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ABOVE PHOTO: Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013, announcing a new action to protect voting rights. Emboldened by the Supreme Court decision that struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act, a growing number of Republican-led states are moving aggressively to tighten voting rules. Lawsuits by the Obama administration and voting rights activists say those efforts disproportionately affect minorities.
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The Justice Department will sue the state of North Carolina for alleged racial discrimination over tough new voting rules, the latest effort by the Obama administration to fight back against a Supreme Court decision that struck down the most powerful part of the landmark Voting Rights Act and freed southern states from strict federal oversight of their elections.
North Carolina has a new law scaling back the period for early voting and imposing stringent voter identification requirements. It is among at least five Southern states adopting stricter voter ID and other election laws. The Justice Department on Aug. 22 sued Texas over the state's voter ID law and is seeking to intervene in a lawsuit over redistricting laws in Texas that minority groups consider to be discriminatory.
Republican lawmakers in southern states insist the new measures are needed to prevent voter fraud, though such crimes are infrequent. Democrats and civil rights groups argue the tough new laws are intended to make voting more difficult for minorities and students, voting groups that lean toward Democrats, in states with legacies of poll taxes and literacy tests.
Attorney General Eric Holder announces the lawsuit against North Carolina at a news conference Monday, according to a person who has been briefed on the department's plans but is not authorized to speak publicly about the matter and spoke only on condition of anonymity.
Holder was joined at the news conference by the acting assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's civil rights division, Joceyln Samuels, and the three U.S. attorneys from North Carolina.
In the North Carolina lawsuit, the government will challenge requirements in state law that eliminate the first seven days of early voting opportunities and eliminate same-day voter registration during the early voting period. Same-day registration allows voters to cast a ballot immediately after presenting elections officials with proof of their name and home address.
The Justice Department challenge also is aimed at a provision eliminating the counting of certain types of provisional ballots by voters who cast ballots in their home counties but do not vote in the correct precincts.
Finally, the federal government will challenge a provision in the new law that requires voters to present government-issued identification at the polls in order to cast ballots. In North Carolina, a recent state board of elections survey found that hundreds of thousands of registered voters did not have a state-issued ID. Many of those voters are young, black, poor or elderly.
In remarks Sept. 20 to the Congressional Black Caucus, Holder said the Justice Department will not allow the Supreme Court's action to be interpreted as "open season" for states to pursue measures that suppress voting rights.
The Justice Department will ask a federal judge to place the four provisions in North Carolina's new law under federal scrutiny for an indeterminate period — a process known as pre-clearance. However, the provision of the Voting Rights Act that the Justice Department is invoking may be a difficult tool for the Obama administration to use.
A handful of jurisdictions have been subjected to pre-clearance, or advance approval, of election changes through the Civil Rights Act provision it is relying on, but a court first must find that a state or local government engaged in intentional discrimination under the Constitution's 14th or 15th amendments, or the jurisdiction has to admit to discrimination. Unlike other parts of the voting law, the discriminatory effect of an action is not enough to trigger court review.
Nowhere is the debate over voting rights is more heated than in Florida, where the chaotic recount in the disputed 2000 presidential race took place.
Florida election officials are set to resume an effort to remove noncitizens from the state's voting rolls. A purge last year ended in embarrassment after hundreds of American citizens, most of whom were black or Hispanic, were asked to prove their citizenship or risk losing their right to vote.


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But his portrayal of criminal Tony Soprano in HBO's landmark drama series "The Sopranos" was just one facet of an actor who created a rich legacy of film and stage work in a life cut short.
Gandolfini, 51, who died Wednesday while vacationing in Rome, refused to be bound by his star-making role in the HBO series that brought him three Emmy Awards during its six-season run.
"He was a genius," said "Sopranos" creator David Chase. "Anyone who saw him even in the smallest of his performances knows that. He is one of the greatest actors of this or any time. A great deal of that genius resided in those sad eyes."
