Our Annecy bike trip combines the best cycling in the world with a stay in the most beautiful town in France. Discover the perfect balance of riding and relaxation in a true cycling paradise. We have developed over 100 routes in and around Annecy, the Pearl in the Box, with an amazing variety of spectacular cycling rides and you'll get to experience the best of them with this first-class guided cycling tour.
Every day of the Annecy Bike Trip is packed with new cycling routes and new places to see and visit. We pride ourselves on showing you the very best cycling in the world! With your Annecy Bike Tour feel like a local cyclist on and off the bike, see beyond what any guide book will show you!
The choice of cycling routes can be tailored to meet your riding requirements and abilities, with a comfortable or moderate cycle tour itinerary and our hidden gem french restaurant lunch stop each day. Only possible with the local knowledge of the professionals in this mecca of cycling tours in the French Alps – Lake Annecy.
If it's a short break that your looking for then escape to Lake Annecy and the perfect cycling in France opportunity for the Weekend!
Tour Type Our classic bike trips provide the perfect balance between 'challenge' and 'relaxation'. Set in the most beautiful cycling locations in the world, we guarantee you will experience the very best of cycling and travel on our tours of the French Alps.
Activity Level Because our tours are always based at a single location with tons of ride options, we can tailor the routes to meet your riding requirements and abilities.
Available Packages All our prices are Australian $ per person based on twin share accommodation. If you require a single rooms, a single room surcharge will apply. If you have already arranged accommodation, you can select our 'Rides Only' package.
Season All our tours are available as private tours at any time of the year. So if you want to travel outside the season, don't hesitate to contact us!
Don't miss out on a holiday with your partner on Lake Annecy, just because you do not cycle. The Annecy bike trip has a package for those who just want to do a little sight seeing in the Venice of the Alps and share the famous Alpine cols with their cycling partner! Whilst they pedal this paradise, relax in the comfort of the support vehicle and escape together! Experience and share all the same sights of this unique region of France, with regular meeting points throughout the choice bike tour routes. Discover this regions culture and traditional way of life, from artisan local products to the joy of relaxing at a Restaurant/Café in the country!
We run our Annecy Bike Trip between May and September. Below are all our scheduled small-group departures. To enquire about joining our tours, click the "Enquire Now" button next to the tour date. Take a look at Annecy Bike Trip Specials!
If you want to travel on different dates, don't hesitate to contact us about arranging a private Annecy Bike Trip!
If you arrive by plane, we pick you up from Geneva International Airport, Switzerland for a short transfer to Annecy, France, where you check in to our hand-picked hotel accommodation in Annecy Centre Ville.
This afternoon our highly experienced French Alps professional cycling guide will begin your Annecy bike trip in true style with a breathtaking lap of Lake Annecy, the cleanest Lake in Europe, surrounded by the Forrest mountain of Semnoz on the west and the massive La Tournette (2351m) and the Grand Alps to the east. The perfect way to begin the most exhilarating week of riding with Practicebicycle Bike Tours in Annecy the French Alps!
Every day of the Annecy Bike Trip is packed with new cycling routes and new places to see and visit. You start your day with a delicious buffet breakfast, before joining your small group and local host for a few minutes chat about the planned bike ride for the day.
Each cycling route during your Annecy Bike Trip will be tailored specifically for your bike riding ability and experience, you can have a challenging ride or a comfortable ride, the choice is yours! Sports drinks and nutritional supplies are always on hand to keep the legs turning as well as mechanical and first-aid support for any unforeseen occasion. The Practice Bicycle team have a world of cycling experience available to you, allowing each ride during your bike tour to be perfectly paced so you can appreciate the scenery, take some photos or if you wish to be challenged take on another climb or two!
Our support vehicle is also available every day for the non-cyclists, or anyone who would prefer to take it easy and enjoy the bike tour from the comfort of the vehicle.
Sadly today is your departure day and the end of your Annecy cycling holiday it's time to pack your bike ready for your onward journey from Annecy. Practice Bicycle wish you a "Bon Voyage", safe cycling until we Practice Bicycle together again.
If you leave again by plane, we drop you off at Geneva International Airport.
Whether you have years of cycling experience or are just new to the bike, you will experience the very best cycling of your life in Annecy the French Alps. As long as you love cycling, this trip is for you!
Each cycling route during your Annecy Bike Trip will be tailored specifically to your bike riding ability and experience, so you can have a comfortable ride or a challenging ride – the choice is yours. All rides start and end in the same place, so there are no targets to make each day and you can not be left behind.
Practice Bicycle bike tours choose only the best accommodation for you, with proven, quality, air-conditioned Splendid Hotel 3* accommodation located in the heart of undoubtedly the most beautiful town in France, Annecy. This friendly superb accommodation also allows for a 5th Floor Executive room stay.
We love a challenge as much as we love cycling. The team at Practice Bicycle has a history in professional bike racing and coaching, so if it's a challenge you are looking for, we can definitely find just the right rides for you. After all, the area around Annecy is home to over 20 classic Tour de France Cols!
Absolutely! Look for our 'Rides Only' package to get on this tour without any add-ons or accommodation and experience the best rides of your life!
You prefer to choose and organise all your own details, accommodation, restaurants, travel…then our Rides Only option is perfect for you!
Each day you will join the Practice Bicycle Team at a convenient central meeting point in the town of Annecy. Fully guided and supported on a selection of breathtaking rides experiencing the most mythical cycling routes around Lake Annecy and the French Alps including restaurant lunches on route.
On each of our Annecy bike tours we tailor the daily rides to the riders experience and ability with many favorites that we like to share with you.
Practice Bicycle has developed an incredible 100+ routes in Annecy, exploring in every direction from Annecy a real thrill for cyclists of all levels, available to you today after over 20 years of cycling in the French Alps. To get an idea of what sort of rides you will be doing, take a look at a sample of our rides in Annecy.
As a Non Cycling guest you experience all the sights & delights at a leisurely pace from the comfort of the support vehicle, catching up at regular intervals throughout the day with the cycling group and our off the beaten path hidden gem restaurant lunch together. Our local support team will share with you culture and villages on route beyond what any guide book will show you!
Whilst in the 'Venice of the Alps' enjoy the turquoise waters of Lake Annecy with a leisurely boat trip, stroll through the 'Jardins de l'europe", crossing the 'Pont des Amours' (lovers bridge) and visit two of the most popular attractions Palais de l'Ile and the Château d'Annecy. Enjoy a 'Le Goûter' tea time moment with a salon du tea experience, let time past as you enjoy Annecy Vieille Ville's finest!


