milling of flour and also the ranking of bread according to the quality of the flour used in the baking process.Since the government opposed any and all solutions and insisted on imposing one single price for any type of bread, a large number of bakeries are currently facing big losses while others don't have enough customers or are struggling with the low quality of the flour shipped to them.To be able to sell bread at a different price, some bakeries have resorted to so called illegal means by adding sesame seeds to the bread available for purchase.
Tags: Hossein Nazari
Brick Factory Workers' Strike Continues in Bukan
HRANA News Agency – The news from Saroghamish regions in Bukan [West Azerbaijan Province] indicates that the workers of several brick factories continue their strike which began on May 21, 2011.
According to a report by Mukrian News Agency, brick factory workers have demanded a wage increase for each one thousand bricks they handle. Workers pulling brick wheelbarrows are asking for an increase of $3.30 per one thousand bricks while workers who place the bricks in furnaces are asking for an increase of $0.94.
At the time when this report was being prepared, brick factory employers were not willing to accept the demand made by workers. Meanwhile, brick factory workers have also announced that until their requests are met, they will continue their strike.
Tags: Azerbaijan
Textile Workers in Kashan Protested Again
HRANA News Agency – Workers of the Spinning and Weaving Textile Company in Kashan gathered in a rally to protest in front of gubernatorial building and demanded their weekly wages promised to them by their employer. The Spinning and Weaving Textile Company had agreed to pay the workers $40 a week, the amount equal to 1/6 of a worker's monthly wages.
A number of workers spoke with ILNA [Iranian Labour News Agency] in Kashan and said, "The Company owes us 32 months of back wages. We used to get paid $80 a week, but our wages were cut down to only $40.00 per week. Since the beginning of this year [March 21, 2011], they even don't pay us that amount. We haven't received a penny from them."
During their rally, workers asked the authorities to follow up and take the necessary steps to quickly pay them their back wages for the last 32 months and also resolve the problems and concerns related to the retirement of 400 workers in this company.
The protesters blocked the main street in front the gubernatorial building and carried a placard asking, "Who answers for 32 months of back wages?" The rally disturbed the flow of traffic in this part of the city.
It must be noted that there are 1200 workers employed by the Spinning and Weaving Textile Company in Kashan. However, from the beginning of this year [March 21, 2011], the Company has been shut down because of a strike by the workers demanding 32 months of back wages.
Tags: Kashan
A Worker Dies in Kermanshah
HRANA News Agency – Faramarz Alizadeh who was a contract worker in Kermanshah's flour factory died in hospital from injuries caused by the collapse of an elevator.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Faramarz Alizadeh, son of Abbas, was married with five children and lived in Kandoleh Javanrud, [a city in Kermanshah Province]. Two week ago, he was severely injured after the collapse of an elevator from the third floor at the flour factory where he worked.
Faramarz Alizadeh was transferred to Kermanshah's Taleghani Hospital and died there on the evening of May 8, 2011 due to the extent of his injuries. He was not covered by any health insurance plans because he had a temporary work contract.
The death of this worker occurs while health care providers at the hospital were negligent and failed to provide the proper care for Faramarz Alizaadeh simply because he had no health insurance and unable to pay for the expenses himself.
Located at Vakil Agha region in Kermanshah, the flour factory has many workers hired under temporary contracts.
Tags: Faramarz Alizadeh
Teachers' Union of Kurdistan Threatened; Twelve Teachers Summoned
Posted on: May 3rd, 2011
HRANA News Agency – Agents working for Iran's Ministry of Intelligence are placing undue pressure on teachers summoned by the agency to repudiate the statement released by Teachers' Union of Kurdistan for May 9th. In this statement, the union has named the day Farzad Kamangar was executed a day to reject violence and defend the right to live.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), in recent days, Bahaldyn Maleki, Ramin Zandnia, Ali Qarishi, Mokhtar Asadi, Peyman Navidian, Heydar Zaman, Reza Khatami, Kamal Fakorian, Mostafa Sarbazan, Mohammad Sadiq Sadeqi, Hiva Ahmadi and Ezatollah Nosrati were summoned to the Intelligence Agency in Kurdistan Province. The aforementioned individuals were questioned and threatened by the interrogators who had traveled from Tehran to Sanandaj [Kurdistan Province, Iran], and demands were made to rescind the union's statement.
However, union members have so far insisted on their call to observe May 9th, the anniversary of Farzad Kamangar and four other individuals' execution. According to this report, intelligence forces have focused on pressuring Peyman Navidian and Mokhtar Asadi the most because they are union activists with prior convictions. Peyman Navidian was exiled for nearly three years to Zanjan Province and was not allowed to work for several months. Similarly, Mokhtar Asadi was in exile for 2 years and banned from work for 6 month.
In their statement, Teachers' Union of Kurdistan has asked teachers all over Iran to light a candle on May 9th and reject organized violence. By defending the right to live and teaching lessons of peace and human benevolence to their students, educators throughout Iran have been asked to commemorate Farzad Kamangar and his legacy as a fallen teacher
Tags: Ali Qarishi, Bahaldyn Maleki, Ezatollah Nosrati, Farzad Kamangar, Heydar Zaman, Hiva Ahmadi, Kamal Fakorian, Mohammad Sadiq Sadeqi, Mokhtar Asadi, Mostafa Sarbazan, Peyman Navidian, Ramin Zandnia, Reza Khatami
May 9th: A Day to Reject Violence and Defend the Right to Live
HRANA News Agency – Teachers' Union of Kurdistan has issued a statement on the occasion of Teacher's Week in Iran.In this statement, Teachers' Union of Kurdistan recounts the problems facing the union and the weaknesses of our country's education system and demands the release of its imprisoned members.To commemorate May 9th and the shocking execution of Farzad Kamangar, Teachers' Union of Kurdistan has named May 9th to be a day to reject violence and defend the right to live.Farzad Kamangar was a union member and also a human rights activist who was executed by the Islamic Republic of Iran on May 9, 2010.
The union also has requested teachers all over the country to light a candle on May 9th and teach their students lessons to reject violence and defend the right to live.The full text of this statement is as follows:
In the Name of God, Creator of Life and Wisdom
Blessed Be Teacher's Day
It was exactly this time.We were all energized, bustling around with our hearts full of joy because our day was approaching.With the words "Teacher's Day" on our lips, we wrote a statement and gathered at Abidar1 to recount many years of pain.Long ago, Samad Behrangi wrote about the same pain while delving and probing into educational issues, and now that more than thirty years has passed after the revolution, we still struggle with the same set of problems.
They said that it was Teacher's Week!?They held meetings and made much ado about nothing while getting on their soapboxes, blowing hot air and complimenting each other for making a difference in these youngsters' lives.We stared and only watched; they didn't allow us to say anything, but we thought how long they could keep up with all the prayer and praise.We were all worried about Rasoul's children who were awaiting his return.What exactly had Rasoul Bodaghi and Hashem Khastar said?
At the foot of the mountain, we talked and said all there was to say without endangering senior management's careers in the education system or threatening their bottom line.Far from the senior managers' advice on the virtues of silence and away from the prying eyes of Herasat's2 closed circuit cameras, we talked for hours about our pupils' pain in the classroom.Without endangering national security, we talked about child labor.
We were happy since Farzad's attorney had informed us that he was to return to us, and the villages of Kamyaran [Kurdistan Province, Iran] could embrace him.Repeatedly we mentioned Teacher's Day while they proudly rubbed Teacher's Week in our faces.It was exactly Teacher's Week, and in front of our bewildered gazes, they took him away from us at dawn, and no one saw him again.Now, at night, he twinkles in Kurdistan's grief-stricken sky.
Esteemed Educators
The year that we have put behind us was a year full of events and changes in Iran and the Middle East.It has been years that neo-conservatives have imposed their policies on people all around the world.The outcome of these policies has been privatization, unemployment, cancellation of subsidies, layoff of workers under the pretence of workforce adjustments, warmongering and militarism, weakening and dissolution of trade unions, reduction of education budgets, decreasing health insurance and social benefits, and in many countries, an increase in retirement age under the excuse of government cost-saving ideas.
The blatant attack on people's basic rights in the Middle East became further apparent through the violence displayed by the police, security forces, and military governments.Threatening political rights became the means by which such countries utilized in order to impose this economic disaster on people.Nonetheless, declaring long periods of time as the state of emergency and the rule of terror didn't deter the masses from trying to change the situation.As we have witnessed, a hung tsunami of change has washed over the Middle East and North Africa in the name of pursuing happiness and democratic rights.By making numerous sacrifices, those seeking freedom are achieving new victories every day, and dictatorships are vanishing each day.
Along with the spirit of twenty-first century human beings in quest of freedom, the members of Education International have not remained silent.The global federation of teachers' trade unions has jumped into action to fight against new worldwide policies through which education is overshadowed by profit margins, and quality is sacrificed for the sake of quantity.This year, the World Congress of Education International will meet in South Africa in order to address the same issues.Obviously, the representatives of teachers' unions throughout Iran will attend the World Congress, and with one voice together with all other teachers of the world, we will defend our democratic rights and also the right to education.
By placing profit at top of their agenda, recent governments in Iran have also imposed undue burden on the working class.The elimination of subsidies has made this policy apparent.In Iran, the right to form unions is not recognized.In other words, the majority of the society has been denied its legitimate right to negotiate and bargain with the government that plays the role of a major employer.Social insurances don't have sufficient resources through which effective services can be offered to the community.Unemployment insurance hasn't been designated for people over eighteen, and the nightmare of white signed contracts3 have become an integral and inseparable part of people's daily lives.
Unfortunately, the implementation of removing subsidies has not accounted for any of these issues.Considering that minimum wage is not significantly different from last year, soaring prices and repeated sanctions imposed by the Security Council have driven a greater percentage of Iranian families below the poverty line.This means that a large number of school age children leave their classrooms behind as they head to the job market in search of work.Meanwhile, deviance and criminal behavior is on the rise.
Education in Iran
The atrocious story of education in Iran is a long, tragic tale piled up in the hearts of teachers throughout this land from Balochistan to Gilan, from Azerbaijan to Kurdistan, from Turkmen Sahra to Khuzestan, from Lorestan to Kermanshah, and from Ilam to Hormozgan.In the remotest corners of Iran, the sad story of education and forsaken enlightenment and intellectualism is a tale of deprived children, broken-down school buildings, substandard school books, archaic teaching methods, and under-appreciated, forgotten hardworking teachers, the same teachers who reflect the misery of their deprived pupils, the same teachers who despite poverty still lovingly keep the candle of knowledge burning in stormy nights.
Enduring imprisonment, exile, deportation and even flogging has become the reward for safeguarding thoughts and the praise for intellectuals.Governments come and go, and ministers hand over their responsibilities to their successors.Sometimes, they talk about changes and transforming structures, books and creating new positions or eliminating the old ones.However, it has been long since nothing substantial or worth remembering has occurred.After this useless period, we return again to the same old education system while no one is held responsible for wasting so many resources and so much energy.More importantly, no one is held accountable for the game played with a generation trapped in an education system that uses them as laboratory rats.
We believe that the problem is not only blocking teacher involvement but also is related to the decision making process which ignores teachers, the most important element in education.It must be acknowledged that creativity and vitality is nurtured in a democratic environment and in an atmosphere of respect for the dignity and basic rights of teachers.
When Mr. Haj Babaei was appointed as the education minister, teachers' trade unions were delighted since after a long time, someone with positive tendencies and inclinations was chosen.During his term in the Parliament, Mr. Haj Babaei was willing to meet with the representatives of trade unions while ignoring government red tape and restrictions.Unfortunately, teachers were disappointed very soon as the process to eliminate critics sped up, and the pressure on trade unions increased.Meanwhile, there remains no place for teachers in the colossal ministry of education, and there are apparently no plans to transform the disappointing environment dominating over our schools into an atmosphere of informed, mutual participation and service.
Is it possible to envision a fundamental change in the quality of education without democratizing the education system?School curriculums change, and new school hours are implemented without the input of main players namely teachers.In the twenty-first century, teachers are treated as if they are subjects receiving sacred and holy commands from the above and are given orders that are binding and may not be questioned.As a result of a policy that considers "master's word to be God's word," human energy is wasted, teachers are discouraged, and the education system is stagnant.Additionally, teachers witness the ineffectiveness of the education system every day but have no means by which they can inform the public or concerned parents.However, we feel a sense of responsibility to communicate the ongoing, pending disaster to our students' parents in any which way possible.
Dear Colleagues
Congratulating Teacher's Day to all of our colleagues throughout Iran and wishing them success in their work, Teachers' Union of Kurdistan declares the following items to be their main demands:
1. We demand the immediate and unconditional release of our jailed colleagues, Rasoul Bodaghi, Hashem Khastar and Nabiollah Bastan and call for the dismissal of all pending cases against union activists in different courts.
2. We demand removing the ban on the publication Qalam Moalem [Teacher's Pen] which is Iran's only independent journal of educators.
3. As you are aware, May 9th is the anniversary on which Farzad Kamangar, a board member of Teachers' Union of Kurdistan, lost his life.While honoring the humanitarian efforts of this noble and revered educator and with the slogan of "rejecting organized violence and defending the right to live," Teachers' Union of Kurdistan asks all educators to light a candle in their classrooms to commemorate this day.We request all teachers to designate their lectures on May 9th to be a lesson on rejecting violence in any shape or form.We shall teach the children that human beings regardless of their ethnicity, religion, language and social class are equal.We shall rise up to fight materialism and warmongering and consider seeking peace to be the highest human virtue.We shall replace animosity and hostility amongst nations with love and alliance.
At the end, Teachers' Union of Kurdistan congratulates the International Workers' Day, May 1st, to all workers and declares the union's support for their demands.
Teachers' Union of Kurdistan
Ordibehesht 1390 [April – May 2011]
Footnotes for the English Translation:
1.Abidar, a mountain east of Sanandaj, is a major recreational area in Iran's Kurdistan Province.
2. Herasat is Iran's semi-secret police tasked to monitor all educational institutes throughout the country.
3. "White signed contracts" are in effect white papers that workers in Iran sign allowing employers to determine all the terms of employment.
Tags: Farzad Kamangar, Hashem Khastar, Nabiollah Bastan, Rasoul Bodaghi, Samad Behrangi
Five Engineers of Jam Petrochemical Complex in Assaluyeh Arrested
HRANA News Agency – Five engineers who were working for Jam Petrochemical Complex in Assaluyeh [Southern Iran, Bushehr Province] have been arrested by Iranian security officers.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the arrests took place at the beginning of the current Persian month of Farvardin [March 21- April 20, 2011]. The reason for the arrest and the whereabouts of five engineers are unknown.
Jam Petrochemical Complex is located at the Pars Special Economic Energy Zone and produces 1,321,000 tons of ethylene annually. This petrochemical company also manufactures olefin, high density polyethylene, linear low density polyethylene, polypropylene, ethylene glycol / ethylene oxide, and butadiene.
[Following Ahmadinejad's victory in 2005 presidential election, the 9th government of Iran after the revolution was established.] Since the designation of Assaluyeh as a free trade zone by Mohammad Jahromi, Iran's labor minister in the ninth government, workers and laborers in this region have been denied minimum protection under labor laws and social security benefits. Instead, the entire workforce in the free trade zone is only subject to employers' rules and regulations.
Earlier, the closure of manufacturing units and industrial crisis in Assaluyeh resulted in the dismissal of 52,000 workers in this region.
Tags: Mohammad Jahromi