Dr. Claudio Modini, head of the emergency room at the Policlinic Umberto I hospital in Rome, said Gandolfini suffered a cardiac arrest. He arrived at the hospital at 10:40 p.m. (2040 GMT, 4:40 p.m. EDT) Wednesday and was pronounced dead at 11 p.m. after resuscitation efforts in the ambulance and hospital failed, Modini said.
Modini told The Associated Press that an autopsy would be performed starting 24 hours after the death, as required by law.
The U.S. Embassy in Rome, which said it had learned about the death from the media, said it would be available to provide a death certificate and help prepare the body for return to the United States. The Embassy said it can often take between four and seven days to arrange shipment outside of Italy.
Michael Kobold, a family friend, told reporters in Rome that Gandolfini experienced a "medical emergency" in his room at Rome's Exedra hotel at around 10 p.m. Wednesday. He said a family member discovered Gandolfini, but he declined to say whom.
Organizers of the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily were scrambling to put together a tribute to Gandolfini, who had been expected to attend the festival's closing ceremony this weekend and receive an award. Organizers Mario Sesti and Tiziana Rocca said Gandolfini will instead be honored with a tribute "remembering his career and talent."
Sesti and Rocca said they had spoken to Gandolfini hours before his death "and he was very happy to receive this prize and be able to travel to Italy."
Edie Falco, who played Tony Soprano's wife Carmela on "The Sopranos," remembered him as a "man of tremendous depth and sensitivity."
"I am shocked and devastated by Jim's passing," she said in a statement. "I consider myself very lucky to have spent 10 years as his close colleague. My heart goes out to his family. As those of us in his pretend one hold on to the memories of our intense and beautiful time together. The love between Tony and Carmela was one of the greatest I've ever known."
Joe Gannascoli, who played Vito Spatafore on the drama series, said he was shocked and heartbroken.
"Fifty-one and leaves a kid - he was newly married. His son is fatherless now. ... It's way too young," Gannascoli said.
Gandolfini and his wife, Deborah, who were married in 2008, have a daughter, Liliana, born last year, HBO said. The actor and his former wife, Marcy, have a teenage son, Michael.
Gandolfini's performance in "The Sopranos" was his ticket to fame, but he evaded being stereotyped as a mobster after the drama's breathtaking blackout ending in 2007. In a December 2012 interview with The Associated Press, he was upbeat about the work he was getting post-Tony Soprano.
"I'm much more comfortable doing smaller things," Gandolfini said then. "I like them. I like the way they're shot; they're shot quickly. It's all about the scripts - that's what it is - and I'm getting some interesting little scripts."
He played Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden hunt docudrama "Zero Dark Thirty." He worked with Chase for the '60s period drama "Not Fade Away," in which he played the old-school father of a wannabe rocker. And in Andrew Dominick's crime flick "Killing Them Softly," he played an aged, washed-up hit man.
On Broadway, he garnered a best-actor Tony Award nomination for 2009's "God of Carnage."
Deploying his unsought clout as a star, Gandolfini produced a pair of documentaries for HBO focused on a cause he held dear: veterans affairs.
He was mourned online in a flood of celebrity comments. "The great James Gandolfini passed away today. Only 51. I can't believe it," Bette Midler posted on her Twitter account.
"An extraordinary actor. RIP, Mr. Gandolfini," Robin Williams tweeted.
His final projects included the film "Animal Rescue," directed by Michael R. Roskam and written by Dennis Lehane, which has been shot and is expected to be released next year. He also had agreed to star in a seven-part limited series for HBO, "Criminal Justice," based on a BBC show. He had shot a pilot for an early iteration of the project.
While Tony Soprano was a larger-than-life figure, Gandolfini was exceptionally modest and obsessive - he described himself as "a 260-pound Woody Allen."
In past interviews, his cast mates had far more glowing descriptions to offer.
"I had the greatest sparring partner in the world, I had Muhammad Ali," said Lorraine Bracco, who, as Tony's psychiatrist Dr. Melfi, went one-on-one with Gandolfini in their penetrating therapy scenes. "He cares what he does, and does it extremely well."
Gandolfini grew up in Park Ridge in New Jersey, the son of a building maintenance chief at a Catholic school and a high school lunch lady.
