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Eh heh…hey, guys. So remember not so long ago when I sprang the fact that I was leaving my job of two years on you?
Welp, I'm doing it again. I put in my notice today.
I know what you're thinking:
But Justine, you've only been at the new job for about five months! That's hardly long enough to know if you should leave or not.
Well, no offense, but your opinion is just wrong. While there wasn't anything inherently wrong with my job, it just…wasn't a good fit. The people were nice, the pay was good, but I just wasn't excited about what I was doing. Like, at all.
So what's so great about this fancy-shmancy new job, huh? HUH?
First, calm down. Second, lots of things, actually. Specifically, my new job is firmly entrenched in social media, which y'all know I enjoy thoroughly. Second, I have the word "specialist" in my new title (further affirming my goal of having a job title that doesn't include the word "assistant" by the time I'm 25). Third, I've only received a glimpse of the kind of things I'll be working on, but I'm actually excited about my job for the first time in a while. I'll get to be creative again, and actually do some writing. And I'll get to answer people's questions without it being considered customer service. (More like an "ask the editor" kind of thing.) Finally, it's only 20 minutes from my apartment.
Wait…you're only going to have to ride the train for 20 minutes?
Something like that. *GRINNING*
Hold the phone. Are you telling me that you don't have to ride the train at all anymore? Like, not even a little bit?
What about the subway?
Wowza. So how are you getting around now, anyway?
Ready for this? I'm getting a car. Which naturally prompts the question:
What kind of car do you want?
A white Civic.
That's it? Those are your only requirements?
Yup. I mean, a relatively recent make would be nice.
Could you be any more female and white?
Probably not.
So when are you starting this quote-unquote special job?
October 4th. But my last day at the current gig is September 16th, so I'll get some time off in between to pretend I'm a housewife.
That sounds like something you would enjoy.
I'm really looking forward to it.
Anything else you want to brag about with the new job?
The building has a cafeteria and a gym. And it's right by a really nice mall. And every there seems really nice. And apparently they have a lot of sample sales where I can get kitchen goods for dirt cheap prices.
I was being sarcastic.
Oh. Sorry.
No, you're not.
No, I'm not. *GRINNING*
So now that your wedding is over and you don't have to ride the train, what the heck are you going to write about here?
Lord, who knows. Maybe I should get pregnant just to have some new fodder.
*Skeptical look*
I'm kidding.
Were you?
Yes! Gawd. Although I would get a puppy.
Can't blame you.
And, I mean, sooner or later there will be a new apartment to decorate. And there's always Kitchen Adventures. And…you know…stuff.
You are really over-estimating my interest in the this question.
Welp, sounds like you have things pretty figured out. Of course, now you'll have to worry about gas prices, rush-hour traffic, turning into a townie-
Could you just let me enjoy this?
Sorry…no more trains?


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Topics covered in this Tutorial:
- Sub Routines
- Variables
- Values from Cells, Writing to Cells
- String Concatenation
- If Conditions
- For Loops
Sub Routines
Any code begins with Sub and ends with End Sub. All your code will be within these two lines. It's as simple as saying Hi (Sub) and Bye (End Sub).
The name of the program below is Test and will always be accompanied by parentheses. The parentheses form a passage to obtain values from outside and pass it into the program Test. (Beyond Requirement, JFYI)
Variables store values. Some of the common variables are Integers, Strings, Double, Float, and Boolean. For this series, we will only use Integers and Strings. Integers store whole numbers, while Strings hold text (A-Z, a-z, 0-9)
Remember we opened the immediate window in Tutorial 1? We use Debug.Print to print a value on the immediate window. The words Hello World are in inverted commas because they are text/string. If run without inverted commas, it will recognize Hello World and two variables named Hello & World.
Debug.print "Hello World"
To introduce a variable to the computer, we use Dim. Dim declares and allocates storage space for a variable.
Dim variableName as variableType
Values from Cells, Writing to Cells
Add words "Hello" and "World" to cells A1 & A2 respectively
Extracting Values from Cells
Debug.Print Cells(Row, Column).Value
To obtain the value for cell A1, row = 1 & column = 1.
To obtain the value for cell A2, row = 2 & column = 1.
Go to VBA editor and type the following code on Sheet1.
Writing Values to Cells
Let's now write "Hello" and "World" to cells B1 & B2.
Cells(Row, Column).Value = "Hello"
String Concatenation
Let's now combine both values in A1 and A2 together and write it to cell A3.
To join two strings together, simply use the ampersand and add a space between the two strings " ".
Debug.Print str1 & " " & str2
If Conditions
In simple English, If a condition is matched then do something, Else do something else. An If condition will always end with an End If.
Let's do a simple exercise.
- Define strName as a string variable
- Set strName as your name
- If strName = "" then, print "Welcome Back " + strName
- Else print "Hello " + strName
The output for the above example would be "Hello Alex". This is because strName = "Alex" is not equal to "John"
For Loops
For Loop is a commonly used loop in VBA. Loops are used when you want to repeat a certain code for repeatedly.
for i = 1 to 10 <statement> next i
This loop will print integers 1 to 10 in the immediate window. You can refer to the other types of loops here.
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Make this delicious and easy-to-make gluten free Asian-style Sesame Cucumber Salad to go along with your next Asian-inspired meal!
Happy New Year! I felt that it was only fitting to start my first post for the new year off with a "salad" type recipe. I've been making this sesame cucumber salad for as long as I can remember. So much so that this recipe has been in my cue for almost two years–I just never got around to photographing it! It all started after a visit to our local sushi restaurant. They would always serve a super small serving of their cucumber salad before the meal started. I would always ask for extra since I loved it so much and could honestly eat it as a meal. That sushi restaurant shut down (or wait, maybe we stopped going)… either way I didn't get it often enough so I decided to recreate it at home. And ever since then I wasn't craving sushi as much because I could make this sesame cucumber salad at home!
Any time I have an Asian dinner like my Asian-Styl London Broil or chicken & vegetable stir fry on the menu I always serve up a side of my sesame cucumber salad. It's a must and makes our meal complete. Best of all, it's really easy to make and I almost always have all the ingredients on hand! I love using my OXO Handheld Mandoline Slicer it gives a nice thin and even slice to the cucumber. Before I had my mandoline I would just thinly slice with a knife. I'll be honest–this is one kitchen tool that I use probably use almost every day and worth every penny (it's cheap, only $15)!
Let's get back to the Sesame Cucumber Salad, it's very easy to make and even better you can make it ahead of time the morning of dinner or even just 30 minutes prior to dinner. You'll mix all the ingredients together then place the cucumbers into the mixture. I like to use a glass container with a lid–I'll close the container and then shake it well so that the liquid mixture gets on all the cucumber slices. Then I refrigerate it so that the sauce marinates on the cucumber–I find that at least 15 minutes in the refrigerator will suffice. That's it–easy as that you'll have a delicious and easy-to-make Sesame Cucumber Salad to go along with your next Asian-style dinner.
