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It's frustrating to see so many prominent media voices reflexively blame "both sides" for the debt-ceiling fiasco, but some examples are more exasperating than others. Jonathan Cohn flagged a clip from NBC's "Meet the Press" the other day, which I hadn't seen.
Here's the way host David Gregory phrased a "question" — I use the word loosely — to Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.):
"[S]o many people I talk to are frankly disgusted with Washington. You know, you have on the one side people saying that, that Republicans are, are just crazy. That they won't negotiate. That they're being unreasonable. That they're denying the prospect of a default. Michelle Bachmann saying it's a misnomer when the Fed chief says it would be economic calamity.
"And on the other side you, you know, you've got Republicans saying, 'Look, somebody's got to draw a line in the sand here. It's, it's the Democrats who have run up the debt since President Obama got into office.' But the reality is nobody is really willing to compromise and to make a deal."
I don't know David Gregory personally, but I suspect he knows better. This kind of analysis isn't just lazy, it actually undermines the public's understanding of a pressing national crisis. In other words, at this point, the media must be playing a constructive role, helping Americans understand the process and the risks, and instead Americans have David Gregory parroting tired cliches that aren't even accurate.
The "reality" is that "nobody" is "willing to compromise"? Has Gregory been on vacation for the last several months, unable to keep up on current events?
Reemphasizing a point from the weekend, let me put this as plainly as I know how: if you're watching this debt-ceiling fiasco, and you think both parties are equally responsible for the mess, then you're simply not paying close enough attention.
Forget subjective questions and consider the basics. GOP leaders are saying they want a deal that's 100% in their favor. If they don't get what they want, many Republicans are at least open to crashing the economy on purpose. As the process unfolds and the deadline draws closer, the GOP line is hardening and becoming more extreme, leading to today's "Cut, Cap, and Balance" charade, which everyone acknowledges is both a vanity exercise and a waste of time.
In contrast, we have the Obama White House and congressional Democratic leaders, who are prepared to accept all kinds of concessions to make Republicans happy. This includes a series of compromise offers that lean heavily in the GOP's favor.
There's no question here which side of the political divide is open to compromise. There's also no question which side has rejected any and all attempts at finding common ground.
And there's also no question that tired media assumptions lead to coverage and analysis like this — blaming both sides equally because it's easier than thinking about the facts.
Eugene Robinson had a column the other day that David Gregory should take the time to read. It laments "reflexive tendency to see equivalence where none exists," and explains, "The truth is that Democrats have made clear they are open to a compromise deal on budget cuts and revenue increases. Republicans have made clear they are not."
As for Gregory repeating the falsehood that "it's the Democrats who have run up the debt" — a claim he presented as if it were fact — he's demonstrably wrong about this, too.
With a Republican-made economic catastrophe two weeks away, Americans need the media to be at the top of their game. This "blame both sides" nonsense isn't going to cut it.
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Has Gregory been on vacation for the last several months...?
David Gregory has intellectually been on vacation his entire life! He has a smile, a haircut, and an ability to read the prompts provided by his corporate ownership and sponsors; what more does he need?
I also think it was on that show, when he had his panel with Kasich on it, that they pulled up an e-mail or text message from some viewing schlub, which commented on how (as if you didn't know) BOTH sides were to blame.
This further set the meme in concrete, because one of the unwashed masses said the same thing, and not just the talking heads.
Did you really suspect they's read one of my e-mails which would have started with, "David, you stupid, ignorant, cowed, compliant, and or complicit conservative stenographer,..." and gotten worse from there.
The MSM has some sort of a strong investment in the Democrats sharing blame with the Republicans. They've probably been told that if people blame the Republicans, they'll be held responsible.
Keep up the good fight, Steve. I went to a talk given by a newscaster who proudly proclaimed his allegiance to "objectivity." This was in response to a question about why he refused to call out Republican falsehoods. The audience actually applauded his response!!
Apparently "objectivity" no longer means an attempt to present the truth, which is sadly hilarious given years of knee-jerk attacks on "social relativism" and "political correctness." For the modern media there is no truth, and there is no history. There is just the "he said, she said" of the moment.
I almost shrieked out loud when I saw Boehner on camera yesterday claiming the same old thing --that Obama was not compromising. (Code: he wants new revenue that the GOP won't compromise on.) But for Gregory to simply adopt the talking points of the GOP without any analysis is simply dereliction of his journalistic duty.
He looks like an oaf, and he increasingly shows he is one, lazy, cowardly and worthless.
First, what c u n d said.
Second, if guys like Gregory told the truth about what's going on, no GOP hack would ever appear on his show again. These guys know what they have to do.
Third, how long would Gregory keep his job if his corporate masters heard him laying blame where it belongs every day? Not long, I'm thinking.
DC is wired for the GOP. It has been for at least 30 years. Our corporate-owned mass-media toadies know exactly which side their bread is buttered on and they're not going to drop that bread on the floor, butter-side down.