After earning a degree in communications from Rutgers University, Gandolfini moved to New York, where he worked as a bartender, bouncer and nightclub manager. When he was 25, he joined a friend of a friend in an acting class.
Gandolfini's first big break was a Broadway production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" where he played Steve, one of Stanley Kowalski's poker buddies. His film debut was in Sidney Lumet's "A Stranger Among Us" (1992).
Director Tony Scott had praised Gandolfini's talent for fusing violence with charisma - which he would perfect in Tony Soprano.
Gandolfini played a tough guy in Scott's 1993 film "True Romance," who beat Patricia Arquette's character to a pulp while offering such jarring, flirtatious banter as, "You got a lot of heart, kid."
Scott called Gandolfini "a unique combination of charming and dangerous."
In his early career, Gandolfini had supporting roles in "Crimson Tide" (1995), "Get Shorty" (1995), "The Juror" (1996), Lumet's "Night Falls on Manhattan" (1997), "She's So Lovely" (1997), "Fallen" (1998) and "A Civil Action" (1998). But it was "True Romance" that piqued the interest of Chase.
In his 2012 AP interview, Gandolfini said he gravitated to acting as a release, a way to get rid of anger. "I don't know what exactly I was angry about," he said.
"I try to avoid certain things and certain kinds of violence at this point," he said last year. "I'm getting older, too. I don't want to be beating people up as much. I don't want to be beating women up and those kinds of things that much anymore."

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Installing Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy as guest
From Linux-VServer
Installing Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) as a Vserver guest
As Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) is the latest LTS release of Ubuntu, it would be a good choice to install as a server. A lot of this information is from the OpenVZ guide at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenVZ.
This guide requires that you have configured your /etc/vservers/.default correctly
- debootstrap
[Vserver-host] $ sudo apt-get install debootstrap
Debootstraping in Ubuntu
[Vserver-host] $ vserver hardy-guest build -m debootstrap \ --context 42 --hostname hardy-guest --force \ --interface eth0:10.0.0.123/8 \ -- -d hardy -m http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ \ -- --arch=i386 --exclude=udev
You will receive the following warning 5 times (obviously):
W: Failure while configuring base packages. This will be attempted 5 times.
You can safely ignore them, as we will fix this later
Removing unneeded services
By default klogd and rmnologin runs at startup of the guest, it is not necessary, and will slow down the startup time of your guest, you better remove them
[Vserver-host] $ cd /[path_of_vservers]/hardy-guest/etc/rc3.d [Vserver-host] $ rm S11klogd S99rmnologin
You should also remove unneeded shutdown scripts
[Vserver-host] $ cd /[path_of_vservers]/hardy-guest/etc/rc6.d [Vserver-host] $ rm *
You should add a link for killing sysklogd
[Vserver-host] $ ln -s ../init.d/sysklogd K11sysklogd
Starting guest and fixing group 11 issue
Now it is time to start your new vserver and enter it:
[Vserver-host] $ vserver hardy-guest start
It will return the following:
/etc/init.d/rc: 166: cannot open /dev/console: No such file * Starting system log daemon... ...done. * Running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local) ...done.
Then you can enter your vserver
[Vserver-host] $ vserver hardy-guest enter
It will return the following:
id: cannot find name for group ID 11
Fixing the "/etc/init.d/rc: 166: cannot open /dev/console: No such file" issue
Open /etc/init.d/rc in your favorite editor
root@hardy-guest:/# vim /etc/init.d/rc
Find the following lines and comment them out by perpending them with an "#" (this has been done in the example) They will be at line 163-166
# Set onlcr to avoid staircase effect. #if [ "$QUIET" != yes ]; then # stty onlcr </dev/console >/dev/console 2>&1 #fi
Save and quit
Fixing the "id: cannot find name for group ID 11" issue
I don't know what the group really shoud be, but I just added the group "void" as group 11. Someone who knows what it should be, could probably correct it.
root@hardy-guest:/# groupadd -g 11 void
Removing unneeded packages
There are some packages you obviously would not need in a vserver-guest:
- busybox-initramfs
- console-setup
- dmidecode eject
- ethtool
- initramfs-tools
- klibc-utils
- laptop-detect
- libiw29
- libklibc
- libvolume-id0
- mii-diag
- module-init-tools
- ntpdate
- pciutils
- pcmciautils
- ubuntu-minimal
- udev usbutils
- wireless-tools
- wpasupplicant
- xkb-data
- tasksel
- tasksel-data
So you should start up your new guest and enter it and remove them.
