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Special Exhibitions Archives - America's Black Holocaust Museum Bringing Our History To Light Sun, 20 Sep 2026 02:51:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Picturing Black History in Milwaukee & Beyond Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:38:43 +0000 Explore how photographs shape our understanding of Black history in this virtual gallery created by ABHM staff and interns. Featuring powerful images from three digital archives documenting Black life in Milwaukee and beyond, the gallery invites visitors to look closer, think critically, and discover the stories photographs continue to tell. The post Picturing Black History in Milwaukee & Beyond appeared first on America's Black Holocaust Museum. ]]> Picturing Black History in Milwaukee & Beyond Introduction by Scholar-Griot: Mia Phifer Editor: Dr. Robert S. Smith Introduction   ABHM staff and interns created this gallery to complement the work of Daniela Edmeier, Damarius Johnson, Nicholas B. Breyfogle, and Steven Conn on Picturing Black History: Photographs and Stories that Changed the World. Their main ambition with this book was to “both uncover and better contextualize Black history in photographs.” Like the editors, our goal with these virtual exhibits is to highlight three digital archives that house photographs of Black history (in Milwaukee and beyond), while also analyzing select photos from each archive. We aim to demonstrate how these photographs contribute to our understanding of Black history. We encourage you to explore the archives on your own using the historical context provided here and the tools we provide for analyzing historical photographs.   Book cover for Picturing Black History: Photographs and Stories that Changed the World Exhibits Photographs from WHS Freedom Summer Archive This selection of photographs from the Wisconsin Historical Society’s Freedom Summer Archive documents the grassroots activism and local organizing that defined Mississippi’s 1964 Freedom Summer. Preserved through the foresight of WHS archivists and civil rights participants, these images have informed national and traveling exhibits, including Risking Everything, and support ABHM’s ongoing work connecting Southern civil rights struggles to activism in Milwaukee and beyond. Photographs from UWM March on Milwaukee Archive This selection of photographs from the March on Milwaukee archive documents the city’s pivotal fair housing movement of the 1960s, when activists challenged segregation through sustained protest and direct action. Together, these images capture Milwaukee’s vital role in the national struggle for civil rights and the passage of federal fair housing legislation. Photographs from Dynamic Range Dynamic Range presents a powerful selection of photographs by Milwaukee photographer Bill Tennessen, curated by ABHM staff and interns in collaboration with the Haggerty Museum of Art. Drawn from a larger exhibition documenting Milwaukee’s Black community from the 1980s through the early 2000s, these images capture moments of cultural life, civic struggle, and everyday experience. Together, the photographs offer a lasting visual record of the city’s Black history and its enduring impact. Educator Resource & Gallery Sources This page features an educator lesson plan on social movements and visual history, along with the primary sources and exhibits that shape the scholarship behind Picturing Black History in Milwaukee and Beyond. The post Picturing Black History in Milwaukee & Beyond appeared first on America's Black Holocaust Museum. ]]> Risking Everything: The Fight for Black Voting Rights /galleries/special-exhibits/risking-everything-gallery/ Thu, 03 Oct 2024 23:33:11 +0000 /?page_id=24970 This gallery explores the history of the struggle for Black voting rights, culminating in Freedom Summer of 1964. It details the key events of Freedom Summer, including the battle for voting rights, the establishment of Freedom Schools, and the formation of a new political party in Mississippi. Additionally, it connects this fight for voting rights to Milwaukee and Wisconsin, home to America’s Black Holocaust Museum (ABHM) and the Wisconsin Black Historical Society & Museum (WBHSM). The exhibit concludes with a discussion on the ongoing fight for voting rights today, highlighting its roots in this inspiring historical journey. The post Risking Everything: The Fight for Black Voting Rights appeared first on America's Black Holocaust Museum. ]]> Risking Everything: The Fight for Black Voting Rights Introduction by Scholar-Griot: Mia Phifer Editor: Dr. Robert S. Smith Introduction   When we think of the Civil Rights era, it is easy to recall the names and events made famous in our history books. What is undertold, however, are the stories of the thousands of regular, local citizens who risked their lives and livelihoods to fight for basic human rights in this country, including the right to vote. This gallery revisits the history of fight for Black voting rights, leading up to Freedom Summer of 1964; details the events of Freedom Summer, including the fight for voting rights, as well as creation of Freedom Schools and a new political party in Mississippi; connects the fight for voting rights to Milwaukee and Wisconsin, where America’s Black Holocaust Museum (ABHM) and the Wisconsin Black Historical Society & Museum (WBHSM) are located; and it concludes with a discussion of the fight for voting rights today, which is connected to this long and inspiring history. For sources, this exhibit relies heavily on the archival research of Michael Edmonds, who utilized the impressive collection at the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS) for his own research. This collection is one of the most exhaustive in the country documenting the grassroots efforts and local events of the Civil Rights Movement. We have these records thanks to a handful of students working at WHS in the late 1960s who risked their own lives to head down South and collect the stories of hundreds of volunteers, “local people who changed their own destiny.”1   In this gallery, you will learn about: movements that were integral in securing the right for Black people to vote. the importance of racial reconciliation and healing, as shown through the interracial cooperation of these movements. the importance of chronicling history as it is happening, and why the work of institutions like WHS, ABHM, and WBHSM is necessary. and that these movements were primarily led and staffed by high school and college students.   We want young people in particular to see themselves in this history. It is important that young people are active in preserving and continue to fight for the right to vote locally, as the fight does, indeed, continue.   1Wisconsin Magazine of History:  Volume 97, number 4, summer 2014, page 4: This virtual exhibit is a collaborative effort between staff of America’s Black Holocaust Museum, the Wisconsin Black Historical Society & Museum, the Milwaukee County Historical Society, and the Wisconsin Historical Society. It coincided with the Freedom Summer exhibit that was on display at ABHM in the fall of 2024, the screening of the PBS’ Freedom Summer documentary, the ABHM Book Club, and with Museum Voter Registration Week(s). A young man at a nighttime rally (perhaps at a demonstration during the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City) in support of the MFDP. Behind him people carry placards with portraits of James Earl Chaney and Andrew Goodman, two of the three civil rights volunteers who were murdered during Freedom Summer of 1964. Wisconsin Historical Society. Teachers at the Freedom School convention during Freedom Summer. The woman in the center is Liz Fusco, one of the coordinators of the Freedom School project. Wisconsin Historical Society. Freedom Summer - American Experience , PBS Play Video Exhibits Voting Rights Post Emancipation and During Jim Crow After the Civil War, Congress initiated Reconstruction (1865-1877), a period marked by Black Americans striving for full citizenship, including the right to vote. Over 1,500 Black men held public office during this time. However, the 15th Amendment did not grant voting rights to women, though Black women played vital roles in advocating for suffrage and equality. As Black political participation grew, so did violent backlash from white supremacists, leading to Jim Crow laws that severely restricted voting rights, ultimately fueling the Civil Rights movement. Voting Rights in Wisconsin and the Impact of Freedom Schools in Milwaukee In 1835, Milwaukee held its first election, allowing Joe Oliver, a Black cook, to vote despite lacking legal rights. This unique situation marked an early inclusion of Black voices. Although a 1849 referendum granted voting rights to Black men, it wasn’t enforced until 1865 when Ezekiel Gillespie’s lawsuit led to a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling affirming their right to vote. This struggle for suffrage laid the groundwork for later civil rights movements, including the establishment of Freedom Schools in both Mississippi and Milwaukee. More Information, Sources and Contributors Sources and additional information for the exhibits in the gallery, “Risking Everything: The Fight for Black Voting Rights,” can be found here. Freedom Summer Music During Freedom Summer, protest songs played a vital role in energizing activists at mass meetings, Freedom Schools, and marches for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. These songs united people spiritually amid the threats of violence. They reflect the activists’ anxieties and determination to achieve their goals. Today, these powerful anthems continue to inspire and motivate those fighting for justice, echoing the spirit of the movement. Freedom Summer  Despite the federal mandate for desegregation after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, many Southern local governments resisted compliance, perpetuating racial segregation and disenfranchisement. In the summer of 1964, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) led a significant voter registration drive in Mississippi, supported by various civil rights organizations. This effort also established Freedom Schools and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), which aimed to challenge the all-white delegation at the Democratic National Convention, laying the groundwork for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Fight For Voting Rights Today  Progress in voting rights has been hard-won, thanks to the dedication of civil rights volunteers, especially in Mississippi. Their sacrifices led to increased voter engagement and a rise in Black elected officials over the last 60 years. Notable figures include Barack Obama, Shirley Chisholm, and Vel Phillips, who have paved the way for future generations. While significant strides have been made, challenges remain, underscoring the need for ongoing efforts to protect voting rights and ensure accessibility for all. The post Risking Everything: The Fight for Black Voting Rights appeared first on America's Black Holocaust Museum. ]]> Echoes of Equality: Art Inspired by Memphis and Maya /galleries/special-exhibits/echoes-of-equality/ Thu, 23 May 2024 21:27:52 +0000 /?page_id=24235 Witness profound storytelling through art, where history, resilience, and societal change intertwine to create masterpieces provoking thought and inspiring dialogue. Discover the rich narratives within each artwork, from Ruby Bridges' courage to Dr. King's influential power and Maya Angelou's resilience, along with commentary on segregation in Milwaukee. The post Echoes of Equality: Art Inspired by Memphis and Maya appeared first on America's Black Holocaust Museum. ]]> Echoes of Equality: Art Inspired by Memphis and Maya


