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Acer C710 Chromebook
The following is a work in progress, of getting arch working on Acer's new C7 200$ Chromebook. From opening the box to an Arch Linux command line.
Currently you'll need a second computer already running *nix. In the future If there's enough requests I'll create a way to install Arch without the need for a second computer. Much like the cr48-ubuntu script. If you're already running Ubuntu on your C7 then you can just skip to creating your own arch image.
- 1 Installing Arch onto an Acer C7 Chromebook
- 2 Compile A Custom Kernel (optional)
- 3 Problems AKA: Work In Progress
- 4 See alse
Installing Arch onto an Acer C7 Chromebook
Currently Archlinux does work on the C7 but the install process is a bit odd. Currently I have no way to replace the chromeos kernel, and I'd really like to. If you manage to figure it out PLEASE let me know how. In the mean time the system does work really well (for a chromebook) with Arch.
Backup all your data!
I'm assuming you're buying the system to install Arch, and that there's no personal data on the device. But if that's not the case
Off device too, the hard disk gets wiped clean by design when you enter Dev Mode.
Enabling Dev Mode
First step is to enable Dev mode on the system so we can run some unsigned code. This will wipe all your data!
To enter Dev Mode:
- Press hold down the Template:Keypress keys, and press the Template:Keypress button.
- This enters recovery mode,
- Now press Template:Keypress (there's no prompt). It will ask you to confirm, then the system will reboot into dev-mode.
- Dev Mode will always show the scary boot screen and you need to press Template:Keypress or wait 30 seconds to continue booting.
If you want to boot fromDirect_bootstrapping_Archlinux a chromium type usb drive you'll have to run "crossystem dev_boot_usb=1" from ChromeOS and reboot once to boot from USB drives with Template:Keypress. But we don't care about that.
(all of this was stolen from [1]) Direct_bootstrapping_Archlinux
Partitioning For Arch
Next you need to make room for Arch by repartitioning the Chromebook.
You can use the following script to repartition your C7 to make room for Arch Linux. (It will also probably work on other chromebooks as well.)
It will prompt you for sizes, then it will partition your disk for installing Arch, then reboot. After it reboots the C7 will reinstall ChromeOS to factory, but you'll have the partitions needed for installing Arch in the later sections.
if [ "$1" != "" ]; then target_disk=$1 echo "Got ${target_disk} as target drive" echo "" echo "WARNING! All data on this device will be wiped out! Continue at your own risk!" echo "" read -p "Press [Enter] to partition for Arch Linux on ${target_disk} or CTRL+C to quit" ext_size="`blockdev --getsz ${target_disk}`" aroot_size=$((ext_size - 65600 - 33)) parted --script ${target_disk} "mktable gpt" cgpt create ${target_disk} cgpt add -i 6 -b 64 -s 32768 -S 1 -P 5 -l KERN-A -t "kernel" ${target_disk} cgpt add -i 7 -b 65600 -s $aroot_size -l ROOT-A -t "rootfs" ${target_disk} sync blockdev --rereadpt ${target_disk} partprobe ${target_disk} crossystem dev_boot_usb=1 else target_disk="`rootdev -d -s`" # Do partitioning (if we haven't already) ckern_size="`cgpt show -i 6 -n -s -q ${target_disk}`" croot_size="`cgpt show -i 7 -n -s -q ${target_disk}`" state_size="`cgpt show -i 1 -n -s -q ${target_disk}`" max_archlinux_size=$(($state_size/1024/1024/2)) rec_archlinux_size=$(($max_archlinux_size - 1)) # If KERN-C and ROOT-C are one, we partition, otherwise assume they're what they need to be... if [ "$ckern_size" = "1" -o "$croot_size" = "1" ] then while : do read -p "Enter the size in gigabytes you want to use for Arch Linux. Acceptable range is 5 to $max_archlinux_size but $rec_archlinux_size is the recommended maximum: " archlinux_size if [ ! $archlinux_size -ne 0 2>/dev/null ] then echo -e "\n\nNumbers only please...\n\n" continue fi if [ $archlinux_size -lt 5 -o $archlinux_size -gt $max_archlinux_size ] then echo -e "\n\nThat number is out of range. Enter a number 5 through $max_archlinux_size\n\n" continue fi break done # We've got our size in GB for ROOT-C so do the math... #calculate sector size for rootc rootc_size=$(($archlinux_size*1024*1024*2)) #kernc is always 16mb kernc_size=32768 #new stateful size with rootc and kernc subtracted from original stateful_size=$(($state_size - $rootc_size - $kernc_size)) #start stateful at the same spot it currently starts at stateful_start="`cgpt show -i 1 -n -b -q ${target_disk}`" #start kernc at stateful start plus stateful size kernc_start=$(($stateful_start + $stateful_size)) #start rootc at kernc start plus kernc size rootc_start=$(($kernc_start + $kernc_size)) #Do the real work echo -e "\n\nModifying partition table to make room for Arch." echo -e "Your Chromebook will reboot, wipe your data and then" echo -e "you should re-run this script..." umount /mnt/stateful_partition # stateful first cgpt add -i 1 -b $stateful_start -s $stateful_size -l STATE ${target_disk} # now kernc cgpt add -i 6 -b $kernc_start -s $kernc_size -l KERN-C ${target_disk} # finally rootc cgpt add -i 7 -b $rootc_start -s $rootc_size -l ROOT-C ${target_disk} reboot exit fi fi
Create Arch Disk Image
Create Image File
- First we need to create an Arch Image to do things with. It's recommended that you use arch to create this image (because that's how I did it), but you can probably do this from any linux system.
# truncate -s 1G arch.img
Convert Image To A Partition
- Convert image to a ext3 filesystem.
# mkfs.ext3 arch.img
- Mount image to install to
# mkdir /mnt/arch_install # mount -o arch.img /mnt/arch_install
Install Arch onto this new image
There's plenty of ways to go about this, the method I recommend is Directly bootstrapping Archlinux. If you go this way you can just follow the Installation_Guide. But anyway you choose to create your Arch linux install should work, unless you do something very strange, in that case good luck!
Copy Arch Image To C7
The following is a quick mockup to get you started. It's incomplete, be careful, you'll be left with an unworking system if you follow this guide!
You should now have the following
- An image of Arch Linux
- A freshly partitioned Acer C7
- A copy of the kernel
- A copy of the kernel modules
From there all you need to do is;
- get the arch.img on the C7
- download a copy of your kernel
- download a copy of your kernel modules
- mount your image
- mount your root-c partition
- repack/resign the kernel
- dd the kernel
- copy over the kernel modules
- copy over cgpt
- set boot with cgpt
- reboot
- be happy
Compile A Custom Kernel (optional)
The following is a work in progress as I try to get it working myself. Most of it has been stolen from http://superuser.com/questions/583269/chrubuntu-acer-how-to-load-kernel-3-8-0-16-instead-3-4-0 and http://velvet-underscore.blogspot.com/2013/01/chrubuntu-virtualbox-with-kvm.html
# # Grab verified boot utilities from ChromeOS. # mkdir -p /usr/share/vboot mount -o ro /dev/sda3 /mnt cp /mnt/usr/bin/vbutil_* /usr/bin cp /mnt/usr/bin/dump_kernel_config /usr/bin rsync -avz /mnt/usr/share/vboot/ /usr/share/vboot/ umount /mnt
probably need this
pacman -S lib32-glibc
prep and make kernel
make oldconfig


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The Paris Attacks and Climate Justice
April 6, 2016
Due to the accumulation of a terrorist attack with the COP21 climate negotiations in Paris last November 2015 and now too recently in Belgium on March the 22nd, two big topics defining our historic experiences met for the first time in the West. After the Paris attacks, the War on Terror clashed with the politics of the climate movement in Paris.
