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By Cindy Wooden
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Although he lives a relatively hidden life in a villa in the Vatican Gardens, retired Pope Benedict XVI continues to study modern theological questions and, occasionally, to comment on them publicly.
The attention Pope Francis and many Christians are giving to the theme of divine mercy is a "sign of the times" that shows how, deep down, people still experience a need for God, the retired pope told Belgian Jesuit Father Jacques Servais in a written interview.
"Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight," Pope Benedict said in the interview published in mid-March.
Archbishop Georg Ganswein, the retired pope's personal secretary, read Pope Benedict's German text in October at a conference on the doctrine of justification and the experience of God. The retired pope approved the Italian translation of the text, which was published along with other papers presented at the conference.
The doctrine of justification — how people are made righteous in God's eyes and saved by Jesus — was at the heart of the Protestant Reformation, which will mark its 500th anniversary in 2017.
In the interview, Pope Benedict said, "For people today, unlike at the time of (Martin) Luther and from the classical perspective of the Christian faith, things have been turned upside down in a certain sense: Man no longer thinks he needs to be justified in God's sight, but rather he is of the opinion that it is God who must justify himself because of all the horrendous things present in the world and in the face of human misery."
The extreme synthesis of such an impression, he said, could be formulated as: "Christ did not suffer for the sins of men, but in order to cancel the faults of God."
"Even if today the majority of Christians would not share such a drastic overturning of our faith, you could say that it indicates a basic tendency," the retired pope said.
Another sign of a strong change in general thinking that challenges at least medieval Christian thought, he said, is "the sensation that God cannot simply allow the perdition of the majority of humanity."
Yet, Pope Benedict said, there still exists a general perception that "we need grace and pardon. For me it is one of the 'signs of the times' that the idea of God's mercy is becoming increasingly central and dominant" in Christian thought.
St. Faustina Kowalska's promotion of the divine mercy devotions in the early 1900s and the ministry and writings of St. John Paul II, "even if it did not always emerge in an explicit way," both gave a strong push to a popular Christian focus on mercy and to theological explorations of the theme.
From his experience as a youth during World War II and his ministry under communism in Poland, St. John Paul "affirmed that mercy is the only true and ultimately effective reaction against the power of evil. Only where there is mercy does cruelty end, only there do evil and violence stop," said the retired pope, who worked closely with the Polish pope for decades.
"Pope Francis," he said, "is in complete agreement with this line. His pastoral practice is expressed precisely in the fact that he speaks continuously of God's mercy."
The fact that so many people are open to that message, Pope Benedict said, shows that "under the patina of self-assurance" and a conviction of self-righteousness, "man today hides a deep awareness of his wounds and his lack of worthiness before God. He is waiting for mercy."
In many ways, he said, the focus on divine mercy is a modern way of speaking about "justification by faith," knowing how important God's mercy is.
The role explicit faith in Jesus plays in one's salvation is an area where "we are before a profound evolution of dogma," Pope Benedict said. "In the second half of the last century an awareness that God cannot allow the perdition of all the nonbaptized was completely affirmed."
"If it is true that the great missionaries of the 16th century were convinced that one who was not baptized was lost — and that explains their missionary commitment — in the Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council that conviction was definitely abandoned," he said.
Theologians are still trying to work out full and valid explanations that would affirm the Christian certainty that salvation comes through Christ without insisting baptism and an explicit profession of faith in him is needed, the retired pope said. In the meantime, though, it is clear that the church — the entire Christian community — is the body of Christ and that body must reach out to offer help, healing and an invitation to a deeper relationship with God.
"The counterbalance to the dominion of evil can consist only in the divine-human love of Jesus Christ that is always greater than any possible power of evil," Pope Benedict said. "But we must insert ourselves into this response that God gives through Jesus Christ.
"Even if the individual is responsible only for a fragment of evil," he said, he or she is therefore "an accomplice in its power."
Like Pope Francis, Pope Benedict urged a return to the sacrament of reconciliation. That is where, he said, "we let ourselves be molded and transformed by Christ and continually pass from the side of one who destroys to that of the one who saves."
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June 22, 2006
People are always asking me how they can learn about graphic design and photography or make better visuals, etc. The first step, I answer, is just to look around you and really see what there is to see. You can learn a lot, I tell them, by really taking the time to see and examine the visuals around you. Design is everywhere. Even non-designers can learn a lot by simply opening their eyes and observing the works of professionals. You just never know where inspiration or good examples will turn up. Sometimes, even a TV commercial or two can demonstrate just what it is that makes visuals effective and powerful.
Some bloody excellent promotional videos
The New Zealand and Australian tourism TV commercials are fantastic examples of the power of visuals. They've been airing on Japan's cable networks for quite some time, especially the spot from New Zealand. Both the New Zealand Travel and Australia Tourism website are great places to catch these videos too. Both sites are well done.