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Apache Cassandra Archives - A Bias For Action Musings of a developer Sun, 19 Jun 2022 22:19:50 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 CAP Theorem #respond Mon, 28 Aug 2017 05:15:39 +0000 The CAP theorem is a tool used to makes system designers aware of trade-offs while designing networked shared-data systems. CAP has influenced the design of many distributed data systems. It made designers aware of a wide range of tradeoff to consider while designing distributed data systems. Over the year the CAP theorem has been widely […] The post CAP Theorem appeared first on A Bias For Action. ]]> The CAP theorem is a tool used to makes system designers aware of trade-offs while designing networked shared-data systems. CAP has influenced the design of many distributed data systems. It made designers aware of a wide range of tradeoff to consider while designing distributed data systems. Over the year the CAP theorem has been widely misunderstood tool used to categorize databases. There is much misinformation floating around CAP. Most blog posts around CAP are historical and possibly incorrect. It is important to understand CAP so that you can identify a lot of the misinformation around it. The CAP theorem applies to distributed systems that stores state. Eric Brewer at the 2000 Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) conjectured that in any networked shared-data system there is a fundamental trade-off between consistency, availability, and partition tolerance. In 2002 Seth Gilbert and Nancy Lynch of MIT published a formal proof of Brewer’s conjecture. The theorem states that networked shared-data systems can only guarantee/strongly support two of the following three properties: Consistency – A guarantee that every node in a distributed cluster returns the same, most recent, successful write. Consistency refers to every client having the same view of the data. There are various types of consistency models. Consistency in CAP (used to prove the theorem) refers to linearizability or sequential consistency a very strong form of consistency. Availability – Every non-failing node returns a response for all read and write requests in a reasonable amount of time. The key word here is every. To be available every node on (either side of a network partition) must be able to respond in a reasonable amount of time. Partition Tolerant – The system continues to function and uphold its consistency guarantees in spite of network partitions. Network partitions are a fact of life. Distributed systems guaranteeing partition tolerance can gracefully recover from partitions once the partition heals. The C and A in ACID represent different concepts than C and in A in the CAP theorem. The CAP theorem categories systems into three categories: CP (Consistent and Partition Tolerant) – At first glance, the CP category is confusing, i.e., a system that is consistent and partition tolerant but never available. CP is referring to a category of systems where availability is sacrificed only in the case of a network partition. CA (Consistent and Available) – CA systems are consistent and available systems in the absence of any network partition. Often a single node DB servers are categorized as CA systems. Single node DB servers do not need to deal with partition tolerance and are thus considered CA systems. The only hole in this theory is that single node DB systems are not a network shared data system and thus do not fall under the preview of CAP. [^11] AP (Available and Partition Tolerant) – These are systems that are available and partition tolerant but cannot guarantee consistency. A Venn diagram or a triangle is frequently used to visualize the CAP theorem. Systems fall into the three categories that depicted using the intersecting circles.   CAP Theorem The part where all three sections intersect is white because it is impossible to have all three properties in networked shared-data systems. A Venn diagram or a triangle is an incorrect visualization of the CAP. Any CAP theorem visualization such as a triangle or a Venn diagram is a misleading. The correct way to think about CAP is that in case of a network partition (a rare occurrence) one needs to choose between availability and partition tolerance. Instead of choosing two is more like choose one. In any networked shared-data systems partition tolerance is a must. Network partitions, dropped messages are a fact of life and must be handled appropriately. Consequently, system designers must choose between consistency and availability. Simplistically speaking a network partition forces designers to either choose perfect consistency or perfect availability. Picking consistency means not being able to answer a clients query as the system cannot guarantee to return the most recent write. This sacrifices availability. Network partition force nonfailing node to reject clients request as these nodes cannot guarantee consistent data. At the opposite end of the spectrum being available means being able to respond to a clients request but the system cannot guarantee consistency, i.e., the most recent value written. Available systems provide the best possible answer under the given circumstance. During normal operation (lack on network partition) the CAP theorem does not impose constraints on availability or consistency. The CAP theorem is criticized for being too simplistic and often misleading [^10] [^11]. A decade after the release of the CAP theorem Brewer acknowledge that the CAP theorem oversimplified the choices available in the event of a network partition. According to Brewer, the CAP theorem prohibits only a “tiny part of the design space: perfect availability and consistency in the presence of partitions, which are rare”. System designers have a broad range of options for dealing and recovering from network partitions. The goal of every system must be to “maximize combinations of consistency and availability that make sense for the specific application” The CAP theorem is a simple straw man to make system designers aware of trade-offs while designing networked shared-data systems. It is a simple starting point and has been widely used to design and discuss tradeoff in NoSQL database. References: Brewer’s conjecture and the feasibility of consistent, available, partition-tolerant web services CAP Twelve Years Later: How the “Rules” Have Changed Please stop calling databases CP or AP The post CAP Theorem appeared first on A Bias For Action. ]]> feed/ 0 Reasons for unbalanced Cassandra Cluster /unbalanced-cassandra-cluster/ /unbalanced-cassandra-cluster/#comments Fri, 16 Jun 2017 00:52:35 +0000 /?p=380 Sometimes an Apache Cassandra cluster can end up in an unbalanced state. An unbalanced state is where data is unevenly distributed across a cluster or locally configured data directories. There are a number of reasons this can happen. In this blog post, I will cover two basics reasons this might happen.  A cluster can end up […] The post Reasons for unbalanced Cassandra Cluster appeared first on A Bias For Action. ]]> Sometimes an Apache Cassandra cluster can end up in an unbalanced state. An unbalanced state is where data is unevenly distributed across a cluster or locally configured data directories. There are a number of reasons this can happen. In this blog post, I will cover two basics reasons this might happen.  A cluster can end up in an unbalanced state due to two basic reasons: Configuration Data Model and data distribution Configuration The main configuration option that affects data distribution is the num_token value set in the cassandra.yaml. By default, this is set to 256 but can be configured prior to bootstrapping a node. The num_token configuration is useful when configuring a non-uniform Cassandra cluster.  This enables users to distribute data according to the capacity of each node. Data Model and Data Distribution Data can also end up unevenly distributed if your data model is not designed for your data profile. You must have a good understanding of your domain and your data model must be fit for your domain. In Cassandra, your partition key is responsible for your distributing data across a cluster and must be carefully chosen. Example The best way to understand the above two points is via an example. In this example, we are going to start off with a single node cluster. This node is configured with a num_token value of 256. It has two data directories (/var/lib/cassandra/data, /var/lib/cassandra/data1) specified in the data_file_directories property. In this example, we will Bootstrap a single node Add data to this node. Add a second node to the cluster and examine how this influences data distribution. To carry out the test I have created the following schema.CREATE KEYSPACE distribution_test WITH REPLICATION = { 'class' : 'SimpleStrategy' , 'replication_factor' : 1 }; CREATE TABLE dd_test ( partition_key text, cluster_key text, test_data text, PRIMARY KEY (partition_key, cluster_key) );The distribution_test keyspace has a replication factor 1 and uses the simple replication strategy. The distribution_test keyspace has a table called dd_test. This table has a composite primary key. The primary key is composed of a partition key and cluster key aptly named partition_key and cluster_key respectively. I have added data to the dd_test table using the following Python script.from cassandra.cluster import Cluster from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor from logging import thread import random import string cluster = Cluster() session = cluster.connect('distribution_test') def insert(from_num, to_num): for num in range(from_num,to_num): long_string = ''.join(random.SystemRandom().choice(string.ascii_uppercase + string.digits) for _ in range(50)) * 1000 session.execute("INSERT INTO dd_test (partition_key, cluster_key, test_data) VALUES ('partition_key_{}', 'cluster_key_example_{}' , '{}')".format(num, long_string, long_string)) print "Executed {}".format(num) futures = [] executor = ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=20) for num in xrange(0,100000,10000): futures.append(executor.submit(insert, num, num+4999)) for future in futures: future.result()Notice line 13. The insert statement ensures that the partition key is changed on every insert. As we will see later in the post that this is key to ensuring even data distribution. After inserting 100000 records I ran nodetool status and got the following values: As expected all the data is owned by a single node. I also proceeded to check data distribution across the two data directories. Data is evenly spread out. Check out the screen shot below. Bootstrapping A New Cassandra Node Let’s add a new node to this cluster. When adding a new node ensure that the auto_bootstrap property is set to true. This ensures that new node automatically joins the new cluster and there is no need for manual configuration.  