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Sesame Cucumber Salad
- 2 medium cucumbers half peeled and thinly sliced
- 1/4 cup rice vinegar
- 2 teaspoons brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon green onions sliced
- dash of red pepper flakes
- dash of salt
- 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
- Peel half the cucumber and thinly slice on lowest setting. Set to the side once both cucumbers have been thinly sliced.
- In a bowl mix together the rice vinegar, brown sugar, soy sauce, and sesame oil. Whisk until the sugar has dissolved. Begin layering in handfuls of cucumber into the sauce. Mix and submerging as you go. Sprinkle green onions, red pepper flakes and a dash of salt. Mix well and place in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.
- Before serving, mix well, and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Enjoy!


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CW: Abuse Let me start this post by acknowledging that my story is not unique. In fact, there are so very many posts just like this that I almost didn't write it. It feels like there is no point in sharing an experience that is so universal, so shared by so many. But that's kind of the idea of #metoomvmt and #WhyIDidn'tReport so here goes. I'm not brave. I'm sharing … [Read more...] about I'm not okay
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It took me a long time to work up the nerve to buy Njoy's Pure Wand. A long time ago, I had lots of silicone and cyberskin dildos, most of them not recognizable brand names. I didn't know better, and never examined what they were made of or whether it was body safe. They sold it in the sex toy store, it had to be safe, right? At some point, in preparation for a weekend … [Read more...] about Review: Njoy Pure Wand
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I have never considered myself a fan of lube. In our earliest days, we used baby oil, if we used anything, and I found nothing about it to be pleasant, not even the lubricating properties, but I figured if it was gentle enough for babies, then I could count on it not to irritate my most delicate skin. During those days, we bought a long succession of poorly designed, … [Read more...] about Review: The Butters Lube
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It is an unavoidable truth of the story of us that I need more than he does, and it has never been a comfortable position. I can remember when I first knew that I wanted us to live in our D/s dynamic 24/7. For months, I struggled to find the words. We lived in another country, not so far from home, but far enough that I was lost. Nothing fit quite right, I felt even more … [Read more...] about Finding Daddy


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There's been a lot of controversy in the photography corners of the internet lately about a photography by Peter Lik, called "Moonlit dreams". I have visited Peter Liks galleries in Las Vegas and New York many times and somehow managed to get myself registered as a collector. I am not a collector, but i may have appeared to be when talking to the friendly sales people in the Lik galleries.
Anyway – being on the collectors mailing list, i get emails from lik.com whenever there's a new series of images out. When i got this one in early February, i just thought it was a cool composite and didn't think more about it. I won't post the photo here, because i don't have the rights to it and i don't to get in trouble.
Visit lik.com to see the image.
Fstoppers dig deep and yell fake!
Basically, what's happened is that other photographers have been lining up with torches and pitchforks yelling "FAKE!". The reason for this being that the image obviously is a composite made up of two or more photos. On the fstoppers YouTube channel, there was a pretty long video about this where they discussed the image in detail. It's an interesting discussion if you have the time. Everyone agrees it's most likely a composite (or fake, as they call it), but they have a pretty deep discussion on the subject.
One good argument in all this, expressed in a second fstoppers video, is that an artist that regularly sells non-composited images should probably make sure there's a very clear disclaimer if he adds an occasional composite image to his gallery. I think that's a good point. Watch the videos, it's an interesting discussion with good arguments for both sides of the fence.
Froknowsphoto says who cares and gets an official statement
A few days later Jared Polin talked about this on his YouTube channel and expressed an opinion similar to mine (se below). A little later, Polin announced that he had an official statement from Lik's people, saying that the image is indeed a composite.
Ruffled feathers in the photographer groups
I brought this up in a Facebook group about photography that i'm a member of. The group, usually pretty friendly, erupted in some really heated discussions. A couple of the members even got so worked up that one of them ended up blocking the other guy.
Many people come from a journalistic standpoint, where image manipulaion is frowned upon and they enter the discussion from this standpoint. Others work with composite images all day, maybe in commercial environments, in fine art or just for fun. These two camps obviously tend to clash pretty violently when brought together on a subject like this. Seeing the other person's point of view isn't always the easiest thing for some people.
Many of the people involved in the discussion said they thought a composite image should always come with a disclaimer to warn potential buyers.
The clouds are behind the moon!
Someone asked what made others so sure it was a composite and i told him to look at the clouds, which are behind the moon. He wasn't willing to give up and claimed this was possible under certain conditions. Some guys you just need to give up on.
Most photographers i've heard on this subject also agree that it would be optically impossible to take a photo with the moon so large and the cliff and tree in the foreground just as sharp and the moon's surface. I know for sure i don't have the skills or equipment to do this, but i would be interested to see how close you could get, given a similar composition and using focus- and exposure stacking.
Here's what i think
My standpoint is this: I think Peter Lik has the right to make composite images as much as he wants as long as he's not hurting anyone. He should have the right to sell this image in his galleries. If someone is willing to pay him for it and they can agree on a price that both parties accept, they should be allowed to make the deal and the buyer can do whatever she wants with her photo. Lik should inform his customer about how the image is done if she asks. Lying about it and claiming it's a single exposure would be wrong. It's art for God's sake. Anything goes as long as no one is hurt.
Composite = fake?
Would you be upset if you found out the latest U2 album was not recorded live in one single take? Of course not. We all know that music producers use technology to their advantage to stretch the limits and create their works of art. Art photographers should be free to do the same. If it was a journalistic photo, things would of course be different. If i found this photo in National geographic, i would be very disappointed.
What does Peter Lik think?
I have no idea what Peter Lik thinks, but i'm guessing this is a dream scenario for him. He's all about selling and marketing and the way this points the light in his direction must be all good for him. The people that are willing to pay five-figure amounts for his images probably don't care what's been done to the image. I'd be surprised to find him cowering under his desk, embarrassed for being caught trying to sell a "fake" image.
What do you think?
Please leave a comment and tell me what you think and why.


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The Irvington Town Hall Theater (ITHT) is excited to announce the inaugural year of its ITHT Stage Door Playwright Festival on November 11 and 12, FREE to the public. A weekend of readings of original and diverse one-act plays by a varied line-up of outstanding writers, the festival will be broken up into four sessions (two on Saturday and two on Sunday), with each session featuring different playwrights. This festival will be a springboard for playwrights to get their work up on its feet, and a chance for ITHT audiences to participate in the process by talking with the writers and other industry professionals during a Q&A at the end of each session.
"I am thrilled by what our three-year-old Stage Door Reading Series has turned into," says Theater Manager, Greg Allen. "Previously we would have a few readings throughout the year, but to have that grow into a two-day festival is a wonderful opportunity for playwrights, the theater, and Irvington as a whole."
Festival Chair Judy Klein Frimer, along with a committee of volunteers, reviewed over 80 submissions this summer. Eight playwrights have been selected, and each session has been curated so that the shows will work well together. Some of the plays may not be suitable for children; however, the festival committee has made sure to curate one session that is completely family-friendly.
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Pop legend Kate Bush has launched a pop-up shop in London selling memorabilia, with all proceeds being donated to homeless people.