I don't know what the solution is, but I can tell this false-equivalency bullshit is not lazy journalism: it's quite deliberate. Now, maybe guys like Gregory so reflexively protect their own jobs (after all, what a plushy gig!) that they don't spend much time thinking about how they are toadies to crazy republicans who they need on their shows, and toadies to their corporate masters. That would make sense. Why think about something that makes me look bad, feel bad, and about which I can do exactly nothing?
The root problem of ALL of this is that unlike Republicans with their 'talking points' coordinated with the Fox News Mothership, are NOT challenging the lamestream media.
Why aren't Dem politicians going after the David Gregory's of the talk show world. Doing what George Bush Sr did to Dan Rather. If I was a Dem politician I would challenge Grergory directly and with both barrels. I would be saying what Steve is writing.... like..."David, do you live here? Do you follow what is going on? Why do ask such stupid questions?"
The lamestream media blames both parties simply because if they didn't they'd get blasted by Fox Mothership has being biased.
The sad fact is that within Washington media circles, unquestionable truth is dismissed as just another point of view, especially if--as is most often the case-- that truth has non-centrist Democratic origins.
The other sad fact is that most of the Washington media lives in absolute, unholy terror that some day some smug d-bag conservative will call them a liberal. It leads directly to "opinions on shape of the earth differ" journalism.
What do you expect from Rove's dancing partner?
That the Norquislings of Media are ramping up the hot air behind the false equivalency meme means that their masters really think that this ends badly and are laying the groundwork for blame now.
David Gregory is as he has always been: A useful idiot.
Certainly, those with a stage like Gregory should know better, and those who do should have the courage to tell it like it is. But I think the situation is somewhat different among the general population.
Set aside for a moment that the public has been fed false information...
I wonder if the average person is capable of understanding just how radical republicans are. As with the Big Lie, most people just can't imagine that one of the major political parties would destroy the economy in order to control what's left. Their minds just can't go there until it's a done deal.
"Americans need the media to be at the top of their game."
the Media IS at the top of their game....which is to obsfucate the truth so the GOP can benefit.
Steve Benen is entirely that Democrats are willing to compromise. And, notwithstanding the false equivalence, I think the vast majority of the American people understand that the GOP is being unreasonable. Aside from the GOP dead-enders and beltway courtesans like Gregory, Americans want an end to the impasse and support tax increases to close the deficit.
But I still maintain that the willingness of the White House to cynically join with Republicans in order to use the impasse as a pretext for ramming through massive spending cuts that would ordinarily be subject to a relatively open committee process is to be condemned. Frankly, the idea that Barack Obama and John Boehner can go off into a corner and cut some backroom deal where a significant percentage of non-defense discretionary spending over the next ten years is simply lopped off of the budget is
Steve Benen is entirely that Democrats are willing to compromise. And, notwithstanding the false equivalence, I think the vast majority of the American people understand that the GOP is being unreasonable. Aside from the GOP dead-enders and beltway courtesans like Gregory, Americans want an end to the impasse and support tax increases to close the deficit.
But I still maintain that the willingness of the White House to cynically join with Republicans in order to use the impasse as a pretext for ramming through massive spending cuts that would ordinarily be subject to a relatively open committee process is to be condemned. Frankly, the idea that Barack Obama and John Boehner can go off into a corner and cut some backroom deal where a significant percentage of non-defense discretionary spending over the next ten years is simply lopped off of the budget is rather disgusting.
It is also validates the GOP's willingness to put conditions on something that should be automatic -- the raising of the debt ceiling. Yes, the President's terms are, IMO, more "reasonable" than the GOP's terms. But once you open the door to placing conditions on raising the ceiling, all bets are off. Is it reasonable for the GOP to refuse a deal that includes tax increases? Is it reasonable for Obama to refuse a deal that doesn't extend the debt past 2012? It is entirely subjective.
Had the Democrats simply demanded a clean bill and stuck to their guns, it would be a lot more clear who is being unreasonable.
Yes, the media wants to hold on to viewership like politicians want to hold on to voters.
Also, this kind of rigid TP thinking has taken over. If Dems offer a compromise then they never really wanted what they said they wanted in the first place because there's no such thing as a compromise so they aren't compromising. Get it?
Steve Benen wrote: "This kind of analysis isn�t just lazy, it actually undermines the public�s understanding of a pressing national crisis."
And that's exactly why David Gregory gets paid the big bucks.
While clueless "sensible liberal" bloggers attribute to "laziness" that which is clearly deliberate and calculated, scripted and focus-group-tested propaganda.
I'm one of those people who can't watch clips at work, so there may be something in the video that is obviously missing from the transcript you provide, some inflection or nuance, but as I read the transcript it does not clearly mean you claim it means.