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Mercedes Is Quitting DTM To Race In Formula E
Posted on July 25, 2017 | by Dan Thorn
Major manufacturers are pretty much queuing up to enter Formula E, and now Mercedes has announced that it's going to enter the series for the 2019/2020 season. It had originally planned to enter in 2018 but has decided to wait an extra year in order to better understand the series.
Mercedes has been a big part of DTM for decades so the news that it's leaving is a pretty big deal. That'll leave DTM grids populated by only BMW and Audi (unless another manufacturer joins) – although Mercedes will still get to compete against its German rivals, because both of them also have Formula E projects.
Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff (yup, it's not just F1 he's involved with!) said of the news:
"Our years in the DTM will always be held high as a major chapter in the motorsport history of Mercedes. I want to thank every team member whose fantastic work has helped to make Mercedes-Benz the most successful DTM manufacturer during that time. Although leaving is tough for all of us, we will be doing everything during this season and next to make sure we win as many DTM titles as possible before we go. We owe that to our fans and to ourselves."
Although it's sad news for DTM it's good news for F1. Rumours suggested Mercedes might leave the sport in 2018, but recently a new agreement with main sponsor Petronas ensure it'll be around for at least a few more years yet.
Wolff confirmed that F1 activities would continue alongside the new Formula E programme.
"In motorsport like in every other area, we want to be the benchmark in the premium segment and to explore innovative new projects. The combination of Formula 1 and Formula E delivers that," he said. Formula E is like an exciting start-up venture: it offers a brand new format, combining racing with a strong event character, in order to promote current and future technologies.
"Electrification is happening in the road car world and Formula E offers manufacturers an interesting platform to bring this technology to a new audience – and to do so with a completely new kind of racing, different to any other series."
So, yet another manufacturer heads to Formula E. It's rapidly growing into quite the major championship, isn't it?

