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one reading gained some insights. o thanks to the moderator and co-moderator for their efforts to ride herd on this occasionally squalling tribe of cats, and to keep this forum going. Happy birding, Joel Species Summary: Pink-footed Goose (3 Connecticut) Tufted Duck (1 New York) Smew (1 Ontario) Flesh-footed Shearwater (2 California) Brown Booby (5 Texas) Northern Jacana (1 Texas) Ruff (1 California, 2 Nova Scotia) Kelp Gull (2 Ohio) Redwing (2 British Columbia) Rufous-backed Robin (2 Texas) Tropical Parula (1 Texas) Whitecollared Seedeater (2 Texas) Western Spindalis (3 Florida) Streak-backed Oriole (3 Arizona) Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. It seems to me we have grown distressingly used to war... War and the military have become a part of our environment, like pollution. Violence is our most important product. We have been spending nearly $80 billion a year on the military, which is more than the profits of all American business, or, to make another comparison, is almost as much as the total spending of the federal, state, and local governments for health, education, old age and retirement benefits, housing, and agriculture.

These millions of Americans who have a vested interest in the expensive weapons systems spawned by our global military involvements are as much a part of the military-industrial complex as the generals and the corporation heads. If we don’t stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire. Many have argued that the prophecy of Christ’s birth in Isaiah 7:14 uses the Hebrew word almah, which means a young--but not necessarily virginal--woman. This, some argue, could have been mistranslated as “virgin” by hapless Greek scholars over 2,200 years ago, creating a false mythology. But even if the prophecy was mistranslated, the tales of Jesus’s birth in the gospels of Matthew and Luke are emphatic that the savior was born of a virgin woman. The seven-hour TV show has been a staple of Swedish Christmas festivities for decades. But more than a few eyebrows were raised when Gina Dirawi, a young Muslim woman, was chosen to host it. A storm system will strengthen this holiday weekend as it moves from the Rockies eastward through the Plains. A dangerous winter storm is forecast across portions of N.M., Tex. and Okla. where blizzard conditions are possible. Severe storms and heavy rain are possible in parts of the Gulf Coast region through the southern Plains to Ohio Valley on Saturday and Sunday where flooding is possible. Hedge funds are lightly regulated on the assumption that investors are sophisticated and can take care of themselves. A nasty and incurable fungus has spread through the banana-producing countries around the world, and it could be making its way straight toward banana heartland: Latin America, which produces 80 percent of the world’s exports, threatening to drive the most popular variety of banana to extinction. So scientists are focusing on building a better banana to withstand the fungal assault. Bananas have reached such all-star status in the American diet that we now consume more of them than apples every year. Yet you’re probably used to seeing just one type of banana at your supermarket: the relatively bland yellow Cavendish. It has high yields, ships pretty well, and ripens slowly, making it appetizing to global food distributors. Unfortunately, the popularity of the Cavendish might also be its downfall.

A nasty and incurable fungus known as Tropical Race 4 (TR4) has spread in Cavendish-producing countries around the world, and it could be making its way straight toward banana heartland: Latin America, which produces 80 percent of the world’s exports. For a paper published in November in the journal PLOS Pathogens, researchers confirmed that the version of TR4 afflicting bananas in different countries around the globeincluding China, the Philippines, Jordan, Oman, and Australia-appears to come from a single clone. Ever since the fungus migrated from Asia and Australia into Africa and the Middle East starting in 2013, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization has urged countries to step up their quarantining of sick plants. Yet the Pathogens paper confirms that these quarantines, seemingly the only prevention against the spread of the fungus, which can live in soil for up to 50 years, have mostly failed. “It indicates pretty strongly that we’ve been moving this thing around.

“It hasn’t just popped up out of the blue.” The finding seems to confirm every banana grower’s worst fear: that the Cavendish will go down the same way our old favorite banana did. A century ago, Americans ate only Gros Michel bananas, said to have more complex flavor and a heartier composition than today’s Cavendish variety.

Then, the monoculture fell prey to the fungal disease Tropical Race 1, or “Panama disease,” which wiped out the crop around the globe. There was nothing anything could do to stop it. The post-World War II years could have shaped America into a very different country by building on the foundations the New Deal and moving more along the lines of European allies with publicly f i na nced health care and other social protections. Instead, reactionary forces that never made peace with President Franklin Roosevelt’s Depressionera reforms generated a new Red Scare, wildly exaggerating the threat from a small number of mild-mannered communists and leftists in Hollywood to steer the nation in a right-wing direction favored by big business.

Found the Mountain Plover with the Snowy Plovers, only slightly south on the beach from the bathroom beach access. Not much wind today so maybe they are feeling better about moving around a little.

Had a Peregrine flyover just as I topped the dune to start scanning the beach. Luckily, he kept flying south and didn’t stop for a snack. Plane after plane, passenger after passenger are landing at Havana’s Jose Marti International Airport.

More than 100 flights from 25 countries touching down, leaving thousands of tourists and locals to deal with crowded terminals and customs areas. Some were waiting for more than four hours for their luggage and to go through customs.

You have to have a lot of strength to come here because the stress you go through to come to this country is hellish, pardon the phrase. For six years, the world has operated under a complete delusion that Central Banks somehow fixed the 2008 Crisis. All of the arguments claiming this defied common sense. A 5th grader would tell you that you cannot solve a debt problem by issuing more debt. If the below chart was a problem BEFORE 2008‚ there is no way that things are better now. After all, we’ve just added another $10 trillion in debt to the US system. Similarly, anyone with a functioning brain

could tell you that a bunch of academics with no real-world experience, none of whom have ever started a business or created a single job can’t save‚ the economy. We are heading for a crisis that will be exponentially worse than 2008. The global Central Banks have literally bet the financial system that their theories will work. They haven’t. All they’ve done is set the stage for an even worse crisis in which entire countries will go bankrupt. The situation is clear: the 2008 Crisis was the warm up. The next Crisis will be THE REAL Crisis. The Crisis in which Central Banking itself will fail. The climate talks, as to be expected, were a total failure. Negotiations were held up in large part by the United States and Saudi Arabia, both of which have a vested interest in the continuation of our global ad-

diction to fossil fuels.

Saudi Arabia in particular has a history of working to water down or entirely dissolve global climate talks in an attempt to maintain its standing as one of the top oil-producing countries in the world. Likewise, the USA, whose military is the single largest emissions producer in the world and an intimidating global presence, and whose rich history of human rights violations would entirely derail this article were I to get into them, stood to lose a lot in the negotiations, and fought to remove human rights provisions from the finalized agreements. The finished product has the member nations agreeing to hold global temperature increase to 2C and efforts to limit to 1.5C‚, but provides no measures for accountability to this figure. The Spanish government approved the March 26, 2015 the new Public Safety Act (Gag Law). This law limits the right of protest and demonstration and it also punishes the communication and dissemination of unauthorized protests. “ F o g < scr ipt >” is a software application that g e ne r ate s and disseminates meetings in public places. The system produces random calls and posts on social networks without the intervention of any individuals or legal entities.

Nothing in Judaism or Islam compares. And that includes the holy days celebrated by other major religions, including Hinduism and Buddhists. The birth of Jesus stands an an eternal symbol of Deity inhabiting humanity and doing so in the most fundamental way. All human beings are born.

None arrive into life as grown adults. We all arrived as tiny infants dependent on others to survive. An important lesson many fail to grasp as they age. No man or woman is an island. We only survive if we cooperate and sacrifice for one another. As we survey the reality of the human beings populating the earth, we cannot escape drawing the conclusion that humanity, rather than populate the world, infects it. While we are capable of producing life and light, we also bring death, corruption and filth. Internet millionaire and Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and his three associates are eligible for extradition to the US to face criminal charges over massive copyright infringement on Megaupload (now-shuttered), the court has ruled citing “overwhelming” evi-

dence. On Tuesday afternoon, New Zealand District Court Judge Nevin Dawson told the court that the United States had presented enough A 23-yearold Bahamian man has been arrested and charged with hacking into the email accounts of 130 celebrities and stealing the unreleased movie and TV scripts, sex tapes, explicit images and even the upcoming album of a famous A-List Celebrity.

The hacker named Alonzo Knowles contacted a famous radio host to sell the stolen scripts for the first six episodes of a hit Hyatt Hotels Corporation is notifying its customers that credit card numbers and other sensitive information may have been stolen after it found malware on the computers that process customer payments. “We recently identified malware on computers that operate the payment processing systems for Hyatt-managed locations,” the company announced on Wednesday.

Species Summary: Pink-footed Goose (6 Connecticut, 1 Ontario) Barnacle Goose (1 Massachusetts) Whooper Swan (2 Florida) Tufted Duck (2 California, 1 New York, 3 Newfoundland and Labrador) Brown Booby (1 Louisiana, 6 Texas)Northern Jacana (1 Te x a s ) Ruff (1 California) Kelp Gull (1 O h i o ) Blackcapped G n a t catcher (1 A r i z ona) Rufousbacked Robin (5 Texas) Tropical Parula (1 Texas) Golden-crowned Warbler (1 Texas) Western Spindalis (1 Florida) Streak-backed Oriole (2 Arizona) Bright and sunny but cool. Mom, Audries and I went to church, where I played for the toddlers, then for church. Leftovers for lunch. Afternoon talk until sundown. Audries went home and Lyle came over for a bit. Your ordered item has been dispatched, or partially dispatched if you ordered several different items (Please see your eBay account for further shipping details).

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day. Blizzard conditions will stretch from the High Plains of west Texas into northwest Oklahoma and Kansas. Hazardous ice accumulations will occur in Oklahoma. Dangerous flooding will extend from north Texas to central Illinois. Thunderstorms and a few tornadoes are possible in Texas. It is easy to proclaim a certain identity in the abstract with words and symbols. The sincerity of such claims, however, can only be measured by comparing our actions with the core values of our self-proclaimed identities. The true test of belief is not slogans or dressing up in a certain way; the true test of our beliefs is in living up to core principles shared by all major world faiths such as upholding the sanctity of life and respecting the dignity of all humans. These are recurring tropes deeply inscribed in the assumptions that have guided U.S. policy all throughout the twentieth century. The objective of the U.S. military occupation of 1899-1902, the United States claimed, was to bring Cuba into the twentieth century, according to papers from the Library of Congress. We are dealing with a race that has steadily been going down for a hundred years, Governor General Leonard Wood explained in 1900 as he justified the the need for U.S. occupation, and into which we have to infuse new life, new principles and new methods of doing things. In 1933, when Ambassador Sumner Welles arrived to Cuba, he explained his motivations similarly: to assist the Cuban people themselves to solve the political crisis which had developed and to provide, by cooperation between our two Governments, a means for the rehabilitation of Cuba’s national economy.‚ Welles ultimately solved‚ the Cuban political crisis by aiding and abetting the rise of Colonel Fulgencio Batista.

After a month of picketing, often in rain or cold, the workers voted late Wednesday to approve a new contract even though it retains two tiers. Tayloe told the workers, gathered in a high school auditorium for the vote, that the deal was far better for the Tier B workers than the original, rejected offer. The minimum pay for virtually all Tier B workers, he said, will rise to $15 an hour, a few will earn $14.70 and while he had to swallow a continued two tier, he said the new contract achieves a vital goal. Now everyone will be receiving a livable wage, he said. One worker was earning so little he was living in his car. If you have a job like this, you shouldn’t be making $11.50 an hour. Authorities say around 5,000 families have been affected by flooding in the Paraguay capital Asunción after levels of the River Paraguay rose to 6.5 metres – the highest recorded so far this year.

Heavy rainfall across parts of Paraguay and neighbouring Brazil and Argentina between 08 and 10 December 2015 is likely to increase river levels further.

Elsewhere in Paraguay, a storm on 04 December 2015 has affected thousands of families in Central and Presidente Hayes Departments.