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Visuals that surprise people, touch them, delight them, and support your story are best because they affect people in an emotional way. People are more likely to remember your content in the form of stories and examples, and they are also more likely to remember your content if your visuals are unique, powerful and of the highest quality. Yes, a 60-second TV spot promoting tourism is quite different from a 30-minute live conference presentation. I am not suggesting they are the same. But the 60-second TV commercial is a presentation, and most of them are utterly unremarkable and forgettable. The lesson I get from watching these two promotional video "presentations" from Down Under is simply this: If you are going to use visuals, then for crying out loud, make them insanely great visuals.
Watch these videos a couple of times and ask yourself which one is more memorable. Which one is more effective in telling a story and making a pitch? For TV spots to be effective they need to run a lot. We need to be exposed over and over. In that context, then, which one works better? Both videos are very well done and will prove to be effective. But I particularly like the New Zealand commercial simply because no words are spoken at all. There are a couple of advantages to this. For example, the NZ video is ready as is for most markets with no translation needed. In Japan, the Australia video has translation on screen adding noise to the screen visually. Nonetheless, the "Where the bloody hell are you?" spot does capture the brand perfectly, and perhaps the spoken word was necessary to pull that off. Both make great use of the visual element.
What makes some images so powerful and others unremarkable?
One of the first lessons visual artists and designers learn early is the basics of composition, including the rule of thirds and the Golden mean, etc. I'll focus on the rule of thirds as it is the easiest to apply (I introduced this in a previous post as well). The "rule of thirds" says that images (video scenes, etc.) may appear more interesting, engaging, dynamic, compelling, etc. if the subject is not placed in the center. Of course dead center is where beginning photographers or novice videographers tend to put their subject. If you try moving your subject away from the center, however, perhaps nearer to one of what are called "power points" (where the grid lines intersect), you can create a more powerful or interesting visual by creating a bit of tension or even drama. Try experimenting with this.
In the case of the tourism commercials, notice when you watch how many scenes are shot with the subject outside the middle of the frame (at least at the beginning of the scene). If you were to freeze many of the frames you would notice that the subject is often near one of the "power points" or placed far from center. To show this I've placed a grid over a few screenshots from both commercials below. This is a simple thing, but it is one of those very basic things that the pros do so well. We too can design better visuals — take better snaps, shoot better video, etc. -— by keeping the principles such as the rule of thirds in mind. The "rule" is not a rule at all but a simple guideline. And while it's important to understand, the rule of thirds is by no means a panacea for poor design, but is simply one more principle for you to be aware of as you strive to improve your own design mindfulness.
Screenshots from "Where the Bloody Hell are You?
Above: Notice how many of the subjects are aligned vertically along a "power point" or in the outer or lower third. In the shot featuring the boy (top left), you can see that two walls in the background follow the horizontal lines of the upper and lower thirds. In the shots with the pilot and the waiter you'll notice how the horizon follows along one of the horizontal lines.
Screenshots from "100% Pure New Zealand"
Stills from the 100% Pure New Zealand commercial. Placing the subject in the outer third can give a visual more tension and drama and attract you into the scene.
For the next few days try to pay attention to posters, billboards, etc. Or watch a film and notice how scenes are shot to create mood and tension.
Quick slide example
Above:The example slide above I made in PowerPoint quickly using an iStockphoto image. I created a "Rule of Thirds" grid by manipulating the Guides in the Master slide. The text rests directly on the upper third horizontal line; the line extends through the surfers midsection. A viewer would notice the surfer first and be carried immediately with the implied motion toward the text along the horizontal line near the upper left "power point," typically a strong focal point in a slide.
• Several articles on photography and the Golden Mean.
• Golden mean to rule of thirds (Presentation Zen).
• Rule of Thirds (Silverlight.co.uk).


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Atheist Defends Teacher Suspended for Anti-Gay Marriage Facebook Post
A Florida high school teacher who was suspended from the classroom for a comment he made against gay marriage on his Facebook page has gained an unlikely defender – an atheist.
Hemant Mehta, also known as the "friendly atheist," initially wanted to join in on the backlash against the teacher – Jerry Buell from Mount Dora High School. But he now argues that Buell should not be punished for his beliefs about homosexuality, as long as they are not articulated in the classroom.
"This is a free speech issue," Mehta wrote on his blog Saturday. "You don't have to like what Buell said – I know I don't – but everyone has the right to believe what they want, even if it's crazy, untrue, or harmful."
Buell has been teaching for more than 22 years. He has served as the Social Studies Department chair at Mount Dora High and taught American history and government. Last year, he was named Teacher of the Year.
But he was suspended and reassigned to administrative duties pending an investigation into his Facebook comments.
Buell posted on his personal page: "I'm watching the news, eating dinner, when the story about New York okaying same sex unions came on and I almost threw up. And now they showed two guys kissing after their announcement. If they want to call it a union, go ahead. But don't insult a man and woman's marriage by throwing it in the same cesspool as same-sex whatever! God will not be mocked. When did this sin become acceptable???"
He went on to say he will never accept or condone same-sex marriage. "[I]t ain't a marriage," he wrote, as reported by the Orlando Sentinel.
"God loves us ALL, unconditionally, regardless of what we do. But He will not tolerate our actions forever. He hates sin, no matter the lable (sic) or degree. There are some things He calls abominations and 'it' is one of them."
