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Position: Senior Operations Manager
Program: Australia Solomon Islands Partnership for Justice (ASIPJ)
Duration: Full-time until 31 December 2025
Line manager: ASIPJ Deputy Team Leader
Direct reports: Logistics and Procurement Manager, HR Manager, Finance Manager, Admin Officer, Admin Support/Driver
Background to the Australia Solomon Islands Partnership in Justice (ASIPJ) Program
The Australia Solomon Islands Partnership for Justice (ASIPJ) continues Australia’s long-running support to the Solomon Islands Government (SIG) justice sector, being directly preceded by the Australia Solomon Islands Justice Program. Its goal is to work closely with SIG to enable justice agencies to maintain delivery of their existing, core activities while clearly identifying and engaging with fundamental problems and critical issues affecting their ability to contribute to stability and offer access to justice for citizens.
Subject to a finalised design, ASIPJ will be delivered through four key outcome areas: i). improving core service delivery capacity; ii). enhancing capacity for justice sector management and leadership; iii). enhancing collaboration with state and non-state actors to improve access to justice, and iv). increased sensitivity and responsiveness to those vulnerable to family and sexual violence. It is a four-year program with an option to extend to eight years.
ASIPJ aspires to be locally led, problem-oriented and learning driven. It will be pragmatic, practical, and adaptable, and will mainstream gender equality, disability and social inclusion (GEDSI). Deloitte is the Managing Contractor, leading an exciting coalition for change that includes these consortium partners – Adam Smith International (ASI), providing the Operations Hub; Ninti One, for its Indigenous expertise; and The University of Queensland, to support critical research and knowledge generation.
The Senior Operations Manager (“SOM”) will oversee the day to day running of ASIPJ program operations. The SOM will ensure that program activities and interventions are adequately supported by effective and efficient administrative, procurement, logistical and financial systems and that they are conducted in accordance with operational guidelines and standards.
The SOM will supervise and oversee the Operations Team, which consists of a Logistics and Procurement Manager, Human Resources (HR) Manager, Finance Manager, Administration Officer, Administration Support/Driver. The SOM will be responsible for identifying necessary capacity building activities within the Operations Team to ensure that personnel can perform effectively within their specified function.
The SOM will manage and oversee the program’s:
- logistics and finance systems;
- capital procurement of assets;
- running of the program office;
- the program’s risk assessment from an operations perspective;
- ASIPJ personnel safety and security, and
- contracting, mobilisation/demobilisation and movement of ASIPJ and Consortium personnel.
Reporting to, and with oversight from, the Deputy Team Leader, the SOM role will work across the ASIPJ team and with consortium partners. They will coordinate closely with the Deputy Team Leader in providing performance and other feedback on the work of the Logistics and Procurement Manager, Finance Manager, HR Manager, Administration Officer, and Administration Support/Driver while identifying and recommending adaptations to the operations structure to enable the effective and efficient delivery of program activities as articulated in the Program Design Document.
Duties and Responsibilities
The primary duties and responsibilities of the Senior Operations Manager are to:
- Regularly review the policies and procedures in the Operations Manual, as well as implementing operational policies and procedures and ensuring staff are trained and competent in the use of these policies.
- Work with the ASI Global Operations team and Deloitte to develop and implement the program Security Plans, Standard Operating Procedures, Crisis and Emergency Plan, and Emergency Response Procedures and Business Continuity Plan processes and procedures for all aspects of the program operations.
- Work with ASIPJ Team Leader, Deputy Team Leader to ensure program risks are identified and monitored, and adequate mitigation measures are in place.
- Ensure contractual compliance and processes are in line of DFAT’s standards and ASI requirements.
- Manage the program’s budget including forecasting, invoicing, and financial reporting.
- Ensure that program’s expenditure is tracked, including any grants issued under ASIPJ, and any possibilities of overspending is reported to the ASIPJ Team Leader, Deputy Team Leader and DFAT.
- Be the primary approver for all payments raised by the ASIPJ Finance Manager and ASI Finance Team and ensure that a supporting audit trail is available and that the payment process is compliant with ASIPJ Operations Manual.
- Conduct regular spot-checks and provide oversight to internal/external audits to minimise any risk of fraud and/or noncompliant Ensure logistical and operational needs for the smooth running of the ASIPJ office, systems and processes are identified and met.
- Support the preparation of project proposals, business cases and budgets to justify program expenditure and provide value for money assessments as required.
- Be involved in and provide oversight of ASIPJ tender processes.
- Oversee the engagement of ASIPJ advisers, including approaching market, leading the pre-contracting processes and ensuring all necessary due diligence processes are satisfactorily completed.
- Contribute to periodic reports and plans and lead the Operations Team’s inputs into relevant reports for the consortium and DFAT.
- Support the HR Manager and ASIPJ Deputy Team Leader with personnel performance management, timesheet and leave management and other aspects of HR.
- Lead the processes of mobilisation, onboarding and orientation of new personnel, and demobilisation of personnel.
- Serve as a point of contact in the Emergency Assistance Tree and support responses to security, health and safety issues for ASIPJ personnel.
- Lead the procurement of ASIPJ assets and maintenance of ASIPJ’s asset management system.
- Any other duties as identified by the ASIPJ Deputy Team Leader.
Skills and experience required
The ideal candidate will have:
- A relevant university degree or diploma with at least ten years of experience in a similar role. A Masters degree is desirable.
- Extensive international experience in managing financial, operational and HR systems for businesses and/or donor-funded programs. Experience with DFAT policies and procedures is desirable.
- Excellent organisational skills and integrity in maintaining records.
- Experience in capacity building, including training and on the job mentoring of staff, leadership and management skills; and excellent communication skills.
- Demonstrated capacity to work collegially with partner organisations and international staff.
- Strong working knowledge of MS Office programs, particularly Excel.
- Demonstrated commitment to gender equality, youth empowerment, disability inclusion, human rights and the principles of Do No Harm.
- Experience in the Pacific context, particularly Solomon Islands, is desirable.
- Report to ASIPJ Deputy Team Leader.
- Work with and receive strategic direction from DFAT.
ASIPJ personnel are required to adhere to COVID-19 policy requirements for the purposes of entry to Solomon Islands, to government offices and the ASIPJ office. This includes being fully vacinated as defined by the Solomon Islands Ministry of Health and Medical Services.
How to apply
Please submit your application before 10 March 2023 11:59pm Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) to: [email protected].
Please use the following title: Application for Senior Operations Manager, ASIPJ Program
Applications should include a cover letter of no more than two pages addressing the position selection criteria, a CV of no more than four pages and the contact details of two professional referees.


