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Predicting Her Arrest, Reformist Activist Wrote Letters Criticizing Rouhani's Failure to Protect Citizens
Reformist journalist Hengameh Shahidi.
Hengameh Shahidi, a reformist senior member of the Etemad Melli (National Trust) opposition party, has decried her arrest as part of a crackdown by hardliners on reformists ahead of Iran's upcoming presidential election. In two open letters, she also criticized President Hassan Rouhani, who will be running for re-election on May 19, 2017, for failing to protect citizen's rights.
Anticipating her arrest, which occurred on March 9, 2017, the former journalist had pre-composed two letters and arranged to have them published after she was detained.
In the first letter, published on her Instagram page on March 11, Shahidi said she was being targeted "as part of a project to arrest political activists and journalists before the presidential election so that the designated candidate (of hardliner's) could be guaranteed a victory, just like in the 2009 election."
"You were supposed to be a breath of fresh air for reformists after the oppressive years under (President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad, and not choke the air out of them to become president like he did," she wrote in the second letter published on March 15.
Rouhani's election in 2013 would not have been possible without the support of reformist leaders.
The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned that Shahidi, who lives in Tehran, was arrested by security agents in the city of Mashhad on her way to her grandmother's funeral on March 9. In Evin Prison in Tehran she was taken to Ward 209, which is controlled by the Intelligence Ministry.
She informed her family during a short phone conversation on March 11 that she had been detained, but the charges against her, if any, remain unknown.
Shahidi was a reporter for the reformist Norooz newspaper and an adviser to Mehdi Karroubi, the Etemad Melli party's candidate in the disputed 2009 presidential election.
Karroubi, former presidential candidate Mir Hosseini Mousavi, and Zahra Rahnavard have been under extrajudicial house arrest since 2011 for challenging the validity of the 2009 election and leading mass street demonstrations that came to be known as the Green Movement.
In the March 15 letter, Shahidi called on Rouhani, as the head of the executive branch, to "stand against the pointless, fabricated cases brought against journalists and political, civil and social activists in the country."
While poking fun at his law degree, she also pointed out Rouhani's hypocritical stance of constantly touting his Citizen's Rights Charter while extrajudicial arrests happen regularly under his watch.
"Please tell us where in the charter does it say a suspect can be arrested without a written order?" she wrote. "Where does it say a suspect's family members can be threatened and harassed?"
In the March 11 letter, Shahidi described the charter, which Rouhani signed in December 2016, as "only a deceptive slogan for international consumption" because in reality "all political suspects are sent to unlawful detention centers on security charges and humiliated in the worst way."
She also discussed her recent expulsion from a staff position at a university south of Tehran: "Where in the charter does it say a university academic can be denied the right to teach and threatened with an acid attack and issued an arrest order by the parliamentary Committee of National Security Affairs and other agencies in order to silence her?"
Shahidi was fired from her position as an international law instructor at the Varamin-Pishva Islamic Open University after teaching only two classes on the first day of the fall term on October 10, 2016.
The day before Shahidi was sacked, a local hardline news site posted an article saying it was "regrettable" that someone who was convicted in connection with the 2009 "sedition" had been chosen "as a professor for shaping the future builders of Islamic Iran."
Iranian officials have consistently referred to the peaceful protests that followed the disputed 2009 election as the "sedition."
On June 30, 2009, soon after Karroubi, Mousavi and Rahnavard disputed the legitimacy of Ahmadinejad's re-election, Shahidi was arrested and sentenced to six years in prison by Judge Yahya Pirabbasi of Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court for "propagating against the regime," "acting against national security" and "insulting the president."
In June 2012 she was granted conditional release on medical grounds.
In recent months, several journalists have been arrested for unknown reasons by the Intelligence Ministry or the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) Intelligence Organization.
Tahereh Riahi, the social affairs editor of the state-funded Borna News Agency, has been held in Evin Prison since December 27, 2016 without access to legal counsel.
Zeinab Karimian, a producer for the state-run "Salam Khorshid" (Hello Sun) television show and former reporter for the official Islamic Republic News Agency, was arrested by security agents on January 23, 2017. Very little information is known about her condition or case.
Reformist journalist Ehsan Mazandarani was shocked with a Taser stun gun by the IRGC's Intelligence Organization on March 11 and taken to Evin Prison, less than a month after he completed his prison sentence for "assembly and collusion against national security" and "propaganda against the state."
Reformist political commentator Issa Saharkhiz and centrist commentator Afarin Chitsaz, a columnist for the Iran newspaper, the official publication of the Rouhani administration, have been imprisoned since November 2, 2015 after being arrested in the largest wave of arrests by the IRGC since 2009.
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Amy Remeikis reports in the Brisbane Times (25.6.16) on the government's moves to secure more state land as protected areas.
What happened to debate over the environment?
Catholic church thinking big on fossil fuel divestment?


Rumination can explain a lot about the cow's health and feeding behaviour. But in outdoor grazing systems, rumination is difficult to measure. An automatic system to do this has been put to the test.
A team of Swiss researchers evaluated and validated an automatic jaw movement recorder (RumiWatch, hereafter called RWS) for ingestive and rumination behaviours of dairy cows during grazing and supplementation in the barn. The results have been published in the Journal of Dairy Science.
The data were collected from an experiment carried out with 18 lactating Holstein cows in a crossover block design including 3 treatments and 3 measuring periods. All cows grazed night and day, 19 h/d, and were either unsupplemented or supplemented, with chopped whole-plant corn silage, or chopped whole-plant corn silage mixed with a protein concentrate. During the measuring periods, cows were equipped with the RumiWatch Halter, and their ingestive and rumination behaviours were recorded concurrently by the RumiWatch Halter and by direct observation (690 × 10 min).
Comparison of concurrently measured data showed that the RWS detected jaw movements reliably, but classification errors occurred. A low relative prediction error of ≤0.10 for the number of rumination boluses, rumination chews, and total eating chews was found. A high relative prediction error of >0.10 was found for the number of prehension bites and time spent in prehension and eating. Both converter versions performed equally well in differentiating ingestive and rumination behaviours when cows were supplemented in the barn or when grazing and supplementation activities were combined. For grazing cows, with no supplementation, more reliable results for the total number of eating chews, rumination chews, prehension bites, and time spent in these activities were obtained, by using the RumiWatch Converter 0.7.3.11.
Based on these findings, the researchers suggest to do more research to improve the accuracy of the RWS and to allow a differentiation between mastication chews and prehension bites while eating.