Gay marriage was legalized in New York in June.
The teacher's comments were reported to Lake County School District officials by a former student, Brett Winters, who graduated in 2002.
Mehta, an outspoken atheist and a math teacher at Neuqua Valley High School in Illinois, disagrees with Buell's comments, calling him a bigot.
But he stressed in his blog, "Keep in mind: there's no evidence he acted on these beliefs in the classroom."
The atheist can empathize with Buell. Two years ago, the conservative Illinois Family Institute complained to his school officials about posts he made on his friendly atheist blog. Officials sided with Mehta.
"[T]hey knew I didn't bring my activism into the classroom," Mehta said. "Whether they agreed with me or not on the social/political issues was irrelevant."
With regard to Buell, while some students may feel uncomfortable in his classroom, his private views should not matter, Mehta contended.
"He never cast an evil eye on gay students in class. He didn't give gay students lower grades than straight kids for the same work. He wasn't preaching to his social studies students," the atheist noted. "On Facebook, he wasn't demeaning specific students of his. This was private speech made outside the classroom."
"As far as we've seen, when Buell entered the school, he left his private beliefs at the door. That's all we can ask for."
Liberty Counsel, which is representing Buell, has demanded an apology from the school district for violating Buell's First Amendment rights and has asked that the teacher be immediately reinstated.
"Mr. Buell is being investigated and punished for communicating his mainstream objection to homosexual marriage, an objection shared by a large majority of his fellow Floridians who have outlawed homosexual marriage through a constitutional amendment," Liberty Counsel maintained.
"If the First Amendment does not protect Mr. Buell's right to voice his personal opinion, on his personal time, from his personal computer, on his personal Facebook page, then the First Amendment means nothing."


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by Stansfield Smith
The anti-Trump movement is not simply a progressive movement against a rightwing president, but also carries within it a rightwing current. Progressive minded people fight against Trump's racist actions against Blacks, Latinos, Muslims, his crude sexism, his pro-corporate policies, his rejection of action on global warming, his massive tax cut to the 1%, his war threats against Syria, Korea, Iran, and Venezuela.
The rightwing element of the anti-Trump movement, embodied in the "liberal" corporate media, the Democratic Party establishment, many Republican leaders, and the national security state, focuses on his character, on his alleged friendliness to Russia's Putin, and alleged collusion with Putin to steal the 2016 election. They campaign to indict Trump for collusion, even for treason, or to remove him for mental unfitness.
These national security state representatives aim to break or at least tame Trump. They cannot tolerate presidential questioning of imperial war-mongering – Trump's talk of taking the US military out of Syria, his friendly meetings with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, with Russia's Putin, his wish to downgrade NATO, take US troops out of South Korea, calling much of the corporate media propaganda fake news, his attacks on the FBI, CIA and NSA. These actions have infuriated the corporate-military national security establishment running Washington.
They are the ones who lie to us, and lied to us into the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Ukraine. They are the ones behind the police state agencies, the CIA, NSA, FBI, and DIA.
This rightwing anti-Trump movement at present dominates the "Resistance," and has little problem with Trump's racist, pro-corporate, warmongering, anti-environment (actually anti-Planet Earth) policies. To the extent they do, much of it is a question of his crude style.
Two major "liberal" newspapers, pushing Trump-Putin Russiagate "collusion" are the New York Times and the Washington Post. The Times' long article on September 20 The Plot to Subvert an Election: Unraveling the Russia Story So Far claimed "What we now know with certainty: The Russians carried out a landmark intervention." Yet, like most such Russiagate tales, deep inside it says "no public evidence has emerged showing that [Trump's] campaign conspired with Russia." That is, the Russia US election interference story has as much validity as the Obama has no US birth certificate story.
Glenn Greenwald, Steve Cohen, The Real News Network, Consortium News, World Socialist Web Site, 21st Century Wire, have repeatedly shown that this whole Russia investigation is based on nothing of substance. So has Fox News' Tucker Carlson, the Ron Paul Institute, Jack F. Matlock Jr., ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987-1991, and Craig Murray, a former British ambassador. Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) in their study called allegations of Russian election interference "evidence-free."
Actual interference in the 2016 election was two-fold: 1) thecorporate buying of the candidates, and 2) Clinton and DNC manipulating the primaries so that she won delegates, not Bernie Sanders. Israel and Saudi Arabia are two countries that have a vastly more extensive influence operations on US politicians than does Russia.
Russiagate is a new McCarthyism
Today's repackaged anti-Russia campaign took off after Putin helped block the US- NATO seizure of the entire Ukraine, which would have placed their troops on Russia's borders. Putin then thwarted the US strategic plan to impose a neo-colonial regime on Syria, crush Hezbollah and Iran, and advance US control over the Middle East. Putin's successes enraged the US rulers.
The Russian news services, RT and Sputnik, have repeatedly exposed the fake news propagated by Western corporate media and politicians: alleged Russian shootdown of MH17, alleged chemical weapons attacks by Syria's Assad, and similar stories concocted to create the conditions for "humanitarian intervention." RT became a news source about Wikileaks' release of documents the US rulers wanted kept secret from us. As a result, the Western fake news propagators sought to suppress Russian news reporting that was reaching an increasing audience of US people, growing ever more skeptical of what the US government and corporate media fed them.
