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Julia Chung didn’t know how much it would change her when she took a part in Columbinus. The play portrays the 1999 Columbine High School shootings by two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who turned their guns on themselves after killing 12 students and one teacher and injuring 21 more.
“I’ve never done a serious, intense play like this. I’ve always done light comedies,” says Julia, a soft-spoken 15-year-old freshman at Shepton High School in Plano.
“I’ve definitely gotten teary-eyed. My character was with people who were killed that day, and when you feel like your character in that moment, it’s tough, because you’re attached to those people and you’re experiencing that traumatic event.”
The show has taken everyone by surprise, including Jamey Jamison, who is directing the show for ArtCentre Theatre in Plano, where he is the executive director. The play, featuring a cast of eight people ages 14 to 22, opens April 12.
Jamison is recommending it for audiences of 13 and older and warns that there will be mature language in addition to dealing with teenage suicide, homicide and social unrest.
He acquired the rights two years ago when he thought enough time had elapsed since Columbine to make it emotionally manageable for the young actors in his program. He scheduled the show to overlap with the anniversary of the tragedy on April 20.
Then came the Dec. 14 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Jamison and his cast watched horrified, along with the rest of the world, after Adam Lanza, 20, took his own life after killing 20 children and six adult staff members, the same day he had earlier shot and killed his mother.
“We had no idea that this would be as poignant as it has turned out to be,” Jamison says.
Written by Stephen Karam and P.J. Paparelli as part of the United States Theatre Project, the play starts with generic high school stereotypes who emerge as actual people in the second act, drawing on transcripts, records, documents, texts, photos and video. While Jamison could not insert any dialogue about Newtown because of copyright laws, high school senior Katherine Ingram, 18, of Richardson, added pictures from Newtown to the photo montage and video.
Some of the stereotypes the actors play are Rebel, Prep, AP, Jock, Loner and Freak. Julia plays another, Perfect, the most popular and snobby girl at school. As the story progresses, and the actors go from interactions to monologues where they share their true thoughts, we learn that the kids are very different from the people they pretend to be.
Some original cast members dropped out because they told Jamison the show was too much for them. He says he totally understood and supported their decisions.
Julia, however, is glad she stayed with it; “I feel I’ve grown as a person and as an actress,” she says, noting that the play has taught her to look beyond the daily stereotyping that goes on in high school and to reach out to people she might not have before.
“I hope that once people see this play, they’ll realize that everyone has a story behind what you see, that there’s always a back story and why they act the way they do. Dylan and Eric had a common goal, but maybe if there was just one more friend, one person who knew what they were up to and opened their eyes to the reality of it all and said it was not worth it, maybe it could have been prevented.”
April 12-22 at 5220 Village Creek Drive, Plano. $12 online, $15 at the door. 214-810-3228. artcentretheatre.com.


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Good Twin, Evil Twin: It’s a plot twist as old as ancient mythology.
Thom Christopher won an Emmy award in 1993 for his portrayal of twin brothers on the ABC soap opera “One Life to Live.”
Characters on soap operas often come and go, frequently because actors are fitting in soap opera roles between roles in theater or movies, Christopher said in an interview Monday at the Charles R. Wood Theater.
Christopher is in Glens Falls rehearsing for a role in the upcoming Adirondack Theatre Festival production of “Black Tie,” which runs June 26-30 at the theater on Glen Street.
“Like many actors, my career started with rent-paying appearances for like a week or two days on a soap. There were loads of soaps in New York then, and they were live,” said Christopher, who also appeared on “Guiding Light” and “Loving,” on which he also played twins.
On “One Life to Live,” he played Carlo Hesser, a gangster, and Hesser’s twin brother, Mortimer Bern, an ancient Egyptian culture scholar.
The character of Mortimer came about when a new producer took over the show and shook up the plot.
“So she killed me for three months, and I disappeared. ... When I came back, she said, ‘You’re going to come back as this Eqyptologist, Mortimer,’ ” he said.
Christopher said it was a wonderful sequence in which he would be ducking in and out of scenes portraying both characters -- the long-haired, brainy Mortimer versus the bald-headed, vivacious Carlo.
“And it’s a wonderful sequence over about two or three days in the show where you see her cutting the wig and eventually it’s to my bald head, and putting tuxedos on. But it was wonderful because it got farcical,” he said.
Christopher, who has acted in numerous stage, movie and television roles, including as Hawk on the television show “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century,” said that a quotation from Sir Laurence Olivier sums up his philosophy about acting.
“He said, ‘An actor has to recreate himself every 10 to 15 years.’”
Soap operas are no longer filmed in New York City, and only four or five are still filmed in Los Angeles.
“When the soaps went down, when the three networks just killed them, it was catastrophic. It put a lot of people out of work in these times.”
At age 71, Christopher finds himself in Glens Falls for his latest reinvention.
“Now I’ve been around long enough that people know me, and the new people coming into the business are getting to know me,” he said.
Staff writer Maury Thompson can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.

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Manufacturer: Earth Federation Forces
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Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown
Fixed armaments: 8-tube wire-guided missile launcher, mounted on rear section of main body
The Missile Car was a small armed vehicle used by the Earth Federation Forces and Riah Republic Forces in space colonies. The Missile Car was an electric vehicle powered by batteries to prevent pollution of the colony's closed atmosphere. The Missile Car's sole armament was an 8-tube wire-guided missile launcher, which was ineffective for fighting mobile suits.
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As many of you probably remember, not so long ago serious vulnerabilities were discovered in Intel processors. It seems that the competing AMD devices were not without flaws either. Experts from CTS Labs, Israel's computer security research company, announced about finding a number of vulnerabilities in AMD processors.It is reported that CTS Labs specialists detected 13 weaknesses and vulnerabilities left by the manufacturer. According to company representatives, all findings pose a potential threat and can create a higher risk of cyberattacks. All AMD EPYC, Ryzen, Ryzen Pro and Ryzen Mobile processors are vulnerable, and AMD, Microsoft, HP, Dell, and a number of other companies have been informed about the vulnerabilities to develop software fixes. The data has also been published on the amdflaws website, where everyone can read more about it. AMD has not yet reacted in any way to the finding. We can only hope that the vulnerability fixes do not take long to come.


FC Halifax Town 1 Harrogate Town 2: Mark Beck's brace seals FA Cup progress
Mark Beck has scored five goals for Harrogate Town so far this season.
Three of them have come against FC Halifax Town, and two of those proved sufficient to settle Saturday's Yorkshire FA Cup derby at The Shay, firing his team into the draw for the competition's first round proper.
Beck has performed well as the focal point of the Wetherby Road outfit's attack during 2019/20, but hasn't been in prolific form in front of goal, though the big man was at his predatory best when it mattered on this occasion.
It was his late strike that settled last month's National League encounter between the White Rose rivals and he was at it once again in West Yorkshire, underlining his worth to the cause.
Beck himself set the early tone, using his height and strength to win a series of headers that set the Shaymen on the back foot as Harrogate began brightly.