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Mills: Increase in economic activity key to oil, gas recovery
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The global COVID-19 pandemic has created an incredible economic decline in Texas, the U.S. and throughout the world. However, two new reports this past week indicated the possibility of a reversal.
The Energy Information Administration stated in its short-term energy outlook on Tuesday that even though there remains a high level of uncertainty in many economic indicators, there is some optimism that economic activity and energy demand has increased.
"EIA expects oil consumption will generally rise through the end of 2021," the reported stated. Oil demand rose from 17.9 million barrels per day (b/d) to 19.4 million b/d.
EIA estimates global liquid fuels inventories rose 6.4 million barrels b/d during the first half of 2020, but that increase will decline during the last half of the year because of increased activity and a decline in production. In the U.S., crude oil inventories have declined from a record of 540 million barrels on June 19 to 514 million barrels (5%) this past week. Global liquid fuels production declined 8.6 million b/d year over year to 91.8 million b/d, and U.S. crude oil production has dropped to 11.3 million b/d from 12.2 million b/d average in 2019.
The second report comes from a survey of 400-plus business owners in Texas by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas that believe economic activity will be stronger during the next six months resulting in better earnings.
"This optimism, coupled with a downward trend in new COVID-19 infections in Texas in recent weeks, gives hope that a more sure-footed rebound may be on the horizon," the Dallas Fed said.
"The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating effect on the Texas economy, which shed 10% of its jobs from February to April," the report stated. "Despite some recovery since then, June employment remained 6% below pre-COVID February levels."
Texas manufacturing activity continued to recover in July, with production growth accelerating slightly from June, but it's important to note that the level of activity is still well below normal. In a follow-up, the survey found nearly three-quarters of manufacturers noted that their revenues were lower than a typical July—by about one-third on average.
While weakness was most prevalent among face-to-face contact industries, such as restaurants and retail, other service sector industries, notably financial activities and professional/technical services, continue recovering, the survey found.
The seven-day average number of new daily COVID-19 cases in Texas rose from just below 1,400 on June 1 to more than 10,000 in mid-July, prompting a pullback in activity at some businesses and creating heightened uncertainty for many.
"Despite pandemic-related challenges, fewer than 10% of businesses report that it is likely they will fail over the next 12 months," the Fed stated. "This varies by sector, however. Given their current outlook, 26% of leisure and hospitality contacts say it is at least somewhat likely their businesses will not survive through next July.
"Pessimism was the highest among hoteliers, caterers and outdoor recreation operators, who have already noted staff layoffs of nearly 50% from February, on average. Conversely, less than 6% of manufacturers say they are at meaningful risk of shutting down."
Energy companies depend on activity increasing throughout the economy, and many are optimistic about the future.
— Alex Mills is the former president of the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers.
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In this article we look at the connection between al-Ikhwaan al-Muslimoon and the Raafidah Shi'ah of Iran, in particular, al-Khomeini and his revolution. We have pointed out in other articles that the respected reader be wise and insightful and note the connection between the Raafidah and the Khawaarij, in that they were the first two sects to appear in Islaam, both emanating as a result of the activities of the Sab'iyyah against Uthmaan bin Affaan (radiallaahu anhu). Today, that same Rafd and Khaarijiyyah is represented by certain key figureheads whose names go together and they are Hasan al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb, Abu A'laa Mawdudi and Ayatollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei (see for yourself what we are alluding to in this important article). Between them, these names symbolize exactly what the Sab'iyyah, Rafidah and Khawaarij were upon in the dawn of Islamic history where their aims were to bring down the authorities of Tawhid and Sunnah in that time. Today, we see the same pattern and in fact, the Messenger (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam) has informed us that the Kharijites will never cease to appear until the Dajjaal appears in their midst (see here).
The Muslim Brotherhood called upon the leaders of Islamic movements in Turkey, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Malaysia and Phillipines - in relation to (what has been done by) the various organizational branches of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Arab world, Europe and America - that they should prepare a delegation (each) to go to Tehran in a special plane and meet Ayatollah Khomeini in order to strengthen the solidarity of the Islamic movements represented by all the delegations, which are: al-Ikhwan al-Muslimoon, Turkish Hizb al-Salaamah, al-Jamaa'ah al-Islaamiyyah in Pakistan, al-Jamaa'ah al-Islaamiyyah in India, Jamaa'ah Hizb Maashoomee in Indonesia, Jamaa'ah Shabaab al-Islaam in Malaysia, al-Jamaa'ah al-Islaamiyyah in the Phillipines.
And the meeting was one indicating the greatness of Islaam and its power... and Imaam al-Khomeini was showed concern and emphasized to them that capital of the Islamic revolution in the world is but the individual Muslim who says "Laa ilaaha ilallaah" and its place is not just Iran but in every Islamic nation in wihch the ruler shows haughtiness against the Islamic religion and resists the flow of the movement, and that it was Allaah who honoured al-Khomeini with support against the Shah.
And from its side the delegation emphasized to al-Imaam al-Khomeini that the Islamic movements will fulfil their covenant of serving the Islamic revolution in Iran and in every place with its capabilities in terms of manpower, knowledge and wealth. And after the delegation performed Salaat al-Ghaa'ib (funeral prayer in absence) for the martyrs (of the revolution) a series of meetings were arranged with Dr. Ibrahim Yazdee, the prime minister and personal aide to al-Imaam al-Khomeini and who had a personal relationship with the members of the delegation and also during the secret movement of the organization of Imaam al-Khomeini against the Savak.
... Then the delegation announced, in a television interview, of a day of solidarity with the Iranian revolution within all parts of the Islamic world and outside of it, wherever Islamic communities are found and that Salaat al-Ghaa'ib should be prayed for the martyrs of the Iranian revolution after Jumu'ah on 16th March 1979, and that all people involved in Islamic work in all places should mention this day, and remind others withh it and make the Salaat al-Ghaa'ib on this day as a symbol of the unity of the Islamic Ummah, fulfilling the saying of Imaam al-Khomeini, "The capital of the Islamic revolution in Iran is every Muslim who says 'Laa ilaaha illallaah'" Allaah is great, to Allaah belongs the praise. The Muslim Brotherhood.
Refer to Lumahaat An Da'wah al-Ikhwan al-Muslimeen of Muhammad Awad Muhammad Abd al-Ghanee.
This is just one of many wathaa'iq (documentary evidences) indicating the relationship between al-Ikhwaan al-Muslimoon and the Raafidah, indicating the relationship between Rafd and Khaarijiyyah. However, this is not really the surprising thing and there are more important points to be raised here which include the fact that there are lying, deceiving, treacherous individuals who came out with corrupt innovated principles aimed at defending and sheltering groups like al-Ikhwan al-Muslimoon and their activities. These are people like Abdur-Rahmaan Abdul-Khaaliq an Ikhwaani who attempted to bring the manhaj of Hasan al-Banna and Sayyid Qutb to a Salafi audience. He innovated numerous deceptive principles to this end, including "ta'addud al-jamaa'aat" (legitimacy of multiplicity of groups). Also innovators like Abu al-Hasan al-Ma'ribee al-Misree. And also Salman al-Awdah, another treacherous Ikhwani. Following this path in the West were the likes of Ali al-Timimi and the hordes of clueless misguided on his bandwagon. Al-Timimi was pushing the fikr of Abdur-Rahman Abdul-Khaaliq clothed in the garb of Salafiyyah, and it was simply a route to bringing the ideas of Hasan al-Banna and Sayyid Qutb to an unsuspecting Salafi audience. These are the real significant points that should be made - these actions of al-Ikhwaan, they are not surprising - but more surprising and worthy of attention is the positions people take towards this jamaa'ah after having been informed of its realities. This is because al-Ikhwan as a group is not a danger to Ahl al-Sunnah as much as these treacherous individuals who accommodate al-Ikhwan and portray them as being from Ahl al-Sunnah and devise false principles to defend such deviant groups in the name of benefiting the da'wah and strengthening the Ummah.


