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Food stamp cuts will affect thousands of Erie County residents
Alicia Scott-Barbour sat patiently inside the cramped waiting area of Erie City Mission's Family Care Center food pantry.
The 28-year-old mother of two had a purple backpack across her shoulders, and her 3-year-old daughter in a stroller.
The pantry, located at 719 French St., opened at 9 a.m. Thursday. Fifteen minutes later, it was packed with about 70 people. Every chair was filled.
Scott-Barbour goes to the pantry once a week. She also stops at the food bank run by Emmaus Ministries on East Ninth Street. The food stamps her family receives typically dissipate toward the end of a month, so on Thursday, she needed canned items, breakfast cereal for her young children, fruits and vegetables.
Difficult times for Scott-Barbour, and the more than 56,000 Erie County residents on food stamps, are about to get tougher.
Federal funding for food stamps will be reduced today nationwide.
The cut is the result of an expiring provision in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that in 2009 temporarily aided the food stamps program in the wake of the recession.
Nearly 1.8 million Pennsylvanians -- 766,000 of whom are children -- will see a cut in food assistance, equal to 21 lost meals per month for a family of four, according to the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center and U.S. Department of Agriculture.
More than 47 million people nationwide, including 21 million children, receive food stamps.
Scott-Barbour, her husband and their two daughters have been on food stamps for more than two years, receiving $668 a month.
That assistance will now be reduced $36 a month, or $432 a year, according to the state Department of Public Welfare.
"We just have to deal with it," Scott-Barbour said Thursday morning. "We'll do what we have to do to make it. We'll have to do something."
One in five people in Erie County are on food stamps, known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. It is the highest local total in more than 20 years.
About 38,000 city of Erie residents, or nearly 37 percent, are on food stamps -- a 24 percent increase from 2009. The city has some of the highest poverty rates in Pennsylvania.
Federal income guidelines for food stamp eligibility are about $30,000 annually for a household of four.
Food stamps will be reduced about 5.4 percent in Pennsylvania beginning today.
Households of one person will see benefits decrease $132 annually. Two-person households will see cuts of $260 a year, while three-person households will experience a reduction of $348.
Officials with Erie area food banks and pantries say they will try to pick up the slack caused by the food stamp cuts, despite already being stretched to meet the demand of the rising ranks of poor and hungry.
The Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Pennsylvania supplies food to 285 agencies in 11 counties, with the bulk of the food distributed in Erie County.
The Erie-based agency distributed 11.6 million pounds of food between July 2012 and this past June, the largest fiscal year total since the food bank opened in 1982.
Emmaus Ministries is often serving more than double its seating capacity at its soup kitchen, and is aiding 700 families a week at its food pantry, both of which are all-time highs.
The City Mission's food bank served 700 families last week, nearly 100 families above its average. A majority of the people who go there are on food stamps, said Andy Kerr, the pantry's director.
"People who don't understand food stamps greatly underestimate how necessary they are," Kerr added. "The (reduction) is the difference between having milk and cereal for an entire month. This creates more anxiety in a family living in poverty that's just trying to survive each day."
Karen Seggi, executive director of Second Harvest, knows more people will be relying on her agency to make up the difference.
"We will work hard to keep bringing food to our area. But maybe people won't get as much," she said. "What are these folks going to do? They're looking for charity to make up the difference. There's no other places for them to go."
The average family on food stamps in Pennsylvania runs out of their monthly assistance in three weeks, said Laura Tobin Goddard, executive director of the Pennsylvania Hunger Action Center.
"Now they'll run out sooner. They'll be turning to pantries that are already struggling to meet the demand," Goddard said during a telephone interview from her office in Harrisburg. "People simply won't be able to afford enough food. They will choose less healthy food that is cheaper, or skip meals because they have bills to pay."
Mary Miller, the Erie Benedictine nun and director of Emmaus, said she sees "no relief in sight" for the city's poor and her food pantry's thinning inventory.
"I am so weary of having the budget of this country made on the backs of the poor. I'm sick and tired of how we treat our weakest members," Miller added. "I don't know how much more we can do, and I don't know what these people are going to do. It's getting beyond desperate."
Debra Schwartz has been going to the Emmaus pantry once a week for the past four years. Whatever the 33-year-old married mother of four collects from the food bank bolsters the items she picks up through food stamps.
With today's reductions, Schwartz's family will see their food stamp assistance slashed $624 a year.
"It's really going to hurt us," added Schwartz, who said she's a former medical biller who is now unemployed and receiving disability benefits. She said her husband, a former landscaper, also is out of work and on disability. "I mean, we have to feed our kids. We have to survive."
GERRY WEISS can be reached at 870-1884 or by e-mail. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNweiss.


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Intractability and the struggle for the eternal fire of Kirkuk
Intractability and the struggle for the
eternal fire of Kirkuk
By Saed Kakei
gassing, and genocide in all
parts of Kurdistan, the roughly four millions of
Kurds in 1923 are now estimated to be about forty
millions all over the world. Their relentless
dedications and endless sacrifices to see the day
when their national flag flies high among the close
to two hundred sovereign and independent
nation-states, is fascinating the most naïve let
alone the most cerebral individual on this earth.
Crocker, Hampson and Aall begin their introductory
paragraph to their edited book "Grasping the Nettle:
Analyzing cases of intractable conflict" by noting
that: "In the minds of many the end of the Cold War
was supposed to halt the torrent of conflict that
characterized the twentieth century, the bloodiest
century in history. Instead, it unleashed or
unmasked a dozen conflicts in Africa, Asia, Europe,
and Latin America" (2005, p. 3). Then, by naming
some long conflicts, they refer to them as
"intractable, protracted, self-sustaining,
deep-rooted, [and] the product of ancient hatreds"
(2005, p. 4). Just as many western scholars prefer
using the term colonialism over imperialism, these
scholars have agreed to use the fancy term of
"intractable" over the many other terms referring to
the "long-lasting" conflicts. Therefore, for the
intended purpose of this paper, I will briefly
summarize the meaning, causes and typologies of
intractable conflict.