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Last year we brought you the news that Gremlins was going to receive a new animated series. Now we have word when exactly it will be coming out. Brendan Hay the co Executive Producer on Gremlins Secrets of the Mogwai tweeted that there was a new poster in his office and it's the artwork for the new series and the date of the premiere. While it's only the year that doesn't make us any less excited!
The show will be at least ten episodes long and be premiering on HBO Max. Written by Tze Chun who is also a co Executive Producer we have quite the story to look forward to. The official synopsis reveals that we are going to get a glimpse into the history of the Mogwai and our furry friend Gizmo.
In the animated television adaptation, we travel back to 1920s Shanghai to reveal the story of how 10-year-old Sam Wing (future shop owner Mr. Wing in the 1984 movie) met the young Mogwai called Gizmo. Along with a teenage street thief named Elle, Sam and Gizmo take a perilous journey through the Chinese countryside, encountering, and sometimes battling, colorful monsters and spirits from Chinese folklore. On their quest to return Gizmo to his family and uncover a legendary treasure, they are pursued by a power-hungry industrialist and his growing army of evil Gremlins.
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More rape news out of Egypt
More female reporters alleged they were sexually abused by crowds in Tahrir Square in Cairo Egypt last week. It's interesting that their claim has received far less notoriety than the one made by CBS News' Lara Logan earlier this year. We wrote, in response to the Islamophobia that sprung up about her assault, that it had less to do with religion or Israel and more to do with the very rage of rape and its presence in Egyptian society. So now the stories of other women being molested, two of them Egyptian and one French receive barely a notice in sensational American media.
What provoked my ire about the Logan rape story is how it was elevated above what normally happens in that country……as if Logan herself was single out and abused. To the contrary asserts one of the more recent victims of sexual assault in Tahrir square, Mona Eltahawy who said, 'It was an awful night, but what happened to me is just a taste of what happens to so many Egyptians. The brutality of Egyptian security forces has long been documented and I experienced just a bit of it.'
Journalists sexually assaulted covering Egypt unrest (calgaryherald.com)
24 NOV 2011 : Female Journalists sexually assaulted in Egypt / Must Boycott Travels to the Arab Countries Not Safe For Women and Westerners in General (theboldcorsicanflame.wordpress.com)
Author miscellany101Posted on November 26, 2011 Categories UncategorizedTags Cairo, CBS News, Egypt, Islamophobia, Israel, Lara Logan, Mona Eltahawy, Sexual assaultLeave a comment on More rape news out of Egypt
Hitting the nail on the head
I read the following article and it was another epiphany for me in terms of its clarity regarding the US, Israel and Iran. So much chest beating has been going on between these three countries within the last decade and with the draw down of US forces in Iraq it seems rhetoric has increased regarding the necessity to attack another Muslim country that surrounds Israel.
Most of Israel's neighbors have accepted her existence, as they should, but they have resisted her oppression of her own Arab citizens as well as her Palestinian neighbors, as they should, so the drum beat for war is not an existential necessity for Israel it's an exercise in assessing the power Israel has over her American client.
The boys who cry "Holocaust"
The same neocon hawks who lied us into Iraq are using the ultimate argument-stopper to push war with Iran
By Gary Kamiya
We've been through this before. As one of the most disastrous wars in our history is coming to an inglorious end, the same neoconservative hawks who dreamed it up are agitating for a new war that would make Iraq look like the invasion of Grenada — and using the ultimate trump card in American politics to silence debate over it.
When hawks begin beating the drums for war in the Middle East, Israel is usually a big reason why. That was true in the run-up to the war in Iraq, and it is doubly true with the current hysteria over Iran. Despite disingenuous claims to the contrary, the only reason the U.S. is even talking about war with Iran is Israel. As the invaluable M.J. Rosenberg, who knows the working of the Israel lobby as only a former card-carrying member can, notes, "It is impossible to find a single politician or journalist advocating war with Iran who is not a neocon or an AIPAC cutout. (They're often both.)"
Ever since the International Atomic Energy Agency released its overhyped, old-news report on Iran's nuclear program, Israel's amen corner in the U.S. has been loudly calling for war.
If American politics did not contain an enormous blind spot, no one would pay any attention to what these discredited ideologues have to say. The Iraq war they championed turned out to be one of the biggest foreign-policy disasters in U.S. history. Their ignorant and Islamophobic view of the Middle East is as breathtaking as their bland willingness to commit America to yet another ruinous war against a Muslim country, this time one four times larger than Iraq and with more than twice as many people. They have a demonstrated track record of complete failure.
Yet these incompetent militarists are still taken seriously. And the reason is simple: They purport to be supporters of Israel. In American politics, you can get away with even the most cracked war-mongering as long as you claim to be "pro-Israel." And the ultimate get-out-of-jail-free card for anything having to do with Israel is the Holocaust.
To listen to the neocons and hawks, you'd think Hitler was about to send the tanks over the Polish border. Former U.S. ambassador and Dr. Strangelove impersonator John Bolton said, "The only alternative now is the potential for a pre-emptive military strike against their military program, either by the United States or Israel. Diplomacy has failed. Sanctions have failed." For Bolton, Iran is the second coming of Nazi Germany: "If the choice is them continuing [towards a nuclear bomb] or the use of force, I think you're at a Hitler marching into the Rhineland point … We're still in 1936, but not for long."
Jeffrey Goldberg, the former Israeli Defense Forces corporal and Atlantic writer, whose bogus claim in the New Yorker that Saddam Hussein might give his nonexistent WMD to al-Qaida helped convince some liberals to support the Iraq war, claims, "The Israeli case for preemption is compelling, and has been for some time."
Why? "The leaders of Iran are eliminationist anti-Semites; men who, for reasons of theology, view the state of the Jews as a 'cancer.' They have repeatedly called for Israel's destruction and worked to hasten that end, mainly by providing material support and training to two organizations, Hamas and Hezbollah, that specialize in the slaughter of innocent Jews. Iran's leaders are men who deny the Holocaust while promising another."
Goldberg acknowledged the downside for Israel of attacking Iran, including international isolation and retaliation, but for him that was a reason why America, not Israel, should threaten war.
"Numerous Israeli officials have told me that they are much less likely to recommend a preemptive strike of their own if they were reasonably sure that Obama was willing to use force. And if Iran's leaders feared there was a real chance of a U.S. attack, they might actually modify their behavior," Goldberg wrote. "I believe Obama would use force — and that he should make that perfectly clear to the Iranians."
Neoconservative leader Bill Kristol, who was wrong about Iraq and was rewarded by being given a gig at the New York Times, where he quickly proved to be perhaps the worst columnist of all time, wrote in the Weekly Standard, "The next speech we need to hear from the Obama administration should announce that, after 30 years, we have gone on the offensive against this murderous regime. And the speech after that can celebrate the fall of the regime, and offer American help to the democrats building a free and peaceful Iran." In 2009, Kristol compared Obama to Neville Chamberlain for not being sufficiently outspoken on behalf of the Iranian people.
The Holocaust mind-set
But the most nakedly coercive use of the Holocaust was made by GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (whose trustworthiness in foreign policy matters can be judged by the fact that he criticized the Bush State Department for not cooking its intelligence to support the Iraq war). "I don't think the United States has the moral right to say to a country whose people who have already gone through one Holocaust – two nuclear weapons is another Holocaust," said in 2006. "And Iran is racing to arm itself with atomic bombs." In language virtually identical to Goldberg's, Netanyahu said that while the Iranian president "denies the Holocaust, he is preparing another Holocaust for the Jewish state."
"We will always remember what the Nazi Amalek did to us," Netanyahu said at a 2010 Holocaust remembrance service at Auschwitz, "and we won't forget to be prepared for the new Amalek, who is making an appearance on the stage of history and once again threatening to destroy the Jews."
The Holocaust mind-set has led Israel into self-destructive policies. And its promiscuous invocation has helped ensure that Israel maintains a stranglehold over America's Mideast policy. That stranglehold has always been harmful to America, but it is now actually dangerous.
For there is a very real possibility that Israel will attack Iran. I have been reading Israel's best newspaper, Ha'aretz, for more than 10 years, and I have never seen a possible war with Iran taken so seriously by its journalists. Ha'aretz is a left-leaning paper, but the concern in Israel reaches across the political spectrum. Israel's leading political columnist, Nahum Barnea, recently warned in a front-page story in Israel's highest-circulation newspaper, the centrist Yediot Achronot, that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Secretary Ehud Barak, overriding the objections of their security experts, may launch an attack on Iran this winter.
Barnea's article is in Hebrew: it is summarized by Larry Derfner, who writes for the excellent Israeli-American site 972. Barnea wrote, "Netanyahu [believes] Ahmadinejad is Hitler; if he is not stopped in time, there will be another Holocaust. There are those who describe Netanyahu's attitude on the matter as an obsession: all his life he dreamed of being Churchill; Iran gives him the opportunity."
The odds of war
To be sure, the odds are still against Israel actually launching an attack. Washington has made it clear it does not want war with Iran, and the first rule of Israeli politics is "never threaten the special relationship with America." Israel has been warning that Iran is months away from getting a nuclear bomb for years. And it has a history of rattling its saber as a tactic to force the U.S. to take a harder line with Iran.
But the possibility that Israel might attack Iran, especially after the U.S. troops leave Iraq, cannot be taken lightly — not least because of Netanyahu's invocation of the Holocaust. Netanyahu is apparently sincerely convinced that if Iran's nuclear program is not destroyed, Israel will face another Holocaust. If that is true, the traditional restraints on Israeli behavior may not apply.
It is possible that Israel might attack Iran unilaterally, and dare the U.S. to stop it. As Iran analyst Mark Fitzpatrick told Reuters, "When you consider that next year being the U.S. presidential election year, and the dynamics of politics in the United States, this could increase Israel's inclination to take matters into its own hands. The most likely possibility is that Netanyahu calls up Obama and says: 'I'm not asking for a green light, I'm just telling you that we've just launched the planes, don't shoot them down.' And in a U.S. presidential election year, I think it's unlikely that Obama would shoot them down."
The Israeli historian Benny Morris makes the same point.
"Most observers in Israel believe that while Israel would like to have a green light from Washington, it will proceed without one if it believes that its existence is at stake," he wrote in the National Interest. "The feeling here is that Obama will endorse, and perhaps in various ways assist, an Israeli strike once it is underway — whether or not he is consulted beforehand — because he sees the ayatollahs' regime as a threat to world peace and American interests in the Middle East; because successive American administrations, including his own, have declared that Washington will not to allow Iran to acquire the bomb; and because, in a presidential election year, Obama cannot afford to alienate the Jewish vote."
Morris' assertion that Obama would be willing to endorse and perhaps assist an Israeli strike because he believes it is justified is extremely dubious, to put it mildly. Obama's Middle East policies have been hugely disappointing, but he is not a fool. He knows that Iran — which has not started a war in modern history — poses no conceivable military threat to the United States. He also knows that the Arab Spring and the crisis in Syria have weakened Tehran's geo-strategic position. There is also the little issue of America being bankrupt and its military exhausted. For all these reasons, for Washington to even consider starting a war with Iran would be utter lunacy. This is why Obama has repeatedly sent Netanyahu high-level messages, from Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and others, warning him not to launch a unilateral attack.
But starting a war is one thing, and daring to stand up to Israel in an election year is another. As usual, the discourse is tilted psychotically to the right. The GOP presidential candidates are beating up Obama for his alleged lack of support for Israel and falling over each other to be first in line to attack Iran. (Mitt Romney, who stands a decent chance of being the next president, actually said that he would simply let Israel decide America's Mideast policy.) And considering Obama's politically driven surrender to Netanyahu, Morris and Fitzpatrick are probably right that he would be unwilling to confront the Israeli leader.
In other words, it is quite likely that the most powerful nation in the world will simply stand impotently by while a tiny client state threatens to do something that it knows is not just antithetical to its interests, but possibly ruinous to them. The tail could be about to wag the dog right off a cliff.
If war does break out, the consequences for America would be catastrophic. Oil prices would soar, plunging the U.S. and the world into a massive depression. Iran would use its proxies to attack U.S. troops. And the entire region would erupt, with unforeseeable consequences. It is not too much of a stretch to say that war with Iran might spell the beginning of the end of America as a superpower.
Of course, if a nuclear Iran really did threaten the existence of Israel, a preemptive strike might be justified. But according to the upper echelons of Israeli's military and security brass, Iran does not pose such a threat. Israel's recently retired Mossad chief, Meir Dagan, called plans to attack Iran "the stupidest thing I've ever heard," saying that an attack would mean a regional war that would put Israel in an "impossible" position.
Israel's former military chief of staff, Gabe Ashkenazi, is also opposed to war, as is former Shin Beth head Yuval Diskin. Another former Mossad chief, Ephraim Halevy, said Iran poses no existential threat to Israel and attacking it "will impact the region for 100 years."
If Iran were to launch a nuclear missile at Israel, Israel would instantly vaporize it with the estimated 200 nuclear warheads it possesses. Contrary to the ignorant claims made by Islamophobic hawks like Goldberg, Iran is not run by madmen bent on committing national suicide. (If its leaders really are "eliminationist anti-Semites," it's hard to understand why they have not wiped out Tehran's Jewish community.)
In fact, the logic behind attacking Iran is identical to that of Dick Cheney's notorious "one percent doctrine," which held that if there was even a 1 percent chance that Iraq might acquire WMD, the U.S. had to attack. Cheney's crackpot doctrine has been thoroughly discredited. But because the supposed 1 percent possibility is another Holocaust, it is once again framing American policy.
What a nuclear Iran really threatens, as several top Israeli officials have admitted, is Israeli hegemony in the region. The Arab Spring and the rise of Turkey have already begun to erode that hegemony, and Iran's inevitable acquisition of the ability to build a bomb will further erode it. Israel cannot fight this trend. The days when it could impose its will by bullying are over. It must learn to live with its neighbors.
Which takes us to the one thing that is anathema to the war-mongers: full diplomatic engagement with Tehran. It is time for the U.S. to put everything on the table – Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, the Israeli-Palestinian file, the nuclear issue, Iraq – thrash it all out, acknowledge that Iran is going to be a major regional player, and come to an agreement.
The key element is the Israeli-Palestinian issue. If Israel makes a just peace with the Palestinians and the Arab League recognizes Israel, the entire raison d'etre of Iran's rejectionist position would be removed. Israel and Iran would then just be neighbors squabbling over their turf, along with the rest of the countries in the rapidly transforming Middle East.