These events shook the world, but mainly they shook the west, since there was enough conflict in the world already. To be more precise, France experienced a retaliation as a response to its involvement in the mess in Syria and so did Belgium. What rather is the case is that the disconnection between Europe and its involvement the conflict in Syria is broken. While Western leaders and media shout out loud that Western values are under attack, reducing the conflict to a clash of values it rather is the case that Western audiences are being kept oblivious to fact that to the perpetrators of the terrorist attacks these are acts of war directly related to the Syrian conflict.
My argument is that the coming together different spheres of development defining contemporary history for many, being terrorism, the war on terror, the COP 21 and the climate justice movement last November has been a pivotal moment in recent history. Within it lie important clues as to what we can expect concerning the relationship between the State apparatus and social movements in the West. The way the climate movement was policed in the aftermath of the Paris attacks, make clear that whatever is left of democracy will increasingly be put to test in moments of crisis.
The use and abuse of crisis situations for increased control at the expense of civil liberties is centuries old and is well documented. Naomi Klein's 'Shock Doctrine' would be a well cited source on contemporary examples of the application of this tactic. The Paris experience of the last three weeks invite for a unique opportunity to have a taste for what the future will bring as different developments such that of the police state and the corporatization of climate interventions come close to one another.
Given the implications of the Paris attacks I believe that the climate movement, together with other social movements, will have the difficult task to push for change in times of increased tensions as well as increased political conservatism concerning social movements calling out for justice. The climate movement will have to ponder deeply the implications of a 'climate justice' agenda in times where there remains less space for justice movements to work within accepted and legitimate civil spaces as these will likely decrease.
I am, pointing out that democratic rights and protection will increasingly be put under stress as ecological and social relations will come under stress. At the same time I want to put forward the question of what the role could and should be of a 'Climate Justice Movement' in a global context of increased stress on social and ecological relations. My own position on the subject is that the Climate Justice Movement needs to become aware of its historical precedence through the development of a self-awareness informed by its similarities with other historical social movements such as the anti-apartheid movement, the civil rights movements, the several anti-war movements and the anti-nuclear movement.
All the same current developments imply that the need for a strong voice centered around values of solidarity and peace will be needed more than ever as geopolitical tensions will grow while regional destabilization will so too. My question towards the climate 'justice' movement is how it sees its role with regard to this as it might seem tempting to define the climate movement as a movement that is 'merely' focused on a transition to a post-carbon economy, as it seems out of touch with reality to stick to such a restricted focus.
The Broader Philosophical and Historical Perspective
I would like to take on the work of Boaventura de Sousa Santos on Abyssal Thinking in his paper 'Beyond Abyssal Thinking; From Global Lines to Ecologies of Knowledge' from 2007 to reflect on how the Paris attacks have influenced how the Climate Justice movement has been policed in Paris. Santos describes how the world is made up of 'Abyssal lines'[1]. These lines stand for invisible divisions that divide distinctly different social realities with distinctly different underlying social mechanisms at play. Furthermore these abyssal lines stand for a division of the world into realities that remain mutually ungraspable for those on each side of the line.
What Boaventura de Sousa Santos describes is how the experience of the development of the Modern world has been inherently different for those who were European and those who were not and how these inherently different experiences are mediated through a power relation defined by colonialism. Whereas the 'modern' experience is characterized by a dialectics of regulation and emancipation, the 'colonial' experience is characterized by a dialectics of appropriation and violence. According to Santos these abyssal lines especially apply to the realms of knowledge (as in what is science and what is not science) and legality (as in what is legal and what is illegal). Furthermore, he maintains that knowledge from persons subject to the colonial dialectics per definition is unscientific and that legality does not apply to them.
This means that for the European the development of the so-called Modern Age is one of the Enlightenment, Industrialization and eventually the development of social democracies as a triumph of justice. The point here is that this history is premised on the engagement of Europeans in colonialism elsewhere. Therefore tor the large majority of the world the development of Modernity does not start with the Enlightenment at all, but rather with a history of oppression and destruction through the history of European Colonialism, starting precisely in 1492 when Columbus arrived in the Americas. He points out these abyssal lines are not static, they move. While before there was movement through which the dialectic of regulation/emancipation was expanding as decolonization took place, as in more people could have the hope that they would live in 'liberal democracies' with (semi-) accountable governments. Since the late 1970s the movement has been opposite.
This can be observed in how globalization came with increased appropriation of land and resources and the oppression of those standing in the way. the strategies for oppressing dissenting parties under the colonial regimes will increasingly be felt by dissenting voices in the Modern or European context. Lately, the dialectic of appropriation and violence has been expanding through neocolonial wars such as the Gulf Wars and now too in how Syria has become ground for a new proxy war between parties divided internally in the Middle East and between the East and the West and is now having its repercussions by breaking through the European experience of peace with terrorist attacks [2].
Santos maintains that the abyssal lines have become harder to draw as divisions have become messier. People subject to each side of the line are now living alongside of each other when they shouldn't. Think of refugees, migrant workers and terrorists specifically and how they are being governed as they shouldn't be among the general population while they actually are.
My point is exactly that the Paris attacks need to be understood in the light of this developments. I maintain that the logic of oppression will increasingly befall the Climate Justice Movement and other movements as the policing of criminalized populations of color intermeshes with the policing of other social movements that could priorly somewhat count on being entangled in the dialectic of regulation and emancipation.
Crisis intervention and the Death of Democracy: The real Spectre of the Paris attacks
I started writing on this piece just after the Paris attacks at the end of November, shaken as I was not just by the attacks themselves, but by their implications. Before the attacks in Paris my main concern for the COP21 was centered around the huge presence of business interests and the resulting market based solutions that was threatening to shape the complete agenda of how and by what standards climate change was going to be 'countered'. After the attacks this, naturally, changed.
We live in dangerous times. We have seen the political abuse of the situation by right pointing towards the so-called dangers of allowing the many refugees to enter Europe. The War on Terror once again took over the collective consciousness in the West. The Clash of Civilizations has once again proven its functionality as self-fulfilling prophecy, resurging fascism and xenophobia thankfully embraced another reason for espousing toxic discourse. These kind of ripple effects are amongst the ones to be expected.
One of the peculiarities about the events in Paris is that it has never occurred before that the 'War on Terror' affected the Climate Justice Movement so directly. Therefore we can we can witness in the Paris events how the state will respond to crisis. The exercise of democratic values will always be given up for security, while the claim will always be that this is done for the protection of those liberal values. The consequence of this culminates into many things, like for example the fact that communities of color will experience heavy policing, but also the marginalization of the only true force of democracy: progressive social movements.
Democracy wouldn't exist without popular uprisings. One only would have to look for the cradle of contemporary Western Democracy, such as in the French and American Revolutions and year of 1848 to be remembered of the importance of popular uprisings. I speak Western Democracy specifically because I do not believe that Democracy is a Western invention, democracy has existed in many forms throughout the centuries all over the world just like totalitarianism did.
True democracy cannot do without the possibility of the people to revolt against their leaders and the way by which the ruling system selects its leaders, much like the first conception of modern democracy in Europe is to be traced back to the riots of the French Revolution. In this day and age the Climate Justice Movement is an example of a movement that is revolting against the political status quo by which the main causes of climate change, being capitalist industrial production and environmental exploitation, remain unchallenged by the political elites. The political elites rather cooperate with the business sector in looking for ways to keep the game the same, but somehow magically the outcomes different. If the movement is burdened by force from asserting itself, a real force of democracy is being kept in check by the status quo.