[hardy-guest] $ apt-get remove --purge busybox-initramfs console-setup dmidecode eject \ ethtool initramfs-tools klibc-utils laptop-detect libiw29 libklibc \ libvolume-id0 mii-diag module-init-tools ntpdate pciutils pcmciautils ubuntu-minimal \ udev usbutils wireless-tools wpasupplicant xkb-data tasksel tasksel-data \ dhcp3-client dhcp3-server
Now you have installed hardy from debootstrap, and hopefully everything is working
Remember that you will have to create symlinks to services in /etc/rc6.d in order for them to be stopped when running 'vserver [vservername] stop'


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The Surprising Perfect Kitchen for Holiday Entertaining
Does it bother you that when you Google "perfect kitchen for entertaining," the first few pages of search results yield what is known as "aspirational" articles? Most of us don't have the bread to do full kitchen remodels to achieve such built-in entertaining features as butler pantries, large islands, and double apron sinks. The money to hire a remodeling contractor is either just not there, or we rent and can't remodel, right? But the holidays happen anyway, and we entertain anyway. Somehow, the food is great, the company is effervescent, and the drinks stay cold.
If you are not in possession of that "perfect kitchen for entertaining," I have a few ideas for you. The big surprise: Your kitchen, in whatever condition it is in, is the perfect kitchen for entertaining. Ready to feel good about yourself? OK, here we go:
1. Accept the fact that no matter how small your kitchen is, people will congregate in it. Have you ever been to a house party where everyone actually hung out in the living room? No, I haven't either. Why? The beer is always in the kitchen. The only way to keep people out of the kitchen is to put the beer, water, and all other liquids in another room. If that means that you need to buy a metal tub to store you're the drinks in, then do it. An insulated stainless steel beverage tub will serve you well for years, but you could also just grab a clean plastic garbage can and fill it with ice. The garbage can is a bit collegiate, but I am sure you can find a way, with all of your DIY décor skills, to class it up. Mod Podge and decoupage the garbage can maybe? We published a cool article on how to faux finish a plastic flower planter, and the directions could be easily applied to any type of plastic beverage storage solution.
2. Get the heck out of the kitchen. Your guests came to spend time with you. Most people are not so as base as to only show up to a party for the chips and dips. If you, the host, are in the kitchen, your guests will be there, too. In an ideal world, we'd all have big open floor plan kitchens where guests could just hang out while we cook. But it's so not like that. My kitchen is so narrow that only one person can pass through it at a time, unless you turn sideways and scoot through. If this means that you serve mostly cold food to avoid being stuck in the kitchen, then so be it. Cucina Fresca is a cookbook that has kept me out of the kitchen when I am entertaining. By Evan Kleiman and Viana La Place, the authors of Cucina Rustica and Pasta Fresca, it is a book of rustic, simple, and absolutely amazing Italian recipes that are meant to be served cold or at room temperature. Every single recipe that I have prepared from Cucina Fresca has been clean-tasting and popping with Italian goodness. Nobody misses the hot appetizers when there is fresh antipasto on the buffet.
3. Make a dish station. So you don't have an extra-deep apron sink and a custom dishwasher with a separate drawer for glassware. Too bad. My heart goes out to you. Just kidding. I don't have one either. I actually have one shallow, tiny sink in my kitchen, but I still cook dinner for 20. Piling the dishes up in the middle of a party lends itself to grossness and crusty food all over the place. I actually put a big Rubbermaid bin on the floor next to the sink and pile the dirty dishes in it to keep them off the counters. Then I fill the Rubbermaid bin with the dishes in it with soap and water, to give it all a nice pre-soak. See? Your kitchen is perfect for entertaining just the way it is. You don't have to have a place on Miami Beach with a brand spankin' new sink installed by a Miami plumber. It would be nice, but let's stick to working with what we have.