The first real opening of the game came at the other end though, Halifax’s Tobi Sho-Silva racing in on goal and forcing James Belshaw into a decent sixth-minute save after Town were opened up far too easily by one pass down the middle of the pitch.
Less than two minutes later, the visitors were however in front.
Brendan Kiernan delivered a dangerous cross from the right that Liam Nolan powered against his own cross-bar and Beck was on hand to smash home the rebound just a couple of yards out.
The 25 minutes that followed saw Town in complete control, passing the ball with ease through a Halifax side who gave the impression of one contesting a pre-season friendly rather than an FA Cup tie.
Yet, despite bossing matters, Simon Weaver's men failed to test Sam Johnson in the home goal and the Shaymen could have been level after half an hour, Jerome Binnom-Williams somehow heading over the bar from point-blank range following a left-wing corner.
Harrogate's best chance to double their lead then came and went when Jack Diamond skinned a couple of defenders and drew a good stop out of Johnson.
Josh Falkingham met the loose ball first-time on the edge of the box but sent his finish over the top with the goal gaping.
Another opportunity materialised just before half-time, Ryan Fallowfield picking out an unmarked Muldoon inside the area, though his low strike was diverted to safety by the foot of Johnson.
And Town will have been left ruing these missed opportunities when Halifax levelled within moments of the second period kicking-off, Niall Maher meeting a low centre from the right and side-footing past Belshaw at the far post.
The home crowd suddenly came to life and looked set to roar their team into the lead, only for the unmarked Nolan to head wide of the mark at a corner in the middle of a mini-spell of pressure for the Shaymen.
Then, with 54 minutes on the clock, Town worked a throw-in from the right into the feet of Muldoon inside the box and he sent a low ball across the face of goal for Beck, who got in front of his marker to register his third strike against the Shaymen in the space of approximately 65 minutes of football.
A vicious Diamond shot look destined to make it 3-1 on 64 minutes, however his goal-bound effort was deflected behind by the head of Binnom-Williams.
The visitors managed to see out the closing stages courtesy of a pretty professional performance, defending their box well while threatening themselves on the counter-attack.
Sho-Silva did scoop a shot over the cross-bar and substitute Jamie Allan drilled one into the side-netting, though that was as close as the hosts came to an equaliser as Town ended their long wait for a place in the first round proper.


Police are investigating a double shooting that took place in Essex overnight.
At about 1 a.m., police responded to an incident on Seagate Court in Essex.
Police says that a 19-year-old man answered the door to his residence and was shot in the upper body. He died from his injuries.
Another victim was shot in the lower body and is expected to survive.
The suspect then fled the scene.
Anyone with additional information on this crime is asked to call police at 410-307-2020


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The acting Inspector General of Police, James Oppong-Boanuh, has assured the families of the three Takoradi missing girls that the police administration will not shield or spare anyone found culpable to have played a role in the missing of their relatives will not be spared.
The acting IGP gave the assurance when he, together with a high powered police team, visited the families at their various homes within Kansawrodo and Diabene all in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis.
“For every major operations such as the missing of your relatives, we have something within the police service called after action review,so we will look at the role that was played by all the actors and nobody will be spared if indeed they found culpable”.
Mr Oppong Boanuh also revealed that a team of forensic experts will be dispatch tomorrow August 14 to collect the DNA samples from the families.
“We are determined to get to the button of these unfortunate developments that is why I am personally here to interface with you”.
On his part Mr Alexander Kojo Koranchie father of Priscilla Mantsebeah Koranchie was full of praise for the IGP and appeal to the police administration to train police personnel on how to handle cases which involve missing, abductions or kidnappings.

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Town planning services were provided for this exciting urban infill project in Southport, Gold Coast. The proposal involved a freehold subdivision for 6 lots averaging 90sqm and dwellings on a development site area with an area of only 542sqm. This equates to a development density of approximately 110 dwellings per ha, which more typically would be a density expected for mid to high rise apartment developments. The attraction for the client was being able to market freehold dwellings at an affordable price point. The site is ideally located close to the Southport CBD and enjoyed easy access to a tram station, so obtained the benefit of reduced on site car parking.
Mortons worked with the client, the architects and project team to prepare the material change of use application. It involved the preparation of designs for uniquely styled 2 and 3 storey homes, a plan of development to control building form and a subdivision plan.
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Annoying to some, appreciated by others, Berkeley’s pandemic-motivated street closure program is over. For now.
Launched in June 2020 as an emergency public health measure, the “Healthy Streets” pilot program has been winding down for months and officially ended this week, city officials said. The city hopes to continue elements of the program as part of its revised bike plan, set to be adopted in 2023.
The program, which involved cordoning off about 4.2 miles of roadway to expand car-free outdoor activity space, was a mixed bag for residents and for the city, according to a Nov. 18 memo from city manager Dee Williams-Ridley.
“By and large, the program feedback was positive, and the survey proved fruitful in understanding how to better meet the community’s needs,” Williams-Ridley wrote in the memo to City Council. “The program also experienced challenges.”
While many people enjoyed the extra space for walking, running and biking, others were confused by the program’s street signs and configurations, said Williams-Ridley’s memo.
The Healthy Streets infrastructure — barricades to block cars, plus signage — was also plagued by theft and vandalism, the memo said. And the city lacked the staffing to keep up with the problems.
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In enacting the street closure program, the city worked closely with the nonprofit Walk Bike Berkeley, which pushed for the pilot, said Liza Lutzker, a member of the organization’s coordinating committee.
“Our idea was there would be a network of streets that would really get a lot of people around the city in a way that was outdoors, socially distanced and also for exercise as well,” Lutzker said.
Cities including Oakland, Alameda and San Francisco had led the Bay Area in pandemic-related “Slow Streets” initiatives, and Walk Bike Berkeley strongly advocated for Berkeley to follow suit, she said. The organization is an active non-paid advocate in the city’s bicycle and pedestrian planning.
Lutzker agrees that Berkeley’s Healthy Streets program wasn’t smooth sailing — or rolling, or stepping.
Inadequate signs and traffic markers left drivers, bikers, and walkers confused, which led to frustration, she said, adding that the intent of the program was important and popular.
“A lot of what we took away from this was first and foremost the need for it,” Lutzker said.
Early in the process, Berkeley developed signage for project, which Walk Bike Berkeley found ineffective, she said. It was basically too homespun or temporary-looking, she said.
The organization urged Berkeley to use the more standardized “No Thru Traffic” road closure signs erected by cities like Oakland.
Berkeley’s initial signs were a mix of “watch for bikes and pedestrians” and “consider other routes.” Later, with volunteer assistance from Walk Bike Berkeley members, “Do Not Enter” signs were added by the city, Lutzker said.
“One of the biggest lessons learned is to use consistent signage with other cities,” she said.
Among those confused, were residents along the closed streets.
“Unfortunately, one of the issues was that it didn’t fit very well with a lot of local residents. … People were told not to enter their streets but to go around the block,” Lutzker said.
Another lesson was the need for hardy or permanent barriers separating car traffic from other modes, she said. “If we want to protect pedestrian and bicycle use of streets, then there needs to be traffic diversion mechanisms.”