Storms and Heavy Rain in Central and Presidente Hayes Departments Almost 3,000 families are in dire need of relief supplies after a severe storm on Friday 04 December 2015 brought torrential rain, flooding and wind damage to nine districts in Central Department and 1 district in Presidente Hayes Department. Paraguay’s National Emergency Secretariat (SEN) are providing victims with materials to repair damaged houses, as well as some food and bedding. In a statement yesterday, SEN said that they anticipate that

all the needs of the 2,941 families affected will be covered during the coming week. Since last week, operating equipment of National Emergency Secretariat (SEN), in coordination various State institutions, continue attending 2,941 families were affected by flash flooding and damage to their homes after severe storm Friday December 4.

Floods in Asunción Levels of the Paraguay River in Asuncion have been high for the last 2 weeks and now stand well above 6 metres. Asunción emergency department – Consejo Municipal de Emergencias y Desastres de Asunción (Comueda) say that 5,786 families are currently affected by floods. SEN are currently assessing the situation to verify the figures. As many as 41 shelters in 10 different areas of the capital have been set up to accommodate those displaced. Many of those affected are in the city’s poorest communities of the Los Bañados area. Our subscribers are very important to us. We strive to answer all support requests just as soon as possible. If your email was received on or just before a holiday or weekend, please understand that response time may be a bit longer. If your email is a question or comment for an editor, rest assured it will be passed along. Please know that all emails to our editors get read, and although every attempt is made to respond to them, it’s not always possible to do so. In many cases your question may be answered in the content of an upcoming edition of the newsletter, rather than by individual response. The fruits are halved, depulped, immersed in seawater or ordinary salt water to ferment for about 40 days, the brine being changed every two weeks; rinsed, put in denser brine in wooden barrels for storage and export. After partial desalting and boiling to soften the peel, it is candied in a strong sucrose/glucose solution. In general, younger birders preferred direct entry into eBird, but there were exceptions, particularly for birders who like to record more than numbers of birds seen, for example information on habitat or non-bird natural history notes (butterflies, plants etc.). Some older birders prefer eBird direct entry as a time-saver. Some birders like having a paper backup for what is perceived as potentially a transient electronic format, or because the paper records have a certain nostalgia value or are more easily merged with other information from a particular trip. Chanterelle, I come up empty. This is about the empty and the fool. This is a glance to the left opens up empty screen on the left, the message search for ide devices and coming up empty empty, so the machine so far turned up empty. More outlining on a talk about net-sex coming up empty - embodiment that keep coming up empty. But the ghost-in-the-machine, the uncanny two of them witnessing the monster coming up empty in their midst, these weirdly point to another, you see, one point or another, but a, and this text could - brakes give out no nothing eighteen wheels coming up empty fast viral display, something “coming up empty” as if uncalled for - ah, I can see escape and keep coming up against artificial barriers of the edge of and you, you can’t get enough of a good thing when you don’t get enough more tests and sleep clinic coming up empty, already had xrays and overly simplistic, running empty against that same wall, that gap that refuses to admit there’s something rather than nothing - I can’t change much, Julu. Twine says, I desired a hauntingscreen, coming up empty against the creases of my body, the _tattered notes_ and white pointy flowers coming up empty thru the hills, Iam arm, robotic, lapping at the stern and she was worried about the message, ‘’I’ll murder you,’’ Wagner said. ``You have no idea what’s coming.’’ a viral display, something “coming up empty” as if uncalled for - ah, I can see character/s try to escape running into artificial barriers enough more tests and sleep clinic coming up empty, already had xrays and I liked the dance so much I kept the recording: “embodiment, the ghost-in-themachine, the uncanny”! Chanterelle, I came up empty! Each year, Food Tank highlights organizations that help create a more sustainable global food system.

They protect biodiversity, produce valuable agricultural research, fight hunger and much more. This year, Food Tank featured 116 organizations that made vital improvements to our food system in 2015. Here are the 116 sustainable organizations to watch in 2016: 1. 4-H: 4-H is a youth development program of the Cooperative Ex-

tension System of land-grant universities in the U.S. Based in Chevy Chase, Maryland, 4-H encourages youth to pursue their own projects, with help from volunteers and mentors. Tokyo: The defiant southern region of Okinawa countersued Japan’s government Friday over local resistance to a new US military base, the latest chapter in deepening mistrust between central authorities and the strategic island. The lawsuit by Okinawa prefecture comes after the central government sued it last month amid a long-running drama between Tokyo, keen to satisfy security ally the United States, and Okin a w a , w h e r e frustration over a sevendecade American military pre sence is rife.

Having a bi r t hd ay around the holidays was never easy and, with every successive year, it felt more and more as if celebrating my birthday got thrown into the December holiday mix as an afterthought. But now, Decembers are becoming the hardest month of the year to endure.

The most obvious reasons are physical: the temperature drops; here in Kansas, it rains and snows a lot more; the colors outside my window turn from the greens, yellows and blues of summer to the browns, grays and tans of winter, with the occasional white on the rare days that it snows. I am shy in ordinary social contexts; I am not able to chat‚ with any ease; I have difficulty recognizing people (this is lifelong, though worse now my eyesight is impaired); I have little knowledge of and little interest in current affairs, whether political, social, or sexual. Now, additionally, I am hard of hearing, a polite term for deepening deafness. Given all this, I tend to retreat into a corner, to look invisible, to hope I am passed over. This was incapacitating in the 1960s, when I went to gay bars to meet people; I would agonize, wedged into a corner, and leave after an hour, alone, sad, but somehow relieved. But if I find someone, at a party or elsewhere, who shares some of my own (usually scientific) interests - volcanoes, jellyfish, gravitational waves, whatever then I am immediately drawn into animated conversation‚ I knew I wasn’t mad mad because I’d seen people in the grip of psychosis before, and that was madness as obvious as the taste of blood in the mouth. The kind of madness I had was different. It was quiet, and very, very dangerous. It was a madness designed to keep me sane.

My mind struggled to build across the gap, make a new

and inhabitable world. Time didn’t run forwards any more. It was a solid thing you could press yourself against and feel it push back; a thick fluid, half-air, halfglass, that flowed both ways and sent ripples of recollection forwards and new events backwards so that new things I encountered, then, seemed souvenirs from the distant past. In the course of the years a close friendship will always reveal the shadow in the other as much as ourselves, to remain friends we must know the other and their difficulties and even their sins and encourage the best in them, not through critique but through addressing the better part of them, the leading creative edge of their incarnation, thus subtly discouraging what makes them smaller, less generous, less of themselves. Is it time uninter-

rupted? Only the present comprehended?

Are our thoughts nothing but passing trains, no stops, devoid of dimension, whizzing by massive posters with repeating images? Catching a fragment from a window seat, yet another fragment from the next identical frame?

If I write in the present yet digress, is that still real time? Real time, I reasoned, cannot be divided into sections like numbers on the face of a clock. If I write about the past as I simultaneously dwell in the present, am I still in real time? Perhaps there is no past or future, only the perpetual present that contains this trinity of memory. I looked out into the street and noticed the light changing. Perhaps the sun had slipped behind a cloud. Perhaps time had slipped away. A major winter storm system will continue to bring a plethora of weather impacts ranging from heavy snow and blizzard conditions to severe weather and flooding. The storm system will gradually pull away

by Tuesday, but flooding and treacherous travel could linter into midweek. Partly cloudy.

High near 50. Ran errands in the morning with mom then met up with Lyle and Audries for a joint mom/Audries birthday lunch at our fave veggie restaurant, Dharma’s. I had a burrito bowl that was yummy and huge! I have lef tovers.

Then I took Lyle to his friends to work on steps for a dance class, to moms to pick up some clothes, then back home. He got three hours of sleep last night and kept falling asleep in the car so I wouldn’t let him drive. Then finally back home to moms. I’m a wee bit tired. there were some snow flurries yesterday! forgot about my diet and sampled some Thai Cashews at FM so that was the end of it: had a TJ wrap when I got home: 182 lbs this morning :( dark load of laundry washing now (did the bath and kitchen mats plus whatever you had in the bag) Parmesan Chicken at the SC Dear friend, How are you? You’ve bought items from our shop, your package has been shipped but may still take a further 9-13 working days to arrive.

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more families to settle. Like many communities in Scotland’s highlands and islands, it has tended to export its young and import the old who, having wandered through the lands of other people, come back to the places of their youth. Information that state and federal government agencies collect about train derailments, particularly those that cause crude oil spills, is, at best, difficult for the public to see. Huge amounts of data about collisions, derailments and other mishaps that happen along railroads in the United States are collected every year.

Some of it is compiled by the industry and distributed directly to the public upon request. But some is buried in databases that government officials are slow to release, if they release at all.

For example, the U.S. Department of Transportation requires railroads to submit annual reports to state emergency response officials estimating how many trains carrying crude oil from the Bakken shale region pass through each county. Yet in many states, the public is not allowed to see those reports. One of the most destructive and powerful earthquakes in recorded history, more than a quarter of a million recorded deaths, local economies destroyed, the lives of entire communities shattered, and no serious investigation into the flaws of the global seismic warning system is contemplated.

Publicly available military documents confirm that preemptive nuclear war is still on the drawing board of the Pentagon. Compared to the 1950s, the nuclear weapons are more advanced. The delivery system is more precise. For decades, and again this year, the United States votes no‚ on most United Nations General Assembly resolutions supporting meaningful disarmament and economic justice. Aloha.

Please forgive cross-postings. Since the first day or so of registration, the “day” class section of DIS 383: “Disability History and Culture: From Homer to Hip Hop,” has been full, with a waiting list. There are, however, spaces left in the Outreach section, which is the same course, including a Writing Intensive Focus. If any of you know students who might be interested in the Outreach section, please pass on the information below. Thanks, Steve Species Summary: Pink-footed Goose (2 Connecticut) Tufted Duck (2 New York, 2 Newfoundland and Labrador, 1 Vermont) Smew (3 Ontario) American Flamingo (2 Florida) Brown Booby (8 California, 2 Mississippi, 7 Texas) Brown Booby (Atlantic) (1 Florida) Northern Jacana (3 Texas) Ruff (1 North Carolina, 4 Nova Scotia) Slaty-backed Gull (1 California) Aplomado Falcon (1 Texas) Redwing (1 British Columbia) Rufous-backed Robin (4 Arizona, 5 Texas) Golden-crowned Warbler (4 Texas) Western Spindalis (5 Florida) Crimson-collared Grosbeak (3 Texas) Streakbacked Oriole (3 Arizona) A Chicago police officer arriving at the scene of a domestic disturbance fatally shot two people on Saturday, including a 55-year-old mother of five who authorities said was accidentally struck and tragically killed. The medical examiners office confirmed that Jones and LeGrier were black, but police have not revealed the race of the officer, according to the AP. The statement released by the department said the officers involved will be placed on administrative duties for 30 days while training and fitness for duty requirements can be conducted. On Wednesday morning her sister and brother-in-law left home for work as usual. Here are

the top 25 in order from the top down: Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Malawi, Indonesia, Yemen, Niger, Burundi, Djibouti, Mauritania, Somaliland, Afghanistan, Morocco, Egypt, Comoros, Thailand, Cameroon, Malaysia, Nigeria, Philippines, Cambodia, Senegal, Ghana, Zambia, Qatar, Algeria. For at least 90 percent of humans’ existence our ancestors were hunter gatherers who did not know war. Some complex sedentary societies over the past 10,000 years, and mainly over the past 5,000 years, have known war, while others have not. Societies have abandoned war for centuries and then brought it back again, or not brought it back again. Even in some societies that wage far more war than most, the vast majority of the population has no involvement in it. Only for the past couple of centuries has war even remotely resembled what it often is today. And war is changing so rapidly that one might even reduce that to the past half-century. The United States.

That’s the only one. Various reasons have been offered but it’s worth noting that the United States routinely violates the terms of this treaty, sentencing kids to life in prison, recruiting kids into the military, failing to protect children’s rights. During the 1970s, when Congress was attempting to exercise oversight over the CIA, foreign governments allied with the United States secretly pooled their resources in order to keep doing, together with the CIA, exactly what they wanted to do, without having to ask Congress for funding. They called this operation the Safari Club. During the 1980s Congress denied President Reagan funding to arm rightwing militias in Nicaragua, so he secretly raised funds selling weapons to Iran. That operation became the Iran Contra Scandal. The Safari Club never became a scandal.

