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- The overall impact from SUSPLAN is contribution to a substantially increased share of renewable energy sources (RES) in Europe at an acceptable level of cost, thereby increasing security of supply and competitiveness of RES industry. The main objective is to develop guidelines for more efficient integration of RES into future infrastructures as a support for decision makers at regional as well as PanEuropean level. The guidelines shall consist of strategies, recommendations, criteria and benchmarks for political, infrastructure and network decision makers and power distributors with a time perspective 20302050.

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Fernandez fans 14 in Marlins' first road win of '14
McGehee collects lone RBI; ace allows just three hits; Cishek seals it
ATLANTA -- The last time Jose Fernandez faced the Braves, benches cleared when he stood at the plate and admired his first career homer. In their first meeting since, there was plenty to admire about his performance on the mound.
Fernandez matched a career-high 14 strikeouts in eight scoreless innings of three-hit ball in Miami's 1-0 win over Atlanta on Tuesday night at Turner Field. The win snapped the Marlins' franchise-record streak of seven straight road losses to begin the season.
"I felt like Jose, early on in that game, he had it," Miami manager Mike Redmond said. "He had it going. You could see by their swings he was on tonight."
Marlins closer Steve Cishek finished the three-hit shutout with his 33rd straight save. Once two runners reached base in the bottom of the eighth and drove Fernandez's pitch count up to 109, going to Cishek in the ninth became an easy decision.
"After that runner got on base in the eighth, I knew that was going to be an easier decision," Redmond said. "But [Fernandez] pitched great, gave us exactly what we needed after a tough loss last night. In my mind, I was hoping he would give us eight innings. He did that."
Even Fernandez, who never wants to hand over the baseball, knew bringing in the red-hot Cishek was best for the club.
"In the heat of the moment I want to go out there," Fernandez said. "I think they saw something, so why not put our closer in the game? He's one of the best in the game."
Fernandez exited the game in the midst of an ongoing stretch that has seen him strike out at least one batter in 14 consecutive innings dating back to last Wednesday's start against the Nationals. The ace has fanned 24 batters and walked none during that stretch.
Although Fernandez's fastball touched 100 mph in the first inning, his curveball was the pitch that got results. It was the third strike for 11 of the 14 batters he fanned. According to FanGraphs, 141 of Fernandez's 220 career strikeouts entering Tuesday night's game ended with his curveball.
"It's a tremendous weapon for him," Redmond said. "I think it's one of those things where we've talked to him about not using it too much early on and making sure he comes out and uses his fastball to get ahead. But today he got a great fastball-hitting team. And it was a great matchup for him. He was able to throw his breaking ball on a lot of fastball counts and got a lot of swings on it and a lot of strikeouts."
Before the game, however, Fernandez had no idea his breaking ball would turn out to be so effective.
"My breaking ball in the bullpen was horrible, horrible," Fernandez said. "I thought, 'When they say play ball, hopefully it gets better.'"
While Fernandez was dealing, so was Braves starter Alex Wood, who has suffered back-to-back 1-0 losses. He took a hard-luck defeat opposite Fernandez's gem, giving up one run and fanning a career-high 11 in eight strong innings.
Fernandez, Wood, Cishek and David Carpenter struck out 28 and issued zero walks for the most combined strikeouts without a base on balls by two teams in a single game since 1900, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
"It was a lot of fun going out there and competing against a guy like Fernandez," Wood said. "He's got electric stuff as we saw tonight. It [stinks] being on the wrong end of it, but that's as fun as it gets for me."
"Wood pitched his tail off, man," said Casey McGehee, who plated the game's only run with an RBI single in the top of the fourth. "He had his changeup going. He didn't use his breaking ball a ton, but when he did, it was effective. He got us to chase some pitches out of the zone."
McGehee's single brought home Giancarlo Stanton, who reached base on a one-out double against Wood.
"The changeup I threw [Stanton], it was early in the count," Wood said. "Maybe the ball could have been down a little bit more, but it was still down. That ball is still two inches off the plate. For him to get that kind of wood on it and pull it down the line like that, you don't get any better than that from a hitting standpoint. You can't take it back, because it was a good pitch. He's just a heck of a hitter."
Miami's other two hits came from Fernandez and Christian Yelich, who extended his career-best hitting streak to 16 games with a bunt single in the first.
Hits clearly were at a premium for the Braves, who put only two runners in scoring position. One of them came on a balk by Fernandez in the fourth.
Jason Heyward, Chris Johnson and Andrelton Simmons can one day tell their grandchildren about the night they got a hit off Fernandez, who at one point struck out five consecutive batters and kept sluggers Justin Upton, Dan Uggla and Evan Gattis off the basepaths entirely with three strikeouts apiece.
The hits from Johnson and Simmons helped Atlanta generate an eighth-inning rally that ultimately fell short, as Fernandez retired pinch-hitter Ryan Doumit on a comebacker to the mound to end the Braves' lone legitimate offensive threat of the night.
"It was nice to get that knock -- anything off that guy," Johnson said. "Anything in play is good. It really is, all kidding aside. If you square a ball up against that guy, you go back to the dugout feeling cool."


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Kurien and Nataraj supported reservations-based-on-caste in principle while Anant expressed his anti-reservation stand. It was very interesting to listen to Kurien. I knew about him and now I got a chance to hear him speak his thoughts. I had read articles by Nataraj in THE HINDU. I had known about Anant in the entrepreneurial ci
My observations:
The questioning session was open to everyone and some asked very concerned questions about topics they were passionate about. However, some students reflected a certain sense of innate arrogance in their questions. It was unfortunate that Kurien was asked some questions in a rather demeaning manner. Please, don't misunderstand me here- I am not a supporter of sanctity, but people need to learn to respect other people how much ever they differ. A lady asked why we are bent on polluting esteemed institutions like IITs and IIMs. It is rather unfortunate that she should use words like 'pollute'. This is the exact mindset we are trying to fight in this country through imposition of reservations. And Anant went on to say that most of the schools in rural in
However, the way Kurien and Nataraj kept the audience interested was impressive. They were eminent speakers who spoke at lengths on our responsibility acknowledging inherent flaws in the system. Kurien gave statistics of Tamil Nadu Medical Entrance results to show how OBC/SC/STs are closing the gap with other upper castes. Abinandanan asked whether it is time to roll back some of the reservations in the state of Tamil Nadu. I think it is a very valid proposition.
Nataraj spent some time to dispel our notions of 'merit' and said that it has now become an 'ideology' that upper castes use to continue their monopoly. I am trying to find the quote that he used to define ideology (from Karl Mannheim) but I am unable to get the right quote.
Anant used
I strongly resent and contest using
First, 'Survival of the Fittest' is not the favored term by evolutionists and biologists. They prefer to use terms like natural selection or sexual selection. Humans do not necessarily apply natural selection in their day-to-day life. They take care of their weak instead of leaving them in nature to die. Second, it applies to biological situations and should not be used to explain sociological situations (unless it has a bearing). Third, it happens over millions of years and cannot be used in narrow scheme of things.
Mutations happen all the time, but very few mutations survive- only if they provide a new advantage without compromising all other millions of advantages accrued over millions of years. Such successful mutations happen at a snail-pace, happening over thousands or millions of years, and are transferred onto next generations.
Anant also justified how merit is important in a business organization. Otherwise standards will not be maintained in business, he maintains. I would like to look at some criterion for merit in industry because this is how we promote our people in business.