L: It's been a long, eventful quarter since we last spoke, Doug. What's most on your mind as 2014 draws to a close and we look ahead to 2015?
Doug: Let's start with gold, since that's the main focus we've had for so long. The Swiss gold reserve referendum just went down in flames, of course, and that was a big disappointment to many.
L: Really? I don't know anyone who was surprised.
L: Whoa—that would explain a lot.
Doug: Yes. Relying on the Swiss franc to preserve your capital today is like relying on Swiss banks to preserve your privacy. Only fools would trust in either at this point. Despite that, Switzerland may still be sounder than any other country in Europe—which is really saying something about how bad things have gotten in Europe.
L: I've learned from you, Doug, not to pay too much attention to gold's daily fluctuations, but I have to say that it was a singular day the Monday after the Swiss referendum failed. Gold dropped like a rock the moment it started trading, but quickly reversed and kept rising and rising all day long, making an $80/ounce swing from trough to peak. Did you notice that, and what do you make of it?
Doug: I suspect short covering; too many people were short because they expected the referendum to fail and then had to cover. Those inclined toward conspiracy theories may say that the initial retreat was "da boys" hitting the paper gold market with thousands of gold contracts in the middle of the New York night—timed perfectly to coincide with the Swiss vote. If there were any truth to that, the people promoting the notion would all be billionaires. But they're not.
L: I understand your position that it could have been private players doing the same thing for profit, but let's suppose for a moment that the government conspiracy is real. If so, the fact that gold buyers swamped the selling and pushed the price higher that day shows that the conspirators can at most influence gold, not control its price, and there's hope in that.
Doug: I don't believe in the conspiracy theories regarding gold price suppression. There's zero credible evidence for it, and I'm embarrassed having to discuss the subject with outsiders who have heard it; for them it's more evidence that gold investors all wear tinfoil hats. The fact is the government doesn't care about gold; they really do think it's a barbarous relic that should be used to plate urinals, as Lenin supposedly suggested. They don't care about its price, and even less about that of silver.
That said, I'll stick my nose out and say that I think the bottom for gold has come and gone, with that spike downward.
L: I haven't made a formal call, but my gut take is the same, and I said so in the current edition of the International Speculator. I published a chart showing one of those days—and there have been quite a few recently—in which gold sold off sharply during a time of light trading volume, only to rebound and close the day higher. To me, this is evidence that there's a large pool of deep-pocketed buyers out there for whom the current gold trading range is attractive and who back up the truck for more every time it gets cheaper.
Doug: At least two of those buyers are the Chinese and the Russians. The Russians at least appear to disclose their gold holdings every month, and they keep rising and rising. China is less transparent, but they have become the world's largest gold producer—and they not only don't export any gold, they import more than anyone else, with the occasional exception of India.
This is important because at the end of the day, the paper market must eventually follow what's happening in the real world of physical trade in a physical thing like gold. And the reality in the physical market for gold is that global demand is very strong. If any genius is actually suppressing the gold price in Western-dominated paper markets, they are simply doing the Russians and Chinese a huge favor, helping them move gold from West to East cheaply.
That's all anyone really needs to know.
L: Understood. But of course, for many gold investors out there, it's once bitten, twice shy.
Doug: There's no question that gold has had a severe retracement since its high in September of 2011. I understand their feelings. But we're not talking about feelings here; we're talking about markets. Markets cycle. This one has cycled about as low as any gold market in past corrections, and now I think it's time for it to cycle up again.
Doug: It's just my opinion. Everyone's got one.
L: Heh—well, as Captain Kirk once said to Mr. Spock, "I trust your guesses more than I trust most people's so-called facts." But enough on that: what else are you seeing in the markets today?
Doug: The big retreat in oil prices is obviously important.
L: It's certainly capturing a lot of headlines. What do you think: is this new US oil boom the beginning of the end for OPEC, as so many would love to believe?
Doug: OPEC works fine in a bull market, when everyone is a rich genius. But half the governments in OPEC are broke, they're all run by morons, and they all cheat on quotas as suits them. OPEC is really just a public-relations gimmick at this point—one that allows a bunch of corrupt ministers a chance to live high off the hog and feel important at their meetings.
But there's no denying that there's been a sea change in the global energy markets. Fracking and horizontal drilling have created a major surge in US oil production—a big deal in a fungible commodity that has impacted the whole world. The technology will spread everywhere, and costs will drop. But decline curves are steep. You probably need $70-$80 oil to make it work.
Meanwhile, countries like Venezuela, Iraq, and Iran live off of oil revenue and will sell all they can produce at any price they can get. Besides, I think the world economy is slowing down—just look at Europe and China. All of this just means that the energy market went through an entirely predictable down cycle.
L: Any sense of where that bottom is?
Doug: Not a clear one, but we're probably approaching it, if it hasn't come and gone as well. Remember that most commodities move roughly together in cycles. Grains, metals, energy—a lot of commodities have fallen significantly in price. And the next step is down for the world economy. Way down.
L: That reminds me of what Rick Rule likes to say: the cure for low prices is low prices. People aren't going to suddenly decide they don't need metals, energy, or food. If high oil prices made expensive shale oil production profitable, lower prices will cut back on that supply, driving the price back up again, starting a new cycle.
Doug: Yes, though in the long run, oil supply will simply not be a problem. Oil is just a hydrocarbon, and all you need to make it is CO2, water, and energy. I really don't worry about future supplies of energy. We'll have to go through the wringer to get there, but things will eventually get better—not only better than most people imagine, but better than most can imagine.
L: So with that big picture in mind, do developments like the Russians canceling their South Stream pipeline idea in favor of a new route through Turkey matter?
Doug: Not really. The devil can be in the details, but these are just details. More important, as Marin points out in his new book, The Colder War, Putin is the smartest and toughest politician on the international scene today. Whether or not we like him isn't relevant; we should expect his decisions to be intelligent, given his goals.
For example, as we've discussed before, from the Russian perspective, his actions helping Russian populations break their provinces away from Ukraine make perfect sense. The actions of the US-installed puppet government in Kiev are criminal and insane, trying to recapture those people who want independence in eastern Ukraine by force.
So even though he's not a "nice guy," I'm a Putin fan.
L: We're going to have to agree to disagree on that one. I fear the man wants to be Tsar of the World—and he may be ruthless enough to pull it off. And I don't understand why you're so quick to dismiss US/EU propaganda but buy into Russian propaganda. You haven't been to Ukraine to determine the facts for yourself. Neither have I, but I have friends there, and I believe you're misinformed.
That said, I know that you're basically in favor of all secession movements regardless of the particulars. You'd ultimately like to see every person on earth secede from any and all governments, and with that I agree.
Doug: I don't think a visit would help. And just because the Russians say something doesn't mean it's wrong. You simply have to support breakaway provinces, whether they're in Spain, Italy, Ukraine, or wherever. It's logical the Russians would try to help them secede and extremely provocative of the US government to arm the bankrupt regime in Kiev to prevent it.
L: Okay then—what else is on your mind?
L: It's not just predictable, Doug: you did predict it. You've been saying for years—decades—that all these lines on the maps of Africa and the Middle East were drawn up in boardrooms in Europe with no regard for the historical, tribal, linguistic, religious, and economic groups they cut apart or the different and often mutually hostile peoples they forced together. I've heard you say many times that those lines would change, and now it's happening.
Doug: Well, okay, that's true. But the point is that as distasteful as these ISIS people may be to Western sensibilities, they speak for a large number of people who see the world their way, so it's no surprise to see them gaining ground, cutting across borders they never believed in to begin with. What's happening with ISIS is natural and inevitable.
The fact that they execute people by beheading is picturesque in a way many Westerners find offensive—but it is by nature no more offensive than state executions in the US. Strapping a guy to a chair and running electricity through him or strapping him to a table and injecting poisons into him is equally barbaric.
The public executions are a distraction, however; the Saudis execute scores of people the same way for much the same reasons every year, and they're supposed to be our bosom buddies. What matters is that this movement has a great deal of support and it's growing. It's actually a good thing from the perspective of the people in that part of the world who want that kind of society. That means it will dig in and have staying power. I don't think it's going to dry up and blow away. I would not, however, rely on the media for an accurate description or interpretation of events.
And we should expect similar disintegrations of nonsense countries and reorganization of peoples into more natural groupings to spread across the Middle East and throughout Africa.
You'd think some heads would roll, at least metaphorically, in Washington after the Iraqi Army—which was the recipient of scores of billions of wasted US taxpayer funds—collapsed totally. They fled and left their weapons for the insurgents. The neocons have absolutely no shame—which, incidentally, is a hallmark of a real sociopath. I'm much more afraid of the people in control of the US government than I am of ISIS.
L: What I don't understand about this ISIS thing is that they seem to be setting up a "real" government—this new caliphate they want recognized—with defined and accepted territory. That makes them vulnerable to straightforward military action; they become a country that can be warred upon, not just a terrorist group that can disappear in the desert. So, if they are the Bad Guys, why don't those governments that oppose them wage real war on them and wipe them out?
Doug: Well, what stupidity doesn't explain, incompetence often does. None of the state armies in the Middle East is worth the powder it would take to blow it to hell; they're nothing but vehicles for graft and oppressing the people. Half the soldiers are likely sympathetic with the jihadists, if only because they hate their corrupt officers. In warfare, Napoleon said, the psychological is to the physical as three is to one. So don't bet against ISIS.
And don't call them terrorists. The word has become a meaningless pejorative. I'm a freedom fighter, you're a rebel, he's a terrorist. Entirely apart from the fact that terrorism is just a tactic or sometimes a strategy, like artillery barrages or cavalry charges. We'll see if they succeed in staking out a territory. Maybe they won't bother; maybe they'll become a phyle.
I suggest people analyze the situation in a value-free manner. If you involve your emotions, you're unlikely to arrive at the most rational conclusions. ISIS is not a friend, but rest assured its members see themselves as good and just people who are fighting evil.
L: It occurs to me that ISIS may be more useful to the powers that be, beheading journalists on YouTube—a great distraction from the woes affecting people's daily lives in the West.
Doug: Exactly. The worse the economy gets, the more governments look for someone else to blame or some danger somewhere that makes for a good distraction. There needs to be a dog to wag.
I suspect that there are a lot of neocons out there who wish they'd left Saddam alone, rather than whacking the hornet's nest. Now that the cat is out of the bag, to mix metaphors, I think the phenomenon is really going to spread. And most neocons will learn absolutely nothing from it, since their views aren't influenced by facts but set by a psychological aberration.
L: So the Forever War intensifies in 2015?
Doug: Yes. I think it's inevitable. For a bunch of reasons.
L: Speaking of economic woes that people need to be distracted from, have you seen that there's a national movement building steam in the US, advocating a $15-per-hour minimum wage?
Doug: Yes. What these people don't realize or want to face is that rote labor is not worth $15 per hour, and the only thing they will succeed in achieving is their own unemployment—and unemployability. This movement will only encourage companies like Amazon—which uses thousands and thousands of robots to do work people once did—to automate even more. So maybe it's a good thing; it will spur innovation and progress. It might even cost us less for those who lack value-adding skills to go on welfare than for business to be forced to pay them to do work machines can do better and faster.
Let me hasten to add that welfare in all its aspects should be abolished. But that's not going to happen until the present system actually collapses. Which, incidentally, will happen. Nothing overcomes the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
L: Perhaps it's a form of poetic justice. People see that the government prints all the money it wants to bail out its friends on Wall Street—and itself—why not just print more for them directly? If governments can print, borrow, and spend an economy into prosperity, why indeed can't societies print money for all to spend as they please? We can all be Zimbabwe—rejoice!
Doug: Looking at this from a historical point of view, you realize that 100 years ago, there were only five central banks in the world. Now every country in the world has a central bank, and they're all doing exactly the same thing: creating currency units out of thin air as fast as they think they can get away with.
More broadly, a century ago, governments were very limited in their power to regulate the day-to-day lives of citizens. They were actually quite weak. The whole world has transformed tremendously since then, starting with the mega-disaster of World War I, and governments now have unprecedented power over people's lives—made possible not only by laws, but by the power of central banks… and by the fact the average person has been programmed to believe that's the way it ought to be.
The good news, I think, is that this situation has already crossed the point of no return; it's unsustainable. It must and will fall apart. There's going to be a gigantic reset within the next decade. Within 10 years, I'm sure we're going to see something that's going to be not just the biggest thing since World War II, but the biggest thing since the Industrial Revolution.
I remain an optimist for the future, but the next big historical turning point is coming, and it's going to be very unpleasant for most people.
L: That brings to mind how bad things have gotten already, with waves of protest wracking the US over excessive use of force by the police. I don't know if Obama's idea of putting cameras on cops will really help—does anyone really trust the watchers to watch themselves?
Doug: It's all related. Look, rather than discuss the details of the day, I think that at heart, we should remember that cops are people, albeit people who generally have an extra Y chromosome and are loyal first to other cops. Their actions should not only be judged and responded to in the same way we would for any other people, but more severely. If, for example, a citizen kills someone, there's a grand jury convened and a trial. The same should be the case for cops—every time and in all cases. In fact, cops should not be scrutinized less for the sake of expedience, but more—for the sakes of justice and freedom.
I think it's unconscionable that cops have gotten away with shakedowns, murder, and other crimes for so long because of the mistaken belief—both theirs and among people in general—that the rules must be different for them. I'm not a fan of today's cops in general; they're no longer peace officers concerned with protecting the people, but law enforcement officers concerned with protecting themselves and strong-arming the people as directed by their masters.
Maybe people are finally getting fed up. I don't know how this will end, but it's hard to see much change before things get worse—something like they were in the movie V for Vendetta.
L: So, pulling back to look at the big picture and looking ahead to 2015, it seems to me that there is something deeply and disturbingly wrong with the global picture. Everyone desperately focuses on whatever good news they can even as the bad news continues unabated. China, which now has the world's largest economy, is failing to hit even its reduced GDP growth targets, and the EU has fallen and can't get up. But no one wants to admit that the emperor has no clothes—it's time to go holiday shopping.
Doug: Good point about China. I see an economic collapse as an almost sure thing for them; the collapse of iron ore prices in 2014 is clear evidence of this, with so much of global iron production having been gobbled up by China until recently. Their banks are broke, which will be a huge problem for the average Chinese worker, who still saves 25%-30% of his or her income. If those people can't get their money out of their banks or if the money they get is worthless, there won't just be riots and civil unrest, there will be a revolution.
Japan is destroying the yen and will wipe out the savings of the Japanese people. Europe is a socialist basket case at this point. And I have to say: the US isn't far behind.
Next year and 2016 are really going to be something to behold.
L: Grim. So… how to invest?
So, as we've said before, I really don't see any way out of this thing, other than through the wringer we're now caught in. However long they last, I do think we're in the last moments of calm before the storm breaks.
L: I see it as maybe a last chance to back up the truck on the best speculative picks in various sectors poised to surge whenever the storm does break. I don't know when the balloon pops, but it's growing and growing in a room full of pins, and our readers will want to be prepared when it blows. The best way I can think of is to subscribe to our various publications, both for strategic guidance and for potentially life-changing—or saving—stock picks. Fortunately for those late to the game or who wish to diversify into new sectors, we're opening up subscription to our most exclusive and comprehensive service, Casey's Club, through February 20. I do encourage everyone reading this conversation to take advantage of this opportunity, and prepare for what's coming—perhaps faster than anyone imagines.
Doug: Yes. It will affect us all, everywhere, but I'm happy to be down here in the peaceful and productive wine country of Cafayate, Argentina.
L: I look forward to my next visit—and hope you'll visit me soon here in Puerto Rico.
Doug: I'll be interested to see what the actual change in your taxes turns out to be, net of all your costs.
L: Me too. Well, thanks for another very thought-provoking, if not exactly cheerful conversation. I don't think I need to ask you to spell out the details of what to do as a result of your projections; it's all here in these pages and in the International Speculator, of course.
Doug: Just so. Until next time, keep some powder dry; I think you're going to see some spectacular buying opportunities, and I think those who stick with the program are going to achieve fantastic returns.


