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52 leading international figures call for a Military Embargo on Israel

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Occupied Palestine - On the eve of the International Day of Solidarity with the People of Palestine, 52 international notables issued a statement calling for "urgent ... international action towards a mandatory, comprehensive military embargo against Israel." Though directly motivated by Israel's latest war of aggression against the 1.6 million Palestinians in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip, the statement is also a reaction to Israel's decades-old military occupation and persistent denial of the UN-sanctioned rights of the Palestinian people. Expressing horror at Israel's latest bloodbath in Gaza which claimed 160 Palestinian lives, including 34 children, the statement argues that this recurring brutality has been allowed to continue due to the impunity Israel enjoys. It highlighted the particular complicity of the US, the EU, India, Brazil and South Korea, as Israel's key military partners and enablers.

The statement signed by Nobel Peace laureates Mairead Maguire and Adolfo Perez Esqu?vel, former Pink Floyd front man Roger Waters, Directors Mike Leigh and Ken Loach, Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker, international best-seller Naomi Klein and co-drafter of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Holocaust survivor St?phane Hessel, among others, adds that "Israel's attempt to justify this kind of illegal use of belligerent and disproportionate military force as "self-defence" does not stand up to legal - or moral - scrutiny, as states cannot invoke self-defence for acts that serve to defend an unlawful situation which they have created in the first place."

This appeal echoes the Palestinian civil society call for a military embargo on Israel issued last year and draws parallels to the effective action taken against apartheid South Africa as a practical means to pressure Israel to fall in line with international law.?

The full text of the Statement follows.

"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." --Nelson Mandela

Horrified at the latest round of Israeli aggression against the 1.5 million Palestinians in the besieged and occupied Gaza Strip and conscious of the impunity that has enabled this new chapter in Israel's decades-old violations of international law and Palestinian rights, we believe there is an urgent need for international action towards a mandatory, comprehensive military embargo against Israel. Such a measure has been subject to several UN resolutions¹ and is similar to the arms embargo imposed against apartheid South Africa in the past.

Israel's unchecked belligerence and persistent denial of basic human rights and self-determination to the Palestinian people call for a concerted effort by international civil society to force world governments to end the links of complicity. This impunity has allowed Israel to continue its occupation, colonization and denial of Palestinian refugees their UN-sanctioned rights.??

While the United States has been the largest sponsor of Israel, supplying billions of dollars of advanced military hardware every year, the role of the European Union must not go unnoticed, in particular its hefty subsidies to Israel's military complex through its research programs. Similarly, the growing military ties between Israel and the emerging economies of Brazil, India and South Korea are unconscionable given their nominal support for Palestinian freedom.

Military ties with Israel have fueled relentless acts of aggression. Israel continues to entrench its subjugation of Palestinians while provoking or initiating armed conflict with its neighbors in the region.

Israel's attempt to justify this kind of illegal use of belligerent and disproportionate military force as "self-defence" does not stand up to legal - or moral - scrutiny, as states cannot invoke self-defence for acts that serve to defend an unlawful situation which they have created in the first place².

We therefore support the call from Palestinian civil society for an urgent and comprehensive military embargo on Israel as an effective, non-violent measure to stop Israel's wars and repression and to bring about Israel's compliance with its obligations under international law. This is now a moral and legal imperative to achieve a just and comprehensive peace.

Contact: Zaid Shuaibi, mobile: 0599.830.322

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¹ See, for example UN General Assembly Resolution 3414 (1975): "[the UNGA] Requests all states to desist from supplying Israel with any military or economic aid as long as it continues to occupy Arab territories and deny the inalienable national rights of the Palestinian people". http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=43376#.UKEIxYdyGSo
² According to the basic tenet of international law, ex injuria non oritur ius (a legal right or entitlement cannot arise from an unlawful act ) http://www.definitions.uslegal.com/e/ex-injuria-jus-non-oritur/?