The city agreed, according to Williams-Ridley’s letter to the council, which said: “Future healthy streets strategies will be more robust and aesthetic, using treatments such as islands, planters, bollards, bioswales and appropriate signage; identifying sustainable funding sources; and deployed after a more robust and thorough community engagement process.”
Lutzker pointed to the collision that injured of one of their members, Jackie Erbe, on a Healthy Street section as an example of the challenges of the program design. Erbe was hit by a car in a healthy street zone on Ninth Street in March, suffering a broken femur and fractured vertebrae. (The collision wasn’t mentioned in the city manager’s memo.) Lutzker said Erbe is recuperating and doing well today. She also said she does not blame the street closure for the collision.
Healthy Streets was applied to six sections of Berkeley roadways: Ninth Street, from Hearst Avenue to Dwight Way and Page Street to Hearst; Russell Street, from Adeline Street to Mabel Street; Addison Street, from Sacramento Street to Grant Street; Hillegass Avenue, from Woolsey Street to Dwight Way; and Virginia Street, from Shattuck Avenue to Sacramento.
The streets chosen were part of the city’s “low stress” bicycle network, a system of continuous routes, off of main roads, with signs, bike parking, and other features for biking.
The network is identified in the 2017 Berkeley Bike Plan, a blueprint for bicycle transit in the city that is currently being updated. City staff are currently seeking “to identify more long-term solutions to support the City’s bicycle boulevard network in ways that may look very similar to the Healthy Streets Pilot,” Lee-Ridley wrote in the memo.
The city manager pointed to a new state bill, AB 733, which allows local jurisdictions such as cities and counties to adopt traffic rules and regulations for “slow street” programs, such as Berkeley’s Healthy Streets.
Normally cities must comply with statewide laws for street signage, striping, and design. Uncertainty around the legality of the signage for Healthy Streets hindered the program’s effectiveness, Lutzker said.
The new law should put this to rest, she said.
“We want to create a small subset of streets in Berkeley that create a network for people to feel comfortable riding around safely for people of all ages and abilities,” Lutzker said.
“We don’t expect everybody to ride a bike, but we don’t want people to feel prevented from riding a bike because they don’t feel safe doing so,” she said.

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Home loan officers in Boca Raton clouded by their connection to subprime lender New Century Financial Corp. are reinventing themselves with the help of a rival.
Roughly 35 employees from the Boca office of Home 123 Mortgage have agreed to join WCS Lending.
The deal comes just days after Home 123 and its California parent, New Century, stopped funding existing loans and accepting new business in the wake of a nationwide shakeout of subprime lenders, which make loans to borrowers with weak credit.
Trouble deepened for New Century on Tuesday when California, Florida and other states told the company to quit taking mortgage applications and turn over pending home loans to rival lenders, the company said. Fannie Mae, the biggest source of money for U.S. mortgages, said it will no longer buy New Century's loans.
Irvine, Calif.-based New Century's managers have said the company may go out of business.
Eric Wallberg, who started Boca Raton-based WCS five years ago with partner Carlos Cepeda, said the addition of loan officers from Home 123 is "truly a perfect fit."
WCS also has offices in Fort Lauderdale, Southfield, Mich., and New York. It originated more than $1.2 billion in home loans last year, with less than 10 percent of its business being the subprime market, Wallberg said.
Like WCS, the Boca office of Home 123 had few subprime loans, working mostly with affluent clients and handling about $500 million in home loans last year. "We were making money hand over fist," said Louis Spagnuolo, a senior mortgage banker. "[New Century] wasn't definitive in the direction they wanted to go in, and we felt this was too compelling to pass up."
The 35 Home 123 workers in Boca resigned since Friday so they could start with WCS. About 30 employees went to work with other local mortgage firms, said Alan Reichstein, a Home 123 vice president who is moving to WCS.
"Nobody ended up without a job," he said.
Clients of Home 123 shouldn't have problems with their loans and might get better interest rates now that WCS is involved, Reichstein said.
Home 123 also has offices in North Palm Beach and Plantation that are not part of the WCS deal, Reichstein said. An executive at the Plantation office referred calls to New Century, and an official in North Palm Beach could not be reached.
New Century, the nation's second-largest subprime lender, this month disclosed a criminal investigation related to the trading of its securities and accounting procedures. The New York Stock Exchange suspended trading in the stock and took steps to delist it.
Concerns over home loans made to high-risk borrowers that are defaulting during the housing downturn have rocked Wall Street in recent weeks.
The Home 123 deal with WCS is a precursor of things to come in the subprime market, said Jonathan Shapiro, chief executive of American Home Lenders in Plantation.
"A lot of loan officers are going to flee for safety, and some of the smaller places will ride out the storm or go out of business," Shapiro said.
Bloomberg News contributed to this report.
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Israeli soldiers invaded, earlier Monday, the village of Orif, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, kidnapped four Palestinians, and confiscated two cars, a lathing machine, and a power generator.
The Nablus office of the Palestinian Prisoners Society (PPS) has reported that the soldiers stormed and violently searched many homes, and kidnapped four Palestinians.
The PPS said the kidnaped Palestinians have been identified as Sa’adi Najeh Safadi, Najeh Sa’ad Najeh Safadi, Ali Najeh Sharif Safadi and Essam Najeh Sharif Safadi.
The soldiers also confiscated two cars, belonging to Ali and Essam, in addition to confiscating a lathing machine and a power generator.
On Monday at dawn, the army invaded ‘Aida refugee camp, north of Bethlehem, searched several homes and kidnapped two teenagers. The soldiers also assaulted and injured a Palestinian from Jenin.
In related news, the soldiers continued their strict siege and collective punishment on Sa’ir and Bani Neim towns, in the southern West Bank district of Hebron, for the eleventh consecutive day, and kidnapped six Palestinians.
Also on Monday at dawn, several Israeli military vehicles invaded Palestinian agricultural lands, east of Khan Younis city, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

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When institutions tear down their walls to make renovations, you’d be shocked to hear how many times they find a piece of history hiding there. For example, one school ripped down their white boards to install state-of-the-art smart boards when they found a history lesson from nearly 100 years ago. What an unexpected treat.
When Cambridge University in England tore apart their building, they discovered something similar. History was living behind the walls. Never could they have guessed that a treasure trove of artifacts was in such close proximity to the historians and collectors who would want them.
A maintenance crew renovating part of Selwyn College, a Cambridge University college founded in 1882, tore down the walls and uncovered an area known as a “gyp.” This was a small room used to house servants who would prepare tea and toast for the ultra-wealthy students every morning. But what was in this gyp had historians going bonkers. Check it out now!
Behinds the wall, the gyp had a Victorian-era cooking stove made out of solid iron. Besides the cooking appliance, which itself is a huge find for historians, they discovered a stash of postcards, letters, and collectable cigarette cards – all which belonged to a poor servant more than a hundred years ago.
When the maintenance workers first saw what they found, they examined the postcards. The dates on them were marked between 1912 and 1916. They were shocked. THIS is what life was like at Selwyn College one hundred years ago…
Part of the collection included images of the Selwyn College chapel at the time – which looked like a gorgeous worship space. This gave the find additional historic value and promise.
