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Overcoming the Occupation: A Response to The Economic Cost of Terrorism
Published on March 9, 2018 June 9, 2018 by Danny KLeave a comment
Danny Krikorian
Benmelech, Berrebi & Klor
In their research titled "The Economic Cost of Terrorism", the authors aim to demonstrate a positive relationship between terrorism & unemployment, in that increased terror attacks in the form of suicide bombings by Palestinians against Israeli targets correlate with increased unemployment rates for Palestinians living in Palestine as well as Israel (Benmelech, Berrebi & Klor 2010).
Unlike previously cited studies in the literature on this subject such as by Pape, Moghadam, O'Neil, Davis & Kirk, the authors of this particular research aim to fill a gap by focusing on the economic costs of terrorism on the states harboring terrorists themselves, as opposed to the target state. In this case, the authors analyze 150 suicide cases of attacks between the years of 2000-2006, during which the second Palestinian Uprising took place for the independent variable, and determine its overall effect on the dependent variable of unemployment, which is measured through a survey method encompassing a sample of 20,000 Palestinians.
While the focus of the work is original by focusing on economic costs of the perpetrators & the data is robust, perhaps some variables have been overlooked, which could affect the results and theoretical implications therein.
In "The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism" author Robert Pape demonstrates that retaliatory attacks by Hamas, a militant Palestinian group, against Israeli targets, have produced positive results in the short term for Palestinians, such as the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in the early 2000s. Pape's "Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism", Moghadam's "Palestinian Suicide Terrorism in the Second Intifada" & O'Neil's "Towards A Typology of Political Terrorism" altogether further demonstrate the unfounded assumption that unemployment results from Palestinian suicide terrorism. A wider time series, an inclusion of control variables such as media bias, heightened security & military invasion would dramatically change the results of the regressions therein.
Criticisms of the Research
The time period selected seems rather narrow for the given context of a half century long conflict. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict has been going on since 1948. Focusing on a time table that spans only 6 years, ignoring almost a half century's worth of data, can be misleading. To elaborate further, the trend of unemployment prior to the year 2000 stretching all the way back to the mid twentieth century in Palestine as well as for Palestinians living in Israel might have exhibited a continued rise even amidst an absence of terror attacks against Israeli targets. The time period chosen isn't representative enough.
Control Variables
Media Portrayals, Employment Discrimination & Minority Exclusion
Results might also be impacted had the research accounted for control variables which should have been controlled for such as increased media propaganda that depict negative portrayals of Palestinians, employment discrimination & the absence of minority protection apparatuses.
The state of Israel instates discriminatory policies against Palestinians which limit their prospects for unemployment, not to mention survival. Various UN charters condemn Israel for negligence towards racist policies against Israeli Arabs, Muslims, Christians and African migrants. Public polls conducted in Israel measuring levels of Israeli racism against Arabs support this claim. Surely negative media portrayals, discrimination in employment opportunities & the absence of political representation or security apparatuses for minorities are variables overlooked which hinder Palestinian unemployment.
Even in education there is discrimination. Despite being nominally part of various conventions & charters against racism, scarcely any Palestinians are enrolled in Jewish schools, where the quality of education is significantly higher. Israeli restrictions on the Palestinian economy resulted in heightened unemployment (Davis & Kirk 2013). By 2008, the Gaza Strip's unemployment rate reached 71%. New laws regarding land ownership in Israel are also believed to have worsened discrimination against Arabs.
Property seizures, imprisonment of political prisoners & even children, violent military assaults by the Israeli government & settlement expansion, all of which experience different rates of occurrence over time and might have drastic impacts on Palestinian unemployment, but only within the Palestinian territories.
Perhaps a survey of Israeli perception of the likelihood employing a Palestinian could be modeled to demonstrate a control on inherent discrimination.
And to test a correlation between the frequency of displaying violent images of Palestinians on the media in a certain region & during a certain time period in Israel with the degree of employment. This would be ideally measured overtime to demonstrate whether there is a correlation.
These factors, plus widening the time series to an appropriate window stretching back to the commencement of suicide attacks by Palestinians (1980s) and stretching to the most recent suicide attack, would perhaps all produce variant results and affect the theoretical conclusion and observations therein.
The research largely overlooks significant control variables & more broad, representative time series. Future research thus should include a broader time frame, and control for increases in the aforementioned intervening variables, such as negative media portrayals of Palestinians inside Israel, settlement expansion, discrimination against Arabs in politics, economics & society such as education, violent & disproportionate military campaigns & property seizures in the Palestinian territories. Future research should also consider a balanced panel of authorship in order to help diversify scholarship & consideration of otherwise overlooked variables.
With regards to the conflict itself, any true hope would be the equal recognition indigenous rights of both nations. The question is: Who is willing?
A truly free and democratic Middle East will be possible once the abandonment of one sided, prejudiced logic is exhibited by all parties involved, regional & global.
Palestinian terrorism may or may not demonstrate a relationship with unemployment in Israel, with the inclusion all the aforementioned control variables & the broadening of the time series.
The literature has suggested that suicide terrorism has often resulted in concessions benefitting Palestinians. So perhaps weighing the priority of employment in Israel against the the overall objective of regaining lost territory for Palestinians might also help depict a more accurate picture of the motives, incentives & true results of actions on both sides.
Benmelech, Berrebi, & Klor. (2010). The Economic Cost of Harboring Terrorism. Journal of Conflict Resolution. 54(2). 331-353.
Davis & Kirk. (2013). Palestine and the Palestinians in the 21st Century. Indiana University Press.
Pape, R. A. (2006). Dying to win: The strategic logic of suicide terrorism. Random House Incorporated.
Moghadam, A. (2003). Palestinian suicide terrorism in the second intifada: Motivations and organizational aspects. Studies in conflict and terrorism, 26(2), 65-92.
O'Neill, B. E. (1978). Towards a typology of political terrorism: The Palestinian resistance movement. Journal of International Affairs, 17-42.
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A Neo-imperial Menace – The Great Game for the Middle East
A comparative study of Syria & Iraq wars, makes it evident that the cause of instability is not authoritarianism, nor radicalism in either of these states, and the entire ME region.
Rather these are symptoms of a greater menace inciting them – neo-imperialism.
Enough with associative-thinking – 'this has to be true because of this.'
We don't need Putin to be boogieman in order to vilify a US president.
Trump & the GOP that created him are war criminals, racists & rabid, hawkish interventionists.
With or without Putin.
Even Egypt's case of the 'Arab Spring' was arguably a direct rejection of neo-imperial vision of a colonial-outpost in the Middle East.
Democracy may be the end-goal even in the Middle East – but democracy is impossible without sovereignty. Democracy has neither been achieved in Iraq or Syria. In one case, an authoritarian was overthrown, the other, preserved. Both cases resulted in utter chaos, unprecedented terrorism and religious radicalization. This implies the specter is foreign intervention, not domestic.
Sovereignty is a precondition for political development. One does not need to be a 'political scientist' or expert to understand that simple notion.