I have not been exhaustive in providing the list. It's a feeble attempt to capture some of the attributes of an engineer (only for this discussion) that make him successful in corporate world. A person is promoted based on some of the above attributes. This promotion has nothing to do with what he obtained in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry some years ago. Good scores in an entrance test like JEE or in B.Tech course does not necessarily guarantee that he will be a good engineer. In the same way, a poor B.Tech score or lower entrance score does not mean he will be a bad engineer. Industry provides with numerous examples on how scores do not matter. How do we measure accountability, responsibility and integrity? These values may never be measured in an entrance test. But these attributes do play a major role in the success of an engineer.
I request someone/anyone from the Indian industry to step up and enlighten me on the following because I belong to the same industry and for some reason I do not seem to understand their concept of merit.
Top IT companies of
Some have commented that 'natural selection', the term accepted by most biologists compared to the term 'survival of the fittest', works only at individual level, whereas I indicated in my blog above that it may also work at species level. Even the biologists are divided on this topic. Yes, the most popular unit of selection is individual, I stand corrected, but nevertheless the other units (like species) also have some following. What is agreed is that this 'natural selection' doesn't apply to our topic of discussion above, namely, merit.
Wikipedia has to say this:
A unit of selection is a biological entity within the hiera
Natural selection could be happening at different levels.


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Could Kim Kardashian be trading the red carpet for red tape?
If she's serious about plans to run for mayor of Glendale, Calif., then maybe.
"I decided I'm going to run for the mayor of Glendale," the reality star said to her little sis Khloe in an unaired clip from Sunday's episode of "Khloe and Lamar."
"I'm gonna be the mayor of Dallas, Mom said," Khloe replied, clearly nonplussed.
Undeterred, Kim continued — often interrupted by an apparently disinterested Khloe — to explain her plan for a mayoral campaign helmed by her friend Noelle:
"But so, for real: So Noelle is going to run my campaign, but it's going to be in, like, five years, for Glendale. So I have to buy a house there, you have to have residency there. So Noelle and I are like looking into all the requirements… and she's gonna help me with my campaign."
"That's so cool," said Khloe.
"'Cause it's, like, Armenian town," said Kim — whose family is of Armenian descent — of Glendale.
"That is fascinating, Kimberly. Fascinating," Khloe mockingly droned.
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Word to Congress: Before attacking Iraq, declare war
The talk in Congress this fall will all be about a potential war between the United States and Iraq. There will be the elevated discussions: Should the United States undertake this endeavor? When should Washington initiate hostilities? Will this turn into another Vietnam? Is war our only recourse? Can we win? Is this the right thing to do?
But there will be less-elevated discussions as well: How will a war play politically? What effect will it have on the 2004 presidential election? Is this the son making up for the omissions of the father?
If war it is to be, and the United States intends to initiate it, then it is incumbent upon the President and the Congress to follow constitutional procedures.
The President should request and Congress should consider nothing less than a formal declaration of war. Some vague, open-ended, ill-defined resolution will not suffice.
It's not as though the United States has always needed a formal declaration to undertake military operations. The country has found itself in situations of undeclared hostility almost from its founding. It fought undeclared wars with the Barbary pirates and revolutionary France even before the 18th century was out. Despite fighting more than 100 conflicts, the United States has formally declared war only five times. It has not done so since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
During the Cold War when destruction could descend from the heavens in an instant, and retaliation had to be launched within the hour the notion of formally declaring hostilities was widely viewed as belonging to an earlier pre-technological age along with letters of marque. The need to quickly apply counterforce to halt communist aggression made waiting for a declaration of war impossible.
However, the American experience in Vietnam gave rise to the War Powers Act of 1973. It requires congressional approval within 60 days for military action the President has already taken, and it has served in lieu of war declarations ever since. In effect, it allows the President to respond immediately but gives Congress a veto over extended involvement.
The Military Force Authorization Act (S.J. Res. 23), introduced as a simple resolution, gave the President the authority to pursue the September 11 criminals and those who sheltered them in Afghanistan and elsewhere. When President Bush demanded that Taliban-led Afghanistan give up Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda operatives, it was that resolution, rather than a formal declaration, that paved the way for U.S. military operations. Although some members, notably Rep. Bob Barr (R-GA), called for a formal declaration of war against terrorism, the questions raised by a war against an "ism" could not be met through legislation.
But with Iraq we're talking about a war against a nation-state. And since we're the ones initiating the overt hostilities justified though they may be it behooves us to have a full debate and a formal declaration of war by Congress, as provided for in the Constitution. If the President can't convince Congress to make such a declaration, then perhaps the United States shouldn't go to war it's that simple.
However, if Congress agrees that war against Iraq is necessary and passes a declaration of war, the country would go into the conflict united, and the military effort would have been thoroughly debated and given legitimacy. This would be especially important for a President whose own electoral victory raised questions of legitimacy.
There are other advantages. In every war America has fought, the President has needed to assume sweeping powers. In a formal state of war, the President can properly dictate the nation's industrial production, restrict civil liberties, and take a variety of emergency measures to ensure victory.
A well-debated and well-crafted declaration of war can also limit presidential powers by establishing a time frame for his war powers and by setting out specific war aims. In that way it can act as a check on the President's emergency powers.
War is the single most dangerous and risky endeavor on which a nation can embark. Terrorists have declared war on us, and we have struck back. A war against Iraq would be one more battle within that larger war. But the nature of the conflict, the potential consequences, and the fact that this would be the opening of a new front against a sovereign nation demands that the Constitution be scrupulously observed.
And one more thing: Saddam Hussein must be destroyed.
The author is the managing editor of The Hill. a non-partisan, non-ideological weekly newspaper that describes the inner workings of Congress.


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Californians will get their first look Thursday at the health plans to be offered through the state's new insurance exchange and how much that coverage will cost them.
Covered California, the state agency running California's health insurance marketplace, is scheduled to announce the plans and prices that will be offered by private insurers when the exchange begins enrolling customers in October. Coverage begins Jan. 1, the same time virtually everyone in the country will be required to have health insurance or pay a penalty.
The goal of the exchange is to offer individuals and small businesses a choice of private insurance plans similar to what workers at large companies already receive. While low-income people will be referred to public safety-net programs, the federal government will offer subsidies to help some middle-income households pay their insurance premiums.
An estimated 5.3 million Californians will be able purchase insurance through Covered California. Of that, some 2.6 million will qualify for federal assistance.
Thursday's announcement marks the first time Californians will get a clear picture of the health plans and prices offered under the new health care rules in President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act.
People will be able to enroll through the website, but counselors also will be available at call centers to help them find a health plan or determine their eligibility for subsidies and tax credits.
The state is offering translation to Spanish and other languages to help people compare and choose a health plan that works best for their health needs and budget. Covered California announced recently that dozens of community groups have been awarded a total of $37 million in grants to help educate and reach out to residents.
State officials said there was high interest from insurance companies because of the number of uninsured residents in California. Some plans submitted bids to provide coverage statewide while others proposed to sell insurance only in certain regions of the state.
Officials running the state's exchange divided California into 19 regions for rate-setting purposes, meaning geography will play a key role in how rates vary throughout the state. Aside from where a person lives, insurers are limited in their ability to charge consumers different prices for health care.
That is in part because California rejected an option under the federal law that allows companies to charge smokers up to 50 percent more for their premiums. Additionally, insurance companies are required to accept all applicants regardless of their medical histories and cannot charge older customers more than three times what younger customers pay.
Under the federal law, insurers are required to offer comprehensive benefits such as emergency services and maternity care. California was one of the few states that required participating insurers to follow a uniform benefits structure so consumers would have an easier time choosing between plans.