The shop, which is located at Coals Drop Yard in Kings Cross, will sell the artist's recently released lyric book How To Be Invisible, as well as the new remastered versions of her music catalogue on vinyl and CDs.
Each book sold will include an exclusive bookmark, while all profits from the shop will go to national homelessness charity Crisis.
A daily raffle, which will be announced daily via social media, will include a selection of different prizes.
The pop-up shop will open tomorrow (5 December) and run until 9 December.
Kate Bush said: Kate Bush said: "I can't imagine how it must feel to be homeless. Our attention is drawn to this tragic issue at Christmas when most of us can share the celebrations with those we love but, of course, homelessness is there all year round – all the time. It must be so frightening.
"Without charities like Crisis, who would people turn to? Who would help? Where would the hope of a future come from? I hope this pop up shop will raise some money for Crisis and raise more awareness of this life-saving charity."
Expressing gratitude to Kate Bush, Crisis Chief Executive Jon Sparkes added: "We're absolutely thrilled that Kate Bush has chosen to support us this Christmas by donating all of the profits from her pop up shop.
"Homelessness is one of the most urgent issues of our time – across the country thousands of people are needlessly suffering life on the streets or trapped in hostels and B&Bs. We simply can't carry on like this when we know that homelessness is not inevitable.
"The money raised by Kate and her fans will help us provide food, warmth, and vital services to thousands of homeless people this Christmas – as well as the year round support they need to leave homelessness behind for good – and for that we're incredibly grateful."
The singer-songwriter and dancer, who turned 60 this year, was the first woman to have a UK Number One with the self-written song, Wuthering Heights. Kate Bush's 1980 album, Never For Ever, made her the first British solo female artist to top the UK album charts, and the first female artist ever to enter the album chart at Number One.
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Truth be told, investors were quietly anticipating a turnaround by Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU), given the 30%(+) rebound MU stock has dished out since its late-December low.
Thursday's 10% post-earnings gain by MU stock simply underscores that optimism. While MU's fiscal Q2 numbers weren't great, they topped estimates, and the company believes that a DRAM pricing rebound will take shape in the latter half of this year.
And yet, it's not quite the ideal time to wade back into Micron stock. It's getting close, but this entry point is a little less than perfect. Would-be buyers of MU stock may want to wait for the dust to settle and step in when the volatility of Micron stock has cooled.
Earnings Bottomed
For the quarter ending in February, computer-memory maker Micron turned $5.84 billion worth of revenue into an operating profit of $1.71 per share. Both were better than expected. Analysts were calling for earnings of only $1.67 per share of MU stock and sales of $5.82 billion.
Still, the company's top line sank 21% year-over-year, and its operating earnings were off to the tune of 39%.
The slump from year-ago numbers is entirely a reflection of waning DRAM and NAND prices… the two kinds of memory that most modern electronic devices require to function. Sixteen gigabytes worth of DDR4 DRAM memory chips are selling for almost half of their early 2018 prices, as a supply glut chewed away at MU's pricing power.
Micron, along with rivals Samsung (OTCMKTS:SSNLF) and SK Hynix, over-aggressively ramped up production in 2017, looking to capitalize on then-rising memory prices.
The worst period for MU stock may be coming to a close, though. CEO Sanjay Mehrotra commented "Although fiscal Q2 pricing came in below our expectations, we are optimistic that demand elasticity and seasonal trends will support improving demand growth in the second half of the calendar year."
Even though some analysts are skeptical, most investors aren't.
In a way, both groups may be right.
This Time Is Different
The price-crimping memory glut is nothing new. The industry saw one take shape quite decisively in 2015, as well as in 2011. MU stock struggled in both instances.
But investors are reacting to this glut differently. This time, having learned from the prior two gluts that they eventually come to an end, investors anticipated the rebound of MU stock. In fact, they over-anticipated it, lifting MU stock too far, too fast, so to speak.
The 2013 rebound that followed the 2011 DRAM glut was a slow, rolling, methodical affair.
So was the 2016 turnaround from the 2015 headwind.
This time, however, has been unlike the outcome of prior gluts and recoveries. This time, a V-shaped turnaround has taken shape, and rather than gradually accelerating out of a rut, Micron stock has bolted out of it. The pace is too hot, and thanks to Thursday's bullish gap, those who doubt MU stock have another reason to take profits.
But the price action of MU stock is understandable. History has shown that the memory supply glut/recovery cycle is reliable enough to preemptively gamble on. BMO Capital Markets analyst Ambrish Srivastava notes the company is helping itself, too, by shuttering some production and lowering capital expenditures, enabling excess supply to be soaked up.
Evercore ISI analyst C.J. Muse adds that MU stock may benefit from a tailwind, driven by a seasonal increase in smartphone production and the ongoing growth of data centers operated by major cloud companies like Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG, NASDAQ:GOOGL).
The trick will be figuring out the exact timing of the DRAM price turnaround and determining when investors will start to price that into the value of MU stock. The two may not take shape at the exact same time.
Looking Ahead for MU Stock
The reversal of MU stock since late-December has been impressive, as was the renewal of that rally since early March. However, Thursday's big jump — which left behind a gap — has made it very difficult for MU stock to continue rallying without peeling back and regrouping first. That regroup could be a multi-week or even a multi-month process.
Or maybe that's not what has to happen at all.
While the rally was (not surprisingly) stopped cold at the green 200-day moving average line on Thursday, anything's still technically possible. If MU stock can hurdle that moving average line within the next few days, it's possible investors will see that as a bullish catalyst and begin buying into it in earnest.
There's certainly no valuation problem for MU stock at its current level of only 7.5 times the coming year's expected earnings. But such a thrust may also turn into a proverbial "last hurrah" for the current upward push of MU stock.
More realistically, traders will likely see that the recovery from December's bottom has not only been a little too hot, but that it's been a little too volatile. The market may ultimately choose to let Micron stock settle down at its current level.
That stability may materialize right around the time we get a meaningful grasp on whether or not DRAM prices are truly rebounding.
As of this writing, James Brumley did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities. You can learn more about James at his site, jamesbrumley.com, or follow him on Twitter, at @jbrumley.


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502) Is it acceptable or unacceptable to smack a child as form of discipline? Hitting is a form of child abuse, not discipline!
503) Can a heterosexual male ever wear pink? Yes, nobody ever said pink was reserved for girls and gay men.
504) Is it criminal to wear socks with sandals? I won't call it criminal to wear socks in sandals, whether it is ecstaticly pleasing to do it… No.
505) If you were captain of a ship, what would you call it? The Mermaid or Serverine, probably.
506) If you were to join an emergency service which would it be? I would like to drive ambulances.
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508) What's the worst thing about being your gender? Periods? How would I know, I have never been a male.
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We were honored to have received, alongside development partner Robert Bosch, the Hardware Innovation Award at the AutoSens awards for the DTS.
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The U.S. Forest Service and downhill mountain bikers have waged battle on the mountains surrounding Lake Tahoe for over a decade. The downhillers and the Forest Service are at odds over illegal mountain bike trails. Despite years of effort, thousands of dollars in fundraising and extensive work on Tahoe's legal trail system, the two groups are nowhere near a resolution.