The cases of Bahrain, Yemen & Egypt serve as controls for other purported variables that may be influencing the outcome of the so-called 'Arab Spring'. Bahrain indicates that while Sunni-Shia hatreds are strong – they are not sufficient to incite a full-fledged civil war along sectarian lines. In Egypt, the political climate made it apparent that radicalism was exploiting any attempt at political development, contrary to the claim that reduced authoritarianism might mitigate religious fundamentalism. Finally, the case of Yemen indicates the double-standard exhibited by interventionists in the region – namely the US & Europe, who on one end funnel arms and finances to prop up dictators such as in Yemen; & in others devote the same efforts to toppling them.
Libya too, like Iraq, demonstrates the vulnerability of a nation without a state.
These are all indications that the primary menace to peace, stability and progress in the Middle East is foreign intervention, or neo-imperialism.
Ultimately, a truly democratic movement – the future of the Middle East, depends as much on internal efforts at deinstitutionalizing & wholly dismantling authoritarianism as it does on mitigating foreign support for these very institutions. Only then, can global hegemonies like Russia, America & China be kept at bay regarding any excessive ambitions in the Middle East and beyond (Latin America, Africa, Central & Southeast Asia).
Only through unity of indigenous cultures and nation-states can regions afflicted with imperialism overcome & develop. Dignity, prosperity, culture & innovation are best preserved under these conditions.
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Who Really is 'Presidential'? Thoughts Ahead of Tonight's Debate – #Election2016
Bernie Sanders was not presidential [sadly to say – despite many of his ideals being great – if not the best compared to his counterparts].
That is something the American people are struggling to grasp – especially the youth.
What is – 'presidential'?
Donald Trump – is not presidential. But for reasons different than Bernie. Bernie is, well, simply put, without any character, really. Despite all the slogans and witty catch phrases, Bernie is just another product of social trends. He isn't Justin Trudeau. He isn't Obama. He just doesn't have any flair. Americans like intellect – but they equally value humor; athleticism; suaveness – or "swagger" in today's terminology. None of these are characteristic of Sanders.
The same could be said of Donald Trump but for different reasons. He is too uneducated, vulgar, impolite, erratic & irresponsible for such leadership – if not to hold any post. He can barely manage his own funds – or his father's, rather.
That isn't to say that Hillary Clinton is 'presidential'.
Back in '08, I hadn't heard of a guy named Barack Obama, but as the campaign progressed, I realized – I had just witnessed the rise of an extraordinary individual. This man is beyond brilliant – something that few people truly appreciate. I can say that the world appreciates Obama more than America – which is quite telling. That isn't necessarily true – a lot of Americans love our current president. But the 'other side' is equally if not more bent on voicing their hatred – to put it 'mildly'.
Ahead of tonight's momentous occasion, the first live debate between Clinton & Trump – I share the following sentiment. People often expect too much. This is a sign of…a lack of experience maybe. But other forces play a role too. The world is suffering and yet, the average American struggles to understand the nooks and crannies of his or her own political system and culture.
As an Armenian-Syrian immigrant living in America – I must say that my perspective should be heeded. There are many causes which are directly connected to me that have yet to be addressed or have been horribly managed, by the US wholly but also precisely by US president Barack Obama, whom I continue to support. Why? Because I am not a perfectionist in the political sense – and expect some compromise – not always – but in times of necessity and urgency. There is much change, and much work to be done in the stride towards justice – but it is just that – a stride – a path. We cannot be held back by radical expectations which in themselves seek to paralyze our sense of progress. That being said it is clear to me there is only one candidate worthy of a vote in this election and that reasoning is from contrived a moral and practical logic – that candidate is Hillary Clinton.
So while she isn't necessarily the perfect candidate – relative to America's choices – she is definitely presidential.
The US president is a person of immense wisdom and discipline; responsibility and sacrifice; public service and family value. Which of the two candidates possesses these qualities? And if you have to think twice – think again.
What gets me is that Americans want to change parts of their system that are less relevant to domestic and global wellbeing while ignoring the more pressing issues. And then when a tragedy or crisis occurs, Americans are left wondering how or why. Instead of a Wall Street revolution there should be a minority rights and immigration reform revolution. Instead of a focus on spreading democracy abroad we should be seeking to reduce our arbitrary and partial political influence overseas. Issues like these are costing us – but instead Americans wish to focus on ideological ambiguities and polarized politics.
That is why the candidates have dwindled down to the current options available – one representing the so-called establishment while the other represents the ugliest part of the establishment disguised as anti-establishment.
It is undoubtable that America and the world must implement comprehensive political reform – but this is likely an impossible feat under the auspices of a hypothetical President Trump. On the contrary, Hillary, like Obama (but perhaps to a lesser degree since she is more hawkish) – will pave the road for future generations to at least further the cause of progressivism in its purest form.
Perhaps future generations will reflect a more balanced perspective on US politics – representing minorities; women; LGBTQ; etc. But this cannot be associated with any particular ideological strand or populist trend as it has been in this election. American individualism and personal responsibility, contrary to the '8th grader youtube conspiracy video viewer mentality' – is not preserved or protected by the far left or right – but rather, by a careful, tolerant moderate centrist. So when I say that Hillary Clinton is in fact presidential – that is precisely why. She isn't just the echo of our grievances – but also of our reason.
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Turkey – Clarity Amidst Confusion
It is really hard to get a grip of what is really happening in Turkey.
Media outlets are misleading as usual.
Political interests are at stake and biases are rampant.
It appears Erdogan has retaken power, resisted the coup, and is now in the process of an apparent legal prosecution against all involved.
This is where things are getting murky.
Erdogan hasn't played the most loyal role as president, often shifting back and forth between extreme left and right politics. This inconsistency is symbolic of Turkey's state of volatility and instability in the past two decades.
There is much that modern media consumers do not know about international politics. Turkey has endured nearly five coup d'etats in its history. This is the 6th.
What people don't understand is that democracy can be bought, financially or ideologically, or both. That does not mean that democracy is bad, but that it can be easily infiltrated and exploited to destabilize and cause disorder.
There are many narratives.
Which one is actually feasible and most likely?
Remember that America is the world's sole superpower, and that it dictates most of what happens internationally. This coup might have been instigated by the US as a result of Erdogan's policies particularly towards Syria. Anytime a leader of a non-western country becomes influential, he is a perceived threat to the US, even if he has for the most part fallen in line with their demands. Remember Saddam Hussein was initially an American ally against radicalism. But why would America see Erdogan as a threat if he has been, for the most part, enabling the NATO agenda of supplying the Syrian insurgency?
There is a vast difference between rhetoric and reality.
America is playing the game of destabilization once again, but did Erdogan's team just resist? The irony is that just weeks ago Erdogan had reversed foreign policy and initiated a rapprochement with Russia and Israel, a huge statement to the international community.
When Erdogan first became president he was hailed as the new face of Islamic dignity. At least, that was my interpretation.