On bootstrapping node2 I see the following log output:INFO [main] 2017-06-01 07:19:45,199 StorageService.java:1435 - JOINING: waiting for schema information to complete INFO [main] 2017-06-01 07:19:45,250 StorageService.java:1435 - JOINING: schema complete, ready to bootstrap INFO [main] 2017-06-01 07:19:45,251 StorageService.java:1435 - JOINING: waiting for pending range calculation INFO [main] 2017-06-01 07:19:45,251 StorageService.java:1435 - JOINING: calculation complete, ready to bootstrap INFO [main] 2017-06-01 07:19:45,251 StorageService.java:1435 - JOINING: getting bootstrap token INFO [main] 2017-06-01 07:19:45,341 StorageService.java:1435 - JOINING: sleeping 30000 ms for pending range setup INFO [main] 2017-06-01 07:20:15,342 StorageService.java:1435 - JOINING: Starting to bootstrap... 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-4110447459792797189, 2534623752979121051] INFO [main] 2017-06-01 07:20:32,544 StorageService.java:1435 - JOINING: Finish joining ringThe auto bootstrap process: Added the node to the configured cluster. Calculated its token range and sets up the new token ranges across the two nodes. Streamed data from node1 to node 2. This is data that use to belong to node one but now belongs to node two. After bootstrapping the node I ran nodetool status and got the following output: Note that node1(172.20.0.3) still has 64.18Mb of data while node two (172.20.0.4) has 31MB of data. This is a bit odd as the new node should have half of the cluster’s data. The reason for the imbalance is because node1 not only contains data the is responsible for but also contains data that is now stored in node2. Running a nodetool cleanup fixes this issue as shown in the screenshot be below: How has the second node affected the spreading of the data across the two data directories in node1. As expected the data in the two data directories on node1 are evenly spread but half of what they use to be. All in all, this is a happy situation as our Apache Cassandra cluster is in a balanced state. Let’s bootstrap node two again but this time configured with a num_token of 10: Notice that node1 holds over 95% of the data. Note this is expected due to our num_token configuration. Data Modelling Errors This is the most frequent reason for an unbalanced cluster. We are going to insert data into the dd_test table but this time we are only going to insert data into a single partition. The code used to insert this data can be found below. The only difference from the code above is line 13.from cassandra.cluster import Cluster from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor from logging import thread import random import string cluster = Cluster() session = cluster.connect('distribution_test') def insert(from_num, to_num): for num in range(from_num,to_num): long_string = ''.join(random.SystemRandom().choice(string.ascii_uppercase + string.digits) for _ in range(50)) * 1000 session.execute("INSERT INTO dd_test (partition_key, cluster_key, test_data) VALUES ('partition_key', 'cluster_key_example_{}' , '{}')".format(long_string, long_string)) print "Executed {}".format(num) futures = [] executor = ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=20) for num in xrange(0,100000,10000): futures.append(executor.submit(insert, num, num+4999)) for future in futures: future.result()The above program ends up inserting data into a single partition. One running node tool status we see the following: We have inserted 485.63 MB of data into node one. Let’s examine how this data is distributed around our two disks. Note that data1 directory has a majority of data. This is because data is distributed across disks by evenly splitting the nodes token ranges across disks. Since all our data has been inserted into a single partition we have ended up with all our data in a data disk. Let’s add a new node to the cluster and see how this influences data distribution. Note adding a new node has resulted in highly imbalanced data distributions. This is again because we have inserted all data into a single partition and thus resulted in a highly unbalanced node. I hope this has helped you understand why we might end up with unbalanced Cassandra nodes. Moral of the story. Make sure you put in effort into designing your schema correctly. The post Reasons for unbalanced Cassandra Cluster appeared first on A Bias For Action. ]]> /unbalanced-cassandra-cluster/feed/ 2 Understanding an Apache Cassandra Memtable Flush /apache-cassandra-memtable-flush/ /apache-cassandra-memtable-flush/#comments Tue, 30 May 2017 00:15:15 +0000 /?p=361 A recent question in the Apache Cassandra mailing list triggered this blog post. The question revolved around events that trigger a memtable flush. Understanding the root cause of a memtable flush is essential to get a better understanding of Apache Cassandra.  Another question that frequently crops up is the size of an SSTable as a result of […] The post Understanding an Apache Cassandra Memtable Flush appeared first on A Bias For Action. ]]> A recent question in the Apache Cassandra mailing list triggered this blog post. The question revolved around events that trigger a memtable flush. Understanding the root cause of a memtable flush is essential to get a better understanding of Apache Cassandra.  Another question that frequently crops up is the size of an SSTable as a result of a memtable flush. A memtable is created for every table or column family. There can be multiple memtables for a table but only one of them will be active. The rest will be waiting to be flushed. There are a few properties that affect a memtables size and flushing frequency. These include: memtable_flush_writers – This is the number of threads allocated for flushing memtables to disk.  This defaults to two. memtable_heap_space_in_mb  – This is the total allocated space for all memtables on an Apache Cassandra node. By default, this is one-fourth your heap size. Specifying this property results in an absolute heap size in MB as opposed to a percentage of the total JVM heap. memtable_cleanup_threshold – A percentage of your total available memtable space that will trigger a memtable cleanup. memtable_cleanup_threshold defaults to 1 / (memtable_flush_writers + 1). By default this is essentially 33% of your memtable_heap_space_in_mb. A scheduled cleanup results in flushing of the table/column family that occupies the largest portion of memtable space. This keeps happening till your available memtable memory drops below the cleanup threshold. commitlog_total_space_in_mb – The total space in MB that is reserved for the commit log. If unspecified this defaults to the smaller of the two numbers i.e. 8192 MB or 25% of the total space of the commit log volume. memtable_flush_period_in_ms – This is a CQL table property that specifies the number of milliseconds after which a memtable should be flushed. This property is specified on table creation. memtable_allocation_type – Stipulates where Cassandra allocates and manages memtable memory. Memory can be allocated on the JVM heap or directly into memory.   This does not affect the flushing of memtables but only signifies where memtables space is allocated. So when does a memtable get flushed to disk? A memtable is flushed when: The commit log reaches its maximum size – The main aim of the commit log is to track all data that has not been written to disk i.e. data in a memtable which has not been flushed to disk. Commit log forces flushing of memtables if a commit log runs out of disk space. The commit log allocates chunks of space in what is called a commit log segment. When a commit log runs out of disk space (surpasses its config threshold) it needs to recycle allocated segements. This recycling process triggers flushing of all memtables. The commit log cannot be cleared as long as it refers to data in a memtable. Doing so risks data loss. Thus when a commit log is full all memetables are first flushed to disk and then the commit log is recycled. The org.apache.cassandra.db.commitlog.AbstractCommitLogSegmentManager.maybeFlushToReclaim() method is where this recycling is done. Periodically – If the CQL table sets the memtable_flush_period_in_ms  property then the memtable gets flushed after the configured number of milliseconds has elapsed. Memtable surpasses it on and off-heap memory threshold – This is best understood using an example. Let assume we have an Apache Cassandra instance that has allocated 4G of space. Out of this only 3,925.5MB is available to the Java runtime. Please look at the following StackOverflow question for the reasons behind this. Of this, by default, we have 981 MB allocated towards memtable i.e. 1/4the of 3,925.5. Our memtable_cleanup_threshold is the default value i.e. 33 percent of the total memtable heap and off heap memory. In our example that comes to 327 MB.  Thus when total space allocated for all memtables is greater than 327 MB a memtable clean-up is triggered. The cleanup process looks for the largest memtable and flushes that to disk. The org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.FlushLargestColumnFamily class can be examined for further details. Due to the above configuration options and varying Apache Cassandra workloads, our SSTable size on disk can vary greatly. One thing to remember is that by default SSTables are compressed. SSTable compression can be turned off using compression table property. The post Understanding an Apache Cassandra Memtable Flush appeared first on A Bias For Action. ]]> /apache-cassandra-memtable-flush/feed/ 6 Cassandra Query Language (CQL) Tutorial /cassandra-query-language-cql-tutorial/ /cassandra-query-language-cql-tutorial/#comments Fri, 26 May 2017 22:28:20 +0000 /?p=308 Apache Cassandra and the Cassandra Query Language (CQL) have evolved over the past couple of years. Key improvements include: Significant storage engine improvements Introduction of SSTable Attached Secondary Index i.e SASI Indexes Materialized views Simple role based authentication This post is an updated to “A Practical Introduction to Cassandra Query Language”. The tutorial will concentrate […] The post Cassandra Query Language (CQL) Tutorial appeared first on A Bias For Action. ]]> Apache Cassandra and the Cassandra Query Language (CQL) have evolved over the past couple of years. Key improvements include: Significant storage engine improvements Introduction of SSTable Attached Secondary Index i.e SASI Indexes Materialized views Simple role based authentication This post is an updated to “A Practical Introduction to Cassandra Query Language”. The tutorial will concentrate on two things: Cassandra Query Language and its interaction with the new storage engine. Introducing the various CQL statements via a practical example. CQL Overview Cassandra Query Language or CQL is a data management language akin to SQL. CQL is a simple API over Cassandra’s internal storage structures. Apache Cassandra introduced CQL in version 0.8.  Thrift an RPC-based API was the preferred data management language prior to the introduction of CQL. CQL provides a flatter learning curve in comparison to Thrift and thus its is the preferred way of interacting with Apache Cassandra. In fact, Thrift support is slated to be removed in Apache Cassandra 4.0 release. CQL has many restrictions in comparison to SQL. These restrictions prevent inefficient querying across a distributed database. CQL queries should not visit a large number of nodes to retrieve required data. This has the potential to impact cluster-wide performance.  