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Q: Django: empty formset in template I'm building an application with Django and when using InlineFormSet with ClassBasedViews my route_formset is empty in template, but form is populated with data as it should be.
What am I doing wrong?

View

class ReservationUpdateView(UpdateView):
    model = Reservation
    form_class = ReservationForm
    success_url = '/'

    def get_form_kwargs(self):
        kwargs = super(ReservationUpdateView, self).get_form_kwargs()
        kwargs.update({'request': self.request})
        return kwargs

    def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        """
        Handles GET requests and instantiates versions of the form
        and its inline formsets.
        """
        self.object = self.get_object()
        form_class = self.get_form_class()
        form = self.get_form(form_class)
        route_formset = RouteFormSet()
        return self.render_to_response(
            self.get_context_data(form=form,
                                  route_formset=route_formset))

    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        """
        Handles POST requests, instantiating a form instance and its inline
        formsets with the passed POST variables and then checking them for
        validity.
        """
        self.object = self.get_object()
        form_class = self.get_form_class()
        form = self.get_form(form_class)
        route_formset = RouteFormSet(self.request.POST)
        if (form.is_valid() and route_formset.is_valid()):
            return self.form_valid(form, route_formset)
        else:
            return self.form_invalid(form, route_formset)

    def form_valid(self, form, route_formset):
        """
        Called if all forms are valid. Creates a Recipe instance along with
        associated Ingredients and Instructions and then redirects to a
        success page.
        """
        self.object = form.save()
        route_formset.instance = self.object
        route_formset.save()
        return HttpResponseRedirect(self.get_success_url())

    def form_invalid(self, form, route_formset):
        """
        Called if a form is invalid. Re-renders the context data with the
        data-filled forms and errors.
        """
        return self.render_to_response(
            self.get_context_data(form=form,
                                  route_formset=route_formset))

Template

{% for form in route_formset %}

        Time / Place

            {{ form.time }}

            {{ form.place }}

    {% endfor %}

Formset

RouteFormSet = inlineformset_factory(Reservation, Stop, fields=('time','place'), extra=2)

Result

So the formset should be populated with Stops but it is empty..

A: Try to initialize formset with instance to fill it with related data:
route_formset = RouteFormSet(instance=self.object)

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Calling the rise in overdose deaths from heroin and other prescription pain-killers an "urgent public health crisis," Attorney General Eric Holder vowed Monday that the Justice Department would combat the epidemic through a mix of enforcement and treatment efforts. As an added step, the Attorney General is also encouraging law enforcement agencies to train and equip their personnel with the life-saving, overdose-reversal drug known as naloxone.
Speaking in a video message posted on the Justice Department's website, Holder noted that between 2006 and 2010, heroin overdose deaths increased by 45 percent.
"When confronting the problem of substance abuse, it makes sense to focus attention on the most dangerous types of drugs. And right now, few substances are more lethal than prescription opiates and heroin," Holder said.
Relatedly, Holder is urging first responders to carry the drug known as naloxone. When administered quickly and effectively, naloxone immediately restores breathing to a victim in the throes of a heroin or opioid overdose. Seventeen states and the District of Columbia have amended their laws to increase access to naloxone, resulting in over 10,000 overdose reversals since 2001. Used in concert with "Good Samaritan" laws, which grant immunity from criminal prosecution to those seeking medical help for someone experiencing an overdose, naxolone can save lives.
The Attorney General also urged the public to view the award-winning documentary, "The Opiate Effect," to learn more about the realities, and the dangers, of opiate abuse. The video is available for free online HERE.
"When confronting the problem of substance abuse, it makes sense to focus attention on the most dangerous types of drugs. And right now, few substances are more lethal than prescription opiates and heroin.
"Addiction to heroin and other opiates – including certain prescription pain-killers – is impacting the lives of Americans in every state, in every region, and from every background and walk of life – and all too often, with deadly results. Between 2006 and 2010, heroin overdose deaths increased by 45 percent. Scientific studies, federal, state and local investigations, addiction treatment providers, and victims reveal that the cycle of heroin abuse commonly begins with prescription opiate abuse. The transition to—and increase in—heroin abuse is a sad but not unpredictable symptom of the significant increase in prescription drug abuse we've seen over the past decade.
"It's clear that opiate addiction is an urgent – and growing – public health crisis. And that's why Justice Department officials, including the DEA, and other key federal, state, and local leaders, are fighting back aggressively.
"Confronting this crisis will require a combination of enforcement and treatment. The Justice Department is committed to both.
"Since 2011, DEA has opened more than 4,500 investigations related to heroin. They're on track to open many more. And as a result of these aggressive enforcement efforts, the amount of heroin seized along America's southwest border increased by more than 320 percent between 2008 and 2013.
"Of course, enforcement alone won't solve the problem. That's why we are enlisting a variety of partners – including doctors, educators, community leaders, and police officials – to increase our support for education, prevention, and treatment. DEA engages in widespread education of pharmacists, doctors, and other health practitioners in the identification and prevention of controlled substance diversion during the healthcare delivery process. In the Northern District of Ohio, for example, the U.S. Attorney convened a summit at the Cleveland Clinic, bringing together health and law enforcement professionals to address that area's 400-percent rise in heroin-related deaths. And nationwide, the Justice Department is supporting more than 2,600 specialty courts that connect over 120,000 people convicted of drug-related offenses with the services they need to avoid future drug use and rejoin their communities.
"We can, and should, be proud of these results. But more can be done. And frequently, the most effective efforts are those that begin at home. Parents and families can help raise awareness about the devastating consequences of opiate abuse. And Americans like the Gates family of Skowhegan, Maine, are showing the way. Their son, Will, was a bright young student at the University of Vermont who overdosed on heroin and lost his life – five years ago this month.