The maintenance manager at the college was astonished by the find. Not only because it was old, but because that very room had been refurbished twice in recent years.
The college’s maintenance manager, Doug Benzie, told reporters: “Some of my guys were stripping out the old wooden panels in one of the kitchens, and they called me to say you wouldn’t believe what we found.”
With the evidence in their collection, the Selwyn archivists has begun the search to discover who the cigarette cards and items belonged to.
To start that search, the archivist is contacting the descendants of those who occupied the rooms during those years. This takes a lot of effort and she hopes to uncover some kind of mystery or event that went down at Selwyn College more than 100 years ago.
According to the school’s website: “The College opened in time for the beginning of the academic year in 1882, when 28 undergraduates were admitted. The teaching staff comprised the Master, the Tutor and one non-resident lecturer… The College was one of the first in Cambridge to go mixed, admitting women in 1976. More expansion took place in the 2000s with two phases of development based on a new court, Ann’s Court, named after Ann Dobson – Chris and Ann Dobson providing almost all of the funding for this development.”
Besides the search for a human connection, the school has plans to display the stove and a selection of cards and letters to educate people about the school’s history and entice new students to enroll.
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Finsbury Park is an area that grew from its transport facilities. There aren’t many better places in London in terms of the number of connections available to its residents. Whilst other areas have attempted to retroactively install transport links, Finsbury Park already had them before the majority of the residential areas arose.
The advantage of staying in Finsbury Park is that it feels more like a commuter town. The greenery, open spaces and sense of community mask the fact that it is so close to the business action in Central London.
Apartments also give a more private feel to a stay. People coming to London on business need a personal space to unwind before the next day’s work starts all over again.
London is one of the most popular places in the world to visit for a vacation. There aren’t many places with as long or interesting a history and people come from all over the world to see the sights and have a good time.
Serviced apartments offer the perfect base from which a holiday in London can be enjoyed. Serviced apartments in Finsbury Park offer the added bonus in that they are located far enough away from the throngs of people in Central London in order to have some relaxing time away from the rush.
Not only that, only the best properties in the area are selected by TheSqua.re to be offered on their booking platform.
Finsbury Park station is located in Zone 2 of the transport network but is one of the most reasonably priced areas that find themselves this close to Central London. As such it is in high demand by commuters.
The vast majority of the Finsbury Park area is made up of residential buildings. There’s rows of Victorian terraces, modern apartment buildings and blocks of flats from the middle of the last century, in terms of the accommodation offering. Some of which overlook or are very close to the park.
There’s plenty of bars to sample in all areas but clubs are scarce. These establishments tend to be a mix of traditional old English pubs, or former traditional old English pubs which have been transformed into gastropubs.
Like areas such as Notting Hill and Hackney, Finsbury Park had a rough and ready reputation in the past which in recent times has been erased in favour of a vibrant, modern twenty first century commuter town. Even some Londoner’s may not appreciate what the place has to offer in modern times.
Here are a few facts about Finsbury Park:
The property is generally dominated by Victorian terraces, some remain as large houses but many have been transformed into flats and maisonettes over the years. The more modern looking purpose built apartments are much more expensive, with some of them offering park views.
There is a number of examples of residential housing which is made of ex-local authority buildings too. As with most places in London, property prices are on the rise, with some properties in Finsbury Park being sold at a 25% premium on previously purchased prices.
When compared to nearby Stoke Newington, Finsbury Park offers far more value for money. As it does when compared to other neighbours such as Highbury and Holloway.
Short term property rental can still be outrageously expensive on a month by month basis. Serviced apartments in Finsbury Park give a much cheaper and infinitely more flexible option for anyone looking to stay for the medium or longer term.
Finsbury Park offers a quiet, green, commuter area within easy reach of London proper. The sights of London are just minutes away but people staying in Finsbury Park should make the most of where they are too. Here are a few tips as to how to make the most out of Finsbury Park:
Finsbury Park is located right next to the action in London so people staying there have an endless choice of things to do, whether it be staying local or venturing into the ‘Big Smoke’.
Q. What are the most popular landmarks in Finsbury Park?
There are plenty of obscure and more famous landmarks around the Finsbury Park area:
Q. What are some free things to do in Finsbury Park?
London has a fierce reputation as being a pretty expensive place to visit. In some cases, it is, but there’s plenty of cheaper stuff to do too. Here’s some stuff that’s completely free.
Q. Are there many excursions to be had from Finsbury Park?
Finsbury Park could not be in a better location in order to visit the world famous landmarks and sights that London has to offer. Its location is largely irrelevant due to the transport links.
The railway station connects with the East of England, the buses connect with the rest of North London as well as Central London, and the tube station has got many connects, including one straight through to London Victoria, one of London’s best connections to the South of England with a coach station that links the whole country!
In other words, if there’s a desired excursion anywhere in the country, it’s probably possible to get there!
Q. What are the most family-friendly things to do in Finsbury Park?
As mentioned above, Finsbury Park is so well connected that any family things to do in London can be reached easily. The museum quarter in Kensington is just a tube ride away. The best thing about most London museums is that not only are they family friendly, but they are also free.
Closer to home (the serviced apartment now called home anyway), there’s Rowans Ten Pin Bowling. This is a very old school alley which hasn’t been updated since the 1980s. Kids will love the neon decor as well as the slushy machine and post bowling karaoke.
Staying in Finsbury Park gives visitors plenty of options with regards to days and evenings out.
There’s plenty going on eatery wise in Finsbury Park for those who want to stay local and not venture into the city. There are fine dining options but probably not the same level as found further into London. Nevertheless, the options are many.
London is a world famous shopping destination, that’s well known, and Finsbury Park is ideally located as a base from which to set off for some retail therapy. There are also a number of shopping centres within close vicinity of Finsbury Park itself. Here are a few:
Finsbury Park has an almost unrivalled number of connections for any place outside of Central London. Not only is the city fully accessible, but the rest of England and the UK opens up from Finsbury Park. One way tube tickets typically cost around £2.
Underground Stations close to the apartments that will take you across the city include the likes of:
Mainline Stations that will take you outside of London and to other destinations and cities nearby (Cambridge, for example) include:
Finsbury Park mainline station is a National Rail station and is also the location of the tube station above and two bus stations.
London weather is best summed up in one word, ‘unpredictable’. Its weather cycles are generally the same that are experienced in Western Europe except the summers aren’t quite as hot and the winters aren’t quite as cold.
It’s difficult to believe when standing in freezing drizzle in February but London’s median temperatures are actually a couple of degrees warmer than the towns on its outskirts.

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The 40th General Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) wrapped up in Bangkok on August 29.
National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan (R) receives the AIPA chairmanship token for 2019-2020 from Speaker of the Thai House of Representatives Chuan Leekpai. Photo: VNA
Vietnam’s National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan expressed her honour to receive the AIPA chairmanship for 2019-2020 from Speaker of the Thai House of Representatives Chuan Leekpai.
She congratulated Chuan Leekpai, who is also Chair of AIPA 40, and Thai parliamentarians on the successful organisation of the activities within the framework of the AIPA 40, especially the General Assembly.