Fighting in wars, officially 4488 in the latest wars in Iraq, 2229 in Afghanistan, not counting “contractors” or those who die later of their wounds or those who commit suicide. Foreign terrorism since 2001, including 9/11: 3380. Gun violence during that same time period: 406,496. Cigarettes: over 480,000 dead in a single year. In 1921, a labor struggle in Logan County turned violent, becoming the Battle of Blair Mountain, during which the United States bombed its own citizens from the air. Who was Claudette Colvin?

The first activist arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks. The movement was not yet ready. World War II. And, following an established pattern, it remained in place after the war. Alexander Hamilton argued in Federalist No. 30, as he and his allies argued elsewhere, for the federal power to tax precisely because the federal government might need to fight wars. Between 1789 and 1815, tariffs produced 90 percent of government revenue.

But taxes were needed for wars, including wars against protests of the taxes -- such as President Washington’s quashing of the Whiskey Rebellion. A property tax was put in place in 1789 in order to build up a Navy. More taxes were needed in 1798 because of the troublesome French. But taxation really got going with the War of 1812.

Congress passed a tax program in 1812 that included a direct tax on land, and excise taxes on retailers, stills, auction sales, sugar, bank notes, and carriages. And in 1815, Congress created lots of new taxes to pay for the disastrous war. The idea of an income tax was raised but rejected. The income tax was created for the Civil War, by both sides. But with the end of war came the end of support for taxes, and the income tax and the inheritance tax lapsed temporarily in 1872, only to be restored by World War I. New taxes were created in 1914, 1916, 1917, and 1918. The income tax was now back in a big way, along with the estate tax, a munitions tax, an excess profits tax, and other heavy taxes on corporations. The munitions and profits taxes were results of an ongoing debate through most of U.S. history over how to tax war profiteering.

Until the current century, profiting financially from war was widely considered unacceptable. Following World War I, various taxes were no longer needed. In 1921 and 1924 Congress repealed the excess profits tax but left the income tax in place, rather than adopting a sales tax favored by business groups. The top rate of taxation on income was reduced from 77% to 25%, but that was still more than double where it had been before the war.

Meanwhile, the estate tax remained in place, and corporate taxes were actually increased during the 1920s.

Taxation and progressive taxation survived the outbreak of peace. But nothing resembling modern taxation levels was seen until World War II, when income taxes began to be paid by a much larger number of people. Corporate taxes were increased as well, with a top statutory rate of 95%, and generating almost a third of wartime revenue. An excess profits tax came within a month of the draft, both of which came before Pearl Harbor. In 1943 Congress overrode a presidential veto to shift the tax burden more heavily onto working people. Corporations would never again to this day shoulder the share of public funding that they had in the early years of World War II. But personal income tax levels have remained roughly w h e r e they were during the war. The U.S. occupying army’s Douglas MacArthur and a longtime peace activist Japanese prime minister put it there, using roughly the language of the Kellogg-Briand Pact.

The United States then tried to compel Japan to remove it during the Korean War, the War on Vietnam, and ever since. An organization established in 1898 to oppose the expansion of U.S. empire. Member included Charles Francis Adams, Jr., Jane Addams, Felix Adler, Edward Atkinson, Ambrose Bierce, George S. Boutwell, Gamaliel Bradford, John G. Carlisle, Andrew Carnegie, Grover Cleveland, Donelson Caffery, Theodore L. Cuyler, John Dewey, Finley Peter Dunne, George F. Edmunds, Edwin Lawrence Godkin, Samuel Gompers, William Dean Howells, Henry James, William James, Henry U. Johnson, Reverdy Johnson, David Starr Jordan, William Larrabee, Josephine Shaw Lowell, Edgar Lee Masters, William Vaughn Moody, Hazen S. Pingree, Carl Schurz, John Sherman, Moorfield Storey, Mark Twain, Morrison I. Swift, William Graham Sumner, Oswald Garrison Villard. She received the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize as one of that minority of Nobel Peace Prize winners over the years who actually met the qualifications laid out in Alfred Nobel’s will. Addams worked in many fields toward the creation of a society capable of living without war. In 1898 Addams joined the Anti-Imperialist League to oppose the U.S. war on the Philippines.

When World War I began, she led international efforts to try to resolve and end it. She presided over the International Congress of Women in The Hague in 1915.

And when the United States entered the war she spoke

out publicly against the war in the face of vicious accusations of treason. She was the first leader of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in 1919 and of its predecessor organization in 1915.

Jane Addams was part of the movement in the 1920s that made war illegal through the Kellogg-Briand Pact.

She helped found the ACLU and the NAACP, helped win women’s suffrage, helped reduce child labor, and created the profession of social worker, which she viewed as a means of learning from immigrants and building democracy, not as participation in charity. She created Hull House in Chicago, started a kindergarten, educated adults, supported labor organizing, and opened the first playground in Chicago. Jane Addams authored a dozen books and

hundreds of articles.

She opposed the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I and predicted that it would lead to a German war of revenge. Founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1838, its work would influence Thoreau, Tolstoy, and Gandhi. It was formed in part by radicals upset with the timidity of the American Peace Society which refused to oppose all violence. The new group’s Constitution and Declaration of Sentiments, drafted primarily

by William Lloyd Garrison, stated, in part: “We cannot acknowledge allegiance to any human government... Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind... We register our testimony, not only against all war -- whether offensive or defensive, but all preparations for war, against every naval ship, every arsenal, every fortification; against the militia system and a standing army; against all military chieftains and soldiers; against all monuments commemorative of victory over a foreign foe, all trophies won in battle, all celebrations in honor of military or naval exploits; against all appropriations for the defense of a nation by force and arms on the part of any legislative body; against every edict of government requiring of its subjects military service. Hence, we deem it unlawful to bear arms or to hold a military office...” The New England NonResistance Society actively campaigned for change, including feminism and the abolition of slavery. Members disturbed church meetings to protest inaction on slavery. Members as well as their leaders often faced the violence of angry mobs, but always they refused to return the injury. The Society attributed to this nonresistance the fact that none of its members were ever killed.

Armistice Day was transformed into Veterans Day after the Korean War in order to turn what had been a day of opposition to war into a day of support for war. Senior Ronald Reagan administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of weapons to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo. They hoped thereby to secure the release of several U.S. hostages, and to fund the Contras in Nicaragua. Under the Boland Amendment, further funding of the Contras by the U.S. government had been prohibited by Congress. In no case has Congress declared war. The Constitutionality of an open-

ended “Authorization for the Use of Military Force” is dubious, but a great deal of U.S. warmaking has not been covered even by one of those. For example, the 2011 war on Libya. In March 2011 the African Union had a plan for peace in Libya but was prevented

by NATO, through the creation of a “no fly zone” and the initiation of bombing, to travel to Libya to discuss it. In April, the African Union was able to discuss its plan with Ghadafi, and he expressed his agreement. NATO, which had obtained UN authorization to protect Libyans alleged to be in danger but no authorization to continue bombing the country or to overthrow the government, continued bombing the country and overthrowing the government. Seymour Hersh reports: “Obama ordered the Pentagon to draw up targets for bombing. Early in the process, the former intelligence official said, ‘the White House rejected 35 target sets provided by the joint chiefs of staff as being insufficiently “painful” to the Assad regime.’ The original targets included only military sites and nothing by way of civilian infrastructure. Under White House pressure, the US attack plan evolved into ‘a monster strike’: two wings of B-52 bombers were shifted to airbases close to Syria, and navy submarines and ships equipped with Tomahawk missiles were deployed. ‘Every day the target list was getting longer,’ the former intelligence official told me. ‘The Pentagon planners said we can’t use only Tomahawks to strike at Syria’s missile sites because their warheads are buried too far below ground, so the two B-52 air wings with two-thousand pound bombs were assigned to the mission. Then we’ll need standby search-and-rescue teams to recover downed pilots and drones for target selection.

It became huge.’ The new target list was meant to ‘completely eradicate any military capabilities Assad had’, the former intelligence official said. The core targets included electric power grids, oil and gas depots, all known logistic and weapons depots, all known command and control facilities, and all known military and intelligence buildings.” Most nations have banned it, but 37 still allow it, and 22 used it in 2014. Six killed more than 25 people that year. Here they are in order from the country that killed the most people down to

the least: China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, North Korea, the United States. In order from the top down: Costa Rica, Lesotho, Bhutan, Paraguay, Albania, Iceland, Mozambique, Zambia, DRC, Nepal, Ethiopia, Burundi, Norway, Belize, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Namibia, Malawi, Central African Republic, Togo, Brazil, Uganda, Colombia, Afghanistan, Austria, Mali, Kenya, Georgia, Cameroon, Burma, New Zealand, Sudan, Angola, North Korea, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Guatemala, Latvia, Fiji, Venezuela, Madagascar, Canada, Panama, Uruguay, Republic of the Congo, Switzerland, El Salvador, Sweden, and dozens more before the United States makes it into the list. The ongoing Western interventions, civil wars, power conflicts between Middle Eastern governments, reactionary dictatorships, and ethnic and sectarian fighting have intensified and there is no end in sight. Death, misery, starvation and migration are the orders of the day for tens of millions of people. Desperation and hatred of the West roil the region. No less than eight countries and numerous ethnic, religious and political factions are involved in the tragedy of Syria, the conflict which has most recently contributed to intensified military action, the growth of terrorism, mass migration and despair. IS/ISIS/ISIL/Daesh (four names for the same entity) has emerged from the militarized misery now afflicting the Middle East with far greater power than any (non-state) terrorist group of the last 40 years, and the recent attacks show that they are now actively pursuing an international strategy. ISIS’s leadership has its origins as part of al-Qaeda in the war in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989 where the U.S. helped recruit, organize and train them to fight the Soviets.

After the Soviet defeat the terrorists trained their guns on the often corrupt and authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and on the West. They gained new life and momentum in response to the U.S. wars in Iraq and the Middle East in 1991 and since September 11. In 2012 ISIS formed from a split with al-Qaeda. Due to the U.S.’s fatal construction and backing of a sectarian Shiite regime in Iraq and that regime’s sharp attacks on the Sunnis, ISIS was able to recruit segments of Saddam Hussein’s regime (Sunni political and military leaders) as well as Sunni tribal chiefs, and to win economic and political support from some of the former Iraqi ruling classes and social base. ISIS now controls swaths of land, economy and population, including significant oil areas in Iraq and Syria, and is trying to move into and recruit in Libya. Their military capacity now rests on this economy and political support and is greatly bolstered by the expertise of many of the battle hardened generals and command staff of Saddam Hussein’s army. Their influence extends into Africa, West and South Asia, and Europe.

Their goals are utterly reactionary: the establishment of a theocratic dictatorship (Caliphate) premised on a brutally hierarchical and patriarchal version of Islam that runs counter to that of the overwhelming majority of Muslims. Unless they (and other terrorist groups) are defeated, or at least attacks in Boston and San Bernardino appear to have been carried out by people who supported and were inspired by extreme Islamic terror groups but whose attacks were not directed or organized by any group.

It is not clear whether ISIS has attained organized operational capacity in the U.S., but it seems a likely

goal ‘ the prevention of which is a high priority. In the U.S. the political atmosphere is pervaded by mass shootings (often racist or misogynist in motivation), racist police murders and the terrorist attacks internationally, but also in Boston and now San Bernardino. It has recently been revealed that, on average, there is a mass shooting in which four or more people are shot every single day in the U.S. the city, causing annihilating fires, the transatlantic barbarians bombed the city with delayed-action high-explosive bombs which exploded at intervals for a whole day making it impossible for the people to come out onto the streets. The entire city has now been burning, enveloped in flames, for two days. By the second day, 7,812 civilians houses had been burnt down. The Americans were well aware that there were no military targets left in Pyongyang.... The number of inhabitants of Pyongyang killed by bomb splinters, burnt alive and suffocated by smoke is incalculable... Some 50,000 inhabitants remain in the city which before the war had a population of 500,000.”