We are now even called traitors if we don't subscribe to Russiaphobia stories the 'intelligence" secret police (NSA, FBI, CIA, etc.) tell us: the ones who swore the NSA doesn't spy on every one of us, who said Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, who gave visas to two of the 9-11 attackerssix months after they were killed in the attack, who killed or framed the Black Panthers, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, organized the contra war against Nicaragua, brought crack cocaine in the US, created torture black sites around the world, and so on.
This DNC-national security state, which invented this Russiagate story, now dominates the anti-Trump "Resistance." Now we find progressive-minded people actually condemning Trump's attacks on the secret police apparatus and defending the FBI, CIA, NSA, and DIA in their resistance to Trump. Anti-war people who had opposed the invasion of Iraq now support the wars on Libya and Syria, and are happy to support the anti-Russia witch-hunt. A quarter of the Democratic candidates in the November 2018 midterm election "Resistance" are what some called "CIA Democrats." Liberal trust in institutions like the FBI has markedly increased since 2016, and many liberal-lefts go along with the neocon foreign policy in Syria, Ukraine, and other regions. A majority of the House Progressive Caucus not only voted for Trump's Pentagon budget, but voted to raise it tens of billions of dollars. This Pentagon budget increase by itself is more than the entire Russian military budget. The Democratic Party establishment has once again tamed the progressive social movement.
"Leftists" that push Russiagate Russiaphobia
Bernie Sanders is the most respected liberal-left pushing this Russian election interference witch-hunt. "Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a resolution [July 19, 2018] to force members of the Senate to go on the record in accepting the assessment of the U.S. intelligence community that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election and the looming threat of Russian interference in this year's midterm elections."
Pro-Democrat liberal-left media push Russiaphobia, such as Mother Jones and the Progressive. The Progressive even interviews former DIA and NSA head Clapper to get the lowdown about the Trump 'danger."
The Intercept, now a Democrat organ, joins the "Russia did it" bandwagon:
"The cyberattack on the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign during the 2016 election. Spoiler alert: The Russians really did do it."
This Intercept "investigative journalism" declares:
"Perhaps the strongest evidence of possible collusion between Trump and Russia included in the indictment relates to an odd and inflammatory statement that Trump made in the midst of the campaign. On July 27, 2016, Trump publicly implored Russia to find and release Clinton's emails that had supposedly been deleted from her personal account while she was secretary of state."
Trump's offhand joke is "the strongest evidence"?
Seth Ackerman at the Jacobin does understand the DNC will use Russiaphobia against the Democratic Party "left" (as does The Intercept and In These Times) yet other Jacobin articlesswallow the Russiagate tale. The same holds true for KPFA, The Nation, In These Times, and Democracy Now.
These faintly anti-Empire liberal-left Democratic Party websites all share a "resistance" to Trump, no matter what, no matter how, and who replaces him is secondary. In this atmosphere any anti-Trump story is credible: Putin can blackmail Trump with a peeing video (invented for the Steele dossier commissioned by the DNC), Russia hacked into the New England electric grid, hacked the Arizona and other election systems, Wikileaks' Assange a Russian agent, that 17 US intelligence agencies agreed Russia hacked into Democratic emails, or Mueller's "discovery" of 12 Russian agents, produced to disrupt the Trump-Putin summit.[1]
The Old and New McCarthyism
Beginning in the 1940s, the US rulers began an offensive to counter the liberation movements sweeping the world, inspired by the Soviet victory over fascism. At home, it turned against the working class, against union militants, against the Communist movement, to halt and reverse the gains labor had made since the 1930s.
It portrayed communism as a demonic enemy, and this included anything that was progressive. McCarthyism built on the anti-communist, anti-socialist repressions in WWI, on the Palmer Raids after the Russian revolution, and previously on the anti-anarchist, anti-red repressions from 1877 through the later attacks on the Wobblies.
McCarthy anti-communist hysteria had a devastating effect on the working class movement in the US. The witch-hunt allowed the ruling class to suppress protest, and build the growing surveillance apparatus and military-industrial complex that Eisenhower later hypocritically warned us about.
Unlike the 1950s McCarthyism, today's is led by the Democratic Party, ostensibly against Trump, often with support of "leftists," growing out of the prior anti-Russia crusade. The Clinton 2016 presidential campaign painted Trump as a stooge of Putin, and this accelerated after she lost the election, when Clinton blamed Russian "fake news" and interference as the primary reason for her loss.
The Washington Post followed up later in November 2016 with an glowing article legitimizing PropOrNot, an anonymous McCarthyite outfit which claims without explanation that 200 media outlets are mouthpieces of Russian propaganda. Included are Consortium News, Counterpunch, Truthdig, Naked Capitalism, Zero Hedge, Truth-out, and WikiLeaks.