Earlier this year, Covered California announced standard benefits that people can expect to receive under the Affordable Care Act. It was designed to help consumers comparison shop between insurance plans by letting them see their out-of-pocket costs on common medical services such as doctor's office visits, hospital stays and prescription drugs.
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Many thanks to all of you who have read, followed, commented, shared, promoted and otherwise supported the blog during the previous year, most especially to my beloved band of Patrons. i'm starting 2019 in the usual way, with a new mixtape featuring something from each of the brilliant albums in my Best of 2018 list. Being such an eclectic list, the 'narrative' of this mixtape is one that unavoidably veers between quite wildly dissimilar styles and aesthetics, but to my ear that only makes it all the more interesting and fun.
40 tracks (well, technically 41: Jóhann Jóhannsson's were short so i included two) that testify to and celebrate the range and scale of musical wonders created during 2018 – the full tracklisting is shown below, and links to buy each album can be found in the previous two days' articles. As always, the mixtape can be downloaded or streamed. Read more


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Im a beginner. This has been my second year raising queens my third year keeping honey bees. So I am in no way pretending to be any kind of an expert. But Joseph Clemens has generously agreed for me to share some of my experiences using his method of queen rearing.
For anyone who is interested this thread starter is based on a broader post about my experiences as a beginner at queen rearing.
The Joseph Clemens Starter/Finisher System
The system that Ive been using is what I call the Joseph Clemens System because that is where I heard about it from, and because Joseph Clemens has proven that it works by producing very large, high quality cells and queens using this system. I have found that it is very well suited for me to produce a fair number of queens while learning skills that can be scaled up to higher production later if desired. Its fun, affordable, and you can use it even if you only have a few hives.
This system uses a queenless five frame nucleus with 4 medium frames of bees and a cell bar as a combined Starter/Finisher and produces 10-20 cells (more or less) at a time and it can be used all season without having to be rebuilt. As you can imagine this is much more manageable for hobbyists than the way the commercial guys do it.
You can use this system over and over throughout the season without having to repopulate the starter/finisher hives, and you can use it just about any time that you want without having to do a lot of prep work once you get it going . This system also avoids the problem of having to manage a cell builder hive that is on the verge of swarming by being Queenless no matter how strong it is, a hive wont swarm without a queen. When I first read about it, I thought that it sounded like such a hive would develop laying workers or some other problem because of being queenless for an indefinite time. But, because you give it fresh brood about once a week none of those problems crop up it just gets really strong and stays that way all season long. It really does.
One of my best batch of cells using this method. Im still learning, but next year these will be my regular sized cells instead of just the best ones. I hope.
This is the setup I started the season with the top box houses a quart jar feeder. Before long I realized that the small entrance (with a piece of excluder over it) through the slatted rack was too small for such a populous hive, and that the ventilation was not adequate.
So, I changed to this setup from the bottom Screened bottom board, queen excluder, 5 frame medium hive body plus the same inner cover, feed shim, and tele cover as in the previous picture.
Setting up the Cell Builder Hive
The two outer frames are capped/emerging brood, the next two contain stores honey and pollen, maybe some empty space for them to draw comb and store incoming food. The center position is where you will be putting your cell bar after you graft.
You want this hive to be very populous, so shake in lots of nurse bees. After the initial setup the cell builder will stay strong even get stronger from the frames of brood that you swap in every week.
Once a week (more or less) when you are working your other hives swap in a fresh frame of capped/emerging brood. The open brood on those frames along with the grafts and other open brood that you add to the cell builder keep it strong and stable. When you swap in new brood, you also have to check for queen cells in the starter/finisher, and on any frames that you take out you will find wild cells pretty much every time. But since its only a 5 frame hive, and it doesnt have a queen you can shake the bees off, and thoroughly inspect every frame in just a few minutes. Usually there is no need to even look at every frame 2 of them will be pollen/honey, and one will be the cell bar. Its pretty quick and easy maintenance, but it does have to be done at least once a week while the hive is being used.
How I (and you can ) Finally produce Big Cells
I tried fruitlessly almost all of this year to produce big cells like Josephs. I packed my cell builder with bees which I fed copiously, I tried double grafting, priming with royal jelly, placing fewer grafts but no matter how hard I tried my best cells were OK at best (did get some nice queens though) until I found this tip by Ray Marler: 4 days before you graft put a frame of hatching eggs/young open larva in the cell builder. That will insure that your nurse bees get into feeding mode by the time you add your grafts. My experience is that if I skip this step I get much smaller cells. Joseph Clemens produces nice big cells without this step, I think because he is continuously using his cell builder so the bees stay in feeding/nurse bee mode while I was only adding grafts to my cell builder every week or two.
When you swap in the cell bar with grafts on it there will almost certainly be queen cells started on the primer frame of open brood - At that time also check the other frames for queen cells. If you ever let one emerge it will ruin any cells that are currently in the hive and you might have a hard time finding a virgin lose in such a crowded hive.
I feed my cell builder hive continuously 1 to 1 sugar syrup from an inverted quart jar, and under the jar lid
Pollen substitute. I just spoon it in through the hole, and cover it with the jar lid. This is 8% protein mega bee mix with enough syrup to make a paste that is thick enough to not fall through the frames. The bees love it.
I hope this is helpful to anyone thinking about trying queen rearing.


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Tuesday grains had a large setback as traders liquidate positions ahead of the March Supply and Demand report. The old crop contracts had the largest drops with May corn losing 12 cents, May beans down 13 cents, and May wheat down 21 cents. This is especially significant for wheat given the May-Dec Chicago spreads are hitting new lows at 86 ¼ cents under.
The USDA did announce the sale of 300,000 MTs of hard red wheat to Iraq for 10-11 delivery. Despite this sale announcement wheat was the downside leader today.
The January and February USDA S&D reports have both been rather significant market movers. The February report showed another decrease in expected corn carryout from an increase in bu for used for ethanol. The February report also kept the expected soybean carryout unchanged at 140 million bu. For Thursday analysts guesses are averaging 141 million for beans, with the high end of the range at 181 million.
We could see changes in US numbers from the demand side of the equation, but surprises (market movers) could more likely be attributed to changes in South American production. Everyone is still wondering what they will write down for Argentine and Brazilian corn/bean production. Currently the market is expecting an increase in production from Brazil and may have been part of the reason for the recent resistance. If we do see large production numbers confirmed out of South America this should take some pressure off the US acreage battle. For now traders still have plenty of uncertainty premium built into this market and we like to secure these prices for guaranteed bu.
From a technical standpoint, the longer term moving averages are still well below the market. First retracement for New Crop Corn is at $5.31 (see chart). If the technicals start to turn bearish, we could see fund liquidation. Comparatively the market has plenty of room to move if we get a bearish report or something to trigger long liquidation.
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KABUL (Reuters) - When a Taliban suicide bomber killed two people on the edge of the Afghan capital this month, there was another casualty - a global fruit juice business optimistically called "Spring Wish" which provided work for thousands of farmers across the country.
Mustafa Sadiq's empire had been expanding healthily, bringing in badly needed foreign capital, before the attack inflicted the kind of financial loss cash-strapped Afghanistan can ill afford.
The pomegranate juice business was nearly wiped out in the split second it took the militant to detonate explosives in a truck parked near the factory on December 17.
Pieces of shredded metal were scattered everywhere. Chairs were hurled across the office where Sadiq had spent so much time figuring out how to beat the odds against decades of war, instability and hopelessness.
Sadiq was in Dubai drumming up new export deals when an assistant called with the bad news. The call that Sadiq said he did not get is also troubling him.