We have seen the severe and skewed restrictions of use of public space as the climate movement was heavily curfewed in Paris while Christmas Fairs were allowed to continue just like that. Thus the attacks reached, full potential[3][4]. Freedoms for progressive elements in society were restricted; hate towards the marginalized increased and became more naturalized; another victory for ISIS as well as for the political elite and the conservative forces in the West.
An attack like this one, two weeks prior to the start of the Climate Negotiations has been nothing but crippling to any sort of bottom up democratic potential that could have been achieved at the COP 21. The plans the climate movement had were huge, the number of people expected to join the manifestations in Paris were estimated around one million in total. Eventually, only 15.000 showed up to make their voice heard at the last day of the Paris Climate at a manifestation intended to send a signal to the world that real change can only come from below and not from the leaders inside the negotiation rooms.
The slow death of democracy is developing creeping for years already. The Paris attacks have, however, made visible once again the workings of the process and the extent to which citizens are pacified spectators of this process under the guise of security. While public space becomes policed at the expense of social movements to assert themselves, migrants are increasingly cornered into the scapegoat role. At the same time space is created for (proto-)fascists to call for militias to protect the public domain from terrorist attacks.
The French government thankfully curtailed civil liberties in the French streets while it intensified its attacks on ISIS. I feel disgust when I see how the so-called liberal leaders claim the moment to call for a semi-crusade in the name of classical liberal tradition. Freedoms are already under pressure already for at least fifteen years. The curtailing of freedoms merely reflect structures of domination that underlie the so-called liberal democratic principles, capitalism.
The Climate Deal
So what is positive about the new Paris Climate Deal? 1) A deal is better then no deal. 2) The deal is better then what many people who followed the negotiations dared to hope for. But that's it… really.
So what is bad about the deal? It shows in any way possible the entrenchment of the neoliberal status quo. While a few years ago we could still produce a voice that was critical of the links between policy makers and business interests this small moment of hope in middle of the misery of the 2008 crisis seems long gone. While we know that nothing was solved, those in power do not have to explain the overwhelming presence of market focused solutions anymore.
The COP 21 had come to the public with an agreement and the world was celebrating it. For the moment critical voices were not heard. If they would be, it would become clear that the deal is a scam in no time. The target set is unrealistically ambitious, especially when you consider the lack concrete targets to get there. There is no way to remain underneath the 1,5 Degree raise in temperature, especially not when there are no concrete limits to what taken out of the ground [5][6]. It has already been laid out clearly by climate science that it is very unlikely that we manage to stay underneath the 2 degrees temperature rise and when I say that the current climate deal is nothing more than empty promises I can back myself up with the most renowned climate scientists, who by the way didn't get as much of a say as they should have in the COP 21 negotiations [7]. I guess the fact that they didn't, but according to people on the ground, corporate representatives did sort of indicates once more exactly what is wrong with the global corporate UNFCCC negotiations[8].
This agreement has been shaped in a context where the Climate movement was choked while business people joined the politicians at the negotiation table and while the corporate class had all space to portray its visions on how to cash in on the coming 'energy revolution'[9]. No agreements on emission cuts are being made, while investments in fossil fuels are dropping fast no political commitments are being made on actually leaving it in the ground. While the use of coal for energy production is increasing. The transition to a fossil free future is completely left to the restructuring of the market . This reflects the lack of political will on acknowledging how close to the edge we really are. How we are chocking meaningful transition while we should be chocking the oil pumps. Remember when we were underneath the Eiffel Tower with a 100 meters long banner stating 'It's up to us to leave it in the ground'. This slogan could be interpreted in ways much more radical than what would be associated. The last word about the COP 21 is not that we have forged a climate deal, but that we forged a climate deal that runs short of what the situation demands. Therefore it's up to us to leave it in the ground.
Climate justice in Paris
I myself attended the last weekend of action in Paris. The main focus was the Red Line action at the Avenue de la Grande Armée and underneath the Eiffel tower, 15.000 strong. That is a lot of people, but it is a very small group of people if you consider that this is an issue that concerns the whole world and if you consider that 100.000 people filled the streets of Copenhagen. The Paris negotiations were indeed historic moment, even more so because they revealed so deeply how social movements are given increasingly less space to influence political process at a moment where we need change below very badly.
Before we took part in the protests we did not know what to expect. We had the images of the previous day of climate action in the back of our minds, where people clashed with the police and when there was zero tolerance for activist presence in the streets. It laid down a foundation of fear we felt quite strongly. Up until the last moment the authorities made us believe the demonstration would be illegal and we were in a state of mind in which we believed anything could happen.
I myself suspect that this way of dealing with the situation was most beneficial for the authorities. There was a strategy of deterrence that scared away many of the people that wanted to come to Paris. Thus when the negotiations would be concluded, either positively or negatively, there would not be too many people in the streets, which is good either way. In the case of a failed negotiations there would not be tens of thousands angry people in the streets that would have to be contained. In the case of successful negotiations there would not be tens of thousands of people to question whether it all is good enough for what is necessary.
…. and Beyond
Despite the silencing of the Climate Movement in favor of the corporate class there is one thing to celebrate about the presence of the climate movement in Paris. I witnessed the first hints of the Climate Justice Movement as a peace movement. I saw signs where the link between climate justice and peace or climate chaos, terrorism and war were stressed. The awareness is there. It only needs to grow and to develop into one of the core pillars of the movement's consciousness.
At the moment I can see how the slogans used by mainstream activist platforms and spokespersons such as 350.org, Naomi Klein and Greenpeace are coming up with slogans that reflect a radicalism that is much needed, but does not necessarily reflect the activities they engage in, but they are seeds of the sort of consciousness we need. What is most important here is how the climat movement will pick up on them.
Underneath the Eiffel tower we chanted 'It's up to us to leave it in the ground', Naomi Klein is travelling the world promoting her concept 'Blockadia', Friends of the Earth walked the city mapping their 'Climate Justice Peace' slogan on GPS. All these slogans and concepts are very much to the point, but the people behind it unfortunately merely play their political game at the level of the symbolic. The campaigners behind them are not going far enough yet to make them a reality. These slogans happen to express exactly what sort of direction the Climate justice needs to be taking. Taken together they are a very powerful message both to ourselves as to those who keep investing in and holding up the structures that need to disappear.
How to make it Real?
We indeed need to move from the symbolic to the structural. For example, a while ago in Germany the Garzweile mine was stormed under the slogan 'Reclaim Power' and they did by blocking one of the biggest brown coal mines in Germany for a day, made stocks fell and now RWE is casting of the mine because of 'decreasing profits'.
What we can also learn from the Garzweile example is that while it might seem hauntingly impossible to halt the structures of production (or destruction if you will), in reality they are so vulnerable that the powers that be are scared shitless by the idea that the masses would move against them. It is but one of the reasons why international governance is increasingly less open to active participation of civilians. It would simply put into question whole structures of power, including relationships between the political class and the business class and intertwined geopolitical structures.
It would be much more convenient for the status quo if the strong culture of consumerism we are swimming in today simply stays up (as it indeed seems to be the case in many ways), meanwhile somewhere at the top of the pyramid a transition from an unsustainable form of capitalism to a supposedly sustainable form of 'green' capitalism is engineered by those that have the most at stake to keep everything the same.
We are unfortunately in a situation where the inherent contradictions in the status quo will increasingly lead to more conflict and less freedom. As the environment is decreasing in quality at fast rates we can expect higher risks of resource conflict. Such conflicts are already taking place in the form of landgrabs and so on. Such conflicts are often expressions of highly unequal power relations and they often come together with much killings and the evaporation of safety and peace, but perhaps we will also see a resource conflict among powerful nations or 'blocks' in our time as water is becoming scarce but the domination of world trade will continue to shift towards the Pacific[10][11]. Like I said before, under the pressure of risk of conflicts democratic rights will easily disappear.