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Raiders of The Lost Ark introduced the world to one of its most celebrated movies heroes, Henry “Indiana” Jones. The Steven Spielberg film was a worldwide sensation and the birthplace of a wonderful franchise of adventure films that sent up the classic serials of the 30s and 40s.
Here are 17 interesting things to know about the film…
1. The film was originally given an R-rating because of the exploding head at the end. They didn’t want the picture to be rated R, so they added layers of fire in front of his face to make it appear less graphic.
2. Harrison Ford actually outran the boulder in the opening sequence. Because the scene was shot twice from five different angles, he had to outrun it ten times. Ford’s stumble in the scene was deemed to look authentic and was left in.
3. The out-of-control airplane actually ran over Harrison Ford’s knee, tearing his ligaments. Rather than submit to Tunisian health care, Ford had his knee wrapped in ice and carried on.
4. The famous scene where Indy shoots the swordsman was not scripted that way. Indy was supposed to break out his whip and snatch the sword away from him. However, Ford was sick from food poisoning on the day the scene was shot, too sick to perform any real action, so he suggested just shooting the guy. Spielberg agreed and they filmed it that way, creating one of the more popular moments.
5. Speaking of the food poisoning, almost all the cast and crew got sick while filming in Tunisia, except Spielberg. He ate only cans and cans of Spaghetti-Os.
6. Spielberg and the crew agreed that Indiana Jones should never lose his hat, no matter how crazy the action, mostly for iconic purposes and continuity issues. In order to make sure that was the case, Harrison Ford stapled the hat to his head sometimes.
7. During filming of the Well of Souls sequence with all of the snakes, one of the pythons died after being bitten by one of the cobras.
8. When Brody first goes to Indy’s house to discuss the mission, Jones is dressed the way he is because he was entertaining a young woman in his bedroom. The script originally planned to show her before moving to the next scene to give Indy a more worldly, James Bond-esque persona. However, her appearance was cut out as Spielberg thought that being a playboy did not fit Indy’s character.
9. Harrison Ford was the first choice for the role, but George Lucas didn’t want to use him since he was such a big part of Star Wars. Spielberg’s second choice was Tom Selleck, who almost took the part but scheduling conflicts with Mangum P.I. forced him to back out.
10. To achieve the sound of thousands of snakes slithering, sound designer Ben Burtt stuck his fingers into a cheese casserole. This was augmented by applying wet sponges to the rubber on a skateboard.
11. An early draft of the script had Indy traveling to Shanghai to recover a piece of the Staff of Ra. During his escape from the museum where it was housed, he sheltered from machine gun fire behind a giant rolling gong. Also in the same script, Indy and Marion flee the chaos caused by the opening of the Ark in a wild mine-cart chase sequence. Both of these scenes were cut from the script, but ended up in Temple of Doom.
12. The studio financed the film’s entire $20-million budget. In exchange, George Lucas would own over 40% of the film and collect almost half of the profits after the studio grossed a certain amount. It turned out to be a very lucrative deal for Lucas.
13. Indiana Jones’ kangaroo-hide bull whip was sold in December, 1999 at Christie’s auction house in London for $43,000. His jacket and hat are on display at the Smithsonian.
14. Most of the body blows you hear were created by hitting a pile of leather jackets with a baseball bat.
15. During the scene where Indiana threatens Nazis with bazooka, you can clearly see a fly creeping into the mouth of Paul Freeman. Contrary to popular belief, he does not swallow it. Freeman explained in an interview years later that the fly flew off at about the instant he uttered the word “bad,” but Spielberg noticed it and decided it would be funny to cut out a few frames so the fly would not be seen flying away. This makes it look as though Freeman eats it, and he found the edit highly amusing.
16. Indy’s battered leather jacket was actually brand new and had to be artificially aged by the costume department. There were 10 jackets for general wear and tear and stunt purposes.
17. The original name of the lead character in the script was Indiana Smith. His name was changed to Jones on the first day of production.


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Uncharted Waters Origin is the latest entry in the celebrated Uncharted Waters game series, with the IP belonging to KOEI TECMO. This new mobile entry is part of the series’ 30th anniversary celebrations, and perhaps the most ambitious naval RPG we have seen on the platform. Fret not PC gamers, as Uncharted Waters Origin is also launching on Steam as well! Global pre-registration has started, so don’t miss out on this massive online RPG.
• Set in the 16th century where much of the world is still shrouded in mystery and undiscovered, players are tasked to set sail into an open world through the game’s various features, including sailing, adventures, combat, and trading.
• A vast world that mimics 1/320 of the real world with detailed weather conditions and environments based on historical data.
• Features historically accurate sailors, landmarks, and relics.
• Expansive, detailed world with 8 national powers, 200 ports, 60 villages, over 300 battlegrounds, and over 20 types of weather.
• Real-time trade system where specialties and goods prices fluctuate depending on demand and supply, and shipping routes.
• More than 104 fully orchestrated soundtracks, including the famous soundtrack that represents the original Uncharted Waters series, composed by the famous composer, Yoko Kanno.

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If only this dropped the same week as Slaughterhouse….well unfortunately for Ye and company they will have to be satisfied with the number TWO spot on the charts this week. With the G.O.O.D. Music compilation album selling just over 216k copies in its first week, it is not enough to top Pink’s brand new album Truth About Love. Still great numbers for Ye and G.O.O.D., more than doubling that of the most recent big time compilation album. I guess Ye will have to wait until his next solo album or WTT2 for another number one.


Bulgarians sign Sluijer
By Jeffrey Glorie
Last Updated: 01/01/70 1:00am
Heracles Almelo striker Thijs Sluijer has completed his switch to Bulgaria.
Heracles Almelo striker Thijs Sluijer has left the Eredivisie to continue his career in Bulgaria with Litex Lovech.
The 26-year-old had played for the Dutch club since 2001 but will now undertake a new challenge on the continent.
Sluijer moves to Lovech on a two-year deal after the two clubs reached an accord on a fee for the hit-man.
The Bulgarian outfit are preparing for a Uefa Cup charge next season and Sluijer will add to the attacking threat at their disposal.


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A Christmas Carol
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Virginia Stage Company brings back the family holiday favorite A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens, adapted for the stage by David McCann. The show follows Ebenezer Scrooge as he encounters the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future - learning the true meaning of the holidays along the way. A Pay-What-You-Can performance is scheduled for December 3. On December 6 and 7 all tickets are sold for $8.00.