Studies of mice and monkeys show that repeated stress -- and a high-fat, high-sugar diet -- release a hormone, neuropeptide Y, that causes a buildup of abdominal fat, researchers from Georgetown University reported. Manipulating levels of that hormone could melt fat from areas where it is not desired and accumulate it where it is needed.
At the same time, you get a surge of cortisol, which tells your body to replenish that energy even though you haven't used very many calories in your stressed-out state. This can make you hungry... very hungry. And your body keeps on pumping out that cortisol as long as the stress continues.
Sadly, few of us reach for celery or carrot sticks in these situations. "Instead, we crave sweet, salty, and high-fat foods because they stimulate the brain to release pleasure chemicals that actually do reduce tension," explains Elissa Epel, PhD, a researcher on stress eating at the University of California, San Francisco. This soothing effect becomes addictive, so every time you're anxious, you reach for fattening foods.
With your adrenal glands pumping out cortisol, production of the muscle-building hormone testosterone slows down. Over time, this drop causes a decrease in your muscle mass, so you burn fewer calories and usually eat more calories from fat. Calories from fat require more exercise, putting you on a revolving door of needing more exercise and probably doing less exercise as the weight increases.
You can greatly assist your cortisol levels and your weight being under control, and improve your overall health at the same time in eight meaningful ways.
1. It's an ancient adage that when you control your breathing and you control your life. Do you ever have an absolutely hellish day? Given enough time to practice the proper breathing exercises as "preparation for battle" and you can train yourself to "walk calmly through the gates of hell".
Your breathing really does control much of your stress response IF you first develop it properly and train it to react spontaneously and occasionally as well, will or guide it to "maintain courage under fire".
Long, purposefully shallow but still tolerable breathing rates and depths will offset the tendency towards high chest breathing and hyperventilation or over-breathing and will also develop the breathing so that when excitement DOES occur one has the ability to maintain balance. Over breathing is a bit misleading as it implies one can breathe too much. But breath is life isn't it? The key is HOW we breathe, not how much.
Physical conditioning also helps a lot but many in seemingly great condition drop dead after passing a cardiac stress test. The key to me is how strong the breathing foundation is. If your body is like an office building with a basement, and here comes a hurricane (stress), then how deep, strong and durable is your basement (foundation)? The basement is support center for the calming aspect of your nervous system called the parasympathetic. Many miss-label it as the "rest and digest" versus "fight or flight" of the sympathetic nervous system" aspect of the autonomic nervous system. "Rest and digest" relegates it to a few relevant but inadequate words that have too little connection to its real importance which is the actual foundation of our very body-centered strength of being and doing.
Simply stated, the bigger, stronger, your PNS becomes, the more stress you can tolerate. Exercise can greatly help but exercise with a weak breathing foundation (or basement) will eventually turn to DIS- stress. Start with the Squeeze and Breathe Exercise in the Optimal Breathing Kit 176 Video and you get a temporary experience of the foundation. Then do the other Optimal Breathing Development Exercises that further develop this "basement".
Research shows that constant dieting can make cortisol levels rise as much as 18%. When your cortisol levels spike, your blood sugar roller coasters .. This makes you cranky and hungry. When your brain is deprived of sugar, its main fuel self-control takes a nosedive, and your willpower doesn't stand a chance. High protein meals can help but they tend to foster acidity over time. Balance is key and your body and life style will dictate that .. More fresh veggies and sprouted seeds, nuts and beans seem to be the best route for alkalinity but type O blood people may need more high density protein.
Stop rigid dieting. When stress drives you toward something sweet or salty, it's okay to yield a little. It's much better to indulge a little and cut off your cortisol response before it gets out of control. Have a piece of fresh fruit, a few E3live capsules or even dark chocolate. You will feel better. Just stop at one. If you have trouble restraining yourself, take precautions so you won't binge. Do not keep sweet foods at home. Force yourself to go to the store if you must have a sweet snack!
Next time you're under duress, choose decaf. Take a shot of E3live liquid. Many have gotten rid of their habit of 8 cups of coffee a day with an ounce of prevention from one of natures wonder foods.
When you combine stress with caffeine, it raises cortisol levels more than stress alone. In one study by the University of Oklahoma, consuming the equivalent of 2 1/2 to 3 cups of coffee while under mild stress boosted cortisol by about 25%and kept it up for 3 hours. When subjects took 600 mg of caffeine (the equivalent of 6 cups of coffee) throughout the day, the hormone level went up by 30% and stayed high all day long. You'll experience these effects even if your body is accustomed to a lot of lattes. And because high cortisol levels can contribute to stress eating, quitting caffeine altogether may be the right answer for you.
Deficiencies in B vitamins, vitamin C, calcium, and magnesium are stressful to your body. And these deficiencies lead to increased cortisol levels and food cravings. But you can fight back by eating a breakfast that's high in these nutrients. Try a protein smoothie with fresh spinach with a full spectrum vitamin powder – it should contains calcium and magnesium and whole sprouted grains bursting with B vitamins, while raw almond butter and avocado contain essential fatty acids that can decrease the production of stress hormones.
Though exercising is critical to energy increase and stamina, do not depend on exercise to maintain weight. That is fools game and what the food industry would like you to believe so you eat more and they make more money. Calories from fat are the key to weight control.
The most effective stress-reduction strategy of all: Get enough shut-eye. Your body perceives sleep deprivation as a major stressor. A University of Chicago study found that getting an average of 6 1/2 hours each night can increase cortisol, appetite, and weight gain. The National Sleep Foundation recommends 7 to 9 hours. As if that weren't enough, other research shows that lack of sleep also raises levels of ghrelin, a hunger-boosting hormone. In one study, appetite particularly for sweet and salty foods increased by 23% in people who lacked sleep. The good news: A few nights of solid sleep can bring all this back into balance, and getting enough regularly helps keep it there. You'll eat less, and you'll feel better. Us the Reflex triggering exercises in the 176 video included in the Optimal Breathing Kit.


Berry spoke alongside Michelle Miller, co-founder of Coworker.org, on organizing in Silicon Valley. Miller's work at Coworker.org focuses on driving the growth of independent employee networks. Over the years, Coworker.org has assisted in advancing paid parental leave benefits at Netflix, scheduling reform at Starbucks, and changing Google's Code of Conduct.
Following this, campaigns were formed by IBM employees who were concerned that the CEO had encouraged the Trump administration to use their technology. Oracle employees signed petitions to get the company to sign on to the amicus brief about the Muslim Ban, while Comcast and Google workers staged walkouts.
Miller also talked about two very important movements that happened simultaneously within Google. The company had a contract with the Department of Defense called Project Maven to build artificial intelligence to help drones better identify targets. The employees were outraged, so they organized, ran internal campaigns, and within a few months, Google agreed not to renew the contract. What many didn't realize was that during this time, however, there was another effort within the company to counter the anti-intelligence campaign.
Google staff members were being targeted by alt-right sympathetic coworkers who were harassing and targeting them on internal messaging forms because of their race, sexual orientation or religious identity. By asking provoking questions and then documenting their negative responses, they would report these workers to HR as well as send the conversations to Breitbart, an alt-right outlet, to expose and dox their targets. The attacked Google staffers, however, were undeterred. What began as two employees increased to 2,000. The movement showed up to shareholder meetings and influenced Google to release a new code of conduct.
Berry said that government officials will continue to argue that CVE programming is not focused on the American Muslim community, and that it touches upon and includes a focus on white supremacy as well. The problem with that is the way officials have presented the content and how they testified to congressional oversight committees, Berry said. They focus entirely on the work of ISIS and Al-Qaeda and conflate their efforts with the indefinite global war on terror. These for-profit social media companies are now engaged in programming through partnerships and financial sponsorship that are directly aligned with a deeply disturbing and problematic government approach. This approach classifies an entire community as a security threat while profiting off the viral nature of inflammatory and hateful content directed at that same community.
Moderator Jameson Spivak, a summer fellow with the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law, then asked both speakers whether they thought there was any social media outlet that is doing an adequate job at combating violent extremism on both sides. They each said no.
Miller pointed out that corporate economics make it difficult to do the right thing by targeting bad actors. She believes that there are employees who want to do the right thing and want to fix the problem, but the business interests of a company will always take precedent especially when the expense associated with appropriately taking on a problem is more than they want to incur.