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Bill McKibben. If you haven't heard of him you should familiarize yourself immediately. McKibben is an environmentalist, a writer, and a legend. He's a New York Times best selling author and founder of 350.org, a world climate movement that spawned the largest ever unified global rally on October 24, 2009. His latest book is called "Eaarth" and it will probably make your head explode.
Last week I got to see McKibben live in action in Boston, speaking about climate change (aka humanity's biggest FAIL ). It was a fantastic talk (nerd-alert side note: I got to meet him and he signed my copy of "Eaarth!") Anyway, to those who have already embraced the biggest problem affecting humanity today, the talk was a refreshing bit of truth. To those who aren't as familiar with the current climate situation, well, you probably left the event feeling just a bit queasy and unsettled.
I'd like to summarize his words by going back in time. Since the last ice age, for the past 10,000 years, life on earth has existed within a constant and predictable climate. Our plants, with many years of evolution and adaptation behind them, have become accustomed to growing at the same temperate throughout that time. That's 10,000 years, same temperature. Over the past 100 years, temperatures across the world have gone up by 1 degree. Now, off-hand that number may not seem a like a lot, but if you do the math and understand that evolution is a slow process, then 1 degree in a hundred years is quite a spike. And it's only a fraction of what's to come, when scientists today predict that temperatures will rise Continue reading


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Sometimes in life, being grateful for what is around you is not enough. You have to turn inward and find value in yourself. With Thanksgiving coming up, The Current has taken the time to be thankful for what we will always have — ourselves.
Skylyr VanDerveer, multimedia manager,
"The quality I'm most thankful for is the ability to stay strong. To say it lightly, life has thrown a lot of negative stuff on my family. Watching my parents try and hold everything together encouraged young Skylyr to do the same. Watching how they and my younger siblings react to the hard times made me eager to do everything I could to help. From knee surgeries to saving what was left of my house during Hurricane Sandy, I grew thick skin and put my family first. I'll always be grateful for them, especially for teaching me how to be strong."
Christina McLaughlin, co-editor-in-chief,
"I'm grateful for my perseverance in times of struggle in my life. I faced a lot of challenges in my life thus far and I'm grateful that I have the strength and, at times, stubbornness to push myself and reach my goals. I think this quality was really ingrained in me by my parents and my upbringing which I feel is one of the most important things they ever taught me. I don't know where I would be today if I didn't have the strength to work through the obstacles in my life."
Madelyn Rinka, Co-Editor-in-Chief
"I'm grateful for the passion I have. I tend to get super involved with a lot of things, but I don't feel as overwhelmed or overworked when they're all things I care about. I love learning about the environment, being involved in my sorority, writing for the paper and a lot more. My schedule is always packed and my to do list is normally huge, but it makes it a little more manageable when I'm passionate about what I'm doing."
Kathleen Crapson, visual design assistant,
"I am resilient. People around me like to tell me that I am brave, courageous and strong. Sometimes I listen to them, and smirk, because those terms are seemingly trite. My mom named me "Kathleen Nichole," which means "pure victory." I knew that Kathleen meant "pure," and Nichole meant "victory of the people," but for some reason, it hadn't become my personal mantra. I hadn't yet connected to something that sounded so aloof like "victory of the people." It was only after she died that I put two and two together. She wanted me to know that victory wasn't just for other people. I could have my own victory, too."
Alexandra Herlihy, sports editor,
"The quality that I am thankful that I have is my public speaking ability. I've never really been afraid to talk in front of other people and that has made school so much easier for me. I would always be the only one to look forward to presenting speeches back in grade school. It was just something that always came easy to me."
Aaron Banyard, copy editor,
"One thing I'm really thankful for is joy. While there are ups and downs in life, getting joy from everyday things like sunshine or smiles from strangers makes it all much better. And sharing joy with loved ones is the greatest feeling in the world."
Kelsey Bruce, arts and entertainment editor,
"One quality I am grateful for is my self-reliance. No matter what turns my life has taken, I am always able to take care of myself in the end. My ability to let go of people and activities that are not contributing towards my growth, even ones that have brought me much joy, makes me feel strong. Having that much faith in myself makes me feel like I could make it through anything."
Kryshan Edler, news editor
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New York, USA. Stockholm, Sweden. Over the past twelve months young, blonde, blue-eyed women have been found dead in a meadow where Asphodel flowers grow. New York Detective Tommy Conley gets a special dispensation from the NYPD to go observe and act as an adviser to the Stockholm Police Department in order to help solve these crimes.
Over the past 16 months, young, blonde, blue-eyed women have been found dead and buried in a field of asphodels. Tracking the killer from New York to Stockholm, NYPD detective Conley is on a special dispensation to observe and advise the Stockholm PD.


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Friday, February 27, 2015
Wash Westmoreland mentions Kristen
Kristen has been cast in the as yet untitled Kelly Reichardt project
Kristen Stewart has joined Michelle Williams and Laura Dern in the hot indie drama known as the Untitled Kelly Reichardt Project. Written and directed by Reichardt, the film is a series of vignettes that revolve around the lives of people in small-town Montana.
Stewart will play a young lawyer from Boise who takes a teaching job several hours from her house. Despite her nerves about teaching, she's determined to prove to herself that she can do it. Soon after taking the job, Beth develops a close friendship with Jamie, a local woman who's auditing her class. James Le Gros and Jared Harris (Mad Men) also have been cast in the ensemble project, which is being produced by Neil Kopp and Anish Savjani. It will shoot on location in Big Sky country.
More details have also emerged about the characters and the story line. Dern is set as Laura Wells, a lawyer in Helena who keeps going back into a bad relationship with Ryan Lewis (Le Gros), a married man who couldn't care less for his wife and daughter. Williams portrays Ryan's wife, Gina Lewis, who works in advertising with her philandering husband. Finally, Harris is a former construction worker who was injured in a work-related accident and starts plotting a hostage attempt.
Stewart (Twilight, Still Alice, Snow White And The Huntsman) is repped by Gersh Agency and McKuin, Frankel, Whitehead LLP. Reichardt's most recent credit is Night Moves, which she directed and co-wrote with Jon Raymond. Jesse Eisenberg and Dakota Fanning starred in that 2013 film. She is repped by UTA.
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Thursday, February 26, 2015
New/old fan photo of Kristen in Singapore (September 2014)
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Photo was taken in Singapore during 'Equals' filming in September 2014.
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HQ Digital Scans for Interview Magazine (March 2015)
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Monday, February 23, 2015
Charles Gillibert talks about Kristen (Ouest France)
When he first met her "I've been immediately impressed by Kristen, humanly and artistically. She exuded an incredible freedom."
When Kristen didn't respond right away after he offered her the role of Valentine in 2013. "I thought it was strange, I was sure she'd have loved the character."
About her César win "This is a deserved award, because it's always brave to go on territories that aren't yours."
"What tells this French award given to an American actress, is a freedom of expression and creation without borders."