Alan MacLeod and Jane Regan wrote that PropOrNot
"soberly informs its readers that [when] you see news sources critiquing the "mainstream media," the EU, NATO, Obama, Clinton, Angela Merkel or other centrists are a telltale sign of Russian propaganda. It also claims that when news sources argue against foreign intervention and war with Russia, that's evidence that you are reading Kremlin-penned fake news. PropOrNot claims it has identified over 200 popular websites that "routinely peddle…Russian propaganda." "
This WaPo article was the cue to push internet censorship.
The New McCarthyism censoring the Internet
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg was fully on board: "The evidence that we've seen is quite clear, that the Russians did try to interfere with the election." Claiming it was combating "fake news" and "Russian interference" Facebook works closely with the NATO sponsored Atlantic Council and two US government propaganda organizations, the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republican Institute (IRI). Facebook itself received funding from the CIAthrough partner organizations.
The Atlantic Council, closely connected to PropOrNot,asserts the growth of political opposition in the US presents a threat, which can be resolved by removing this "virus." Technology corporations must start to play a central role in carrying out censorship on behalf of the state. The Atlantic Council report The Kremlin's Trojan Horses claims political parties such as Greece's Syriza and Golden Dawn were not expressions of popular frustration and disillusionment, but the work of Putin.
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright chairs the NDI, while late Sen. John McCain was longtime IRI head. Both groups were created in 1983 as arms of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), created to advance CIA work. That these two US agencies, along with NATO's Atlantic Council, are used by Facebook to distinguish real from fake news adds up to state censorship.
In its McCarthyite campaign Facebook has taken down the Facebook pages of Venezuelanalysis, Haiti Analysis, and TeleSur English, all sharply critical of US policies, but protests caused it to restore them. Facebook granted 95% of Israel's 158 requests to remove Palestinian content. Facebook took down the "No Unite the Right 2-DC" page (a counter-rally against a white nationalist event in Washington) saying it displayed some "coordinated inauthentic behavior." Facebook has removed Occupy London.
Facebook removed nearly 650 "Iran-linked" accounts and pages that posted "anti-Saudi, pro-Palestinian" content. It also tried to get away with removing posts showing the US backed famine in Yemen. It removed the Blacktivist page, which reported on police brutality, mass incarceration and racist attacks, claiming it was a Kremlin front group (again, no evidence provided).
In October 2018, Facebook removed over 800 alternative media pages and accounts, with a combined following in the tens of millions. The banned pages include highly popular postings by groups publicizing incidents of police violence such as The Free Thought Project (3.1 million followers), Police the Police (1.9 million), Cop Block (1.7 million), Filming Cops (1.5 million), as well as anti-war, anti-corporate sites such as The Anti-Media (2.1 million), Reverb Press, Counter Current News, Resistance, and Press for Truth (350,000).
Facebook's statement on this mass purge of pages was co-authored by their Head of Cybersecurity Nathaniel Gleicher, who is a former White House National Security Council director of cybersecurity policy. The pages were banned for so-called "coordinated inauthentic behavior." Twitter then followed suit and did the same. The Western Journal has published the most complete list of the Facebook purges.
YouTube shut down a number of Syria-based accounts, disrupting their capacity to counter Western disinformation on the war in Syria.
RT points out that Google, Bing, Facebook and Youtube have hidden various progressive, socialist and anti-war websites, citing changed "algorithms" to fight "fake news." World Socialist Web Site found that 13 such websites had seen their traffic plunge by 55% shortly thereafter. These and others affected include wsws.org, Black Agenda Report, Global Research.ca, Consortium News.com, Alternet.org, democracynow.org, counterpunch.org, Truth-Out.org, Police the Police, Free Thought Project, counterpunch.org, wikileaks.org, truthdig.org, mediamatters.org, commondreams.org, TheIntercept.com, and ACLU.org.
Facebook and these other media technology corporations are taking their cue from the blacklist published in Washington Post by PropOrNot. Even journalists who question the Russia-did-it story, like Glenn Greenwald and Aaron Maté, are accused of being agents of the Kremlin.
National Public Radio showed the fraud justifying the corporate crackdown on alleged Russian "fake news" and exposure of Putin-Trump collusion when it reported Trump has actually been tougher on Russia than previous presidents. NPR even cited the very Atlantic Council as a source: "When you actually look at the substance of what this administration has done, not the rhetoric but the substance, this administration has been much tougher on Russia than any in the post-Cold War era," said Daniel Vajdich, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.
Ultimately, Russiagate is about silencing information exposing the lies, crimes, fake news and false flag war operations of corporate America and the national security state.
Alternative News that Speaks Out Against the New McCarthyism-Russiaphobia
Thankfully, a number of honest journalists have spoken out against this Russiagate McCarthyism. Aaron Mate of The Real News Network is one. Others include Consortium News, wsws.org, Caitlin Johnstone, Stephen Lendman, Stephen Cohen, Noam Chomsky, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), 21st Century Wire, RT, Sputnik, Black Agenda Report, Global Research, and those mentioned previously in this article.
Like The Nation, In These Times speaks out of both sides of its mouth, with Russophobia advocates and sharp critics of Russiagate.