He defied Israel with the Gaza flotilla. He embarrassed Simon Perez live on television in the name of Palestinian rights. He bolstered Turkey as a democratic, modern, Islamic nation. He further secured Turkey's potential integration into the E.U.
The Syrian conflict created a disaster. A refugee crisis, increased security threat, ideological fundamentalism & terrorism. Providing weaponry to the insurgency and mobility intensified the ripple effects.
Meanwhile, Erdogan was becoming increasingly authoritarian domestically, contrary to his democratic foundations. Aside from the right-wing populist rhetoric, Erdogan began initiating limits on women's rights & press freedom, two bedrocks of democracy, but perhaps more importantly, two bedrocks of Turkish cultural history.
Naivety cannot be afforded in politics, and perhaps Erdogan was naive to Western interests. Neither democracy nor stability are the West's priorities, but rather control.
That is why it must be understood that democracy or not, no country can be truly free or stable without respecting its sovereignty.
At this point, we may never know the actual perpetrators, and we will be confused by political rhetoric and unsubstantial media coverage.
What we can know is that even democracies have the potential to violate rights.
There are several possible outcomes depending on who is responsible. I believe Erdogan's Turkey possesses the power to make serious challenges to Western assertiveness in the region. So far he has expressed willingness to cooperate, up until the recent rapprochement with Russia and Israel.
The most crucial variable in this "coup d'etat attempt" is the "Syrian Crisis".
Turkey is headed in the opposite direction of NATO.
I think this Turkish crisis gives us the perfect opportunity to address a commonly oversimplified term: "democracy".
We tend to view things as "democratic or not", when in reality, democracy is a measure itself, of the ability of a nation to uphold certain principles. Since those principles are hotly debated, it becomes difficult to categorize things as "democratic or not".
This Turkish crisis is symbolic of the fact that there is a real tension over the definition of "democracy". Oversimplified understandings will highlight obvious components of democracy like free speech, free elections, term limits – but what about social liberalism, like the freedom of social expression, or, on the other hand, political stability and human security. From this perspective, if we look at the world's countries, we must gauge the overall relationship between leader and people. This relationship shows how "democratic" a country is. It cannot be understood as solely popular support, because in some cases, more than not, populism leads to immoral decisions, domestically and internationally, like "Brexit" in the UK or the rise of Donald Trump in the US. We cannot accept
Some kings are good. Some are bad.
Some elected officials are good. Some are bad.
The problem is that, elections were largely seen as a check on absolute power.
But what if a democrat becomes an autocrat through authoritarian policies and populist appeals?
What is this begins to compromise democratic ideals themselves? Do executive term limits themselves guarantee democracy, or are other components, like free speech, equally important?
If we analyze the world from this angle, we begin to see that, in some cases, the democracy has let to good results; in other bad ones. But to expect that any one country in the world is more democratic than another, we have to analyze it comparatively from all the variables, not just one. Furthermore we cannot measure good or bad based on a twisted conception of democracy or on a prejudiced or predisposed political opinion.
It was likely that Turkey's attempted coup was a "check" on Erdogan. If he drifts towards a less expansive, and security-driven policy initiative
Could that have been the spark?
All these inconsistencies further blurs the picture.
Why were police officers arresting military personnel? Aren't the latter more powerful?
If Fethullah, the supposed engineer of the coup according to Erdogan, is in America, how could he have ushered the coup if the US administration stood on the side of Erdogan?
Was this coup staged by the government to bolster fledgling support for Erdogan?
Seeing as how Erdogan is now appealing to post-Syrian Crisis enemies, like Russia for reconciliation, it might be that this coup was a Western backed attempt at a regime-change. Seeing that Turkey's military has never successfully failed in ushering a coup, this narrative makes sense.
For the sake of democracy this is not good, as dissidents face an increasing and brutal crackdown. Turkey has not been consistent, and this crisis is a product of that position. It has essential played the position of the "rope" in a long tug-o-war between East and West. For the past few centuries, the West tugged harder. Now it seems, they've let loose on their grip, and Turkey appears destined towards an alignment with the East.
What does this mean for America and Europe's interests in the Middle East, Israel and Saudi (the Gulf entirely)?
Another question that comes to mind – where do the millions of democracy advocates who stood with Erdogan stand now, considering his rapprochement with Russia? Many Erdogan supporters supported his stance against President Assad in Syria.
This is where things get murkier.
Erdogan was initially reconciliatory with Assad. Why the sudden shift, particularly given the "Kurdish threat" and rising instability? Erdogan sent a message of defiance to Israel with his Gaza flotilla charade, but then quickly announced reconciliation. How does this make him look? Who really is Erdogan serving – Turkey or himself?
Another possibility is that Erdogan has awoken from his pro-American slumber of naivety. Once again, the Muslim world fell prey to American double-dealing and mischief. If this is the likely scenario, expect the unexpected – an Erdogan-led drift away from democracy in Turkey.
What are the most important elements of democracy? Popular opinion or social equality? If popular opinion advocates for racism, like in Nazi Germany, should the state reject it? These questions are even being asked in America, where right-wing populism also threatens democratic rule – somehow democratically. Are there flaws in the democratic system which are inherent or can they be fixed through greater laws limiting financial influence, media coverage and xenophobic propaganda?
Populism is threatening democracy which suggests that popular sovereignty isn't the only variable for democracy – there are many. And one of these becomes threatened, it appears none of them will be possible. Erdogan, a democratically elected leader, began trampling on democratic rights, and thus the military, which historically overthrows leaders who drift to far in either direction on the political spectrum, stepped in though without success – also unprecedented.
Whether or not popular rule triumphs in Turkey is less worrying than the potential compromise of Turkey's traditional culture of tolerance, diversity and secularism. This is being threatened by the extreme right-wing populist appeals of ruling party. In this regard, Erdogan is bad for Turkey. Will he rollback these efforts too as part of his readjustment initiative? It doesn't appear that Erdogan's reconciliatory tone towards Russia or even Israel is genuine, since it has been inconsistent. There is reason to believe that such behavior is an act of desperation – a sign of his impending failure.
In order for global stability, peace and prosperity to ensue, the following must happen – led by the only world superpower – the US:
America as a whole must pivot from its half-century long trend of foreign interventionism; replace it with respect for sovereignty; a rejection of populism and neoliberalism/neoconservatism or simply put – neo-imperialism; recognition of cultural distinctions; and a promotion of cooperative political, economic and social relations.
This might have to see the UN become the global spectator; with the US leading the free world; and cooperating with other global and regional powers to ensure prosperity, stability and peace.
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Who Is Tim Kaine? A Brief History
Tim Kaine has been officially declared as Hillary Clinton's vice presidential running mate.
As news tabloids emblazon images of the newly chosen "veep" on television and computer screens, many ordinary Americans are left wondering – who is this guy? It is a fair question, since for most Americans, Tim Kaine is a stranger and a new face in politics.
Similarly, in 2008 many Americans found themselves asking the same question about presidential nominee Barrack Obama.
But this is a much different scenario. Still we are left asking, who really is Tim Kaine and what will he bring to the table, if anything?
As Donald Trump's campaign continues to dominate the headlines, ordinary Americans are left wondering what is left for Hillary to do. Does she have a chance?