"So far no officials, for the sake of sympathy, have called us," Sadiq, 40, told Reuters, standing beside a year's supply of juice in containers that were ruined in the attack - nearly $10 million in losses overall.
"In this situation they should have called me and asked what kind of help they could provide. The agriculture, finance, commerce ministries. Nobody so far has visited or called."
The impact of the war, and expectations for the future, are often seen only through the eyes of Western or Afghan soldiers, or officials who point to the progress that has been made.
Sadiq offers another perspective. Some workers told him the bomber triggered the loudest blast they had heard in 30 years.
A Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 was followed by a decade of resistance by mujahideen fighters who drove them out. Then warlords carved out fiefdoms and destroyed half of the capital in the civil war that followed.
The Taliban took over, were toppled in 2001 and are now raising fears they may return when U.S.-led NATO troops hand over security to Afghan forces in 2014.
But Sadiq does not see the Taliban as the biggest threat to Afghanistan's future. Instead, he says, officials have turned politics into a commercial enterprise driven by corruption.
"Government employees think it's time to fill their pockets and grab whatever they can. That will pave the way for civil war," said Sadiq, as workers feverishly loaded boxes of the little fruit juice left onto a truck, and others worked to rebuild a brick wall.
"You have to struggle, not run away. It is kind of like running away now. They have walls around themselves sitting there and they do not have contact with ordinary Afghans."
His disillusionment is shared by the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce and Industries.
"There is no guarantee for investment in Afghanistan. People are afraid of the government, there is no rule of law. Government officials can do anything they want," the chamber's first vice-chairman, Jan Alokzai, told Reuters.
"President (Hamid) Karzai's words are only on paper and don't have any value."
Afghanistan's U.S.-backed government says it is committed to building up the economy, attracting foreign investment and helping Afghans secure a brighter future. Karzai says it is contracts with foreigners that spread graft.
The government has highlighted 2014 as a year to invest in Afghanistan, which relies heavily on foreign aid, and to take advantage of its cheap labor and land leases.
In each of the 10 years following 2014, the government hopes revenues from oil, natural gas, iron, copper and other mining ventures will generate $4 billion in revenue.
Sadiq spent time in Europe, waiting for an opportunity to return and invest in his homeland. He eventually opened a factory in an industrial park along Kabul's dusty Jalalabad Road in 2008, from where he broke into overseas markets.
Spring Wish, which employed about 1,000 people, was selling produce to the health conscious in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, bringing money into Afghanistan, while anxious Afghans carted $4.5 billion in cash out of the country last year to safety.
But when asked about the maps on a wall identifying parts of Afghanistan which offer opportunities for farmers and businesses like his, Sadiq could only put his head in his hands and cry.
The dark red seeds from Sadiq's fruits were prized in Europe for their antioxidant qualities, and in Japan where many believe they can help fight cancers. He seems most proud of the fact that he helped 40,000 farmers across Afghanistan earn a living.
As Sadiq tries to persuade his staff to keep dreaming big and to rebuild, one question may haunt him for some time. The suicide bomber parked his truck in a lane between his company and a foreign firm.
The Taliban said it attacked an American company next door, but he still wonders whether his factory, which relied on Italian machinery and benefited from U.S. aid programs, was the target. And he acknowledges he is desperate for money from Western donors.
"Around 120 people were working here and this factory was totally destroyed in the suicide attack," said Mohammed Jaw, 28, a general operator for the company. "A number of our workers will lose their jobs and now everyone is concerned about what happens next."
Despite the loss, Sadiq's entrepreneurial and marketing spirit seems intact.
"Have you tried the juice with mulberry flavor?" he asked proudly. "It's really good."
Then a worker brought the moment back to reality. He lifted his cellphone to show a photograph of the suicide bomber's severed head.
(Additional reporting by Mirwais Harooni; Editing by Nick Macfie)
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October is National Rhubarb Month
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I bet you are asking, 'why October?' I am not quite sure. This doesn't quite make sense because rhubarb is very strongly associated with spring in the northern United States. In October it is just starting to go dormant with the first few frosts. If we were in the Southern hemisphere, however, we would just be starting to harvest the stalks this month. Maybe we celebrate rhubarb in October just so we have it in our thoughts year-round and can be jealous of those on the other side of the world enjoying its delicious sweet-tart taste now when we have to wait another six months for it.
Rhubarb (Rheum rhabarbarum, Rheum x hybridum) is a cool season, perennial vegetable with long leaf stalks, or petioles, that hold large, triangular leaves. We eat the red, fleshy stalks of the plant that are quite tart when not cooked. In the culinary world it is considered a fruit because it is often sweetened and used with other fruit in desserts and baked goods, hence its nickname of 'pie plant'. Rhubarb pairs perfectly with strawberries because of the flavor and the shared early growing season.
Keep rhubarb on your mind until next spring when you can plant crowns or divisions to grow your own and use some in your favorite recipe or stick with the traditional favorite and celebrate National Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie Day on June 9th. If you are going to try to grow rhubarb yourself make sure you give it a nice spot where it can live for up to twenty years without being disturbed. To see some plants in person come check out the Victory Garden at the Museum of American History!
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Yo, this is Sage representin Secret Service, yo
Welcome to my world kid I've been waitin for a long time
You come with memories and leave with a free will and a strong mind
It's all fine I hope your girl came prepared
My facial hair is like a web I'm catchin knowledge in my beard
Not much is kept though, I let go into the dying hunger
I'm catching teardrops on my tongue from the crying thunder
Why am I younger than you thought I was? be patient
Soon enough you'll see through my physical into a soul that's ancient
My mental age exceeds my chronological it seems illogical
Full comprehension remains marginal
Fully phenomenal wait forever for invasion
Time, it ain't nothin but an unsolved equation
My mind is a prefound universe filled with curse words
My rhyme is a release of peace thought as I disperse verbs
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Infinity continues, the life force curls fate
The energy drains from the power surges, devoured the urges
The fear is primal when the final hour emerges
Procrastinate and wait until the last minute
My ass is in it, to win, for an infinite
Number of light years as I fight fears that I felt
Since time began let my mind expand with no help
Trying to make the clock draw blood while I be spilling mine
Putting a chill in my spine, ready and willing I'm
Killing Time
Couldn't be no iller crime
Trying to make the clock draw blood while I be spilling mine
Killing Time
Before I reach my prime
Killing time, Killing time
I grab ahold of the hour hand that's got too much power man
Devouring my hopes every now and then
I try to break it down again Go from plan A through Z
Smoothly my mission turns into a murder mystery movie
Move me into a better rap protection witness program
Don't understand Time is no time to have fear for no man
Your whole clan could hold scams I got schemes that ain't been tried before
That's what you're dying for I'm hiding from the law
Ducking cops, aimlessly bucking shots
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My excalibur is getting cold and rusty can't get a soul to trust me
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Put up fights throw fisticuffs and thrust strikes
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Remove your lips from the bottle and your hammer from the glock
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Killing Time I'm killing killing time
Trying to make the clock draw blood while I be spilling mine
I'm Killing Time
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Susan J. Douglas is a professor of communications at the University of Michigan and a senior editor at In These Times. Her forthcoming book is In Our Prime: How Older Women Are Reinventing the Road Ahead..
Senior Editor Susan Douglas writes frequently on gender issues, media criticism and national politics.
Douglas is the Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan and is also chair of the department. She is author of Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message That Feminism's Work is Done (2010),The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How it Undermines Women (with Meredith Michaels, The Free Press, 2004); Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination (Times Books, 1999), which won the Hacker Prize in 2000 for the best popular book about technology and culture; Where The Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media (Times Books, 1994; Penguin, 1995) and Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922 (Johns Hopkins, 1987).