We face a joint government-corporate attack on non-corporate media that question what the government feeds us. Underlying that is an attack on anti-corporate America social movements. The ever-increasing US militarism and interventionism habitually rely on "false flag" attacks to justify foreign intervention. The US rulers' credibility took serious hits because of their fake news on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, and the exposes of their faked stories about Gaddafi's Libya and Syrian government chemical attacks. The US rulers must quelch these exposes of their false flags if they are to garner support for future military invasions to maintain its empire.
The US rulers also must confront the widespread disillusion with their two corporate parties, the Democrats and Republicans, as evident in even the two parties' base in mass revolt against the party establishments in their support of two outsider 2016 presidential candidates, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. The US rulers must resort to more open censorship to maintain their control and continue to have the capacity to impose their policies dangerous to world peace and to the Planet Earth.
A not widely recognized problem this new McCarthyite Russiaphobia has created is the domination of the anti-Trump "Resistance" by its advocates around the Democratic Party bosses. Not only has the liberal left ceded control of the "Resistance" to the DNC, but too many liberal-left spokespeople even peddle Russiagate, thereby sanctioning, instead of opposing, censorship of the alternative media, facilitating, not opposing, US imperial regime change.
Sanders and Trump were popular in 2016 primaries because they opposed foreign wars more than the other candidates. That opened the door for anti-war forces and social justice movements. However, again outmaneuvered by Democratic Party bosses, too many liberal-lefts now collaborate with the very Clinton-DNC forces they just previously organized against. And once again, the onward Marcelos to build social justice movements independent of the two corporate parties has been temporarily set back.
[1] Putin offered to allow US agents to travel to Russia and observe the questioning of the 12 suspects indicted for alleged interference in the 2016 presidential election. Putin also offered to include in the joint declaration at the Helsinki summit mutual assurances of non-interference in elections, mutual assurances that each side would not attack critical infrastructure such as hospitals, power grids, and banks from a. Alleged Putin puppet Donald Trump rejected the Russian offers. Nevertheless former head of the CIA John Brennan tweeted that the Trump-Putin meeting was "treasonous." Trump is "wholly in the pocket of Putin," adding the president's performance "exceeds the threshold of 'high crimes & misdemeanors.'"
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Let's begin this morning with Syria. There has been a little bit of movement on the diplomatic front. Over the weekend, one of the main Syrian opposition leaders held informal talks with the government's main backers - Russia and Iran. These talks were held on the sidelines of a security conference in Germany. It is not clear whether this creates an opening for a political settlement that could end the bloodshed in country.
NPR's Kelly McEvers joins us from Beirut. Kelly, Good morning.
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GREENE: So what is the significance of the opposition in Syria talking to Russia and Iran?
MCEVERS: I think it's important to say from the outset that right now we're talking about words and gestures. There hasn't been any real concrete action to come out of this.
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MCEVERS: But it is a pretty big deal. Up till now the main opposition groups in Syria have refused to talk to the Syrian regime and have declined invitations from Russia and Iran to have official talks. But this past week a man named Moaz Khatib, who heads the main Syrian opposition group, the National Coalition, he said that he would be willing to talk to members of the Syrian regime. That seemed to open the door for conversations with Iran and Russia. He spoke to the foreign ministers of both countries and I think their thinking was, OK, if you're willing to sit down and talk to the regime, we're willing to sit down and try and hammer something out with you as well. That may go a long way, it may not.
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MCEVERS: The big question - the first big question is whether Khatib's own coalition will back him in this endeavor. So far they've been very critical. There was emergency meetings late night over the weekend. Khatib returned to Cairo last night where he and the coalition are based. I'm sure he's going to face some harsh criticism from them. Up to now he said he was speaking personally, not on behalf of the whole coalition, so we'll see how that goes.
Inside Syria, I think people are mixed. You know, some people are really tired. They want an end to this madness. It's been almost two years - 60,000 people dead. One activist and journalist who we know in Aleppo - a city that's seen a lot of fighting in recent months - he said sure, come and have a dialogue with the widows, with the hungry, with the bones of the children who are crumbling from cold. Another leading activist group made it plain in a statement that they released, you know, yes, we can have a dialogue with this regime, but as long as that dialogue doesn't leave the regime in power. This regime is killing its own people and it has to go.
GREENE: You bring up some of these awful stories that we've heard. And we spoke to you last week about the massacre. It was dozens of bodies turning up in a canal in the city of Aleppo. We didn't know much more about that. Have we learned more about that massacre?
MCEVERS: Yeah. Usually we journalists can't go and verify when these massacres happen and there have been too many of them so far. But there were Western journalists in Aleppo and they were able to verify that more than 100 people were killed. Their families said that almost all of them had been in government-controlled areas when they went missing - that they were going to do regular business and then when they found them again they found them dead. So the implication is that it was the government behind this killing.
GREENE: Wow. Kelly, before I let you go, the defense minister from Israel seemed to acknowledge now that Israel launched an air strike in Syria last week. Is that significant?
MCEVERS: It is, because up to this point Israel hadn't acknowledged the strike, although American officials had, and of course the Syrian government acknowledged it. Defense Minister Ehud Barak didn't acknowledge it outright, but he said the strike was proof, quote, "that when we say something we mean it."