1.1 Defining intractable
Crocker, Hampson and Aall explain that between the
years of 2001 and 2003, the United States Institute
of Peace has brought twenty-five academics and
expert practitioners together who agreed on a very
general definition of the term "intractable."
Initially, this group of scholars and practitioners
accepted that intractable "is often understood to
refer to a conflict that is unresolvable rather than
one that resists resolution" (2005, p. 5). But,
after accommodating some inevitable psychological
concerns, the group agreed in general terms that:
"intractable conflicts are conflicts that have
persisted over time and refused to yield to
efforts—through either direct negotiations by the
parties or mediation with third-party assistance—to
arrive at a political settlement" (2005, p. 5).
1.2 Causes and typologies
of intractability
Roy Licklinder (2005) stresses the fact that
intractable conflicts require the initial
understanding that sources of intractability are
different from the causes of the conflict. Once
started, conflicts act like a magnet pulling various
elements of the same blend into an ugly asymmetric
formation often in terms of war, "which in turn is
defined in terms of substantial human casualties (Licklinder,
2005, p. 33). Certainly, the intractable conflict
over the political status of the Kirkuk governorate
has witnessed at least three devastating intrastate
wars in the second half of the twentieth century.
Yet, despite the 2005 Iraqi constitutional bindings
to peacefully solve this presently "frozen
conflict," parties, especially outsiders such as
Turkey, Iran, and the United States have a great
deal of influence over when and how this conflict
needs to be tilted.
The role of the outsiders in the intractability of
the Kirkuk conflict has a lot to do with the
geopolitics and the strategic location it occupies
in present-day Iraq. The diamond-shaped Kirkuk
governorate lies between the Zagros Mountains in the
north-east, the Lower Zab and the Tigris Rivers in
the north-west and west, the Hamrin Mountain range
in the south-west, and the Diyala River in the
Major trade routes pass through or touch on the
borders of the Kirkuk Region. To safeguard these
commercial and strategic crossings, Ottoman military
forts were established in the nearby cities of Kifri,
Tuz-Khurmatu, Daquq, Perdé as well as within Kirkuk
city itself. The city of Kirkuk has served the area
as its major hub since the beginning of the 17th
century (Talabany, 2000, p. 8).
Demographically, the Kirkuk governorate is home to
several ethnically diverse communities.
Historically, it has been well established that the
Kurds constitute the overwhelming majority of its
2009 United Nations' (UN) estimated population of
1.2 million people. Next to the Kurds, Turkmens are
the second largest ethnic group followed by Arabs,
Caldo-Assyrian Christians, and some insignificant
numbers of Armenians and Mandaeans. As such, Kirkuk
lies on the borderline between the larger Kurdish
and Arab civilizations. The power struggle over this
intractable conflict has produced five combined
internal characteristics. I. William Zartman
identifies these elements as "protracted time,
identity denigration, conflict profitability,
absence of ripeness, and solution polarization" (Zartman,
2005, p. 48). Each one of these characteristics is
clearly visible in the conflict over Kirkuk as we
will explore them in the overall context of this
The geopolitics of Kirkuk is fixed in a complex set
of relationships in which "it is structural and
external to the conflict rather than internal and
process related" (2005, p. 56). In other words, the
multilayered conflict in Kirkuk has attracted not
only regional powers to muddle in its deep-rotted
sensitive affairs, but also enticed the United
States to play a major role in freezing it
temporarily to be transformed according to its
strategic national interests in the Middle East.
Obviously, the structural complexity of the Kirkuk
conflict has to do a lot with what Michael Brown
calls "bad leaders" because of their involvement in
deep-rooted identity and economic grievances "as
well as considerable amount of war profiteering by
representatives of one group or another" (Crocker,
Hampson, and Aall, 2005, p. 6). Inherently, such
"bad" state and non-state actors inflame their
constituencies to produce a zero-sum polarization so
that a magnified grievances amalgamated into each
party's account of historical claims (2005, p. 7).
This is clearly evident in the actions of the bad
Arab, Turkmen, and some of the Kurdish leaders
directly engaged in the intractability of the Kirkuk
Finally, it is worth mentioning in this section of
the paper that although the Kirkuk intractable
conflict seems to be mainly an intrastate conflict,
it certainly has incited at least indirectly the
1980-88 war between Iraq and Iran. Also, prior to
the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, it was an active
intractable conflict. However, as mentioned before,
since the Iraqi constitutional referendum in October
of 2005, it has become an abeyant intractable
conflict waiting to be flared up if the Iraqi
central government continues to deploy and play by
games such as the two-level faction-traction,
delivery dilemmas, worn-out salient solutions, and
insurmountable risks (2005, pp. 18-21).
2.0 A brief history of
Kirkuk and its geography
The governorate of Kirkuk and its capital city, also
called Kirkuk, were known as Ara'pha to the ancient
cultures and as Karkha d'beth Silokh to the
classical world (Talabany, 2000, p.7). To Persia's
Sasanid Empire, this was their western Kurdish
province of Garmian, meaning the "warm places"
(Anderson & Stansfield, 2009, p. 14). This historic
name still survives for the region in the common
folk language, while the thirteenth century Seljuk
name of Kirkuk is reserved for the city alone.
During the years of conflict between the Shi'ite
Safavid Empire and the Sunni Ottoman Empire, the
region of Kirkuk in particular, and Kurdistan in
general, became a constant battleground (Amin Zaki,
1961, p. 164). Kirkuk's strategic location and
ethnic composition led to its changing hands many
times and suffering a great deal of damage (1961, p.
166). Speaking of the city's ethnic composition, by
the end of nineteenth century, the Ottoman
encyclopedic, Shamsadin Sami, states in his seminal
work of Qamusl al A'ala'm (Encyclopedia of the
World) that "[t]hree quarters of the inhabitants are
Kurds and the rest are Turkmen, Arabs, and others.