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NSW relaxes kangaroo culling red tape
The NSW government has cut red tape and given more power to our drought-stricken farmers to help manage the damage caused by kangaroos.
As part of the NSW Drought Strategy, the new approach will allow farmers to apply for licences over the phone or via email, to cull kangaroos, and more shooters will be able to operate on a property under the same licence.
READ MORE: Drought bites 100 per cent of NSW
Under the new system, carcasses will no longer need to be tagged and left in the paddock, and landholders will be able to use the carcass for a range of non-commercial purposes such as bait meat. There will also be increased limits on the number of kangaroos that may be culled, based on property size. Previous and current licence holders can apply for licences over the phone.
Bective farmer Lachlan Ennis said many people don't realise how much of an impact kangaroos can have on a property.
"Just after the rain, you'll find bits of green pick shooting up, and the roos get in there and eat it all before it's big enough for cattle or sheep to eat it," Mr Ennis said.
"Some properties have got a massive number of roos, and you see a lot more of them in drought. They're out and about looking for food and water.
"Making these licences easier to access will definitely encourage more people to investigate them."
Primary Industries Minister Niall Blair said the would maintain animal welfare standards and ecologically sustainable kangaroo populations.
"If we don't manage this situation we will start to see tens of thousands of kangaroos starving and suffering ultimately leading to a major animal welfare crisis," Mr Blair said.
"Kangaroos around local food and water sources are putting significant pressure on farms – we must start to turn that around as soon as possible.
"Many farmers are taking livestock off their paddocks, only to then see kangaroos move in and take whatever is left."


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As previously explained, STAX team up with the scientists at IRT(Institut fur Rundfunktechnik) to further enhance the sound quality of their products. And the ultimate result is ED-1, a diffuse-field simulator for SR-Λ Pro headphone released in 1988.
In addition, in order to accommodate professional needs of researchers and audiology experts, STAX release SRM-Monitor at ¥140,000, which is exactly twice the price of its equalizer counterpart. SRM-Monitor is an all-in-one package featuring a full-sized amplifier with a balanced XLR input, an unbalanced RCA input, a RCA loop output, a normal(230V) bias headphone out, dual pro(580V) bias headphone outs, and of course, a diffuse-field equalizer.
Frequency response & Phase (Line in - Line out)
Just like ED-1, SRM Monitor does exactly what it is supposed to do. The slight roll-off observed in the sub-bass is simply due to the behavior of SRM-Monitor's RCA lineout. Such linear characteristic can not be seen when the pro & normal headphone out terminals are used.
Time Domain (Line in - Line out)
Just like ED-1, the equalizer function of SRM-Monitor flips the absolute polarity of the signal upside down.
Distortion (Line in - Line out)
SMPTE IMD(60Hz, 7kHz / 1:4): 0.0006% (relative)
EQ on
Surprisingly, distortion is quite high when equalizer is turned on. However, the result is most likely due to the RCA lineout's behavior and doesn't have much to do with the amplifier's internal configuration, as the headphone out doesn't exhibit such non-linear characteristic.
With STAX SR-003 mkI (Line in - Pro bias headphone out)
Equalization works just like ED-1, not to mention its inverted polarity.
With STAX SR-Λ Pro (Line in - Pro bias headphone out)
In conclusion
STAX SRM-Monitor possesses the same virtue as ED-1, which involves with glorious efforts from different countries joined only for the sake of investigating good sound by means of scientific approach. And due to its number of extra features and additional connectivity, the amplifier is something much more than just an equalizer.
As recent studies focused in the relationship between data and subjective assessment of headphones show that an accurate diffuse-field equalization is not the answer, hopefully STAX come up with a product as versatile as SRM-Monitor someday equipped with their own reference target. Although the days of accurate diffuse-field equalization seem to be diminishing, if not already long gone, the very fact that SRM-Monitor and ED-1 still prove to be extremely useful even today brings the very idea of reference-oriented external equalization and its practical benefit to light once again.
G. Theile, "The Importance of Diffuse-field Equalization for Stereophonic Recording and Reproduction," 13. Tonmeistertagung München, 1984.
STAX. Fifty Years of Excellence. 940 East Dominguez St., Carson, CA 90746: STAX, 1988. Print.


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Thanks for the encouraging words Friday, y'all. Couple that with a productive (and celebratory) weekend and I feel like I'm getting my head back on straight!
I had Friday off from work and it was nice to just get some stuff done around the house and then officially start the weekend. Sarah and I enjoyed a little Happy Hour action over at de Vere's Irish Pub. I like the vibe there and their fried pickles are always on point. We had closed out our tab when we overheard the bartender mention that the tacos of the day were Pork Belly. You know that is the secret password around here, right? OBVIOUSLY we had to immediately open a tab back up and order some. In the end, we were both convinced that those tacos were chicken, which was quite a sad situation for a pork belly enthusiast like myself, but the company and the libations were fantastic! And I guess I should have gone in with low expectations — I mean, tacos at an Irish bar?
The Black and Tans, on the other hand, were FABULOUS.
Saturday was a big day as wedding bells were ringing for my cousin Jim and his fiance Gina. Garrett, my mom and I packed up early and headed out for a day in Sonoma to watch them get hitched over at the Jack London Lodge. If you have been around here long, you know trips to Sonoma involve some customary food-related Traditions:
Glarifees at Swisshotel and Sandwiches and the Cheese Factory
(I explain the Glarifee here. Definitely worth a try if you are in the area!)
After that little indulgence, we headed over to the wedding which was, in a word: emotional. I am a crazy wedding cryer. I can be completely composed before the wedding but the second it starts it's just WATERWORKS! I am surprised I don't look like a raccoon in every photography I am in. I was so proud of my cousin Jim standing up there with his lovely bride and their ceremony and vows were personal and beautiful and you just couldn't help but feel the love!
At the reception, my 10 year old cousin Olivia gave us a lesson in how to be fierce and my 2 year old cousin Chelsea schooled ALL OF US on the dance floor! Oh also, there were Samoa flavored cupcakes. No one can resist those! It was coconut cake FILLED with chocolate. Aaaaaah, delicious! A good time was had and memories were made, and that was just what I needed on Saturday.
Sunday I woke up and felt determined to get things back on track! My mom and I hit up the Farmers Market, I cooked some breakfast, prepped for the week and ran out to the garden to pick some zucchini.
Guess I negelected them for a a day or two. YIKES! Regardless, after a month of boozing it up and enjoy some crap food liberally, I'm ready to get things back on track. My fridge is stocked with healthy food and even though I have no idea What's For Dinner beyond tonight (Uh, I was serious about Zucchini Boats), I'm getting there.
It's a new week, a new month and I woke up this morning and consciously put on a new attitude. I'm ready to see how this all unfolds.


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Wednesday, Dec 18, 2013, 12:20 pm · By Kari Lydersen
In Honduras, Resistance Against Ruling Party Continues Despite Peril
Honduras has been named one of the most dangerous countries for journalists. In the last four years, at least 15 have been assassinated, with the murders widely attributed to the nation's environment of political strife, repression, drug trafficking and corruption. And since Juan Orlando Hernández of the conservative National Party won the now-contested November 24 presidential election, many journalists say they've faced even more hazards.