Ngan said their efforts have helped further increase the involvement of parliamentarians in reinforcing a peaceful and stable environment in Southeast Asia, as well as contributing to the building of a self-reliant, dynamic and sustainable ASEAN Community.
The ASEAN has overcome difficult periods to steadfastly build a common community, she said, calling on AIPA parliamentarians to uphold the spirit of solidarity and maintain the central role of the regional grouping in addressing regional matters, abide by international law, implement preventive diplomatic measures, and cooperate for development.
The NA leader added that the AIPA will continue promoting its role, legislative function, supervision, and decision of necessary budgets and resources, while accompanying governments in the ASEAN for an ASEAN Community of cohesion, innovation, creativity and adaption to the era of science and technology 4.0, and towards sustainable development for the benefits of every people.
She further said that 2020 will be a year to review the five-year development of the ASEAN Community since its establishment in 2015 and to draw experience from the five subsequent years.
It will also be a special year for Vietnam when the country both holds the position of a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, Chair of ASEAN, and Chair of AIPA 41.
Therefore, the National Assembly of Vietnam will continue innovating AIPA activities as well as increasing the role and position of the AIPA in building the ASEAN community, Ngan said.
She added that through activities within the framework of the AIPA, Vietnam will continue enhancing cooperation between the AIPA and the ASEAN, international organisations and multilateral cooperation mechanisms to boost the implementation of commitments and plans outlined in the building of the ASEAN Community, with a vision to 2025.
With the support of AIPA members, the National Assembly of Vietnam will host the first meeting of AIPA young parliamentarians and connect the AIPA with the ASEAN and youngsters of the bloc, she added.
In that spirit, Ngan said the National Assembly will do its utmost to successfully host the role of AIPA Chair and expects close coordination of the Thai parliament and other member parliaments of the AIPA as well as the AIPA Secretariat and ASEAN Secretariat to build a prosperous ASEAN Community.
Ngan said she hopes to welcome delegates to the 41st General Assembly of AIPA in Vietnam in 2020.
Chuan Leekpai said Vietnam has made significant contributions to ASEAN and affirmed to cooperate with the Vietnamese top legislator to build a strong, solid, and sustainable ASEAN Community in the future.
Earlier the same day, NA Chairwoman Ngan attended the second plenary session of the 40th General Assembly of AIPA.


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Comments on Fiscal Policy in an Islamic Economy
In his paper on ‘Fiscal Policy in an Islamic Economy’, the author claims that Zakah causes the average and marginal propensities to consume to be higher than any other fiscal measure of a non-lslamic economy, and hence that it helps in closing the gap between income and investment at all levels of income. Without doubt, his basic thesis, that Zakah will interease consumption, is true. However, the other claims are not so clearly valid. Certainly, the proof of some of his propositions is erroneous. It is on this aspect of the paper that I would like to comment.
It is clear that any form of tax on wealth, being a disincentive to saving, must tend to reduce saving and hence increase consumption, Zakah, being such a tax, must tend to increase consumption and reduce savings. However, will the consumption, so achieved, increase investment? The effect is not clear. There could be an increased expenditure on consumer goods which does not contribute to investment, or there could be an investment boom, depending on the rate of inflation, the rate of interest, the level of confidence in investments, etc. A zero interest rate does not, by any means, ensure an increase of investment. (The topic has been dealt with extensively by Prof. Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi in various works.) It is clear that a progressive taxation scheme must lead to more consumption than a constant ratio scheme fixed at the lowest tax level. We see that the conclusions reached in the paper are clearly wrong. Let us now try to understand where the author went wrong.
There are various errors in the paper, some of a more technical kind and other of a more fundamental, logical, kind. Consider, for example, his equation M(4), (we refer to the equations in the paper under discussion by using an M with the equation number).
Z = «Y (1)
Here the equation is not entirely meaningful. The problem lies with definition of the Y and Z. Y is taken to be the total income of the community and Z the total Zakah collected. Equation (1) then purports to say that 'Total Zakah is in a constant ratio to total income’.
The statement is true only in a tautological way. One might as validly say that ‘the total amount of Zakah is in a constant ratio to the total number of butterflies', or more generally ‘One constant is in a constant ratio to another constant’. For the statement to be meaningful it must relate variables. Let us look at the assumptions implicit in the derivation of the simple looking Equation (1).
We know that the Zakah, Z, paid by an individual, is given in terms of his wealth, we, by
Z = a' (w-n) (2)
where n is Nisab and «' js a number, usually taken to be 2.5 per cent.
Now, if there are N individuals in the community, 0N of whom pay
Zakah, the total Zakah collected will be obtained by summing Equation (2) over all Zakah-payers to give:
Z = a'Wz-<x'0nN (3)
where Wz is the total wealth of the Zakah-payers.
The author clearly wants to assume a linear relationship between the wealth and the income, y, of all individuals. This assumption is invalid, but may be taken as being approximately correct. Since the income can be from sources other than stored wealth, we must take
y = oc"w + 7 (4)
where <*" is some constant measured in inverse units of time, as income is measured in units of money per unit of time, and y > 0 is salary, wages, etc. Clearly y is unrelated to w.
The error in Equation (1) is now quite clear. It lies in dealing with Z and Y as variables instead of as constants. Consider the ideal situation of an economy in which wealth is fully distributed. There Z = 0 and Y should be greater than in cases where wealth is not as well distributed. Thus, as Z increases, Y should decrease opposite to Equation (1). This point is brought out by Equation (6) which says that the Zakah increases with an increase of income due to wealth of the Zakah-payers but decreases with salary income increases. If there is no wealth beyond Nisab with any individual Zakah will obviously be zero and adequate redistribution of wealth will have been achieved. This point has been arrived at here by the use of mathematics, but it is economically obvious.
Let us now turn to the main proposition of the paper. The author starts with some assumptions which amount to the assumption that the average propensity to consume is greater than the marginal propensity to consume, which is positive thus
0< dc <c
w y (7)
Dividing Equation (7) through by y we obtain
l dc _ £W <0 (8)
Which gives us
which yield the required conditions. Thus the economic assumptions of the author are just those mentioned above about average and marginal propensities to consume.
The author now makes the assumption that
C = a + gyb (10)
where a > 0 and 0< b < 1, g >0. No attention is paid to the units in which quantities are measured. Clearly C is taken to be measured in units of money per unit time, a (in the same units) is just the minimal (subsistance) consumption. Now, since y is measured in the same units but is raised to some fractional power, g must be measured in units such that gyb is measured in units of money per unit time. When the author now postulates that with Zakah Equation (10) is replaced by
C = a + g (0-«)yb +g (1—/3+«)y5 (11)
we see that there are serious problems. Let us look at the problems individually in some detail.