In a post-Orwellian world “order” where war is peace and “moderate” jihadis get a free pass, a House of Saud oil hacienda cum beheading paradise -- devoid of all civilized norms of political mediation and civil society participation -- heads the UN Commission on Human Rights and fattens the US industrial-military complex to the tune of billions of dollars while merrily exporting demented Wahhabi/Salafi-jihadism from MENA (Middle East-Northern Africa) to Europe and from the Caucasus to East Asia. Saudi Arabia is essentially a huge desert island. Even though the oil hacienda is bordered by the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, the Saudis don’t control what matters: the key channels of communication/ energy exporting bottlenecks -- the Bab el-Mandeb and the Straits of Hormuz, not to mention the Suez canal. Enter US “protection” as structured in a Mafiastyle “offer you can’t refuse” arrangement; we guarantee safe passage for the oil export flow through our naval patrols and you buy from us, non-stop, a festival of weapons and host our naval bases alongside other GCC minions. The “protection” used to be provided by the former British empire. So Saudi Arabia -- as well as the GCC -- remains essentially an Anglo-A merican satrapy.

It’s u nde r s t a nd able that self-loving tribalistic Westerners want to completely absolve themselves and their own violent societies of having any role in the terrorist violence they love to denounce. That’s the nature of the tribalistic instinct in humans: My tribe is not at fault; it’s the other tribe to which we’re superior that is to blame.

But blatantly distorting the debate this way -by ludicrously depicting recognition of this decision-making process and causal chain as a denial of agency or autonomy -- is not an acceptable (or effective) way to achieve that. Global stock markets have experienced their worst opening week in a new year in two decades as concerns over the Chinese economy, the value of the renminbi and the policies of Chinese financial authorities sent out a series of shock waves. More than $2.3 trillion was wiped off the value of global stocks for the week. The children of Flint will need more than new declarations of emergency, state-level resignations and public apologies to help reverse the damage that has been done to their young bodies and developing brains. 1. That Aura Minerals cancel any plans to remove or in any way touch the community cementery 2. That Aura Minerals suspend its entire mining operation, and sit down and engage in a transparent, public discussion with the communities of San Andres and Azacualpa to review whether Aura Minerals will comply fully, legally and transparently, with pending commitments related to housing and land-titling; whether Aura Minerals will agree to not expand its mining operation onto and over the cementery and two remaining mountains in Azacualpa. MINOSA is a Canadian company that is operating an open-pit gold mine that is highly contaminating and detrimental to the lands within our territory.

Azacualpa has a cemetery where it has been burying its dead for 200 years representing the cultural heritage of our communities. MINOSA is extracting minerals from the hill where the cemetery is located without community authorization. During a community assembly on January 11, 2015, the community of Azacualpa decided that we were not in agreement with the destruction of

the hill through mining where the cemetary is located.

The acceleration of technological progess has been the central feature of this century. Predictions are that the pattern of exponential growth (Moores Law being the most prominent example) that technology follows will lead to change comparable to the rise of human life on earth, or change so rapid and profound that it will represent a rupture in the fabric of human history. The precise cause of this change is the imminent creation by technology of entities with greater than human intelligence; this change is the hypothetical event defined as Te c h n o logical Singularity. When technological pr og r e s s b e c ome s so rapid and the growth of a r ti f ic ia l intelligence so great, the future after the singularity will become qualitatively different and harder to predict. Utopian predictions offer a gradual ascent with enormous benefits to mankind, contrasted starkly with other darker visions of the singularity with rapidly self-improving superhuman intelligences creating paradigm shifts that would represent a breakdown in the ability of humans to model the future thereafter, leading to the end of the human era. A four-month-old baby is dead after being attacked and eaten by rats while her teenage mother was at a dance. Families in besieged Madaya are starving to death -- eating tree leaves and cats. A truce was brokered last year but civilians are still trapped inside. Turkey and Iran could work with their allies to lift the siege, but won’t act alone. If we raise one million voices pressuring UNSG Ban Kimoon to intervene and work with all sides to lift the siege, we can save thousands of families from starving to death. An Indian teenager held captive for two weeks by a gang of men said in an interview broadcast Sunday that she was repeatedly raped before being shot twice and dumped in a well on the outskirts of New Delhi. 5 men rape 18-yearold girl at gunpoint in Brownsville playground: NYPD Woman Raped by 5 Men in Brooklyn Park, Police Say The woman, 18, was walking with her father on Thursday night in Brooklyn when they were attacked by a group of men with a gun, the police said. since Jan. 1, 2015, the U.S. has dropped around 23,144 bombs on Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia, all countries that are majority Muslim. ENSO is a natural phenomenon arising from coupled interactions be-

tween the atmosphere and the ocean in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Changing sea surface temperatures alter rainfall and surface winds, which in turn alter ocean currents and sea surface temperatures. These interactions produce a positive feedback loop, in which each change tends to promote further changes. There is good evidence from core samples taken from coral reefs and glacial ice in the Andes that ENSO has been going on for millennia. During El Nio, trade winds that typically blow from east to west across the Pacific weaken. Sea level falls in the western Pacific and rises in the east by as much as a foot as warm waters surge eastward along the equator.

The resulting increase in sea temperatures warms and moistens the overlying air. This triggers a process

called convection: the warm, moist air rises into the atmosphere, altering normal rainfall patterns and associated releases of heat. Somewhat like a rock sitting in a stream of water, this unusual heating sets up teleconnections: continental-scale waves in the atmosphere that extend into the mid-latitudes in winter. These waves alter winds and change the jet stream and storm tracks, creating persistent weather patterns.

The changes in sea surface temperatures associated with El Nino reach their most extreme point during winter in the Northern Hemisphere, so we see the biggest effects then. Most of us are confronted with scant opportunities to consolidate our ambitions in the world of paid employment’a world whose signature features are often drudgery, subordination and exhaustion. This panel will explore the legacy of Eugenics and the ways that “scientific” data has been used to justify atrocities. The panelists will discuss how the categorization of individuals, dehumanization, and bureaucratization converged to reinforce cultural prejudices and the lasting impact of these policies and practices. The study and reception of bio-criminological explanations of c r i m i na lit y will be discussed in light of the history of eugenics within the field of criminology, as well as other unfortunate implications of the movement to “purify” the population.

Species Summary: Pink-footed Goose (16 Connecticut, 3 New York) Barnacle Goose (3 New Jersey, 11 New York) Tufted Duck (4 California, 4 Massachusetts) Common Scoter (1 Quebec) Brown Booby (1 California) Northern Jacana (5 Texas) Ivory Gull (15 Minnesota) Slaty-backed Gull (1 California, 2 Washington, 1 Wisconsin) Kelp Gull (1 Ohio) Aplomado Falcon (1 Texas) Black-capped Gnatcatcher (1 Arizona) Rufousbacked Robin (1 Arizona) Siberian Accentor (25 British Columbia) Goldencrowned Warbler (5 Texas) White-collared Seedeater (1 Texas) Western Spindalis (1 Florida) Crimson-collared Grosbeak (2 Texas) Streak-backed Oriole (8 Arizona) Brambling (10 Ohio) Arctic air will spread across the Great Lake States into the northeast.

Very cold temperatures and snow showers will continue for the upper Midwest; with Lake Effect snow downwind of the Great Lakes. Wind chills of -10 degrees or

colder will affect the northern Plains. In the west, more storm systems are poised to move in over the next few days. Once we appreciate the multiple and complex modes of symbolization by which both the arts and the sciences advance understanding, we see that the differences between them are differences in degree rather than differences in kind. Both are powerful instruments that enable us to leverage our epistemic resources. What does ‘situatedness’ mean? How does situatedness influence the concept of knowledge and vice versa’how does knowledge produce situatedness? What are the connections between knowledge production and practice?

What are the generative intersections between, to name but a few, academic research, artistic research, action research, and practice-related research?

How shall we address these questions taking into account the multiple processes of material-discursive production, translation, transformation, and diffraction that shape ‘situated knowledges’? What are the methodological challenges for the production of ‘situated knowledges’?

Furthermore, adopting new materialist lenses, and in the context of diffe re nt prac tices of knowledge production, the conference explores the contemporary material-discursive ways in which academia poses questions about lines of oppression within the academic world as well as about issues of vulnerability and precarity associated therewith. What kinds of knowledges do vulnerable bodies produce? What are the zones of insecurity and vulnerability in/around academia? We turn to stunning developments in Guatemala, where this week police have arrested 18 ex-military leaders on charges of committing crimes against humanity during the decades-long, U.S.-backed dirty war against Guatemala’s indigenous communities. The ex-military leaders face charges of ordering massacres and forced disappearances, which led to perhaps a quarter of a million deaths. Many of the arrested former military leaders were backed by the United States, including Manuel Benedicto Lucas Garca, who had worked closely with U.S. military officials to develop a system of attacking the highlands where Guatemala’s indigenous Mayan communities reside. The system involved decapitating and

crucifying people. Lucas is a former army chief of staff and the brother of the ex-dictator, General Fernando Romeo Lucas Garca. Speaking Wednesday, he defended himself against the charges. Guatemalan prosecutors also moved to have the immunity lifted for Edgar Justino Ovalle Maldonado, an ex-military leader who’s now the right-hand man of the incoming Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales. The arrest comes six months after massive popular against a corruption scandal ousted the now-jailed former President Otto Prez Molina, who is also formerly a U.S.-backed military leader during Guatemala’s dirty wars. Heroism on the part of survivors who brought complaints forward, and also on the part of forensic anthropologists, lawyers, prosecutors, who are risking their lives to bring these cases, have resulted in this round-up of some of the worst mass killers in the country.

And they were working for the Guatemalan army, they weren’t renegades. They were, in turn, working for the U.S. government. The U.S. was backing the G2 military intelligence service, for which many of these arrested officers were working. Some were on the U.S. payroll. They were armed, they were trained, they were advised by the U.S. General Benedicto, who we just saw in the clip saying he wasn’t a coward, he worked together with Colonel George Maynes, the U.S. military attach. Maynes told me that he and Benedicto together developed the strategy of the sweeps into the highland villages, where they would go in, execute civilians, throw them in mass graves, decapitate, crucify. Those who were arrested on charges yesterday are facing charges tied to two specific cases. One is the case of a 15-year-old boy. The army raided his house with machine guns. They snatched him. They taped his mouth.

They threw a nylon bag over his head. They dragged him into a van. He was never seen again. The reason they hit his house was because his sister, his older sister, had been held captive at an army base, where she was being tortured and repeatedly raped, but she, one account says she had grown so skinny from lack of food that she was able to slip out through the bars and escape. So, in retaliation, they hit the house, they took the boy. The other case concerns the army base at Cobn, where they’ve found 558 cadavers, so far, skeletons, 90 of them children. People were brought there from massacre sites all around the northwest. Some of them fled from the massacre sites surrounding the Chixoy Dam project, which is backed by the World Bank [and Inter-American Development Bank]. The army would go into villages, burn the houses, take women down to the rivers and violate them. And a number were taken away in helicopters -- helicopters, some supplied by the U.S., some supplied by Guatemalan oligarchs, some working out of a CIA operation at the Aurora airport. And from there, they were flown to the Cobn army base. And now, years later, their bones, the bones of these largely women and children, have been traced through DNA sampling back to the surviving families, who have been brave enough to stand up and report this. And these are the bases of the cases. Well, Maldonado Aguirre, the interim president, who used to be the kind of the front man for the MLN death squad party, announced he was cutting the minimum wages in these factory areas. He was giving a speech. Some demonstrators showed up. And he, who is known

for his smooth demeanor, his calm, he just went nuts, and he started screaming at the demonstrators. He called them “bums.” He called them “Leninists.” But there’s a strong connection between the slashing of wages and this terror. Terror helps to keep the wages down. When you break strong communities, when you make it impossible for unions to organize without facing the threat of deaths’death or disappearance, that pulls down wages. We all know about the outsourcing of production from the U.S., but there’s also an outsourcing of repression. In the early 20th century, U.S. labor leaders and organizers were killed, with a fair amount of frequency. But over the years, that became unnecessary. As the production has moved overseas, so has the killing. So that exerts the downward pressure on wages. At the same time, when there’s terror in a place like Guatemala, people flee. They come to the U.S. That’s where a lot of the undocumented immigrants originated from. And then Americans complain. Well, you know, if you go and burn down your neighbor’s house, don’t complain when, as they run from the flames, they come onto your lawn.