Thus CQL prevents the following: No arbitrary WHERE clause – Apache Cassandra prevents arbitrary predicates in a WHERE statement. Where clauses must have columns specified in your primary key. No JOINS – You cannot join data from two Apache Cassandra tables. No arbitrary GROUP BY – GROUP BY can only be applied to a partition or cluster column. Apache Cassandra 3.10 added GROUP BY support to SELECT statements. No arbitrary ORDER BY clauses – Order by can only be applied to a clustered column. CQL Fundamentals Let’s start off by understanding some basic concepts i.e. cluster, keyspaces, tables aka column family and primary key. Apache Cassandra Cluster – A cluster is a group of computers working together that are viewed as a single system. A distributed database is a database system that is spread across a cluster. Apache Cassandra is a distributed database spread across a cluster of nodes. Think of Apache Cassandra Cluster as a database server spread across a number of machines. Keyspaces – A keyspace is similar to an RDBMS schema/database. A keyspace is a logical grouping of Apache Cassandra tables. Like a database, a keyspace has attributes that define system-wide behaviour. Two key attributes are the replication factor and the replication strategy. The replication factor defines the number of replicas the replication strategy defines the algorithm used to determine the placement of the replicas. Tables – An Apache Cassandra table is similar to an RDBMS table. Like in an RDBMS a table is made up of a number of rows. This is where the similarity ends. Think of an Apache Cassandra table as a map of sorted maps. A table contains rows each of which is accessible by the partition key. The row contains column data which are ordered by the clustering key. Visualise an Apache Cassandra table as a map of sorted maps spread across a cluster of nodes. Primary Key – A Primary key uniquely identifies an Apache Cassandra row. A primary key can be a simple key or a composite key. A composite key is made up of two parts, a partition key and a cluster key. The partition key determines data distribution in the cluster while the cluster key determines sort order within a partition. The diagram below helps visualise the above concepts. Apache Cassandra Cluster, Keyspace, Table and Primary Key Overview Notice how keyspaces and tables are spread across the cluster. In summary, Apache Cassandra cluster contains keyspaces. Keyspaces contain tables. Tables contain rows which are retrieved via their primary key. The goal is to distribute this data across a cluster of nodes. Installing Cassandra To go through this tutorial you need Apache Cassandra installed. You can either use a Docker base Apache Cassandra installation or use any of the installation methods laid out in 5 ways to install Apache Cassandra. I will be using the Docker base Cassandra installation. CQLSH Cqlsh is a Python based utility that enables you to execute CQL. A cqlsh prompt can be obtained by simply executing the cqlsh utility. In the Docker-based installation navigate to the containers command prompt. Once at the command prompt simply type cqlsh. For native installs the cqlsh utility can be found in CASSANDRA_INSTALLTATION_DIR/bin. Executing the cqlsh utility will take you to the cqlsh prompt. CQL By Examples Navigating an Apache Cassandra Cluster The first things you need to get familiar with is navigating around a cluster. The DESCRIBE command, or DESC or shorthand, is the key to navigating around the cluster. The DESCRIBE command can be used to list cluster objects such as keyspaces, tables, types, functions, aggregates. It can also be used to output CQL commands to recreate a keyspace, table, index, materialized view, schema, function, aggregate or any CQL object. To get a full list of DESCRIBE command options please type HELP DESC at the cqlsh prompt. The HELP provided is self-explanatory. Describe command help Often the first thing you want to do when you are the CQLSH prompt is to list keyspaces. TheDESCRIBE KEYSPACEScommand provides a list of all keyspace. Go ahead and execute this command. Since we have freshly installed Apache Cassandra all you will see a list of system keyspaces. Systems keyspaces help Apache Cassandra to keep track of cluster and node related metadata. Here are a couple of gotchas. There is no command to list all indexes. To list indexes you have to query the system keyspace. To list all indexed you will need to execute the following command:SELECT * FROM system.”IndexInfo”;Similarly, there is no command to list all materialized views. To get a list of all the views you must execute the following command:SELECT * FROM system_schema.views; CQL Create Keyspace Let’s create our first keyspace. The keyspace is called animals. Execute the statement below to create the animal keyspace.CREATE KEYSPACE animals WITH REPLICATION = { 'class' : 'SimpleStrategy' , 'replication_factor' : 3 };Two key parameters to take note of is the class and the replication factor. The class defines the replication strategy i.e. algorithm used to determine the placement of the replicas. The replication factor determines the number of replicas. Since I have three node cluster I have chosen a replication factor of 3. Execute theDESC KEYSPACEScommand once more to see if the aminal keyspace is created. Next, let’s connect to the created keyspace with the help the of the USE command. The USE command enables switching context between keyspaces. Once a keyspace is chosen all subsequent commands are executed in the context of the chosen keyspace. Please executeUSE animals; CQL Create Table Let’s create a table called monkeys in the animals keyspace. Execute the following command to create the monkey table.CREATE TABLE monkeys ( type text, family text, common_name text, conservation_status text, avg_size_in_grams int, PRIMARY KEY ((type, family), common_name) );Take special note of the primary key. The primary key defined above is a composite key. The primary key has two parts. i.e. partition key and cluster key. The first column of the primary key is your partition key. The remaining columns are used to determine the cluster key. A composite partition key, a partition key made up of multiple columns, is defined by using an extra set of parentheses before the clustering columns. The partition key helps distribute data across the cluster while the cluster key determines the order of the data stored within a row. Thus type and family is our composite partition key and common_name is our cluster key.  When designing a table think of the partition key as a tool to spread data evenly across a cluster while the cluster key helps determine the order of that data within a partition. Your data and query patterns will influence your primary key. Please note the cluster key is optional. CQL INSERT Let’s insert some data into above table. When inserting data the primary key is mandatory.INSERT INTO monkeys (type, family, common_name, conservation_status) VALUES ('New World Monkey', 'Cebidae', 'white-headed capuchin', 'Least concern');Execute a select statement to see that the data has been inserted successfully.SELECT * FROM monkeys;You should see the following output: Note columns in red are your partition key. Cyan coloured columns are your cluster key. The columns in purple are the rest of your columns. CQL Consistency Level Cassandra enables users to configure the number of replicas in a cluster that must acknowledge a read or write operation before considering the operation successful. The consistency level is a required parameter in any read and write operation and determines the exact number of nodes that must successfully complete the operation before considering the operation successful. Let’s check the consistency level set in our cqlsh client. To check your consistency level simply executeCONSISTENCYYou should seeCurrent consistency level is ONE.This implies that only one node needs to insert data successfully for the statement to be considered successful. The statement is executed on all replicas but only needs to be successfully written to one in order to be successful. On each node, the insert statement is first written to the commit log and then into a memtable i.e. a write back cache.  The memtable is flushed to disk either periodically or when a certain size threshold is reached. The process of flushing converts a memtable into an SSTable. Nodetool Flush Let’s manually flush the above insert to disk so that we can examine the created SSTable. You can force a flush by executing the following at the command prompt.nodetool flush animalsThe above command flushes all tables in the animals keyspace to disk. Navigate to the animal keyspace data directory to view the results. Look at your YAML file for your data directory location. In the Docker-based installation the directory is:/var/lib/cassandra/data/animals/monkeys-generated_hex_stringThe flushed SSTable can be found in a file with the suffix -Data.db. My file is called mc-1-big-Data.db. We can output the contents of the file using a command line tool sstabledump. The utility sstabledump outputs the contents of -Data.db file as JSON. To get the JSON output simply executesstabledump mc-1-big-Data.dbMy mc-1-big-Data.db has the following contents[ { "partition" : { "key" : [ "New World Monkey", "Cebidae" ], "position" : 0 }, "rows" : [ { "type" : "row", "position" : 43, "clustering" : [ "white-headed capuchin" ], "liveness_info" : { "tstamp" : "2017-05-18T22:55:47.631382Z" }, "cells" : [ { "name" : "conservation_status", "value" : "Least concern" } ] } ] } ]Note the partition object contains the partition keys used while the rows array contains the row data for the partition. The rows object contains a clustering array that stores our cluster column related data. The cells array in the row object contains all additional column data. Let’s insert some additional data to see how this affects the underlying storage.INSERT INTO monkeys (type, family, common_name, conservation_status, avg_size_in_grams) VALUES ('New World Monkey', 'Cebidae', 'white-fronted capuchin', 'Least concern', 3400); INSERT INTO monkeys (type, family, common_name, conservation_status, avg_size_in_grams) VALUES ('New World Monkey', 'Cebidae', 'white-headed capuchin', 'Least concern', 3900); INSERT INTO monkeys (type, family, common_name, conservation_status, avg_size_in_grams) VALUES ('New World Monkey', 'Cebidae', 'tufted capuchin', 'Least concern', 4800); INSERT INTO monkeys (type, family, common_name, conservation_status, avg_size_in_grams) VALUES ('New World Monkey', 'Cebidae', 'blond capuchin', 'Least concern', 2800); INSERT INTO monkeys (type, family, common_name, conservation_status) VALUES ('Old World Monkey', 'Colobinae', 'Nilgiri langur', 'vulnerable');Flush memtable data to disk by running the following command:nodetool flush animalsThe first thing you should notice is a new file mc-2-big-Data.db. Note mc-1-big-Data.db has not been updated to as SSTables are immutable. Please run the following command to output JSON output for mc-2-big-Data.db.sstabledump mc-2-big-Data.dbYou should get the following output.