Start with the easy one, "Gregory repeating the falsehood that 'it�s the Democrats who have run up the debt'". If you look at the transcript there are quotations around that phrase when Gregory repeats it too. "And on the other side you, you know, you�ve got Republicans saying, �Look, somebody�s got to draw a line in the sand here. It�s, it�s the Democrats who have run up the debt since President Obama got into office.�" I read that as Gregory repeating something that the GOP says, not as a proven fact. And within the context of the statement as a whole, it is in quotes precisely because it is to be taken as something that is not a fact.A more subtle problem with your interpretation is that in the first paragraph you have Gregory, not indicating that Democrats are intransigent and not negotiating in good faith, but indicating that the Democrats are claiming that the GOP is bonkers and then giving Michele Bachmann as an example to support their position. That is not setting up a false equivalence. The second paragraph seems to be saying that the GOP is generally proving the Democrats right by trying to blame the Democrats for the deficits and then refusing to negotiate.
So, there is a reading where Gregory is not setting up a false equivalence, but rather is saying that the Democrats are cally the GOP crazy and the GOP is doing nothing to prove them wrong.
Like I said, maybe the clip is less equivocal and the tone and inflection provide additional meaning to the words.
A colleague was complaining this morning that she and her husband might not get their social security and veteran's checks if "they" don't compromise. She's very upset about it, and completely dismissed my saying that the Republicans are causing the problem. She's sure both sides are fighting it out, and she'll suffer the consequences. But then, I think she gets all her information from Fox News. Problem is, she thinks she's well informed, because she's following the news closely.
DAVID GREGORY IS A REPUBLICAN!!! that's why he does that equivalency shit. He knows better but his political views shine through in every interview.
cokie roberts at npr yesterday morning offered up this "amusing" bit of false equivalency...
"But the problem is, is that everybody is still dug in, in their respective positions. So Republicans are still saying no taxes whatsoever to reduce the deficit, and the president is still saying that he wants to hold out for some big package."
later she semi-explains that the "big package" has big spendings cuts in it
but both sides are "dug in."
I've given Gregory a piece of my mind. Here's the address:
"This kind of analysis isn�t just lazy, it actually undermines the public�s understanding of a pressing national crisis. In other words, at this point, the media must be playing a constructive role, helping Americans understand the process and the risks, and instead Americans have David Gregory parroting tired cliches that aren�t even accurate.
There's noting lazy about this. You have to work really hard to come up with this nonsense.
I am so tired of a president and Democrats in the Senate and House who decide to set their position as far right from the beginning, then go to the extreme Republicans who set theirs as the far, far right.
This is like knowing that a fair price for something is $50, so the buyer offers $60 and the seller insists on $70. The Democrats in positions of power never present a position on the left from which to bargain toward a position in the middle. It's idiotic. Particularly when public polls show that the left's positions are more popular.
Why can't we have Democrats in Congress taking to the talk shows with talking points that state we want to bring back the prosperity of the Reagan years, by bringing taxes back to the way Ronald Reagan wanted them to be?
Let's see Republicans convince the American people that Reagan was wrong.
It's time for Democrats to be Democrats again.
And if it sounds a bit strange to use Reagan as the means to do it, I think my point is we're incredibly stupid when it comes to bargaining. I still haven't gotten over how Clinton "bargained" - pulling in all his chips, making all kinds of promises to Republicans - in order to get NAFTA in place. A Republican policy.
Taxes under Reagan were higher. Let's bring them back. And show some kind of intelligence when it comes to entering into the bargaining process. Now wouldn't that be interesting, if the Democratic Committee were to hire as consultants some canny people who know something about how it's done?
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PUBLISHED: 17 Nov 2011 09:25:00 | UPDATED: 18 Nov 2011 05:01:37PRINT EDITION: 17 Nov 2011Prime Minister Julia Gillard (below-R), introduces parliamentary members to US President Barack Obama (C), after he had addressed the Australian Parliament. Photo: Getty Images
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Barack Obama and US Ambassador to Australia Jeffrey Bleich prepare to unveil a plaque at a tree planted to commemorate the president's visit. Photo: AP
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Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has hit back at Chinese warnings about Australia's new defence pact with the United States amid growing regional disquiet over a landmark policy shift outlined by US President Barack Obama on Thursday.
Mr Rudd delivered a sharp response to China on Thursday night to keep out of Australian sovereign policy, as he strongly backed an agreement to base a US marine task force in Darwin.
The remarks come ahead of a the East Asia Summit in Bali this Saturday, as host nation Indonesia calls for a discussion about the "transparency" of alliances such as the defence agreement between the US and Australia.
Mr Obama left Australia for Bali at around 7pm on Thursday night after speaking to Australian and US troops with Prime Minister Julia Gillard in Darwin. Ms Gillard is due to head to the Bali summit on Friday evening.
Chinese officials have warned that the US-Australia agreement might not be "appropriate" while Chinese newspapers have attacked the pact for playing China "for a fool" and placing Australia in the crossfire of a future conflict.
But Mr Rudd said Australia had been careful to brief Chinese officials as well as others in the region.
The Australian government will not be changing its position, he told ABC TV on Thursday night.
"Our national security orientation is a matter of Australian national sovereignty and we believe in a strong Australia."
Mr Rudd acknowledged that China's stated policy was to see the elimination of US alliances in east Asia including those with Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Thailand and Australia.
"That's not our view and we therefore respectfully disagree."