Climate Justice and Radical Peace
Could Paris be a lesson for what is there to come? Could it be a wakeup call? Could we take inspiration from that moment today? Could we learn from a long history of social movements to deal with the challenges of today? Could we remind ourselves of our common future? The risks we are taking for failing to live up to the challenge thus far? Could we keep the attacks in the back of our heads as a reminder of how future instabilities will culminate into struggles expressed as cultural clashes? Could we be brave enough to open our eyes to see how any attempt at security is merely democracy being stolen from us and reclaim what is ours, our democracy. Could we come together and rise above?
What we need more than ever is a coming together of people. To forge connections amongst ourselves which are stronger than the divisions that nationalism and racism aim to forge amongst us, that we understand that our faiths are deeply intertwined and that our destiny is bound together until the bitter end if we wish to avoid the worst pitfalls of our recent past. We are facing hard and difficult times together that could spell the darkest hour known to our collective memory, the world wars or the atomic bomb of our generation. We need to protect the commons, the commons that have been wasted for the last 200 years at least. What the climate justice movement shares with the anti-nuclear movement is that it is struggling against the consequences of where the journey of progress has taken us, lethal pollution which is transforming the natural world to great extends. What we share with the anti-apartheid movement and the civil rights movement is that we struggle for justice for the oppressed masses.
Climate justice is not merely about keeping capitalism out of the climate change solutions, hence fighting false solutions to climate change. As chaos resulting from climate change and other forms of environmental destruction, geopolitical mess, the entrenchment of globalized capitalism increasingly becomes interwoven it becomes clear that climate Justice is about more than fighting climate change and poor solutions alone. Social movements will be struggling to keep the peace in times of increased militarization, heightened chance of conflict and the decay of democracy. We need to demand better solutions. We need to frame justice in our agenda's as the primary strategy to avoid conflict. We need to be clear about our position on how we deem our leaders responsible for putting us in the dangerous situation we are in by virtue of the lack of responsibility they have taken on the issue of sustainability, perhaps drawing on the Rio 92 agreements. This comes together with pleas for deep change since the status quo is one of deep injustice, rooted in centuries of colonialism. Things cannot remain the same.
So what I am conceiving here is a climate justice movement that has self-awareness as a radical peace movement, with a desire to go beyond the projects of the UN and is ready to interfere with the geopolitical consequences of climate chaos.
In conclusion
What I started out with was to point out what is to be discerned from the way authorities dealt with the Paris terror attacks. Space for democratic appeal in the streets was curtailed for 'security reasons'.
Following this pointed towards the works of Boaventura de Sousa Santos to point to how those countries that up until now have experienced liberal democracy close to what it has promised will increasingly experience tactics for oppression based upon strategies primarily in colonized and formerly colonized countries.
Then I went on to share my experiences in Paris and how I discerned some hints of a new self-awareness that I found very inspiring. I continued by putting forward a position on what it entails for a Climate Justice movement to be called a 'Climate Justice' movement. I claimed that under the current conditions a climate justice movement is much more than a 'climate movement' alone and that the movement will have to acknowledge that it shares traits with the anti-nuclear movement and the civil rights and anti-apartheid movements in times that a lot of turmoil will come to us while we discover that many of the political promises for a more just and sustainable world will mean nothing.
[1] de Sousa Santos, B. (2007). Beyond abyssal thinking: From global lines to ecologies of knowledges. Review (Fernand Braudel Center), 45-89.
[2] The War in Syria explained in 5 minutes: http://www.vox.com/2015/11/14/9735102/syria-isis-history-video
[3] Our Fight for Survival: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/11/climate-change-paris-cop21-hollande-united-nations/
[4] COP21 climate marches in Paris not authorised following – Guardian: attackshttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/18/cop21-climate-marches-paris-attacks
[5] Tollefson, J. (2015) Is the 2 °C world a fantasy?, Nature: http://www.nature.com/news/is-the-2-c-world-a-fantasy-1.18868
[6] A successful climate summit, but no progress for climate justice?: http://www.rosalux.de/news/42006/a-successful-climate-summit-but-no-progress-for-climate-justice.html
[7] James Hansen, father of climate change awareness, calls Paris talks 'a fraud': http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/12/james-hansen-climate-change-paris-talks-fraud
[8] RUW abroad: The COP21 climate conference in Paris: http://stichtingruw.nl/2015/12/08/ruw-abroad-the-cop21-climate-conference-in-paris/
[9] Not a fair COP…a report from Paris by Robert Hutchison: http://www.capglobalcarbon.org/2015/12/15/not-a-fair-copa-report-from-paris-by-robert-hutchison/
[10] Risk of water wars rises with scarcity – Al Jazeera: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2011/06/2011622193147231653.html
[11] The World In 2030: Asia Rises, The West Declines – NPR: http://www.npr.org/2012/12/10/166895624/the-world-in-2030-asia-rises-the-west-declines
Submedia. tv: On a ´no-budget' indymedia Genius
June 5, 2013
Hello everybody,
We wanted to focus on somebody today that we have been following oursleves for a few years now.
If there never was a proof that low bduget politicized media has a future through the internet its this guy called Frank Lopez who is making the proof for you.
If you are unaware of his show please check out his latest show here. Otherwise you can check out an interview with Frank Lopez here.
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On the Turkish Spring 3#
June 3, 2013
On the Turkish Spring 2#
June 3, 2013
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June 3, 2013
Unedited status update from Facebook, copypasted. SOLIDARITY!
PLS SHARE!This is the english translation of what happens to the arbitrarily arrested and detained un İstanbul
*First of all I want to thank those who have been concerned for me, called lawyers to aid and helped me. I am home now and I am okay. I want to tell everyone about my experience so that they learn what is happening to people who have been arbitrarily arrested and detained. To be perfectly clear, my sole purpose is to be heard, to let everybody know what has been going on. I am going to recount, with utmost clarity, everything that happened right from the start, every swearword I heard and insult I was subjected to.
Last night (June 3rd,2013) around 9.00 pm at Barbaros Boulevard traffic lights in Besiktas I was arbitrarily arrested and detained. When it happened, I was neither swearing at the police nor throwing stones at them. As soon as they saw me, they grabbed me by my arm, twisting it violently (some friends saw the moment of my arrest on television also). And then I was in hell. From the traffic lights to the bus stops by the seaside, every single policemen – officers and anti-riot squad – who saw me being taken away punched and kicked me. Approximately for 100 – 150 metres – that is until we arrived at the Kadıköy ferry bridge – every one of them slapped, punched and kicked me. As they were beating me, they were cursing and swearing at me, hurling countless insults at me: "You fucking bastards, you sons of bitches, how dare you think you are the ones to save this country!". I could not even count the number of policemen who hit me till we reached the detention bus. Just when they took me near the bus, someone called from the back of it, "bring him here!" I was taken to the back where I was further beaten by the policemen waiting there. I only found out later that I was brought there because there were cameras around, so they held me between the bus and a wall, to hit me on the quiet. When I got on the detention bus (one of the Istanbul Electric Power, Funicular, and Streetcar Board) the lights were out and from inside I could hear a girl begging and beseeching: "I did not do anything, brother". I could not even see those who continued beating me as I was getting on the bus and after I got on. All I could do amidst the darkness was trying to protect my head. Swearing, cursing and insults continued. When I sat down, each and every policemen hit me while walking by me; so I stood up and went to a corner. They told me to sit back down, I said "When I do, they all hit me" and again they swore at me, slapped and punched me and forced me to sit down. They were hitting the girl, strangling her. A plainclothes police officer named Süleyman said these exact words to her: "I will bring you on all fours and fuck you right here!" The girl's response was heartbreaking; all she could say in a low voice was: "Okay brother". There were three of us on the bus and they made us chant "I love the Turkish police", "I love my country"; louder and louder, countless times. Incessant insults and beating followed. Just as I thought it was somewhat calmer inside the bus, this time they brought another friend. His nose was broken. I asked him why he hadn't protected his face. He said that two of them had held his arms and a third had punched him on the nose three times. There were people they brought occasionally. Then they brought another friend named Mustafa, a student from Bahcesehir University. 20 officers from the anti-riot squad had attacked him, he could not stand on his two feet. Beside the detention bus, they slapped and punched him, and then hit him on the head with a helmet, and then knocked his head against the bus window. As they were pushing him in, they were still hitting him. They made him sit down handcuffed behind the back; his head was bleeding. We saw the blood coming from his head. I went near him with a piece of fabric (actually it was the bloody tshirt of our friend with the broken nose). I was pressing it against the wound to stop bleeding when the policeman named Süleyman swore at me and said "Go back to your fucking seat!". I said he was bleeding. He said he did not care and he really did not. They did not uncuff him even if he was badly wounded. We urged some of them and finally one policeman uncuffed him. And the second most heartbreaking moment came when we were in the police station to testify. Mustafa asked me "What happened in the bus? Did they hit me?". He could not remember. He was not fully conscious while we were in the bus. We were not allowed to go to the toilet in the detention bus, they only gave us a bottle of water. We were first taken to the hospital for examination and medical report and then to the police station. In the police station there were numerous lawyers and the police were suddenly so very polite toward us, saying "please" etc.