Tim Kaine first rose to national prominence when he was purported to be then presidential candidate Barrack Obama's VP running mate in 2008. Since then, he has been largely out of the national political discussion, that is until now.
But some characteristics of Tim Kaine give reason to believe that he is someone to pay close attention to.
Kaine born in Minnesota but raised in Kansas City, Missouri. He is of humble beginnings as his father was a welder and was raised Catholic. He received his BA from the University of Missouri Kaine and attended Harvard Law School afterwards. During his tenure at Harvard, Kaine embarked on as a missionary with the Jesuits in Honduras. There he learned to speak Spanish fluently. He has on occasion delivered his speeches to Congress in Spanish. In fact, in 2013, Kaine delivered a speech introducing the bipartisan immigration bill drafted by the "Gang of Eight" entirely in Spanish – an unprecedented feat.
Kaine's political career only began in 1994, therefor Americans are right to be more than inquisitive about their potential vice president, especially given heightened level of polarization between the two candidates and their parties. He political career took off in Richmond, Virginia where he started working for the City Council. In 1998 Kaine was elected Richmond's Mayor and in 2005 he became the state's Governor. From 2006-2011 Kaine served as the Democratic National Committee's Chair and in 2012 he was elected Senator of Virginia defeating sitting governor George Allen. It appears Kaine's ambitions were carefully coordinated and executed. This might be underscored by the fact that Kaine has never lost a single election. Scared yet, GOP?
Still, Kaine does not maintain an impressive feat of policy. He is on neither extreme end of the political spectrum, though it might be appropriate to classify him as center-left, but certainly gravitating towards the center. As Governor, Kaine passed massive budget cuts amounting to nearly five billion dollars, which was quite unpopular in his state. With regard to his political positions, he has generally taken center-left positions, recognizing LGBT rights, climate change and the need for universal healthcare, to name a few. But his budget-cuts, promotion of international free trade and his support of American military operations in Afghanistan are indicative of his centrist affinities too, which makes all the more sense why he would be Clinton's ideal running mate.
His foreign policy experience is limited, and thus enables little analysis. One particular controversy which occurred with his staffer, Esam Omeish, a Libyan-American doctor, who was appointed to the Virginia Commission on Immigration in 2009. Mr. Omeish expressed criticism for George W. Bush & the Israeli Lobby's influence on US politics, leading to his resignation.
Albeit Tim Kaine is certainly apt for the job. His experiences and mobilization through the ranks of Virginian politics is evidence of that. But will Kaine be the necessary ingredient to Clinton's recipe for defeating Donald Trump?
Time will tell – on November 8th, 2016 to be exact.
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For over two years I have been blogging on surveillance, a topic that cuckoo-like has grown to crowd out most other IT and internet law topics on this blog.
With the Investigatory Powers Act now on the UK statute book, this seems like a good moment to catalogue the 43 posts that this legislation and its preceding events have inspired.
20 August 2013: Everyman encounters Government. Prompted by reactions to Snowden. It's all about trust.
12 July 2014: Dissecting DRIP - the emergency Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill. Posted the day after the coalition government's Friday publication of the DRIP Bill for introduction into Parliament on the Monday morning, on an emergency four day timetable. Still by far the most page views of any post on this blog.
20 July 2014: The other side of communications data. Statistics on communications data acquisition errors with serious consequences: wrong accusations, search warrants, arrests. Updated since then with data from subsequent IOCCO Annual Reports.
10 October 2014: Submissions to the Investigatory Powers Review. Various submissions (including mine) to David Anderson QC's Investigatory Powers Review.
15 November 2014: Of straws and haystacks. Tracing the history of RIPA's S.8(4) bulk interception power via the 1960s cable vetting scandal to S.4 of the Official Secrets Act 1920.
3 December 2014: Another round of data retention. The IP address resolution provisions of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill, amending DRIPA.
21 December 2014: A Cheltenham Carol. Five Ba-a-aack Doors.
2 January 2015: The tangled net of GCHQ's fishing warrant. Detailed analysis of the S.8(4) RIPA bulk interception warrant.
2 February 2015: IP address resolution - a conundrum still unresolved? A short rant about the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill.
13 July 2015: Red lines and no-go zones - the coming surveillance debate. Discussion of David Anderson Q.C.'s Investigatory Powers Review report "A Question of Trust".
12 August 2015: The coming surveillance debate. A 13 part series of posts analysing specific topics likely to feature in the forthcoming Investigatory Powers Bill.
5 September 2015: Predicting the UK's new surveillance law. Nine predictions for the contents of the Bill covering bulk interception, broad Ministerial powers, browsing histories, digital footprints, data generation by decree, communications data/content boundary, third party data collection, request filter and judicial authorisation.
4 November 2015: Prediction and Verdict - the draft Investigatory Powers Bill. Contents of the draft Bill versus my 5 September predictions.
9 November 2015: From Oversight to Insight - Hidden Surveillance Law Interpretations. Arguing that the oversight body should proactively seek out and make public material legal interpretations on the basis of which powers are exercised or asserted.
23 December 2015: #IPBill Christmas Quiz. A bit of seasonal fun with the draft Bill, including the never to be forgotten definition "Data includes any information which is not data". Five out of the ten points highlighted, including that one, have changed in the final legislation.
16 January 2016: An itemised phone bill like none ever seen. Adapted from my evidence to the pre-legislative scrutiny Joint Committee, analysing how internet connection records are richer, more far reaching and different in nature from the traditional itemised phone bill with which the government was at that stage inclined to compare them.
7 February 2016: No Content: Metadata and the draft Investigatory Powers Bill. Highlighting the significance of communications data powers in the draft Bill.
16 February 2016: The draft Investigatory Powers Bill - start all over again? Discussion of the Joint Committee and ISC Reports on the draft Bill.
15 March 2016: Relevant Communications Data revisited. Parsing and visualising one of the most complex and critical definitions in the Bill.
19 March 2016: 20 points on the Investigatory Powers Bill, from future proofing to triple negatives. Storified 20 points tweeted immediately before publication of the Bill, with subsequent comments in the light of the Bill.
24 March 2016: All about the metadata. More visualisations of the Bill's complex web of metadata definitions.
1 April 2016: An official announcement. …but not as flat as this leaden attempt at an April Fool.
15 April 2016: Future-proofing the Investigatory Powers Bill. Arguing that the Bill's attempt to future-proof powers by adopting a technologically neutral drafting approach repeats the error of RIPA. A better approach would be to future-proof the privacy-intrusion balance.
26 May 2016: The content v metadata contest at the heart of the Investigatory Powers Bill. A deep dive into the Bill's dividing lines between content and metadata, including the new power of the intelligence agencies to extract some content and treat it as metadata.
12 June 2016: The List. Dystopia looms, holding a clipboard.
19 July 2016: Data retention - the Advocate General opines. Summary of the Advocate General's Opinion in the Watson/Tele2 case challenging DRIPA and the equivalent Swedish legislation.
11 August 2016: How secondary data got its name. An imagined Bill drafting committee meeting in Whitehall.
7 September 2016: A trim for bulk powers? What might have been if the Bulk Powers Review had been commissioned and published at the start of the Parliamentary process.
10 December 2016: Investigatory Powers Act 2016 Christmas Quiz. 20 questions to test your knowledge of the #IPAct.
31 December 2016: The Investigatory Powers Act - swan or turkey? A post-legislative reflection on the Act.
This marks the end of the beginning. Pending legal challenges, new legal challenges and Brexit will provide a rich seam of material for future blogging.