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Gaddafi tent leaks reveal Qatari "conspiracy" against Saudi Arabia
By : Marwa Mahmoud
A recorded new leak revealed more details about the conspiracy of the former Emir of Qatar Hamad bin Khalifa and former Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim in cooperation with former Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi for what they called "the division of Saudi Arabia into several countries."
The recording stated that Hamad bin Khalifa said that Houthis want to rule the Hijaz, but that former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh did not respond to them, according to Hamad bin Jassim.
The recorded leak stated:
Hamad bin Jassim: "they didn't leave any one of their neighbors unless they took a piece of land from them."
Gaddafi: "Oh, I told you a big country … a big country that must expand … and it must impose its influence."
Hamad bin Khalifa: "even, the Americans and British played a bad role ."
Gaddafi: "it should be drvided into state of Hijaz , state of Nged,state of Al-Ahsa, and Al-Qassim … after that it is possible to find balance."
Hamad bin Khalifa: "These Houthis consider Hijaz as their state."
Gaddafi: "it should be."
Hamad bin Jassim: "The problem is with our friend … but brother Ali, God is easy for him, not satisfied."
Last week, a source revealed to the Kuwaiti newspaper, Al-Qabas, that the State Security Agency at the Ministry of Interior referred former MP Mubarak Al-Duwailah and Kuwaiti extremist Hakim Al-Mutairi to the Public Prosecution, due to the leaks with former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, which is famous for records of "Gaddafi's Tent."
The source confirmed to Al-Qabas newspaper that there is more than one charge against Al-Duwailah and Al-Mutairi, one of which was broadcasting false news.
And the file of the recordings of Al-Duwailah with Gaddafi, which revealed a plan to destabilize the security of the Gulf and Egypt, is still interacting.
Audio leaks published about the Brotherhood's meeting with Gaddafi in Libya talked about the situation in the region, especially the Gulf States.
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Posted on October 29, 2021 by Scott Johnson in Biden Administration, Illegal immigration
Bordering on insanity: Payout edition
The Wall Street Journal reports:
The Biden administration is in talks to offer immigrant families that were separated during the Trump administration around $450,000 a person in compensation, according to people familiar with the matter, as several agencies work to resolve lawsuits filed on behalf of parents and children who say the government subjected them to lasting psychological trauma.
The U.S. Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services are considering payments that could amount to close to $1 million a family, though the final numbers could shift, the people familiar with the matter said. Most of the families that crossed the border illegally from Mexico to seek asylum in the U.S. included one parent and one child, the people said. Many families would likely get smaller payouts, depending on their circumstances, the people said.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which represents families in one of the lawsuits, has identified about 5,500 children separated at the border over the course of the Trump administration, citing figures provided to it by the government. The number of families eligible under the potential settlement is expected to be smaller, the people said, as government officials aren't sure how many will come forward. Around 940 claims have so far been filed by the families, the people said.
The total potential payout could be $1 billion or more.
A bit deeper into the story we find this:
Many of the lawsuits describe lasting mental-health problems for the children from the trauma of the months without their parents in harsh conditions, including anxiety, a fear of strangers and nightmares. The lawsuits seek a range of payouts, with the average demand being roughly $3.4 million per family, some of the people said.
In recent months, lawyers for the families and the government have told courts overseeing the cases that they are engaged in settlement negotiations and hoped to reach a deal by the end of November.
"President Biden has agreed that the family separation policy is a historic moral stain on our nation that must be fully remedied," said Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU's immigrant-rights project and a lead negotiator on one of the lawsuits. "That remedy must include not only meaningful monetary compensation, but a pathway to remain in the country."
In his first weeks in office, Mr. Biden pledged to reunite the separated families, describing those actions undertaken by the Trump administration a "moral and national shame."
A DHS spokeswoman referred questions to the Justice Department, where a spokeswoman declined to comment. The Department of Health and Human Services didn't respond to a request for comment.
I am on outrage overload. I have no comment either. This story is beyond my poor power to add or detract. I can only say that I would prefer to defend these cases to the hilt and submit them to a jury if they pass legal muster than to pay dime one voluntarily.
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The recommendation of Flaming Lips can't have done Japanese quartet Color Filter's chances of success any harm, that and their willingness to sing in English of course. Judging from 'Silent Way' they deserve all the attention they receive as the record is a fantastic paradigm for dreampop. They hit the mark every time whether conjuring up romantic images of star-filled skies ('Waiting For The Fall', 'Strange Day', 'Endless Word'), offering themselves as the Asian answer to the Cocteau Twins (the layered vocals of 'Stella Sea') and even using a Lips'-style big drum sound with huge washes of lush keyboards on the brilliant 'White Dots On Blue'. Full marks too for their version of 'Goin' Out Of My Head' which was blissful enough when recorded by The Zombies but here it reaches an even higher plateau. With not so much as an average track to offer, 'Silent Way' would be a highlight of any year.


"Jeannie Roberts's book, Let's Make Faces!, made our tummies tickle. I read it to my nieces and nephew and we rolled with laughter as we tried to outdo each other in making faces. It is such an interactive, playful book and we now run to see who can get it first when I come to visit. It makes us feel comfortable with who we are and has done wonders to build up self esteem. I also love that Jeannie uses the spectrum of diversity from the human family. She shows us that we can all make laughter together."
"There was a time when mothers would warn their children, 'If you keep frowning and pouting and sticking out your tongue, your face is going to freeze that way!' but Jeannie Roberts has turned that idea onto its head. Instead she says to her readers, young and old, Let's Make Faces! With rhyme that laughs and dances like creek water over sparkly stones, she celebrates the flexibility of faces by turns 'silly,' 'funny,' 'frisky,' and 'playful,' calling first on the children and then on their grownups to try just a sampling of all the wonderful messages a happy face can send."
"My son Logan recently received your book, Let's Make Faces!, for a birthday present. Logan just turned 4 and at age 2 he was diagnosed as autistic. Your book has been a blessing in a way that words can't express. I have been able to connect with Logan on a different level because your book promotes eye contact between us. We read the page, look at the picture, and then Logan looks at me to show him how to make the face, and then he tries so hard to make that same face. It is by far one of the best books that we have ever shared. Thank you so much for creating this book. It has helped my son tremendously. I will recommend your book to many of my friends who have autistic children."
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Mark the Curator is a vintage expert with a penchant for finding rare pieces by Versace, Givenchy, Dior, and more.
Take a dip into his exclusive stash with this vintage Original Versace Button Down Silk Shirt. CA 1992. Gianni Versace on the Label. One of one. Certified Authentic.