After visiting the city of Kirkuk, he estimated the
population to be between 12 and 15 thousand, all
Kurds except for 40 Armenian families" (2000, p. 8).
To better control the region, the Ottomans
encouraged their more loyal Turkic subjects and
military personnel to settle in the cities and
towns—of Tel Afar and Mosul in the north, Arbil,
Kirkuk and Kifri in central north and Khanaqin and
Mandali on the present Iraq-Iran borders—which
dotted the trade routes in the Mosul Wilayet.
According to Talabany, the Iraqi historian Abdul-Razzaq
Al-Hassani had asserted that the Turkmens of this
troubled region are "a part of the forces of Sultan
Murat IV who recaptured Iraq from the Safavid
Persians in 1638 and remained in these parts to
protect this route between the southern and northern
Ottoman Wilayets" (Al-Hassani, 1956 cited in
Talabany, 2000, p. 11).
Many Turkmen military personnel who settled
permanently in the above Kurdish cities,
subsequently became the primary elements for
executing the nineteenth century Ottoman
Turkification policy along the trade routes as
mentioned before (2009, p. 18). However, once the
British occupation of Iraq began in 1918, many
Turkish families had either fled to present-day
Turkey, or declared themselves some as Arabs and
others as indigenous Kurds. To that end, the
official Iraqi census of 1957, which is considered
to be accurate, reveals that Turkmens made up 21.4%
of the total Kirkuki population. However, this
percentage decreased in later censuses partly
because the Iraqi regime deliberately muddled the
ethnicity of the Turkmens and classed many of them
as Arabs. By the time of the 1997 census, the
Turkmen share of the Kirkuki population was recorded
as 7% (2009, p.43).
2.1 The Arabization of
The City of Kirkuk has been known to have oil long
before the Ottoman occupation of Kurdistan. In fact,
its "eternal fire" known as "Baba Gurgur" has been
incorporated into Kakeyi's sub-Zoroastrian religious
mythologies since the eighth century. Nonetheless,
the systematic and organized exploitation of the
Kirkuk oil fields only began seven years after the
British occupation of Iraq in 1918. Whether or not
the initial intention of the colonial Britain in the
aftermath of the World War I was to help the
minorities of the defeated Ottoman Empire to
establish their own nation-states, the discovery of
vast oil reserves in Kurdistan led to a fundamental
change in British policy towards the Kurdish
self-determination issue.
At first, there was a tendency among some British
officers to favor the creation of a Kurdish state.
Kurds were hopeful to see the implementation of the
Treaty of Sevres, signed on August 10, 1920 in which
a promise of creating an independent Kurdistan was
made in accordance with articles 62 and 64 of
the treaty (2004, p. 139).
Meanwhile, the British Mandated Iraq organized a
referendum in 1921 on the accession of the non-Iraqi
Jordanian Prince Faisal bin Hussein as king of the
new state of Iraq. This accession caused a great
deal of disturbances in southern Kurdistan,
especially in the Suleimani and Rawanduz regions (McDowall,
2004, p 137). Eventually, because of the French
defeat in Cilicia on the one hand, and the growing
alliance of the Russian Bolsheviks with the
resisting Turkish Grand National Assembly in Ankara
on the other hand, Britain and its allies dropped
their earlier promise to the Kurds. Consequently,
wide spread insurrection threatened the presence of
British forces in Kurdistan. As such, Britain
reversed its earlier enforced detention of Sheikh
Mahmoud of Suleimani region and brought him back
from Kuwait in mid-September 1922 to be reappointed
as the President of the Kurdish Council in Suleimani
(2004, p. 161).
Needless to say more, the British colonial tactics
of "divide-and-rule" was successful in limiting
Sheikh Mahmoud's influence to the Suleimani region,
whereas the governorates of Mosul, Erbil, and Kirkuk
were lured to accept a limited form of autonomy
conditioned by agreeing to the suggestions made by
the League of Nations' demarcation commission on the
disputed status of southern Kurdistan between
Turkey, Britain, and Iraq, particularly after the
1923 Lausanne treaty which completely aborted the
idea of a separate Kurdish state. Accordingly,
Kirkuk along with the rest of southern Kurdistan
became a loose part of the Iraqi kingdom after the
League of Nations' declaration on 16 December, 1924
that all the land below the "Brussels Line" (the
current Iraqi-Turkish border) should be incorporated
into Iraq (2000, p. 20).
Ever since, successive Iraqi governments tried with
varying degrees of intensity not only to combat the
Kurdish resistance movement, but also to change the
ethnic composition of Kirkuk region. From the outset
and under the pretexts of oil production and
megaprojects of irrigation systems in Kirkuk, the
Iraqi central governments brought large numbers of
Arabs and pro-British Assyrian workers from other
parts of Iraq to work and permanently be settled
there (2000, p. 21). Yet, although they retained a
simple majority in the city of Kirkuk and a large
majority in the governorate, Kurds grew in
resentment because so few of them were employed by
the Anglo-Iraqi oil company. This influx of outside
labors expanded in 1935 when the Iraqi government
embarked on settling Arab tribes in the fertile
plains of the Hawija district in southwestern
governorate of Kirkuk (2000, p. 24). This marked the
beginning of the process of Arabization which
gradually increased until the toppling of the Iraqi
monarch system on 14 July, 1958.
Thereafter, for a period of three years, Kirkuk
became the main point of disagreement between
Kurdish negotiators and their Iraqi counterparts in
Baghdad. Under the leadership of Mustafa Barzani,
Kurds demanded that Kirkuk must be part of the
autonomous talks with Baghdad. However, the Iraqi
side refused to accommodate that demand.