4. Stock your buffet table with paper goods, and position a few garbage cans around the living/dining room. People end up in the kitchen looking for stuff or to throw things into the garbage. They need a napkin or a paper towel. They got brie on their hands and need a sink. They can't find a fork; the dip spoon fell on the floor. Place a massive cornucopia of napkins, flatware, guest towels, and even wet wipes on the buffet. Make sure that there are several obvious garbage cans around the room. That should keep people out of the kitchen.
Seriously, happy holidays. I know that it would be nice to have a "perfect kitchen for entertaining," with all the fancy built-ins. But honestly, you know that you can get away with less, and that less is good enough for most people as long as the hostess is happy and the house is warm.
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DORAL, Fla. >> Tiger Woods is hitting his stride on a march to the Masters.
Woods had full control of his game Sunday and never let anyone get closer than three shots until he had locked up his 17th World Golf Championship title. With a conservative bogey that didn't matter on the final hole, he closed with a 1-under 71 to win the Cadillac Championship.
For the first time in five years, Woods has two wins before the Masters.
It was one year ago at Doral that Woods withdrew after 11 holes in the final round because of tightness in his left Achilles tendon, creating uncertainty about his health and whether he could ever get his game back.
False alarm.
Woods has won five times in the last year, the most of anyone in the world, and he can return to No. 1 with a win at Bay Hill in two weeks.
He won by two shots over Steve Stricker, who might want to claim a share of this trophy.
Stricker spent 45 minutes on the putting green with Woods on the eve of the tournament, helping him with his posture over putts. Woods made 27 birdies this week, one short of his personal best on the PGA Tour.
"Thank you to Steve for the putting lesson," Woods said at the trophy presentation. "It was one of those weeks where I felt pretty good about how I was playing, made a few putts and got it rolling."
Stricker, playing a part-time schedule, picked up his second runner-up finish in just three starts. He closed with a 68, and had no regrets about offering Woods some help.
"At times you kick yourself," Stricker said with a laugh. "He's a good friend. We talk a lot about putting. It's good to see him playing well."
The Masters is a month away, and Woods is sure to be the favorite.
Rory McIlroy, the No. 1 player in the world, showed signs of recovering from his rough start to the season. He had a 65 and tied for eighth.
Woods won in January at Torrey Pines by four shots. He won for the fourth time at Doral, making this the seventh golf course where he has won at least four times.
Graeme McDowell, who started the final round four shots behind, made a birdie on the opening hole, but never got any closer. McDowell had third place to himself until he went for the green on the 18th hole and found the water. He made double bogey, shot 72 and fell into a four-way tie for third that cost him $172,500.
Phil Mickelson (71), Sergio Garcia (69) and Adam Scott (64) also tied for third.
Woods improved to 40-2 on the PGA Tour when he had the outright lead going into the final round, the last two wins with McDowell at his side. Woods last won while ahead at Bay Hill a year ago.
"The way Tiger was playing, I was always in chase mode," McDowell said. "He was always going to be a tough guy to catch. Fair play to him. He played fantastic golf the last couple of days."
Woods finished minus 19 at 269 and earned $1.5 million in winning this World Golf Championship for the seventh time.
McIlroy's week ended on a happy note.
Not only did he finish the tournament, he might have turned the corner with a bogey-free 65. McIlroy opened with a 7-iron into 18 feet for eagle, which he called one of the best shots he hit. He shot a 32 on the back nine for a round that surprised him considering how far away he felt when he arrived at Doral.
"Just goes to show, it's not as far away as you think," McIlroy said. "That's been one of my problems. I always think when I'm playing bad that it's further away than it is. That's just where I have to stay patient … and know that if I put in the hard work, that the results will bear fruit. Whether that's sooner or later, it doesn't really matter."
McIlroy said he won't add a tournament the next two weeks, returning at the Houston Open before going to the Masters. He is signed up for the member-guest a week from Monday at The Medalist Club, presumably as the guest of former NBA great Michael Jordan.