[ { "partition" : { "key" : [ "Old World Monkey", "Colobinae" ], "position" : 0 }, "rows" : [ { "type" : "row", "position" : 45, "clustering" : [ "Nilgiri langur" ], "liveness_info" : { "tstamp" : "2017-05-19T02:19:12.639248Z" }, "cells" : [ { "name" : "conservation_status", "value" : "vulnerable" } ] } ] }, { "partition" : { "key" : [ "New World Monkey", "Cebidae" ], "position" : 82 }, "rows" : [ { "type" : "row", "position" : 125, "clustering" : [ "blond capuchin" ], "liveness_info" : { "tstamp" : "2017-05-19T02:18:37.670932Z" }, "cells" : [ { "name" : "avg_size_in_grams", "value" : "2800" }, { "name" : "conservation_status", "value" : "Least concern" } ] }, { "type" : "row", "position" : 167, "clustering" : [ "tufted capuchin" ], "liveness_info" : { "tstamp" : "2017-05-19T02:18:37.662353Z" }, "cells" : [ { "name" : "avg_size_in_grams", "value" : "4800" }, { "name" : "conservation_status", "value" : "Least concern" } ] }, { "type" : "row", "position" : 210, "clustering" : [ "white-fronted capuchin" ], "liveness_info" : { "tstamp" : "2017-05-19T02:18:37.643547Z" }, "cells" : [ { "name" : "avg_size_in_grams", "value" : "3400" }, { "name" : "conservation_status", "value" : "Least concern" } ] }, { "type" : "row", "position" : 258, "clustering" : [ "white-headed capuchin" ], "liveness_info" : { "tstamp" : "2017-05-19T02:18:37.657137Z" }, "cells" : [ { "name" : "avg_size_in_grams", "value" : "3900" }, { "name" : "conservation_status", "value" : "Least concern" } ] } ] } ]Note we now have data in two partition keys. Observe that in the second partition row data is sorted by the cluster key. Notice that the second insert did not error out even thought that data already existed. This is because inserts in Cassandra are actually upserts. An upsert inserts the row if it does not exist otherwise updates the existing data. CQL DELETE Let’s delete some data. Please execute the following delete command:DELETE FROM monkeys WHERE type='New World Monkey' and family='Cebidae' and common_name='white-headed capuchin'Again runnodetool flush animalsIn your data directory, you should see a new file mc-3-big-Data.db. Please run the following command to convert mc-3-big-Data.db into JSON.sstabledump mc-2-big-Data.dbYou should see the following output:[ { "partition" : { "key" : [ "New World Monkey", "Cebidae" ], "position" : 0 }, "rows" : [ { "type" : "row", "position" : 43, "clustering" : [ "white-headed capuchin" ], "deletion_info" : { "marked_deleted" : "2017-05-19T05:05:23.822752Z", "local_delete_time" : "2017-05-19T05:05:23Z" }, "cells" : [ ] } ] } ]The first thing to notice is that deletion does not result in any actual data being physically deleted. This is because SSTables are immutable and are never modified. In fact, the delete statement caused an insertion of a special value called a tombstone. A tombstone records deletion related information. There are many kinds of tombstones. The delete statement above caused the insertion of a row tombstone. CQL UPDATE Like inserts updates in Cassandra are an upsert. The following is an example of an update statement.UPDATE monkeys SET conservation_status = 'least concern' , avg_size_in_grams = 3000 WHERE type='Old World Monkey' AND family='Colobinae' AND common_name='Southern plains gray langur'Even though the primary key specified in the update statement does not exist data will still be inserted.  This is due to the upsert semantics of a CQL update statement. In the case, the primary key already exists the appropriate values will be updated. Feel free to flush the animal keyspace and view the data file created. CQL Time To Live aka TTL A compelling feature in Cassandra is the ability to expire data. This feature is especially useful when dealing with time series data. The TTL feature enables you to expire columns after a set number of seconds. Below is an insert example with TTLINSERT INTO monkeys (type, family, common_name, conservation_status, avg_size_in_grams) VALUES ('Old World Monkey', 'Colobinae', 'Tarai gray langur', 'near threatened', 3000) USING TTL 600;Using the TTL function you can query the number of seconds left for the column to expire. Please note a TTL is only assigned to non-primary key columns.SELECT TTL(avg_size_in_grams), TTL(conservation_status) from monkeys;Use the nodetool flush command to check data saved to disk. You should see something similar to the following JSON.{ "partition" : { "key" : [ "Old World Monkey", "Colobinae" ], "position" : 0 }, "rows" : [ { "type" : "row", "position" : 146, "clustering" : [ "Tarai gray langur" ], "liveness_info" : { "tstamp" : "2017-05-20T22:17:19.028766Z", "ttl" : 600, "expires_at" : "2017-05 20T22:27:19Z", "expired" : false }, "cells" : [ { "name" : "avg_size_in_grams", "value" : "3000" }, { "name" : "conservation_status", "value" : "near threatened" } ] } ] }Look at the liveness_info object. It has an addition of ttl and expires_at element as opposed to previous data file outputs in this tutorial. The expires_at specific the exact UTC time when the columns will expire. The ttl element specifies the TTL value passed in on insert. When a TTL is present on all colums of a row then on the expiration of the TTL the entire row is omitted from select statement results. When the TTL is only present on particular columns then only that particular columns data is omitted from the results. CQL Data Types CQL supports an array of data types which includes character, numeric, collections, and user-defined types. The following table outlines the supported data types. Category Data Type Description Example   Numeric data type tinyint  8 bit signed integer. Values can range from −128 to 127.  3 smallint  16 bit signed integer. Values can range from −32,768 to 32,767  20000 int  32-bit signed int. Values can range from −2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647, from 3


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NoSQL Archives - A Bias For Action Musings of a developer Wed, 30 Aug 2017 02:39:01 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 CAP Theorem #respond Mon, 28 Aug 2017 05:15:39 +0000 The CAP theorem is a tool used to makes system designers aware of trade-offs while designing networked shared-data systems. CAP has influenced the design of many distributed data systems. It made designers aware of a wide range of tradeoff to consider while designing distributed data systems. Over the year the CAP theorem has been widely […] The post CAP Theorem appeared first on A Bias For Action. ]]> The CAP theorem is a tool used to makes system designers aware of trade-offs while designing networked shared-data systems. CAP has influenced the design of many distributed data systems. It made designers aware of a wide range of tradeoff to consider while designing distributed data systems. Over the year the CAP theorem has been widely misunderstood tool used to categorize databases. There is much misinformation floating around CAP. Most blog posts around CAP are historical and possibly incorrect. It is important to understand CAP so that you can identify a lot of the misinformation around it. The CAP theorem applies to distributed systems that stores state. Eric Brewer at the 2000 Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) conjectured that in any networked shared-data system there is a fundamental trade-off between consistency, availability, and partition tolerance. In 2002 Seth Gilbert and Nancy Lynch of MIT published a formal proof of Brewer’s conjecture. The theorem states that networked shared-data systems can only guarantee/strongly support two of the following three properties: Consistency – A guarantee that every node in a distributed cluster returns the same, most recent, successful write. Consistency refers to every client having the same view of the data. There are various types of consistency models. Consistency in CAP (used to prove the theorem) refers to linearizability or sequential consistency a very strong form of consistency. Availability – Every non-failing node returns a response for all read and write requests in a reasonable amount of time. The key word here is every. To be available every node on (either side of a network partition) must be able to respond in a reasonable amount of time. Partition Tolerant – The system continues to function and uphold its consistency guarantees in spite of network partitions. Network partitions are a fact of life. Distributed systems guaranteeing partition tolerance can gracefully recover from partitions once the partition heals. The C and A in ACID represent different concepts than C and in A in the CAP theorem. The CAP theorem categories systems into three categories: CP (Consistent and Partition Tolerant) – At first glance, the CP category is confusing, i.e., a system that is consistent and partition tolerant but never available. CP is referring to a category of systems where availability is sacrificed only in the case of a network partition. CA (Consistent and Available) – CA systems are consistent and available systems in the absence of any network partition. Often a single node DB servers are categorized as CA systems. Single node DB servers do not need to deal with partition tolerance and are thus considered CA systems. The only hole in this theory is that single node DB systems are not a network shared data system and thus do not fall under the preview of CAP. [^11] AP (Available and Partition Tolerant) – These are systems that are available and partition tolerant but cannot guarantee consistency. A Venn diagram or a triangle is frequently used to visualize the CAP theorem. Systems fall into the three categories that depicted using the intersecting circles.   CAP Theorem The part where all three sections intersect is white because it is impossible to have all three properties in networked shared-data systems. A Venn diagram or a triangle is an incorrect visualization of the CAP. Any CAP theorem visualization such as a triangle or a Venn diagram is a misleading. The correct way to think about CAP is that in case of a network partition (a rare occurrence) one needs to choose between availability and partition tolerance. Instead of choosing two is more like choose one. In any networked shared-data systems partition tolerance is a must. Network partitions, dropped messages are a fact of life and must be handled appropriately. Consequently, system designers must choose between consistency and availability. Simplistically speaking a network partition forces designers to either choose perfect consistency or perfect availability. Picking consistency means not being able to answer a clients query as the system cannot guarantee to return the most recent write. This sacrifices availability. Network partition force nonfailing node to reject clients request as these nodes cannot guarantee consistent data. At the opposite end of the spectrum being available means being able to respond to a clients request but the system cannot guarantee consistency, i.e., the most recent value written. Available systems provide the best possible answer under the given circumstance. During normal operation (lack on network partition) the CAP theorem does not impose constraints on availability or consistency. The CAP theorem is criticized for being too simplistic and often misleading [^10] [^11]. A decade after the release of the CAP theorem Brewer acknowledge that the CAP theorem oversimplified the choices available in the event of a network partition. According to Brewer, the CAP theorem prohibits only a “tiny part of the design space: perfect availability and consistency in the presence of partitions, which are rare”. System designers have a broad range of options for dealing and recovering from network partitions. The goal of every system must be to “maximize combinations of consistency and availability that make sense for the specific application” The CAP theorem is a simple straw man to make system designers aware of trade-offs while designing networked shared-data systems. It is a simple starting point and has been widely used to design and discuss tradeoff in NoSQL database. References: Brewer’s conjecture and the feasibility of consistent, available, partition-tolerant web services CAP Twelve Years Later: How the “Rules” Have Changed Please stop calling databases CP or AP The post CAP Theorem appeared first on A Bias For Action. ]]> feed/ 0