The first problem we are faced with is that Equation (11) makes no sense because g has to be measured such that gyb has the same units as gy^, which is not possible except when b = 5. Thus if Equation (11) holds in dollars it will not hold in cents. What is more is, if it holds in 1978, it will not hold in 1980 (due to inflation). Thus Equation (11) would have to be rewritten, to be meaningful as
C = a+g [(y/y1 )b (0-«) + (y/y2)5 (1-MI (12)
where y1 and y2 are some constant (specified) incomes and g is measured in units of money per unit time. There is a serious problem, now, of specifying y1 and y2, but at least the equation may be taken to be meaningful. This problem is dealt with by the author by taking b and 5 to be estimated statistically for some units, and changing with change of units. This method does not work as b may be less than 5 in some units and not in others.
Another problem is the meaning to be given to b and 5. There is no question of claiming that, there are marginal propensities to consume for Zofc<7/?-payers and non-Zo/?o/7-payers. That was only true if b - 6 = 1, as can be seen easily. Let us ignore the problem of why b and 6 should be supposed to be unequal when the dependence on income of the individual is already taken into account in the consumption function. Anyhow, now is the total consumption function being supposed to have the same (non-linear) functional form as that of the individual consumption functions. In fact, summing up Equation (12) [or Equation (11) for that matter] will not yield.
c = a+g [(0+«) (y/yn )b +g (i-0 + oc) (y/y2)61 (13)
as b and 6 are not supposed to be unity.
The result obtained nevertheless contains some true part. Let us see where this comes from. The functional form taken in Equation (11) clearly increases C above its value given by Equation (10), for all values of income, the difference increasing for larger values of income. Thus all values of consumption and their derivatives must be greater in the form given in Equation (11) than that given in Equation (10). This fact is due to our having started off by saying that the introduction of Zakah brings in a higher propensity to consume (6 > b). Having assumed this fact to start with, it is certainly not surprising that we find it in the conclusion. Since this assumption was valid economically the result is true in spite of the erroneous analysis in so far as the assumption itself is true - but no further.
The author now makes a logical error. Having shown that the MPC and APC with Zakah are greater than those without any tax (which he has in fact assumed) he goes on to say that the MPC and APC with Zakah are greater with any tax on wealth or otherwise. This is simply not true. Any wealth tax must have the same effect. Worse still, the author’s analysis purports to show that a constant ratio income tax leads to an increase in MPC and APC. This is surely nonsense.
In the next section there are more simple (technical) errors. Thus, when the author writes
rn = r(1-e) + e (14)
he forgets about the units in which the quantities are being measured, e is just a number between 0 and 1 while r is measured in units of inverse time. Taking the equation to be meaningful nevertheless, the requirement that rn > 0 means that
r (1-e) + e > 0
or e > r(e—1) (15)
which is just the positivity of e as e < 1. The author’s requirement that
r(e—1) > e ;. (16)
is wrong as 0 < e < 1, because he requires that a negative quantity should be greater than a positive one.* Clearly the subsequent discussion is equally absured.
Let us now consider what can be reasonably said about Zakah. Historically, it is one of the earliest forms of wealth tax, and is the progenitor of all modern taxes on wealth. The purpose of Zakah is to provide social welfare. Notice that the modern idea of social welfare as a desirable goal also originates in Islam. However, when Zakah was originally introduced the economy was nearly static and very simple.
The modern, more complicated economies require more elaborate taxation schemes to ensure social welfare and social justice. For example, a sliding scale scheme may be preferable to the previous fixed ratio. It is not the name of Zakah, or the fixed ratio, that is the essence of Zakah, rather it is the purpose. Any wealth tax whose proceeds go to social wealfare is Zakah.
To sum up, I would like to stress the need to study the difference between a fixed and a sliding scale wealth tax before implementing it. In my opinion the paper under discussion has not done justice to the subject. To take true pride in the great achievement of Islam of introducing Zakah we should not revert to the early form of Zakah but try to find the most efficient way of achieving the goal of Zakah — social welfare. A more comprehensive view of Islamic requirements and goals, as is provided by Naqvi et. a/ is greatly needed to develop a meaningful Islamic economics.
It is a great pleasure to thank Prof. Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi and Dr. A. R. Kemal for many illuminating discussions on the subject, and for some detailed comments which have been incorporated into this discussion.
Dr. Asghar Qadir
It is useful to remember what early Muslim scholars did in the domain of scientific research. They started by appraising the state of affairs, discarding theories and postulates which did not conform to Islamic principles. As for the rest of knowledge which did not run counter to Islam, they kept it and added to it. In addition, with the progress of the Islamic community, they developed new branches of scientific knowledge, such as Algebra, as well as deepening and improving the state of existing sciences.
It seems to me that in economics, at the present time, the task lying ahead is to do the same as our former scholars did. Our task as Muslim economists is neither to show that Islam can accept this theory or that idea, nor to show Islamic superiority over wordly theories. Islamic principles and tenets are superior par excellence and this is to be taken for granted. A further step would be to develop new economic theories and policies steming from Islamic principles.
Dr. Metwally’s paper could be looked at from this angle. He divides his paper into four parts, which deal with: the role of the fiscal policy in an Islamic economy; objectives of fiscal policy in an Islamic economy; measures of fiscal policy in an Islamic economy; and mechanism of fiscal policy in an Islamic economy. We shall discuss these parts successively.
Role of the Fiscal Policy in an Islamic Economy
Dr. Metwally considers the role of fiscal policy in an Islamic economy to be more important than in a non-lslamic free-market economy. It is known that the role of fiscal policy in Western market economies is manifold, namely allocation, distribution, and stability. If we add to this the objective of growth and development, it looks to me that the role of fiscal policy in an Islamic economy would be the same.
In this section the author rightly states that gambling is forbidden. But speculative demand for money is not always gambling. Thus speculative demand for money may exist in an Islamic economy. This is due to search for more profitable opportunities even in the absence of a bond market.
A further point stated by Dr. Metwally is that “open market operations would not be very effective in an Islamic economy” I can not see why? Furthermore stock-exchange would play a greater role in Islamic economies because of the extensive use of sharing as a substitute for borrowing. Zakah’s rates although cannot be changed between periods, are different for different assets. This may be so, among other things to stimulate productive activities.
Objectives of Fiscal Policy in an Islamic Economy
My main observation on this section is the confusion between the money “market” and fiscal policy. Since the Islamic economy will be monetized, there will be a scope for monetary policy. The abolition of interest rate does not mean that there are no other variables which govern demand for and supply of money. The rate of dues on idle cash suggested by the author is not sufficient for determining the demand for money. It should be complemented by the rate of return on investment in permissible activities. I feel that the introduction of the rate of return on investment (in assets other than bonds) would keep the post-Keynesian analysis intact. We shall discuss this point later.
Measures of Fiscal Policy in an Islamic Economy
The measures of fiscal policy examined by the author are Zakah and economic dues. Here the role of expenditure, is not discussed. This is done in Section IV. Therefore I would have preferred to label this part as sources of public revenue. The paper then discusses the effect of Zakah on consumption, investment and the demand for money.
As for Zakah on all idle assets, it is applicable to cash and deposits with banks, only if they remain idle for a complete year. This condition is important to mention because there can be some demand for money for speculative purposes, in the Keynesian sense, without being subject to Zakah.