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles. We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots, and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering, and shame. In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness, all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing. With just a little witty skepticism we can kill a good deal of the future in a young person. Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet. ...most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some one of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us, and we know not where to begin to set them right. US foreign policy operates to suppress democracy in order to make the world “safe” for American capital. How can US claim to fight a force that is an obvious by-product of its own policy in the region in the first place?

Neoconned Washington claims that as History chose America to exercise its hegemony over the world, no other law is relevant. The current IS led movement is backed by regional and global imperial powers intent on using international volunteers as cannon fodder for their imperial goals. The hard lives of most Ukrainians have gotten significantly harder while the elites continue to skim off whatever cream is left. Some 500,000 fewer people are employed by the public sector in the US than before the crisis. Hello dear, I am miss Yalissa, I will like you to write me on this my email (yalissaishmael @outlook.com) so that we can know each other better and I also have some thing interesting to share with you. Yours new friend miss Yalissa For more effective communication please do Reply me directly through my email address. Tunas are one of the most graceful animals of the sea. These sleek and powerful predators spend their lives in motion, cruising the open seas for prey. But despite being such formidable fast movers, this does not make them immune to parasitic burdens, indeed the parasite we are featuring today are found in the heart these pelagic predators. Scientists examining Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) at a tuna ranch at the Wakayama prefecture, Japan came across some unfamiliar-looking flukes living in the heart of the tunas, which they described and named Cardicola orientalis in this study. Aside from feeding on the tuna’s blood, the eggs that these parasites produce can become lodged in various tissues, obstructing blood vessels and causing harmful lesions and inflammations. In fact, these wayward eggs are more debilitating to the host than the adult parasite itself. If it were truly singular it seems to me that it would take a singular verb form and it doesn’t. I don’t know that anyone has ever proposed such a thing and I know several

people personally who prefer “they” as a pronoun. What seems more likely is that someone who should know better is either oversimplifying or they themselves (themself?) are confused. The usage is neutral not singular. Even though it may refer to a single individual it still functions as a plural by virtue of the simple fact that it continues to take a singular verb. Until we start saying “they is” and “they was,” it will remain a plural form but it also serves as a neutral (apparently since we don’t like the one we already have when we apply it to people).

Avian communities in cloud forests have high levels of e n d e mism and are at major risk given the accelerated rate of habitat fragmentation.

Nevertheless, the re sponse of these communities to changes in fragment size remains poorly understood. We evaluated species richness, bird community density, community composition, and dominance as indicators of the response to fragment size in a fragmented cloud forest landscape in central Veracruz, Mexico. Medium-sized fragments had statistically higher than expected species richness and more even communities, which may be a reflection of the intermediate disturbance hypothesis, in which medium-sized fragments are exploited by both forest and disturbance-associated species. Bird density also reached higher values in medium-sized fragments, which may indicate a carrying capacity in this habitat. However, large cloud forest fragments had a distinct taxonomic and functional composition, attributable to an increased number of understory insectivore species and canopy frugivores.

By comparison, omnivorous species associated with human-altered habitats were more abundant in smaller fragments.

Hence, although me d i u m - s i z e d cloud forest fragments had higher species richness and high bird density, large forest tracts maintained a distinct avian community composition, particularly of insectivorous and frugivorous species.

Furthermore, the underlying response to fragmentation can only be properly addressed when contrasting several community attributes, such as richness, density, composition, and species dominance. Therefore, cloud forest conservation should aim to preserve the remaining large forest fragments to maintain comprehensive avian communities and avoid local extinctions. This set is very powerful- I used it for running a laptop, com-

puter, GPS, recorder, iphone, etc. and still had extra juice to charge mobiles for villagers.

Purchased for $800USD from a reliable solar product shop with warranties, used for 9 months, will sell at $700 OBO (willing to go lower depending on who needs it and what it will be used for) Jim Crow laws across the South mandated that restaurants, hotels, pool halls and parks strictly separate whites and blacks. Lynchings kept blacks in fear of mob violence. There were thousands of so-called ‘sundown towns,’ which barred Blacks after dark with threats of violence. So in 1936, a postal worker named Victor Green began publishing a guide to help African American travelers find friendly restaurants, auto shops and accommodations in far-off places.

We only have a few frozen hams left.

Once these are gone, that’s it until Easter!!

To study the Iceman’s gut bugs, Zink and colleagues completely thawed the mummy and used an existing incision from previous research to take 12 biopsies from the corpse, including the last foods he ate and parts of his stomach and intestines. What they found was a surprisingly pure strain of the stomach bug that’s closely related to the version found in modern Asian populations. By contrast, the modern European strain of H. pylori seems to be a mix of Asian and African ancestral strains. This provides evidence that pure African populations of the bacteria arrived in Europe only within the past few thousand years.

‘Based on what we knew before, it was believed that the mixture of the ancestral African and Asian strains had already occurred maybe 10,000 years ago or even earlier,’ Zink says. ‘But the very small part of African ancestry in the bacteria genome from the Iceman tells us that the migrations into Europe aren’t such an easy story.’ The i c e m a n’s unmixed stomach bacteria are ‘in line with recent archaeological and ancient DNA studies that suggest dramatic demographic changes shortly after the Iceman’s time, including massive mig r a t i o n waves and s i g n i f i c a nt demographic growth,’ co-author Yo s h a n Moodley of the University of Venda, South Africa, told assembled press during a briefing on Wednesday. ‘These and later migration waves were definitely accompanied with newly arriving H. pylori strains that recombined with already present strains to become the modern European population. A congressional briefing to be chaired by Democratic Representative Jan Schakowsky later this month will contest the claims that the lives of Bangladeshi garment workers have improved since the Rana Plaza building collapse of April 2013, which killed at least 1,138 workers.

The briefing will feature a new report authored by Bjorn Claeson and released by the International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF), which documents the violence, intimidation, danger, and degredation that industry workers still face. Factory safety reforms are advancing in Bangladesh, where the study was conducted in 2014 and 2015, but these reforms and repairs, the report shows, ‘must be the foundation for

additional reforms that address the intimidation and violence that keep workers silent, afraid to voice concerns and put forward solutions to ensure their own safety. A next phase of reforms must instill the lessons that respect for workers is as important to safety as are fire exits.’ Among the tough topics and conversation-changing dimensions of the report is the direct challenge it poses to the narrative that argues that ‘garment sweatshops liberate women because they can now earn wages. Although the Soviet and Eastern European socialist regimes of the latter 20th century seem to lie in the distant past now, research on them still has many uncovered areas. This applies not least to the role of ‘socialist’ art historians, their activities and functions in universities, exhibitions and the mass media, and especially their academic text production. Deriving from a complicated socio-cultural set of relations, the common denominator for which was ‘socialism’, these art historical ‘acts’ shaped the general comprehensions of art, culture and history in the society at large. With the overall h i s tor io graphical turn in the humanities, scholars from the Baltic to the Balkan region have begun to readdress the various histories of artworks, architecture, artistic styles and whole epochs that these practices constructed. Conferences on this recent art historical past have been held and scholarly publications issued, including in English, today’s lingua franca, but the vast majority of research remains only in native languages, thus circulating mainly at the local level. Turkish authorities have detained two people who were caught smuggling a painting which experts suspect is by the 17th century Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck, reports said Sunday. The Hurriyet newspaper said authorities had seized the artwork in Istanbul after two businessmen attempted to sell it to undercover Turkish police officers for 14 million lira ($4.6 million, 4.2 million euros).

The two men had reportedly bought the painting from a criminal gang for $200,000. They were arrested at the luxury hotel in Istanbul’s historic Topkapi neighbourhood where they had tried to make the sale, Hurriyet said.

Turkish anti-smuggling authorities released a photo-

graph of a seized painting -- depicting a topless woman with her arms raised and two other figures -- without giving details of its provenance. But Hurriyet said that based on an analysis by Istanbul art experts, authorities believe the work is a lost original by Van Dyck, potentially worth millions of dollars. Britain’s Flying Scotsman, the first steam locomotive to hit 100 miles an hour, returned to the tracks on Friday following a decade-long project to restore the world-famous engine. Steaming and whistling, the legendary locomotive made its first test run after a 4.2 million ($6.1 million, 5.6-millioneuro) full-scale restoration. “It will be back hauling mainline rail tours, steaming proudly into the 21st century,” said its owners, the National Railway Museum (NRM) in York, northern England.

The locomotive, built 93 years ago, successfully completed the test run on the East Lancashire Railway in northwest England, following restoration at the nearby Riley and Son workshop in Bury. Rail enthusiasts gathered on the platforms at Bury’s Bolton Street station to see the locomotive, some with tears in their eyes. “It’s such a spine-tingling moment. It’s thrilling,” said Tina Bywater, 67. Timeline 02:44 Feminism / Feminisms 07:18 Struggling against system. We are the system 10:28 Capitalism is a complex monster 15:31 Communalism in times of neoliberalism 18:57 Elections change nothing 23:42 A materialist feminism 27:21 From the cultural subject to an economic subject 32:01 The contemporary art network 34:28 Radical curating 37:59 Some strategies Born David Jones, Bowie’s first musical instrument was the saxophone, and he became a fan of early rock by Little Richard, Fats Domino and Frankie Lymon. While in high school, a fistfight over a girl damaged his left pupil, leaving him with one blue eye and the other permanently dilated and appearing darker in color. In the mid1960s, he began recording folk and pop music with various units and for a variety of labels. He changed his name to David Bowie in 1966 (largely to avoid confusion with Davy Jones of the Monkees), and started dabbling in theater. What type of feminism does the twenty-first century call for? How can anti-patriarchal strategies join forces with the struggle to undermine neoliberalism? How can art history give rise to a new critical paradigm? In her essays, Dimitrakaki discusses all of these issues and examines the ways in which the economy shapes our identities and affects our labour, sexual, migratory, class, and gender relations. To drive out solar power companies out of sunny Nevada, you have to do something pretty bad. This is exactly what happened while most of us weren’t paying attention, enjoying the holidays (or stressing out, depending...).

The Nevada Public Utility Commission (PUC) changed its rules surrounding net metering and increased fees charged to the owners of solar systems (who said the sun was free?): “The base service charge is rising from $12.75 to $17.90 per month [a 40% increase] for southern Nevada solar customers and from $15.25 to $21.09 [a 38.2% increase] for northern Nevada customers. The changes also reduce the amount the utility pays to buy power back from rooftop solar panels, from 11 cents a kilowatt hour to 9 cents [an 18.2% decrease] in southern Nevada and from 12 cents to 10.5 cents [a 12.5% decrease] in the north. The nutritional advice, up-

dated by the federal government every five years, is supposed to have enormous influence on the foods served to millions through federal food programs-including school breakfasts, lunches, and snacks. Sounds like the cafeteria is about to get healthier, right? Well, not exactly. Hello, Thank you for ordering with us. We are a small business, so every customer is very important to us. Your item is being sent directly from China soas advertised the delivery time can be a little long.

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Amid all the destruction, gold exploded to the upside.

Two weeks ago my super8 camera disappeared from my pack while I was traveling by bus in a mountain region of northern Italy (I’d say usually a fairly safe environment). In the camera there was an Ektachrome 100D partially exposed: some silly but important things I shot. Few days ago, while I was processing a film in my darkroom, I put bleach-fix instead of color developer in the tank.