Consequently, Mustafa Barzani left Baghdad to
Kurdistan preparing to fight the central government
forces. In retaliation, government forces began
bombarding the strongholds of the Kurdish Peshmerga
(freedom fighter) forces in September 1961. Since
Mustafa Barzani's famous line "Kerkuk Dili
Kurdistane", meaning Kirkuk is the heart of
Kurdistan, became a rallying popular slogan for the
Kurdish resistance. Meanwhile, the Arabization
process of Kirkuk was renewed and lasted until the
first Ba'athist pan-Arab coup d'état of February 8,
The resumption of the fighting over Kirkuk began in
June 1963. This time, the Arabization of Kirkuk
intensified to include the deportation of Kurdish
families associated not only with Peshmerga forces,
but also anyone who was affiliated with the
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) led by Mustafa
Barzani. Among the many measures taken by the
pan-Arab Ba'athists were the destruction of Kurdish
towns and villages and the demolition of Kurdish
neighborhoods in the cities of Kirkuk, Daquq,
Tuz-Khurmatu, Kirfi, and Khanaqin near the
borderline that separates Kurdistan from Iraq. From
there, the Arabization policy became a
well-established ethnic cleansing tool and used by
subsequent Iraqi governments until the second
Ba'athist coup d'état in July 1968.
2.2 Saddam Hussein's
Kurdish ethnic cleansing policy
The Ba'ath Party's return to power in yet another
military coup on July 17, 1968, had given Saddam
Hussein an unprecedented power. Throughout his
negotiation rounds with the KDP elites that lasted
until March 1974, Hussein utilized various levels of
negotiations encompassing games such as two-level
tactics, faction-traction problems, delivery
dilemmas, and most importantly the deployment of the
insurmountable risks that led the KDP elites to
embrace secessionist thoughts.
At first, beginning with the promise to concede
Kurdish rights to govern Kirkuk, Hussein was able to
strike an autonomous deal with Mustafa Barzani. The
March 11th Autonomy Agreement of 1970 stipulated
that all cities and towns of Iraq with a simple
Kurdish majority would become part of the Kurdish
autonomy region. However, because of Turkey's
objections to this deal, the Iraqi government backed
off of its promises with a new power sharing scheme
over the Kirkuk governorate and the Khanaqin distric
in the Diyala governorate to the East of Kirkuk.
Meanwhile, Iran was not happy to see the Kurds
achieving anything at all. Therefore, backed by the
United States, Mohammad Riza Shah of Iran encouraged
Mustafa Barzani not to accept any amendments to the
1970 Autonomy Agreement.
Trapped in this multilayer game-play of nations, and
not recognizing his lack of diplomatic experience
and non-mastery of negotiations, Mustafa Barzani was
easily duped not only by the Shah of Iran, but also
by the US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
Explaining the dirty role of the United States in
the disastrous end of the 1974-75 Kurdish
revolution, Kissinger callously responded that
"covert action should not be confused with
missionary work" (Blum, 2003, p. 244).
Consequently, over 200,000 Kurdish refugees ended up
to be treated miserably by Iran, half of which were
from the Kirkuk governorate. As most of them were
forced to return to Iraq, the Ba'athist regime
deported them to southern Iraqi marshlands to be
assimilated there. Also, aside from appointing
Ba'athist Arabs as governors of Kirkuk with wide and
extraordinary powers to ethnically cleanse the Kurds
of Kirkuk, Saddam's authorized the use of extreme
measures to execute his ethnic cleansing policy
which included among other things transferring non-Ba'athist
Kurds to areas outside the Kirkuk and replacing them
with southern Iraqi as well as Palestinian Arabs.
The transferred Kurds were barred from returning to
Kirkuk (2000, p. 35). Then, aside from changing the
names of Kurdish neighborhoods, streets, schools and
markets to Arabic, wide streets and boulevards were
constructed in Kurdish neighborhoods with laughable
compensation to those who were effected by. Also,
Kurds were forbidden to sell their properties in
Kirkuk except to Arabs, and were prevented from
buying homes or renovating their existing homes and
properties under any circumstance (Ali, 2008, pp.
54-6). In addition, various charges, threats and
intimidations were applied against many Kurds and
Shia Turkmens to force them leave the governorate
and then confiscate their homes and properties. Many
Kurds were arbitrarily arrested, imprisoned, and put
to their death (2008, p. 66). Furthermore, the
Ba'athist regime detached four of the seven
districts of the Kirkuk governorate and attached
them to the neighboring governorates in order to
reduce the status of the Kurds to a mere minority.
In addition, the regime changed the name of the
Kirkuk governorate to Al-Ta'mim, meaning
"nationalization" to seal the second phase of the
Arabization process. While doing that, the
Ba'athists went on systematically destroying
hundreds of Kurdish villages and counties. The
entire populations of these villages were placed in
concentration camps located in other counties,
districts and governorates. These innocent villagers
barely had the means to survive and were kept under
constant government surveillance. Indeed, these
tightly controlled camps were a grim reminder of
those run by the Nazis Germany during the World War
II. They had all been given Arab names such as "Al-Sumud,"
"Al-Quds," and "Al-Qadissiyah," (Talabany, 2000;
McDowall, 2004; Ali, 2008; Anderson & Stansfield,
Following the 1991 mass Kurdish uprising in Iraq,
the government forcibly expelled over 120,000 Kurds,
Turkmens, and Assyrians from their homes in Kirkuk
governorate. Throughout the 1990s entire families
belonging to these ethnic minorities have been
obliged to relocate, leaving behind virtually all
their possessions, properties, and means of
livelihood. Most of them sought refuge in the
Kurdish controlled governorates of Duhok, Erbil and
Suleimani. A smaller number were relocated to Iraqi
government-controlled areas in central and southern
Iraq. This systematic forcible transfer of Kurds and
others was the last phase of the Arabization of
Kirkuk region (OLeary, 2008, p. 2).
3.0 The Kirkuk impasse in
post-2003 Iraq
After the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, many Kurds
returned to Kirkuk getting back their homes and
properties left behind by the escaped Arab settlers.