Israel stands at a crossroads — and time is not on its side. Netanyahu is a disciple of the father of Revisionist Zionism, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, who argued that the Arabs, understandably in his view, would never voluntarily accept Zionist colonization, and could only be controlled by an "Iron Wall the native population cannot break through."
Netanyahu lacks Jabotinsky's intellectual integrity, but shares his belief that brute force is Israel's only recourse. For him, it is always 1938, the Palestinians are terrorists, Israel's enemies are murderous anti-Semites and the Jewish state must exist in a constant state of war.
Israel, supported by the United States, has been fighting the Nazis for 63 years. That Iron Wall approach, which sees all of Israel's enemies as reincarnations of Hitler (as in Jeffrey Goldberg's propagandistic assertion that Hezbollah and Hamas "specialize in the slaughter of innocent Jews") has been a calamitous failure. It has not made Israel safer. As even center-right Israeli politicians like Tzipi Livni now recognize, it has resulted in Israel becoming increasingly isolated from the world, much of which now sees it as a pariah.
And Israel will not be given another 63 years. If it continues down this path, aided by its false "friends" in the U.S. who insist on fighting Hitler-redux to the last Israeli (and the last American), Israel is doomed. But if it abandons its self-defeating Holocaustology, it will be able to live in peace with its neighbors and join the world.
From the founding of Israel in the ashes of the Final Solution, the Holocaust has been at the core of Israel's national identity. That identity is affirmed every year, when at 10 in the morning, sirens are sounded for two minutes throughout Israel to commemorate the Holocaust. During those two minutes, everything comes to a standstill. Even the traffic on the road stops.
It is understandable that a people who suffered one of the most horrific genocides in human history would commemorate it, and vow never to allow it to happen again. But history is filled with ugly ironies, and sometimes the reaction to a trauma ensures that it keeps happening again.
A young Polish Jew named Ruth Grunkraut and her mother were shipped to Bergen-Belsen. Grunkraut's mother died just six days before the Allies liberated the camp. Before she died, she told her daughter, "You must live. You must live for me."
The annals of the Holocaust are filled with this same message: You must live.
An attack on Iran will be carried out in the name of the victims of the Holocaust. But that attack, rather than saving the Jewish state, will sound the death knell for it. Israel and its American supporters owe more to the millions of human beings whose last prayer, before their deaths, was that their children live.
Author miscellany101Posted on November 26, 2011 Categories UncategorizedTags Holocaust, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Iran-Iraq war, Iraq, Israel, Middle East, United StatesLeave a comment on Hitting the nail on the head
This is a disgrace America!
Former basketball great Walt Hazzard, aka Mahdi AbdurRahman passed away this month. What's significant and damnable at the same time is this part of his obituary that has spread throughout printed media
Hazzard is survived by wife Jaleesa, a Bruins song girl during the 1964 NCAA title season, and sons Yakub, Jalal, Khalil and Rasheed. During his NBA career, Hazzard converted to Islam and changed his name to Mahdi Abdul-Rahman. He felt the change was poorly received and cost him professional opportunities so he returned to using his given name professionally while remaining a devout Muslim.
Even in this day and age, where we proclaim our greatness as a Nation, people have their rights as American citizens infringed on solely because of their faith or race. With the world becoming more populated and hence smaller the exclusion of any segment of the law abiding citizenry of this country in the political, cultural, intellectual life of America is simply not acceptable!
Author miscellany101Posted on November 21, 2011 Categories UncategorizedTags Islam, Los Angeles Lakers, National Basketball Association, NBA, UCLA Bruins, United States, Walt Hazzard, YakubLeave a comment on This is a disgrace America!
The new face of neo-conism in America
Look carefully. This is the man who wants to lead America into another war, based on his lies that he has peddled to the press about Iran. He has managed to put himself in a position of influence who when things go haywire WILL NOT be held accountable by we the People or by the government. He is David Albright, one who has started a group with a really impressive sounding name, intent on fleecing the government out of as money as he can convince them to give him and fight a war only he thinks is worth fighting. Check out his latest piece of work
The report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) published by a Washington think tank Tuesday repeated the sensational claim previously reported by news media all over the world that a former Soviet nuclear weapons scientist had helped Iran construct a detonation system that could be used for a nuclear weapon.
But it turns out that the foreign expert, who is not named in the IAEA report [.pdf] but was identified in news reports as Vyacheslav Danilenko, is not a nuclear weapons scientist but one of the top specialists in the world in the production of nanodiamonds by explosives.
In fact, Danilenko, a Ukrainian, has worked solely on nanodiamonds from the beginning of his research career and is considered one of the pioneers in the development of nanodiamond technology, as published scientific papers confirm.
It now appears that the IAEA and David Albright, the director of the International Institute for Science and Security in Washington, who was the source of the news reports about Danilenko, never bothered to check the accuracy of the original claim by an unnamed "Member State" on which the IAEA based its assertion about his nuclear weapons background.
This was a characteristically sloppy piece of lying as far as neo-cons are concerned, but it was good enough a decade ago to get people to invade another perceived enemy for reasons that turned out to be a lie. If you check out the page for Albright's group, Institute for Science and International Security, you'll even see they have their own Ahmed Chalabi like enabler, Mahdi Obeidi to add legitimacy to an otherwise faulty premise that Iran has switched their nuclear program into a nuclear weapons program. This meme however has been repeated since the 90s, with each tale telling of the end of the world after Iran obtains nuclear weapons in the next several weeks or months. Twenty years on, the status quo still prevails,but that doesn't stop warmongers like Albright from peddling their stories of an imminent end of western civilization when Iran's nuclear program produces its first atomic weapon.
For now, and hopefully because of how sloppy he was, Albright's tale hasn't passed the smell test. Americans and Israelis seem to want to choose restraint and diplomacy over beating the war drums, perhaps as a way of saying they're not inclined to believe the neo-con line just now. Albright should no longer have an ear anywhere in the halls of government. He's an embarrassment; and to paraphrase Col. Lawrence Wilkerson's characterization of Douglas Feith another neo-con, 'seldom have I seen…………..a dumber man.'
Author miscellany101Posted on November 11, 2011 Categories UncategorizedTags David Albright, IAEA, Institute for Science and International Security, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Nuclear program of Iran, Nuclear weapon, United StatesLeave a comment on The new face of neo-conism in America
The death of two great sports heroes
Smoking Joe Frazier died on November 7, 2011 of cancer. He was professional boxing's model of a fighter in the ring and out, a no frills kind of competitor known especially for his confrontations with Muhammad Ali. He was also a gentleman, as far as boxers go, who upon retirement lived his life away from the public eye in a rather unspectacular, yet civil manner that a lot of people haven't been able to do. The greatest tragedy is that Frazier died at 67, a relatively young age of cancer, that scourge of a disease that we have yet to find a cure. I don't know if it's because of ineptitude, indifference, a sense of being overwhelmed by other more pressing medical issues that prevents us from finding a cure, but it's high time, in the second decade of the 21st century that we find a cure.
Years ago, then president John Kennedy issued a challenge to America and its government that we land on the moon, saying no single project will be more impressive to mankind. I wish Barack Obama would make a similar challenge to today's America to find a cure for cancers backing that challenge up, as Kennedy did, with the full force and weight of the American treasury. I know that Obama doesn't have the same compliant members of Congress that Kennedy had when he made his speech on May 25, 1961 and that's another tragedy that marks Frazier's death. Too many Americans, humans of all walks of life, have died from a disease that should be, could be curable were we to put our collective hearts, minds and resources into finding that cure. Why we don't is the biggest tragedy of all.
The second death to occur in sports was that of innocence after the shocking news that a former Penn State football coach had been indicted on 4o counts of alleged sexual abuse of young boys, men, in his care as founder of The Second Mile charity. The allegations are sordid, and Jerry Sandusky is presumed innocent, but the death of trust by a society so sports drenched to depend on athletic authorities to make the right decisions for athletes has been cemented with this latest news about Sandusky and by extension the Penn State football program. His indictment has taken down the athletic director, the head football coach, the longest serving coach in division A athletics and Penn State's president. It's also an awful indictment of how careless, cavalier and indifferent people in positions of authority in athletics towards those who they were responsible for. No parent, nor any athlete should ever look at a coach or sports administrator in the same way after this news; perhaps Charles Barkley was right when he eschewed the notion that he or any other athlete is a role model. Sandusky has proven they can be just as vile as any other citizen. Now might be the time for people to be responsible for themselves and their loved ones and not delegate that responsibility to athletic heroes.
My Summer at Penn State Football Camp with Jerry Sandusky (ballhyped.com)
Disgrace at Penn State (csmonitor.com)
"Smoking Joe" Frazier Dies of Liver Cancer at 67 (goodolewoody.wordpress.com)
Joe Frazier: A small heavyweight but a giant of a man (mirror.co.uk)
Author miscellany101Posted on November 11, 2011 Categories UncategorizedTags Barack Obama, Charles Barkley, Jerry Sandusky, Joe Frazier, Joe Paterno, Penn State, Penn State Nittany Lions football, United States1 Comment on The death of two great sports heroes
Israel's misplaced priorities
According to those who know, the folks pictured here are more of an existential threat to Israel than Iran.
Ynet reports (fuller Hebrew version) that Ephraim Halevy, a former Mossad director, said yesterday that Iran poses no "existential threat" to Israel and that attacking it must truly be a last resort. Anyone considering such a strike must realize that it would impact not just Israel, but the entire region for the next 100 years. If this was all Halevy said it would be important, but mere reinforcement of views already expressed forcefully by Meir Dagan, the most recent past Mossad chief. What renders the former's views even more interesting is that he identifies what he considers an even greater existential threat to Israel: the Haredim
Unfortunately such dire talk of the consequences of war with Iran and the more likely internal threat, much like what we face here in America, of a fifth column so ideologically extreme that it is parasitic in nature is not enough to scare Israeli leadership from wanting to go to war with Iran. Now that America is planning to withdraw from Iraq, some see the vacuum such a withdrawal brings as a golden opportunity to start another war. The war drums being beaten have reached a crescendo even as the world awaits word from the IAEA about Iran's nuclear intentions, which has previously signaled a nuclear inert Iran. Of course, Israel would love America to fight its battles; that has always been the way of business for the client state.
The present American administration, facing an increasingly rabid and conservative opposition from the GOP and always on the defense to prove its bona fides to a suspecting and doubtful electorate, might find itself easy prey to the idea of invading another Muslim country in order to secure the American homeland as well as the Israeli one. It's not surprising Israel is beating the war drums; it always has and always will. What's surprising is that anyone, after the last decade, is listening to them. What anyone who does needs to tell them the Israelis they need to get their own house in order.
Iran-Israel Opinion: Why Jerusalem Is Making War Noises (irannewpearlharbour.wordpress.com)
'US concerned Israel will act alone in Iran' – Ynetnews (news.google.com)
Author miscellany101Posted on November 5, 2011 Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on Israel's misplaced priorities
Terror from within
At the moment America is too consumed with news about Herman Cain's sexual predilections to hear or be interested in the the latest terror plot. It seems, sex sells even better than terror, or at least good enough to obscure news about terror. The fact that the defendants are not the types we like to associate with terror, although they are of the demographic that is more likely to be terrorists here in America than any Muslim, makes our fascination with their case even more fleeting if not downright non existent. Four men in their 60s and 70s have been charged with offenses that could only be considered terrorism given what it was they were accused of doing.
Federal authorities said the men held clandestine militia meetings, beginning in March, in which they discussed using toxic agents and assassinations to undermine federal and state government…
This will never get the play in the media that foreigners or foreign sounding terrorist names would get in the face of such revelations and that is one of the many problems with the politicization of terrorism in today's America. The four defendants aren't just some cranky old men hatching another isolated incident of terror inspired violence on America, they are a side of America which has always been around and views change as violent and necessarily so.
During the 60s and 70s people of similar mindset were paraded in front of our televisions and on the front pages of our newspapers as threats to our society, and politicians made their political fortune denouncing the likes of the Black Panthers, SDS, SNCC, SCLC and other alphabet soup organizations that we were told posed an imminent threat to our democracy. These organizations and the people that participated in their activities bore the full brunt of an enraged federal government and its police agencies that trampled on their rights, spied on and at times even killed them because some one said it was necessary and the right thing to do and very few of us flinched nor protested. Rather we cheered on and elected those politicians who said such actions were necessary in order to preserve the social order. That was the same response we had to the cries from neocons about the clash of civilizations meme.
Somehow we are not quite able to see the threat the same way when it's presented to us in the form of four senior citizen white males who are members of groups we've been told since the beginning of the Obama Administration were equally vicious and threatening to the American fabric. (On a side note, I wonder how vociferous would our denunciation be if Obama decided to unilaterally send a drone attack over one of the meetings these four defendants had to hatch their plots and killed them and any of their relatives?) Our minds still seem to be focused only on the dark, seedy,murderous, savage fundamentalist Muslims who want to destroy what we stand for because they are unable to reach the greatness that is America. Such imagery when attached to anything evokes a response of horror and disgust, revulsion and abject rejection even when that thing is notable and essential to the life of our Nation. How else can we look at our indifference to the various Occupy movements spreading across the country, and the hostility they face from political leaders and members of the media who conjure up images of opponents of a bygone era or radical associations of a more recent time.
This is the story that will probably not receive the attention it deserves, not because these men wanted to overthrow the country….they couldn't, or not because they are symptoms of a wider problem, they are but we are a country of over 300 million people and we've got a lot of problems. This story deserves attention because there are too many people who believe that in order to defend this country they have to go out and kill somebody to do it. How did we get to this point that people like 73 year old Frederick Thomas think, 'when it comes to saving the Constitution, that means some people gotta die." Perhaps, his time would have been better spent joining #OccupyWallStreet in Atlanta where he could have affected real change rather than plotting acts of terror that would only lead, as it has, to his own ruin.
Author miscellany101Posted on November 3, 2011 Categories UncategorizedTags Black Panthers, Government, Herman Cain, Islamophobia, Muslim, Obama, Obama administration, Politics, terrorism, United States, War on terror, Warfare and Conflict1 Comment on Terror from within