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Actress Frances Dee, hailed as one of the most beautiful women in motion pictures, was born Jane Dee in Los Angeles, on November 26, 1909. Her movie career was the result of her army officer father being re-assigned to L.A. in 1929.
Near Tinsel Town, Frances began appearing in movies as an extra. Her good looks brought her attention, and she soon established herself as a movie actress by skillfully underplaying her roles in comedies, dramas and Westerns. In the early part of her career, she was typically cast as sensible, good-hearted women in support of larger-than-life female stars, including Katharine Hepburn in Little Women (1933), Bette Davis in Of Human Bondage (1934) and Miriam Hopkins in Becky Sharp (1935). Occasionally, she would assay a lead role in A-pictures, such as Frank Lloyd�s If I Were King (1938), opposite Ronald Colman.
She met the love of her life, Joel McCrea, on the set of the 1933 film The Silver Cord (1933). They would also appear together in Wells Fargo (1937) and They Passed This Way (1948). The couple married in 1933 and were together for 57 years, until his death in 1990.
Frances was in several films produced by David O. Selznick, but ironically, she lost her chance to be in Selznick's greatest picture, Gone with the Wind (1939), due to her beauty. Selznick considered casting her as Melanie Wilkes, but later decided her beauty might overshadow newcomer Vivien Leigh. Olivia de Havilland got the role instead, won an Oscar nomination and went on to a highly successful career. Frances Dee's career, in contrast, never reached its potential, though she remained a working actress in Hollywood for as long as she wanted.
She retired in 1953 to devote herself to her husband and to raising their three sons. She and McCrea, who retired from films in 1962 while still a star, devoted their time to cultivating their ranch in Thousand Oaks, California. They donated 75 acres of the ranch for use as park land in 1981, and Dee donated 220 of the remaining 300 acres to the park in 1995.
One of the last of the Golden Age of Hollywood stars, Frances Dee died on March 6, 2004 at a hospital in Norwalk, Conn., near the home of one of her sons, due to complications of a stroke.
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MOBILE NETWORK O2 is suffering widespread borkage, leaving users unable to make or receive calls.
According to Down Detector, problems with the network at around 8:45 am on Friday. The issue seems to be mainly affecting O2's voice services, but some users are complaining that they're also experiencing problems with mobile data.
The issue appears to be affecting users all across the UK, with complaints coming in from London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, Nottingham, Southampton, Leeds, Bristol, and Portsmouth.
Other mobile networks, including Sky, Tesco and Giffgaff, rely on O2's services, but there have been no reported issues from their customers as yet.
This latest issue comes just months after O2 suffered a mega-outage affecting 32 million customers, which was later blamed on Ericsson, the software vendor whose expired certificates caused the borkage.


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The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH), Office of Public Health (OPH), Bureau of Family Health (BFH) is issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) for qualified proposers to conduct community based outreach and to develop culturally competent communications to support such outreach, build community linkages and communications, and provide professional development training to address MCH-related health disparities in underserved communities throughout Louisiana.


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Trumpcare Is Wrong For You. It's A Toxic Prescription For Health Care
Posted on March 7, 2017 by Isaiah J. Poole
As medicine for our health care system, it's worse than a placebo. It will do active harm to millions of people, particularly low-income people and seniors. It cuts taxes for the wealthy and corporations and dangles paltry tax credits to working people. It leaves consumers facing higher health care prices and will force many of them to forgo needed care.
This is the toxic prescription that the Trump administration and the Republican Congress wants to give the American public in place of the Affordable Care Act.
The House Republican plan was injected into the political debate Monday evening, while the country was still recovering from President Trump's latest Twitter seizure. With much of the media preoccupied with Trump's other democracy-destroying antics, the extreme nature of what the House Republicans have proposed has yet to hit home. But when it does, expect more of the condemnation of the Republicans' "repeal and replace" wrecking ball that we saw when members of Congress were in their home districts during the February congressional recess. People's Action was a leader in those town hall confrontations and protests, and now that the details confirm the worst fears of working people, the poor and the elderly, People's Action affiliates will intensify its resistance.
A key feature of the Republican plan is the replacement of the premium subsidies that were available through the Affordable Care Act health care exchanges with a tax credit that ranges for individuals from $2,000 to $4,000 a year, based on age. The tax credits would go toward policies purchased on the open market that would be very different from what's offered on the exchanges. Those policies would be much less regulated, so they would cover less and be free to charge more. Meanwhile, some $600 million in taxes, largely on the health care industry and wealthy Americans, that were raised to cover the cost of the Affordable Care Act subsidies would be eliminated.
Also gone are the health care penalties that were designed to encourage healthy people to buy insurance, so that their presence in the insurance pool would make insurance more affordable for everyone.
Providers would also be more free to discriminate based on age: A 55-year-old could end up paying five times more than a 25-year-old for the same insurance coverage.
Of course, a market-based system would charge more for older people who would likely need more care than for younger people who would likely use less care. But that also means that if the free market has its way, the people who need the most care are the least likely to get it. That's called market failure, and the Affordable Care Act was designed, as much as a political system hobbled by big-money interests would allow, to ameliorate that.
One of the most pernicious features of the House Republican plan is what it would do to Medicaid. Instead of a program that budgets to allow each poor and low-income person to get the care they need, the program will impose firm funding caps for each state. The bill has short-term concessions for states that opted for Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, but over time even those states would hit constraints on what they can spend on health care for those in poverty and the working poor. The changes are designed to force states to make choices about who gets health care and who doesn't. They are integral to a plan that creates, as Iowa pig farmer and Main Street Alliance member Chris Petersen put it in a town-hall meeting with Sen. Chuck Grassley in February, "one big death panel in this country."
Also pernicious is its singling out of Planned Parenthood for cuts in federal aid for women's health care program. No other organization is explicitly singled out for punishment by being barred from federal funding. Yet this bill would deny women access to a primary source for vital women's health services.
The fact that House leaders plan to plow forward with a markup of this bill without the typical Congressional Budget Office analysis of its costs and impact tips their hand: They know they cannot afford to tell the truth. Their plan will hurt people who count on our country's important health care programs while giving a tax break to the rich. As sound health care policy, it just won't add up.
In an op-ed in The Hill, LeeAnn Hall, co-director of People's Action, warns that because of proposals like these lawmakers will have to "get ready for plenty of opposition — and not just in the expected places.
"The GOP's radical plans for health care, and Medicaid in particular, would reach deep into communities that Republican electeds represent, creating chaos not just for patients, but for hospitals, clinics, small businesses, and local and regional economies."
President Trump recently laughably complained that "nobody knew that health care could be so complicated." The truth is, it doesn't have to be. If we began with the premise that access to quality health care should be as fundamental as access to air and water, we can begin to imagine a system that is far simpler and less costly. It is costly only because the behavior of the profiteers who dominate America's health care system make it so.
Moving to the kind of simpler, less costly health care system already prevalent in much of the industrialized world will take America some time. In the meantime, we cannot go backward into something that would be even worse than the dark days before the Affordable Care Act became law. This Republican health care plan – hatched in cooperation with extremists in the Trump administration like uber-right-wing Freedom Caucus alumnus Mick Mulvaney, who is now in charge of the Office of Management and Budget – is dangerous to our health and needs to be pulled off the shelf.
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With over 20 years experience in communications, Jane Gideon currently serves as CEO of Incendio International, which she founded in 1994. Incendio focuses on international public relations and corporate communications activities, with offices in San Francisco, Atlanta and London. Jane is responsible for the overall management of Incendio's international operations and clients. Incendio has served such clients as Amnesty International, Apple Computer, Boston Red Sox, Cisco Systems, Deckers Corporation, Hyperion Corporation, IBM Corporation and Flextronics International, President Obama and has conducted PR programs in 24 countries in Europe, the Americas, Middle East and Asia.
During her career, Jane has also served in the primary communications role for high-level executives such as Bill Gates of Microsoft, Steve Jobs and John Sculley of Apple, Frank Calderoni of Cisco, Scott Cook of Intuit, and Scott McNealy and Jonathan Schwartz of Sun Microsystems. She has placed these executives as keynote speakers at conferences such as the World Economic Forum and handled crucial executive testimony before US and EU government bodies.
Jane brings extensive knowledge and experience in international mergers and acquisitions, including investor, employee, customer and influencer engagement, change management following an acquisition and complying with all international communications standards for publicly-traded companies. Her M&A experience includes heading up M&A communications for Cisco, Intuit, Hyperion, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems. She currently works with the CFO's office at Cisco where she is responsible for all M&A communications globally, including employee, investor, press and analyst communications. She also serves on the company's integration management team which covers all aspects of acquisitions from making the deal to logistics of integration and onboarding employees.
Jane's experience outside of the technology industry includes work with Amnesty International, the Boston Red Sox, UGG shoe brands and Attune Foods. She also headed up the press conference activities for President Obama's visit to France during the 2009 D-Day events, where she worked with President Sarkozy of France and his communications team to coordinate press efforts.
Jane began her career at Alexander Communications and in 1990 launched that company's West Coast operations. She has also directed such prominent accounts as Intuit and Symantec. Working with Waggener Edstrom, Gideon directed two of the most high profile PR programs of the decade with the launches of Windows NT and Windows 95.
Jane received her Bachelor of Science in Human Development and Psychology from Vanderbilt University and did graduate studies in business administration at Emory University.