Mr Rudd noted the fierce criticism from one newspaper, The Global Times, but said similar remarks had been made over decades.
"But let's just be very blunt about it. We are not going to have our national security policy dictated by any other external power," Mr Rudd said.
"It's a sovereign matter for Australia.
"We don't seek to dictate to the Chinese what their national security policy should be, and therefore this must be advanced on the basis of mutual respect."
Mr Rudd said there could be "a few hard-liners" around in China who may have a nationalist point of view.
"Therefore it's prudent for Australia and other countries to always have contingencies against bad possibilities in the future, but these exist very much at the margins," he said.
Earlier, the White House hit back at Chinese criticism of the defence pact with Australia as US President Barack Obama used a speech in Canberra to outline a new strategy to wield military force across the Asia-Pacific.
"With most of the world's nuclear powers and nearly half of humanity, this region will largely define whether the century ahead will be marked by conflict or cooperation, needless suffering or human progress.
"As President, I've therefore made a deliberate and strategic decision: as a Pacific nation, the United States will play a larger and long-term role in shaping this region and its future, by upholding core principles and in close partnership with allies and friends."
The remarks came in a speech to federal parliament that was followed by a visit to a Canberra school and a ceremony at the US embassy before Mr Obama boarded Air Force One to fly to Darwin, where he arrived at about 5.30pm AEDT.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard met Mr Obama in Darwin before both leaders headed to a Australian Defence Force base to speak to troops from both nations.
Mr Obama's speech is likely to intensify Chinese concerns about the defence alliance announced with Ms Gillard on Wednesday night.
Mr Obama used the speech to outline plans to build up the US military presence across the Asia-Pacific as a way to guarantee stability and reinforce America's role as the security "anchor" of the region.
Ahead of the address, White House officials released details of Mr Obama's speech including talk of a "pivot" in military operations to south Asia, with Darwin seen as a key base to project force into the region.
Mr Rhodes also made it clear that the US deployment was in response to "demand from within the region" because nations across the Asia-Pacific wanted a strong US presence.
"So we believe it's not just entirely appropriate, but an important step to dealing with the challenges of the future of the Asia Pacific region," he told US reporters in a closed briefing on Wednesday night.
In Parliament, Mr Obama pledged that the new military agreement would not suffer from budget cuts in Washington, even as he seeks to bring the federal budget under control amid intensive attacks from Republican opponents ahead of next year's presidential election.
"Here is what this region must know. As we end today's wars, I have directed my national security team to make our presence and missions in the Asia Pacific a top priority. As a result, reductions in US defence spending will not – I repeat, will not – come at the expense of the Asia Pacific," Mr Obama said.
The President reiterated comments on Wednesday that the US is "here to stay" in the Asia-Pacific. He also reiterated that he saw a role for a peaceful China in the region.
"All of our nations have a profound interest in the rise of a peaceful and prosperous China," he said, adding the US welcome it. "We've seen that China can be a partner from reducing tensions on the Korean Peninsula to preventing proliferation."
The US would seek more opportunities for cooperation with China including "greater communication" between our militaries to promote understanding and avoid "miscalculation".
"We will do this even as we continue to speak candidly to Beijing about the importance of upholding international norms and respecting the universal human rights of the Chinese people."
The US is emphasising its "unique capability" to project power into the Asia-Pacific despite a steady Chinese expansion in military force including air and sea power.
The White House briefing to preview Mr Obama's speech, given to US reporters on Wednesday night in Canberra, put a heavy emphasis on a change in military strategy to step up activity in south Asia as troops are withdrawn from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The head of the US Pacific Command, Admiral Robert Willard, also briefed US reporters this week on the Australian agreement and framed it as part of a US strategy to shift the focus of US operations away from north-east Asia and towards south Asia.
While Australian officials portrayed the defence agreement on Wednesday as a deployment of 250 US marines that would steadily increase over time to 2500 troops, the strategic implications were emphasised in US briefings overnight.
Within four years, the plan will see a full Marine Air and Ground Task Force based in Darwin, with the capability to move quickly into the region if needed.
"So it's a part of the US sending a signal that we're going to be present, that we're going to continue to play the role of underpinning security in this part of the region," Mr Rhodes said.
"Part of that context is a rising China.
"That's one part of the context for the future of this region. But either way, the United States is going to stay present and it's going to be able to, again, I think assure the nations of the Asia Pacific that we're going to be a guarantor of security for our allies, and we're going to be a force on behalf of international standards and norms."
The agreement will also see a "significant increase" in the number of US Air Force missions to Australia and increase in the number of Australian airfields used, although the White House officials did not put numbers on the plan.
Ahead of the speech, Ms Gillard welcomed Mr Obama to federal parliament, praising the strengthening alliance and friendship between Australia and the US and paying tribute to the ANZUS alliance between the United States and Australia, signed 60 years ago.
The prime minister told the president before his address to parliament that the treaty between the two countries was "for a secure future" but had always been more.