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Osasere Ighodaro, a 6-foot-10 forward, is the only senior on Desert Vista's roster this season.
Zach Alvira/AFN Staff
Desert Vista basketball relying on youth leadership for success
By Zach Alvira, AFN Sports Editor
It's viewed as a rarity in high school sports.
But for Desert Vista High's Basketball team, it happens to be reality. The Thunder, widely regarded as a favorite to contend for the 6A title this season, has just one senior on this year's roster.
Lucky for them, he also happens to be one of the best players in the country.
"He is a leader on and off the court," Desert Vista coach Gino Crump said of Osasere Ighodaro. "He's our anchor. He's our shot blocker, he creates offensive opportunities for us. He's what we do. As he goes, we go."
Ighodaro is a 6-foot-10, 180-pound power forward committed to play Basketball at Marquette University next year. He's quickly risen the ranks as one of the top players in the country and had offers from nearly every major Division I college basketball program in the nation.
He is quiet and reserved off the court, spending the little free time he has tutoring his fellow classmates. On the court, however, he uses his long frame to overpower defenders. He's one of the key reasons Desert Vista has jumped out to a 7-0 start this season.
Especially being the only senior, he's made it his goal to become more of a leader than ever before.
"I've learned from all the seniors we've had in the past," Ighodaro said. "It's just about taking every practice, every rep seriously to get to where we want to get to."
Crump and Ighodaro have looked to some of the younger players for help leading the team this season, in particular, those with varsity experience. Andrew King, a 6-foot-2 sophomore guard found himself thrust into this role this year after he played a considerable number of minutes on the Thunder's varsity team last year.
King, who was recently offered by Grand Canyon University, has averaged 12.9 points and 2.1 assists per game so far this season. His highest point total came against Brophy on Tuesday, in which he scored 21 points in Desert Vista's 84-76 win. While he's helped other players on varsity for the first time this season, he's also lent a hand to those who have transferred into the program this season.
"I have to show a lot of the new guys in practice how things will be in the game," King said. "Practice gets competitive because we are trying to push them to do their best."
Junior forward John Soloman missed several of Desert Vista's first games this season as he battled pneumonia. He saw his first action against Mesa in the Fear the Hop Tournament on Nov. 26, Desert Vista's second game of the season. At 6-foot-8, 190 pounds, he compliments Ighodaro to give the Thunder a major size advantage inside.
But even if the Thunder are unable to get the ball to their two big men in the paint, they have the ability to kick it out to King, junior guard Marcus Wady or sophomore guard Desean Lecque, who is in his first year with the program after transferring from New Jersey when his older brother, Jalen, was signed by the Phoenix Suns.
"I really didn't want to move because I've been in Jersey my whole life," Lecque said. "But once we moved, I heard Desert Vista was a good school academically and for the athletics. Coach Gino is a great coach, he's helped me get comfortable.
"Now I just want to show what I can do in a different state."
Lecque has been a force so far this season for Desert Vista. He averages a team-high 22.4 points per game to go along with 3.3 assists and 2.9 rebounds. He saw varsity action last year while playing for Teaneck High School in New Jersey.
He brings an added boost of both speed and ball-handling ability to the Thunder lineup, two characteristics Crump is excited to see in full swing throughout the season.
"Thank God for the Phoenix Suns because we landed him," Crump said of Lecque. "When he and Marcus are on the floor together it could be really special. He can really do it all for us."
Desert Vista's dominant start to the season isn't a surprise to any players on the team. They expected it to be much improved over last year's team - who ended with the season 17-10. They also realized the type of expectations for them from those outside of the program.
But the Thunder aren't letting any of the pressure get to them. They just plan to play their game and see how far it takes them.
"Since I've been at Desert Vista, we've always had good teams," Crump said. "I think this is the best shot they have at winning the whole thing because not only are they good, they play as a team. We have the personnel to play fast but the right way.
"This could be a very special group, we'll see."
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Shell determined to drill in Chukchi Sea this year
Shell remains committed to drill in the Chukchi Sea this year, provided the company can obtain the necessary permits and clear some continuing legal challenges, Ben van Beurden, the company's CEO, said during the company's fourth quarter earnings call today.
"We have retained a very significant capability to be ready this year to go ahead," van Beurden said. "And we've kept all our capability in place, tuned it, upgraded it just to be ready to drill this coming summer season."
But Shell still needs quite a few of its key permits for the Chukchi Sea operations, he said.
Shell Chief Financial Officer Simon Henry said that this year's drilling operation would cost more than $1 billion, if it goes ahead. And if the operation cannot proceed, it will still cost nearly $1 billion, because of Shell's commitment to retain the fleet of ships that it needs for the drilling, Henry said. Henry said that, given the cost of Shell's Alaska venture and the company's total planned capital expenditure of $4 billion on worldwide exploration in 2015, spending outside Alaska would be limited to $3 billion, a reduction from 2014 spending levels.
In the Chukchi Sea, Shell plans to drill in its Burger prospect, about 80 miles offshore the western end of the North Slope, using two drilling vessels: the Noble Discoverer and the Polar Pioneer. Burger contains a known major natural gas pool, but Shell thinks that the structure is also likely to hold oil.
- ALAN BAILEY
See story in Feb. 1 issue, available online Friday, Jan. 30 at www.PetroleumNews.com
Conoco slowing Mooses Tooth pace
ConocoPhillips Alaska said today that it is slowing the pace of investment on the Greater Mooses Tooth 1 project in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
"We are deferring the final investment decision for GMT1," ConocoPhillips Alaska President Trond-Erik Johansen said in a statement. "The project is challenged by permitting delays and requirements, as well as the current oil price development. In 2015, we will continue to shoot seismic over the GMT1 area and progress engineering."
The Bureau of Land Management issued a final supplemental environmental impact statement for GMT1 in October, and while BLM's preferred alternative includes a road, the road and pad are not ConocoPhillips' preferred alternative. BLM has yet to issue a record of decision.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, however, issued its record of decision and wetlands permits in January, and chose the ConocoPhillips' alternative as its environmentally preferred alternative and the lease environmentally damaging practicable alternative. ConocoPhillips said when the Corps' decision was issued that BLM's mitigation measures "must be acceptable in order for the project to move forward for consideration by our senior management."
BLM has yet to issue its record of decision.
- KRISTEN NELSON
AIDEA buying LNG, goal affordable gas for Interior
AIDEA said yesterday that, in conjunction with Gov. Bill Walker, it has signed a letter of intent to purchase Pentex Alaska Natural Gas Co. LLC and its assets, including Fairbanks Natural Gas.
The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority said if its board approves the $52.5 million purchase, the investment would enable it to "effectively advance the goal of bringing affordable natural gas to Interior Alaska."
FNG delivers trucked liquefied natural gas from Cook Inlet to Fairbanks, serving some 1,120 customers.
A second gas distribution utility, the Interior Gas Utility, certified by the Regulatory Commission of Alaska in late 2013, will serve customers in both Fairbanks and North Pole, beginning with deliveries in North Pole in 2016 and expanding its distribution system to serve as many as 12,000 customers by 2027.
Gov. Bill Walker said, "It is important that we keep our eye on the immediate goal of bringing energy relief to Interior Alaska. AIDEA's initiative to help streamline gas distribution systems in the Interior is a positive development."
EPA issues NPDES permit for Chukchi and Beaufort seas
The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a new general permit for wastewater discharges from geotechnical survey operations in federal waters of the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, the agency announced today. The permit authorizes 12 types of wastewater discharge from oil and gas geotechnical surveys and related activities. EPA says that effluent limitations and requirements specified in the permit will ensure that discharges do not unreasonably degrade the marine environment.
After EPA first released a draft version of its proposed new permit in November 2013, the large number of comments on the permit triggered a redraft and some subsequent extensions to the public comment period.
The new permit goes into effect on March 2 and expires on March 1, 2020, EPA says.
See story in Feb. 8 issue, available online Friday, Feb. 6 at www.PetroleumNews.com