You know, officials have said that the strike was targeting anti-aircraft weapons that were allegedly on their way here to Israel's enemy, Hezbollah. They also said the target was a research center used to make missiles to carry chemical weapons. You know, Israel and the U.S. have said the use of chemical weapons and sophisticated weapons is a red line for them, so it's clear that Israel was making good on its threat. The question is whether this was just a warning sign or whether this conflict is now going regional.
GREENE: All right. NPR's Kelly McEvers covering the conflict for us from Beirut. Thanks, Kelly.
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Insert a file attached to another page
You can display a file that's attached to a different page of the same Confluence site, if you know the name of the file.
To display an image attached to a different page:
- Go to Insert > Files and choose the Search on other pages.
- Enter the name of the file.
- Choose whether to search the current space or All Spaces and choose Search.
- Select the file from the search results and choose Insert.
Insert an image file from the web
You can display an image from a remote web page on your Confluence page, without needing to attach it to your page. You need to know the URL for the image, not for the web page it appears on. This is only available for image files, not other types of files (like documents).
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SQL Server installs Windows PowerShell and a set of SQL Server snap-ins that expose SQL Server functionality in Windows PowerShell. You can then code Windows PowerShell scripts that work with SQL Server objects. The scripts can be run in the Windows PowerShell environment, in SQL Server Management Studio, and as SQL Server Agent jobs.
Installing SQL Server PowerShell Support
You install the software required to run Windows PowerShell scripts by using SQL Server Setup. Beginning in SQL Server 2008, Setup installs the following Windows PowerShell components when you select either the client software or the Database Services nodes:
Windows PowerShell 1.0, if Windows PowerShell is not already present on your computer.
The SQL Server snap-ins. The snap-ins are dll files that implement two types of Windows PowerShell support for SQL Server:
A set of SQL Server cmdlets. Cmdlets are commands that implement a specific action. For example, Invoke-Sqlcmd runs a Transact-SQL or XQuery script that can also be run by using the sqlcmd utility, and Invoke-PolicyEvaluation reports whether SQL Server objects comply with policy-based management policies.
A SQL Server provider. The provider lets you navigate the hierarchy of SQL Server objects using a path similar to a file system path. Each object is associated with a class from the SQL Server Management object models. You can use the methods and properties of the class to perform work on the objects. For example, if you cd to a databases object in a path, you can use the methods and properties of the Microsoft.SqlServer.Managment.SMO.Database class to manage the database.
The sqlps utility that is used to run Windows PowerShell sessions that include the SQL Server snap-ins.
Beginning in SQL Server 2008, SQL Server Management Studio supports starting Windows PowerShell sessions from the Object Explorer tree. Also beginning in SQL Server 2008, SQL Server Agent supports Windows PowerShell job steps.
If Windows PowerShell is uninstalled after Setup finishes, the SQL Server features for Windows PowerShell will not function. Windows PowerShell can be uninstalled by Windows users, and uninstalling Windows PowerShell might be required by some Windows operating system upgrades. If Windows PowerShell has been uninstalled and you want to use the SQL Server features, you must do one of the following:
Manually download and reinstall Windows PowerShell 1.0 from the Microsoft Download Center. Download instructions are on the Windows Server 2003 Web site.
If you are running Windows Server 2008, Windows PowerShell 1.0 exists in the operating system but is disabled by default. You can re-enable Windows PowerShell from Windows Server 2008.
Supported Versions of SQL Server
You must use the SQL Server 2008 client components to run Windows PowerShell. Windows PowerShell can connect to instances of SQL Server 2000 or later. The earliest version of SQL Server 2005 that you can use is SP2. The earliest version of SQL Server 2000 that you can use is SP4. When Windows PowerShell connects to SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000, it is limited to the functionality available in those versions of SQL Server.
Using the sqlps Utility
sqlps is a utility that creates a Windows PowerShell environment and then loads and registers the SQL Server snap-ins. You can use sqlps to:
Interactively run Windows PowerShell commands.
Run Windows PowerShell script files.
Run SQL Server cmdlets.
Use the SQL Server provider paths to navigate through the hierarchy of SQL Server objects.
By default, sqlps runs with the scripting execution policy set to Restricted, which prevents running any Windows PowerShell scripts. You can use the Set-ExecutionPolicy cmdlet to enable running signed scripts, or any scripts. Only run scripts from trusted sources, and secure all input and output files using the appropriate NTFS permissions. For more information about enabling Windows PowerShell scripts, see Running Windows PowerShell Scripts.
For more information, see sqlps Utility.