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Sunday, February 22, 2015
Julianne Moore thanks Kristen in her Best Actress Oscar acceptance speech for 'Still Alice'
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Speaking to People and Entertainment Weekly editorial director Jess Cagle on the Oscars red carpet Saturday, John Stewart said, "I was proud when she got the nomination, but I was just floored when I was standing right on this very stage rehearsing and had about 100 people come and tell me that she won."
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Kristen with Julianne Moore & her husband ('Catch that Kid' director) Bart Freundlich.
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Fellow Chanel ambassador Kristen Stewart also turned out. "Yeah, I'm just excited to see Julianne and congratulate her. Tomorrow I'll be in front of the TV rooting for her."
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Kristen at the Chanel and Charles Finch Pre-Oscar Dinner in LA - 21 February 2015
Courtney Eaton & Riley Keough with Kristen.
Courtney, Riley and Zoe Kravitz with Kristen.
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I had pulled this up in a data collection in the past that I had and it does coincide with the modern geo-political truths that people, it seems, are just starting to wake up from the matrix that has been constructed all around them . The content here is worthy of an entire podcast episode to break down and inshaa'Allah, we will try to get this done in the near future and to get the ball rolling towards a continuous production of podcasts in order to archive integral data for the benefit and research of the Muslims in specific and as well be an informative production for all in sundry in general. At any rate, please enjoy the read
by James Petras
Throughout history ruling classes, representing small minorities, have
always depended on the coercive state apparatus and social institutions to
defend their power, profits and privileges. In the past, particularly in the
Third World, imperial ruling classes financed and supported overseas and
domestic religious institutions to control exploited people and deflect
their discontent into religious and communal rivalries and conflicts.
While these practices continue today, in more recent decades a new social
institution emerged that provides the same function of control and
ideological mystification – the self-described non-governmental
organizations (NGOs). Today there are at least 50,000 NGOs in the Third
World receiving over $10 billion in funding from international financial
institutions, Euro-US-Japanese governmental agencies and local governments.
The managers of the biggest NGOs manage million dollar budgets with salaries
and perks that are comparable to CEOs. They jet to international
conferences, confer with top corporate and financial directors and make
policy decisions that affect – in the great majority of cases adversely –
millions of people … especially the poor, women and informal sector
working people.
The NGOs are significant world-wide political and social actors operating in
rural and urban sites of Asia, Latin America and Africa and frequently
linked in dependent roles with their principle donors in Europe, the US and
Japan. It is symptomatic of the pervasiveness of the NGOs and their economic
and political power over the so-called "progressive world" that there have
been few systematic Left critiques of the negative impact of NGOs. In a
large part this failure is due to the success of the NGOs is displacing and
destroying the organized Leftist movements and co-opting their intellectual
strategists and organizational leaders.
Today most left movement and popular spokespeople focus their criticism on
the IMF, World Bank, multi-national corporations, private banks, etc. who
fix the macroeconomic agenda for the pillage of the Third World. This is an
important task. However, the assault on the industrial base, independence
and living standards of the Third World takes place on both the
macro-economic and the micro-socio-political level. The egregious effects of
structural adjustment policies on wages and salaried workers, peasants and
small national businesspeople generates potential nationalpopular
discontent. And that is where the NGOs come into the picture to mystify and
deflect that discontent away from direct attacks on the corporate/banking
power structure and profits toward local micro-projects and apolitical
"grass roots" self-exploitation and "popular education" that avoids class
analysis of imperialism and capitalist exploitation.
The NGOs world-wide have become the latest vehicle for upward mobility for
the ambitious educated classes: academics, journalists, and professionals
have abandoned earlier excursions in the poorly rewarded leftists movements
for a lucrative career managing an NGO, bringing with them their
organizational and rhetorical skills as well as a certain populist
vocabulary. Today, there are thousands of NGO directors who drive $40,000
four wheel drive sports vehicles from their fashionable suburban home or
apartment to their well-furnished office or building complex, leaving the
children and domestic chores in the hands of servants, their yards tended by
gardeners. They are more familiar and spend more time at the overseas sites
of their international conferences on poverty (Washington, Bangkok, Tokyo,
Brussels, Rome, etc.) then at the muddy villages of their own country. They
are more adept at writing up new proposals to bring in hard currency for
"deserving professionals" than risking a rap on the head from the police
attacking a demonstration of underpaid rural school teachers.
The NGO leaders are a new class not based on property ownership or
government resources but derived from imperial funding and their capacity to
control significant popular groups. The NGO leaders can be conceived of as a
kind of neo-compradore group that doesn't produce any useful commodity but
does function to produce services for the donor countries – mainly trading
in domestic poverty for individual perks.
The formal claims used by NGO directors to justify their position – that
they fight poverty, inequality, etc. are self-serving and specious. There is
a direct relation between the growth of NGOs and the decline of living
standards: the proliferation of NGOs has not reduced structural
unemployment, massive displacements of peasants, nor provided liveable wage
levels for the growing army of informal workers. What NGOs have done, is
provided a thin stratum of professionals with income in hard currency to
escape the ravages of the neo-liberal economy that affects their country,
people and to climb in the existing social class structure.
This reality contrasts with the self-image that NGO functionaries have of
themselves. According to their press releases and public discourses, they
represent a Third Way between "authoritarian statism" and "savage market
capitalism": they describe themselves as the vanguard of "civil society"
operating in the interstices of the "global economy." The common purpose
that most resounds at NGO conferences is "alternative development."
The phrase-mongering about "civil society" is an exercise in vacuity.
"Civil society" is not a unitary virtuous entity – it is made of classes
probably more profoundly divided as ever in this century. Most of the
greatest injustices against workers are committed by the wealthy bankers in
civil society who squeeze out exorbitant interest payments on internal debt;
landlords who throw peasants off the land and industrial capitalists who
exhaust workers at starvation wages in sweatshops. By talking about "civil
society" NGOers obscure the profound class divisions, class exploitation and
class struggle that polarizes contemporary "civil society." While
analytically useless and obfuscating, the concept, "civil society"
facilitates NGO collaboration with capitalist interests that finance their
institutes and allows them to orient their projects and followers into
subordinate relations with the big business interests that direct the
neoliberal economies. In addition, not infrequently the NGOers'
civil society rhetoric is a ploy to attack comprehensive public programs and
state institutions delivering social services. The NGOers side with big
business' "anti-statist" rhetoric (one in the name of "civil society"
the other in the name of the "market") to reallocate state resources. The
capitalists' "anti-Statism" is used to increase public funds to subsidize
exports and financial bailouts, the NGOers try to grab a junior share via
"subcontracts" to deliver inferior services to fewer recipients.
Contrary to the NGOers' self-image who see themselves as innovative grass
roots leaders, they are in reality the grass root reactionaries who
complement the work of the IMF by pushing privatization "from below" and
demobilizing popular movements, thus undermining resistence.
The ubiquitous NGOs thus present the Left with a serious challenge that
requires a critical political analysis of their origins, structure and
Origin Structure and Ideology of the NGOs
NGOs appear to have a contradictory role in politics. On the one hand they
criticize dictatorships and human rights violations. On the other hand they
compete with radical socio-political movements, attempting to channel
popular movements into collaborative relations with dominant neo-liberal
elites. In reality, these political orientations are not so contradictory as
they appear.