Genetic engineer Noah Palmer thought he'd landed the dream job: designing custom dragons for the Build-A-Dragon Company. But CEO Robert Greaves has placed tight restrictions on dragon size, intelligence, and other features which make it virtually impossible to him to create anything more than household pets.
When Noah goes outside the boundaries to design a prototype worthy of the dragons of myth, he finds out just how far Greaves is willing to go to preserve the company's profitability. And he realizes that the only way to achieve his dream is to design a dragon that can live in the wild.
Pitched as: Build-A-Bear Workshop meets Jurassic Park.


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Film Review: 'Call Me By Your Name' Swoony, Rapturous Romance Seduces
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By Evan Lambert
Show of hands: Who here has blocked out their teen years? Oh wow, that's a lot — OK, put 'em down put 'em down — KAREN, PUT YOUR GODDAMN HAND DOWN YOU MISSED IT … OK thank you. Well, I'm going to need you to unblock those years now. I don't care what you do to get in your teenage mindset — Slap on a mouthguard and stage a public meltdown if you have to — but please remember it all. Remember the little tragedies, and the real tragedies. Remember the fear and isolation. Remember the great loves, and the great losses, and the biggest dreams. Remember it all, because you lived it — and that's why you're such a giant fucking mess.
That is, ultimately, the lesson of Call Me By Your Name.
Call Me By Your Name seems, at first, to be as carefree as an actual vacation to Italy. It's all lazy, dreamy camera movements and scenes of luxury: a fertile, comfy playground for its protagonist Elio (Timothee Chalamet). But Elio isn't as carefree as he seems, and this is not a typical family summer in late '80s Italy. Elio, you see, is a horny teenager in a land before porn-filled iPhones. He's a slave to whim and desire, and he's fraught with so much hyper-intelligent anxiety that it's nearly impossible for him to realize it. And then, sigh, he falls for Oliver (Armie Hammer).
OK, another show of hands — NOT YOU, KAREN, JUST STOP KAREN — Who here has wanted to sleep with Armie Hammer? Oh wow, so literally all of you. That's what I thought. Well, how many of you wish you could have done that when you were 17? Again, literally all of you. This kid, this Elio Perlman kid, is the baddest bitch. He sleeps with Armie Hammer — ok, sorry, a character played by Armie Hammer — when he's 17 freaking years old. Just, like, give up now, because you're literally never going to be as cool as Elio.
Elio's initial confusion and tumult is conveyed through a roiling, fretful piano score and Chalamet's nimble, swoony performance — but this soon melts into heart-bursting passion. Call Me By Your Name so easily places you in the mind of Elio that your own face will redden and your own pulse will quicken every time Elio watches Armie/Oliver from just out of frame. Then again, this may also be because Armie Hammer never wears pants in this movie and his toned legs are making you feel some kind of way. Seriously, does Armie Hammer ever wear pants in this movie? It's possible that he wore pants once and I just didn't recognize him without the legs.
So anyway, once Elio processes his early feelings about Armie Hammer — YES KAREN I KNOW HIS NAME IS OLIVER, KAREN YOU'RE FIRED — Call Me By Your Name becomes a world of poetry and intensity. It's also, more powerfully, a coming-of-age tale about guilt, denial, loss, and acceptance. And while it stalls a bit in the final act, it saves itself with a beautiful scene in which Elio's father (Michael Stuhlbarg) extolls the necessity of embracing emotions — even the bad kinds. Thus, through Elio's excruciatingly beautiful trials, we're reminded that big, scary love can be essential to your identity — as long as you never forget you had it.
Flagrantly Rated: **** (4 out of 5 Stars)
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Everyone gets that I'm cleaning up files, right? Here are some notes I made about how computers should work. I don't think this is operating system-specific.
Windows is sort of moving in this direction, as is/has Linux. Mac might be pretty close--I'm not a Mac guy.
This came about because I think it's ridiculously difficult to restore a computer. It really should be as easy as 1) reinstall operating system, 2) copy program folders, 3) copy user folder(s).
Everything needed to run a program should be in a single directory, under a definitive top-level "programs" directory. The OS just searches this directory to display installed programs. The program's name, settings (per user) are all found in published ways. This is true even if the program is a service.
The reason to keep all user settings with the program is to make transferring/reinstallation easier.
All of the program's licenses are kept with the program. If a program is transferred to a new machine, the program can contain a public/private key method of knowing this and prompting for the installation code.
All user data should be under a single "data" directory, per user. The tricky part is preventing--or at least discouraging--users from storing data elsewhere. Each user's data directory should have a Desktop folder, for example.
In other words, there are three essentially separate areas that talk to each other: operating system, programs and user data.
* It might be better if user-specific program settings are kept in the user's folder. Might make security easier.
* Windows sort of does this (user folders w/settings). But, they also keep settings in the registry, and in two user folders, and sometimes in INI files. Blech!