Many thanks to the lawyers, our friends who called the lawyers to aid and everyone who were concerned for us. There are no exaggerations or overstatements in this story; only facts. My sole purpose is to provide a firsthand account of what has happened.
Our rebel against tyranny continues. This fascist order is bound to decline.
Erkan Yolalan
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a recent mainstream report on the militarization and corruption of the german police and security community.
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do starters get better with age? I find the camoldi more responsive than the ischia and the ischia is the 200 year old.
I've had the opposite experience with the Ischia being more responsive. I don't even use the Camaldoli any more.
I come from the opposite approach and would like to try some well-known starters to see how the wild one I've had for about 2 years compares. So far, I've been impressed with its hardiness and ability to raise dough even after being relatively abused. I don't have much frame of reference concerning flavor. My homegrown starter turns out no-knead sourdough bread that is tasty to me and others, and I've been using it lately more and more in pizza dough.Here's my typical no-knead bread recipe:420g total flour. I use a small handful (a few heaping tablespoons?) of whole wheat flour. I don't know if it helps or what it does technically, but I started out that way and it has become the norm. The rest is either all KA bread flour or a mix with that and KA AP. KA bread flour is more expensive here than AP, which is the only reason for cutting it down. 1 1/2 t salt260g water30g or so startersometimes a little, maybe 1/2 t, of oil -- doesn't seem to make much differenceMix it all up. I add the starter to the water and stir. Salt is mixed with the flour, which gets added to the water/starter. I actually knead the dough a little just enough to shape into a ball, which then goes into a lightly oiled plastic bowl set on the counter at room temp (varies here from 70 in the winter to 80 in the summer). I have plates that are the perfect size to seal the bowl, so I place one on top. I add a note of the time in case I get occupied with other things and forget.I usually fold the dough a time or two in the early hours, but I've had equally good results without bothering.After anywhere from 16 hours to 22 hours, the dough has at least doubled. The time varies based on room temp, how active the starter was (if I had fed and used at peak or just pinched some old starter straight out of the fridge), how much I used, etc. After it has puffed up enough to suit me and smells good, fold, shape and place into a bread pan 2-3 hours before baking. I use a glass bread dish that is slightly smaller than most metal bread pans. I grease (Crisco) and flour it before putting in my shaped dough to prevent sticking. I've found that greasing and flouring works far better than wiping with oil. Push the shaped dough in there and cover loosely with plastic wrap. 2-3 hours later, when the dough has risen enough to meet the top of the dish or is a slightly above, it's time to go into the oven. Immediately before, I make a single slash along the top. It needs to be fairly deep, at least a 1/4", to produce a typical store-bought loaf shape.Then it goes into a cold oven. I set the temp to 375 or so, and give it 45 minutes or longer. Gas ovens produce a lot of moisture when heating up, which I suspect helps serve as the steam often advocated by those who actually know about bread making (I'm certainly not one of them).Somewhere along the line I stick a temp probe in. I take the middle of the loaf to 212 (at about 1000 ft. altitude), then remove it from the baking dish and set on a rack to cool.One of these days I'll get a San Francisco or Italian starter and see how it compares. I'd also like to try dumping dough into a pre-heated cast iron pot.
I used my Ischia last weekend to make some Jewish Rye and was disappointed. It just wasn't sour enough. Usually I use my own sourdough which gives me great results. Just proves the point that there is a reason for maintaining different starters
I remove my bread from the oven @ 205 degrees & let it cool down for about 2 hours. Remember the bread continues to cook while cooling & the temperature will continue to increase before it drops.
Fresh baked bread taxes my patience. Drooling while staring at the clock isn't fun. I once managed to let a loaf rest a full 2 hours, but now I figure 45 minutes is long enough.The time difference between 205 and 212 internal is only a few minutes in my case. As you said, the bread continues cooking for a while after coming out of the oven. I think as long as it has baked long enough to reach that general temperature range, a few minutes plus or minus don't make much difference at the temperatures I'm using. Last time I baked a loaf the batteries in my thermometer were dead, so I just guessed. It turned out as usual. There seems to be a good amount of wiggle room. If using higher heat the situation is probably different.I'm curious how my bread would turn out using a preheated clay (yours looks very nice) or cast iron enclosure. My NY style pizzas require baking directly on a hot stone (500-550 F) for at least the first part of the bake. Even a pizza screen between skin and stone produces inferior results by reducing spring and eliminating the slight grayish flavor-adding coloration of the bottom. If the same applies to my bread, I've been missing out.Do those of you using multiple starters notice any differences in smell among them? Mine smells similar to acidic bananas. It's now almost 2 years old and hasn't changed much over time. I feed my starter KA AP flour and distilled water in equal amounts by weight, using roughly enough flour/water mix to triple the weight of starter I've left. It lives in a mason jar with a loosely attached screw-on lid in the door of my refrigerator. I use a marker to write the feeding dates on the jar. I just realized yesterday it hadn't been tended to since 9/11. Now it has been fed and is stretching its legs at room temperature in preparation for some bread or pizza. When done, I usually only save 20-30g of starter, add equal weights flour and water, then it goes immediately back into the cold.


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Digital IBMer in Taipei - Storage Top Gun Sales Training
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Every year, I teach hundreds of sellers how to sell IBM storage products. I have been doing this since the late 1990s, and it is one task that has carried forward from one job to another as I transitioned through various roles from development, to marketing, to consulting.
This week, I am in the city of Taipei [Taipei] to teach Top Gun sales class, part of IBM's [Sales Training] curriculum. This is only my second time here on the island of Taiwan.
As you can see from this photo, Taipei is a large city with just row after row of buildings. The metropolitan area has about seven million people, and I saw lots of construction for more on my ride in from the airport.
The student body consists of IBM Business Partners and field sales reps eager to learn how to become better sellers. Typically, some of the students might have just been hired on, just finished IBM Sales School, a few might have transferred from selling other product lines, while others are established storage sellers looking for a refresher on the latest solutions and technologies.
I am part of the teach team comprised of seven instructors from different countries. Here is what the week entails for me:
These are the solution areas I present most often as a consultant at the IBM Executive Briefing Center in Tucson, so I can provide real-life stories of different client situations to help illustrate my examples.