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By: Peyton Sapp, Burke County Ag Agent
I had 2 inquiries earlier this week about the potential of Cadre, when normally applied to peanuts during the growing season, to cause injury to fall planted oats. This was one issue I tackled very early on in my career here at UGA. Here are a few things for you to consider:
1) According to a recent (2018) USDA/NASS survey of pesticide use in peanut, Cadre is used on 59% of the peanut acres in Georgia.
2) The official labeled rotation restriction for oats after an application of Cadre is 18 months!
3) Field research conducted in Georgia indicated that the rotation for oats could potentially be reduced to 4 months (like other small grains) but the label was never changed (and will not be changed) due to the limited amount of oat acres planted. Oats were planted on 70,000 acres in Georgia in 2019. U.S. total planted oat acres were 2,810,000 in 2019.
4) Oats planted less than 4 months after a Cadre application could very likely be injured (Figure 1). Note that Cadre injury to oats also looks very much like phosphorus deficiency and/or cold injury so these potential problems would need to be investigated as well. We had at least 1 freeze event here in Tifton around November 13.
5) When Cadre was applied to bare-ground (a worse case scenario, i.e. 100% of Cadre reaching the soil surface and no peanut uptake/metabolism) either 5, 4, 3, 2, or 1 month(s) before oat planting, total forage yield was only significantly reduced by the 1 and 2 month timings (61.6% and 22.4% forage yield losses, respectively). Interestingly, oat grain yields were not reduced by any pre-plant application of Cadre.
6) I do not have any hard data to back this statement up but it makes sense that oat injury could be worse in short-planted fields where Cadre-treated dryland peanuts were grown.
7) Complete results of this Cadre/oat research can be obtained from the following paper:
Prostko, E.P., T.L. Grey, R.N. Morgan, and J.W. Davis. 2005. Oat (Avena sativa) response to imazapic residues. Weed Technology 19:875-878.
8) Culpepper is the small grain weed guy so he would be more than happy to walk any and all small grain fields including oats!!!!!!

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Recent Mob NewsStar Apps: Big Ang - Wed, 05 Mar 2014
"Mob Wives" fan favorite Big Ang gabs about her castmates, staying out of the fray, and her favorite apps. Originally posted at The Download Blog
Sherri Donovan Counsels Mob Wife on VH1 Hit Show - Mon, 03 Mar 2014
Divorce attorney Sherri Donovan made her reality TV debut in a recent episode of the VH1 hit show, Mob Wives, where she is seen providing legal counsel to mob wife Renee Graziano. Ms. Donovan was asked ...
Mob member cross-examines witness - Mon, 03 Mar 2014
A former Mongrel Mob member recalled to court today was cross-examined by murder accused Mauha Huatahi Fawcett, who accused him of coming to court with a made-up story.
Armed mob 'killed officer' in riot - Mon, 03 Mar 2014
A police officer was killed in a "ferocious attack without mercy" when he was set upon by an armed mob during rioting in Tottenham in 1985, a court hears.
VH1 Picks up an All-New Season of "Mob Wives: New Blood"? - Mon, 24 Feb 2014
These 'wives' are legit! This season, VH1's hit series "Mob Wives: New Blood"? served up the juicy storylines that fans of the show have come to expect as returning "Mob Wives"? cast members Renee Graziano, Drita D'Avanzo and "Big Ang"? were joined by "New Blood"? Alicia DiMichele and Natalie Guercio.
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Six Million Dollar Man Easter Egg - Director's in Joke for Lee Majors
Originally this was an in joke for Lee Majors
and the producers of the show.
It's not in any one specific episode but there
is a christmas episode of the show where Steve
Austin is buying a gift and right behind him
on the set is a package on a shelf which is
in fact the doll of "The Six Million Dollar Man"
which I found rather amusing.
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|Our centerpiece: a real cherry tree!|
Last summer we lost two cherry trees. We were a bit disappointed because we had pruned the small tree carefully hoping to have a good fruit bearing cherry. When my husband cut the dried up trees down, he decided to save the little one...knowing my attraction to
Then in December he bought spray paint and sprayed the tree white. In Finland trees are white with frost in the winter and I wanted this to be our frosty winter wonderland tree.
Central Asian decorative lights are all very colorful, but we had bought white string of lights....somewhere and its cold bluish color was perfect for my winter tree.
One problem to overcome was to decide how the tree would stand. With lots of children around it was important to protect the tree from falling. Then I remembered our garden table that has a hole in the middle for a shade umbrella. Perfect! As our dinner table was long and I didn't want to cut the table cloth material in half, I just made a hole in the material for the tree. It will still be plenty good for a dress! :)
For decorations I used silver and white ornaments, my glass icicles and snowflakes.
A glass angel
Grey and white snowflakes made out of felt were my favorite decorations this year.
"Walking in the winter wonderland..."

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Sketches of Brazil : including new views on tropical and European fever : with remarks on a premature decay of the system incident to Europeans on their return from hot climates / by Robert Dundas, M.D., physician to the Northern Hospital, Liverpool, formerly acting surgeon to H.M. 60th Regiment, and for twenty-three years medical superintendent of the British hospital, Bahia.
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After plunging 3.5 percent in 2020, U.S. economic growth was on a steep path when Joe Biden took office. In the last four months of 2020, annualized growth was 4 percent. During the first quarter of 2021, GDP growth was even higher, reaching a 6.4 percent annualized rate (although this performance is slightly lower than what some market analyses were forecasting). The IMF projects the U.S. economy to grow more than 6 percent in 2021.
To boost the recovery and escape the specter of a depression, Congress passed two gigantic stimulus packages in 2020 — together amounting to $2.5 trillion, equivalent to 21.5 percent of U.S. GDP. After this, it was unclear whether the new administration would launch further stimulus measures. Yet this is exactly what Biden did. In March, Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act, which will inject $1.9 trillion this year. The stimulus is aimed at giving $1,400 to everyone earning less than $75,000 a year; granting a monthly child allowance; providing emergency health insurance; guaranteeing a weekly unemployment benefit of $300; and directing $750 billion to vaccines and support for state and city governments.
Immediately after this package was approved, the president announced a new infrastructure investment project, the American Jobs Plan, initially projected to cost $2.25 trillion, but Biden later cut it down in negotiations with Republicans, to $ 1.7 trillion. He also mentioned the forthcoming announcement of a Climate Plan and an American Families Plan of similar amounts.
The package is completed with the Made in America Tax Plan, which increases taxes on corporate profits to a rate of 28 percent. Yet this is far from an excessive amount; under this law, companies will pay taxes at a rate seven points lower than the 35 percent that was in force until 2017, when Trump reduced it to 21 percent. Although Biden’s bill speaks of ending “the race to the bottom” between countries competing among them by sacrificing taxes, it leaves taxes on companies at historically low levels.