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One of the most fun parts of planning a Disney World trip is all of the chances to get creative. In this post, I have some Disney World luggage tags you can print out and laminate for your trip.
Consider using them for your luggage as you fly, park bags, or anything else you can think of.
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Before we dive into DIY Disney World luggage tags, I want to mention the ones that you might get in the mail.
If you're using Magical Express, you'll receive adhesive luggage tags in the mail to put on your bags. These are used to identify your luggage to the Magical Express team as your bags come out on the baggage carousel so the luggage handlers know to pick them up. These are not intended to be used like traditional luggage tags that have all of your contact information on them.
If you booked a package (and not a room-only reservation) and live in the United States, you should receive 1 luggage tag per person to match the MagicBand colors you chose. These arrive in the same box as your MagicBands. The colors and designs are shown in the pic below.
To use the luggage tag designs shown below, I recommend getting self-laminating packages that are super easy to put together. These tag designs are 2" x 4" so get self-laminating kits that are at least 2.5" x 4.5" like this type on Amazon to allow for a bit of extra room around the border.
Either print them out double-sided so you're just inserting one piece of paper, or print them out in one long strip so you can fold it and keep them aligned easily.
If you do the option shown above which requires you to fold the long piece in half, check the cut edge before laminating to make sure it's even and you've eliminated any extra white border.
Then unstick the adhesive side and attach it to close up the tag. Consider using something like a credit card to smooth it out as you seal it, so you can remove air bubbles.
PDF, Word, and Photoshop downloads available for WDW Prep Members at the bottom of the post.
WDW Prep Members, if you're logged in, you can get the luggage tags in a PDF, formatted Microsoft Word document, or Photoshop file.
Planning to print your own tags or have other ides for Disney World luggage tags? Feel free to share in the comments.
Due to the number of site visitors, we won't be able to provide tech support as you work with these files. If you have any trouble downloading the files, feel free to let us know below.
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John Lennon Plastic Ono Band (1970)
After the breakup of The Beatles John released several singles ("Give Peace A Chance," "Cold Turkey," "Instant Karma!") and "experimental" (i.e. unlistenable) albums with wife Yoko Ono (Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins, Unfinished Music No.2: Life with the Lions, and Wedding Album) before delivering John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band, his bold first proper post-Beatles solo album. Using spare rock n' roll as the backbone for baring his soul and greatly influenced by the primal scream therapy of Dr. Arthur Janov, Lennon angrily denounces his past ("God"), looks back at his painful relationship with his parents ("Mother," "My Mummy's Dead"), blasts hippy hanger ons always looking for a handout ("I Found Out"), and professes his love for Yoko (several songs) as he searches for peace of mind and a spiritual sense of self.
Though the album is at times more impressive than enjoyable and it sometimes shows its age during its more corny hippy-ish sounding declarations ("love is wanting to be loved"), Lennon's brilliantly pure vocal performance makes up for its shortcomings. The exceedingly spare musical instrumentation, based primarily around Lennon's guitar or piano work (with occasional help from Billy Preston and co-producer Phil Spector), Klaus Voorman's bass, and the backbeat of Ringo Starr, further distances himself from the lush sonics of Abbey Road and his former identity; he even claims at one point "I was the walrus but now I'm John."
In direct contrast to his usual grandiose productions, Spector is smart and ego-less enough to let these songs' primitive strengths shine through, with the occasional electronic effect adding to the intensity at certain key moments. Some of the songs are overly simplistic and perhaps could've been further fleshed out, but at its devastating best ("Mother," "Working Class Hero," "God") these introspective narratives are intensely moving. Certainly "Mother" is one of John's most affecting songs ever, especially its anguished, oft-repeated last line ("mother don't go, daddy come home"), as Lennon's mother was killed by a car just as they were getting closer (his aunt Mimi basically raised him), and his father deserted him and only reentered his life (hand extended) after John had become rich and famous.
Another key track is "Working Class Hero," which features Lennon "unplugged" and some bitingly cynical social commentary, while "God" is also indispensable as John denounces Jesus, Elvis, Dylan, and The Beatles (among many other things) before memorably declaring "I just believe in me, Yoko and me." If The Beatles' breakup and Altamont hadn't signified the end of the '60s, John singing "the dream is over" certainly did, as Lennon looks to the future and urges his listeners to do the same. Elsewhere, harsh, grungy songs such as "I Found Out" and "Well Well Well" are why this album is often described as "difficult," but there are lighter, more melodic breaks from the overall bleakness as well, such as "Hold On" (love its trippy guitar tone and comforting lyrics), "Isolation" (a sparse but deeply affecting piano ballad/rocker that's both an absolute gem and an underrated album highlight), and "Love" (corny maybe as alluded to previously but still lovely).
Still, the album's enduring reputation (despite being a commercial failure, causing a change in strategy for the ever-competitive John's next album) is primarily due to its incredible overall intensity and unflinching honesty. Though many of these songs are ballad-like and he rarely exceeds mid-tempo material (even on a song as propulsive as "Remember"), John would never give such a visceral performance again.
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Concert, Taylor Swift, Video
As Tears Go By: The Sparkly Dressed with the Rolling Stones! Tay helps out on The Voice!
(Source: @RollingStones)
Time is on my side, Taylor Nation.
Here at the Swift Agency, just a guy who read that on a T-shirt somewhere, we knew that it was a matter of time until the Princess in Red would show up on other artists' stages.
The Blonde With The Sparkly RED Guitar joined the legendary Rolling Stones on stage during their concert in Chicago last night, June 3. As NME reports, they performed an old hit of theirs, As Tears Go By. The song was written by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Marianne Faithful who actually took it to the top ten back in 1964. It wasn't performed live by the Stones until 2005. Full story on NME.
The Enchantress also appeared on NBC's The Voice during one of the pre-recorded segments where Usher was coaching contestant Michelle Chamuel.
.@TaylorSwift13 making a SURPRISE visit to rehearsals!? "Things like this happen on #TeamUsher." Preview: http://t.co/k9omhdMEo4 #TheVoice
— The Voice (@NBCTheVoice) June 3, 2013
Taylor has two nominations for the 2013 CMT Awards, Video of the Year for We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together and Female Video of the Year for Begin Again. The show airs live from Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on June 5, 2013. Also, don't forget she's performing at the LP Field for CMA Fest on June 6.
(Source: @TaylorSwift13)
June 5: The 2013 CMT Music Awards. Taylor Swift is nominated by Video of the Year and Female Video of the Year. She's also scheduled to perform.
June 6 – 9: The 2013 CMA Music Festival takes place in Nashville, TN. Taylor Swift is confirmed to perform at LP Field on June 6.
June 8: Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran play on the live finale of Britain's Got Talent, according to Tellymix.
June 9: Taylor will perform at Capital FM's Summertime Ball 2013.
(Sources: Rolling Stones via Twitter, NME, NBC's The Voice via Twitter)
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A bivariate integer-valued autoregressive process of order 1 (BINAR(1)) with copula-joint innovations is studied. Different parameter estimation methods are analyzed and compared via Monte Carlo simulations with emphasis on estimation of the copula dependence parameter. An empirical application on defaulted and non-defaulted loan data is carried out using different combinations of copula functions and marginal distribution functions covering the cases where both marginal distributions are from the same family, as well as the case where they are from different distribution families.