Surveying the growth and proliferation of NGOs over the past quarter of a
century we find that NGOs emerged in three sets of circumstances. First of
all, as a safe haven for dissident intellectuals during dictatorships where
they could pursue the issue of human rights violations and organize
"survival strategies" for victims of harsh austerity programs. These
humanitarian NGOs however, were careful not to denounce the role of US and
European complicity with the local perpetrators of human rights violations
nor did they questions the emerging "free market" policies that impoverished
the masses. Thus the NGOers were strategically placed as "democrats" who
would be available as political replacements for local ruling classes and
imperial policy makers when repressive rulers began to be seriously
challenged by popular mass movements. Western funding of the NGOs as critics
was a kind of buying insurance in case the incumbent reactionaries faltered.
This was the case with the "critical" NGOs that appeared during the Marcos
regime in the Philippines, the Pinochet regime in Chile, the Park
dictatorship in Korea, etc.
The real boost in NGO mushrooming however, occurs in time of rising mass
movements that challenge imperial hegemony. The growth of radical
socio-political movements and struggles provided a lucrative commodity which
ex-radical and pseudo popular intellectuals could sell to interested,
concerned and well-financed private and public foundations closely tied with
European and US multi-nationals and governments. The funders were interested
in information – social science intelligence – like the "propensity for
violence in urban slum areas" (an NGO project in Chile during the mass
uprisings of 1983-86), the capacity of NGOers to raid popular communities
and direct energy toward self-help projects instead of social
transformations and the introduction of a class collaborationist rhetoric
packaged as "new identity discourses" that would discredit and isolate
revolutionary activists.
Popular revolts loosened the purse strings of overseas agencies and millions
poured into Indonesia, Thailand and Peru in the seventies; Nicaragua, Chile,
Philippines in the 80s; El Salvador, Guatemala, Korea in the 90s. The NGOers
were essentially there to "put out the fires." Under the guise of
constructive projects they argued against engaging in ideological movements
thus effectively using foreign funds to recruit local leaders, send them to
overseas conferences to give testimonials, while effectively encouraging
local groups to adapt to the reality of neo-liberalism.
As outside money became available, NGOs proliferated, dividing communities
into warring fiefdoms fighting to get a piece of the action. Each "grass
roots activist" cornered a new segment of the poor (women, young people from
minorities, etc.) to set up a new NGO and take the pilgrimage to Amsterdam,
Stockholm, etc. to "market" their project, activity, constituency and
finance their center – and their careers.
The third circumstance in which NGOs multiplied was during the frequent and
deepening economic crises provoked by free market capitalism.
Intellectuals, academics and professionals saw jobs disappear or salaries
decline as budget cuts took hold: a second job became in necessity. NGOs
became a job placement agency and consultantships became a safety net for
potentially downwardly mobile intellectuals willing to spout the civil
society-free market-alternative development line and carry on the
collaborative policies with neo-liberal regimes and international financial
institutions. When millions are losing their jobs and poverty spreads to
important swaths of the population NGOs engage in preventative
action: they focus on "survival strategies" not general strikes; they
organize soup kitchens not mass demonstrations against food hoarders,
neo-liberal regimes or US imperialism.
While NGOs may have initially had a vaguely "progressive" tincture during
so-called "democratic transitions" when the old order was crumbling, and
corrupt rulers were losing control and popular struggles were advancing.
The NGOs become the vehicle for transactions between old regimes and
conservative electoral politicians. The NGOs used their grass roots
rhetoric, organizational resources and their status as "democratic" human
rights advocates to channel popular support behind politicians and parties
which confined the transition to legal-political reforms not socio-economic
changes. NGOs demobilized the populace and fragmented the movements. In
every country that experienced an "electoral transaction,"
in the 1980s and 90s, from Chile to the Philippines to South Korea and
beyond, the NGOs have played an important role in rounding up votes for
regimes which continued or even deepened the socio-economic status quo. In
exchange, many ex-NGOers ended up running government agencies or even
becoming Ministers with popular sounding titles (women rights, citizen
participation, popular power, etc.).
The reactionary political role of NGOs was built into the very structures
upon which they were (and are) organized.
NGO Structure: Internally Elitist, Externally Servile
In reality NGOs are not "non-governmental" organizations. They receive funds
from overseas governments, work as private sub-contractors of local
governments and/or are subsidized by corporate funded private foundations
with close working relations with the state. Frequently they openly
collaborate with governmental agencies at home or overseas. Their programs
are not accountable to local people but to overseas donors who "review"
and "oversee" the performance of the NGOs according to their criteria and
interests. The NGO officials are self-appointed and one of their key tasks
is designing proposals that will secure funding. In many cases this requires
that NGO leaders find out the issues that most interest the Western funding
elites, and shaping proposals accordingly. Thus in the 1980s NGO funds were
available to study and provide political proposals on "governability" and
"democratic transitions" reflecting the concerns of the imperialist powers
that the fall of dictatorships would not lead to "ungovernability" – namely
mass movements deepening the struggle and transforming the social system.
The NGOs, despite their democratic, grassroots rhetoric are hierarchical –
with the director in total control of projects, hiring and firing, as well
as deciding who gets their way paid to international conferences. The
"grassroots" are essentially the objects of this hierarch; rarely do they
see the money that "their" NGO shovels in; nor do they get to travel abroad;
nor do they draw the salaries or perks of their "grassroots" leaders. More
important none of these decisions are ever voted on. At best after the deals
have been cooked by the Director and the overseas funders, the NGO staff
will call a meeting of "grassroots activists" of the poor to approve the
project. In most cases the NGOs are not even membership organizations but a
self-appointed elite which, under the pretense of being "resource people"
for popular movements, in fact, competes with and undermines them. In this
sense NGOs undermine democracy by taking social programs and public debate
out of the hands of the local people and their elected natural leaders and
creating dependence on nonelected, overseas officials and their anointed
local officials.
NGOs foster a new type of cultural and economic colonialism – under the
guise of a new internationalism. Hundreds of individuals sit in front of
high powered PCs exchanging manifestos, proposals and invitations to
international conferences with each other. They then meet in well furnished
conference halls to discuss the latest struggles and offerings with their
"social base" – the paid staff- who then pass on the proposals to the
"masses" through flyers and "bulletins." When overseas funders show up, they
are taken on "exposure tours" to showcase projects where the poor are
helping themselves and to talk with successful micro-entrepreneurs (omitting
the majority who fail the first year).
The way this new colonialism works is not difficult to decipher. Projects
are designed based on guidelines and priorities of the imperial centers and
their institutions. They are then "sold" to the communities.
Evaluations are done by and for the imperial institutions. Shifts of funding
priorities or bad evaluations result in the dumping of groups, communities,
farmers and cooperatives. Everybody is increasingly disciplined to comply
with the donor's demands and their project evaluators. The NGO directors, as
the new viceroys, supervise and ensure conformity with the goals, values and
ideology of the donors as well as the proper use of funds.