In his first speech to Congress on April 28, Biden sought to underscore a change of course in economic policy, when he spoke of ending competition among countries to lower taxes to attract investment. He also nodded to the unions when he stated that “the middle class built the country, and the unions built the middle class.”
This deepening state interventionism, which seeks to strengthen an economy that is already showing signs of recovery, raises several questions for debate. The first is whether we are facing a paradigm shift in the political economy of the main imperialist power. The second is, what will result from all this? Will it strengthen the economic boom, or will it cause the “overheating” of the economy that some critics of the “excessive” stimulus warn about, even among the ranks of the Democratic Party? Will the economy escape another decade of anemic growth and steady degradation for a large part of the working class, like the one that followed the Great Recession of 2008–10?
These are the terms used to define Biden’s policy in a recent article in Tempest magazine.1Ashley Smith, “Imperialist Keynesianism: Biden’s Program for Rehabilitating U.S. Capitalism,” Tempest, May 18, 2021. Biden stated unequivocally that the U.S. is “in a competition with China and other countries to win the 21st century.” That is, to prevent China from emerging as a serious contender to challenge U.S. dominance. But as we pointed out after Biden’s electoral victory, avoiding the threat of being absorbed by the domestic agenda was a sine qua non condition for these objectives. The sharp turn in economic policy must be interpreted as a need to appease the domestic front, containing social discontent, with the goal of concentrating energies on the rivalry with China and other countries “to win the 21st century.”
Susan Watkins notes this same connection between the “paradigm shift” in Biden’s economic policy and his dispute with China.2Susan Watkins, “Paradigm Shifts,” New Left Review, no. 128 (May/April 2021). Her article analyzes Biden’s program in the light of the neoliberal tenets that have characterized the political economy in the imperialist countries since the governments of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.
Watkins starts by explaining how the functioning of capitalism has been transformed over the last decade. Governments in the richest countries took generous measures to save banks and big business — a socialization of losses at the expense of the working sectors and the poor to benefit first and foremost those who for years made extreme speculative bets with which they obtained formidable profits. From this emerged an economy “addicted” to monetary stimuli. The so-called quantitative easing, which began at the worst moment of the crisis as a novel experiment of injecting money on a large scale through the purchase of financial assets, was initially a “transitory” measure, but it was later maintained for years, along with zero nominal interest rates. This, in turn, laid the groundwork for a policy of cheap money for banks and investment funds, which re-created the basis for the same frantic financial activity that led to the crisis. As Watkins argues, “A new regime of accumulation emerged from the solutions to the financial crisis: a form of globalized, financialized, debt-driven, and now centrally monetized capitalism.” After 2010, while loose monetary policy continued, there has been a new quest to reduce government spending. In the U.S., this combination resulted in an economy characterized by “soaring stock markets, backed by trillions of dollars in QE [quantitative easing], and an anaemic recovery, with weak domestic investment.”
Watkins distinguishes neoliberalism as a set of policies from neoliberalism as an ideology. With a state interventionism hinging on a financial alchemy with the purpose of keeping the wheel of accumulation turning, the author asserts that policies of this kind continued “undeterred.” Neoliberal ideology, in contrast, “took a battering.” The divergent economic performance that followed the crisis — as a result of bailing out the rich at the expense of the rest of society — which led to the social discontent encapsulated in the formula “1% vs. the 99%” taken up by a series of movements since Occupy Wall Street in 2011, produced adverse social effects that continued to exert their impact long after the recession was left behind. This fueled political phenomena on both the Left and the Right of the “extreme center,” which had characterized neoliberal governance for decades. The first of these phenomena found expression in the U.S. in the popularity of Bernie Sanders’s “socialist” bid for presidential candidate in the 2016 and 2020 Democratic primary elections. In Europe, it was the growth of neoreformist parties in several of the countries most severely hit by the economic crisis. On the political Right, it emerged as the “populist fury” that brought about Brexit, put Donald Trump in the White House, and allowed parties of the Far Right to grow across Europe. Watkins observes that “the main populist forces on the right — whether national-imperial, Catholic-conservative or charismatic-authoritarian — and on the left — whether social-democratic or anarchist-cosmopolitan — were not anti-capitalist as such, but stridently anti-neoliberal.” The Trump administration distanced itself more rhetorically than in actuality from neoliberal imperatives. Even though it pushed a policy that was more protectionist and critical of trade agreements — which, in the case of NAFTA, only renegotiated — it nevertheless reduced taxes on capital just as did other Republican presidents like George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan.
When the pandemic hit in 2020, “the first reflex of authorities on both sides of the Atlantic was the protection of capital.” Apart from monetary stimuli in stock markets by central banks, one of the main chapters in the CARES Act voted by the U.S. Congress in March 2020 was directed at ensuring companies’ solvency and resolving the stock market’s collapse. Yet,
in contrast to 2009, monetary largesse was backed by unprecedented debt-based state spending — a clear break with austerity nostrums, if an avowedly temporary one, justified by the extraordinary circumstances of the pandemic. Confidence bred by a decade of cost-free central-bank money printing underwrote the move.
The first novelty presented by Biden is that he intends to continue spending even if the economy is on the road to recovery, based on this same confidence that it is possible to spend and print money without the risk of an increase in the financing cost. The second novelty is a more “compensatory” bias in the targeting of such spending. The direct transfers to taxpayers will increase the income of the poorest 20 percent by one third in 2021, and that of the poorest 60 percent by more than one 10th. Of course, these are one-time or temporary payments, which “leave the systemic reproduction of inequality unchanged.” Taking the programs as a whole, “the ratio of capital-labour spending is still heavily tilted towards big business.” To soberly gauge the relationship with past policies, Watkins notes that compensatory social payments and capital investment “do not fall outside the neoliberal policy repertoire”; at the same time, “the left’s push for a $15 minimum wage,” which could have proved highly disruptive to prevailing conditions in labor relations, “was politely ignored.” Let us add that in the negotiations with Republicans to approve the infrastructure plan, the intended tax increase on corporations could be reduced — that is, at least, what Republicans are trying to do.
In short, if the new administration increases public spending and gives it a new slant, it is for the sake of recovering the legitimacy of the regime, and, by doing so, be in a better position to defend the interests of big business and gain stamina for the dispute with China. Biden promised in 2019 that the rich had nothing to fear from his administration; this promise still stands. His goal, he would then tell some of his wealthiest campaign contributors, was to act on the margins (though he acknowledged that “we can disagree” about where these margins stand). That “marginal” intervention aimed to ensure that “nothing would fundamentally change.”3Dominique Mosbergen, “Joe Biden Promises Rich Donors He Won’t ‘Demonize’ the Wealthy If Elected President,” Huffington Post, June 19, 2019.