"He's asked me, so depending on what my schedule is and where I have to be … we'll see," he said.
Scott had the low round of the tournament with eight birdies in his round of 64.
That's what McDowell, Mickelson and Stricker would have needed to have any chance of catching Woods. As he did early in third round, McDowell gave it his best shot, only to have Woods answer on every occasion.
McDowell two-putted for birdie on the par-5 opening hole as Woods blasted a shot from a buried lie at the back of the green well past the pin and off the green. He had to chip close just to save par. McDowell hit his approach on the second hole to 7 feet and looked as if he might pick up another shot.
In what might have been the most significant putt Woods made, he buried an 18-footer for birdie.
That's how it went all weekend. Woods never gave anyone a chance, and he didn't give anyone much hope. His lead was back to four shots, he hit an 8-iron to 4 feet on the par-3 fourth hole, and no one seriously challenged him the rest of the way.
Mickelson hit a 200-yard shot into the breeze and over the water to a foot for a tap-in birdie on the par-5 eighth to get within four shots with 10 holes to play. He missed far too many short putts, however, making bogey on the ninth and 11th holes to fall too far back to matter.
That allowed another easy walk up the 18th hole for Woods to collect another WGC title, another seven-figure check, and offer another reminder that he is closer than ever to getting back to the top of golf.
Woods now has won over $24 million in the WGCs alone since the series began in 1999, winning 43 percent of the tournaments. This was his 76th career win on tour, leaving him six short of the record 82 wins by Sam Snead.


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HOMOSEXUALS, THE : The Homosexuals CD
The Homosexuals appeared, stunned everyone who heard them and then disappeared. Between 1978 and 1982 they released 2 singles and a 12" EP. The three of them individually, under various names, also released a stack of other material, but as The Homosexuals they, curiously, left a whole archive of unreleased material lying around on tape with no idea of releasing it. When everyone had moved on, I was given all the masters and a invitation - if I was really still interested, to get on with it. For them it was already ancient history. I thought then, and think now, that this trio produced far and away the best this genre ever achieved; to the point that it transcends the genre even as it epitomises it. This music is just perfect: endlessly inventive, frighteningly memorable, brilliantly arranged - and is performed with throwaway genius as if tomorrow had been cancelled. What is it? Post Punk, sort of, except with too many chords, too much turned around rhythm - where a horror of droning on meets a mass of inspired detail and still results in a pellucid simplicity. Great texts, three unique singing voices, absurdity, criminal talent and a lot of blackness, in every sense. OK, so some of the recording quality was a bit lo-fi, but these were songs thrown off like sweat - and in the hurry some of the most radical mixing I ever heard from the period got fixed onto these recordings. Recommended released The Homosexuals LP in1984, gleaned from the surviving tapes, nearly all of which derived from one intense period of work. For this overdue CD reissue I went through all the surviving material again -there are 5 extra tracks, and they are not B sides - and then we re-mastered everything again to the highest possible current standard - without compromising the music. This is gold dust.
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An indoor climbing meet ended in a tie between Episcopal and the North Quaker Lane boarding school's perennial rival, Woodberry Forest, a little more than a week ago.
During Episcopal's third competition of the season, hosted by National Cathedral School, the Maroon went point for point with the Tigers, eventually settling for a 71-71 tie. Ted Ballenger, fast off an impressive showing at an Earthtreks event in Rockville, led his teammates with a 20-point performance.
Event organizers say the low scoring was a result of National Cathedral's climbing wall, designed as a close imitation to the real thing, forcing the athletes to rely on cracks and contours to move upward.
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Eugenical Sterilization in the United States is a 1922 book in which author Harry H. Laughlin argues for the necessity of compulsory sterilization in the United States based on the principles of eugenics. The eugenics movement of the early twentieth century in the US focused on altering the genetic makeup of the US population by regulating immigration and sterilization, and by discouraging interracial procreation, then called miscegenation.