Edgardo Castro, an outspoken TV and radio reporter with the major media company Globo, told In These Times that when he returns to Honduras from a trip to Chicago to talk with supporters and escape the immediate risk of violence post-election, he will be "in danger everywhere, all the time." In November, Castro was also elected to Congress as a representative of the opposition LIBRE party, which formed after the 2009 coup that removed then-President Manuel Zelaya from power.
Like many LIBRE politicians and advocates, Castro has been receiving an increasing number of death threats in the last few weeks. The evening before the election, two leaders of a rural farmers' group, who were also LIBRE members, were murdered after leaving a poll-watcher training. A week later, high-profile LIBRE activist José Antonio Ardon was kidnapped and then found dead. And on December 7, Castro's Globo colleague Juan Carlos Argeñal Medina—a LIBRE supporter—was murdered in his home.
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Tuesday, Dec 17, 2013, 2:21 pm · By Stephen Zunes
The Truth About Nonviolent Movements
Journalists Carl Gibson and Steve Horn have done an important service with their article outlining Serbian activist Srdja Popovic's inexcusable collaboration with the global intelligence company STRATFOR, and his role in disclosing the activities of movements and activists with whom he has worked. Unfortunately, the article falls into a rather simplistic and reductionist analysis of Popovic's motivations and, more critically, misrepresents the nature of the popular uprisings in Serbia and other countries. The article also contains a number of factual errors and misleading statements.
Even prior to the recent revelations, Popovic's activities were being increasingly recognized as problematic within the network of proponents of strategic nonviolent action, including many of us who had worked with him in the past. (Between 2006 and 2008, Popovic and I collaborated on a number of workshops together and he hosted me when I served as guest lecturer for the Political Science faculty at the University of Belgrade.) Among other things, Popovic has received criticism for grossly overstating the role he and CANVAS have played in supporting various popular struggles, which many in the Western media were eager to exaggerate as well. This, unfortunately, fell right into the hands of autocratic regimes and their apologists which have tried to deny that popular protests against them were based on legitimate grievances, instead labeling them the work of "outside agitators." Meanwhile, in an apparent effort to distract attention from their support for various dictatorships and occupation armies, some Western governments would also exaggerate the significance of their limited support for some of CANVAS's work and other opposition activities against autocratic regimes they didn't like. Ironically, Gibson and Horn's article naïvely bought into this very narrative of exaggerating the impact of Popovic and CANVAS.
A more serious problem with Gibson and Horn's article, however, is its misleading and inaccurate portrayal of nonviolent movements—both Otpor! and other democratic movements worldwide. Ironically, Gibson and Horn take a page from STRATFOR in overestimating the power of outside forces and underestimating the power of popular domestic uprisings, the only real lever for democratic change.
Monday, Dec 2, 2013, 2:14 pm · By Carl Gibson and Steve Horn
Wikileaks Docs Expose Famed Serbian Activist's Ties to 'Shadow CIA'
Lesser known, an exclusive Occupy.com investigation reveals that Popovic and the Otpor! offshoot CANVAS (Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies) have also maintained close ties with a Goldman Sachs executive and the private intelligence firmStratfor (Strategic Forecasting, Inc.), as well as the U.S. government. Popovic's wife also worked at Stratfor for a year.
These revelations come in the aftermath of thousands of new emails released by Wikileaks' "Global Intelligence Files." The emails reveal Popovic worked closely with Stratfor, an Austin, Texas-based private firm that gathers intelligence on geopolitical events and activists forclients ranging from the American Petroleum Institute and Archer Daniels Midland to Dow Chemical, Duke Energy, Northrop Grumman, Intel and Coca-Cola.
Referred to in emails under the moniker "SR501," Popovic was first approached by Stratfor in 2007 to give a lecture in the firm's office about events transpiring in Eastern Europe, according to a Stratfor source who asked to remain confidential for this story.
In one of the emails, Popovic forwarded information about activists harmed or killed by the U.S.-armed Bahraini government, obtained from the Bahrain Center for Human Rights during the regime's crackdown on pro-democracy activists in fall 2011. Popovic also penned a blueprint for Stratfor on how to unseat the now-deceased Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez in September 2010.
Serbia's Srdja Popovic is known by many as a leading architect of regime changes in Eastern Europe and elsewhere since the late-1990s, and as one of the co-founders of Otpor!, the U.S.-funded Serbian activist group which overthrew Slobodan Milošević in 2000.
Lesser known, an exclusive Occupy.com investigation reveals that Popovic and the Otpor! offshoot CANVAS (Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies) have also maintained close ties with a Goldman Sachs executive and the private intelligence firm Stratfor (Strategic Forecasting, Inc.), as well as the U.S. government. Popovic's wife also worked at Stratfor for a year.
These revelations come in the aftermath of thousands of new emails released by Wikileaks' "Global Intelligence Files." The emails reveal Popovic worked closely with Stratfor, an Austin, Texas-based private firm that gathers intelligence on geopolitical events and activists forclients ranging from the American Petroleum Institute and Archer Daniels Midland to Dow Chemical, Duke Energy, Northrop Grumman, Intel and Coca-Cola.
Referred to in emails under the moniker "SR501," Popovic was first approached by Stratfor in 2007 to give a lecture in the firm's office about events transpiring in Eastern Europe, according to a Stratfor source who asked to remain confidential for this story.
In one of the emails, Popovic forwarded information about activists harmed or killed by the U.S.-armed Bahraini government, obtained from the Bahrain Center for Human Rights during the regime's crackdown on pro-democracy activists in fall 2011. Popovic also penned a blueprint for Stratfor on how to unseat the now-deceased Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez in September 2010.
Stratfor's Global Activist Connector
Using his celebrated activist status, Popovic opened many doors for Stratfor to meet with activists globally. In turn, the information Stratfor intended to gain from Popovic's contacts would serve as "actionable intelligence"—the firm billed itself as a "Shadow CIA"—for its corporate clients.
Popovic passed information to Stratfor about on-the-ground activist events in countries around the world, ranging from the Philippines, Libya, Tunisia, Vietnam, Iran, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Tibet, Zimbabwe, Poland and Belarus, Georgia, Bahrain, Venezuela and Malaysia. Often, the emails reveal, Popovic passed on the information to Stratfor without the consent of the activists and likely without the activists ever knowing that their emails were being shuttled to the private security firm.
In the U.S., this investigation's co-author, Carl Gibson (representing US Uncut), and the Yes Men's Andy Bichlbaum had a meeting with Popovic shortly after their two respective groups used a media hoax to play a prank on General Electric, ridiculing the company over its non-payment of U.S. taxes.
The pair gave Popovic information about both groups' plans for the coming year and news later came out that Stratfor closely monitored the Yes Men's activities.
During the Arab Spring, in Egypt in January 2011, Popovic received an interview invitation for an appearance on CNN. The first people he turned to for talking points were Stratfor employees, who provided him with five talking points to lead with.
Stratfor said Popovic's main use for the firm was his vast array of grassroots activist contacts around the world.
"A little reminder that the main utility in this contact is his ability to connect us to the troublemakers around the world that he is in touch with. His own ability to discern situation on the ground may be limited, he mainly has initial contact with an asset and then lets them do their own thing," reads a May 2010 email written by former Stratfor Eurasia Analyst Marko Papic. "He does himself have information that may be useful from time to time. But, the idea is to gather a network of contacts through CANVAS, contacts that we can then contact independently."
Popovic was so well-received by Stratfor that he even got his wife, Marijah, a job there. She worked for a year from March 2010 through March 2011 as the weekend open source intelligence analyst at Stratfor. The other candidate for the job, Jelena Tancic, also worked for CANVAS.