Watkins sums it up thus:
Bidenomics could be seen as a step towards recasting the centrally monetized, debt-driven capitalist regime in a more compensatory form — a neo-third way, driven both by the populist shock and, above all, by competitive friction with a rising China.
Using the idea of a “neo-third way,” Watkins associates the current “paradigm shift,” characterized by new economic policy tools and greater “compensations” that do not qualitatively alter the scaffolding of economic policy, to the so-called Third Way promoted by Bill Clinton and Tony Blair during the 1990s, in the United States and Great Britain, respectively.
Just as the harsh class-struggle policies of Reaganism and Thatcherism gave way to softer, more palatable versions of the same under Clinton and Blair — tax credits, cheap loans, diversity and inclusion — so under Biden, central-bank monetization is underwriting a marginal fiscal recompense for decades of falling real wages and worsening job prospects, gearing up the country for rising competition with China.
Biden’s bid is much more ambitious in its objectives than was anticipated before he took office. It also faces several risks that could bog it down. Although the Democratic Party has a majority in both houses of Congress, this does not guarantee the approval of its programs. The American Rescue Plan Act was able to pass without Republican support. This was a sign of strength for the administration, which did not depend on negotiating with the opposition. But, in the face of its upcoming legislative projects, it could run into difficulties unless it brings all Democrats on board. The strategy for the American Jobs Plan now involves reaching an agreement with Republicans, but this required cutting the initial proposal by more than $500 billion. Despite the grandiose stated goals of modernizing infrastructure to compete with China, the investment plan was already modest from the start. With only a few hundred billion dollars per year (since the total amount will be spent over eight years), it would have a negligible impact on an economy whose annual production exceeds $20 trillion. Now, after the cut, it looks even thinner.
In the future, new fronts may open for Biden within his own party. The fact is that the new economic policy is not only questioned by sectors related to the Republican Party, the traditional custodian of public spending and proponent of lower taxes, or from the most recalcitrant financial press. Other opposing voices were raised, such as that of Lawrence Summers, an economist linked to the Democrats who played a key role in the neoliberal reforms of the Clinton years and participated in Obama’s team of advisers at the beginning of his presidency. This is the same economist who, for much of the last decade, warned about the prospect of “secular stagnation,” ostensibly the result of structural changes in the U.S. economy, but also produced by the weakness of the stimulus measures taken during the Obama administration. Today he conveys a quite different view. As he explained in a debate before the American Rescue Plan Act was approved, unlike in 2009, when the “stimulus was too small,” in 2020 the situation was different: the stimulus was “at least three times the size of the output shortfall,” that is, the difference between the level to which output had fallen as a result of the crisis and the previous trend projection. If the 2020 measures had already been excessive for this economist, Biden’s first package was, in his opinion, four times what could be required this year.4Benjamin Wallace, “Larry Summer Versus the Stimulus,” New Yorker, March 18, 2021. For this reason, he speaks of the danger of “overheating.”
Summers’s is far from being an isolated warning call. After more than a decade of money creation without consequences on prices or interest rates, the idea that the U.S. government can continue borrowing without this becoming a tax burden, a notion that took a pretentious conceptual construction in Modern Monetary Theory, has set in. But warnings about “dangerous” levels of money creation and debt are more and more common since last year.
These cautionary calls seemed to be validated by April’s inflation figure, which rose 0.8 percent to 4.2 percent annualized rate. These levels were seen as a confirmation of the announced overheating. Yet, days before, the employment report had shown the opposite. The U.S. economy had shown in April a slowdown in the job creation that had been seen in previous months, and thee unemployment rate bounced back to 6.1 percent. These “mixed” signals add uncertainty to this year’s economic projections and give grounds to those pushing to curb the stimulus as well as those seeking to accelerate it.
But even if the economic indicators do not justify the calls of curbing stimulus, the “markets” — that is, the big businessmen, banks, and investment funds that benefit in part from the spending but also resist the tax increases — may act “with their feet,” limiting the Treasury’s room for spending. One possible response to higher inflation is a devaluation of U.S. bonds as a result of bondholders’ projecting that the Fed may raise interest rates to tackle inflation. Even if the Fed delays this measure — which, so far, its head, Jerome Powell, shows no intention of taking — the devaluation of Treasury bonds is already translating into a higher cost of financing for public spending. This is where the idea of spending and borrowing indefinitely without consequences could find its limits.
But an even more ominous issue for a “centrally monetized” capitalism that, as Watkins reminds us, is “balanced upon teetering piles of debt, with financial instability an ever-present risk,” is that the conditions under which this risk can materialize will accelerate. The end of “zero” interest rates would leave “leave states and firms with dollar-denominated debt critically vulnerable to reverse capital flows, risking a concatenation of current-account and exchange-rate crises comparable to 1998.” The string of crises that began that year continued with a shock wave that had Argentina’s 2001 economic meltdown as one of its most dramatic episodes. Although these crises may hit the “emerging” countries harder than the U.S. itself, economic stability is by no means assured for the U.S. and other imperialist countries, in a world that is sailing on such a gigantic sea of debt.
Beyond the risk of these critical scenarios that produce a shock in the world economy and that of the U.S. itself, even without such a scenario, it is unlikely that the “virtuous,” doubly expansionary combination of fiscal and monetary policy that Biden’s economic team (chaired by Treasury secretary Yanet Yellen) seems to envision can be sustained. If expansionary fiscal policy begins to be countered by contractionary monetary policy, even if only moderately so, the goal of continuing an economic boom that does not repeat in this decade the flimsiness of growth that followed the Great Recession could become more elusive. And with this, it could become even harder to avoid the class struggle — which has already shown signs that it will not give respite — or to prevent the “populist fury” from reemerging in full force.
Biden’s purpose of showing that it is possible to recycle a “progressive capitalism” at home in order to reinforce the reactionary domination of U.S. imperialism over the oppressed peoples of the world, confronting the aspiring hegemonic powers that intend to dispute its primacy, may find in all of this its Achilles’ heel.
First published in Spanish on May 23, 2021 in Ideas de Izquierda.