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Initial List of Signatories (alphabetical order):
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Udi Aloni, filmmaker, Israel
Anthony Arnove, editor and writer, US
Etienne Balibar, academic, France
Robert Ballagh, artist and president of the Ireland Institute for Historical and Cultural Studies, Ireland
Walden Bello, academic, author and member of Senate, Philippines
Shyam Benegal, director and screenwriter, India
John Berger, author, critic, UK
Howard Brenton, playwright and screenwriter, UK
Judith Butler, academic, United States
Clayborne Carson, Director, Martin Luther King, Jr. Research & Education Institute, Stanford University, USA
Noam Chomsky, academic, USA
Caryl Churchill, dramatist, UK
Angela Davis, scholar and author, US
Raymond Deane, composer, Ireland
Danilo Dolci, sociologist, Italy
John Dugard, professor of international law, South Africa
Felim Egan, artist, Ireland
Adolfo Perez Esqu?vel, Nobel Peace Laureate 1980, Argentina
Dror Feiler, musician and artist, Sweden
Don Andrea Gallo, presbyter, Italy
Charles Glass, journalist, US
Margherita Hack, astrophysicist, Italy
Denis J. Halliday, former UN Assistant Secretary-General (1994-98), Ireland
St?phane Hessel, diplomat, Holocaust survivor and co-author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, France
Tor B J?rgensen, Bishop, Norway
Christian Juhl, member of Parliament, Denmark
Ronnie Kasrils, politician, South Africa
Aki Kaurism?ki, screenwriter and film director, Finland
Marcel Khalife, musician, Lebanon
Naomi Klein, writer and activist, Canada
Paul Laverty, filmmaker, UK
Taeho Lee, Secretary General, People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, South Korea
Ken Loach, filmmaker, UK
Vibeke L?kkeberg, actress and director, Norway
Mike Leigh OBE, Director, UK (Palm D'Or 1996)
Jean-Marc Levy-Leblond, academic, France
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate 1976, Ireland?
Michael Mansfield, lawyer, UK
Miriam Margolyes, actress, UK
Cynthia McKinney, politician, United States
Saeed Mirza, filmmaker, India
Luisa Morgantini, former president of the European Parliament
Bj?rnar Moxnes, member of Oslo city council
Suzanne Osten, writer and director, Sweden
Nurit Peled, professor of language, Israel
John Pilger, journalist, author, filmmaker, Australia
Ahdaf Soueif, writer, Egypt/UK
Alice Walker, author, US
Roger Waters, musician, UK
John Williams, musician, UK
Vincenzo Vita, senator, Italy
Slavoj Zizek, philosopher, Slovenia

Source: http://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/4740-52-leading-international-figures-call-for-a-military-embargo-on-israel

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Gabrielle Bernstein: A Meditation for Busting Through Your Blocks

Hey Spirit Junkies! Today I have a radical vlog for you! Many folks have been asking me to share more Kundalini meditations. Well, you're in luck! The theme for this video is the Kundalini Sutra for the Aquarian Age: There is a Way Through Every Block. To help you embody this message, I teach the Kundalini meditation called ego eradicator. This meditation busts through the ego's littleness and opens you up to your inner awesomeness and faithful intuition. As A Course in Miracles says, "Peace without faith cannot be attained." Therefore, we must use our prayer and meditation to heighten our faith so we can truly enjoy a state of peace. Get your ego eradicator on! Watch now.

Check out my ego eradicator Spotify playlist here.

Gabrielle Bernstein is the author of Spirit Junkie, Add More ~ing to Your Life and the forthcoming book May Cause Miracles. She is also the founder of HerFuture.com. For more about Gabrielle visit www.gabbyb.tv/home.

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Software License Optimization: The Power of Software Licensing ...

By Martin Kurzinski

I was just speaking with a customer the other day about optimizing their software spend while mitigating the risk of license compliance audits.? The customer then asked about taking this process to the next level.?How can they project savings from software license optimization moving
forward?? IT environments are always changing.? We discussed several factors that make managing software licenses a continued challenge, including:

• Changes in technology? e.g. application virtualization, Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud computing
• Changes in license models? e.g. SQL Server processor based to core based licensing, changes in roaming use rights, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and Virtual Desktop Access (VDA) licensing changes, etc.
• Optimizing hardware dependent license models?how do I choose the most cost effective hardware/software combination?
• Time and cost to implement a change to the environment?organizations need to evaluate the licensing impact of a change, prior to completing work, to minimize cost and risk
• Determining the effect on multiple software licenses due to a change to the environment ? e.g. operating system, application, and infrastructure software licenses
• Moves/Adds/Changes?support both Planned and Urgent ?Request For Change? service requests
• Planning for future growth?the need for trend analysis information to understand the cost impact of growth

Decisions made today can impact your software license position without you being aware until it is too late or you incur significant time and cost to revert the changes.? The concept of a license simulation is to provide you with a software license position prior to invoking any change.? This
?What If? analysis allows you to simulate the changes you plan to make and understand the impact on software licensing. For example, you may consider moving several Microsoft SQL database instances to a virtual farm ? the move can obviously reduce hardware cost, but what will that change do to your SQL Server license cost?? A processor based license may increase the per instance cost, so much so, that it can cost more than the savings in hardware.? However you may also reduce operating system costs.?Does the change make financial sense?

With a software licensing simulation capability, you can model your changes and instantly see the impact on managed licenses.? Changes include:

• Changes to hardware, for example, adding additional processors, logical partitions, etc.
• Adding/moving/removing hardware from your environment
• Adding/deleting software from existing computers
• Moving software from one computer to another, including movements of virtual machines
• Server clustering, active, passive, non-production, and backup roles, etc.

In the figure shown below, the impact of any of the described changes will be reflected in the license summary report.? This license summary details the changes from original license consumption, proposed new consumption, change in consumption, financial impact in dollars and the license compliance position itself (in breach vs. compliant).

Figure 1: What If Analysis License Summary Report

The simulation report provides you with the information needed to make the best business decisions and optimize your software spend while maintaining license compliance.? License simulations can help you better manage:

• Organizational growth
• Changes in the IT environment
• Technology advances

and assist in minimizing the impact of new software license models.