Join director Helena Norberg-Hodge for a special Seattle screening of 'The Economics of Happiness', a 1 hour documentary about the worldwide movement for economic localization. The film will be followed by a panel discussion with special guests including David Korten, John de Graaf, Fran Korten, and others to be announced. The event will highlight local examples of a global movement of community-based initiatives dedicated to addressing the multiple crises we face.
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Flaying the state government's failure to implement their demands, a large number of Haryana roadways employees on Thursday staged demonstrations at all the depots and burnt copies of government's agreement in the context.
Haryana roadways workers union president Sarbat Punia told HT it was decided that a state-level rally of the roadways workers would be held in Karnal on February 8 in which a decision about the workers' agitation would be taken.
Punia said, "The workers who had observed strike on November 13 and 14, 2013, to protest government's move of giving permits to private bus operators on over 3,500 routes and non-implementations of several other demands were assured by the state government that their demands would be fulfilled within weeks."
He said, however, what all the workers had been getting from the government since long, were hollow promises and the government had even assured them on January 19, 2014, that all their demands would be fulfilled in a fortnight's time, but to no avail.


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Q: Uncaught Exception with COM Components in C# We are trying to instantiate an OCX component but it generates an exception that is not get catched by try/catch.
When starting the application from the explorer, a window asks to choice between Debug or Close the application. When I choose Debug, Visual Studio 2012 starts and I get the following message:
Unhandled exception at 0x779ae753 in TestFwComponent.exe: 0xC0000374: A heap has been corrupted.
First-chance exception at 0x770ac41f in TestFwComponent.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: COleDispatchException at memory location 0x0022e228.
First-chance exception at 0x770ac41f in TestFwComponent.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: [rethrow] at memory location 0x00000000.
First-chance exception at 0x770ac41f in TestFwComponent.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: EECOMException at memory location 0x0022e5b0.
First-chance exception at 0x770ac41f in TestFwComponent.exe: Microsoft C++ exception: [rethrow] at memory location 0x00000000.
First-chance exception at 0x770ac41f in TestFwComponent.exe: 0xE0434352: 0xe0434352.
First-chance exception at 0x770ac41f in TestFwComponent.exe: 0xE0434352: 0xe0434352.