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Pomar)Blogger612125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-138268497039072792.post-3675430350015001313Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:11:00 +00002012-05-04T15:15:09.229+02:00Siria: la niña de Homs "matada" esta mañana en El País...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="; imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="; /></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>...¿es la misma con el rostro vendado en la foto a domicilio de El Mundo?</b></i></span></div> <div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"> <b><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: large;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: large;"><b>Por Jorge A. Pomar, Colonia</b></span></div> <div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;">Pues, lo que es la identidad de la pequeña no me atrevería a afirmarlo. Ahora bien, a juzgar por la edad, la fisonomía en general, la barba reglamentaria para los fanáticos del Islam (que gasta también el paciente visitado), el corte de pelo incluidos), el pantalón, el pulóver y sobre todo la camiseta negra que asoma debajo, si no su gemelo monocigótico, evidentemente el inconsolable padre sí es el mismo doliente. <br /> <br /> Y desde luego, a diferencia de las escenas con unos temerarios "desertores" del ejército rebelde delatándose alegremente a sí mismos al mostrar sus respectivos carnés de identidad, por lo general&nbsp; nombres y direcciones brillan aquí por su ausencia. [Pinche sobre las imágenes para apreciar mejor los detalles reveladores del burdo fraude fotográfico.]</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="color: #4c1130;">Créalo o no lo crea: la tapa al pomo de la desinformación performática se la pone hoy este vídeo en la edición digital del diario alemán <i><a href=";, donde la misma niña muerta-herida de las fotos de marras se nos revela grotescamente como ferviente pionera del fanatismo islámico con el siguiente mensaje: <i>"Alá es más grande que Usted, presidente Assad. ¡Ojalá que Alá le prive de sus hijos igual que Usted a mí de mi hermano"</i>.&nbsp; Eso se llama precocidad teocrática. El esperpento mediático es tan burdo que el cauteloso locutor tiene a bien curarse en salud poniendo en duda la autenticidad de la escena. Como dice el refrán teuitón, <i>Lügen haben kurze Beine</i> ("Las mentiras tienen patas cortas" o "Primero se coge a un mentiroso que a un cojo"). El vídeo en cuestión sigue al spot publicitario (<i>Werbung</i>), que dura apenas 13 segundos. Gracias por tan pertinente sugerencia, Chocolatico...</b></span></span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">&nbsp;</span> </span></span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><object style="height: 390px; width: 640px;"><param name="movie" value="; <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"> <embed src="; type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360"></object> </span></span></div> <br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: large;">Igual podría tratarse de dos hijas del mismo matrimonio, pero las prestigiosas agencias internacionales de prensa, respectivamente <b style="color: blue;"><a href="; y <b style="color: blue;"><a href=";, no sólo no se toman la molestiade contrastar la información sino que ni siquiera se cuidan de consignar datos tan triviales como el sitio donde el progenitor rescatista habría atinado a encontrar el cadáver destrozado de la crecida niña. Obviamente, la secuencia no hace pensar que la infortunada muñeca pereciera durante el recreo en el patio de la escuela, el quirófano de una clínica del régimen o bajo los escombros de su propia vivienda recién bombardeada. </span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: large;"><a href="; imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="; width="320" /></a></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: large;">Por si fuese poco ajetreo para una sola mañanita del relampagueante Belén Qatari, sobrepondiéndose al indescriptible dolor paterno, al mismo héroe altruista del folletín de Al Jazeera le habrían alcanzado tanto las escasas horas matinales como las garantías de circulación bajo estado de sitio para darse un brinco hasta uno de los [sic] "abarrotados hospitales clandestinos" que todos conocen y hacer la señal de la victoria junto con otra pintoresca víctima convaleciente en la instantánea que calza el reportaje de </span><a href=" style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: large;">Al Jazeera</span></i></b></a><span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: large;"> sobre el anuncio del cierre de la US Embassy en Damasco. </span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: large;">Sin necesidad de ser muy perspicaz, repare el lector en la mirada suplicatoria (¿para cuándo los prometidos bombardeos redentores?) del papá frente a la cámara incógnita, en la pulcritud de la desierta calle recién bombardeada, en la sospechosa palidez de silicona de la presunta interfecta, en la coqueta indolencia de la madre bajo el chador, en el inmaculado atuendo del ubicuo personaje... Escudriñe ambas imágenes teniendo en cuenta el pavoroso juraco en la rodilla, la considerable diferencia corporal con la pionerita de abajo y, caso de que los ojos de mi Alter Ego no me hayan engañado, saque sus propias conclusiones acerca de las tales "masacres" del Asad, el aquelarre occidental en la ONU y el "vergonzoso" veto interesado de Rusia y China en el enésimo conciliábulo obamita del lacayuno Consejo de Seguridad.&nbsp;</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;">En el resto del copioso material audiovisual sobre el tema apenas se ven algo más que coreografías callejeras, pintorescos "desertores" encapuchados con la kefiya palestina haciendo alarde de heroísmo en escenarios mal improvisados y lejanas humaredas de utilería sobre la tecumbre de los edificios con los manidos gritos de "Allaju akbar" en off. Por donde se conoce que, como bien ha recordado nuestra sagaz contertulia Cristina García (¡saludos!) en este blog, "ni los mentirosos mienten siempre" ni los veraces dicen siempre la verdad.&nbsp;</span></span><br /> <br /> <a href="; imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="265" src="; width="400" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: large;">&nbsp;Por lo demás, amén de que el respeto a la inocencia infantil no parece figurar aquí entre las prerrogativas inherentes a la niñez, como de costumbre en el precedente libio la recomendación mediática viene --vía Qatar y Al Jazeera-- unilateral y puntualmente del sacralizado bando rebelde, que por azar indigente clama a voz en cuello por la injerencia humanitaria de la OTAN en esa otra guerra civil virtual para acabar de implantar la Sharía pura y dura al sur del Mediterráneo. </span><br /> <div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div> <div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"> <br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: large;">Amenazas de embargo, zona de exclusión aérea (sin aviación hostil a la vista), cierres de embajadas occidentales, anuncio de planes para armar a la oposición armada... Todo ello en nombre de un sacrosanto "deber de proteger a la población civil" que, por lo visto, ahora no invocan en defensa de millones de libios cuyos derechos humanos están siendo violados a diario, de la peor manera posible, por las vandálicas milicias del irrisorio Consejo Nacional de Transición (CNT) reinante en el hoy arruinado Gadafato gracias a las bombas "inteligentes" de la OTAN. Confieso, pues, que sigo sin verle a Occidente la ganancia en el entuerto de la Primavera Árabe. Por ningún ángulo que se mire el rollo salen ganando.&nbsp;</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Para no abusar en demasía de la paciencia del amable lector cierro ya con una calumnia asociativa: tal vez, además de a la simplonería de que el vencedor del amigo de mi enemigo será si falta mi amigo, las simpatías islamofascistas del movimiento opositor criollo "de ambas orillas" --que sin embargo dista mucho de estar por similar terapia invasiva contra su paradójicamente todavía bastante congenial Biranato-- se deban también a notorias afinidades performáticas en la industria del agit-prop efectista al mejor estilo Pallywood (neologismo irónico con el que se bautizó en su fase de apogeo a la hoy al parecer desechada cinematografía alternativa montada por el mando palestino para denunciar ante los ojos estrábicos de Occidente sus trucadas "atrocidades" del ejército israelí a partir de la famosa Intifada).</span></div> <br /> <object style="height: 390px; width: 640px;"><param name="movie" value="; <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"> <embed src="; type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360"></object><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: large;">Igual que en los reportajes virtuales enviados de un tiempo a esta parte a nuestra credulísima Capital del Exilio por la flamante Unión Patriótica de Cuba --UNPACU, sigla idónea para el choteo popular criollo si las hay-- sobre el repentino, rocambolesco, inverosímil auge selectivo de las protestas leal-disidenciales en ese otro <i>anus mundi </i>llamado Contramaestre, nadie se toma la precaución de introducir el mínimo compás de espera de rigor profesional para analizar la dramaturgia diversionista, identificar a las estrellas del elenco, contrastar las fuentes y desenmascarar a los blofistas.</span><br /> <br /> <div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: large;">En nuestro caso, notoriamente a contrapelo del creciente historial de desengaños acumulado al respecto a la largo de los años, de la escandalosa suplantación policial de la oposición interna y de la harto conocida y denunciada perfidia de la GESTAPO biránica. A propósito: ¿por casualidad el "licenciado extrapenal" jabao que decora en efigie la flamante camiseta del futuro huelguista de hambre&nbsp; Wilman Villar Mendoza responde al alias de José Daniel Ferrer?&nbsp;</span></div> <div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"> </div> <div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"> <br /> <a href="; imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="; /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: large;">A saber, el titiritero araña a cargo de la secreción y el manejo de todos los lacrimosos cabos mediáticos en que se sustenta la tramoya del penúltimo culebrón sacrificial de nuestra pujante y cada vez más fantasiosa sicofancia oriental emergente. No por gusto partidaria ella también de una transición pacífica gradual y ordenada a través del diálogo, o sea, "sin odio ni violencia", como exige en el vídeo el líder de la UNPACU, pero invariablemente de vuelta al sanguinario "Período Romántico de la Revolución Cubana".&nbsp;</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;">Calen no más en el vídeo de arriba, grabado en el locutorio internacional de la Prisión Provincial de Guantánamo para el Directorio Democrático Cubano, según consta ya no sólo en documentos oficiales sino incluso audiovisualmente urbe y orbe gracias a la rebatiña pública entre los ejecutivos de esa entidad parásitaria y sus victoriosos homólogos obamitas de la FNCA (sigla a la que sólo le falta la letra i para hacer honor a la verdadera identidad de su actual dirigencia) en la TV de Miami, malversador de millones de dólares en subsidios del </span><i style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;">State Department</i><span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"> destinados a la disidencia insular.