At the centre of the Slow Flowers movement is the notion that faster is not better. Borrowing from the tenets that have formed the Slow Movement – which started in 1986 as a backlash against a McDonald's opening near the Spanish Steps in Rome – Slow Flowers emphasizes the value of local, seasonal and sustainably grown flowers. More than this, though, Slow Flowers welcomes a return to growing flowers and connecting contemporary consumers with the source of their flowers. Putting a face to flower growers, farmers and designers helps to shape the cultural shift that is starting to slowly capture the floral industry, where attention to sustainability and seasonality is (thankfully) becoming more widespread.
This return to connection is indeed the driving force behind Slow Flowers. A connection to the who, what and where of our everyday lives. Who is behind what we consume and enjoy? What do they grow or produce for us? And where do these products come from? Rather than demanding that our flowers transcend seasonality so that anything we want can be available anytime we want it, consumers are – slowly – starting to reconnect with the seasons and prize what is available during different times of the year. The emergence of tulips in spring signals the start of the growing season; the budding of lilacs tells us that summer is on its way; and the turning of leaves in autumn lets us know that change is in the air (all of this is true for me – in my Zone 4 garden in Calgary, Alberta).
Late summer beauty from the garden.
Debra Prinzing is the fairy godmother of all things slow when it comes to flowers. She founded Slow Flowers in 2014 and helped establish a place for flowers in the broader Slow community. She has spearheaded the cultural revolution that is encouraging us to do things as well as possible, rather than as fast as possible. To reclaim the value of growing flowers and enjoying them when they bloom for us. By choosing to purchase flower that are grown locally and sustainably, we are also able to enjoy the added benefit of flowers that are grown without the use of unnecessary chemical and pesticides. By choosing Slow Flowers, we can tread more lightly on this precious Earth.
Prairie girl flowers is founded on the principles of Slow Flowers: to do things as well as possible, rather than as fast as possible; to care about where our flowers come from and who grows them; to work hard to embrace the seasons here in chilly Canada; and to preserve the environmental integrity of floristry. Flowers are a beautiful part of our lives. They elicit joy in those who receive them. They are an integral part of the most intimate ceremonies of our lives – providing decoration and solace from birth to death. And they provide a connectivity to the seasons wherever we live. As such, I choose to complete all our floral arrangements using only Canadian grown flowers and without the use of floral foam. I choose to grow many of my flowers myself and rely on as many local growers as possible. And I choose to embrace the seasons.
Prinzing, Debra. 2012. "The 50 Mile Bouquet: Seasonal, Local and Sustainable Flowers" St. Lynn's Press.
Prinzing, Debra. 2013. "Slow Flowers: Four Seasons of Locally Grown Bouquets from the Garden, Meadow and Farm". St. Lynn's Press.
Benzakein, Erin. 2017. "Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden: Grow, Harvest, and Arrange Stunning Seasonal Blooms". Chronicle Books.
Byczyndki, Lynn. 2008. "The Flower Farmer: An Organic Grower's Guide to Raising and Selling Cut Flowers, 2nd Edition". Chelsea Green Publishing.
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As East City Church transitions its worship service to a unified style of worship (see story), they will need to help their choir to catch a vision for becoming a worship-leading choir. ECC already has a great choir, but in the style of worship that is currently in place, the choir is often a centerpiece, singing many selections and often leading to a spectator role of the congregation. In renewing worship through a worship transition, the choir needs to be re-visioned to a worship-leading choir whose chief purpose is to worship and help set an environment to lead the congregation in worship.
Today, I want to address the first of several things that churches can do to produce spectators for worship: some churches get so involved in producing "special music" segments that they seem to have little time left for the congregation to sing. Now I agree that a stirring solo, choir special, or instrumental arrangement can be worshipful for all and is a great sacrifice of praise for those presenting the music, and many times, the congregation can worship vicariously through the song. But what I see time after time is a emphasis on non-congregational music while pushing out time and opportunities for the congregation to be involved. And when it comes to congregational singing, we should spend as much time making sure that the arrangements we use to lead our congregation are as special and prepared as anything we do for "special" music. Think of the congregation as your most important musical group.
Much time in preparation should be spent every week in working on congregational music so that the choir can sing the music "full of spirit," as people lost in worship. This attitude can be contagious among the congregation.
Consider a choir retreat that will focus on the new role and provide immersion into new congregational worship songs.
Explore more contemporary sounds such as urban gospel.
Explore singing from memory much of the time.
Spend time at each rehearsal casting vision and rehearsing congregational worship songs.
Be sure to take a look at a previous post on worship choirs and the information about a great book by Dave Williamson. The book alone can give you great insight into the transitioning to a worship-leading choir.
Take a look at Transitioning, Part 9: Educate. Inform. Do It Constantly.