"Our alliance was anticipated a decade earlier – in the judgments of an Australian prime minister (John Curtin) and the resolve of an American president (Franklin Roosevelt)," she said.
"And the partnership between us is still deeply imprinted with the personal character and public ideals of those two great men. We welcome you here as you come as an ally, a partner and a friend."
She said Australia and the United States had much in common and would continue to build on those values.
"You meet us, as your predecessors did, a people enlivened by a spirit of confidence and resolve," Ms Gillard told Mr Obama, who became the fourth US president to address parliament.
"As friends, we recognise that same spirit in the nation you lead. One you would no doubt express in those famous words, `Yes we can'. This is a year in which, as allies, Australia and the US have made plans for a future just as great as those in the past."
Referring to the announcement on Wednesday that the US will enhance its presence in Australia, Ms Gillard said "the expanded co-operation we have announced will see our alliance remain a stabilising influence in a new century of regional change".
She said the move would be "a new step agreed on during your visit but, more than a new step for our two nations, it is a renewal of our alliance itself".
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott personally congratulated Mr Obama over the capture and death of Osama bin Laden and called for closer defence ties during a meeting at Parliament House on Thursday.
Mr Abbott and Mr Obama discussed progress being made in fighting terrorism as well as the growing economic success of China and similarities between America's and the Liberal-National coalition's policies on tackling climate change.
Mr Abbott later told a joint meeting of parliament, just before Mr Obama addressed it, that he supported a second joint US-Australian defence facility on Australian soil.
"What's good for America is likely to be good for the wider world, because the United States is the most benign, the least self-interested superpower the world has ever seen," Mr Abbott said.
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The Human Price of Gold
Press Release
15 September 2009
The multinational corporations are at it again! This time not just for gross and scandalous human rights abuses but also causing death of people especially women and children in the North Mara and Geita regions of Tanzania. This was revealed by two recent studies, "A Golden Opportunity? How Tanzania is failing to benefit from gold mining" and "Levels of Heavy Metals and Cyanide in Soil, Sediment and Water from the Vicinity of North Mara Gold Mine in Tarime District, Tanzania". The studies were commissioned by three faith-based organizations; Christian council of Tanzania (CCT), the National Muslim Council of Tanzania (BAKWATA) and Tanzania Episcopal Conference (TEC).
A high level delegation of interfaith leaders led by His Grace Archbishop Paul Ruzoka, visiting South Africa on a learning mission presented the report to His Grace Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane, President and Founder of African Monitor in Cape Town on Monday.
The report reveals that Tanzania has lost at least $265.5million in recent years as a result of an excessively low royalty rate, government tax concessions that allow companies to avoid paying corporation tax and also through tax evasion by some companies. Even more seriously, unethical business practices that have been used by these multinational corporations continue to inflict Cyanide contamination of drinking water, rivers, farming and grazing land.
According to the report, the levels of Cyanide and heavy metals leaking from the nearby waste rock piles and tailing dam, are far more than the World Health Organisation (WHO), USA and Tanzanian Regulating Bodies (TZA and EPA) set targets of permissible Cyanide. The study revealed that that both heavy metals through Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) and Cyanide were leaking from waste rock piles and tailing dam, respectively. As a consequence, people living in the study area are in serious danger of suffering and dying from effects of pollution from heavy metals and Cyanide. For instance, water samples taken from River Tighite indicate that Ni, Pb, and Cr, were 260, 168 and 14 times higher respectively, this year than was observed in the year 2002. This has serious implications for humans and other living organisms in the area.
Of the six major gold mining companies operating in Tanzania, the Canadian based Barrick Gold Corporation and the South African based AngloGold Ashanti (AGA) are responsible for the displacement, spillage of Cyanide and other heavy metals in the mining regions of Geita and North Mara.
"Gold mining in Tanzania remains shrouded in secrecy. Parliament has never formally seen any of the mining contracts signed by the government with the mining companies. The recent contract for Barrick's new Buzwaki mine has been widely viewed in Tanzania only because it was leaked to the media. The agreement signed in October 2007 by the government with AGA for its Geita mine also remains a secret", says His Grace Bishop Dr. Valentine Mokiwa (Archbishop of the Anglican Church in Tanzania and President of the All Africa Conference of Churches).
"The communities in these areas have also been excluded in decision-making in awarding mining contracts and the use of land which the they own and occupy. The failure of government to involve and protect the people from these corporations clearly demonstrates a serious lack of will and commitment to put their people first and foremost," he adds.
Archbishop Ndungane reiterates; "We cannot allow multinational corporations to hide behind business contracts that undermine human life and dignity. All humans are created equally before God and it is the responsibility of everyone, religious leaders included, to ensure that the sanctity of life is upheld throughout the world. We don't condemn businesses but the manner in which they conduct themselves," he adds.
During the past few months a number of death cases reported including women and children has increased due to consumption of polluted water and other environmentally related hazards in North Mara.
"The people in these communities will continue to die as the level of acid in their bodies increases due to inhalation, drinking contaminated water and usage of soils contaminated by Cyanide and heavy metals," Sheik Mohamed, the Deputy Secretary of BAKWATA expressed.