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I'm Just Trying to Get it How I Live: Kevin Gates' Triumphant Islah
Doc Zeus explains how Kevin Gates' found mainstream success without pandering to mainstream crowds.
By DocZeus February 9, 2016
Doc Zeus soundtracked Peyton Manning's postgame speech with Luca Brasi 2.
It's easy to feel pessimistic about the the music business. The winners and losers feel coldly deterministic, as if every prospective artist must scramble to appease some capricious god or risk being ground up by the music industry into a gelatinous pink slime. Like any form of capitalism, success in the music industry is never be completely based on merit. The right co-sign is invariably as important as great music.
The one true talent of the media industrial complex is perpetuating the success of the already successful. There are never many surprises on what artists get to reach the top (and stay there) when you see how the music industry is generally covered by the media that supports it. On Twitter, you can count the amount of fawning fanboyish reviews from "influential industry tastemakers™" the instant Popular Rapper X releases a new mixtape in real-time. After all, what is the hive beyond a defense for its regent?
But a funny thing happened when the weekly album sales report was released last Friday. To the surprise of many rap fans, music journalists, and industry figures alike, Louisiana rapper Kevin Gates's commercial debut, Islah, sold an astonishing 112,000 records, landing Gates at No. 3 on the Billboard charts and putting him within spitting distance of industry titans Rihanna and Adele. To come so close to toppling two of the most massive artists in entertainment (a mere 502 units separate Gates from Adele for the number two spot) can be seen as a jolt to the entire industry, considering how little hype Kevin Gates received in the weeks before the release of the album—a week that megastar Rihanna dropped a heavily anticipated album ANTI that's coverage dwarfed the coverage for Islah.
Kevin Gates has been a genuine cult phenomenon in the south for the last several years, but the closest thing to mainstream notoriety he's enjoyed was admitting to accidentally sleeping with his biological cousin to kicking a female fan at a concert. These actions ultimately took the focus away from the consistently dope music he's released in recent years.
Selling over 100,000 albums was a refreshing surprise to many such as myself who thought that Gates' music was overshadowed by his more in vogue contemporaries, Future and Young Thug. The surprise triumph of Islah can be seen as the fruit of Gates' devotion to crafting a loyal audience, independent of mainstream hype, based instead on his tireless touring and the consistent release of his popular underground mixtapes.
So what makes Kevin Gates's music so appealing to his fans that they would show out to support him in such large numbers? I believe it starts with his fearless honesty. Gates has a candid dedication to the truth unlike any rapper working today—he's a gangster rapper who is equally unafraid to delve into his personal struggles with depression and lack of self-esteem, as he is to admit his unconventional sexual desires. Modern rap is littered with rappers who pay lip service to emotional honesty as a marketing device but unlike the disingenuous, passive-aggressive slut shaming raps of Drake or even Future's ex-wife pettiness anthems, Gates' is unafraid of turning a broken mirror inward.
He often raps as if he actually LIKES the girls in question (a novel concept I know), even when he admits that he's far too damaged of an individual to fully reciprocate the way he knows he should. People can feel that because it's human. He's not just using a falsetto or an alien auto-tune as a proxy for real emotion when it comes to his songwriting. There's real empathy in his music that can be palpably felt.
Islah might be Kevin Gates' most accomplished, brazenly honest album to date. Released in conjunction with Atlantic Records and his Bread Winners' Association imprint, Islah offers Gates' trademark melodically confessional songwriting but with subtle mainstream play to gain new fans beyond his core base.
Unlike many official major label debuts though, Islah isn't littered with many nakedly crossover big name guests or songs that read like awkward industry compromises. Nothing on the album forces the issue in its attempt to be broadly appealing. It's all classic Kevin Gates. In fact, the two biggest tracks on the album, "Really Really" and "2 Phones," are the most street-oriented songs on the entire album. Instead, there is a stronger focus as ever on catchy, earworm hooks and artful songwriting that deals with the complicated and often ugly relationships that exist in his life.
Gates never shies away from uncomfortable subjects. "The Truth" addresses the ugly incident in a Florida club where he brutally kicked a female fan on stage when she attempted to grab his crotch during a performance (The fan pressed charges with the authorities after the incident.). Gates gives his side of the story, taking blame for his violent overreaction and apologizing.
Other humanizing moments like "Told Me" gives us insight into why Gates is like he is. On the track, he expertly narrates the frustrating circumstances of his life that leads to terrible thoughts of suicide and his struggle with depression. Not that the entire album is all depressive doom. "Ain't Too Hard" is be a sweetly devotional ballad and the album's two lead singles, "2 Phones" and "Really Really," are anthemic street singles of the highest order.
The music might be moody but it's never melodramatic, employing minor key piano and synths that are typical of his catalog while stil taking the opportunity to throw the occasional curveball. "Hard For" effectively utilizes an alt-rock acoustic guitar and a stomping percussive track to a tell tale of tumultuous but devoted monogamy. "You're the only one that my dick will get hard for/I'm confused what the fuck you want my heart for" are classic Kevin Gates lyrics at one moment both charmingly scatological and deeply poignant.
Kevin Gates has one of the most versatile voices in all of rap music. He's capable of transforming the natural gravelly drawl of his rapping voice into a sweetly melodic singing voice in an instant. His mastery of both cadences gives him a decisive edge over many of his contemporaries, allowing him to seamlessly blend hard-edge technical mastery with a softer side. Islah showcases the versatility of his voice to great effect.
You can easily count Islah as rap's first great album of the year and it shouldn't be forgotten when it is time to add up scorecards at year's end. Kevin Gates has done a remarkable job translating his status as modern cult hero in the South into an artist that can go toe-for-toe with music's heavyweights on the charts strictly on the strength of a devoted following. The next step is to see if a genuine oddball like Kevin Gates can sustain this success and become a mainstream star. Gates undeniably has the charisma and songwriting chops to make it happen, but it has yet to be seen if all music fans are ready for an artist that doesn't pander to the worst instincts of millennial ennui. Can you get over on the strength of being really, really real? Let's see if the next hundred thousand sales say yes.