The collection of Zakah is not subject to changing economic conditions. The proceeds of Zakah, however, will vary in boom and recession. On the other hand the domains for spending Zakah embrace all possible activities and these could be reallocated, and has been reallocated at the time of Umar Ibn Abdulaziz, between various uses in conformity with prevailing economic conditions. The author states a different point of view.
As far the effect of Zakah on consumption, I disagree with the author’s statement that “both the average and marginal propensities to consume would be higher in an Islamic economy than in a non-Islamic economy. The pattern of consumption is determined by a host of factors. Islamic values urge people not to be spend-thrift. It is true that Zakah will lead to a more equitable distribution of income and wealth. This does not mean, however, that the overall propensities to consume will be higher. In effect Duesenberry has shown, with the use of Veblen’s demonstration effect, that consumption as a proportion of a given level of income could be higher under inequality than under a more equitable distribution of income. I believe that in an Islamic economy, consumption would be less than that in a non-lslamic economy with the same level of income and size of population. It is not difficult to work-out an example which shows this.
The imposition of Zakah on idle money will not necessarily make any investment opportunity with the rate of profit(r) > 0 acceptable. However, one would be tempted to agree with the author that “the demand for investment at a given expected rate of profit will be always higher in the economies of Islam than in non-lslamic economies (at the same level of income).” (parenthesis are mine).
As far the effect of Zakah on the demand for money, I think that the three motives for the demand for money would exist in an Islamic economy. This matter needs a detailed analysis.
With respect to economic dues, I have a different point of view. My views in this regard are: (a) demand for money for speculative purposes is different from speculation in the general sense. If the latter is not allowed, the former need not be so; and (b) demand for money for transactions and precautionary motives is dependent mainly on income in both Islamic and non-lslamic economies.
The author states that "money supply in an Islamic economic framework will expand at a constant exponential rate equal to some proportion of the rate of growth of national income”. I fail to see why this should be the case.
Mechanism of Fiscal Policy in an Islamic Economy
The mechanism detailed in this section follows the accepted philosophy of stimulating demand during recession and constraining it if there are fears of galloping inflation.
My remarks on this section are:
- In the discussion on the use of fiscal policy in an Islamic economy to cure unemployment, it would have been better to distinguish between developing and advanced Islamic countries.
- I think in an Islamic economy, the possibility of experiencing both demand-pull and cost-push inflation does exist. It would have been better to discuss both cases rather than discarding cost-push inflation.
- The statement that we would expect the marginal revenue of a Muslim entrepreneur to be equal to the product price, and the real wage paid by him to Muslim labourer to be equal to marginal product! assumes that perfect competition exists both on the product and factor markets. This is a far fetched assumption.
- Translating Baitul-Mal in English to "the Central Islamic Bank’’*, is not accurate. Baitul-Mal is the Ministry of Finance or Treasury. The Central Bank is something different.
- As for sources of financing government projects, I would add borrowing. Islam forbids interest but does not forbid borrowing when the need for it arises.
- The possibility of a "roll-over debt” (which bears no interest) might be an additional source of inefficiency in government activities which should not be encouraged.
- Adding Zakah to government expenditures and comparing it to the "amount of taxes corresponding to the full employment level of income” we might: (i) confuse the issues involved, because how do we add revenues to expenditures, and do we know what is the amount of taxes corresponding to the full employment level of income? An alternative formulation would be:
G = Z + U with U = 0 in full employment G<Z+U U>0in periods of inflation G > Z + U U<0in periods of depression
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Public finance in Islamic thought is a field distinct from other fields of economics. Muslim scholars have discussed it since the early years of Hijra. Dr. Metwally tried to relate Islamic thinking to current thoughts on public finance. In conclusion, I would have liked, before suggesting the use of “economic dues”, to see an estimate of Zakah proceeds as a percentage of GNP. Then to assess how this could affect the economic life of the society. I- would expect that the proceeds of Zakah if properly collected and spent could more efficiently tackle the various economic conditions which might prevail in a country, than the secular management of public finance.
Source: Fiscal Policy and Resource Allocation in Islam, Ziauddin Ahmed, Munawar Iqbal and M. Fahim Khan. Republished with permission.


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The powerful regional organisations created in Latin America, an important legacy of the late Hugo Chavez, have forced cracks in Washington’s 50- year economic blockade of Cuba. Senior US regime figures have called on President Barack Obama to loosen the blockade.
Obama loosened a few of the additional measures imposed by Bush the Second (lifting some severe restrictions on family member visits) but has mostly maintained the status quo of travel bans on US citizens, ‘trading with the enemy’ sanctions and imposing large fines on companies (with over 10% US shareholding) which trade with Cuba.
The US economic, commercial, and financial blockade (called an ‘embargo’ in the US) has tried to isolate and lay siege to Cuba since the early years of the revolution. The first version was signed into force by President John F Kennedy, just after he ordered a personal supply of 1,000 fine Cuban cigars.
However, now that Cuba has taken on a leading role in continental organisations such as the CELAC, Washington insiders have been forced to admit that it is the USA (‘America’) that has become ‘increasingly isolated’ in the Americas.
The late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his political mentor, former Cuban President Fidel Castro, in the early 2000s, led the movement against a proposed ‘Free Trade Area of the Americas’ (FTAA) and against the Washington-dominated Organization of American States (OAS). Venezuela and Cuba created the left-bloc ALBA (the Bolivarian Alliance for Our Americas) as a counter to the FTAA. In 2005, at a summit in Argentina, Chavez held a shovel to demonstrate that he had come to ‘bury’ the FTAA; and indeed he did.
Then in 2008, backed by others including President Lula of Brazil and President Kirchner of Argentina, Chavez led the creation of UNASUR, a South American bloc that has since helped defuse Washington’s destabilisation plans in several countries.
The unification process peaked a little more than year before Chavez died of cancer. In Caracas, in December 2011, 33 Latin American and Caribbean heads of government confirmed the creation of CELAC (the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States). The only countries of the Americas left out were the USA and Canada. With a population twice the size of the US, CELAC has become a new counter-weight to the Washington-based OAS. This new bloc moved immediately to build new direct relations, for example with the European Union.
We should see this recent letter to Obama on Cuba, from 50 US establishment figures, in this wider context. Titled ‘Open letter to President Obama: support civil society in Cuba’ (http://www.supportcubancivilsociety.org/), it calls for relaxation of travel to Cuba by US citizens, increased support for Cuban civil society, ‘principled engagement in areas of mutual interest’ and some relaxation of financial restrictions for ‘authorised’ relations.
This is a very long way from the liberal ideas of free movement and free trade, so often preached by Washington. But while the letter’s proposals are quite modest, and there is a traditional destabilisation agenda, it is the authors that make a difference. There have been many similar proposals from what we might call US ‘official dissidents’, former officials who have disagreed with the bipartisan US policy on Cuba.
This time the proposal comes from figures still deeply embedded in the US security, finance and diplomatic oligarchy. Notably there is John Negroponte, mastermind of death squads (under the Reagan and Bush 2 administrations) in Central America and Iraq, along with several military and business figures and recent heads of the US mission in Havana (called an ‘Office of Interests’, as there is no US Embassy).