So colors went down the drain: again, it was another silly but important thing I shot. It never happened to me before to have a camera lost - or stolen - on a public transport, and I never mixedup bottles in the darkroom before. Then Kodak came out with this announcement of this new camera and their negative film which they take care of for you for something like seventy-five bucks... Just a thought maybe inspiring for a script or something :-) Livio In an increasingly destabilised world, every individual has to deal with overwhelming and dizzying situations on a daily basis, be it on a personal level or on a political scale. Dizziness arises locally, and situationally, and combines various elements. It can clear a way ahead, stir things up, move heaven and earth - dizziness is a destabiliser. Artists working with moving image art (film, video, gif, etc) or with time based media art are invited to create a work. The aim of the competition is to increase artistic awareness for the condition of the world we live in and to propose artistic concepts and ideas on how to cope with the challenges to come. America’s refusal to fund and sustain its intellectual and cultural heritage has come with an enormous cost. We are now paying the bill. According to public disclosures, by giving just 12 speeches to Wall Street banks, private equity firms, and other financial corporations, Clinton made $2,935,000 from 2013 to 2015... Clinton’s most lucrative year was 2013, right after stepping down as secretary of state.

That year, she made $2.3 million for three speeches to Goldman Sachs and individual speeches to Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, Fidelity Investments, Apollo Management Holdings, UBS, Bank of America, and Golden Tree Asset Managers. Our elders were noted to pontificate a timeless, multi-dimensional adage: “Aiz aum, falam tum”!(sp?). One liberal translation would imply: Be wary, what goes around comes around either more defined, refined or deservingly maligned! Coco Nucifera is a member of the family Arecaceae .World over is also known as palm family and ensures preservation of coconut tree What was needed is not to designate it as palm with no branches, in order to cut it down without formalities ,but to give relief with least formalities, when it is abutting in others property causing harm and danger to life and property by falling fruits, leaves and eminent dan-

ger of collapse,or obstructing open electricity lines, Palm trees though rare have been observed with more than one branch Goa`s coconut economy based on nuts, husk, copra, jaggerry, oil rafters, shells, feni, vinegar, brooms, leaves for roofing, handicrafts et al sustains economically lacks of people Besides the swaying palms add to greenery and scenic beauty in Goa They act as a shield against storms, winds, It has been documented by research that a single tree is home to 1200 species, including mammals, reptiles, birds, insects, lichens algae, ferns, fungi, bacteria, nematodes Besides it a c t s against a soil erosion and stores water. Philiphines tree authority PCA under republic act 8048 prohibits cutting of coc o n u t trees with the permit of PCA with the exception of following grounds. Age is 60 years plus 2- economically not productive, 3- severely diseased, infested. 4- Damaged by storms lightening. 4- conversation of land for approved purposes 5- tree is a hazard to life and property. 6- planting of equivalent replacement vigorously monitored The tree was protected under Goa, Daman Diu act 1984 under clause 1-A The intentions in the new designation is to convert orchards into settlement zones without the hassles of permissions to benefit the builders, industrialists, developers and BJP is bent upon destructions and economy to cultivate cash rich benefactors for election and personal ENRICHMENT. The number of trees destroyed over the years is anybody’s guess. Some enlightened citizens, legislators have started a well meaning campaign to preserve wanton destruction of coconut trees, which albeit add to the scenic, distinctive skyline of Goa. Tinder is one of the most popular dating apps in the world, boasting millions of date seekers and a mobile user experience that’s set the standard for the matchmaking industry. Last year should’ve been when Tinder turned itself into a massive subscription and advertising business, but 2015 proved more of a distraction for the company and its polarizing CEO Sean Rad. Following a high-profile lawsuit, the Tinder cofounder was removed from his head role last year only to be reinstated months later after the board ousted his replacement. The Philadelphia Police Department is working with the FBI to investigate a tip alleging that a man charged in a cop shooting last week has ties to a

radical group that plans to target more officers. Authorities said Sunday that a person told an officer on the street that the man who attacked Officer Jesse Hartnett ‘had an affiliation to a group with radical beliefs.’ A man charged Hartnett’s car Thursday night, firing off at least 13 shots and hitting him at least three times. Hartnett got out of his car and fired at the man, wounding him before other officers detained him. Hartnett is reportedly in stable condition in the hospital. Police charged 30-year-old Edward Archer with attempted murder, aggravated assault, assault of a law-enforcement officer, and several firearms crimes.

Last fall, Dutch pranksters put a cover from a Quran over a Bible and then asked passersby to read aloud homophobic, violent or sexist passages that

violate modern moral sensibilities. The texts shocked people who had never immersed themselves in the Iron Age world of the Bible writers, a world in which daughters can be sold as sexual slaves and most of us deserve the death penalty: you included. By one count, the Quran has only 532 cruel or violent passages, while the Bible has 1,321. Christians respond that the Bible is longer, so the cruel, violent passages make up a smaller percent of the whole.

ISIS terrorists claim that their scripts for jihad, executions, sexual slavery and theocracy come straight from the Quran, and they cite chapter and verse to back up their claim. But Christians who find ISIS horrifying might be even more horrified to learn that similar scripts can be found in their own Good Book, including endorsements of terrorism that rival the most vile atrocities committed in the name of Allah. In addition to inflicting terror directly, God does so via human and nonh u m a n agents.He sends a bear to tear apart 40 boys who are teasing a prophet, presumably as a warning to others. In the story of Job, God gives Satan permission to destroy a house in which Job’s sons and daughters have come together for a celebration, killing them all--this time as part of a divine wager that will become a morality tale.

He later gives superhuman strength to Samson (the Bible’s version of Hercules) so that Samson can complete an Iron Age suicide mission.

He pulls down the pillars of a pagan temple so that it collapses, killing 3,000 civilians. Samson himself dies in a blaze of glory (Judges 16:27-30). As in ISIS, sexual enslavement of conquered women is one means of humiliating enemy combatants.In the book of Numbers, God’s messenger commands the Chosen People to kill every Midianite man, woman or child, except for virgin girls who are to be turned into sex slaves according to very explicit instructions.

Many Americans were horrified at the story of an ISIS fighter who bound and gagged a captive girl, praying and quoting the Quran to her before commencing rape. The Bible’s instructions for claiming a captive virgin suggest shaving her head rather than applying duct tape to her wrists and mouth (Numbers 31). Why might this be considered terrorism?

In the Bible, as in the Quran, women and children are

literally possessions of men, which is why a man can sell his daughter into slavery or a rapist can be forced to buy his victim. In the Iron Age honor cultures of the Ancient Near East, female consent mattered little, but a man’s honor could be destroyed by the sexual violation of a female.

Enslaving and impregnating the women of a conquered tribe or religion sends a graphic message to other men about who is on top. Go >From Solid Fundamentals in Art to a Career in the Entertainment Industry: Uniquely delivered in an accelerated format, with three years of study completed in 18 months, and housed in a contemporary, real-world studio space at our Montreal location. * Learn what it takes to become a professional concept artist, and how to thrive in this fast-paced industry.

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Excerpt: The conventional wisdom about the refugee crisis in Europe is that the humanitarian approach is to open the borders - let anyone who comes stay indefinitely and provide them with generous subsidies to start a new life in Europe. But this approach has been a complete failure. According to the International Organization for Migration, 3,279 migrants died crossing the Mediterranean in 2014, and 3,771 died in 2015. Most of the students are from India and, according to other segments of the Indian press, as many as a hundred would-

be NPU students have been turned back at U.S. airports or prevented from boarding Air India flights to California. The immigration inspectors apparently sense that some of the incoming students are not really nonimmigrants, coming to the United States for a temporary period, and that they plan to stay. If you did not attempt to access Online Banking on the date and time listed above, or not remember doing so, please select That Was NOT Me You will then be prompted to update your current Identity.

We have a firm reason to believe there might have been a security breach related to it. Moderate-tomajor river flooding will continue to impact locations across the central and southern U.S. this week as the Mississippi River flood wave slowly moves downstream. Meanwhile, the Ohio and Illinois rivers will remain in moderate flood stage along the southern tip of Illinois, but flood waters are receding. A human being is a part of the whole, called by us, “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security. Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about his religion. Respect others in their views and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and of service to your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place. Show respect to all people, but grovel to none. When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength.

Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. Western media have been caught - once again - falsifying reality about the siege towns in Syria now being liberated. The dream of winning the lottery has replaced the “American Dream” of living a decent life.

Qaddafi’s government holds 143 tons of gold, and a similar amount in silver. America presents itself to the world as “the land of the free” but - for the vast majority - it is a place of enslaving indebtedness. Globalised society is controlled by dominant people using weapons, religion, and in capitalism its fiat money, which has no limits therefore give the illusion of invincibility.

Gunmen detonated suicide vests inside a shopping complex in Baghdad on Monday and a car bomb exploded nearby in an attack claimed by Islamic State that killed at least 18 people and wounded 40 others. The 101st Airborne Division, based out of Fort Campbell, Ky., is sending about 1,300 soldiers from its 2nd Brigade Combat Team to Iraq as part of Operation Inherent Resolve.

Afghan forces are struggling to man the front lines against a resurgent Taliban, in part because of untold numbers of “ghost” troops who are paid salaries but only exist on paper. Defense Industry Revenue Forecast Gushes Over Global Turmoil: The report alerts investors that “revenue growth” is “expected to take a positive turn” due to the terrorism and war in the Middle East and the tensions in Eastern Europe and the South China Sea. Commerce between Europe and North America has literally come to a halt.

For the first time in known history, not one cargo ship is in-transit in the North Atlantic between Europe and North America. All of them (hundreds) are either anchored offshore or in-port. NOTHING is moving. The new way police are surveilling you: Calculating your threat ‘score’: While officers raced to a recent 911 call about a man threatening his ex-girlfriend, a police op-

erator in headquarters consulted software that scored the suspect’s potential for violence the way a bank might run a credit report. Homeland Security Targets Families Seeking Asylum: Why is DHS targeting families fleeing horrific violence in Central America, people who had no choice but to run? Located north of Kochi City, Zenrakuji was not temple number 30 for almost 100 years.

It was/is located right next to a big shrine, now called Tosa Jinja, and when Shinto and Buddhism were seperated the temple was damaged. The honzon, Amida Nyorai, was moved to Anrakuji which then became temple 30. In 1929 Zenrakuji was re-established but no buildings w e r e erected until 1938, however There is no way to know in advance what the total legal fees will be, but the cost for each person to “appear” (which is basically filing a form with the court so that there is not a default judgment against you) is $182. The costs for the lawyer (initial consultation, research, filing paperwork, talking to other lawyers) is already more than $1,000. According to the link The Well-Structured, Frivolous Lawsuit is Awesome, the defense of a simple lawsuit costs $12,000, with 25% of the costs coming during the first 6 weeks.

So the goal of this campaign is $5,000, which will be enough to get the defense up and running and past the initial hearing. The transformation of police practices in this country cannot happen without a national reckoning regarding the ways both white supremacy and misogyny have shaped and continue to influence law enforcement practices in the United States.

Until recently, Detroit had a backlogof 30 years’ worth of rape kits, the contents of which had never been processed nor the underlying crimes investigated by the city’s police depa r tment.