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: large;"><br style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"> </span><br /> Y valga la coincidencia, primer patrocinador de la plañidera Mater Dolorosa exiliada del presunto mártir albañil de Banes (Ma Reina Loida acaba de corroborar los reproches de estafa hechos por su otro vástago contra los promotores del éxodo en masa del dizque aguerrido clan maceico), la "entraña de transparencia" antisocial y/o policial del ídolo del suicida Wilman Billar, digo Villar.&nbsp;</span></div> <div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: large;">¿Acaso no le hubiese bastado al alcaide o al gentil (usa guantes de seda para tratar al leguleyo insubordinado) oficial de guardia con ordenarle al personal a cargo del panel de conmutación cortar el fetecún sin tantos miramiemtos fuera de reglamento? ¿O simplemente desenchufar el teléfono de un tirón? Eso suponiendo que en la vida real&nbsp;entre rejas a los reclusos les esté permitido escenificar berrinches transnacionales contra el gobierno desde el locutorio del penitenciario. Lo cual ya sería suponer más de la cuenta en cualquiera de las sin duda herméticas ergástulas "de alta seguridad" en la Isla. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: large;">Mi Alter Ego aquí al lado se eriza de pies&nbsp;a cabeza de sólo imaginarse lo que, en no poseyendo la patente de corso correspondiente&nbsp;para los performances&nbsp;de la disidencia virtual,&nbsp;le habrían hecho los guardias cienfuegueros a ese histrión mayor del guiñol leal-disidencial por el mero amago de protagonizar semejante ataque de histeria solariega en nuestra entrañable prisión provincial de Ariza. Allí, por cierto, hasta donde supiera este ex presidiario capitalino, el servicio telefónico&nbsp;no existía entonces, no ya como simple&nbsp;alucinación en la mente de los reclusos comunes más delirantes en su natural ansiedad por comunicarse con sus parientes por esa vía, sino ni siquiera para los esbirros de a pie...&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></div>2012/02/siria-la-nina-de-homs-matada-esta.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jorge A. Pomar)104tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-138268497039072792.post-3793933670548784087Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:15:00 +00002012-01-01T15:57:44.298+01:00"Dinner for One" con Merkel en el papel de Miss Sophie y Sarkozy de mayordomo<a href="; imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="; width="320" /></a><i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"></span></span></b></i><br /> <br /> <div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Parodia del sketch original inglés retransmitido cada Nochevieja por la tevé alemana desde 1963 </b></i></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Por Jorge A. Pomar, Colonia (versión libre)</b></span><br /> <br /> <div style="color: purple;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Título:&nbsp; </span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;">"La Nonagésima Cumbre de rescate o Euros para nadie"</span></span></i></b></div><div style="color: purple;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Autor: Udo Eling</span></b></div><div style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Estreno: Revista Matutina del canal&nbsp; ARD</b></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="color: purple;">Nota bene: Aunque escrito para el teatro británico de los años 20 y recién catalogado en el Guiness como la pieza más popular de la televisión a nivel mundial, <i>Dinner for One</i> sigue siendo un sketch prácticamente desconocido en Gran Bretaña, donde no forma parte de la tradición navideña. &nbsp; </b><b><br /> </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Mayordomo de <i>Dinner for One</i> (ON): La historia se cuenta rápido. Hete aquí que cada mes la Srta. Merkel celebra una Cumbre de Rescate del euro. Como invitados, los estadistas más importantes de Europa, razón por la cual yo no figuro entre ellos. </span></b></div><div style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><b><br /> </b></div><div style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Moderador (OFF): Desde luego, el pequeño problema de hoy consiste en que ya no quedan más estadistas importantes en Europa, exceptuando a … </span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sarkozy: <i>Madame Merkel… hein, hein, ¿el mismo procedimiento que el mes pasado?</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Merkel: <i>¡Por supuesto que lo mismo con lo mismo, tú, chiflado! Pero a ver si te pones las pilas, no sea que las tres A de tu calificación acaben valiendo a lo sumo para vuestro champán santiguado.</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sarkozy: <i>Ah, champagne. Bueno, ya sabéis, lo mismo de siempre…</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Ah, sí, perdón„ también él sigue en pie todavía: Sarko, el fiel servidor. Por cierto, deberá poner asunto para que no le suceda igual que a Berlusconi, quien a decir verdad hace ya largo rato que dejó de ser un tigre pero sigue atravesado en el camino. Y así comienza la Cumbre de Rescate mensual de la UE con la flor y nata de los estadistas comunitarios.</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sarkozy: <i>Hein, Madame Merkel, menos este servidor, todos tirados por la ventana como medida de sanidad.</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Merkel: <i>Mejor, ninguna voz en contra es bueno para el consenso. ¡Por tanto, venga un traguito, mi querido Papandreu!&nbsp;</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i><object style="height: 390px; width: 640px;"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="; type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360"></object> </i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sarkozy: <i>Hein, Madame Merkel, menos este servidor, todos tirados por la ventana como medida de sanidad</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Papandreu (imitado por Sarko; ídem con el resto de los convidados de piedra en la obra): <i>¡A su salud en nombre de la greguerillería!</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Merkel: <i>Guido Westerwelle [chanza a costa del desinflado ministro del Exterior dela RFA, quien como se sabe se ha embromado irrescatablemente a sí mismo y a su partido liberal demócrata]…</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sarkozy: <i>¡A ése realmente que le den por…, Madame Merkel!</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Merkel: <i>¡Nicolas, piensa en tu rating!</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sarkozy: <i>Voilà, reducción de impuestos… ¡Ay, ayayayawolll…! [Jawohl = “¡A sus órdenes! en la jerga militar prusiana]</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Merkel: <i>¡Mi pequeño amigo Zapaterou!</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Zapatero: <i>¡Olé, olé, olé, Madame Merkel! </i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Merkel: <i>¡Y mi muy especial socio Cameron! Pero no olvidarlo: ¡¡¡en Europa se habla alemán!!!</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Cameron: ¡Se le ve rejuvenecida, maldita sea…! ¡Luce más opulenta que nunca antes! Yo, tronco de halaleva: ¡por el euro, dueña!</b></i></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Sí, y así transcurre en realidad cada Cumbre de Rescate del Euro. Igual da que asista alguien más o que estos dos lo decidan todo a cuatro ojos. Al contrario, el intercambio se desarrolla mucho más muellemente alrededor de terceros molestos.</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sarkozy:</b> <i><b>Hein, Madame Merkel, ¿el mismo procedimiento que el mes pasado?</b></i></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Merkel: El mismo de siempre, tú, chiflado. Debemos ofrecerle otro trago a nuestro socio Cameron. ¿Y qué tomamos?</b></i></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Cameron: <i>Yo alzo mi copa y como a…</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Merkel: <i>¡Nein, se dice “bebo”!</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Cameron: <i>¡…a la salud de Europa, brrr!</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i><object style="height: 390px; width: 640px;"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="; type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360"></object> </i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Merkel: <i>¡Oh, pese a todo! ¿Ya ves? He ahí de nuevo un a exitosa colocación de cadáver…, digo de aguja a favor del futuro de Europa. Me retiro a gobernar.</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sarkozy: <i>Madame Merkel, ¿esta parte del procedimiento volvemos a efectuarla sin eurobonos?</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Merkel:<i> Naturalmente, como siempre sin eurobonos.</i></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sarkozy: <i>¡Aj, daré lo mejor de mi con tal de aprobar con nota de Triple A, Madame Merkel!</i></b></span></div>2011/12/la-nonagesima-cumbre-de-rescate-o-euros.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jorge A. Pomar)29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-138268497039072792.post-6436062942724926541Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:38:00 +00002012-01-01T16:15:08.995+01:00Primer pelotero ciberespacial en Japón y protesta espeluznante en la India<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Tanto para desmayar audiovisualmente a fin de año el "Monotema" de la oposición virtual criolla, que se torna cada día menos imaginativo</b></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Por Jorge A. Pomar, Colonia</b></span><br /> <br /> <b>Una de las grandes ventajas de jugar al béisbol al vacío experimental:&nbsp;</b><br /> <b>por primera vez se puede hacer las veces de pitcher y slugger a la vez&nbsp;</b><br /> <b>con el mismo lanzamiento. Igual que el primer hombre con la&nbsp; manzana&nbsp;</b><br /> <b>según el Génesis, el pelotero de arriba parece haber estado a punto&nbsp;</b><br /> <b>de perder literalmente la cabeza en su acrobática jugada de<i> double play</i></b><br /> <br /> <i><b>Play of the day! </b></i><b>(<a href="; style="color: blue;"><i>Libertad Digital</i>, 01-12-2011</a>)</b><br /> <br /> <object style="height: 390px; width: 640px;"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="; type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360"></object><b> </b><br /> <br /> <b>Nada que ver con Evas "indignadas" protestando en cueros por alguna&nbsp;</b><br /> <b>majadería retroprogre en cualquier plaza pública de Occidente, pero sí&nbsp;</b><br /> <b>algo con el mito de la tentación ofídica a Adán y Eva en el paraíso. Los&nbsp;</b><br /> <b>protagonistas rurales del original chantaje bioterrorista vaciaron tres&nbsp;</b><br /> <b>costales de cobras y otras serpientes en un local público para "hacerse&nbsp;</b><br /> <b>oír" en contra de funcionarios corruptos. (<a href="; style="color: blue;"><i>Libertad Digital</i>, 25-11-2011</a>)</b><br /> <br /> <object style="height: 390px; width: 