Over the last several decades, scholars across the disciplines have produced a multitude of work on international trade and multinational corporations. More recently, business historians like Stephanie Decker and others at the Harvard Business School have called for a closer look at the ways global business has affected the 'global South' and Africa in particular. Still, surprisingly little research has been done on international black business. Meanwhile, black studies scholars have created whole fields of study devoted to studying the connections between people of African descent on both sides of the Atlantic. In doing so, they have revealed the significance of political, social, and cultural exchange across the African diaspora. Less attention, however, has been paid to the economic aspects of black internationalism.
This panel foregrounds black business and other kinds of black commercial activity within the history of black internationalism and the global political economy more broadly. In doing so, it illuminates business' often overlooked role facilitating diasporic connections and within international black politics in the twentieth-century.
In the United States, black business often went hand-in-hand with the spread of black (inter)nationalism. In his paper on Rev. Albert B. Cleage and the Shrine of the Black Madonna, for example, Adam Ewing examines how Cleage and others promoted a Black Christian Nationalism through pursuing a series of business ventures, including a bookstore and cultural center, a cooperative market, a farm, and a school. Ewing's paper, which promises to pay particular attention to the capitalization of diaspora and the consumption of popular pan-Africanism, also illuminates the connections between race consciousness, Christianity, and entrepreneurism present in much of black politics throughout the long twentieth-century.
In addition to playing a significant role in the spread of a black international consciousness in the United States, business also served as a catalyst for a number of black American ventures involving Africans. The last two papers examine attempts by black Americans to promote black entrepreneurship and what scholars have termed a New South form of economic development in Africa during the 1960s. Brandon K. Winford's paper on John Harvey Wheeler examines Wheeler's participation in the United States-South Africa Leader Exchange Program (USSALEP), a private non-profit organization funded by individual and corporate donors from the U.S. and South Africa. Through an examination of Wheeler's efforts, aided by USSALEP, promoting black business as means of liberating black South Africans from apartheid, Winford's paper complicates our notions of anti-apartheid activism and black internationalist movements more broadly as necessarily left-leaning and anti-capitalist.
The links between black internationalism and black business also appear in the final panel paper by Jessica Ann Levy, "The Business of Diaspora." Building on Winford's discussion of USSALEP, Levy shows how following independence, the American government and American corporations promoted black empowerment, including skills-training programs and black entrepreneurship, in East and West Africa through their support for Rev. Leon H. Sullivan's Opportunities Industrialization Centers. In doing so, Levy shows how the expansion of American capitalism on the continent aided and benefited from black economic internationalism.