Others are still waiting to claim back their titles
which are stranded with delivery dilemmas
orchestrated by hardline Arab nationalists working
in Baghdad for the pro-Iranian government of Iraq.
Following the invasion and the subsequent removal of
the Ba'athist regime from power, the Coalition
Provisional Authority (CPA) was formed to
reconstruct Iraq. From May 2003 to June 2004, the
CPA was able to draw a peaceful resolution for the
status of Kirkuk and the other disputed Kurdish
areas. According to article 58 of the Transitional
Administrative Law (TAL), the CPA recognized
profound demographic and boundary manipulations done
by the Ba'athist regime which transgressed human
rights, political rights and the rights of
nationalities and ethnic minorities. It proposed
measures to rectify these "expeditiously"
injustices. However, the CPA and the subsequent
Iraqi transitional government (June 28 2004-January
31 2005) failed to deliver their promises on excuses
of heightened insurgency and the regional
interference on the one hand, and the questionable
legitimacy of the TAL written by an internationally
recognized occupation authority on the other (OLeary,
2008, p. 3).
As it stands now, this was a faction-traction game
by which the government of Prime Minister Ayad
Allawi played it well to gain popularity among the
Sunni Arabs of Kirkuk. To off-set these games,
leading Kurdish negotiators threated to boycott his
government and pullout of the US efforts to secure
and reconstruct Iraq simultaneously. Kurdish as well
as Arab Shia makers of Iraq's permanent constitution
reemphasized the political status of the governorate
of Kirkuk, and the other disputed territories, in
Article 140 which stipulates a referendum to be
scheduled by the end of December 2007 so that
Kirkuki voters could decide if they want to join the
autonomous region of Kurdistan or not. Despite
little progress, unfortunately, the elected 2006
government of Iraq, led by the Arab Shia Prime
Minister Ibrahim Al-Jafari, became entangled with
Turkey's demand to play by the delivery dilemma
game. Hence, the prospective referendum affecting
the status of Kirkuk governorate was postponed for
six months, until the summer of 2008 (OLeary, 2008,
p. 1). Once again, Kurdish lawmakers were quick to
spoil Turkey's interferences in Iraq's domestic
politics by demanding the removal of Al-Jafari from
power. After intense negotiations, the Shia majority
agreed to replace Al-Jafari with Nuri Al-Maliki who,
at the time, was deputy of Al-Jafari's Islamic
Aldawa Party. Interestingly, Al-Maliki's acceptance
of replacing Al-Jafari let to the split of the
Aldawa Party into two factions. Publically, Al-Maliki's
faction of the Aldawa Party blames the Kurds for its
fraction. Hence, Al-Maliki is reluctant to cooperate
with the Kurds.
For now, although the obligation to fulfill Article
140 remains a constitutional imperative, the
intractable conflict over Kirkuk, though still
remains abeyant, it may be flared up again at any
moment. This is due in part to Al-Maliki's bit to
"have it all" or the absolute grip of power which
has clearly been visible since the withdrawal of the
US forces from Iraq in December 2011. As for the
President of the Kurdistan Regional Government
(KRG), Masoud Barzani, Mustafa Barzani's son, he has
been growing in frustrations with Al-Maliki's
reluctance to make good on his constitutional
obligations. In fact, on the eve of Newroz, the
Kurdish New Year—21st March 2012, Masoud Barzani
accused Al-Maliki of dictatorial intent and
wondered: "Where in the world can the same person be
the prime minister, the chief of staff of the armed
forces, the minister of defense, the minister of
interior, the chief of intelligence and the head of
the national security council?" (Kurdistan Tribune,
4.0 Compromise or critical
thinking: which way out to a peaceful solution?
At this height of tensions between the antagonists,
what is the predictable outcome? If it is negative,
how could it be changed to positive by which the
non-negotiable needs of all parties to the Kirkuk
conflict be met? This section attempts to respond to
these and other related concerns.
From a Kurdish perspective, the return of Kirkuk and
the other disputed territories to the autonomous
region of Kurdistan constitute one of the principle
requirements to form a "unique" identity for the
Kurdish nation within the territorial integrity of
the state of Iraq. As provided earlier, throughout
their modern
Iraqi history, Kurds have been
engaging in on-again off-again fighting with the
consecutive governments of Iraq, mainly, because of
their consistently non-negotiable demand to govern
Kirkuk. They believe that their Iraqi constitutional
right and obligations must not be compromised,
especially the well overdue referendum on the status
of the disputed territories including the
normalization (de-Arabization) of Kirkuk.
Conversely, it seems that the Iraqi government is
not aware of the fact that dishonoring the Kurdish
demands to uphold their constitutional rights would
legally empower them to establish their own well
overdue nation-state. Seeking or pressurizing the
Kurds for more concessions and compromises on their
non-negotiable needs is nothing but more of the same
old delivery dilemmas. Last but not least, Kurds
have repeatedly been asserting that their acceptance
of the Iraqi identity and their commitment to uphold
the Iraqi constitution leaves no room for any sorts
of compromise. The Kurds, more than anybody else,
recognize that the current geopolitics of the Middle
East will not accommodate the establishment of a
Kurdish state and it would remain as such for as
long as the authoritarian mindsets dominate the
region. Hence, the Iraqi Arab claims of Kurdish
conspiracy similar to that of the Israeli Jewish
conspiracy in the region are laughably speculative.
Rather, Iraqi Arabs need to appreciate the already
demonstrated Kurdish eagerness to rid Iraq and the
rest of the Middle East the troubles associated with
the nationalist secessionism. The Iraqi Arabs' token
of appreciation would be best if they reverse the
Arabization policies of Baghdad and honor their
constitutional obligations so that their Kurdish
country-partners enjoy governing themselves
democratically within the federal state of Iraq.
4.1 What is the next in the
Iraqi tinderbox?