Translation: Juan Cruz
|↑1||Ashley Smith, “Imperialist Keynesianism: Biden’s Program for Rehabilitating U.S. Capitalism,” Tempest, May 18, 2021.|
|↑2||Susan Watkins, “Paradigm Shifts,” New Left Review, no. 128 (May/April 2021).|
|↑3||Dominique Mosbergen, “Joe Biden Promises Rich Donors He Won’t ‘Demonize’ the Wealthy If Elected President,” Huffington Post, June 19, 2019.|
|↑4||Benjamin Wallace, “Larry Summer Versus the Stimulus,” New Yorker, March 18, 2021.|

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On the time Virginia’s future political leaders placed on blackface in faculty for enjoyable, Dan Aykroyd wore it too — within the hit 1983 comedy “Buying and selling Locations.”
Sports activities announcers of that point usually described Boston Celtics participant Larry Chook, who’s white, as “good” whereas describing his black NBA opponents as athletically gifted.
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Such racial insensitivities ran rampant in in style tradition in the course of the 1980s, the period wherein Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and the state’s legal professional common, Mark Herring, have admitted to carrying blackface as they mimicked pop singer Michael Jackson and rapper Kurtis Blow, respectively.
In the meantime, Chicago elected its first black mayor, Michael Jackson made music historical past together with his “Thriller” album, U.S. faculty college students protested in opposition to South Africa’s racist system of apartheid and the stereotype-smashing sitcom “The Cosby Present” debuted on community tv.
It will be one other 10 years earlier than the rise of multiculturalism started to alter America’s racial sensibilities, partially as a result of intellectuals and journalists of color had been higher positioned to efficiently problem racist photographs, and Hollywood started to hear.
WATCH: SNL tries to unravel which Virginia politicians wore blackface
“We’re in a stronger place to teach the American public about symbols and cultural practices which can be dangerous at this time than we had been within the 1980s,” mentioned Henry Louis Gates Jr., director of the Hutchins Heart for African & African American Analysis at Harvard College.
Through the ’80s, faculty schools and pupil our bodies had been much less numerous, Gates mentioned. Some students who entered faculty in the course of the 1960s had but to tackle roles wherein mainstream tradition would heed their cultural critiques, he mentioned.
On the time Northam and Herring placed on black make-up, Hollywood and in style tradition nonetheless despatched messages that racial stereotypes and racist imagery had been comical and innocent, regardless of pleas from civil rights teams and black newspapers.
Herring was a 19-year-old College of Virginia pupil when he wore brown make-up and a wig to seem like rapper Kurtis Blow at a 1980 social gathering. Three years earlier than that, white actor Gene Wilder darkened his face with shoe polish within the film “Silver Streak” co-starring Richard Pryor. He used a stereotypical stroll to impersonate a black individual dwelling in an city neighbourhood.
On tv, viewers might see a Tom and Jerry cartoon that includes the character Mammy Two Sneakers, an overweight black maid who spoke in a stereotypical voice. The 1940s cartoon collection was proven throughout a number of markets all through the 1980s. Tv stations ignored complaints from civil rights teams.
Elsewhere, Miami erupted into riots following the acquittal of white law enforcement officials who killed black salesman and retired Marine Arthur McDuffie in what many known as a case of police brutality. U.S. President Jimmy Carter visited and pressed for an finish to the violence, however a protester threw a bottle at his limousine as he left.
WATCH: Virginia’s Senate Majority Chief takes warmth over racist pictures in yearbook he as soon as managed
When Northam wore blackface to mimic Michael Jackson and duplicate his moonwalking abilities at a 1984 San Antonio dance contest, tv stations nonetheless aired Looney Tunes episodes with racially insensitive photographs utilizing Bugs Bunny and different characters regardless of some controversial episodes being taken off the air in 1968.
African-People, nonetheless, had motive to be hopeful amid electoral beneficial properties. A yr earlier than, in 1983, Chicago turned the newest metropolis to elect a black mayor, Harold Washington, after activists registered 100,000 new black voters. That election, Jesse Jackson later mentioned, paved the best way for him to hunt the Democratic nomination for president in 1984.
“It was out of that context that my very own candidacy emerged,” Jackson mentioned within the 1990 “Eyes on the Prize” documentary. Jackson misplaced the nomination to former Vice President Walter Mondale.
Two years after Northam’s moonwalk efficiency, the comedy “Soul Man” hit theaters. Within the film, Mark Watson, performed by white actor C. Thomas Howell, takes tanning capsules in a bigger dose to seem African-American so he can get hold of a scholarship meant for black college students at Harvard Legislation Faculty. The film drew a powerful response from the NAACP and protesters to film theaters.
Nonetheless, “Soul Man” took in round $28 million domestically, equal to round $63.5 million at this time.
Regardless of these photographs, new and in style black cultural figures additionally emerged, together with Eddie Murphy, Oprah Winfrey and a younger Michael Jordan. Black Leisure Tv, or BET, was based in 1980 by businessman Robert L. Johnson, giving the nation entry to black leisure utilizing 1970s sitcoms and music.
WATCH: Gucci, Walmart and different manufacturers pull gadgets as a consequence of racial insensitivity
However as Nelson George argued in his guide “Publish-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant and Tragic 1980s as Skilled by African People,” BET didn’t counter detrimental photographs by counting on free music movies and investing little cash in authentic programming. “By this conservative technique, BET prospered whereas providing little new to a group starved for photographs of itself,” George wrote.
As well as, the brand new black cultural figures not often engaged in politics or spoke out in opposition to racial injustice.
Generally, stereotypes and feedback did end in penalties. For instance, CBS fired sports activities commentator Jimmy Snyder, referred to as Jimmy the Greek, in 1988 after he recommended in a tv interview that black athletes had been higher due to slavery. The Los Angeles Dodgers fired common supervisor Al Campanis in 1987 for saying on ABC’s “Nightline” that blacks “might not have among the requirements to be, let’s say, a discipline supervisor or maybe a common supervisor” and so they had been poor swimmers.
In 1987, black demonstrators marched in all-white Forsyth County, Georgia, to protest the racism that saved blacks out for 75 years. They had been promptly attacked by white nationalists hurling rocks and waving Accomplice flags. The surprising photographs sparked nationwide outrage and led Oprah Winfrey to air an episode of her then-5-month-old syndicated speak present from the county.
“What are you afraid that black individuals are going to do?” Winfrey requested the viewers.
“I’m afraid of them coming to Forsyth County,” one white man instructed her.
At this time, Gates mentioned, individuals can not declare ignorance. Whereas it ought to have been understood that blackface was offensive in the course of the 1980s, one might need needed to go to the library to study precisely why, he mentioned.
“We even have extra data digitized,” Gates mentioned. “The entry to archives is bigger, and we now have extra range within the media so we are able to say these photographs are painful … and why we shouldn’t use them.”