Ideology of NGOs Versus Radical Socio-political Movements
NGOs emphasize projects not movements; they "mobilize" people to produce at
the margins not to struggle to control the basic means of production and
wealth; they focus on the technical financial assistance aspects of projects
not on structural conditions that shape the everyday lives of people. The
NGOs co-opt the language of the Left: "popular power," "
empowerment," "gender equality," "sustainable development," "bottom up
leadership," etc. The problem is that this language is linked to a framework
of collaboration with donors and government agencies that subordinate
activity to non-confrontational politics. The local nature of NGO activity
means "empowerment" never goes beyond influencing small areas of social life
with limited resources within the conditions permitted by the neo-liberal
state and macro-economy.
The NGOs and their professional staff directly compete with the
socio-political movements for influence among the poor, women, racially
excluded, etc. Their ideology and practice diverts attention from the
sources and solutions of poverty (looking downward and inward instead of
upward and outward). To speak of micro-enterprises instead of the
exploitation by the overseas banks, as solutions to poverty is based on the
false notion that the problem is one of individual initiative rather than
the transference of income overseas. The NGOs "aid" affects small sectors of
the population, setting up competition between communities for scarce
resources and generating insidious distinction and inter and intra community
rivalries thus undermining class solidarity. The same is true among the
professionals: each sets up their NGO to solicit overseas funds.
They compete by presenting proposals closer to the liking of the overseas
donors for lower prices, while claiming to speak for more followers. The net
effect is a proliferation of NGOs that fragment poor communities into
sectoral and sub-sectoral groupings unable to see the larger social picture
that afflicts them and even less able to unite in struggle against the
Recent experience also demonstrates that foreign donors finance projects
during "crises" – political and social challenges to the status quo. Once
the movements have ebbed, they shift funding to NGO – regime
"collaboration," fitting the NGO projects into the neo-liberal agenda.
Economic development compatible with the "free market" rather than social
organization for social change becomes the dominant item on the funding
The structure and nature of NGOs with their "apolitical" posture and their
focus on self-help depoliticizes and demobilizes the poor. They reinforce
the electoral processes encouraged by the neo-liberal parties and mass
media. Political education about the nature of imperialism, the class basis
of neo-liberalism, the class struggle between exporters and temporary
workers are avoided. Instead the NGOs discuss "the excluded,"
the "powerless," "extreme poverty," "gender or racial discrimination,"
without moving beyond the superficial symptom, to engage the social system
that produces these conditions. Incorporating the poor into the neo-liberal
economy through purely "private voluntary action" the NGOs create a
political world where the appearance of solidarity and social action cloaks
a conservative conformity with the international and national structure of
It is no coincidence that as NGOs have become dominant in certain regions,
independent class political action has declined, and neo-liberalism goes
uncontested. The bottom line is that the growth of NGOs coincides with
increased funding from neo-liberalism and the deepening of poverty
everywhere. Despite its claims of many local successes, the overall power of
neo-liberalism stands unchallenged and the NGOs increasingly search for
niches in the interstices of power.
The problem of formulating alternatives has been hindered in another way.
Many of the former leaders of guerrilla and social movements, trade union
and popular women's organizations have been co-opted by the NGOs. The offer
is tempting: higher pay (occasionally in hard currency), prestige and
recognition by overseas donors, overseas conferences and networks, office
staff and relative security from repression. In contrast, the
socio-political movements offer few material benefits but greater respect
and independence and more importantly the freedom to challenge the political
and economic system. The NGOs and their overseas banking supporters
(Inter-American Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the World
Bank) publish newsletters featuring success stories of micro-enterprises and
other self-help projects-without mentioning the high rates of failure as
popular consumption declines, low price imports flood the market and as
interest rates spiral – as is the case in Brazil and Indonesia today.
Even the "successes" affect only a small fraction of the total poor and
succeed only to the degree that others cannot enter into the same market.
The propaganda value of individual micro-enterprise success, however is
important in fostering the illusion that neo-liberalism is a popular
phenomenon. The frequent violent mass outbursts that take place in regions
of micro-enterprise promotion suggests that the ideology is not hegemonic
and the NGOs have not yet displaced independent class movements.
NGO ideology depends heavily on essentialist identity politics, engaging in
a rather dishonest polemic with radical movements based on class analysis.
They start from the false assumption that class analysis is "reductionist"
overlooking the extensive debates and discussions within Marxism on issues
of race, ethnicity and gender equality and avoiding the more serious
criticism that identities themselves are clearly and profoundly divided by
class differences. Take for example, the Chilean or Indian feminist living
in a plush suburb drawing a salary 15-20 times that of her domestic servant
who works 6 1/2 days a week. Class differences within gender determine
housing, living standards, health, educational opportunities and who
appropriates who's surplus value. Yet the great majority of NGOs operate on
the basis of identity politics and argue that this is the basic point of
departure for the new (post-modern politics).
Identity politics does not challenge the male dominated elite world of IMF
privatizations, multi-national corporations and local landlords. Rather, it
focuses on "patriarchy" in the household, family violence, divorce, family
planning, etc. In other words, it fights for gender equality within the
micro-world of exploited peoples in which the exploited and impoverished
male worker/peasant emerges as the main villain. While no one should support
gender exploitation or discrimination at any level, the feminist NGOs do a
gross disservice to working women by subordinating them to the greater
exploitation of sweatshops which benefit upper class men and women, rent
collecting male and female landlords and CEOs of both sexes. The reason the
feminist NGOs ignore the "Big Picture" and focus on local issues and
personal politics is because billions of dollars flow annually in that
direction. If feminist NGOs began to engage in land occupations with men and
women landless workers in Brazil or Indonesia or Thailand or the
Philippines, if they joined in general strikes of mainly female low-paid
rural school teachers against structural adjustment policies, the NGO spigot
would get turned off- by their imperial donors.
Better to beat up on the local patriarch scratching out an existence in an
isolated village in Luzon.
Class Solidarity and NGO Solidarity with Foreign Donors
The word "solidarity" has been abused to the point that in many contexts it
has lost meaning. The term "solidarity" for the NGOers includes foreign aid
channeled to any designated "impoverished" group. "Research" or "popular
education" of the poor by professionals is designated as "solidarity." In
many ways the hierarchical structures and the forms of transmission of "aid"
and "training" resemble nineteenth century charity and the promoters are not
very different from Christian missionaries.
The NGOers emphasize "self-help" in attacking the "paternalism and
dependence" of the state. In this competition among NGOs to capture the
victims of neoliberals, the NGOs receive important subsidies from their
counterparts in Europe and the US. The self help ideology emphasizes the
replacement of public employees for volunteers and upwardly mobile
professionals contracted on a temporary basis. The basic philosophy of the
NGO view is to transform "solidarity" into collaboration and subordination
to the macro-economy of neo-liberalism by focusing attention away from state
resources of the wealthy classes toward self-exploitation of the poor. The
poor do not need to be made virtuous by the NGO for what the state obligates
them to do.
The Marxist concept of solidarity in contrast emphasizes class solidarity
within the class, solidarity of oppressed groups (women and people of
color) against their foreign and domestic exploiters. The major focus is not
on the donations that divide classes and pacify small groups for a limited
time period. The focus of Marxist concept of solidarity is on the common
action of the same members of the class sharing their common economic
predicament struggling for collective improvement.