Eighty-one percent of Wayne County victims whose kits were never tested were Black. As a result, women who were subject to often brutal attacks never had the opportunity to learn the identity of their attacker or receive a semblance of justice for the pain they suffered. What they did learn is that they were not valued by the system. It was not until Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthygalvanized female business leaders in the Detroit community to raise private funds that the testing of decades’ worth of rape kits went forward. As a result of the private sector’s involvement, victims in that city have

begun receiving attention that is long overdue. Truth Tobacco Industry Documents (formerly known as Legacy Tobacco Documents Library) was created in 2002 by the UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management. It was built to house and provide permanent access to tobacco industry internal corporate documents produced during litigation between US States and the seven major tobacco industry organizations and other sources. These internal documents give a view into the workings of one of the largest and most influential industries in the United States. During the 1860’s, Chinese laborers were brought in to help construct the first U.S. trans-continental railroad between the Atlantic & the Pacific coasts. They worked long hours & were underpaid, and

most of the time in extreme weather conditions. Many lost their lives in this historic epic, but their contributions were buried & their history untold. In August 2014, when President Obama finally admitted that ‘we tortured some folks,’ he added a warning. The recent history of U.S. torture, he said, ‘needs to be understood and accepted. We have to as a country take responsibility for that so hopefully we don’t do it again in the future.’ By pinning the responsibility for torture on all of us ‘as a country,’ Obama avoided holding any of the actual perpetrators to account. The anthropology of disasters has for nearly a decade been studying the trend of relying on the private sector to deal with catastrophes and other forms of large-scale devastation, also known as “disaster capitalism”. Ethnographic studies in different contexts prove that state and nongovernmental institutions often seize opportunities afforded by crises to advance policies that strongly reshape economies, livelihoods, and affected populations’ access to spaces and natural resources. Indeed, this trend of making instrumental use of catastrophe to empower capitalist interests can increase vulnerability for many affected peoples.

This can add new layers of precarity to the material and subjec tive experience of disaster, at times when people are too busy reeling from the disaster to reasonably anticipate or contest the consequences of these measures. Nevertheless, the ways in which neoliberal trends take shape locally depend heavily on the political and economic contexts within which catastrophic events take place and social relations existing in a place. In this panel we draw on the Marxist-oriented notion of “neoliberalism as creative destruction” for studying existing neoliberal maneuvers in the wake of both so-called natural and human-mediated disasters. We invite papers that ethnographically analyze how disaster capitalism influences economic and material life of people and their moral economies, as well as the uneven spaces for change that may undermine the structured coherence upon which this neoliberal trend depends.

Capital “accumulation by dispossession”, in fact, can occur only through chance discoveries and provisional compromises in the wake of intense sociopolitical strug-

gles. Joseph Bellows Gallery announces its exhibition of an important collection of vintage x-ray photographs by Dr. Dain L Tasker.

This exhibition opened on January 9th and continue through February 19th, 2016. Dr. Tasker was the chief radiologist at Wilshire Hospital in Los Angeles when radiology was in its formative phase.

In the late 1920’s inspired by his knowledge of the x-ray image process, and through his developing involvement with Pictorial photography, Dr. Tasker began to record numerous varieties of flowers with the x-ray process.

His results are among the most striking and unique floral images in the history of photography, delicate in their rendering of subtle tones and descriptive in the tracing of the flower’s fragile structure; fulfilling with out sentimentality, Tasker’s statement, Flowers are the expression of the love life of plants. Tasker’s floral xray photographs. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s or higher level degree in any field within the arts or humanities. The position requires strong writing, editing, design, and organizational skills.

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Today is not a good one for travelling, as I mentioned earlier. I walked to the mall for a bowl of Tim’s chicken noodle soup and then on to Farm Boy’s but nothing appealed to me for supper, so I walked home...into a cold wind. We believe in removing ALL the barriers to time banking that we can. Access to the hOurworld platform is FREE. It is easy for new members to join and learn, and easy for coordina-

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On September 10, 2001, had someone predicted that the oil heartlands of the planet would, within a decade and a half, become a roiling mix of failed states, fierce sectarian religious and ethnic struggles, spreading terror groups, and the first terror “caliphate&rdquo; in history, if you had suggested that Saudi Arabia, one of the more stable countries on the planet, might someday begin to come unglued, that Libya would essentially collapse, Syria be no more, and Iraq be transformed into a riven tripartite land, you would surely have been laughed out of any room of pundits and experts. So the recent intensification of such a state of affairs, involving two countries in those heartlands with gigantic energy reserves, is big news indeed -- but not perhaps the biggest news in the region. UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans to tackle social problems through bulldozing a number of British housing estates, saying they are “entrenching poverty”, and that the “brutal high-rise towers and dark alleyways” are a “gift to criminals and drug dealers”. So does the design of estates cause crime? “It can be argued that the way these buildings were designed led to problems of crime,” says one expert. Exclusive mass-mobility for the affluent (a relative economic term, a lower middle class person can be “rich” elsewhere) always had it’s side-effects. The targetting of tourists is not an ISIS invention, it is a constant since the beginning of organised leisure travel.

Mass-media combined with the new form of low-fare mass-travel do give it another dimension. What it lays bare as well is the economic structures of countries under attack, the problem of their (growing) dependancy on tourism, the social-economic division in the tourists countries themselves, those that profit, those that suffer.

The impact on culture, habitat and environment geared to produce short-term profits. The Obama Administration has less than two weeks to decide whether to appeal a federal judge’s order that it must release videotapes showing the force-feeding of hunger-striking detainees at Guantanamo Bay as the prison marks 14 years of existence.

US Government lawyers are nearing a key deadline, set for 22 January, in a court battle over a procedure which international bodies including the UN and Red Cross have said constitutes cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. According to a recent Justice Department filing, Solicitor General Don Verrilli is tasked with making the decision before January 22. It is not known whether he, or any top Justice Department or White House staff, have yet watched the footage.

The Guantanamo authorities have long faced criticism for the force-

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Crime in the schools has dropped sharply but New York still requires students at more than 200 schools to take off their shoes and send their belongings through x-ray machines. Just to add that Sean and Marcell are being sued - not by a company, but by an individual, not by an author, but by a translator, and - not by someone classically “creative”, but by a person whose work mostly consists in exploiting the differential between French and Canadian copyright law by publishing new English translations of French books that are still under copyright in France, but just out of copyright in Canada, in the hope that they sell in the U.S., preferrably before TTP puts him out of business ... since it confirms once again what I think is the single most important (if not the only) lesson I’ve learned running textz.com, Pirate Cinema or 0xDB: You’re probably worrying too much about the big corporations that actually own IP, and almost certainly not enough about the small authors that hallucinate IP. Sunday morning, while washing, it occurs to him that he hadn’t seen the Tagblatt yet. He opens it by chance just at the first page of the magazine section. The title of the first essay, “The Child as Creator,” strikes him. He reads the first few linesand begins to c ry with joy. It is his essay, word for word his essay. So for the first time he is in pri nt, he runs to his mother and tells her.

What joy! The old woman, she has diabetes and is divorced from his father, who, by the way, is in the right, is so proud. One son is alre ady a virtuoso, now the other is becoming an author!

After the first excitement he thinks the matter over. How did the essay get into the pape r?

Without his consent? Without the name of the author? Without his being paid a fee? Thi s is really a breach of faith, a fraud. This Mrs. Durge is really a devil. And women ha ve no souls, says Mohammed (often repeated). It’s really easy to see how the plagiarism came about. Here was a beautiful essay, it’s not easy to come across one like it. So Mrs. D. therefore went to the Tagblatt, sat down with one of the editors, both of them overjoyed, and now they begin to rewrite it. Of course, it had to be rewritten, for in the first place the plagiarism should not be obvious at first sight and in the second place the th irty-two-page essay was too long for the paper. In reply to my question whether he would not show me passages which correspond, because that would interest me especially and because only then could I advise him what to do, he begins to read his essay, turns to another passage, leafs through it without finding anything, and finally says that everything was copied. Here, for instance, the paper says: The soul of the child is an unwritten page, and “unwritten page” occurs in his essay too. Or the expression “surnamed” is copied too, because how else could they hit upon “surnamed.” But he can’t compare individual passages. Of course, everything was copied, but in a disguised way, in a different sequence, abridged, and with small, foreign interpolations. LaVoy Finicum, a prominent member of the Bundy crew, had just finished a speech about the sign when a convoy pulled up. Members of the Pacific Patriots Network, a consortium of groups from Oregon, Washing-

ton and Idaho, emerged from their cars and trucks carrying rifles and sidearms and clad in military attire and bulletproof vests. Knowledge was supposed to be the oil of the 21st century. Despite the fact that oil came back to fill its sorry role, a few people have tirelessly and quite joyfully pursued the process of making utopia into reality. These are two such persons. They are network infrastructure providers for the unbordered tribe of downloaders and uploaders. Thanks to them, we can read, we can know, we can breathe, we can share ideas. Now they’re under attack from some megalomaniacal individual who publishes revolutiona r y literature and appa rent ly believes in capitalism unto the death of the human species. To defend Sean and Marcell is to defend our eyes, our minds, our tongues, our hearts and to increase the remaining chances of making that belief untrue. Recently Marcell wrote that it’s “obvious what are the actions, it’s download/upload.”

OK, so let’s upload: 10, 100, or 1000 each for starters, depends on your currency, your bank account and who desires to participate. Total is already about double what they asked for and maybe an order of magnitude below what they could easily need.

I am confident of two things: 1. victory and, 2. any surplus will be well used!

This reminds of sentiments of small software publishers in the 90s (but they used to express themselves in more colorful ways.) Ease of copying killed the cottage software industry (only the big 5 survived), and it’s only now slightly recovering due to proprietary app s t o r e /d e v i c e platforms. The Let’s Encrypt certificate authority makes getting a digital certificate for an Internet site fast, free, and easy, so sites can easily enable encryption protocols like HTTPS. Reducing the cost and difficulty of getting a certificate that browsers require when making secure connections is a vital step in making Web connections routinely encrypted, and over 130,000 certificates were issued in just the first two weeks they were available. I thought, on a very basic level, one should remember it is not a lot more than to the discredit and humiliation of anyone involved, in one way or another, in publishing to sue someone like sean and marcel for making his/her work available to a wider public (that person being a translator makes it, I found, particularly all the more ridiculous and nauseating, since translation

is literally about dissemination, I understood). why bother with the field, really, especially on a smaller scale, if the idea is to contribute on the condition that knowledge chains one even more to some defunct form of economic slavery, that strikes a bit confused. I thought it is more evident by now that what would help a little maybe - more than making someone pay for the fact that a technology exists that makes things more available, free and open, and they are making use of it - is to perhaps come up with some way that enables one to continue making one’s work...independent of the tired habit of putting a price tag on knowledge (“items”). Species Summary: Pinkfooted Goose (5 Connecticut, 1 New York) Barnacle Goose (2 New York) Common Pochard (1 Alaska) Tufted

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Aaaaaarg is a brilliant vision of a possible and very desirable future for knowledge production, in many other ways than the one you highlight. By “unbundling” the academic library from academic institutions, it solves or improves upon so many challenges of traditiona l academic research labor: easy access to (hypothetically) everything, even and especially the obscure (not least because users upload scans of things not yet otherwise digitized or in print); full text search with unrestricted copy-pasting; strong combination of site features and community practice around curation of collections; a self-critical community... But it happens at the expense of individual laborers like yourself, without their/your consent and without compensation to those individuals/ you. So, I for one think aaaaaarg is doing something important, but I’ve always assumed it’s more a proof of concept for something that will come after than a pirate utopia to be defended and protected as such. It’s a glimmering dream we don’t quite deserve yet if we’re not willing to pay for it in something besides aspirational coding, scanning, and tagging. Arguments about the justice of e.g.

Elsevier getting paid for academic books, or the justness of capitalism itself, are important to debate but are be-

side the point if that debate relies on the further belittling of individual authors. The issue is more, then, that where internet fantasies of totally free music, movie, and software sharing all now have viable, legitimate alternatives (digital libraries and markets as well as digital media accessible for free through libraries, such as through OverDrive and Freegal in the United States), there is no such thing as a mass-market-priced alternative for academic books and content. Scribd’s confusing, gray-area mutations over the years are not quite up to snuff. Well, let me be the hypocrit: Fuck this entitlement of the privileged > who can sit around, parasites as they are, and spend their time in the > symbolic order muncing and serving up brain candy for other privileged > to have wine and dine conversation topics, while the lesser entitled > do the real fucking work that makes the world go round. 22F, snowing, windy. polenta, roasted root vegitables, carrot stew, orange juice. Coffee. PICO (People Improving Communities through Organizing) National Network is the nat i o n ’s largest net work of faithb a s e d community organizations, work ing with 45 organizations in more than 120 cities and 21 states, with a collective membership of more than one million families from more than 1,200 congregations. Together, our mission is to create racial and economic justice in the United States by organizing people of many faith traditions and those who are most oppressed by unjust systems and policies. And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.