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The third Saturday of every month, I write about paranormal activity on this "Spirit Photographs" blog. Thankfully, I don't have to wring my hands and rack my brain trying to figure out what to write about since there always seems to be plenty of paranormal activity going on around Greg and me to discuss!
This blog post is no exception...
First of all, Greg and I really enjoy going to various parks in the summer. Just a few weeks ago, we went to Chickasaw Trace Park which is close to where we live. We took several photos as we usually do whenever we go somewhere.
No matter where I took pictures in the park, ectoplasm kept showing up in my photos. This same phenomenon occurred once before when we took pictures there.
Haunted? Chickasaw Trace Park
What is the cause of the ectoplasm in the photos in this park? Is it because of the Native Americans who passed on, or is it the spirits of animals, fish, and birds? Does the sheer beauty of this place cause many spirits to be attracted to it?
Greg and I have the ability to take paranormal photos, but we don't have the ability to interpret them. I discuss this in my book, "Photographic Encounters of the Spirit Kind" which has around 100 paranormal photos mostly taken by Greg and me. (It's available on both "Amazon" and "FastPencil.")
Also, there are a couple of other strange things that have occurred the past few weeks-
Greg was by himself at work one evening, and while he was in the break room, he suddenly heard an unusual loud noise. It sounded as if someone had thrown a large rubber mat on the floor right behind him. He looked around the whole area to see what might have caused the noise, and no one was there, and nothing had moved as far as he could tell! He wasn't very surprised as he and other people have seen and heard weird things there at work several times before.
Greg has a good idea on why the place where he works might be haunted. The building there is on the battlefield of one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War!
A few days ago, it was my mother's birthday. Although she passed on two years ago, I took time to speak to her spirit, to wish her a happy birthday and to send her our love.
I didn't think any more about it, and I started doing some chores. I was heating up some food in the oven, and I set the timer for six minutes. I started working on something else, and in a few minutes, I wondered why the timer hadn't gone off. I looked at the timer to see what was going on, and it was on 0709, my mother's birth date! I guess that was her way of saying she had heard me, and that she appreciated our birthday wishes. It made me feel happy and reassured.
All paranormal activity need not be scary because it's actually normal occurrences that we just don't fully understand. It's a mystery yet to be solved. That's why the paranormal is so totally intriguing!
More next month!
Also, you might enjoy my other blog, "The Art of Positive Living"
If you enjoy reading my blogs, then be sure to check out my book, available now, either in paperback or as a kindle download, http://amzn.to/2usXWIO
Thanks for visiting! Until Saturday August 19, 2017, Becky


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I had the pleasure of being involved with the recent Wonkhe SUs Baltics and Finland study trip – undertaken by around 35 elected students and students’ union staff from the UK.
It was an experience shaped in many ways by the warmth, generosity, intelligence and open mindedness of the people we met across Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland. The irony – as we explored Europe with the help of mobile maps powered by EU roaming data – was that during the trip, the UK parliament hosted a vote proposing that the British government be required to negotiate to continue full membership of the Erasmus+ program. Although the Government’s official position is that Erasmus+ is still on the table, the fall of that motion was a message heard loud and clear on our trip.
Above and beyond our wincing when anyone we met mentioned Brexit or giggled slightly at the mention of “Boris”, I was grabbed by the sense that the people we met across Eastern Europe and the Nordic nations had found a way to celebrate national identity without this being at the expense of European alliance. Pride was strong, passionate and loyal. Traditions and history were rich in local narrative. Flags were waved. Events were held to promote and celebrate citizenship.
Citizens of somewhere
Yet all of this was exercised in a way which was compatible with a strong sense of European identity, and a spirit of European partnership which I can’t help but feel the UK has found it difficult to achieve. Our international student partners may have been globally aware, but they were certainly also “citzens of somewhere”. It’s a split that we should seek to bridge if we aren’t to miss out on some of the benefits of European partnership that exist.
Our group was very aware that collaboration and partnerships were celebrated wherever we went without being determined by who was in charge, where the power sat, or the draw down on collaboration. The simple fact that 2 bodies, organisations or nations shared something was celebrated in itself on web sites, on banners, in speeches and in practice.
In Finland we heard about “Dare to Learn” – a charity created by the Finnish National Union of Students (SYL), described as students’ “gift to the world” that focuses on innovation in, and lifelong, learning. It was born from them asking the question “what is this world still lacking?” and reaching the conclusion that “the world was craving for an international meeting place where people can share, question and create the future of learning”.
Almost every SU we met had an international student and partnership officer. These roles were both supporting and promoting the welcome, induction and community building of international students – but crucially also international partnership and exchange work. All were deeply embedded into Erasmus+. At Vytautas Magnus University Students’ Union in the Lithuanian City of Kaunas, their welcome festival celebrated different cultures and traditions in a lively pre-arrival program. In Estonia, students had been campaigning to keep courses open to overseas students. In Latvia students had been campaigning for financial support to international students.
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Everywhere we went, we met people who spoke amazing English, frequently alongside a wide range of other languages. It was common to see a wide range of flags on display in buildings or on literature. We met a number of people who had studied in many different countries, something they seemed proud of and talked about how it influenced their learning, lifestyle and ability to represent.
One elected officer we spoke with at Aalto University told us about how they had studied in three different continents and they shared with us their reflections of how learning and teaching, funding and student life compared at each of their institutions. This was all coupled with the practice of collaboration in and between both regional and national organisations.
Tartu University talked about their partnership with Upsalla University in Sweden and they talked vividly about examples of cross-border collaboration and collectivism as enriching and value adding, even if and where they acknowledged they were sometimes difficult.
The final “salt in the wound” moment was when we spotted a campaign in Finland where the Finnish Social Democrat party was campaigning using the slogan “We dont Brexit, We fix it”. Even more amusingly, the formulation is the same as that used by the Finnish eurosceptics during the European debt crisis – when they were targeting a Finnish exit from the euro and lobbying for a “Fixit”.
It is fair to acknowledge that there were examples of nations (or more accurately factions within nations) who were still distinctly cautious of student migration. In Estonia we were told about how the government is trying to reduce migration into Estonian Universities, in part due to their attempt to preserve the limited student spaces available for Estonians in a country that currently only has space for circa 46,000 students across the nation. But those instances were in the minority and overall we saw a strong celebration of the European membership as adding value and stimulating economies be those economic or knowledge economies.
The overwhelming sense is that people benefit from sharing learning, experiencing different cultures, collectivist working, being mobile to travel, learn, work and study freely. These values are ones which many UK students and institutions feel they are losing right now, and outwith the conclusion to a wider Brexit debate which many have found exhausting and complex, are things that should be considered by the UK.