It involves intellectuals who write and speak for the social movements in
struggle, committed to sharing the same political consequences. The concept
of solidarity is linked to "organic" intellectuals who are basically part of
the movement – the resource people providing analysis and education for
class struggle and taking the same political risks in direct action. In
contrast, the NGOers are embedded in the world of institutions, academic
seminars, foreign foundations, international conferences speaking a language
understood only by those "initiated" into the subjectivist cult of
essentialist identities. The Marxists view solidarity as sharing the risks
of the movements, not being outside commentators who raise questions and
defend nothing. For the NGOers the main object is "getting" the foreign
funding for the "project." The main issue, for the Marxist is the process of
political struggle and education in securing social transformation. The
movement was everything the objective was important in raising consciousness
for societal change:
constructing political power to transform the general condition of the great
majority. "Solidarity" for the NGOers is divorced from the general object of
liberation; it is merely a way of bringing people together to attend a job
retraining seminar, to build a latrine. For the Marxists the solidarity of a
collective struggle contains the seeds of the future democratic collectivist
society. The larger vision or its absence is what gives the different
conceptions of solidarity their distinct meaning.
Class Struggle and Co-operation
The NGOers frequently write of "co-operation" of everyone, near and far,
without delving too profoundly on the price and conditions for securing the
co-operation of neo-liberal regimes and overseas funding agencies.
Class struggle is viewed as an atavism to a past that no longer exists.
Today we are told "the poor" are intent on building a new life. They are fed
up with traditional politics, ideologies and politicians. So far, so good.
The problem is that the NGOers are not so forthcoming in describing their
role as mediators and brokers, hustling funds overseas. The concentration of
income and the growth of inequalities are greater than ever, after a decade
of preaching co-operation and micro-enterprises, and self-help. Today the
banks like the World Bank fund the export agro-businesses that exploit and
poison millions of farm laborers while providing funds to finance small
micro-projects. The role of the NGOs in the micro projects is to neutralize
political opposition at the bottom while neo-liberalism is promoted at the
top. The ideology of "co-operation" links the poor through the NGOs to
neo-liberals at the top.
Intellectually the NGOs are the intellectual policemen who define acceptable
research, distribute research funds and filter out topics and perspectives
that project class analysis and struggle perspective.
Marxists are excluded from the conferences and stigmatized as "ideologues"
while NGOs present themselves as "social scientists." The control of
intellectual fashion, publications, conferences, research fund provide the
post-Marxists with an important power base – but on ultimately dependent on
avoiding conflict with their external funding patrons.
Critical Marxist intellectuals have their strength in the fact that their
ideas resonate with the evolving social realities. The polarization of
classes and the violent confrontations are growing, as their theories would
predict. It is from this perspective that the Marxists are tactically weak
and strategically strong vis-a-vis the NGOs.
Alternative NGOs
One could argue that there are a great many different type of NGOs and that
many do criticize and organize against adjustment policies, the IMF, debt
payments, etc. and that its unfair to lump them all in the same bag.
There is a grain of truth in this but this position belies a more
fundamental issue. Most peasant leaders from Asia and Latin America that I
have spoken to complain bitterly of the divisive and elitist role that even
the "progressive" NGOs play: they, the NGOs want to subordinate the peasant
leaders to their organizations, they want to lead and speak "for"
the poor. They do not accept subordinate roles. Progressive NGOs use
peasants and the poor for their research projects, they benefit from the
publication – nothing comes back to the movements not even copies of the
studies done in their name! Moreover, the peasant leaders ask why the NGOs
never risk their neck after their educational seminars? Why do they not
study the rich and powerful why us?
Even conceding that within the "progressive NGOs" there are minorities that
function as "resource" people to radical socio-political movements, the fact
is that the people receive a tiny fraction of the funds that go to the NGO.
Furthermore, the great mass of NGOs fit the description outlined above and
it is up to the few exceptions to prove otherwise: a major step forward for
the "progressive NGOs" is to systematically criticize and critique the ties
of their NGO colleagues with imperialism and its local clients, their
ideology of adaptation to neo-liberalism and their authoritarian and elitist
structures. Then it would be useful for them to tell their western
counterpart NGOs to get out of the foundation – government networks and go
back to organizing and educating their own people in Europe and North
America to form social-political movements that can challenge the dominant
regimes and parties that serve the banks and multi-nationals.
In other words, the NGOs should stop being NGOs and convert themselves into
members of socio-political movements. That is the best way to avoid being
lumped with the tens of thousands of NGOs feeding at the donor's trough.
Conclusion: Notes on a Theory of NGOs
In social structural terms the proliferalism and expansion of NGOs reflects
the emergence of a new petit bourgeois distinct from the "old"
shopkeepers, free professionals as well as the "new" public employee groups.
This subcontracted sector is closer to the earlier "compradore"
bourgeoisie insofar as it produces no tangible commodities, but serves to
link imperial enterprises with local petty commodity producers engaged in
micro-enterprises. This new petty-bourgeois at least its "middle age
variants" is marked by the fact that many are ex-Leftists and bring to bear
a "popular rhetoric" and in some cases an elitist "vanguardist"
conception to their organizations. Situated without property or a fixed
position in the state apparatus it depends heavily on external funding
agencies to reproduce themselves. Given its popular constituency however, it
has to combine an anti-Marxist, anti-statist appeal with populist rhetoric,
hence the concoction of the Third Way and civil society notions which are
sufficiently ambiguous to cover both bases. This new petty bourgeois thrives
on international gatherings as a main prop of its existence, lacking solid
organic support within the country. The "globalist" rhetoric provides a
cover for a kind of ersatz "internationalism" devoid of anti-imperialist
commitments. In a word, this new petit bourgeois forms the "radical wing"
… of the neo-liberal establishment.
Politically the NGOs fit into the new thinking of imperialist strategists.
While the IMF – World Bank and MNCs work the domestic elites at the top to
pillage the economy, the NGOs engage in complementary activity at the bottom
neutralizing and fragmenting the burgeoning discontent resulting from the
savaging of the economy. Just as imperialism engages in a two pronged
macro-micro strategy of exploitation and containment, radical movements must
develop a two prong anti-imperialist strategy.
The mass of NGOs have co-opted most of what used to be the "free floating"
public intellectuals who would abandon their class origins and join the
popular movements. The result is a temporary gap between the profound crises
of capitalism (depressions in Asia and Latin America – collapse in the
ex-USSR) and the absence of significant organized revolutionary movements
(with the exception of Brazil, Colombia and perhaps South Korea). The
fundamental question is whether a new generation of organic intellectuals
can emerge from the burgeoning radical social movements which can avoid the
NGO temptation and become integral members of the next revolutionary wave.
James Petras, Dept. of Sociology, Binghamton University, NY
Publication Information: Article Title: NGOs: In the Service of Imperialism.
Contributors: James Petras – author. Journal Title: Journal of Contemporary
Asia. Volume: 29. Issue: 4. Publication Year: 1999. Page
Number: 429.


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