Something strange is when I start the application directly with the debugger of VS2012, I can get the exception and continue the execution. Yes, it's dirty but this component is crap and we have to generate an exception before using it..
System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException was caught
  HResult=-2147467259
  Message=External component has thrown an exception.
  Source=mscorlib
  ErrorCode=-2147467259
  StackTrace:
       at System.RuntimeType.ForwardCallToInvokeMember(String memberName, BindingFlags flags, Object target, Int32[] aWrapperTypes, MessageData& msgData)
       at FwWFLib.FwWFClass.Initialize(String ServerMachineName, String MbxName, String MbxServerProcessName, Object Controls)
       at MDT.MicroBackFill.FWClient.Core.Service.FwService.Initialize() in c:\TEMP\TestFwComponent\FwService.cs:line 49
  InnerException:

I want to know how can I try/catch the exception generated when starting without the debbuger ?

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I am pleased to report that the mattress nightmare is finally over!
Like particularly capricious dates, they kept standing me up at the last minute. This happened twice. The day and time was set, and then the night before, I'd get a call saying something had come up and they couldn't make it after all. Each time, they would defer the fictitious pick up to the following week.
The first time this happened, I was annoyed. The second time it happened, I was enraged. Like the great Ramona Quimby*, I made a great big noisy fuss (though unlike Ramona, I did it via email rather than in person). I didn't expect anything to come of it other than relieving my feelings, so imagine my surprise when they contacted me to tell me that the pick up was going to theoretically happen a mere two days after it was supposed to, instead of ten days. They also refunded all the money on the spot, which may have been the most surprising thing of all.
The date selected was Saturday, which also happened to be the day after the giant storm, or "atmospheric river", as the weather men call it. So that made me even more dubious that they would show up.
I went about my regularly scheduled cooking marathon (braised chicken with goguchang; smothered pork chops; curried chickpeas), and much like lighting a cigarette at a bus stop, they turned up in the midst of it all, announced by Mark's herd of canine doormen. Once again I had to convince the delivery men that the dogs were all bark and no bite.
It didn't take them long to remove the mattress and be on their rainy way. I felt like a curse had been lifted from the house. I temporarily abandoned cooking operations and went upstairs to unfurl the new and hopefully improved mattress and leave it to puff up and recover while I finished the cooking.
The new mattress also feels great, being a pillow top memory foam. It has the cloud of bliss feeling I was looking for. Thanks to all of you who recommended memory foam. I should have asked you in the first place, instead of relying on my ever unreliable judgment. It does make me wonder, though, how one mattress can possibly be worth about a billion dollars more than another. In this case, the cheap one felt a billion times better than the super expensive one. Maybe I'm just a cheap date.
*I am delighted to note that Ramona's creator, Beverly Cleary, just turned 102 yesterday!
A YEAR AGO: A rather wintery spring.
FIVE YEARS AGO: A busy but happy Saturday.
TEN YEARS AGO: Meetings and music.
Glad the mattress problem has been finally resolved, like I said earlier, more expensive is not always the best, sleep well my friend, a comfortable mattress is so important to a good rest and sleep.


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The Johns Hopkins Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) was established in 1992 with support from the US Government (NSF, DARPA, DoD). Its aim is to promote research and education in the science and technology of language and speech.
Research is conducted by faculty, research scientists, and graduate students affiliated with six associated academic departments: biomedical engineering, cognitive science, computer science, electrical and computer engineering, mathematical sciences, and psychology. The research involves work in all aspects of the science and technology of language and speech, with fundamental studies under way in areas such as language modeling, natural language processing, neural auditory processing, acoustic processing, optimality theory, and language acquisition.
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Joyce Alene White Vance is an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 2009 to 2017. She was one of the first five U.S. Attorneys, and the first female U.S. Attorney, nominated by President Barack Obama.

Early life
Joyce White Vance (née Joyce Alene White) was born on July 22, 1960, in St. George, Utah. She was raised by a single mother in the middle-class Los Angeles suburb of Monterey Park, California.

She received a Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, in 1982.

She received a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1985.

Early career
Vance was a litigator in private practice at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP in Washington, DC, before joining the United States Attorney's Office in the Northern District of Alabama in 1991. She spent ten years in the Criminal Division, working on investigations including that of Eric Robert Rudolph, who bombed a Birmingham abortion clinic and killed a police officer and set a string of church fires in the district.  She successfully prosecuted five Boaz, Alabama, police officers charged with Conspiracy to Violate Civil Rights.  She moved to the Appellate Division in 2002 and became the Chief of that Division in 2005.