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Hillary Clinton Announces Candidacy to Succeed Obama
The former secretary of state finally declares her candidacy for the Democratic nomination.
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American secretary of state Hillary Clinton visits Beijing, China, May 23, 2010 (State Department)
Hillary Clinton put an end to months of speculation on Sunday when she confirmed she would seek the Democratic Party's nomination for the presidency next year, immediately positioning herself as one of the strongest contenders to succeed Barack Obama.
The former secretary of state had been expected to declare a candidacy for months. The anticipation has discouraged other Democrats from running to the point that some in the party have expressed reservations about an imminent "coronation". Her only real rival may be Maryland governor Martin O'Malley, a more left-wing Democrat who is less likely than Clinton to win the general election in November 2016.
In a two-minute video published on her website, Clinton said she wanted to be the "champion" of everyday Americans. "So you can do more than just get by, you can get ahead. And stay ahead."
Clinton, whose husband, Bill, was president between 1993 and 2001, previously sought her party's nomination in 2008 when she represented New York in the United States Senate. Although she was considered the frontrunner at the time, Obama narrowly defeated her in the primaries. Clinton went on to serve as America's top diplomat in Obama's first cabinet. She stepped down after he won reelection in 2012.
In the 2008 primary, Clinton won Florida, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Ohio, four swing states that could determine the outcome of the next presidential election. She is especially popular with blue-collar Democrats and women. Her four-year tenure as secretary of state also endeared her to independent-minded voters. She became America's most popular politician at the time.
If Republicans nominate a reactionary candidate, Clinton would likely appeal to moderates who might otherwise considering voting Republican.
A more centrist Republican, on the other hand, could prove a challenge to her.
Jeb Bush, who is related to two former presidents, is most likely to win the Republican nomination if his rivals split the anti-establishment vote. His positions on foreign policy and national security are not all too different from Clinton's who is hawkish relative to most Democrats. Bush also favors more liberal immigration laws and is not a strong culture warrior.
Their main argument would be over economic policy. Clinton opposed tax cuts during the Bush Administration, differed with her husband on free-trade agreements with other nations in Central and North America, supports tougher environmental laws and argued that the free market has been "the most radically disruptive force in American life."
Bush is a traditional business conservative. As governor of Florida, he cut $14 billion in taxes and eliminated thousands of public-sector jobs. He blames rising inequality and a perceived lack of economic opportunity on a welfare system centralized in Washington DC that "traps people in perpetual dependence."
He is also a reformer. Bush created America's first statewide school voucher program in Florida and has actively championed conservative education reforms, including charter schools, since. Clinton opposes vouchers.
Read more: Democratic Party (US), Hillary Clinton, United States, US Elections 2016


Web series production companies are struggling to find sponsorship deals to sustain themselves, so how do the sites trying to make a business out of reviewing the shows (and the production process behind them) have a chance at staying alive? By banding together to create a bigger brand that — hopefully — attracts more eyeballs. And that's what online video news and entertainment company Tubefilter is doing — acquiring fellow web video reviews and info site Tilzy.tv. Both companies are privately held; financial terms were not disclosed.
In a statement, Tilzy.tv co-founders Jamison Tilsner and Joshua Cohen said the synergy between the two companies led them to agree to the deal. The companies worked together to launch the Streamy Awards, and the International Academy of Web Television, an industry trade group for digital content producers and auteurs, last year. But a look at Tilzy.tv's traffic stats shows that the site, which offers a searchable guide to dozens of web TV series, as well as reviews and some industry news, could use a serious bump in traffic. Compete stats show that its monthly uniques have hovered in the low 10,000s over the past 12 months. In contrast, Tubefilter's traffic has continued to increase since its launch last year, to around 50,000 monthly uniques.
You could say that N.Y.-based Tilzy.tv has been building up a slow burn, however, as the company launched TheOnfronts this spring, a digital "upfront" that attracted senior level execs from companies like *Sony*, IFC and Sundance Channel. Tilsner, an NYU Stern Business School alum, and Cohen, a former producer for A&E, founded New York-based Tilzy.tv in 2007. They'll serve as Tubefilter's new COO and Chief Information Officer, respectively, continuing to work from the New York office.
Tubefilter, which has offices in both Los Angeles and New York, also seems to be maturing as part of the acquisition, as it's formally naming co-founder Brady Brim-DeForest CEO. Fellow co-founders Drew Baldwin and Marc Hustvedt will serve as SVP, product, and SVP and EIC of Tubefilter News, respectively.