To learn more about a Top Gun class in your area, see the [Top Gun class schedule].
The weather here in Taipei calls for rain every day! I was able to take this photo on Sunday morning while it was still nice and clear, but later in the afternoon, we had quite the downpour. I am glad I brought my raincoat!
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Back from Orlando - More IBM Storage Announcements
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Well, it's Tuesday again, and you know what that means... IBM announcements!
Last week, IBM had a big storage launch of various products, with the June 4 announcements at the IBM Edge 2012 conference. I provided highlights in my post [IBM Edge Announcements]. As promised, here are the rest of the announcements.
This week I am on the road visiting various clients. Next week, Moscow Russia for the "Edge Comes to You" event!
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Day4 IBM Edge Free-for-All
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This week I am in Orlando, Florida for the IBM Edge conference. Thursday evening after all the other sessions, we had a Free-for-All, a Q&A panel across all storage topics, moderated by Scott Drummond. The conference officially ends at noon tomorrow, but for many, this is the last session, as people fly out Friday morning. Here are the questions and the panel responses during the session.
When will IBM unify their storage management between Mainframe z/OS and the distributed systems platforms?
IBM offers a Change and Configuration Management Data Base (CCMDB) for this purpose with appropriate collectors from z/OS and distributed systems, but hasn't sold well.
When will IBM devices have RESTful interfaces?
Both IBM Systems Director and IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC) offer RESTful APIs. IBM Systems Director can manage z/VM and Linux on System z, as well as Power Systems and x86 based distributed systems. Since October 2008, IBM's Project Zero introduced RESTful interfaces to PHP and Groovy software running on WebSphere sMash environments. We have not heard much about this since 2008.
Will IBM TPC support NPIV on Power Systems?
TPC 5.1 has toleration support for this, showing the first port connection discovered, but not all connections, and we expect to retrofit this toleration to TPC 4.2.2 Fixpack 2. Hopefully, we will have full support in a future release.
We would like TPC for Replication to run on Linux for System z. We do not run z/OS at the disaster recovery site location.
Submit an IBM Request for Enhancement [RFE] for this. We have TPC for Replication on z/OS, as well as the distributed systems version that runs on Windows, Linux and AIX.
We have enhancements we would like to see for XIV and SONAS also, can we use the RFE process for this also?
Yes, submit the requirements for our review.
We heard the Statement of Direction that there would be storage integrated into the PureSystems. What exactly does that mean?
The PureSystems family of expert-integrated systems is based on a new chassis that has a front part, a midplane, and a back-part. All IBM System Storage products that support x86 and Power Systems can work with PureSystems. However, IBM does not yet offer storage that fits in the front part of the PureFlex chassis, but the Statement of Direction indicates that we intend to offer that option. Until then, the IBM Storwize V7000 is the storage of choice that can be put into the PureSystems rack, but outside the individual chasses.
We see some features like Real-Time Compression being put into the SAN Volume Controller (SVC), and other features put into the back-end devices. How are we supposed to make sense of this?
IBM's new pilot program, the SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center, to bring these all together. In general, we have design teams of system architects that determine which features go in which products, and prioritize accordingly.
We heard the IBM Executives during the opening session indicate that IBM's strategy involves supporting Big Data, but I haven't seen any storage that supports native Hadoop interfaces. Did I miss something?
First, I want to emphasize that Big Data is more than just MapReduce workloads. IBM offers Streams and BigInsights software to handle text, as well as Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse solutions for structured data. IBM's General Parallel File System (GPFS) has a Shar
Everytime we upgrade our SVC, we review the list for SDDPCM multi-pathing and see that we need to upgrade our back-end DS8000 microcode up to recommended levels. Can we get a list of combinations that work from other customers?
The advantage of storage hypervisors like SVC is that we can separate the multi-pathing driver from the back-end managed disk systems. You only need the SDDPCM to support the SVC, not the back-end devices. For the most part, SVC has not dropped support for any level of previously supported OS or multi-pathing software.
On SVC, when we migrate volumes (vDisks) from one storage pool to another, we would like to throttle this process during FlashCopy.
Yes, we had several requests like this, which is why we now recommend using Volume Mirorring to perform migrations. In fact the GUI wizard uses Volume Mirroring by default when migrations are performed. As for throttling, IBM has implemented "I/O Priority Manager" that offers Quality of Service classes for DS8000 and XIV Gen3, and might consider porting this to other products in our portfolio.
Sizing systems is an art. I just need to know if the DS8000 is running hot. Can we have the equivalent of "red lines" for our disk systems similar to automobile engines?
Storage Optimizer was added to TPC 4.2 to help in this area, identifying heat-maps for IBM DS8000, DS6000, DS5000, DS4000, SVC and Storwize V7000. We recommend you look at the performance violation reports.
How can we evaluate the characteristics of our workloads?
Yes, TPC can do this.
When we are replacing non-IBM storage with IBM, we don't have good tools to evaluate the non-IBM equipment. What is IBM doing for this?
IBM's Disk Magic modeling tool can take inputs from a variety of sources, including iostat from the servers themselves. You can also install a 90-day trial of TPC to help with this.
We really like EMC's "Grab" program, does IBM have one also?
Yes, IBM has one also. See the [SSIC Discovery Utility].
Updating the Host Attachment Kit (HAK) for AIX is quite painful for the SVC. We prefer the method employed for the XIV.
Thanks for the feedback.
For SVC, we need to correlate disk with VMware and VIOS. Can we get vSCSI information on VIOS?
TPC 5.1 has this support, and we believe it has been retrofitted to TPC 4.2.2 Fixpack 2, coming out this month.
Currently, with SVC, when volumes are part of a Global Mirror (GM) session, we need to cancel GM, expand the source volume, expand the target volume, then restart GM. We would like this to be fully automated and non-disruptive.
Sounds like a great requirement to submit for the RFE process.
Can we get an RSS Feed for the RFE community.
Yes, you can subscribe to it. You can also set up "Watch Lists".
Thanks to all of the IBM experts on the panel for their participation at this event!
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Day2 IBM Edge Announcements
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Well it's Tuesday again, and you know what that means... IBM announcements! Yesterday, at the IBM Edge conference here in Orlando, Florida, IBM announced its new apporach to storage, and a whole bunch of storage products, enhancements, and services. I will focus on some key ones here, and save the rest for next week.
For more on any of these announcements, see the [June 4th Announcement Page], or follow the Twitter tag #transformITnow.
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Day1 IBM Edge Afternoon Breakout Sessions
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The first day had various breakout sessions in the afternoon.
Tonight we have the grand opening reception of the Solution Center and a concert featuring Grace Potter & the Nocturnals!
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FBI 'Mistake' Leads To Six Years Of Monitoring Anti-War Website
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If you've received a fairly serious threat against you or your business, you might think turning that info over to the FBI would be a good idea. Think again. The owners of antiwar.com found themselves on the receiving end of more than six years of monitoring and surveillance for doing just that, as Spencer Ackerman details at The Guardian.
The FBI monitored a prominent anti-war website for years, in part because agents mistakenly believed it had threatened to hack the bureau's own site.These documents are part of antiwar.com's ongoing lawsuit against the FBI (brought with the assistance of the ACLU). What's been released so far is heavily redacted and severely limited. The FBI's FOIA reply letter indicates it has only released 47 out of 170 "reviewed" pages. More details of this incursion on antiwar.com owners' First Amendment rights is sure to surface if the lawsuit is successful.
Internal documents show that the FBI's monitoring of antiwar.com, a news and commentary website critical of US foreign policy, was sparked in significant measure by a judgment that it had threatened to "hack the FBI website" and involved a formal assessment of the "threat" the site posed to US national security.