This fifth piece of my series is done with a technique I learned at a two days class with Katie Pasquini Masopust.
She does two ways of applique; with cardboard or with fusible web. I did this piece with fusible web.
In the design is a certain shape, between two lines or some other shape like I did with a circle. In the circle the lines continue, but the color changes.
The quilting is done in threadpainting with rayon.
I really enjoyed making this series. My goal was to use several techniques I learned from other quilters at classes I did in the past. My color scheme was blue/purple for the pansies and green for the background and leaves.
I love this final piece, the coloured circle is a great addition and ties back to the colours in original one. This was a great subject choice and you have produced a wonderful series. There is always such attention to detail, lovely!
Your theme choice was not an easy one because you had to work with only one type of flower. But your series is a success ! I really like this last one and the way you have introduced Katie Pasquini Masopust technique is interesting.
I really love your series Greetje, and this last piece is a beautiful way to end. Great idea to use the same color combination and the same subject to realize your series, and the way you used the techniques you learned over the years. A tribute to your teachers and big compliments for the student, you did a wonderful job. Love both the details and the stitching you showed.
I have to agree with all the comment, and the addition of the circle was ingenious it add so much interest. Bravo on your series.
Lovely collection! I really like the flow of your series. Coming in at the end I have looked at the entire series of works more than on each individual piece. Your series is a real cohesive group of works. Bravo!
Same here! I agree with all the comment above. What a stunning series, Greetje! You give new life and charm to these Pansy flowers.
I love this last piece. You have made the pansy look so lifelike. The colors and patterns work perfectly together. And the whole series is really unified especially when displayed together as on this page.
This is another wonderful pansy Greetje and since I saw it "in reall" I know it is even more beautiful as shown in the photograph. I love how all your colors come together and especcialy that the circle of your third quilt quilt comes back in your last one.
Nice! I also agree with all the above comments. Loved the way you incorporated all the techniques you've learned over the years and how your series flows together. It has come full circle.
I love all of your pansies, the series is beautiful. I like the effect you've created with the circle in this last piece – a technique I must try sometime.