"The Canvas guy [Popovic] is a friend/source [for Stratfor], and recommended her to us," Stratfor's Vice President of Analysis Scott Stewart said in a March 2010 email, leaving out that the two were dating at the time.
Popovic and his wife grew so close to Stratfor, in fact, that Popovic invited numerous members of the Stratfor staff to their wedding in Belgrade, Serbia.
Helping Stratfor Manufacture Revolutions
Stratfor saw Popovic's main value not only as a source for intelligence on global revolutionary and activist movements, but also as someone who, if needed, could help overthrow leaders of countries hostile to U.S. geopolitical and financial interests. So useful was Popovic to Stratfor that the firm gave him a free subscription, dubbed "legit sources we use all the time as a company" by Papic.
In a June 2011 email, Papic referred to Popovic as a "great friend" of his and described him as a "Serb activist who travels the world fomenting revolution."
"They ... basically go around the world trying to topple dictators and autocratic governments (ones that U.S. does not like ;)," Papic says in one email. Replying to a follow up to that email, he states, "They just go and set up shop in a country and try to bring the government down. When used properly, more powerful than an aircraft carrier battle group."
In response to the "aircraft battle group" email, Stratfor Vice President of Intelligence Fred Burton sardonically said that perhaps they could be sent into Iran. Emails also reveal Popovic served as an information source intermediary for on-the-ground activists in Iran, also informing Stratfor of the funding struggle for "democracy programs" there, as the U.S. government pushed a "soft power" agenda.
Another March 2010 email from Stewart to Burton said that CANVAS was "trying to get rid of Chavez," referring to the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. In 2007, CANVAS trained activists to overthrow Chavez.
"If I remember correctly, we use hushmail communication to contact him regarding Venezuela due to the sensitivity of using a revolutionary NGO as a source considering we have clients who operate in country," Papic said in a January 2011 email of Popovic.
Stratfor grew so enamored of CANVAS's ability to foment regime change abroad that it invited Popovic to its Austin headquarters in 2010 to give seminars on the subject, and paid for his trip there.
CANVAS's Goldman Sachs Cash
One of CANVAS's major allies is Muneer Satter, a former Goldman Sachs executive who stepped down from that position in June 2012 and now owns Satter Investment Management LLC. Stratfor CEO Shea Morenz worked for ten years at Goldman Sachs as well, where he served as Managing Director in the Investment Management Division and Region Head for Private Wealth Management for the Southwest Region.
Satter is meanwhile a major funder of the Republican Party, giving over $300,000 to Karl Rove's Super PAC Crossroads GPS before the 2012 election, and another $100,000 to the Republican Governors Association in the first half of 2013 prior to the 2014 mid-term elections.
Living in a massive, $9.5 million mansion in Chicago's North Shore suburb of Lake Michigan, Muneer also gave $50,000 toward President Obama's inaugural fund in 2009.
When it came time to connect Muneer with the global intelligence firm, Popovic served as the middle man introducing Satter to Stratfor Chairman George Friedman.
"Whenever I want to understand the details behind world events, I turn to Stratfor," reads an endorsement from Satter on Stratfor's website. "They have the most detailed and insightful analysis of world affairs and are miles ahead of mainstream media."
Otpor!: A Counter-History
To understand how Popovic came to aide Stratfor in its intelligence-gathering efforts, it's crucial to examine Otpor! and CANVAS critically. A close examination demonstrates that Popovic was a natural choice to be a Stratfor informant and close advisor.
Often valorized by grassroots activists and Western media, there was far more to the "Bulldozer Revolution" that led to the overthrow of Milošević and subsequent Eastern European regimes than meets the eye.
"In principle, [Serbia] was an overt operation, funded by congressional appropriations of around $10 million for fiscal 1999 and $31 million for 2000. Some Americans involved in the anti-Milosevic effort said they were aware of CIA activity at the fringes of the campaign, but had trouble finding out what the agency was up to," explained a 2000 investigative piece appearing in The Washington Post.
"The lead role was taken by the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, the government's foreign assistance agency, which channeled the funds through commercial contractors and nonprofit groups such as NDI and its Republican counterpart, the International Republican Institute (IRI)."
Papic's statement about CANVAS being "more powerful than an aircraft carrier" wasn't mere hyperbole, but was based on the Otpor! Serbia experience in the late-1990s.
"In fact between 1997 and 2000 the National Endowment for Democracy and US government may have accomplished what NATO's 37,000 bombing sorties had been unable to do: oust Milosevic, replace him with their favoured candidate Vojislav Kostunica and promote a neoliberal vision for Serbia," independent scholar Michael Barker wrote for Z Magazine. "In much the same way as corporate front groups and astroturf groups recruit genuinely committed supporters, strategically useful social movements can potentially dominate civil society when provided with the right resources (massive financial and professional backing)."
Otpor! was so successful that it was ushered into Ukraine to help manufacture regime change there in 2004, using the template applied originally in Serbia with $65 million in cash from the U.S. government.
"We trained them in how to set up an organization, how to open local chapters, how to create a 'brand,' how to create a logo, symbols, and key messages," an Otpor! activist told U.S.-funded media outlet Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty. "We trained them in how to identify the key weaknesses in society and what people's most pressing problems were—what might be a motivating factor for people, and above all young people, to go to the ballot box and in this way shape their own destiny."
The overthrow of Milošević was accompanied by U.S.-funding for the creation of a robust media apparatus in Serbia, and Popovic's wife worked at one of the U.S.-funded radio and TV outlets as a journalist and anchor B92 from 2004-2009.
"By helping Radio B92 and linking it with a network of radio stations (ANEM), international assistance undermined the regime's direct and indirect control over news and information," a January 2004 policy paper released by USAID explained. "In Serbia, independent media supported by USAID and other international donors facilitated the regime change."
Critics point out that what happened in Eastern Europe was regime change, not revolution in any real sense of the term.
"[They] were not revolutions at all; actually, they were little more than intra-elite power transfers,'" Portland State University Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Gerald Sussman, explained in his book, "Branded Democracy: U.S. Regime Change in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe."
"Modern tactics of electioneering were employed to cast regime change as populist, which took advantage of the unstable and vulnerable situations in those regions following the breakup of the Soviet Union," he wrote.
Given Otpor!'s ties to powerful factions in the U.S. government, perhaps it's unsurprising that Popovic felt comfortable giving a lecture to the Air Force Academy in May 2010, and attending a National Security Council meeting in December 2009.
A powerful individual who lobbied the U.S. government to give money to CANVAS early on was Michael McFaul, the current U.S. Ambassador to Russia for the State Department and someone who "worked closely with" Popovic while serving as a Senior Fellow at theright-wing Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
Critics Chime In, Popovic Responds
Maryam Alkhawaja, director of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, said she had known Popovic for several years as an activist and had no knowledge of his outside relationships before the Wikileaks release of Stratfor emails.
"Srdja is someone I've met more than once. He was very supportive of the Bahrain revolution, supportive of the human rights fight," Alkhawaja said in a phone interview. "When he gave me their information, that's what surprised me the most."
Alkhawaja said that at the time she wasn't aware of what kind of firm Stratfor was, but she became immediately suspicious after reading Stratfor's questions to her. She never corresponded with Stratfor due to what she felt was the suspicious nature of the emails coming from the firm.
"It was a series of really weird intelligence agency-like questions, given that they knew I was working in a human rights group. They were asking questions like, who's funding the party coalition, how many members do they have, questions that even I didn't know the answers to," she said. "The fact that they asked questions like that, made me question the motive behind the email I received. Thats why I never responded."