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At Asia Times Online, Brian McCartan reports that on April 3 Aung San Suu Kyi's
… National League for Democracy (NLD) had won 43 of the 44 seats it contested, including [Suu Kyi's] constituency. … The result was a clear defeat for the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), and. … sent the signal that the NLD will be a force to reckon with in the 2015 general elections.
However "Thein Sein and his reform-minded allies can afford to allow Suu Kyi and the NLD the victory. The 43 seats won by the NLD amount to less than 7% of the 644 seats in parliament." His "reformist credentials have been further burnished through the legitimization provided by Suu Kyi and the NLD's participation in the polls. The real prize is the elections due in 2015, when the NLD will be able to challenge the USDP for control of parliament. … The military and the government are surely aware of their own unpopularity. They know that to win the 2015 elections they will either have to resort to vote-rigging and intimidation, which would draw the ire of the international community, or find a way to undermine support for the NLD. The alternative is to resort to military power, through a coup or other intervention in the name of national security, to secure their hold on executive and legislative power.
Or Thein Sein could take a kinder, gentler (or less ruthless) approach:
… co-opt Suu Kyi and the NLD without giving them significant powers. There has been speculation that Suu Kyi may be offered a cabinet position, though she has said that she will decline any such offer. Even if rejected, the offer will still make the former generals appear reformist.
As for another sticking point for the Thein Sein government, McCartan writes:
Successful peace deals with ethnic insurgents negotiated with government representatives would also go some way to gaining the support of ethnic minority voters in 2015. At the least, the deals would see former insurgent groups transform into mainstream ethnic-based political parties, which could dilute the vote for the NLD in ethnic areas.
Still, of course …
… Suu Kyi said that her party's priorities after the election would be to push for peace in ethnic minority areas. … poverty alleviation through job creation and improving education and public health services.
In fact …
Thein Sein's government has already gone some way on the first point by starting a peace process with most of the armed ethnic movements.
David Tharckabaw, vice president of the Karen National Union (KNUS), reports on the government's groundbreaking meeting with the KNU as representatives of the long-oppressed and brutal Karen ethnic group by the Thai border, who have been engaged in the world's longest-running insurgency since 1998. From his April 7 press release:
…7 members of the KNU Delegation, led by … General Secretary Naw Zipporah Sein, left for [Burma's capital cigty] Naypyidaw … on April 7, to meet with President U Thein Sein.
…The following 6 points were focused on in discussions at the meeting.
1. To establish … ceasefire especially in the ethnic nationality regions.
2. To guarantee life security and freedom from fear of the people.
3. To establish a state among the people to acquire confidence.
4. To stop the practice of forced labor and cash collection by various means, including demand of cash as donation and by other means.
5. To release political prisoners and resolve rehabilitation and land problems of the people.
6. To start arrangement for monitoring, analyzing and rectifying the peace process.
Agreement was reached at the meeting regarding the code of conduct for ceasefire [with] a monitoring team
Still, Tharckabaw is understandably suspicious.
The KNU delegation was taken to Nay Pyi Daw to meet with U Thein Sein. Going there was not on the agenda. The regime is openly and cunningly using the delegation for its own benefit.
Why the objection to meeting in the capital? It's Thein Sein's turf. Tharckabaw:
All the talks should have been in neutral venue up to the stage of achieving a durable ceasefire. Some defeatists and self-seeking opportunists among us are manipulating the agenda with the help of Egress [a Burmese civil society group], the peace brokers for business, to please their German masters.
As should be apparent from point number one, Tharckabaw and the KNU are also concerned with their brethren, the other ethnic minorities. He writes:
The next development should be ceasefire in Kachin State. Without ceasefire in Kachin State, it would be difficult for us to continue building trust with the regime.
At ATimes, McCartan points out further cause for suspicion.
… already questions are being raised about the government's most visible reformist move, the suspension of work on the Myitsone dam in Kachin State. There are growing indications that the Chinese company responsible for constructing the dam, China Power International, has quietly resumed work on the project following talks between the Myanmar and Chinese governments in early March.
The dam is controversial because of its environmental impact. Not to mention that the power is flowing from congenitally power-starved Burma to china. As if that would slip under the radar of the minorities and Suu Kyi, as well as the rest of Burma.