But antiwar.com never threatened to hack the FBI website. Heavily redacted FBI documents, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and shared with the Guardian, show that Eric Garris, the site's managing editor, passed along to the bureau a threat he received against his own website.
The mistake, which ran uncorrected for more than a half-decade, was prompted by an agent's mischaracterization of the threatening email Eric Garris received and forwarded to the agency in 2001 (see last page of PDF), the day after the 9/11 attacks. The message here was directed at antiwar.com, and Garris probably figured he was doing the right thing in alerting the FBI to such a threat against his site -- having no idea that FBI would misread the forwarded email to be a threat by Garris against the FBI.
"YOUR SITE IS GOING DOWN."Why this agent took it upon himself to investigate the messenger is unclear, but this mistake is cited years down the road as justification for the ongoing investigation. Certainly the date had something to do with it (even if this mistaken determination wasn't made until January of 2002). Every security and law enforcement agency was experiencing very heightened "awareness," for lack of a better word. But as the years wore on, no one seemed willing to shut the investigation down, despite having time for cooler heads to prevail and failing to turn up evidence suggesting the two site owners were a threat to national security.
"Be warned assholes, ill be posting your site address to all the hack boards tonight, telling them about the little article at the moscowtimes and all. YOUR SITE IS HISTORY"
Even more incredibly, the investigation wasn't limited to those affected by the mischaracterization by the FBI's San Francisco office. For whatever reason, the New Jersey branch independently opened its own investigation -- one of the FBI's infamous "threat assessments," an investigative "out" that allows the agency to monitor pretty much anyone for any period of time without having to justify its actions with little things like reasonable suspicion.
The agency continued this monitoring through 2008 (at least), despite the fact an analyst noted in 2004 that the investigation was highly questionable in terms of being constitutionally sound as well as noting the so-called evidence compiled to date was pretty much worthless.
ANALYST COMMENTS: The rights of individuals to post information and to express personal views on the Internet should be honored and protected; however, some material that is circulated on the Internet can compromise current active FBI investigations. The discovery of two detailed Excel spreadsheets posted on www.antiwar.com may not be significant by itself since distribution of the information on such lists are wide spread.But this clear thinking is immediately undercut by the analyst's further comments, which question the financial ties of the website and refer to the San Francisco's office's mischaracterization of Garris' forwarded email as a relevant "fact."
Many agencies outside of law enforcement have been utilizing this information to screen their employees. Still, it is unclear whether www.antiwar.com may only be posting research material compiled from multiple sources or if there is material posted that is singular in nature and not suitable for public release…
There are several unanswered questions regarding www.antiwar.com. It describes itself as a non-profit group that survives on generous contributions from its readers. Who are these contributors and what are the funds utilized for? Due to the lack of background information available on Justin Raimondo, it is possible that this name is only a pseudonym used on www.antiwar.com. If this is so, then what is his true name? Two facts have been established by this assessment. Many individuals worldwide do view this website including individuals who are currently under investigation and Eric Garris has shown intent to disrupt FBI operations by hacking the FBI website.First off, it's disconcerting to know that the FBI judges websites by their visitors. You may be a law-abiding citizen but if your site is visited by "persons of interest," there's a very good chance the FBI will be digging into your personal information as well. The documents detail that the seized hard drive of a suspect revealed that he had visited "many websites" over an 11-month period, with antiwar.com being one of them. If this is a justification for monitoring, then everything from Google's search page to those terrible cable company splash pages that get set as default home pages by installers could be considered worthy of further monitoring.
Second, the repetition of the mistaken conclusion is troublesome, especially as it asserts that hacking the FBI's public-facing site (i.e., tearing down its poster) will somehow disrupt "FBI operations." While it may disrupt those who maintain the public site, it should have little effect on FBI operations. This shows the irrational fear of anything hacker-related has been deeply ingrained in government agencies for years. (Worse, it shows it hasn't improved.)
By 2005, both field offices determined the justification for ongoing monitoring of antiwar.org to be "meager" and "insufficient," but yet the investigations continued through 2008, at minimum. The end date (if there is one) remains a mystery as there is nothing in the released documents suggesting an official termination of the investigations.
And here's where we come to another harmful outcome of government surveillance. In 2011, the site owners discovered they were being (or had been) investigated by the FBI. Thanks to this becoming public knowledge, the site's owners have seen a severe dropoff in income.
Garris said that since antiwar.com learned of the FBI surveillance in 2011, donations dried up by 20% in the following year.An FBI agent's mistake is all it takes to open up your personal and financial data to curious federal agents. It's also all it takes to make it significantly harder to exercise your First Amendment rights. Adding a financial burden to the heightened possibility that your efforts (and unrelated activities) are being monitored is more than sufficiently chilling for most people. Hopefully, the site owners' lawsuit will hold someone accountable for a First Amendment-violating "mistake" that continued for more than 6 years, despite failing to uncover anything that justified continued surveillance.
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Wen Ching (Winnie) Li, professor of mathematics at Penn State University, has been named distinguished professor of mathematics. The honor -- which recognizes exceptional teaching, research, creativity, and service to the University community -- is awarded by the Office of the President of Penn State based on the recommendations of colleagues and the dean.
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In addition to her position as professor of mathematics at Penn State, since 2009, Li has been the director of the Taiwan's National Center of Theoretical Sciences -- established by the National Science Council (NSC) and recognized internationally as a major influence on current mathematical research. Her previous awards and honors include the 2010 Chern Prize in Mathematics by the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians for her outstanding contributions to the field. In addition, she was awarded a NSC Distinguished Visiting Chair and a Mathematics Adjunct Professorship at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, from 2009 to 2011; a Mary Lister McCammon Teaching Award in 2008 from Penn State's Department of Mathematics; a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at National Tsinghua University, Taiwan, in 1999; and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship from 1981 to 1983. Li has held numerous other visiting professorships at universities in the United States and throughout Europe and Asia.
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From Canada to Colombia to Brazil, oil and gas production in the Western Hemisphere is booming, with the United States emerging less dependent on supplies from an unstable Middle East....What will the world be like when we don't depend on the Middle East anymore? They depend on our dependence. What will they be like if/when we don't particularly care?
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Thursday, 21 February 2013
Misc. with capercaillies
"The mating sound of the male has been described as beginning with a resonant rattle, continuing with a pop like a cork being pulled from a wine bottle followed by the pouring of a liquid out of a narrow-necked bottle and ending with the sound of knife grinding.
The males can be very aggressive and have been known to attack deer, dogs, sheep and even humans if they are disturbed".
I would really like a capercaillie. B suggested a part capercaillie share and that we could send the bird to and fro on the Eurostar. I can imagine it would be very popular in the Carte Blanche lounge, trying to chat up the hostesses with its distinctive cork/knife grinding melody and attacking wheely suitcases when disturbed.
Apart from that I:
- Made skeleton biscuits:
Sweet baby Nathan, that was hard. I don't think I left the dough thick enough so the indentations were barely there, and then I didn't have a fine enough piping nozzle ("nozzle" is such a good word. If I ever get another dog, I'm calling it Nozzle. Ps, I am never getting another dog). Also, my gingerbread was disappointingly soft when it reached the recipe's required golden brown colour: does anyone have a better recipe? I am looking for your traditional gingerperson, the kind you buy in cheap bakeries in the North East.