Put simply, “getting Brexit done” should not be at the expense of the UK’s place in a global knowledge economy or the value we can get from collaborating with European partners not just on on research and student recruitment, but also cultural exchange and student experience collaboration.
Perhaps, to protect the international standing and practice of UK HEI in a post Brexit world, the DfE, the Foreign Office or BEIS will be sponsoring our next European excursion – preparing new regulation for universities to provide a free second language for all students, or seed funding institutional partnerships that cross borders and promote the UK HEI system as both British and European.


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ALL eyes will be on Garden Walk this weekend as top-of-the-table Royston Town host second placed Kings Langley. The two best teams in South Midlands Division One are both currently on 44 points but Royston have the comfort of knowing they have played two
ALL eyes will be on Garden Walk this weekend as top-of-the-table Royston Town host second placed Kings Langley.
The two best teams in South Midlands Division One are both currently on 44 points but Royston have the comfort of knowing they have played two less games than their rivals.
Royston's chance to go three points clear last week was wrecked by the weather when their game against Tokyngton Manor was called off and because his players have not played for over a week, boss Paul Attfield was expecting to give a number of them a run out in the reserves match against Cheshunt in the Floodlit cup last night (Wednesday).
Royston had some good news on the injury front this week with defender Lewis Endacott and striker Ryan Lockett making strides on their way back to recovery.
It was hoped that both could play some part in last night's game.
However Royston have been dealt a blow with the news that speedy left winger Luke Robins hasn't responded as well as he would have liked to treatment on the badly twisted ankle injured against Sporting London e Benfica in November and is likely to miss yet more games for the club.
Attfield has also learnt that versatile player Ross Collins could be out for the rest of the season following a knee injury he picked up against the same team.
That said, Attfield does have a strong squad of young players at his disposal in case of further injury problems, many of whom have already shown they can make the step up to the Royston first team.
Despite the excitement surrounding this weekend's match, manager Paul Attfield has played down its importance.
He said: "Much is being made of the Kings Langley game but to me it is just another 90 minutes for the right to gain three points.
"Nothing will be decided by the end of the game. The only time I legitimately get nervous is when Tottenham are winning a football match.
"We have always given big performances when we have had to this season and I would expect the lads to do the same again.
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LAUREL, Miss., Feb. 20 (UPI) -- At least 20 youths were injured when the second floor of a Mississippi church collapsed, police said.
About 79 children in grades seven through 12 were gathering for evening worship Wednesday in the Family Life Center at Freedom Baptist Church in Laurel, Miss., when the floor gave way, NBC News reported.
The drop to the gymnasium floor was about 12 feet, said Jones County Sheriff Alex Hodge.
Twenty of the youths were hospitalized at South Central Regional Medical Center and Forrest General Hospital, though none had life-threatening injuries.
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While we’re following this director of imaginary films but real-life murders, we are introduced to Detective Tommy Veasey of the La Playita Police Department. The police chief hates him, mainly because Veasey is sleeping with his ex-girlfriend; he smokes pot, and writes bad poetry. Veasey thinks he has found a link between a series of murders, all of whom we know are Braffner’s victims. No one in the police department believes him, so he has to go outside department regulations to track down leads to solve the murders.
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Altogether, Green Light for Murder is an interesting and witty story of Hollywood greed, selfishness, and, of course, revenge. And hey, if it makes you laugh out loud from time to time, what’s not to like?
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Pilot's mistake caused Airblue crash, body told
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ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Human Rights on Thursday was informed that the crash of the Airblue aircraft was result of its pilot's mistake.
The committee was given a briefing about the investigations regarding the incident. Defence Ministry Junior Secretary Iftikhar Ahmed Mir briefed the committee. MNA Riaz Fatiana chaired the meeting at the Parliament House. The committee was told that the crash of the Airblue aircraft was caused by its pilot's mistake.
"The pilot was nearly 65-year-old and his co-pilot was very junior. The pilot of the aircraft was retired from air force. He did not pay attention to what the computers again and again indicated when the craft had reached a height usually considered dangerous, as there were always chances of collision of the craft with the land. The computer had again and again indicated terrain ahead but the pilot did not pay any attention. Resultantly, a crash took place," Mir said.
"The Airblue administration has paid Rs 5.5 million as compensation to the bereaved families, while the government has provided Rs 0.5 million to each family. Out of 152 people, including the crew, the families of 103 have received compensation, payments of 31 are in process, while 10 are in litigation process. Bhoja airlines has also given Rs 5 million to 13 bereaved families out of a total of 50 families," he said.
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Deputy Managing Director Junaid Younas spoke in the meeting about the issues being faced by the airline, saying it had several problems regarding maintenance, poor quality services and delays in flights. "Delays in flights are due to the fact that we have to make sure before we go on flight that our aircraft have safety measures up to the international standards, without any technical fault," Younas said. "The total fleet of aircraft with the PIA is 39, while only 28 are operational. The schedule of PIA flights is made according to 39 aircraft, which is the main cause behind delays in flights," Mir said.
The PIA had established a task force in order to avoid any mismanagement during the upcoming Hajj flights, he told the committee. "The regulatory system of the PIA is very weak," the chairman of the committee remarked. The committee condemned the VIP treatment provided to families of certain bureaucrats, military officers, judges and diplomats.
Passengers were usually not properly entertained at airports and in case the flights were delayed, passengers were not provided anything to eat, the committee chairman said, adding that if flights were delayed for 12 to16 hours, as had usually been with the PIA and Shaheen Airlines, the passengers were not provided rest rooms by their respective airlines.
The standing committee directed PIA senior officials to make improvement in the overall system and present a report in 30 days.


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(NaturalNews) From San Diego to San Francisco, hundreds of sea lions have been washing ashore – dead and dying.
“You could equate it to a war zone,” said Keith Matassa of the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, noting that the center gets “hundreds of rescue calls a day.”
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Fukushima partly to blame?
Could radiation from the Fukushima disaster be one cause? In 2011, multiple reactors at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant exploded, sending a massive radioactive plume spewing into the air and sea. This plume has been steadily moving east across the Pacific Ocean ever since, and is predicted to hit the coast of North America by 2017.
Since then, radioactive material has continued to flow from Fukushima into the Pacific, both accidentally and by design. Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has deliberately ejected radioactive water into the ocean to keep it from building up onsite. In addition, the company reports that at least two trillion becquerels worth of material flowed unintentionally into the ocean between August 2013 and May 2014. This occurred at 10 times the release rate permitted prior to the disaster.


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