While Al-Maliki is trying to pick arm-twists with
Kurdish leaderships, KRG officials are preparing to
have a possible showdown in the disputed
territories, including the governorate of Kirkuk. If
the heightening tension between the KRG and the Al-Maliki
government is not subsiding soon; and, if the
international community is not actively encouraging
Baghdad for the implementation of Article 140, then
a bloody armed conflict would be inevitable.
If Article 140 remains practically difficult to be
implemented, then Al-Maliki needs to layout his best
alternative solution that would be acceptable to the
Kurds. Respectively, the US government as well as
the UN needs to "step in and propose a solution that
addresses all sides' core concerns without crossing
their existential red lines" (ICG: 2006). For
example, the reversal of all Arabization abuses by
previous regimes in the disputed areas so their
population can decide either to join the KRG or
remain within their respective governorates; an
equitable federated "city-power-sharing" limited to
the boundaries of the City of Kirkuk; and the
accession of former Kirkuk districts—where Kurds
constituted the majority of the population according
to the 1957 census—by the KRG.
Regionally, the US needs to exert more pressure on
Turkey not to interfere with Iraq's internal
affairs, especially with regard to the Kirkuk issue.
Furthermore, the US government needs to work harder
in its isolation policies toward Iran and Syria. A
regionally contained Iran and an urgently needed
regime change in Syria will ensure greater stability
in the Middle East. Isolating Iran and democratizing
Syria non-violently will lead to a successful and
stable democratic Iraq. Failure by the US and the UN
to act decisively may lead to a rapid deterioration
of the already charged situation. The result would
be a violent intrastate conflict, spreading civil
war and, possibly, regional military interventions.
Finally, it is doubtful that the post-2003 Iraq
would survive yet another major bloodshed in its
oil-rich areas where large Iraqi diverse communities
do live.
This paper examined the intractable conflict in
Kirkuk. First, it has provided a definition for
intractable conflict along with causes and some
typologies of intractable conflict. Then, it went on
exploring some historical and geopolitical issues as
factors causing contributing to the conflict in
Kirkuk. The second section of the paper explained
how the Ottoman Turkification and the subsequent
Iraqi Arabization policies entrenched the conflict
to the point of active intractable conflict,
especially during the pre-2003 Iraqi authoritarian
era. The third section has examined the post-2003
Iraq with constitutional commitments to resolve the
abeyant intractable conflict of Kirkuk and the other
disputed territories. Also, it has expounded on the
challenges facing the constitutional solution that
may transfer the conflict to an active intractable
conflict in the absence of any real progress. The
last section has emphasized the role of critical
thinking in consciously predicting what might happen
if an abeyant intractable conflict transforms into
an active intractable conflict.
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Arabization of Kirkuk in the Ba'ath documents.
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Media Release: Waddle your way to this year's annual Penguin Festival
Date: 2013-10-02
It is that time of year where you can waddle with the penguins at the 11th annual Simon's Town SANCCOB Penguin Festival, once again taking place at Boulders Beach Penguin Colony in Simon's Town on Saturday, 12 October 2013.
African Penguin Awareness Day – Penguin Beach Release
Date: 12 October 2013
Time: 10h00-11h00
Location: Seaforth Beach, Simon's Town
Hosted annually by SANCCOB and South African National Parks (SANParks), The Simon's Town Penguin Festival begins with the beach release of rescued African penguins back into the wild.
The beach release will kick off the festivities and will take place at Seaforth Beach in Simon's Town at 10h00. Should you wish to witness this moving event, parking can be found at the Seaforth beach parking area. A popular event for the local residents of Simon's Town – it is best to arrive early.
Be part of the action from the V&A Waterfront - penguin release and meet-a-penguin event
Date: 12 October 2013
Time: 9h30-11h30
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Date: 12 October 2013
Time: 11h00-15h00
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A fun-filled day of festivities, including environmental exhibition stalls, snake and raptor show, games for the family, raffles, food stalls, and the kids can meet the SANCCOB Ambassador Penguin. In addition to these and other live shows, The Ultimate Braai Master, sponsored by Pick 'n Pay, SASSI Celebrity Chef challenge of cooking sustainable seafood is not to be missed. The festival will be filled with plenty of fun and games and great prizes to be won for the whole family.
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Gamma rays are the brightest, most powerful, explosions in the universe, often emitted from supernova or supermassive black holes. But these giant flashes can also have Earthly origins, stemming from intense storms — these are called terrestrial gamma-ray flashes. NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (shown here in a May 2008 image), which launched in June 2008, can detect both types of gamma rays. The telescope can see the terrestrial type up to a distance of about 500 miles (800 kilometers).
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The TGFs are thought to begin in the intense electrical fields of thunderstorms. Within this field, the electrons get accelerated above the storm where the air is thin, ramping up to near light-speed. Here, an artist interpretation of electrons accelerating upward from a thunderhead.
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Here a terrestrial gamma-ray flash just 1.98 seconds old (right panel), revealing its electron/positron beam, moving from just 9.3 miles (15 kilometers) altitude to some 373 miles (600 km), where it may intercept such spacecraft as NASA's Fermi Gama-Ray Space Telescope. (Gamma rays are shown in magenta and high-energy electrons in yellow.)
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- April 20, 2013
JAMES Hird hasn't shaved since Tuesday.
There it is, the latest development in the Essendon drug scandal.
For the past week every move by Hird has been analysed as the football world searches for any little sign of guilt or innocence.
His first public appearance since the infamous meeting with ASADA investigators was a five-minute press conference yesterday morning on the steps below the old grandstand at Windy Hill.
And it was Hird at his classy best.
Imagine Mick Malthouse or Ross Lyon having to deal with his current predicament. They would have been biting the heads off anyone daring to ask them about the weather, let alone the drugs scandal.
Hird kept his cool and his smile as he handled a soft opening question.
"I'm holding up very well," he said. "The team is playing well, which always helps."