Washington (GPA) – Newly releases audio captures John Kerry saying what we all already know about Israel.
Yesterday, Israeli broadcasters released audio of John Kerry speaking last year at a conference in Dubai. While the full context of the remarks is unclear, he does state some undeniable truths about the Palestinian peace process that US leaders would never say in public.
Protest is already a large part of Palestinian organization so it's not like this day would be far off. What Kerry was more concerned about is what happens when Israel likely continues to ignore these demands.
"The reason why there is no peace is first and foremost the Palestinian refusal to recognize Israel at any borders. Even now they are suing the British government over the Balfour Declaration. It's unfortunate that John Kerry has not yet understood this," Netanyahu's statement added.
Obviously the Israeli responses to this are outrageous, and they likely would've looked better pretending this audio didn't exist. Yet that isn't the reality, and Tel Aviv can never help themselves in addressing even modest criticism with violent rhetoric.
While John Kerry may have been telling the truth, this is also not enough since even under the Obama regime, Washington ignored tons of Israeli crimes. However, the recording does show that the US not only knows the truth about Israel but also realizes their system of apartheid and occupation cannot last.


"When her brother Claude was at work, Libba snuck into his room and borrowed his guitar. "Dang!" she whispered. Claude was right-handed. Libba was not. She turned the guitar upside down and played it backwards. It was kind of like brushing your teeth with your foot. Or tying a shoe with one hand. Nobody else played that way, but it was the way that felt right ... "
As a child Elizabeth Cotten felt music from the top of her head to the tips of her toes. Her everyday life was filled with sounds that were music to her ears.
"She heard it in the river when she brought in water for her mother. She heard it in the ax when she chopped wood for kindling. She heard it in the freight trains moving down the tracks near her home."
She loved to play her brother's guitar when he was not at home. When he moved out and there was no guitar to play, Libba went to work doing what she could to earn money to buy one of her own. Five months later she had the $3.75 she needed to buy it. She played it endlessly, even writing her first song before she was 13!
Then life got in the way; it wasn't until she was a grandmother working in a department store that fate stepped in and offered a new musical path. Helping a little lost girl find her mother led Libba to meeting Ruth Crawford Seeger. The two hit it off, and soon Libba was hired as housekeeper for that musical family.
"You could hear banjos in the bedrooms, pianos in the parlor, and bass drums in the basement."
Once the family was witness to Libba's musical talent, they got the word out. Finally, Libba was able to share her gift with people around the world in concert performances.
Using graphite and digital color, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh creates images dominated by the guitar Libba so loved, and the music that spoke to her soul. I appreciated how she used a train to show Libba passing through various periods of her life, as a train was such an important part of the music she heard around her when she was a child.
A lengthy author's note chronicles Libba's life, and shares the author's keen interest in her subject. Works cited include websites, videos, interviews, recordings and liner notes.


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Citizen burned alive in act of popular justice for the death of businessman in Angola
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The death of businessman António Segunda Amões, due to illness, in a hospital, fell like a bomb in the village of which he was the patron, Camela Amões, in Huambo. To avenge his death, the villagers burned one citizen alive and seriously injured another, in an ignoble act of popular justice
After the death of the patron of the village Camela Amões was announced, some citizens, nonconformed, carried out a kind of witch hunt in order to do justice with their own hands, targeting the people they considered "enemies" of the businessman, according to a source from OPAÍS. That was how, during the "raid", they came across the citizen they accused of having caused the death of the businessman who was transforming the lives of thousands of the inhabitants of this project for the better.
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Q: Oracle Apex 5.1.1 Interactive Report with PL/SQL How do I can to create an interactive report with PL/SQL in Apex 5.1.1?
It's important that work in Apex 5.1.1
The IR have a PL/SQL with Dynamic Parameters that I want change the query before submit with values of parameters that user can select

A: Aha, that would be a function (i.e. PL/SQL program unit) that returns query which is used as a source for the interactive report? If so, let it accept parameters which will be used to compose the SELECT statement. Depending on what you pass, you'll get appropriate SELECT.
I'd suggest you to move the function into the database (i.e. so that it is a stored function). Doing so, you'll be able to test it in a simple manner than if it was in Apex.


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Q: What will be the range of $f(x)= \frac{12}{\sqrt{(15-2x-x^2)}}$ Here's my try:
Since the denominator involves a square root so I solved the following inequality:
$15-2x-x^2>0$
which gives a solution set of $x=(-5,3)$. This is the domain of $f(x)$.
However since it is an open interval, I am unable to find the exact range of $f(x)$. Help will be appreciated.

A: It must be first
$$15-2x-x^2=-(x^2+2x-15)=-(x+5)(x-3)>0\iff -5<x<3$$
Since $\;f(x)>0\;$ for all $\;x\in (-5,3)\;$ , we take $\;0<w\in\Bbb R\;$ , and
$$\frac{12}{\sqrt{15-2x-x^2}}=w\iff 144=15w^2-2w^2x-w^2x^2\iff$$
$$w^2x^2+2w^2x+144-15w^2=0$$
The discriminant of this quadratic must be nonnegative
$$b^2-4ac=4w^4-4w^2(144-15w^2)\ge 0\iff 16w^4-144w^2=16w^2(w^2-9)\ge 0\iff$$
$$w\le -3\;\;\text{or}\;\;w\ge 3$$

A: Hint: Note that $15-2x-x^2$ is biggest at $x=-1$.