Following the release of this shocking and heart-rending report, the Interfaith Committee on Economic Justice and Integrity of Creation is in a process of finalizing a Commission of Enquiry comprising of Lawyers, Doctors, Environmentalists and Economists who will expedite the resolution of this matter. The report has also been presented to the Parliament of Tanzania and remains to be seen whether drastic measures will be taken to save these communities.
The delegation urges the South African and other SADC governments, businesses and other stakeholders particularly in the mining industry to abide to the principles of good business ethics. This was stressed strongly by His Grace Archbishop Ndungane, who underscored the need for the government of Tanzania to put the wellbeing of the people first and foremost.
For further information, please contact Buhle Mpofu-Makamanzi; +27 82 898 8488 or firstname.lastname@example.com and Mvuyisi April at + 27 83 660 3056 / +255786234495 or email: firstname.lastname@example.com published:15/09/2009Organisation:African MonitorMitchells Plain Traders Face Eviction
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11 September 2009
Contact: Mischka Cassiem 073 128 6657 or 074 525 7336
Yesterday, September 10, 2009, in the Mitchells Plain Town Centre, the concerned Traders were informed that the City of Cape Town would not attend the meeting that was scheduled by Traders. CHATA (Concerned Hawkers and Traders Association) was informed of this cancellation on the grounds that the city claims they cannot negotiate with the Traders. The meeting was intended by CHATA to inform the city of the irregularities and unfair & unconstitutional policies that have become implemented in the renovation and relocation process of the Town Centre. City representative, Mr. Fritz, informed CHATA chairperson, Mischka Cassiem, that the city cannot meet the "demands" of the Traders. The city also claimed that the trader umbrella body must be consulted by CHATA with any further questions about the process.
CHATA feels that this is a poor and lame excuse. The city wants Traders to hear from other Traders the issues that the city has imposed. This makes the city not liable for the rules and unconstitutional provisions that they have put in place in order to further their own agenda and control the Traders. If Traders have questions on the relocation process that will inevitably evict over half of the current Traders, the city should me more than willing to answer these questions and at least attend meetings that have been called. CHATA knows that the city did not attend the meeting because it has also recently become aware of the fact that CHATA is now affiliated with SAMWU, COSATU and StreetNet. The strength of the traders will not be broken.
Mitchells Plain Town Centre Traders have been under the threat of eviction for over two months now. New bays have been numbered and allocated in a process that is undemocratic. The consulting party for the City of Cape Town has informed Traders that the relocation will begin next week. Mr. Paul Williamson of the City of Cape Town was supposed to issue letters informing Traders about the next phase of the relocation, but these letters were never received. There is currently an investigation on the urban renewal program in Mitchells Plain, so why is the city still moving forward with the relocation process? The process should be stopped until at least the investigation has been completed. Mr. Waleed George is also no longer the facilitator and consultant between the city and the traders as his contract was terminated by the city. What is happening in Mitchells Plain? Why is the city not following through with its demands? Why are the Traders not being informed?
The issue is pressing and the livelihoods of many traders are at stake.
For more, please visit the website of the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign at:
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The Poor People's Alliance: Abahlali baseMjondolo, together with Landless People's Movement (Gauteng), the Rural Network (KwaZulu-Natal) and the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign, is part of the Poor People's Alliance - a unfunded national network of democratic membership based poor people's movements.Date published:11/09/2009Organisation:Abahlali baseMjondoloIssued by:Donation for Nigeria's 1m Orphans
The Global Initiative for Peace, Love and Care (GIPLC), a NGO, has donated food parcels and clothes to one million orphans living in Nigeria.
GIPLC coordinator, Nuhu Kwajafa, says the organisation has sent more than 400 orphans to schools by paying-off fees for the orphans.
Kwajafa further says the GIPLC has also established a "save the needy" project in which orphans are helped with medical bills and hospitalisation.
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Dairy Farmer Jonny Burridge who has enlisted the support of Jelly the Jersy cow to fight for a fairer milk price
Monday, July 23, 2012
South Norfolk dairy farmer Jonny Burridge has enlisted a special recruit to the campaign for a fair milk price – Jelly the Jersey cow.
She is one of the star performers on the family's Manor Farm, where she keeps the rest of the 220-herd of milking cows in order.
"She's really special, very photogenic and quite a character," said Jonny. Any visitors to the farm at Fundenhall are always met by Jelly, who is a three-year-old Jersey.
Jelly – who is a registered pedigree and is officially known as Stowbeck Meccas Jelly – is rather unusually brown and white. But when she calved on Christmas day, she produced a heifer, now known as Jelly Baby, which has the proper brown Jersey colour.
In the next few weeks, Jelly will be leading a campaign to highlight the dairy industry's concerns about rising costs and also seek a reversal of the 4p price cut imposed since April.
"We're facing real pressure and it is not a lot of fun being a dairy farmer at the moment. The first 2p litre price cut was a big blow because we were just at the point in May when the industry was hoping to see a movement upwards in price to cover our costs," he added.