What changes do you foresee in your environment?? Is your organization moving to application virtualization?? Do you support server clustering?? Have you calculated the financial impact on licensing?? Hardware can be relatively inexpensive compared to software costs, yet many organizations do little analysis on how future changes will affect their software license position.? Now you can be proactive about software license management and optimization.

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Source: http://blogs.flexerasoftware.com/elo/2012/11/the-power-of-software-licensing-simulations-and-what-if-analysis.html

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?Thank You, Iran!? (Powerlineblog)

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Alcohol and automotive industries create the most engagement on ...

Posted on November 27, 2012, 4:05 pm.

From examiner.com

Social media networking platforms like Facebook are an important destination to reach new customers for practically any industry. In recent report released by Socialbakers, an analysis looked at pages with more than 10,000 Fans for the third quarter with Alcohol and Automotive related companies as the leaders for engagement on the site.

The amount of content generated daily on the largest social network has allowed each industry to tailor, package and tailor posts in a way that best reaches its clients. In the report, nine industries were closely examined from most to the least engaging. The following industries accounted for were: Alcohol, Automotive, FMCG, Finance, Electronics, Telco, Fashion and Retail.

To determine the success of a page on Facebook it depends on a large number of factors, but overall the quality in content is usually the best place to start. Inside Mark Zuckerberg?s social site there is an algorithm called EdgeRank, developed by Facebook and determines what stories appear in each user?s newsfeed, which looks at an essential Factor known as Affinity.

?The Affinity score is based on all the interactions a user can initiate, which is why it?s so important to reach a high Engagement Rate, a metric based on the three most important interactions on Facebook: Likes, Comments, and Shares,? according to Socialbakers.

Below is a list of the industries and their Average Post Engagement Rate:

1. Alcohol 0.40 percent
2. Automotive 0.39 percent
3. FMCG 0.27 percent
4. Airlines 0.26 percent
5. Finance 0.19 percent
6. Electronics 0.19 percent
7. Telco 0.18 percent
8. Fashion 0.15 percent
9. Retail 0.14 percent

The more organic the posts are for the page and refrain from a hard sales pitch the better off you are. People?s interactions will be higher and extremely much more visible on a page if there is less of a focus on forcing people to adopt the product or service. You are more likely to attract more eyeballs to your company?s page if you create a unique dialogue with the information you put together on your social media space.

How did Automotive and Alcohol come out with a higher average engagement rate? In the blog post for the Social Media Analytics and Digital Company (Socialbakers) the excerpt pasted below can illustrate how the top two on the list increased their presence online:

?Both industries have the advantage of promoting their products with strong visuals, stories, and emotions without pushing a sale?s pitch. Both cars and alcohol are often associated with the different kinds of lifestyles that fans are proud to identify with since they can easily express their personality and individuality to their friends on Facebook.?

Source: http://alcoholireland.ie/2012/alcohol-and-automotive-industries-create-the-most-engagement-on-facebook/

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Japan suspends dubious reconstruction projects

TOKYO (AP) ? Japan's government has suspended 35 projects included in a budget for reconstruction from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami after criticism the spending was not directly related to recovery from the disasters.

As much as a fourth of the 11.7 trillion yen ($148 billion) budget had been earmarked for unrelated projects, including subsidies for a contact lens factory in another region and research whaling.

However, the 35 projects put on hold during a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda involved spending of only 16.8 billion yen ($210 million).

No specific reason was given for each project, though Noda and other officials have vowed to cut spending not directly for reconstruction. Many of the projects in the budget were included on the pretext they might aid Japan's economic revival.

"Some of the projects are being deferred to 2013," Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura told reporters in a regular briefing. "But Prime Minister Noda said the spending really must be committed to reconstruction."

Among the projects put on hold was a plan to boost the Japan "brand" through lecture tours, money earmarked to pay for Cabinet-sponsored discussions on "social inclusiveness," and quake-resistance renovations for various government ministries.

Minutes from a committee meeting held last month showed Cabinet ministers concluding that while projects unrelated to the disaster were legal, it would be better to focus spending on the disaster zone.

The committee adopted new guidelines this week requiring that reconstruction funds be disbursed through a special government account devoted to programs in the disaster area, which includes much of Japan's northeastern coast.

A notice on the website of the Reconstruction Ministry said the Finance Ministry and other government agencies would work to "strictly rectify" the budget, and may suspend other projects.

The government decided to boost spending on reconstruction from the 19 trillion yen ($237.5 billion) meant to be spent by the end of March 2015.

Progress on reconstruction has been hindered by a lack of local government staff and other experts, disagreements over how and whether to rebuild some towns obliterated by the tsunami, and the sheer scale of the destruction.

A report issued Tuesday showed only 47 percent of planned projects had begun work. About 60 percent of the 9.6 million tons of tsunami debris has been cleared, but only 11 percent of it processed. Reconstruction of fisheries and fishing ports and rehabilitation of farmland has also lagged.

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/f70471f764144b2fab526d39972d37b3/Article_2012-11-28-Japan-Disaster%20Reconstruction/id-15986c4a8b6a47c3aff736f37a6430db

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