- Painted my nails the same colour as my shoes, inadvertently, in an attempt to jolly myself up:
- Went on another trip to Paris yesterday for a farcically chaotic interview (not my fault, for once and indeed I was proud that a tiny shred of iron entered my soul and I was, very briefly, Assertive) that left me craving the sweet embrace of gin and a proper job. Instead, I bought 3 cakes, a jar of jam and the François Nars lipstick recommended to me in the previous post's comments. If and when bankruptcy finally comes, the official receiver is going to look particularly coldly, I imagine, on my serial purchases of (i) pinky-brown lip colours and (ii) preserves. Because the interview was, ahem, delayed, I was unable to enact my cunning plan to go to the Hermès cafe in Rue de Sèvres and to buy nail varnish in Bon Marché and drop in at La Pâtisserie des Rêves, curses. Instead, I walked from Batignolles to Boulevard Haussmann in the chilly February sun thinking about the amazing bits in La Bête Humaine that happen around there, death, guttering fires, confessions, cake, uncontrollable murderous impulses, trains. I am a bit obsessed with La Bête Humaine. Also Caillebotte's Pont de l'Europe, Manet's the Railway, Monet's Saint Lazare, the Batignolles rail accident in the 1920s .. Everything that happened in that triangle around Saint Lazare, really. I had the most horrible time living around there, but still I find it completely fascinating and could wander around there for days. The age of steam and the arrival of modernity and so on..no one could ever call Zola subtle, but he was really great at pinpointing and shouting about huge themes in (then) contemporary life. This is quite interesting on that whole area. It doesn't really fit in my cake book, but nevertheless I am obsessed and need to find somewhere, some way, of writing about it. Want my rambling essay on rail and danger and modernity in late 19th century Batignolles with a tenuous association with my son's infant fascination with trains and peril? Apply within!
- Picked at the side of my cold-inflamed nose until it bled uncontrollably for hours. Wondered if one could die from side-nose blood loss. Asked F, who said she thought it was very likely. Cried a bit at the state of my face generally (self-inflicted! Suck it up, idiot!). I need to have my hands bound like an infant with eczema. I am thirty eight.
- Had an interesting discussion with the eldest about the current craze in the playground for playing "Findus contre l'Angleterre". Apparently they form two teams, and 'England' pretends to be furious at 'Findus', saying things like "my ponies, how could you", while the Findus team is unrepentant and tells them how delicious horse is. It's not quite British Bulldog, is it.
There we go. Now there isn't a picture of me moping about my face leprosy at the top of the page. Job done.
24 comments:
- bbonthebrink said...
I also am intrigued by the railway tracks by the Pont de l'Europe and the Gare Saint Lazare. I even have a whole photo series of the tracks and glass insulators as seen from the bridge - What first caught my eye was the sign 'POTENCE' that bridges the tracks. What do you suppose this means? http://www.flickr.com/photos/bbonthebrink/sets/72157624391678530/with/4748986586/
Now if you'll excuse me, I have an anorak to put on,
- 21 February 2013 at 13:39
Am considering asking fellow library users to form own 'Findus contre l'Angleterre' teams. First one to ask would be the elderly gentleman sat opposite me in a rather fetching pink dotted bowtie. He'd probably be up for it.
YAY to nail polish and shoes match, very aesthetically pleasing.
Also I think that your blog post headers would make excellent titles for Abstract Expressionist paintings. I read a fascinating article by a lady who went to visit Pollock's studio ages ago. They make you put on green plastic slippers and then you can walk over the splotched floorboards, much like, she said, swimming through one of his works. Would so much love to do this! It could count as research, anybody want to give me a grant? Have you considered tying a paint brush to the dog's tail, covering the floor with canvases, and selling the results for millions?
- 21 February 2013 at 16:57
Murderous impulses, Haussmann and trains are going very well with the overpowering paint fumes here.
- 21 February 2013 at 20:52
- Liberty London Girl said...
May I be so bold as to leave the recipe I use? http://www.libertylondongirl.com/2012/12/14/gingerbread-animals-tree-decorations/
'tis good. Robbed from Delia, basically.
- 21 February 2013 at 23:58
- Margaret said...
Stop picking at your skin! Stop it! Put some Neosporin, or whatever you call your triple-antibiotic ointments there, on it and leave it alone! So help me god, I will come over there and slap your hand away from your face. Go make some of Liberty London Girl's gingerbread. Nozzle. That is a good word.
- 22 February 2013 at 02:19
No one can cock capercaillie like my father. He even plucks them himself. He once drove a live capercaillie mad by imitating its mating sounds.
- 22 February 2013 at 14:56
- Waffle said...
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahhaha TILIA.
- 22 February 2013 at 15:00
- Laurel said...
So my husband just happened to give me this link showing a Swedish reporter being attacked by a wild turkey with bulging red evil eyes
which in turn reminded me of this video of a poor condor mascot trying to escape the ice rink where its hockey team is playing
I thought they might go well with capercaellie theme!
- 23 February 2013 at 18:40
- Michelloui | The American Resident said...
I would LOVE to see you write my day, I am sure it would be a far more interesting day than it seems.
And I love the England/Findus game--so perfectly random the way kids do so well.
- 23 February 2013 at 20:00
- Eireann said...
that brochure is AMAZING. have gobbled it and now actually might read Zola. thanks.
- 24 February 2013 at 16:17
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- 26 February 2013 at 00:24
- Xtreme English said...
Wot the hey are capercaillies? The skellington biscuits are superb!!!
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Abraham Lincoln is surely the most revered and admired president in our national history. As we look forward to the bicentennial of President Lincoln's birthday in 2009, History Now is fortunate to have four leading Lincoln scholars giving us their thoughts on the man who preserved the Union and took the first critical steps toward ending slavery in the United States. Taken together, these essays offer us a new lens through which to view the man, his political philosophy, his deeds, and his legacy. In "Abraham Lincoln and Jacksonian Democracy," Professor Sean Wilentz traces the surprising connection between Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln, and reminds us that Lincoln was willing to look for political wisdom and political strategies whether associated with his own party or with the rival Democratic Party. Professor Manisha Sinha provides insight into the role of both black and white abolitionists in the president's evolving position on emancipation and black rights. In "Allies for Emancipation?: Lincoln and Black Abolitionists", Sinha shows how the President's willingness to meet with and listen to the views of African Americans influenced his decision to reject colonization and embrace emancipation—and ultimately to support the call to extend political citizenship to African Americans. In "Natural Rights, Citizen Rights, States Rights, and Black Rights: Another Look at Lincoln and Race," Professor James Oakes clarifies Lincoln's views on race through a careful look at the various, and competing definitions of "rights." Oakes argues that Lincoln did not believe black men and women could or should be denied their natural rights, but that his acceptance of states' rights allowed him to avoid the question of extending political citizenship rights to African Americans. Finally, in "Lincoln's Religion," Professor Richard Carwadine traces Lincoln's deepening faith as the national crisis deepened and his growing belief in the immediacy of Providence in human affairs as well as the role that the President's religious sentiments played in mobilizing support for the war among Union citizens. We hope that these probing and insightful essays will provide you with new perspectives on President Lincoln that you can share with your students in the coming months.
Our interactive feature allows you to see and hear these Lincoln scholars as they address the Lincoln Symposium held in November 2008 at Columbia University, and, as always, Dr. Mary-Jo Kline directs you to a wealth of primary and secondary sources in books and on the web. Our two book reviewers have chosen to diverge from their usual activity, and have instead offered valuable guidance and useful suggestions on how to best use Lincoln primary sources in the classroom. Finally, we offer readers lesson plans at all grade levels from master teachers from across the country.
All of us here at History Now wish you happy holidays and a joyous, healthy new year.
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We're looking at different shapes as part of our adjective unit with our reading series and I love using this cute little book by Ellen Stoll Walsh! I created some retelling pieces so the kids can read the book during station time and then use the magnetic white board to retell the book with the pieces. I printed the pieces on cardstock, laminated, and added magnetic tape to the back of the pieces. Something about manipulating these cute little characters as you retell the story in sequence is just so much fun!
Download the pieces to print and use for your class HERE