"Whenever we get emails like that or were contacted by people who seemed very interested in asking intelligence agency-like questions, we usually block them, because we know they probably work for the government," Alkhawaja continued. "Journalists know the kind of work we do so they wouldn't ask those questions in the first place. I just found the email very weird and thats why I actually never responded."
In a Skype interview, one of Otpor!'s co-founders, who left the movement and asked to maintain his confidentiality, said his primary concern from the Wikileaks emails was that Popovic was giving out activists' information to a third party without their prior consent.
An interview with Popovic sang a different tune about CANVAS. He stated, "We definitely wouldn't jeopardize any of our activists' safety, so we always follow their lead and never expose them to anybody without their consent."
Popovic also said CANVAS would speak to anyone and everyone—without any discrimination—about nonviolent direct action.
"CANVAS will present anywhere — to those committed to activism and nonviolent struggle, but also to those who still live in the Cold War era and think that tanks and planes and nukes shape the world, not the common people leading popular movements," he said.
"If we can persuade any decision maker in the world, in Washington, Kremlin, Tel Aviv or Damascus that it is nonviolent struggle that they should embrace and respect – not foreign military intervention, or oppression over own population – we would do that."
Yet, given Popovic's track-record—and specifically, who buttered his bread during the long professional career he pursued in activism—critics say Popovic fit like a glove at Stratfor.
"A group of Serbs cannot lead a protest movement anywhere outside Serbia, but his techniques are nonetheless instrumental in helping achieve certain political aims," Professor Sussman said in an interview. "He also serves as an intelligence gatherer in the process—of use to private and state intelligence agencies. That's what Stratfor saw as his use."
This piece was published originally at Occupy.com.
Friday, Nov 22, 2013, 11:48 am · By Sarah Jaffe
Could Teller Organizing Help Halt Bank Abuses?
Outside of the Bank of America branch at 95 Wall Street, a man in a robot costume did the Robot during yesterday's lunch hour. He danced along to the chants of the protesters walking in a circle outside of the branch. They were there to protest the new video teller ATMs that the company started rolling out this fall, which the new 95 Wall Street branch has recently installed.
As they sang, "Outsourcing ain't the way, community tellers are here to stay," an employee who'd been hovering in the lobby with a tablet computer on his arm joined several more bankers in suits and a burly security guard.
The group of 30 or so protesters was from the Committee for Better Banks, a labor-community coalition that includes the Alliance for a Greater New York (ALIGN), Make the Road New York, New York Communities for Change (NYCC) and the Communications Workers of America union (CWA).
The committee's aim, according to Brigid Flaherty, organizing director at ALIGN, is "fighting to create a transparent and just banking system by improving the working conditions for employees in finance." Yesterday, they were supporting Alex Shalom, a teller at the Bank of America on New York's 42nd Street and 3rd Avenue, as he attempted to deliver a letter to the bank's CEO asking for a meeting to discuss the bank's plan to shift to video tellers.
Friday, Nov 15, 2013, 3:03 pm · By The Sparrow Project
Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond's Message to the World
Jeremy Hammond, a 28-year-old political activist, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to participating in the Anonymous hack into the computers of the private intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting (Stratfor). The Ceremonial Courtroom at the Federal Court for the Southern District of New York was filled today with an outpouring of support by journalists, activists and other whistleblowers who see Jeremy Hammond's actions as a form of civil disobedience, motivated by a desire to protest and expose the secret activities of private intelligence corporations.
The following is Hammond's final statement to the New York court:
Wednesday, Nov 13, 2013, 11:29 am · By Nat Stein
Boulder Votes Yes On Clean Energy
In recent years, politicos have been abuzz about demographic trends in Colorado that might yield a leftward political shift. And the state's newly revamped election system, featuring expanded access to registration and a mail-in ballot for every voter, has certainly helped to boost voter turnout. So far, though, it's been a mixed bag. Last week's election, which included a number of local and state ballot initiatives, saw several progressive victories, as well as some setbacks: Coloradans decisively struck down a tax hike to fund public education but approved a hefty sales tax on their new recreational marijuana industry, while three cities passed fracking bans, and five northern counties voted to secede from the state.
But one city in particular deserves credit: In Boulder, residents voted overwhelmingly to move forward with their plan to create a publicly owned municipal utility—or "muni"—based on local, renewable sources.
Thursday, Nov 7, 2013, 4:21 pm · By Moyers & Company
15 Under-the-Radar Progressive Wins of Election 2013
Progressives have plenty to celebrate after last night's off-off-year elections. Some of those victories were national news: Bill de Blasio's win in the New York mayoral race, Martin Walsh becoming the new pro-labor mayor of Boston and New Jersey voters both raising the Garden State's minimum wage to $8.25 per hour and amending the state's constitution so it will rise with inflation in the future.
But there were other, smaller wins in local races that got considerably less attention. Many pitted grassroots activists against deep pocketed corporate interests. You can't win them all, but here's a roundup of some under-the-radar progressive victories of election 2013…
Friday, Nov 1, 2013, 6:00 pm · By Matthew Blake
Progressive Chicagoans Take Budget Hearings into Their Own Hands—No Emanuel Necessary
Many Chicago progressives might remember Richard M. Daley, the Windy City's mayor between 1989 and 2011, as ruling with an iron fist, ramming through policies like the midnight demolition of an airport or the privatization of city parking meters with little public discussion.
But Daley did make one democratic gesture that his successor, Rahm Emanuel, has yanked. Throughout his tenure, Daley was present at community hearings where Chicago residents could directly question him and other city officials about the mayor's annual proposed budget and sometimes other city matters.
Emanuel, meanwhile, did away with the practice last year, after holding hearings about his first budget. So there are no community hearings to review the $6.98 billion budget that Emanuel unveiled on October 23.
Even without an official hearing, however, Chicago residents are still eager to air their concerns. That much was clear on Wednesday night, when the seven of the eight aldermen who comprise the city council's progressive caucus, the Chicago Progressive Reform Coalition, convened a packed meeting at the United Electrical Workers Hall in West Town to hear public comment on the budget before the city council's vote on it next month.
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013, 5:03 pm · By Sarah Jaffe
Anti-Foreclosure Activists Put BlackRock in a Hard Place
The pink granite on the floor and walls of BlackRock's New York City headquarters at 52nd Street and Park Avenue provided excellent acoustics for the protest chants that echoed through it Wednesday afternoon, as members of New York Communities for Change (NYCC) and the Home Defenders League took the investment management company to task for suing Richmond, Calif. after the city pledged to use eminent domain to save its residents from foreclosures.
"A lot of these companies try to hide under cover of darkness," Skipp Roseboro, one of the NYCC members at the action, told In These Times. "We're trying to call attention to their actions."
Friday, Oct 18, 2013, 12:29 pm · By Colin Kinniburgh
And the World Food Prize Goes to . . . Monsanto?
Hell no, GMO! Monsanto has got to go!
This was the message uniting protesters in over four hundred cities around the world last Saturday as they took part in the second global March on Monsanto. Spread out across more than fifty countries, the protests were mostly coordinated by local groups and even individuals, with a minimum of centralized planning. Their common appeal is testament to growing discontent with a food system that is marginalizing small farmers and laying waste to the most elemental principles of sustainability while enriching an elite few.
Word of this discontent seems not to have reached policy elites, however, who yesterday awarded this year's World Food Prize to scientists from Monsanto and Syngenta—the biotechnology giants now infamous for their patented cocktails of genetically modified (GM) seeds, pesticides, and herbicides—precisely for their "pioneering" work in GMO research and advocacy.