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Q: function declaration returns undefined here is the code:
   function findMin(min, max){
   console.log(Math.min(min,max) +100);
   }
   console.log(findMin(2,3));

However,along with the result ,it gives "undefined". Why is that?

A:
However,along with the result ,it gives "undefined".

This is because the function is not explicitly returning any value.In that case it will always return undefined
Instead of consoling inside the function return the value

function findMin(min, max) {
  return (Math.min(min, max) + 100);
}
console.log(findMin(2, 3));

A: console.log always returns undefined, in addition - you're not explicitly returning a specific value.  Instead, you should return the value itself, like:
function findMin(min, max){
  return Math.min(min,max) + 100;
}
console.log(findMin(2,3));

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Insurance in the U.S. is a big deal that's regulated like a small deal. Insurance premiums paid each year equal about 7 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product, and companies such as American International Group (AIG) and Prudential Financial (PRU) rank among the biggest financial institutions in the country. Yet oversight of them and other insurers is fragmented among 50 states. Instead of a well-financed Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., policyholders of insurance companies that fail have no safety net except 50 state guaranty associations.
Insurers have avoided federal regulation by arguing that their business is safe and sleepy. Only two insurers, AIG and Prudential, have been officially designated by the Financial Stability Oversight Council as systemically important financial institutions (MetLife (MET) is expected to join the roster). But the insurance business is changing. Insurers are becoming more bank-like in the sense that their liabilities (the money they raise from lenders and investors) are becoming more like bank deposits: short-term and unstable.


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jQuery().ready(function(){

	// theme switcher
	if ($('#switcher').length)
	{
	  $('#switcher').themeswitcher();
	}

  // all hover and click logic for buttons
  $(".fg-button:not(.ui-state-disabled)")
  .hover(
      function(){
          $(this).addClass("ui-state-hover");
      },
      function(){
          $(this).removeClass("ui-state-hover");
      }
  )
  .mousedown(function(){
          $(this).parents('.fg-buttonset-single:first').find(".fg-button.ui-state-active").removeClass("ui-state-active");
          if( $(this).is('.ui-state-active.fg-button-toggleable, .fg-buttonset-multi .ui-state-active') ){$(this).removeClass("ui-state-active");}
          else {$(this).addClass("ui-state-active");}
  })
  .mouseup(function(){
      if(! $(this).is('.fg-button-toggleable, .fg-buttonset-single .fg-button,  .fg-buttonset-multi .fg-button') ){
          $(this).removeClass("ui-state-active");
      }
  });

	/*
		Javascript for list view only
	*/
	if ($('.sf_admin_list').length)
	{
		// actions menu on list view
		$('#sf_admin_actions_button').menu({
			content: $('#sf_admin_actions_menu').html(),
			showSpeed: 300
		});

		// filter button to show the modal window of available filters
		$('#sf_admin_filter_button')
			.addClass('sf_button-toggleable')
			.click(function(e) {
			  e.preventDefault();
				$('.sf_admin_filter').dialog('isOpen') ? $('.sf_admin_filter').dialog('close') : $('.sf_admin_filter').dialog('open');
			});

		// modal window for filters
		$('.sf_admin_filter').dialog({
			autoOpen: false,
			width: 600,
			close: function(evt, ui){
				$('#sf_admin_filter_button').removeClass('ui-state-active');
			},
			open: function(evt,ui){
				$('#sf_admin_filter_reset, #sf_admin_filter_submit').hide();
				$('#sf_admin_filter_button').addClass('ui-state-active');
			},
			buttons: {
				"Filter": function() {
					$(this).dialog("close");
					$('#sf_admin_filter_submit').parents('form').submit();
				},
				"Reset": function() {
					$(this).dialog("close");
					location.href = $('#sf_admin_filter_reset').attr('href');
				}
			}
		});

		// toggle table visibility on caption title
		$('.sf_admin_list caption h1').click(function(){
		  $('.sf_admin_list table tbody, .sf_admin_list table thead, .sf_admin_list table tfoot').toggle();
		});

		// mouseover and click on table row
		$('.sf_admin_list table tbody tr')
		.hover(
			function() {
			  $(this).addClass('ui-state-hover');
			},
			function() {
			  $(this).removeClass('ui-state-hover');
			}
		)
		.click(function(e) {
			// change row color
			$(this).toggleClass('ui-state-highlight');
			// change checkbox status
			var chx = $(this).find('input:checkbox');
			if ($(this).hasClass('ui-state-highlight')) $(chx).attr('checked','checked');
			else $(chx).removeAttr('checked');
		});

    // batch actions
    $('.sf_admin_batch_actions_choice select').selectmenu({
      style: 'dropdown',
      width: 200
    });
	}

	/*
		Javascript for form view only
	*/
	if ($('.sf_admin_form').length)
	{
    // tabs for form edition
    $('#sf_admin_form_tab_menu').tabs().addClass('ui-tabs-vertical ui-helper-clearfix');
    $('#sf_admin_form_tab_menu li').removeClass('ui-corner-top').addClass('ui-corner-all');

    // default size for input
    $('input[type="text"], input[type="password"]').each(function(){
      if ($(this).attr('size') == 0 || $(this).attr('size') == 20) {
        $(this).attr({ size: 60 });
      }
    });

    // default size for textarea
    $('textarea').each(function(){
      if ($(this).attr('rows') == 4 && $(this).attr('cols') == 30) {
        $(this).attr({ cols: 58, rows: 5 });
      }
    });

    // added focused state to inputs
    $(':input')
    .focus(function() {
			//$(this).closest('.sf_admin_form_row').addClass('focused ui-state-active ui-corner-all');
			//$(this).closest('.sf_admin_form_row').addClass('focused ui-state-default ui-corner-all');
			$(this).closest('.sf_admin_form_row:not(.ui-state-error)').addClass('focused ui-state-highlight ui-corner-all');
		})
		.blur(function() {
			//$(this).closest('.sf_admin_form_row').removeClass('focused ui-state-active ui-corner-all');
			//$(this).closest('.sf_admin_form_row').removeClass('focused ui-state-default ui-corner-all');
			$(this).closest('.sf_admin_form_row:not(.ui-state-error)').removeClass('focused ui-state-highlight ui-corner-all');
		});

		// check error messages in all tabs
		$('.ui-tabs-panel:has(span.ui-icon-alert)').each(function(i) {
		  $('.ui-tabs-nav a[href=#' + this.id + ']').prepend('');
		});
	}

    // Buttons
    $('#sf_admin_filters_buttons')
          .buttonset();
    $('.sf_admin_actions_form a, .sf_admin_actions_form button, .sf_admin_td_actions a,  #sf_admin_filters_buttons a')
      .each(function() {
        $(this)
          .button({
          icons: {
            // Extracts icon name from class attribute
            primary: this.className.match(/ui-icon-[\S]+/)
          }
        })
        // To create buttons with rounded corners remove the following line
        .removeClass('ui-corner-all');

        if($(this).hasClass('disabled'))
        {
          $(this).button('disable');
        }
      });
});

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package gov.nist.csd.pm.common.net;

/**
 * This class defines an enumeration of PM item types.  The following types are:

<tt>BINARY</tt> A binary payload stream sent by either a client or a server.
<tt>CMD_ARG</tt> A command argument sent by a client to a server.
<tt>CMD_CODE</tt> A command sent by a client to a server.
<tt>RESPONSE_ERROR</tt> A response sent by a server to a client  indicating that an error occurred on the server with respect to the client's previous request.
<tt>RESPONSE_SUCCESS</tt> A response sent by a server to a client indicating that an operation was successful with respect to the client's previous request.
<tt>RESPONSE_TEXT</tt> A response sent by a server to a client containing data relevant to the client's previous request.

 * @author  steveq@nist.gov
 * @version  $Revision: 1.1 $, $Date: 2008/07/16 17:02:57 $
 * @since  6.0
 */
public enum ItemType {

	/* If you add more items here, be sure to also add in getType() below! */

	/* Since commands and responses are basically the same now that we
	 * are allowing clients to send files to the server, we can simplify this
	 * by not distinguishing between 'CMD' and 'RESPONSE' and just have
	 * 'MESSAGE' or 'MSG'.  However, because Serban has already started
	 * integration with PM, I will hold off on making this change.
	 */
	/**
	 * @uml.property  name="bINARY"
	 * @uml.associationEnd
	 */
	BINARY(0, "BINARY"),  	// For file or binary stream payloads
	/**
	 * @uml.property  name="cMD_ARG"
	 * @uml.associationEnd
	 */
	CMD_ARG(1, "CMD_ARG"),
	/**
	 * @uml.property  name="cMD_CODE"
	 * @uml.associationEnd
	 */
	CMD_CODE(2, "Used to indicate a command."),
	/**
	 * @uml.property  name="rESPONSE_ERROR"
	 * @uml.associationEnd
	 */
	RESPONSE_ERROR(3, "RESPONSE_ERROR"),
	/**
	 * @uml.property  name="rESPONSE_SUCCESS"
	 * @uml.associationEnd
	 */
	RESPONSE_SUCCESS(4, "RESPONSE_SUCCESS"),
	/**
	 * @uml.property  name="rESPONSE_TEXT"
	 * @uml.associationEnd
	 */
	RESPONSE_TEXT(5, "RESPONSE_TEXT"),
	/**
	 * @uml.property  name="rESPONSE_DNR"
	 * @uml.associationEnd
	 */
	RESPONSE_DNR(6, "RESPONSE_DNR"); // do not respond

	/**
	 * The int value for this item type.
	 * @uml.property  name="type"
	 */
	private int type = -1;