He maintained that cool as the expected blowtorch was thrust his way.
"There will be a day when we talk about (the interview). But right at the moment I can't have any comment about the ASADA investigation."
Has it affected his preparation this week?
"It just meant I worked harder on Tuesday night, as I had to get across all the vision. But, no, it hasn't affected our preparation at all or my preparation."
When the developments with Melbourne and the Bombers former sports scientist Stephen Dank was raised, Hird started to lose his enthusiasm for the press conference.
"Again, there will be a time to comment and talk about everything that's happened but right now, it's not appropriate.
"Guys, if we can talk about footy I can talk. But the investigation, I just can't talk about."
And with that Hird had survived. The next couple of minutes were footy questions, which he swatted away beautifully.
How will you avoid a letdown after last week's emotion-charged victory?
"You train hard, you work hard and you work through emotion as it comes," he said. "In terms of our training, we've trained very well this week."
On the players cracking it about the club's TV show broadcasting his post-game speech: "I can understand where the players are coming from and I can also understand the club's point of view.
"The players and the club have had a chat and it's all sorted now . . . it won't happen again."
On Brendon Goddard facing his former team: "There might be a bit of banter . . . good-humoured banter is always a bit of fun out on the field. But I'm sure the players will support Brendon."
He then pumped up the return of Tayte Pears and Jason Winderlich before saying Dustin Fletcher was in the frame to play Anzac Day.
And with that he wandered off on to the ground, a smile appearing as he ran his hands through his three-day growth.
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Matt Ryan's fantasy football stock just got kicked off a ledge into a deep, dark pit.
Jay Glazer of Fox Sports reported on Tuesday morning that Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones is likely out for the season with a foot injury. He noted that nothing is set in stone, however, as Jones will seek a second opinion:
Breaking: Falcons fear Julio Jones likely OUT for the rest of the year w a foot injury. He's getting a second opinion tomorrow to determine— Jay Glazer (@JayGlazer) October 8, 2013
Initial determination by falcons is that Julio Jones season is over. They are hopeful 2nd opinion says otherwise but not optimistic— Jay Glazer (@JayGlazer) October 8, 2013
Jones is one of the best fantasy football receivers in the league, and his ability to consistently haul in deep passes is one of the reasons Ryan has been such a reliable fantasy quarterback.
For the season, the former Alabama star has caught 41 passes for 580 yards and two touchdowns, averaging 8.2 receptions for 116 yards per game.
And he's not the only injured receiver on Atlanta's roster, either.
All-Pro Roddy White has been battling a high-ankle sprain all year, and he's been extremely ineffective as a result, catching just 14 passes for 129 yards and zero touchdowns on the season.
Making matters worse, he exited the game on Monday night with a hamstring, as noted by the Falcons, and never returned to the game:
INJURY UPDATE: Falcons WR Roddy White has hamstring injury, return to game is questionable. #NYJvsATL— Atlanta_Falcons (@Atlanta_Falcons) October 8, 2013
With White already ailing, Jones was the big-play receiver for the Falcons. Tony Gonzalez is second on the team with 33 receptions, but he doesn't stretch the field these days like he used to in his prime.
Harry Douglas is fast, but he isn't a reliable target, catching 16 passes this year on 27 targeted attempts.
Jones' injury will ____ Ryan's fantasy stock.
Atlanta's offense was already suffering enough with Jones in the lineup. Ryan has been getting hammered in the pocket this year playing behind a porous offensive line (nine sacks) and the team can't generate a rushing attack (78.4 yards per game).
Jones was the glue holding this offense together, and if he's out for the season, then Ryan's fantasy production will take a serious turn for the worse. His trade value certainly declines with this news, and owners looking to offload him will have a hard time getting proper value in return.
Fantasy owners looking to upgrade from their current signal-callers would be smart to stay away from any suspect trade proposals from panicked Ryan owners looking to unload him.
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by Jeni Bone on 21 Jun 2011
Kylie Gretener from FindACrew, with Brian Calvert who is taking his Selene 48 ocean trawler around the world, with motivated crew. Nautycal
A Seattle native, Brian Calvert has been on his world tour for two years, following the sun, and swearing he will never wear long pants again, onboard his Selene 48, 'Furthur' – named after a famous hippy bus from the 60s that went across America with a bunch of famous hippies onboard which was immortalised in the book, 'Electric Coolaid Acid Test'. He is also the poster boy for FindACrew, to which he attributes the best parts of his adventure, the people he's met.
'For me, it's been a huge asset, to find people to do different legs on the boat. They all have varied experience, some are seasoned travellers and divers, and some have no sailing experience. But I am a safety nut, and it's a well equipped boat. So people who join me can be sure to learn a lot, see the world and it's a very inexpensive way of doing so.'
A single sailor, Brian says he could quite easily make the trip by myself, 'if I wanted to prove something'.
'But I want to have some fun. Without FindACrew I am sure finding interesting and motivated people would be a lot harder,' he says from his tropical mooring in Cairns. 'There's no doubt, the people I have met along the way and those that will still come along for the trip are one of the highlights of this experience.'
The other highlights include living among and experiencing the cultures of the people he meets along the way. 'Since leaving Seattle in September 2009, I have had over 30 crew and they've all been involved everywhere we go. We've been to jungle feasts with primitive tribes, I hosted a radio show in the Cook Islands, we met the Chief of a Village, learnt to dance, went diving off the Great Barrier Reef and plenty of shark dives in the South Pacific.'
Brian is in Cairns for three more days, before heading off to Darwin to join around 100 boats for the Sail Indonesia Rally.
'I am about to have three more FindACrew people come aboard, and I just found out my neighbours here have four FindACrew people onboard!'
Brian's Selene 48 will be the first Selene motoryacht to circumnavigate the world. He fell in love with these boats over the decade he was distributor for them in the US (Sales Man of the Year for eight years running), and he had 'Furthur' customised for the journey.