U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama
Vance was nominated to become U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama by President Barack Obama on May 15, 2009, and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 7, 2009. She was sworn in on August 27, 2009, with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in attendance.  Attorney General  Holder tapped Vance to serve on his first Attorney General's Advisory Committee of U.S. Attorneys in October 2009.  Vance co-chaired the AGAC's Criminal Practice Subcommittee, along with Vermont U.S. Attorney Tristram Coffin.

Vance helmed the first case of material support of terrorism in the Northern District of Alabama in 2011.  The defendant, Ulugbek Kodirov, pleaded guilty to charges of threatening to kill the President and material support of terrorism the following year and received a sentence of more than fifteen years in prison. Vance was also instrumental in building awareness about cyber crime and working with businesses in key sectors on threat minimization and critical incident response and prosecuted the first-ever cyber cases in the Northern District.

Vance was credited with pursuing public corruption prosecutions with integrity.  Public corruption prosecutions were one of her top priorities.  Maurice William Campbell, Director of the Alabama Small Business Development Consortium, was sentenced in March 2012 to more than 15 years in prison and ordered to pay $5.9 million restitution for using his position to obtain funds meant for small businesses for his own use. In 2013, Vance successfully prosecuted the Director of the Jefferson County Committee for Economic Opportunity for using half a million dollars of the agency's funds, meant for Headstart and other programs, to purchase real estate for herself. She also prosecuted cases involving corruption and other misconduct by law enforcement. She hired the first prosecutor in the Huntsville office dedicated solely to cyber prosecutions.

Vance developed a federal, state, and local law enforcement working group to deal with rapidly increasing heroin overdose deaths before the issue rose to national awareness. At one point, her office arrested and charged more than 40 heroin dealers and traffickers in one week.  Vance also held a community summit and initiated community-wide planning to develop partnerships between law enforcement, public health officials, and addiction prevention and treatment specialists. She continued to aggressively prosecute heroin traffickers throughout her time in office, insuring ringleaders received sentences of more than 20 years. The working group developed in a community-engaged initiative widely credited with working on all fronts to reduce heroin and prescription opiate addiction and overdose deaths,

Vance established a civil rights enforcement unit in the office.  Tom Perez, then the Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and later Secretary of Labor, traveled from Washington, DC, to Birmingham to make the announcement of the new unit along with Vance.  In 2011, she successfully challenged Alabama's immigration bill, HB 56, on constitutional grounds.  The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals found key portions of the law unconstitutional, and in 2013 the District Court entered a settlement in which seven challenged provisions of the law were permanently blocked. Vance's office engaged with the University of Alabama on allegations of racial discrimination in sorority rush in the University of Alabama's sorority system when students brought to light the role of alumni in refusing admission to minority candidates.  In 2014, Vance prosecuted a man for trying to hire a KKK member to murder his African American neighbor. Vance was involved in key work to protect the rights of Alabama voters, including a settlement of Alabama's violation of the motor voter act that brought the state into compliance, and a settlement with Jefferson County, Alabama of countywide violations of access to the polls for citizens with disabilities.  Vance, along with Civil Rights Division Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, also launched a statewide investigation into inhumane conditions in Alabama's prisons.

Vance adopted a "smart on crime" approach to violent and recidivist crime, intending to prosecute the most significant cases facing the district so that communities would be safer.  In addition to violent crime prosecution, she worked with other community partners on prevention through a violence reduction initiative and on reentry initiatives, such as "ban the box" and legal clinics to help formerly incarcerated individuals reenter the community successfully and find jobs.

Vance also prioritized qui tam and False Claims Act cases.  In April 2014, Amedysis Home Health Care agreed to pay $150 million to settle claims of Medicare fraud against them that were pursued by Vance's office working together with DOJ's Civil Division and several other U.S. Attorney's Offices.  A month earlier, Vance announced that Hospice Compassus would pay $3.9 million to resolve an investigation into Medicare fraud.  Vance also oversaw a case in which American Family Care agreed to pay $1.2 million to the federal government under the False Claims Act. In June 2012, Rural/Metro Ambulance agreed to pay $5.4 million to resolve allegations that it was engaged in improper billing and provision of unnecessary service.

Vance prioritized fraud cases, prosecuting Jonathan Dunning for the $14 million fraud that diverted funds meant to provide healthcare to low-income individuals. She prosecuted a series of cases involving fraud in car loan origination.  Following the tornadoes that swept through Alabama on April 27, 2011, doing severe damage across the region, Vance's office took a zero-tolerance stance on disaster fraud.  In April 2014 she successfully prosecuted a ring of five people who conspired to make $2.4 million in fraudulent claims against the BP Oil Deepwater Horizon compensation fund.

Post U.S. Attorney career
In April 2017, the University of Alabama School of Law announced that Joyce Vance would join the law school as a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in Law (effective August 2017) teaching in the areas of criminal justice reform, criminal procedure, and civil rights.

In 2018, Vance signed a contract to become an MSNBC contributor, frequently providing on-air commentary regarding developments in the Mueller investigation and other legal issues that involved the Trump administration. Since 2021, she also co-hosts the #SistersInLaw podcast with Jill Wine-Banks, Barbara McQuade and Kimberly Atkins Stohr.

Vance also sits on the bipartisan advisory board of States United Democracy Center.

Personal
Vance is married to Bob Vance. Bob Vance is Jefferson County, Alabama, Circuit Judge. They have four children.

Vance is the daughter-in-law of federal judge Robert S. Vance, who was murdered by a mail bomb in 1989.

Joyce Vance is Jewish.

She is an avid knitter and once maintained a blog (now dormant) about knitting and yarns.

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American women lawyers
Living people
United States Attorneys for the Northern District of Alabama
University of Virginia School of Law alumni
MSNBC people
Bates College alumni
1960 births

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