"We're trying to reverse this second price cut by grouping together and promoting our cause," said Jonny.
His family moved from nearby Forncett about seven years ago, partly to expand. "We're running about 220 cows, mainly Holsteins. We've also got about 15 Jerseys because our herdsman, Peter Forde, had a small Jersey herd.
"He's been with us three and a half years," he added.
The Holstein pedigree herd gained the prefix Dalharn after the house in Scotland where his parents spent their honeymoon.
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One positive outcome of the blockades and milk price crisis is that England's dairy farmers are working together at last. It's a shame its taken so long and a crisis such as this to make them realise that if they work co-operatively they have a stronger voice and more influence. Maybe some of the more forward-thinking ones should take a trip to New Zealand where dairy co-operatives are common-place.
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pho·to·shop, transitive verb, often capitalized \ˈfō-(ˌ)tō-ˌshäp\
to alter (a digital image) with Photoshop software or other image-editing software especially in a way that distorts reality (as for deliberately deceptive purposes)
- Merriam-Webster online dictionary, 2012
With the permission of Abobe System, the Computer History Museum has made the source code for Photoshop version 1.0, the very first original Mac-version of Photoshop from 1990, available.
"We developed it originally for our own personal use…it was a lot a fun to do." commented Thomas Knoll, a PhD student in computer vision at the University of Michigan, who is working with his brother John Knoll, at Industrial Light & Magic, on the project 'Display' (which was the program's original name). Adobe acquired the licence for the program in 1988, 2 years before it was released to the public as "Photoshop", the name that has since become such an iconic application.
Check out the Computer History Museum website for plenty more historic trivia and comments on the source code by Grady Booch, a famous software architect.
A little something extra for the geeks among us…
The source code comprises about 128.000 lines of code within 179 files, most of which written in Pascal and the remainder in 68000 assembly language. You can download the original user guide/manual and have a read through a tutorial here!


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The Trust PALS team now covers community services in Selby, York, Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale as well as York Hospital.
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Southern Californian grapefruit. Two for a dollar. Pink and luscious!
The first spoonful starts with careful placement and a jiggling to go in deep. You can't penetrate the skin and you have to let up just in time.
Successfully lifting the perfect piece out of the circle. A sweet reward.
A spoonful of juice seems so small.
To really get all the juice out you have to do the squeeze.
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More. I want more Pink Grapefruits in my life.
You have a knack for seeing the sensuous if not downright explicit in unlikely places...
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that sixth picture.
And then the seventh one!
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I always encourage sweet juices flowing from lush fruits.
My 3x week breakfast-- grapefruit. I love that bittersweet taste...
I inherited a funny little serrated on both sides -- "grapefruit knife" Mom always called it. I pre-cut those sections, drizzle of honey...little cottage cheese on the side...
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10m. The left-hand of the three grooves is the best route here and is a sample of what the rest of the quarry offers. Bridge and jam the well protected groove to the summit platform. USER COMMENTS
Quite slippery route.. not much feet hold.
Quite pushy for the grade. Surely 4b?
A bit scary for a first HS lead!
I think this is harder than Chiming Crack - probably 4b vs 4a
Felt harder than 4a. Although can be stitched up with good gear all the way up. Sustained but technically easy with good gear.
In the 1978 guide this got VS 4b, which is maybe overstating it but it's closer than HS 4a! Like others have said, it's considerably harder than Chiming Crack.
Definitely harder than Chimney Crack!
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Porting DOS Applications to Linux
In general, the kernel automatically blocks programs, thus avoids having them use CPU time when they are waiting for I/O. A device can be opened with the extra option O_NDELAY to indicate that an error EWOULDBLOCK should be returned to indicate the lack of ready data (or for writing lack of buffer space). When a program is using I/O in this manner, it must take great care not to sit in a tight loop.
Avoid the following DOS-style constructs:
while(1) { if(kbhit()) do_something(getch()); if(timer_expired()) time_event(); }
Linux instead provides the very useful select() system call, which allows you to wait for multiple I/O events, a timeout, or both, in a manner that avoids polling and enables the kernel to avoid allocating processor resources to the task in question.
select() allows you to wait for a given time, or wait until one of a set of files has data ready to read or space to write, or wait until an exceptional condition occurs on that file. As the Linux system sees everything within reason as a file, this is extremely flexible.
Listing 1 shows is a "trivial" example. This is an implementation of kbhit(). For exact DOS behaviour, it assumes the terminal is already in raw mode, which we will discuss later. Otherwise, it will return 1 after ENTER is pressed, which is when data becomes available in the line-by-line cooked mode.
Sharp-eyed DOS programmers might wonder, "What happens with this kbhit() if we redirect the input of the program from a file? It's not a keyboard, but input is available." The answer is simple enough—a disk file is always ready for reading, and at this level, there is no difference between reading a keyboard and reading a file. The program carries on and works fine. Indeed, you could redirect a program to run reading input from the mouse and select() would still behave consistently.