He also enjoys the support/sponsorship of Cummins and Wesmar stabilizers.
His journey began in 2009, when he left Seattle for Mexico, then crossed the Pacific to French Polynesia, Cook Island, Niue, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Australia. He will have travelled from Sydney to Darwin, before beginning his Asian odyssey in a couple of weeks.
'I plan to sail Indonesia, to Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Borneo, Philippines, then in 2013, cross the Indian Ocean to the Med, then the Atlantic, and the Caribbean. I will happily take five or so years to do that.'
His aim? 'To go around the world, safely, no mishaps, no harrowing stories to tell. To meet as many people as I can and experience their lives.'
So far, Brian's blog Blog, furthur.talkspot.com, has reached around 80,000 people, with about 1000 hits per week.
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what everybody is waiting about "THE PS3"
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The PlayStation 3 will sport some hefty multimedia features, such as video chat, internet access, digital photo viewing, digital audio and video. Sony Computer Entertainment head Ken Kutaragi introduced it as a "Super computer for computer entertainment."
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Sony's unveiling of the PlayStation 3 console at an E3 press conference marked the first official acknowledgement of a system whose details have been kept highly secret for the last year. More than 2,000 industry professionals packed the venue, with one question firmly on their minds: how would Sony's PS3 stack up against arch nemesis Microsoft's Xbox 360? After all, Microsoft stole Sony's PR thunder with a flashy prime-time MTV special, and its console, due out this holiday season, will beat Sony's to market by almost six months. But don't count Sony out just yet--it's the number one console gaming company for a reason, and from what we saw, the tremendously powerful PlayStation 3 has the potential to turn the impending next-generation console war on its head.
Upside: Like the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 is all about power, and with a little help from Nvidia, IBM, and Toshiba, Sony is claiming to have created the most powerful graphics system ever built on any platform. The demos we saw of upcoming PlayStation 3 games were truly impressive, showing off nearly photo-realistic graphics at high-definition 720p resolutions (according to Sony, the console is capable of output at up to 1080p). What's more, the PS3 will be backward-compatible with previous-generation PlayStation games, a boon to anyone dreaming of tearing through Grand Theft Auto on an even more powerful machine. As with the Xbox 360, the PS3 supports multiple wireless controllers, though it can handle up to seven simultaneous players via Bluetooth where Microsoft's console supports only four. Sony hinted at powerful media capabilities for its next-generation system, trumpeting its onboard Memory Stick, SD, and CompactFlash media slots as well as a bay for an optional hard drive. Unlike the Xbox, which uses current-generation DVD media, Sony's console will support high-capacity Blu-ray discs. What's more, the PlayStation 3 will sync wirelessly with Sony's PSP, though we don't yet know specifically how.
Downside: It's still unclear how much the PS3 will cost, but we suspect it will be in excess of $300 and probably closer to $400. More importantly, in order to enjoy the full power of the platform, you'll have to upgrade to an HDTV (preferably a large one that can handle the PS3's maximum 1080p output) and tap into a surround-sound system. Also, fancy graphics are welcome, but building those textures will increase development cycles, and as development costs increase, so do the costs of games; we wouldn't be surprised to see PS3 games exceeding $60 in some cases.
Outlook: Last time around, the original Xbox came out later than the PS2 and, thus, wielded a significant hardware edge. But with the next generation of gaming consoles, Sony appears to be on equal footing and may even have the technological advantage. Microsoft has already announced its strategy for undercutting the PlayStation 3 at launch: Halo 3, the latest sequel in their staggeringly popular franchise, will arrive in stores the same day as Sony's console. But based on its console's impressive specs and Sony's strong tradition of support from developers, we see no reason to doubt that the company's new console will affirm its place at number one when the PS3 launches in spring 2006 with its own set of mind-blowing titles. Plus, whatever the differences between PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360, real gaming enthusiasts will, of course, simply have to own both.
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this one belongs to the reds..
thanks sam, that was not an easy save
this one belongs to the reds..
thanks sam, that was not an easy save
Rounding third and heading for home...
Nice series win over a good team
Groundout to 2nd, we're still good!
"Since I've been with the Reds in 1989, we've never had a farm system this loaded," Bowden said. "If we were the New York Yankees and had unlimited dollars, we could have traded for Colon, (Jeff) Weaver, Rolen, (Cliff) Floyd, (Kenny) Rogers and Finley and gotten them all -- and still held onto our top five prospects. That's an amazing statement."
Reds win- ground out!
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Very good series. Only 2 games behind the Pirates now.
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"I tried to play golf, but I found out I wasn't very good." -Joey Votto on his offseason hobby search
An MLB.com reporter asked what one thing Votto couldnt do. I cant skate or play hockey, Votto said. Well, I can skate ... but I cant stop.
Close win, big win, it doesn't matter, it's a win!!! This one belongs to the Reds! 3 out of 4 in this series against the D'Backs.
Big series win.
Is it "next season" yet?
Sweet! Big win! Me likey.
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[AMERICANS ABROAD]American attacker Clint Dempsey was named Player of the Month at his English Premier League club Fulham. Dempsey was used a sub in the first three games of the season, then started the next two games and notch a goal in each.
"It's always an honor when you're recognized by the fans for your play," Dempsey told fulhamfc.com. "The season didn't start out exactly how I wanted in terms of playing time. But through working hard the coach gave me a chance and I was able to show that I could play.
"I like being in the attack and any time you have the opportunity to be closer to the opponent's goal you're going to have more chances to score. I'm a quite tall and decent in the air so I think that's what allowed me to play up front.
"I've been watching Brian [McBride, Dempsey's injured American teammate], who is a more experienced player and does a better job in the air, but through watching him and playing more I hope to be successful in that position for as long as I'm on the field. The most important thing for me is to play and contribute towards the team. In whatever position play, I want to be the best that I can be."
Fulham plays at Wigan this weekend.