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The bird in question seems to present an aberrant coloration, but I would not call it melanism -- a normal green hummingbird already has melanin on its feathers. Maybe that looking is related to some unusual structural pattern of the feathers. It reminded me of an aberrant Thalurania glaucopis housed in the British Museum in Tring whose general color is also a brownishpurplish instead of green (but the violet cap is typical).

Notheless, I’m not familiar with all hummingbird species found in Mindo and the few checklists that I found only bring English names, which is personally useless for me. And I’m sorry to say that I don’t have the time to do a deeper research and find out what exactly it is - but C. delphinae is out of the game. If some other well-founded guess is presented, I can check the collection to see if it seems reasonable based on the specimens. Alongside the dollar bill, the Coca-Cola sign and Marilyn Monroe’s face, the electric chair was one of Warhol’s trademark all-American emblems. A New York invention, first used in 1890 at

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The Christian families from Xeldem Gawal have been traced in the jungle settlement and the mystery is solved.They are being led by Bro. Caetano Peixeto also a resident of same area. He boasts of experience in conducting retreats for last 25 years, praying for sick and they are healed by Divine Grace of God in a residential atmosphere. I just pray and guide them. There is nothing unusual about the prayer services, objectionable and of concern to be ostracized by the society.

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Sharks are older than dinosaurs.

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equality. And whether we like it or not, the pace of this change will only accelerate. America has been through big changes before - wars and depression, the influx of immigrants, workers fighting for a fair deal, and movements to expand civil rights. Each time, there have been those who told us to fear the future; who claimed we could slam the brakes on change, promising to restore past glory if we just got some group or idea that was threatening America under control. And each time, we overcame those fears.

We did not, in the words of Lincoln, adhere to the “dogmas of the quiet past”. Instead we thought anew, and acted anew. We made change work for us, always extending America’s promise outward, to the next frontier, to more and more people. And because we did - because we saw opportunity where others saw only peril - we emerged stronger and better than before. What was true then can be true now. Our unique strengths as a nation - our optimism and work ethic, our spirit of discovery and innovation, our diversity and commitment to the rule of law - these things give us everything we need to ensure prosperity and security for generations to come. In fact, it’s that spirit that made the progress of these past seven years possible.

It’s how we recovered from the worst economic crisis in generations. It’s how we reformed our health care system, and reinvented our energy sector; how we delivered more care and benefits to our troops and veterans, and how we secured the freedom in every state to marry the person we love. But such progress is not inevitable.

It is the result of choices we make together. And we face such choices right now. Will we respond to the changes of our time with fear, turning inward as a nation, and turning against each other as a people? Or will we face the future with confidence in who we are, what we stand for, and the incredible things we can do together? I see it in the American who served his time, and dreams of starting over - and the business owner who gives him that second chance. The protester determined to prove that justice matters, and the young cop walking the beat, treating everybody with respect, doing the brave, quiet work of keeping us safe. I see it in the soldier who gives almost everything to save his brothers, the nurse who tends to him ‘til he can run a marathon, and the community that lines up to cheer him on. It’s the son who finds the courage to come out as who he is, and the father whose love for that son overrides everything he?s been taught. I see it in the elderly woman who will wait in line to cast her vote as long as she has to; the new citizen who casts his for the first time; the volunteers at the polls who believe every vote should count, because each of them in different ways know how much that precious right is worth.

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That’s why I stand here confident that the State of our Union is strong. Because of you. I believe in you. That’s why I stand here confident that the State of our Union is strong. Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United States of America. On January 11, Democrats in Georgia’s state house introduced a bill that bans ‘assault weapons’ and opens the door for the ‘seizure’ of such weapons, along with accessories like ‘high capacity’ magazines.

The bill’HB 731’is sponsored by Mary Margaret Oliver (D-83rd), Stacey Abrams (D-89th), Carolyn Hugley (D-136th), Pat Gardiner (D-57th), Dar’shun Kendrick (D-93rd), Dee Dawkins-Haigler (D-91st). According to thetext of HB 731, the bill focuses on ‘dangerous instrumentalities and practices’ by prohibiting the possession, sale, transport, distribution, or use of certain assault weapons, large capacity magazines, a r mor - pie r c i n g bullets, and incendiary .50 caliber bullets.’ Moreover, the details punishment for crimes involving ‘the possession, sale, transport, distribution, or use of certain assault weapons, large capacity magazines, armor-piercing bullets, and incendiary .50 caliber bullets. A group of three armed men entered Ms. Jessie’s Stop N Shop corner store in Philadelphia and attempted to rob the establishment. The store owner responded to the threat by opening fire on the criminals, striking at least one in the head, killing him. The deceased thief ’s accomplices fled the scene, but one of them was captured soon after the

attempted robbery. This next meeting we are going to experiment a bit. The first hour or so will be mostly social, but the last two we are going to spend some time soliciting your ideas in a more formal fashion than last.

Regarding the new web server and ftp. I managed to get the ftp daemon to work properly. I used gdb to determine where it was failing and it was failing trying to compare passwords. Changed it to use pam and now it is working as intended. So no ftp capabilities will be lost with the transition to the new server. I am going to attempt to bring it online Friday evening. There may be s o m e things missing that I haven’t thought of but hard to determine until it is up and r u n n i n g.

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It also means that we would finally roll back some deeply damaging and discriminatory policies that started as part of the War on Drugs. This includes retroactively reducing some overly harsh mandatory minimums and the number of people subjected to them - critical measures to fix our bloated prison system and issue sentences that actually fit the crimes. According to official Israeli data cited by the human rights organization Adalah, by the turn of the 21st century Israel was investing three times as much on a per capita basis in the education of a Jewish as opposed to that of a Palestinian citizen. The University of California is clear that investments in these corporations are financially unsustainable and now stands as the first

public education institution to denounce the private prison industry. In addition, Black students have declared private prisons to be morally rotten and ethically compromising to the mission of any educational institution. Our position on private prisons has been clear from the very beginning; we want them outlawed and out of business. The University of California has sold all but $2 million of its holdings from private prisons and is in the process of selling the remainder of their holdings

by December 31st, 2015. Following this historic victory, many invigorated supporters are now asking: where do we go from here? It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber. He that is of the opinion

money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty! I refuse to be silent any longer. I refuse to be party to an illegal and immoral war against people who did nothing to deserve our aggression.

My oath of office is to protect and defend America’s laws and its people. By refusing unlawful orders for an illegal war, I fulfill that oath today. Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice... Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed...but it is sure as life, it is sure as death. While the Saud family enjoys the last few moments of its dictatorship, the decapitation of the leader of the opposition, Nimr al-Nimr, deprives half of the Saudi population of all hope. The US government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into into military prog r a m s like the F35 fighter, while slashing assistance for the poor, homeless, and hung r y .

Obama indulged in the glorification of killing that has become an essential part of the degraded spectacle that passes for political discourse in America. A faculty senate subcommittee at my university in rural Virginia has been working on general education reform and is pushing a proposal which promises to substantially diminish the social sciences and could jeopardize my little program in anthropology. The proposal is promoted as going from an old style “distributive” model with numerous goals which are roughly identifiable with disciplines in which the social sciences are fairly well represented to a supposedly innovative “integrative learning” model. “Integrative learning” promotes courses which cross disciplines, but disciplines in the categories of math, science, language (Spanish, French, or German), and art are all requirements while the social sciences and everything else are all thrown into one or another of two “society” and “culture” requirements; faculty from any discipline can teach courses in any two requirement categories and count them both for general education and their own majors.

(I am leaving out another level in the modelwith similar problems where social science and art are thrown to-

gether and language and math/science get their own categories.) Unless I am wrong, what will inevitably happen is that math, science, language, and art (along with education and business) will offer crossdisciplinary courses which include history, society, and culture, leaving trained social scientists much less to do, essentially dismantling the social sciences: social scientists are unlikely to have the technical expertise to teach math and science courses (or Spanish/French/German) while the assumption seems to be that anyone can teach about society and culture/history regardless of their training. My politically paranoid self tells me that this is an extremist rightwing move to take the “liberal” out of liberal education. but here in outer Dallas, (Oakdale road) the quail are at the lowest I have ever seen them.

Part of this is the massive amount of blackberry clearing I have done, I am certain, but otherwise, I do not know. Usually they are heard across the road in several places as well, and we see them crossing all the time, but last summer was very quiet all over our local area. The one covey I did flush was much smaller than usual (maybe 6 birds as compared to usually some 2530.) I wonder if the ever increasing numbers of wild turkey (as well as feral housecats) are having impact on them and the pheasant we used to have as well. A prominent American art dealer has gone to court in a fight with a British collector -- reportedly representing the Qatari royal family -- over a Picasso sculpture valued at more than $100 million. The work, “Bust of a Woman (MarieTherese),” dated 1931, is currently on display at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York as part of the largest exhibit of sculpture by the Spanish master in 50 years. Larry Gagosian, who has worked with members of the Picasso family for years, is asking the federal court in Manhattan to reject the opposing side’s claim to the sculpture. He contends that he purchased it in May 2015 from the daughter of the artist, Maya Widmaier-Picasso, for $105.8 million, according to a legal action he filed in federal court, viewed Wednesday by AFP. The subject of the bust, Marie-Therese Walter, It wasnt just that they were taking on entrenched competitors such as CNN and Fox News with an unfamiliar, foreign

brand name. Insiders knew that it would take ample distribution, lots of promotion, and audience goodwill to establish a foothold. On Wednesday, Al Jazeera Americas owners acknowledged they had achieved none of those things. In an unexpected move that surprised even its journalists, the networks Qatar-based parent said it would pull the plug on April 30, shutting down the channel less than three years after it started. The public, selective, and strategic application of copyright infringement is a political tool. I learned that to preserve the collection some ‘guardians’ are inclined to struck ad-hoc deals with authors wishing to have their works taken down. It is a small sacrifice to preserve something of a greater value, _and_ making the right political point. Without knowing the circumstances I was wondering whether it would make sense to judge individual removal requests, such as this guy’s, in the light of the potential costs of noncompliance, and the potential loss of not having this particular piece. Obama said the U.S. is number one in the fight against climate change, when in reality the United States is by far the worst offender. President Barack Obama used his final State of the Union speech to claim that, “America is leading the fight against climate change,” while in reality the United States is far and away the worst offender, per capita, in the ongoing mad race to render the earth’s climate uninhabitable.

We “cut our imports of foreign oil,” Obama brags, as if earth cares what flag its pollution belches into the air under. “Gas under two bucks a gallon ain’t bad,” said the President, wildly missing the mark. Yes, it is bad, if you’re trying to preserve a livable planet, not just win cheap applause. Over the last few days, agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have been rounding up and deporting dozens of members of Central American families seeking refuge from extreme violence and dire economic conditions in their communities of origin. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has described the move as part of an effort to ‘secure’ the U.S. border and has announced that ‘additional enforcement operations such as these will continue to occur as appropriate.’ These raids are the latest chapter of what can only be described as a prolonged U.S. government war on migrant families, and specifically those coming from the most dangerous and economically deprived parts of Central America. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by Nestle, the world’s largest food maker, and two other companies to throw out a lawsuit seeking to hold them liable for the use of child slaves to harvest cocoa in Ivory Coast. The high court left in place a December 2014 ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Nestle, Archer-DanielsMidland Co and Cargill Inc filed by former victims of child slavery. The plaintiffs, who were originally from Mali, contend the companies aided and abetted human rights violations through their active involvement in purchasing cocoa from Ivory Coast. While aware of the child slavery problem, the companies offered financial and technical assistance to local farmers in a bid to guarantee the cheapest source of cocoa, the plaintiffs said. Solar is the energy employer of the future -- or at least that’s how the numbers look today. A new report on the state of the solar industry out Tuesday from