The letter admits that US policy on Cuba (embedded in both US law and Presidential decree) has left Washington ‘increasingly isolated’ in the Americas. That policy is unpopular in the US and even more unpopular in Florida, where the anti-Cuban mafia have their main base. An Atlantic Council poll (February 2014) said that 56% of US people and 63% of Florida residents were in favour of a change in US policy towards Cuba.
Nevertheless, given the bizarre, elite politics of the US Congress (a Republican dominated Lower House has just voted to impose sanctions on Venezuela, because of violence initiated in that country by US client groups), the letter recognises that the legislative form of the policy (set in two laws passed under the Clinton administration in the 1990s) cannot be quickly changed. However they suggest Obama can act to make some important changes by presidential decree.
In the imperious language of Washington these changes are said to ‘serve as catalysts for meaningful change in Cuba’; in practice they signal a fear of being left out of a Cuban development process which is slowly but steadily engaging a range of other countries.
The week after the letter was published a high level delegation headed by Thomas J. Donohue, the President of the US Chamber of Commerce, paid a visit to Havana. Their main interest seemed to be in reviewing the economic reforms underway, over the past few years.
Cuba’s ‘updating’ of its economic model (in the Cuban view this is a subset, and not the defining feature, of Cuban socialism) has included changes to the 1995 foreign investment law, which selectively attracts capital to joint ventures in identified priority areas. These areas have been tourism, mining, oil and energy, the health sector, light engineering and infrastructure. Key partners so far have been Venezuela, China, Spain, Canada, Brazil and Russia.
The letter to Obama from 50 US figures proposes an expansion of ‘licensed travel’ for a range of US citizens (professionals, business people, NGOs, academics), including authorising the use of ‘pre-paid’ credit cards. Presently, the US Treasury has to license US citizens and residents to travel to and spend money in Cuba. Non-US citizens are generally not affected by these laws, unless they try to use US-linked banks and credit cards.
Second, the group proposes that Obama authorise finance, scholarship and communications links between ‘civil society’ groups in the two countries. This has been contentious on the Cuban side because the US has for some years used ‘civil society’ groups in attempts at political destabilisation. The Sumate group in Venezuela was one such group. Its former leader Maria Corina Machado, now a leading opposition politician, was recently implicated in a plot to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro. In Cuba US citizen Alan Gross remains in jail for smuggling satellite communications equipment, with which he was trying to set up a US-mentored political network. Similarly, a USAID project to start an alternative twitter network (Zunzuneo) was recently exposed.
Third, the letter proposes priority for ‘principled engagement in areas of mutual interest’. This is important because issues such as migration, drug control, environmental management and counter-terrorism have all failed because of the poor relations, rooted in the US refusal of diplomatic relations. The failure was best illustrated by the outcome of Cuba’s sharing of intelligence, in the late 1990s, on planned bombings of Cuban tourist hotels. Instead of moving against the Florida-based terrorists, the FBI traced back and arrested some of the sources of that intelligence, five Cuba agents now known as the Cuban Five. Three of these men are still in US jails, political prisoners for more than 15 years, simply because they tried to warn of terrorist attacks planned against their country. Securing their freedom will be at the forefront of any such ‘mutual interest’ dealings.
Finally the US group asks for financial liberalisation to allow all US-authorised activities. This is also important, as the blockade has made many simple, day-to-day transactions difficult.
A US president can authorise the use of certain forms of credit, but the Congress would have to change the legal basis of wider sanctions, and these have been aimed at bigger targets, in recent years. US citizens are still banned from buying Cuban cigars, for example, but there have been very few fines for such infractions since about 2008. The US Treasury (through its OFAC agency) has shifted its focus to finance companies, resulting in some big fines.
For example, under these anti-Cuban laws the Dutch travel company Carlson Wagonlit Travel was fined nearly $6 million and Despegar, an Argentine travel firm, was fined $2.8m, this year. Back in 2009 the ANZ Bank was fined $5.7m while Credit Suisse was fined $536m, the largest ever US sanctions penalty. These fines underline the point that US laws continue to affect even foreign companies, if they have 10% or more US-based shares.
The US economic blockade of Cuba is truly a dinosaur policy. It is rejected at the UN every year by almost every nation on earth, it is rejected by the US people and it is now rejected by Washington insiders, who have finally discovered that is it they who are isolated. Whether the Obama administration moves on this or not, it is clear that Latin American unity has been the recent driving force for change.
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When the Municipal Review Committee was formed in 1991, its mission was clear: to seek out affordable and environmentally sound ways for Maine communities to dispose of their solid waste for the long term. That same mission remains clear today. Our goal as a nonprofit representing 115 cities and towns in Maine is to help solve regional waste disposal problems in a responsible, environmentally conscious way.
For more than 25 years, the MRC partnered with Penobscot Energy Recovery Co. (PERC) to convert solid waste into energy by incinerating it. Knowing that the PERC contract would expire in 2018 along with PERC’s lucrative power-purchase agreement with Emera Maine, the MRC undertook a significant, in-depth evaluation of new waste disposal technologies to ensure we provided the best long-term solution to the communities we were created to serve.
Working with our organization, member cities and towns opted to dispose of solid waste with a next-generation recycling and solid waste processing facility that will transform how we view, process and use waste.
The Fiberight facility in Hampden will convert organic waste into high-value products and recover more recyclable materials to cleaner specification than traditional sorting facilities. Flexibility in its mix of products means that the Fiberight facility will be able to adapt to changing market conditions, providing it with added financial stability and opportunity for future growth. This transition to higher recycling and utilization of waste will provide this region affordable, sustainable and environmentally sound waste processing for the long term.
Although the opening of the plant is not on schedule, the MRC anticipated this and made contingency plans. The contracts that cities and towns signed included a cost-effective backup that allows for waste to be disposed of at Crossroads Landfill in Norridgewock. This was always intended to be a temporary solution to a problem we hoped would never arise.
To meet state regulatory requirements, secure a $70-million investment in the Hampden facility and obtain the necessary permits, we needed a realistic backup plan. PERC did not present itself as a sustainable option, and we were able to reach a financially reasonable agreement with Crossroads.
With contingency plans in place, the MRC and its members committed to a new, forward-thinking future knowing that any setbacks would be temporary and worth it for the larger gain of long-term, affordable, environmentally sound solid waste disposal.
And there is good news on the horizon.
Construction progress on the facility continues. Following concrete placement, which will start next week, the mechanical and electrical work begins, and the front-end processing equipment arrives for installation. Soon with this system in place our members can expect that the metal, plastic and other material of value left in household trash will be recycled, too.
We’re excited about the prospects of this facility. Not only will the Hampden plant be a key part of our region’s system for maximum recycling and minimum landfilling on a long-term sustainable basis, we will lead the nation with this forward-thinking technology and serve as a model for others to follow. We are looking forward to that day.
Changing how communities dispose of trash is taking time, but the recycling and processing solution we came together to implement is happening, and we will all benefit from it within months. When that happens, we will have forged a better path not only for ourselves and the waste we generate, but also for other communities struggling with similar challenges.
Let’s continue to work together because the solution is finally within sight.
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