File I/O under Linux is somewhat simpler than DOS. DOS emulates the Unix low level (open(), close(), read(), and write()) and high level "stdio" facilities, but DOS C libraries have their own ascii/binary awareness to handle the carriage return/line feed differences. Under Linux these are gone and there is no need to worry about specifying these (although the ascii/binary specification will be accepted). All of the DOS device names are different under Linux. Linux systems keep their devices in /dev. Here is a rough conversion chart:
CON: /dev/tty LPT1: /dev/lp0 LPT2: /dev/lp1 LPT3: /dev/lp2 COM1: /dev/ttyS0 /dev/cua0 COM2: /dev/ttyS1 /dev/cua1 COM3: /dev/ttyS2 /dev/cua2 COM4: /dev/ttyS3 /dev/cua3 NUL: /dev/null
Note that it is normal to print by queueing jobs via the printing service (lpr) rather than writing directly to ports. On typical Linux systems the /dev/lp* files are protected so that a normal user cannot access them directly.
Terminal I/O is distinctly different in Linux than it is under DOS. First, the POSIX terminal system is more modal than DOS. To switch from one-character-at-a-time mode (getch() in DOS) to a line-based editing mode requires an actual termios request, which gives the new terminal parameters to use. In addition, a program is responsible for restoring the terminal state before it runs other programs and when it exits. If you forget to do this, you may well need to switch screens and kill the process, or you may find that the shell gets confused by your terminal state and logs you out (which also fixes the problem).
Listing 2 includes some sample code for managing terminal I/O settings.
On output, Unix programs traditionally avoid using direct cursor control codes and cannot write directly to video memory. The reasons for this are obvious. The terminal in question may be a different type of machine, in a different part of the world. Handling all the different terminal types by hand is unpleasant, so a library called curses is available. A more modern library called ncurses, which has such things as colour support, is also available for Linux. Older versions of this have had many bugs, but the latest appears very good indeed. See article "ncurses: Portable Screen Handling for Linux", Linux Journal issue 17, September, 1995, for an introduction.
ncurses provides you with simple output control, colour (if the terminal supports it), function keys, and other manipulations in a terminal-independent manner. In addition, it optimises the updates it does to minimize traffic over slow networks or serial links. It is free and comes with a nice set of examples and good documentation. As it is an implementation of System V curses, you can pick up a book on curses from a library and use that as a reference or tutorial (as appropriate).
Should you decide to use ncurses to do your output, it will also provide all the routines necessary to do DOS style character-by-character input via the functions cbreak(), nocbreak(), echo(), and noecho(). The ncurses documentation explains all four.
Error in listing 2
The second call to signal in term_ctrlz should be a call to kill, i.e. kill( getpid(), SIGSTOP );
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Florida A&M University has a strong commitment to enhancement of teacher education in Physics. The Physics Department and College of Education developed the B.Ed. in Physics program and, recently, the M. Ed in Physics program. Among our main goals are (a) building alliances with local (Leon County) physics high school and middle school teachers; (b) increasing enrollment of students in physics educational programs; (c) finding financial resources (e.g., scholarships) to support the students who have decided to pursue a career as a physics teacher; and (d) developing and implementing an effective program to support program graduates in their first years of work in a real school environment. The establishment of the Teacher–in-Residence program at FAMU is one of our main objectives. We believe that Teachers-in-Residence will help us to create a better linkage between physics secondary school teachers and the FAMU Physics Department.
During past three years, the number of students graduating with a B. Ed in Physics has declined dramatically. Currently there is only one student in the M. Ed in Physics degree program. To correct this situation our Department requires additional funding. We believe that our goals and needs fit very well into the PhysTEC project, and that we are capable of developing a comprehensive and successful PhysTEC site at FAMU.


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Over 200 listeners stepped up to meet Kyle's Challenge today, activating $30,000 in free promotional airtime for six deserving non-profits that are making a difference in the lives of local kids. These organizations would never be able to afford this type of promotional support and WDET listeners, like you, made it possible!
- WDET member Aimee Cowher
Today is a momentous day in WDET's Fall Fundraiser. Today is the day for Kyle's Challenge. Gary Cone and Aimee Cowher, the team behind Global Productivity Solutions, believe in the impact of WDET and our collective ability to make a real difference in our region. So for the second year now, Gary and Aimee have given WDET a very generous gift as a challenge to get you involved in a Community Impact Campaign that can improve the lives of thousands of young people in Southeast Michigan. Kyle's Challenge is simple and profound. If 200 people donate to WDET today - we'll give 6, $5,000 free on-air campaigns to local, youth-focused non-profits.
Each of these deserving youth-focused charities will receive $5,000 in free promotional airtime on WDET when you help us meet Kyle's Challenge today. That's $30,000 in free airtime! Your support will allow these organizations to raise awareness of the important work they are doing and inform you and other WDET listeners of opportunities to engage with their programs.
Let's set a new bar for people in Southeast Michigan banding together to do something great for our region. After you make your gift, challenge your network to do the same!
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