	/**
	 * The description of this item type.
	 * @uml.property  name="description"
	 */
	private String description = "";

	/**
	 * Construct an item type.
	 *
	 * @param type
	 *            The int value of this item type.
	 * @param description
	 *            The description of this item type.
	 */
	ItemType(int type, String description) {

		this.type = type;
		this.description = description;

	}

	/**
	 * Get the int value of this item type.
	 *
	 * @return The int value of this item type.
	 */
	protected int intValue() {

		return type;

	}

	/**
	 * Get the description of this item type.
	 *
	 * @return The description of this item type.
	 */
	public String toString() {

		return description;

	}

        public String toPrefix() {
          switch (type) {
            case 0:
                  return "BIN";
            case 1:
                  return "ARG";
            case 2:
                  return "CMD";
            case 3:
                  return "ERR";
            case 4:
                  return "SUC";
            case 5:
                  return "TXT";
            case 6:
                  return "DNR";
            default:
                  return "UNK";
          }
        }

        /**
	 * Get the item type given its byte representation.
	 *
	 * @param b The byte representation of the item type.
	 * @return The item type for the byte representation.
	 */
	public static ItemType getType(byte b) {

		int i = b & 0xFF;

		switch (i) {

		case 0:
			return ItemType.BINARY;
		case 1:
			return ItemType.CMD_ARG;
		case 2:
			return ItemType.CMD_CODE;
		case 3:
			return ItemType.RESPONSE_ERROR;
		case 4:
			return ItemType.RESPONSE_SUCCESS;
		case 5:
			return ItemType.RESPONSE_TEXT;
		case 6:
			return ItemType.RESPONSE_DNR;
		default:
			return null;

		}

	}

}


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HomeNewsCold Lake Teacher wins Award
Cold Lake Teacher wins Award
By Chris Hunter
Thursday, Oct. 8th, 2015
Congratulations are in order for Cold Lake Outreach School Teacher Don Moore, who has won an Innovation and Achievement Award from the Outreach Education Council.
Moore won the award for creating the Tough N Talking or TNT program at Cold Lake Outreach.
The program started as a class for male students that covered topics such as social skills,sex education, confidence and communication skills. The program has been so successful that a version for female students with its own approach has been adopted as well. In total just under 40 students are now participating in the program on a weekly basis.


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YO LP, Often as am sure others reading this think of what you would be doing today. I am not exactly sure but know that the same 'always in a good mood and happy' LP would be roaming the life. It has been a long time but it feels like yesterday that we were crashing the parties, eating at Angelo Maxies, or just hanging and smiling. My kids know much about you and often speak of you. Love ya kid and miss you plenty.
Saw your mom this past week. She's the best. Miss you Larry.
Happy Birthday Laurence....You are always in our hearts. We miss you.
wish you were here. happy birthday. always always thinking of you kid.
Happy birthday LP! Thinking of you always.
Thinking of you -- not just on this anniversary -- but this one does hold a special meaning. Rest in peace, and blessings to your family.
Said a prayer for you as your name was read. Rest in peace. I am sure you have been making people laugh for the past 10 years in another place! You will never be forgotten!
It's hard to imagine ten years have passed.We,the levis, all send you our thoughts and hope you have found some peace in your lives.
We miss you LP, and we'll never forget you.


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Latest The Junior Clerk Vacancies Board of Revenue Punjab Jobs 2022
Latest The Junior Clerk Vacancies Board of Revenue Punjab Jobs 2022. Life Academy informs you that Board of Revenue Punjab announced various jobs. Details of this appointment are available in PPSC Advertisement No. 29. Punjab Public Service Commission PPSC invites online applications from residents of Punjab (Male, Female, and Transgender). Selected persons will be posted in Punjab Board of Revenue Lahore. Read the entire Life Academy page to understand the application process. Candidates applying for this recruitment should have Higher Secondary School Certificate (2nd Class) from a recognized board and computer typing speed of 25 words per minute in English and should have proficiency in Microsoft Office application, and should have such proficiency. Will demonstrate. Interested candidates who want to apply online visit PPSC website and apply online (https://www.ppsc.gop.pk/). The details of these vacancies are given in PPSC Jobs Advertisement No. 29.
Board of Revenue Punjab
22 Junior Clerk posts are opening, including one seat for minority quota, 17 seats for women quota, and four posts for Board of Revenue employees.
Candidates applying for this recruitment should possess Higher Secondary School Certificate (2nd Class) from a recognized board and computer typing speed of 25 words per minute in English and should be proficient in Microsoft Office application, and should be will demonstrate the skills of
Interested candidates who want to apply online should visit PPSC website and apply online (https://www.ppsc.gop.pk/). The details of these vacancies are given in PPSC Jobs Advertisement No. 29.
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package jadx.tests.integration.trycatch;

import java.util.List;

import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import jadx.core.dex.nodes.ClassNode;
import jadx.core.dex.visitors.DepthTraversal;
import jadx.core.dex.visitors.IDexTreeVisitor;
import jadx.tests.api.IntegrationTest;

import static jadx.tests.api.utils.JadxMatchers.containsOne;
import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;

public class TestTryCatchFinally3 extends IntegrationTest {

	public static class TestCls {
		private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(TestCls.class);

		public static void test(ClassNode cls, List<IDexTreeVisitor> passes) {
			try {
				cls.load();
				for (IDexTreeVisitor visitor : passes) {
					DepthTraversal.visit(visitor, cls);
				}
			} catch (Exception e) {
				LOG.error("Class process exception: {}", cls, e);
			} finally {
				cls.unload();
			}
		}
	}

	@Test
	public void test() {
		ClassNode cls = getClassNode(TestCls.class);
		String code = cls.getCode().toString();

		assertThat(code, containsOne("for (IDexTreeVisitor visitor : passes) {"));

		assertThat(code, containsOne("} catch (Exception e) {"));
		assertThat(code, containsOne("LOG.error(\"Class process exception: {}\", cls, e);"));

		assertThat(code, containsOne("} finally {"));
		assertThat(code, containsOne("cls.unload();"));
	}
}


It seems that everyone is on the quest for perfectly dewy and glowing skin, but how do you actually get it? If the frustration of buying and trying out product after product and seeing zero difference is all too familiar to you, it's likely that you're looking for the wrong products for your fix.
As the demand for effective self-care and beauty solutions continues to grow, so does the research behind what actually works. This research can help you determine what's worth investing your money and time into. Here are some of 2018's hottest skin care trends to try out so you too can experience dewy and glowing skin.
The natural approach to skincare is by no means a new trend, but it continues to be a strong one. Natural ingredients in skincare can offer a wide variety of benefits without the risk and impact of harsh chemicals and parabens. In particular, olive skin care and other farm-grown ingredients can hydrate the skin in a way that's safe and effective. With a variety of olive skin care products out there, you can buy the perfect balm to get your skin from 'no' to 'glow'. Next time you're shopping around for a moisturizer that truly nourishes your face and skin, explore the available olive skin care options – your complexion and body will thank you for it.
In combination with a good skin care routine, taking a trip to your local skin care clinic for a lunchtime microdermabrasion treatment might just be what you need to turn your less than desirable skin texture into an amazing, glowing and hydrated complexion. Microdermabrasion is used by beauty gurus across the world due to its excellent exfoliating and rejuvenation benefits. It can also assist with a number of skin conditions, such as acne and scarring. It's particularly important to invest some time into proper exfoliation like microdermabrasion if you're subjecting your skin to cosmetics and makeup frequently.
Forget the serums and tablets – collagen now comes in a convenient drinkable form, meaning you can look after your skin at any time in your busy day. Drinkable collagen supplements are an easy and quick way to boost the main structural protein in your skin – collagen, the protein responsible for elasticity and plumpness. These drinks are also often packed with other beneficial ingredients, including vitamins, proteins, and antioxidants, making them a great choice for those seeking healthier and better-looking skin.
While it's all well and good to take care of your skin and body, many people fail to give their under eyes the attention and love they truly deserve. The skin around the eyes is naturally thinner, which makes it vulnerable to an array of skin issues, from puffiness and discoloration through to lines and wrinkles. Dark circles, fine lines and puffy eyes can all be targeted with products that encourage a cooling or smoothing reaction. Look for cucumber, caffeine, collagen or olive skin care products to target these eye problems.


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Torn Arteries è il settimo album in studio del gruppo musicale inglese Carcass, pubblicato il 17 settembre 2021 dalla Nuclear Blast.

Tracce

Formazione

Gruppo
Jeff Walker – voce, basso
Bill Steer – chitarra, voce addizionale
Tom Draper – chitarra
Daniel Wilding – batteria

Classifiche

Note

Collegamenti esterni

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"Come along, come along, ye masters and men, Haste ye hither whate'er ben, Or young or old, or high or low, Ye all must to the dance house go!"
A poem from a German medieval dance-of-death woodcut, the 'dance-house' it refers to is death, was in part the inspiration for David Bintely's ballet of the same name. Bintley invited Robert Heindel to design the set and constumes for this most powerful ballet which was premiered early in 1995 by the San Fancisco Ballet.