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Musings on Supporting and Defending the Constitution
As an Army officer and an elected official I have pledged to support and defend the Constitution as the bedrock of the American rule of law. I never imagined that anarchists would swear to the same oath, but The Oath Keepers do just that. They revere the Second Amendment and show up at protests brandishing assault weapons and predicting civil war.
The Oath Keepers is an umbrella organization of radical-right militias that claim to support and defend the Constitution; but they are anarchists pretending to be patriots. They promote Donald Trump's demagoguery, and they oppose all who enforce legal restrictions on their right to bear arms at public protests as part of a corrupt deep state.
The militias of the Oath Keepers include the Boogaloos and Proud Boys. They resemble the white supremacists of the KKK who terrorized blacks in the JIm Crow South, and the brownshirts who supported Hitler's Nazis. They make the Second Amendment the greatest commandment of the Constitution and have pledged to use force against any gun restrictions.
The radical-right militias of the Oath Keepers aren't the only threat to the Constitution. Antifa (for antifascists) includes radical leftist groups who have used violence at public protests. These radical-right and radical-left groups come from opposite ends of the political spectrum, but they share an expectation of civil war and use force to promote their radical politics.
Militant anarchists represent a formidable threat of domestic terrorism, and those militias on the right are especially dangerous since they have supporters in law enforcement and the military. Their greatest danger is compromising the loyalty of those in the military and law enforcement who are the last bastion of defense for the Constitution and its rule of law.
The U.S. military is a paradox of an authoritarian regime within a libertarian democracy, but its military laws, values and strict chain of command provide accountability that resists corruption by local militias. Local law enforcement agencies are more susceptible to corruption by local militias since they lack centralized rules of engagement on the use of lethal force.
The U.S. military has fought militias to promote democracy and the rule of law overseas. It's a sad irony that home-grown militias now pose a threat to U.S. democracy and its rule of law, and even more ironic that those militias seek to subvert the law enforcement agencies that are needed to support and defend the Constitution and its rule of law against anarchy.
The Second Amendment was passed as part of the Bill of Rights in 1791, and provides: A well-regulated militia being necessary for the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. The Constitution also provides the legal foundation for the military and law enforcement agencies to provide for national security and public safety. Today brandishing weapons at public events is a threat to public safety and should be banned.
Stewart Rhodes founded the Oath Keepers in 2009. "It's a pro-Trump militant group that has recruited thousands of police, soldiers and veterans. Rhodes has been talking about civil war since 2009. He once cast himself as a revolutionary but now sees his role as defending the president. He had put out a call for his followers to protect the country against what he called an "insurrection" to undermine Donald Trump.
Rhodes's warnings of conflict only grew louder. When a teenager was charged with shooting and killing two people at protests over police brutality in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Rhodes called him "a Hero, a Patriot" on Twitter. And when a Trump supporter was killed later that week in Portland, Oregon, Rhodes declared [on his blog post] that there was no going back. "Civil war is here, right now," he wrote.
Rhodes' blog post was both a manifesto and a recruiting pitch based on the oath that soldiers take when they enlist, to "support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic." Law enforcement officers swear a similar oath, and Rhodes wrote that both groups could refuse orders, including those related to gun control, that would enable tyranny. And, if necessary, they could fight.
Rhodes kept the nature of the Oath Keepers officially nonpartisan. It was not a militia "per se." "We don't ask current-serving law enforcement and military to sign up on any kind of membership list," he said in a radio interview. But eventually he did create such a list with members' names, home and email addresses, phone numbers, and service histories, along with answers to a question about how they could help the Oath Keepers. Last year, the Southern Poverty Law Center provided the entries for nearly 25,000 people to the author of The Atlantic article.
Rhodes established the Oath Keepers as a registered nonprofit with a board of directors; members did relief work after hurricanes and spoke at local Republican events. They could walk into police stations or stand outside military bases with leaflets; they could meet with sheriffs and petition lawmakers.
When Trump warned of civil war, Rhodes voiced his assent. "This is the truth," he wrote. "This is where we are." Rhodes wrote a creed listing 10 types of orders that members vow to resist. Gun-control laws are first among them. Then come libertarian concerns such as subjecting American citizens to military tribunals and warrantless search and seizure. After those come more conspiratorial fears—blockades of cities, foreign troops on U.S. soil, putting Americans in detention camps. Here Rhodes was drawing from the "New World Order" theory, a worldview that is central to the Patriot movement—and that can be traced back to what the historian Richard Hofstadter, writing in the 1960s, called the paranoid style in American politics. It linked fears of globalism, a deep distrust of elites, and the idea that a ballooning federal government could become tyrannical.
In 2016, when Trump had warned of election fraud, Rhodes put out a call for members to quietly monitor polling stations. When Trump warned of an invasion by undocumented immigrants, Rhodes traveled to the southern border with an Oath Keepers patrol. He sent members to "protect" Trump supporters from the protesters at his rallies and appeared in the VIP section at one of them, standing in the front row in a black Oath Keepers shirt. When Trump warned of the potential for civil war at the start of the impeachment inquiry last fall, Rhodes voiced his assent on Twitter. "This is the truth," he wrote. "This is where we are." But membership in the group was often fleeting. The Oath Keepers did not have 25,000 soldiers at the ready. But the files showed that Rhodes had tapped into a deep current of anxiety, one that could cause a surprisingly large contingent of people with real police and military experience to consider armed political violence.
"It's not just about guns," Rhodes said. But guns were at the heart of it. Liberals, Rhodes told me, want to see "a narrow majority trampling on our rights. The only way to do that is to disarm us first." Rhodes had been using liberals' "drumbeat of anti-cop sentiment" in his outreach to police. "That's what we tell them: 'Come on, guys. They hate your guts.'"
Like Trump, Rhodes relentlessly demonizes Black Lives Matter activists as "Marxists"—a foreign enemy. And he dwells on imagined threats from undocumented immigrants and Muslims that fit his ideas about a globalist push to undermine Western values.
When protests erupted in Kenosha many of the demonstrators brought guns, and vigilante groups quickly formed on the other side. There was a confrontation near a gas station, and a teenager allegedly opened fire and killed two people. A man affiliated with antifa allegedly gunned down a Trump supporter in Portland later that week, and Rhodes declared that "the first shot has been fired." See
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/right-wing-militias-civil-war/616473/.
On the Second arrest of a 'Boogaloo boy' suspect made after violent Columbia demonstrations, see https://www.postandcourier.com/news/second-arrest-of-a-boogaloo-boy-suspect-made-after-violent-columbia-demonstrations/article_9e4fdf5c-a76f-11ea-8217-ef9830925b24.html.
On Charges: Boogaloo Bois fired on Minneapolis police precinct, see
https://www.startribune.com/charges-boogaloo-bois-fired-on-mpls-precinct-shouted-justice-for-floyd/572843802/.
Leftist antifascist groups known as Antifa are the polar opposite of the radical-right Boogaloo Bois and Proud Boys of Oath Keepers, but both Antifa and Oath Keepers are anarchists preparing for a civil war. "Trump is vowing to designate the Antifa movement as a terrorist organization. But its supporters believe that they are protecting their communities—and that confronting fascists with violence can be justified. To date, one American has been killed by someone professing an antifascist agenda; right-wing extremists, by comparison, have been responsible for more than three hundred and twenty deaths in the past quarter century. According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, during the Trump Administration right-wing terrorists have carried out about a hundred and forty attacks, left-wing terrorists a dozen.The only known plot to "overthrow" the government in recent months was hatched by right-wing militia members, who, according to the F.B.I., planned to kidnap Michigan's Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer. In June during a rally at Michigan's capitol, a speaker yelled, "We are here demanding peace as these terrorist organizations want to burn down our cities!" In response to such right-wing events, some leftists have mobilized under the name Antifa, following a tradition with specific principles, among them a willingness to engage in violence.
The election of President Barack Obama galvanized the so-called Patriot Movement, composed of hundreds of far-right groups and armed militias hostile to Muslims, immigrants, and the L.G.B.T.Q. community. The Patriot Movement depicted the federal government as corrupted by un-American forces inimical to white Christians. Despite this troubling ferment, antifascism remained a backwater of leftist activism throughout the Obama Administration, as progressives focussed on the rise of the Tea Party.
Then came Donald Trump, buoyed by a wave of white nationalism. In 2017, many Americans were stunned when throngs of white supremacists carried torches and Nazi flags through Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting "Blood and soil!" and "Jews will not replace us!" Antifascists, however, were prepared. Hundreds of them travelled to Charlottesville, in fidelity to the "We go where they go" credo. Clashes culminated in a neo-Nazi plowing his car through a crowd of counter-protesters, killing a woman. The former K.K.K. Grand Wizard David Duke told a reporter, "We are determined to take our country back. We're going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump." Later, Trump said that there had been "very fine people on both sides" in Charlottesville. Duke praised his "honesty" and "courage."
Antifascist doctrine does not allow for avoiding confrontations: "They will not pass" is another precept, deriving from the Spanish Civil War. In the summer of 2018, several activists in Portland created PopMob, short for Popular Mobilization, which aimed to enlist a more diverse, and less militant, league of protesters to counter Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys." When an Antifa demonstrator asserted that "The pandemic had revealed the alarming depth of the government's ineptitude" and was asked what's the alternative,he said: "Anarchism." And one simple way to get us closer to that is defunding the police,"
The animating conviction that America's economic, governmental, and judicial institutions are irremediable distinguishes Portland protesters from others around the country. Many of them view inequality not as a failure of the system but as the status quo that the system was designed to preserve; accordingly, the only solution is [anarchy] to dismantle it entirely and build something new.
In Minneapolis, marchers chanted, "No justice, no peace!" In Portland, they cry, "No cops! No prisons! Total abolition!" Occasionally you hear "Death to America!" The night after Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, at the Gus J. Solomon U.S. Courthouse protesters smashed the glass doors and cut down a flag that ha
d been lowered to half-mast. The flag was brought to the police headquarters, doused with hand sanitizer, and set ablaze. On a boarded-up window, a white man in black bloc spray-painted, "THE ONLY WAR IS CLASS WAR." Popular chants at the protests include "A.C.A.B.—All Cops Are Bastards!" See https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/02/trump-antifa-movement-portland? utm source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily.
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Tracing the footsteps of slavery on a Danish sugar plantation
Daily Life on a Plantation
Beyond the dichotomy of "owner" and "slave," society at Annaberg was highly stratified. Laborers were classified according to their skills, which determined their living and working conditions. Unskilled laborers worked in the fields, planting, tending, and harvesting sugar cane. Skilled laborers, such as coopers, blacksmiths, carpenters, and sugar cookers, worked in the sugar factory or industrial shops.
The relative status of laborers is further apparent in the construction of their homes. Slaves were required to build their own housing, utilizing coral, mud, and lime to build wattle and daub houses. Archaeological finds have revealed that when sugar production became more profitable, skilled laborers may have been allowed to incorporate stone within the construction of their housing, setting them apart from the unskilled laborers.
Despite working extremely long hours in sugar production, enslaved laborers were also expected to provide for themselves. A small bake oven preserved in the village speaks of the laborers' production and use of the low-fired pottery known as "colonoware." Laborers worked "provision grounds," small garden plots located on the periphery of cane fields, to produce all of their own food. With the most productive land reserved for sugar cane, the provision grounds were barely sufficient to feed the population of enslaved laborers. Plantation records show that, in times of drought, many starved to death.
Work at the provision grounds was unsupervised, allowing enslaved laborers a small reprieve from the oppressive restrictions of their daily lives. They gathered on the grounds to socialize, carry on cultural traditions, share news, and plan escapes.
The Workday
The workday during the sugar harvest can be traced in the remains of Annaberg's sugar factory complex. Workers in the fields labored from dawn to dusk, cutting cane and "shooting" it downhill in wooden channels, hoisting it uphill with a windlass or, more often, carting it to either the animal mill or the windmill.
At the mills, teams of men and young boys fed the cane by hand through three cylindrical grinders to extract sugar juice, which flowed through a narrow culvert to the "clarifier" in the factory's boiling house. There, laborers added a temper to the juice as it was heated and skimmed off the impurities that rose to the surface. They then ladled the juice into a series of "coppers," pots of diminishing size, where it was boiled and reduced to a thick syrup. One of the most important workers on the plantation was the "sugar cooker" who evaluated when the syrup was ready to crystallize. Overcooking burned the syrup; undercooking produced only molasses. At the critical moment, the sugar cooker ordered the "striking" and laborers rapidly ladled the syrup into cooling pans where it crystallized. They raked the crystals to prevent clumping, then loaded the sugar into barrels, and transported them to the curing house where excess liquid was drained to be used in the distilling of rum.
Working 18 to 20 hour days during the sugar harvest, suffering the relentless heat of the Caribbean sun or the boiling house furnaces, and exposed to dangerous machinery and scalding liquids, the enslaved workers at Annaberg farmed 1,300 acres of sugar cane and produced 100,000 tons of sugar a year.
Repression and Resistance
With enslaved workers outnumbering them by 5 to 1, plantation owners feared resistance, revolts, and escapes. Enslaved workers were subject to constant supervision, severe restrictions on their behavior and movement, and brutal punishments for even minor infractions. A census of the Annaberg plantation in 1835 records that a woman named Venus was accused of "rebellious conduct" and sentenced to "100 lashes with a Tamarind whip and a chain to be worn around her neck for the span of two months and to be locked up at noon and night."
The "Dungeon" at Annaberg testifies to the frequent use of detention as a deterrent. A small brick cell built into the foundation of the sick house and equipped with leg shackles, its walls were inscribed by jailed slaves with images of clipper ships, perhaps symbolizing freedom and the journey home.
When Joe Popp escaped from the Dungeon in 1839, the full story of his resistance to the conditions of slavery was revealed. Joe worked as the "house boy" at the owners' manor house. Caught and punished numerous times for acts of rebellion such as stealing food, Joe was publicly flogged by the overseer John Edwards for leaving the plantation for a day without permission. Swearing he would never receive another beating from Edwards, Joe Popp poisoned Edwards' morning tea with arsenic, an act witnessed by Maria Rosina, the "house girl." Edwards died that day from what was believed to be a fever. Word of the murder passed from plantation to plantation via a song sung by field workers. A similar song circulated later that year when the overseer who replaced Edwards also died of an unknown illness. Joe Popp was never prosecuted having escaped to freedom on the British island of Tortola and from there to life as a crewman on a steamship.
Escapes, like Joe Popp's, from Annaberg and the surrounding Danish plantations became especially frequent after Britain abolished slavery in 1833. Lying less than 2 miles from St. John's shores, the British island of Tortola was only a short boat ride, or a hard swim, away. The Governor of St. John made efforts to curb escapes of enslaved laborers, setting naval frigates to patrol the Narrows that separated the Danish and British islands and building a series of garrisons in the hills guarding the route to Tortola. Remains of the Leinster Bay guardhouse that overlook Annaberg still exist today.
These efforts proved ineffective, as evidenced by the escape of 11 people by boat from the Annaberg and Leinster plantations in 1840. Escapees formed an underground network on Tortola that helped plan and execute further escapes from Danish plantations. In 1848, Denmark abolished slavery in all of its territories, including the Danish West Indies.
Digitally Documenting Annaberg
St. John Island is threatened by hurricanes, earthquakes, and tsunamis, like those that devastated the Annaberg Sugar Plantation in 1867, leaving the facilities in ruins and bringing sugar production to an end. CyArk partnered with Trimble Navigation, the Virgin Islands National Park, and Friends of the Virgin Islands National Park to digitally preserve features of the plantation, contributing to the ongoing conservation of the site.
Our partner, Trimble Navigation provided new scanning technologies in ground LIDAR, unmanned aerial systems, and photogrammetry, allowing documentation of features and terrain on a large scale. Trimble also conducted trainings sessions for Park Staff and visiting scholars from the Saxo Institute of the University of Copenhagen in scanning techniques and technologies. The data captured will be used to identify structures hidden beneath dense tropical vegetation, for monitoring erosion of existing structures, and for creating future conservation plans.
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