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← The bankruptcy of US institutions
US president piles on more provocations to an already disgraceful situation →
Inability to unite the military bureaucracy –a serious problem facing the US ruling elite
By PAULINE EASTON
One of the jobs of the presidency of the United States is to preserve the union, which requires uniting the military bureaucracy. This bureaucracy, which has grown to massive proportions, is part of the state machinery that exists from one presidency to the next. It is the state and its monopoly on use of force that ensures the continuity of the rule by the financial oligarchs and narrow private interests that have seized control of the U.S. state. While governments change from one election to the next, today, at a time when the existing institutions for governance — for example, Congress, political parties, elections — are dysfunctional and no longer serve to resolve conflicts, the inability to unite the military bureaucracy poses an increasing threat to the union itself.[1] Calls issued by generals and sections of the military indicate what happens when the military itself becomes politicized and does not see itself represented by the president who is also commander-in-chief. Many of the statements from military personalities as well as others call for following the Constitution when and if the military is to be deployed against the people of the United States. What they tend to cover up is that its very deployment in violation of the Constitution shows that the Constitution is no longer the Authority in the United States.
When various generals and military officials, mostly retired, speak out against the president, in this case Donald Trump, it is contrary to military standards requiring military officials to remain neutral so as to ensure their commitment to whoever becomes commander-in-chief. They swear oaths of loyalty to the Constitution, not to the president. For some time since the neo-liberal anti-social offensive was unleashed in the mid-eighties and narrow private interests started directly competing to take over the state power, members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — the top commanders of the Navy, Marine Corps, Army and Air Force — have been making public statements about the actions of the president. For example, before the current unfolding events, in response to the statements made by Trump about demonstrations and violence by Nazis and the KKK in Charlottesville, North Carolina in August 2017, statements by military commanders were seen as an open rebuke of Trump. News reports emphasized that the statements "indicated deep unease in the Pentagon" and a "dramatic break with precedent" of no public statements by the military that contradict the president.[2]
Of course, the impression created is that the military upholds the U.S. Constitution, which is presumably not racist to the core. What's more, the military is notorious for its brutal racism, within its ranks and towards the peoples of the world. Soldiers are routinely trained to view peoples subjected to U.S. aggression as less than human, with various racist epithets used as part of this. Whipping up intolerance and hatred so as to convince soldiers to slaughter "the enemy" is considered a necessary part of military training. This shows that the aim of the comments made by military personalities is hardly to stand against the racism that has imbued the U.S. state and its military "since 1775," and has been and remains integral to its genocide against Indigenous peoples, enslaved Africans and now African Americans and peoples targeted abroad, in all countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. Furthermore, it covers up that today not a few of the police, military units and special services deployed across the United States to attack immigrants, migrants and African Americans are directly under Northern Command "to safeguard the security of the United States."
The statements and policies pushed by Trump are certainly destructive of the civil power and show the desperation of the narrow private imperialist interests to destroy whatever they cannot control. But the statements which purport to defend the civil power as enshrined in the Constitution are also desperate because such a civil power clearly no longer exists. It was set up to protect private property interests from the get-go and has now been usurped by the cartels and coalitions who run the show today.
There are all kinds of comments about racism from rulers whose main job is to hide the truth of the matter to divert attention from the fact that the U.S. ruling class is imbued with racism and organizes racist attacks and funds and arms Nazis and the KKK and military groups so as to maintain their rule and preserve their union. Just like the violence in Charlottesville two years ago, the treatment of Blacks and minorities in the United States are a state-organized provocation which serves to set the people fighting amongst themselves while letting the state off the hook.
Thanks to the resistance struggle of the people this is not succeeding.
At the same time, the statements by top-ranking military officials and politicians reveal the deep disunity and conflicts within the ruling circles. This also indicates the grave danger of civil war and potentially broader imperialist war.
Aggressive war is one means past presidents have used in their attempts to unite the bureaucracy. But the contradictions within the ranks of the oligarchs over control of the decision-making power are so sharp that even this is no longer effective and now the attacks on the American people themselves are escalating. This too will fail to solve the current problems the rulers face, which is why every effort is being made by the rulers to preserve the union and its constitutional form, while imposing a government of police powers, concentrated in the presidency. The façade of democracy and civilian rule is to remain but the governing institutions for that are being eliminated, making the ability to sustain the rule increasingly difficult and unpredictable.
For the people this poses the necessity to organize on a basis which is consistent with the needs of the times and what is revealed, which is that the people need to vest the decision-making power in themselves. Today it is their resistance which sets a new direction for political affairs. The problem is not choosing sides among the rulers or defending an outdated Constitution that enshrines slavery and protects property rights, not human rights. Organizing work today strives to create a democracy of the peoples' own making, where the people control the decision-making power.
The U.S. Constitution is not the defender of the rights of the peoples. It is in the service of the enemies of the peoples both at home and abroad. To present the conclusion that the attacks on Black people and the military response to protests and calls for justice show the necessity to defend the Constitution, is a ploy to deprive the people of their own political power. The aim is to divide the people further to play into the hands of the U.S. ruling class. There is no use debating Trump's irrationality and incoherence because such debates do not give rise to a modern democratic personality. On the contrary, they serve to perpetrate the narrative that under current state arrangements, someone better can be elected and pass good policies. It serves to perpetuate the disempowerment of the people.[3]
A grave situation is facing the U.S. working class and broad masses of the people of all nationalities. It requires a sober assessment and serious analysis of the situation so as to differentiate between the enemies of the people and their friends, between those whose aims are to liberate the people and those whose aims are to tighten their shackles. All those who want to see justice done are rising as one. They are condemning the atrocities of the state as well as the criminalization of politics in attempts to frustrate efforts to divert and split the people's struggle for genuine peace, freedom and democracy. In a democracy created by the people themselves, not alleged representatives of the people, people of all backgrounds will enjoy equality and rights as defined by themselves on a modern basis. Modern institutions of government and a modern constitution can be developed in the course of the struggle for the political empowerment of the people.
The massive demonstrations taking place at this time are evidence of the fact that it is the resistance movement that will find the way forward. This movement brings people together from all walks of life and backgrounds in a common cause for peace, justice and democracy. It is proof that we are one humanity engaged in one struggle and that we will prevail.
1. For the U.S., the issue of uniting the military bureaucracy is particularly important because there is not a single, unified military. Rather, there are contending branches that both collude and compete for resources and power. There are also the many armed agencies within the country, like those at the border, the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and many others, as well as the highly militarized police forces created since 9/11, all of which are ultimately under Northern Command. These all must be kept in check and united behind the presidency, something which thus far Trump is not succeeding in doing.
2. "The Army doesn't tolerate racism, extremism, or hatred in our ranks," General Mark Milley, chief of staff of the Army, tweeted on August 16, 2017. "It's against our values and everything we've stood for since 1775."
Marine Commandant General Robert B. Neller tweeted on August 15, 2017 that there is "no place for racial hatred or extremism in the Marine Corps." Admiral John Richardson, the Chief of Naval Operations, on August 13, 2017 posted a statement on Twitter and Facebook that called the events in Charlottesville "shameful" and "unacceptable." He said, "The Navy will forever stand against intolerance and hatred."
General David L. Goldfein, chief of staff of the Air Force, tweeted August 16, 2017 that he stood "together with my fellow service chiefs in saying that we're always stronger together."
3. See Who Said What about the current events below:
• U.S. President Donald Trump
• Retired General James Mattis, Former U.S. Secretary of Defense
• Retired Admiral Mike Mullen, Seventeenth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States
TML Weekly, June 6, 2020 • No. 20
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