640px;"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="; type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360"></object>2011/12/protesta-original-en-la-india-y-primer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Jorge A. Pomar)11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-138268497039072792.post-5566601879291966030Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:20:00 +00002012-01-01T16:16:13.349+01:00A propósito de la apoteosis de Rajoy la debacle de Zapatero<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="; imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="313" src="; width="400" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Dos perogrulladas sobre el replanteo de los vínculos entre La Moncloa y nuestra disidencia leal-disidencial</span></b></i></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Por Jorge A. Pomar, Colonia</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">El mapa de España se tiñe de azul: salvo en dos ciudades de mentalidad tan históricamente contrapuestas como Sevilla y Barcelona, mayoría absoluta para el PP (186-110), que en breve podrá legislar en solitario. Finalmente, la "Memoria Histórica" cortoplacista del electorado español ha halado la cadena a fondo. <i>Anno horribilis</i> para el PSOE y "cambio" que eclipsa definitivamente la "Constelación Planetaria"&nbsp; (Obama-Zapatero) solemnemente anunciada por la secretaria del PSOE Leire Pajín (magnánima mecenas de la escindida y no menos opacada Asociación Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana, AECC, según recordarán los memoriosos). Cierto, semejante victoria de los "carcas" presagia un incremento exponencial de las protestas callejeras de los niñatos "indignados" M-15 (¿el tic-tac de próximas bombas de cercanías contra el tren en marcha de los populares?), pero de momento, a resultas del inminente mutis por el foro del tándem Zapatero-Rubalcaba, deja a la cúpula sociata hecha unos zorros.&nbsp;</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Como veremos, tampoco parece ser del signo político agradable de la inmensa mayoría ruidosa de nuestra disidencia leal, que apenas espera de la administración entrante un mayor apoyo material, acrítico e incondicional, para seguir "jugando el juego" de fanfarronerías y corrupetas a su aire camajaneril entre Miami, Madrid y La Habana:&nbsp;</span><br /> <a href="; style="color: blue;"><i><br /> <b>Diario de Cuba</b></i></a><b><span style="color: purple;"><a href="; style="color: blue;">, 22-11-2011</a>.- </span><i style="color: purple;">"Hay una gran oportunidad en este momento para que la oposición interna cubana pueda beneficiarse de una nueva relación" con España, dijo José Pepe Hernández, presidente de esa organización del exilio en Miami… Lamentó que el Gobierno del Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE) mantuviera como prioridad en su política exterior hacia Cuba conservar buenas "relaciones con el régimen castrista" y orillar a la disidencia. Por ello, sostuvo que "uno de los primeros pasos" que debería dar el nuevo Ejecutivo español es no sólo abrir las puertas de la Embajada de España en La Habana a la disidencia interna, sino también <u>"tener una relación más cercana y permitir el acceso a internet"</u> en sus instalaciones a la oposición.</i></b><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Limosna con escopeta de corcho que&nbsp; también </span><span style="font-size: large;">Rajoy </span><span style="font-size: large;">puede permitirse a fuerza de talante zapateril sin arriesgar en serio las inversiones españolas en la Isla en medio de una aguda crisis financiera con visos de degenerar a corto plazo en algarabía guerracivilista permanente de la mano del </span><span style="font-size: large;">resentido </span><span style="font-size: large;">binomio PSOE-IU, que ni sabe en teoría ni en la práctica puede comportarse de otro modo. Sobre todo, desde la absoluta impotencia parlamentaria en que deberá tratar de perfilarse ante una opinión pública adversa pero voluble.&nbsp;</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Tendría que ocurrir un verdadero milagro para que España no se acabe de caotizar del todo bajo el empuje del progrerío anarcoide. No obstante, cabe la posibilidad de que los pocos "carcas" criollos consecuentes naveguemos con suerte y, a la hora del cuajo, Rajoy no se nos raje. De ser así, más temprano que tarde el cambio de caras en La Moncloa podría --nada seguro, insisto pero tampoco del todo inverosímil-- su política exterior afectaría en alguna medida sensible las ancestrales relaciones de amistad entre nuestra antigua metrópoli colonial y el desgobierno de la “Perla de las Antillas”.&nbsp;</span><br /> <br /> <b>Indignados la noche del 20 de mayo en la Puerta del Sol: "¡Rajoy, recuerda, tenemos una cuerda", "¡Moriréis como en el 36!", "¡Todo el poder para las Asambleas!", "¡Fuego, fuego al Parlamento!"...</b><br /> <br /> <object style="height: 390px; width: 640px;"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="; type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360"></object><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Y muy en particular con su entrañable oposición de diseño histriónico ad hoc para el levante de delirio tremendo posmoderno en fase terminal que abrasa ahora mismo a la periferia tercermundista de la Aldea Global. Baste con recapitular aquí, sucintamente al final de la enumeración, dos añejas perogrulladas abicueriles sobre nuestro cada día más enervante MONOTEMA:</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(1) A juzgar por todo lo que ya se sabe acerca de la personalidad y los planes de Rajoy, quien hasta ayer se venía perfilando más bien como un saltimbanqui centrista, oscilante y bastante mimético, las diferencias prácticas serían mínimas. Dadas la coyuntura de catástrofe que le ha toca en suerte. Pero una cosa es segura: peor que </span><span style="font-size: large;">su antecesor difícilmente logrará llegar a serlo.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><a href="; imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="; width="198" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">(2) Tanto más si se tiene en cuenta el dato de que la prioridad absoluta de la nueva legislatura corresponde, obligatoriamente, a la amenaza de quiebra, o sea, a la economía. Con los consiguientes recortes de beneficios sociales, ajuste general de cinturones y exacerbación crónica de los actuales disturbios callejeros.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(3) Situación agravada por el auge electoral de Izquierda Unida, instigadora de las protestas juveniles, y los partidos regionalistas. Pero, sobre todo, por el sesgo virulentamente antigubernamental que tomarán sin falta, a partir de la investidura de Rajoy, las algaradas del M-15, un movimiento diversionista diseñado ex profeso al calor de las encuestas desfavorables al PSOE para caldear el ambiente y sabotear cualesquiera medidas anticrisis puestas en práctica por el futuro ejecutivo conservador. Eso sin contar la tradicional labor del influyente sindicalismo político peninsular. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(4) Siendo también la volátil “prima de riesgo” la prioridad absoluta para el gobierno entrante. Por donde se conoce que Rajoy, presionado por los sacrosantos intereses de la “Madrastra Patria” en La Habana deberá cuidarse muy mucho de incordiar a la Dinastía de Birán más allá de la repetición de los manoseados mantras humanitarios, los nexos materno-filiales entre ambos países y la salvaguarda de la simbólica “Posición Común” de una Unión Europea que por otra parte, según evidencia el manejo de la que bien pudiera ser la crisis terminal comunitaria, obviamente no logra ponerse de acuerdo ni por instinto de conservación. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Tertulia de Federico Losantos</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><object style="height: 390px; width: 640px;"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="; type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360"></object></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(5) “Posición Común” nunca vinculante en una laxa UE donde cada cancillería se reserva por principio el derecho inalienable de invitar a su embajada habanera a quienes les venga en gana, pero que nuestra mal llamada “oposición interna” ha convertido en summa summarum de sus exigencias al Viejo Continente.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(6) De por sí, un diferendo por puras formalidades diplomáticas que ya el liderazgo de nuestra sicofancia leal-disidencial ya había dado por felizmente zanjado a raíz de la defenestración del no sólo entre nosotros aborrecible y aborrecido titular zapateril del Exterior Miguel Ángel Moratinos.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(7) Ahora bien, no hace falta ser muy suspicaz para percatarse a través de la cobertura de los resultados del sensacional escrutinio en nuestros medios: el talante general sobre debacle y victoria ameritaría desbordamientos pasionales pero, sin necesidad de pensárselo dos veces, al lector sagaz nuestra reacción mediática se le antoja más cautelosa y neutral que entusiasta o triunfal.</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><a href="; imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="161" src="; width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">(8) ¿Por qué? Pues, amén de que todos los receptores de subsidios del PSOE se verán enseguida obligados a revalidarlos ante los diversos negociados benéficos, gestión siempre tan azarosa como penosa de la que depende en última instancia su beligerancia pacifista, por dos razones que mi Alter Ego no se cansa de pregonar.&nbsp;</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">La más “guay” y presentable primero: implícita o explícitamente , es el caso que la casi totalidad de nuestras proliferantes organizaciones contrainteligentes, que ni siquiera admiten contradicciones antagónicas con el régimen, clasifican programáticamente dentro del espectro socialista.&nbsp;</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">No por gusto, a no ser que medien premios, viajes, sinecuras o regalías en moneda convertible, simpatizan preferencialmente con retroprogres de la calaña de Barack Hussein. Motivo por el cual sus fundadores vitalicios, que oscilan entre la socialdemocracia de izquierda, el socialismo democrático del siglo XXI y el colaboracionismo abierto, se sienten ideológicamente mucho más afines al PSOE que al PP. </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">(9) La más “guarra” e impresentable, como quien dice, “el silencio que ha tenido que ser” celosamente guardado so pena de fulinante excomunión martiana: presumiblemente, en virtud de un contubernio sutil a puerta cerrada entre los gobiernos de Cuba y España, a propósito de las escandalosas ingratitudes públicas de nuestros breterísimos “licenciados extrapenales por enfermedad”, diz o no (¡vaya Usted a saber a cuáles de los personajes involucrados creerle!) que arbitrariamente “desterrados” a la sociedad de consumo peninsular, el PSOE consiguió venderle al PP a tiempo, o sea, con premeditación y alevosía, el cordero envenenado de nuestra sicofancia performática.&nbsp;</span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><br /> </div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="; imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="

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