Using Windows PowerShell in SQL Server Management Studio
You can start Windows PowerShell sessions in SQL Server Management Studio by right-clicking objects in Object Explorer and selecting Start PowerShell. SQL Server Management Studio then starts a Windows PowerShell session in which the SQL Server PowerShell snap-ins have been loaded and registered. The path for the session is preset to the location of the object you right clicked in Object Explorer. For example, if you right-click the AdventureWorks2008R2 database object in Object Explorer and select Start PowerShell, the Windows PowerShell path is set to the following:
Using Windows PowerShell in SQL Server Agent Job Steps
There are several types of SQL Server Agent job steps. Each type is associated with a subsystem that implements a specific environment, such as a replication agent or command prompt environment. The SQL Server Agent subsystem for Windows PowerShell supports job steps that execute Windows PowerShell scripts. You can code Windows PowerShell scripts, and then use SQL Server Agent to include the scripts in jobs that run at scheduled times or in response to SQL Server events. The SQL Server Agent subsystem loads and registers the SQL Server snap-ins so that you can run Windows PowerShell scripts.
For more information, see SQL Server Agent Subsystems.
Each SQL Server Agent job step launches a sqlps process which consumes approximately 20 MB of memory. Running large numbers of concurrent Windows PowerShell job steps can adversely impact performance.
Adding the SQL Server Snap-ins to Windows PowerShell
The sqlps utility is a Windows PowerShell mini-shell. Mini-shells have certain restrictions. For example, they are coded to load in one or more Windows PowerShell snap-ins, but users and scripts cannot add other snap-ins. If you require functionality not supported by a mini-shell, such as working with both the SQL Server snap-ins and the snap-ins from another product, you can add the SQL Server snap-ins directly into a Windows PowerShell environment.
Paste the following code into Notepad and save it as a ps1 script file on your computer, such as C:\MyFolder\InitializeSQLProvider.ps1:
# Add the SQL Server Provider.
$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"
if (Get-ChildItem $sqlpsreg -ErrorAction "SilentlyContinue")
throw "SQL Server Provider for Windows PowerShell is not installed."
$item = Get-ItemProperty $sqlpsreg
$sqlpsPath = [System.IO.Path]::GetDirectoryName($item.Path)
# Set mandatory variables for the SQL Server provider
Set-Variable -scope Global -name SqlServerMaximumChildItems -Value 0
Set-Variable -scope Global -name SqlServerConnectionTimeout -Value 30
Set-Variable -scope Global -name SqlServerIncludeSystemObjects -Value $false
Set-Variable -scope Global -name SqlServerMaximumTabCompletion -Value 1000
# Load the snapins, type data, format data
cd $sqlpsPath
Add-PSSnapin SqlServerCmdletSnapin100
Add-PSSnapin SqlServerProviderSnapin100
Update-TypeData -PrependPath SQLProvider.Types.ps1xml
update-FormatData -prependpath SQLProvider.Format.ps1xml
You can then use the script to launch the Windows PowerShell environment in which the SQL Server snap-ins are loaded by using this command:
PowerShell -NoExit -Command "C:\MyFolder\InitializeSQLProvider.ps1"
The command can be run at a command prompt, from a desktop shortcut, or from the Run dialog box in the Start menu. By default, Windows PowerShell runs in Restricted mode, which does not support running scripts. For more information about enabling Windows PowerShell scripts, see Running Windows PowerShell Scripts.
Loading the SQL Server Management Objects in Windows PowerShell
The SQL Server provider automatically loads the SQL Server Management Object (SMO) assemblies. There are two cases where you may need to load the SMO assemblies directly:
If your script references a SMO object before the first command that references the provider or cmdlets from the SQL Server snap-ins.
You want to port SMO code from another language, such as C# or VB.Net, that does not use the provider or cmdlets.
The following code loads the SMO assemblies:
# Loads the SQL Server Management Objects (SMO)
$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"
if (Get-ChildItem $sqlpsreg -ErrorAction "SilentlyContinue")
throw "SQL Server Provider for Windows PowerShell is not installed."
$item = Get-ItemProperty $sqlpsreg
$sqlpsPath = [System.IO.Path]::GetDirectoryName($item.Path)
$assemblylist =
"Microsoft.SqlServer.Dmf ",
"Microsoft.SqlServer.Instapi ",
"Microsoft.SqlServer.SqlWmiManagement ",
"Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo ",
"Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoExtended ",
"Microsoft.SqlServer.SqlTDiagM ",
"Microsoft.SqlServer.SString ",
"Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.RegisteredServers ",
"Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Sdk.Sfc ",
"Microsoft.SqlServer.SqlEnum ",
"Microsoft.SqlServer.RegSvrEnum ",
"Microsoft.SqlServer.WmiEnum ",
"Microsoft.SqlServer.ServiceBrokerEnum ",
"Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfoExtended ",
"Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Collector ",
foreach ($asm in $assemblylist)
$asm = [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName($asm)
cd $sqlpsPath
update-FormatData -prependpath SQLProvider.Format.ps1xml
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Ukrainian Wikileaks: McCain and Saakashvili are plotting to shoot down American plane in Syria to blame Russia [transcript]
October, 2015
Translated from Russian by Kristina Rus
"M.": Mikhail Saakashvili, ex-president of Georgia, Odessa region governor
Translated from Russian by Kristina Rus
"M.": Mikhail Saakashvili, ex-president of Georgia, Odessa region governor
David Kezerashvili - former head of financial police and minister
of defense of Georgia. Wanted for embezzling state
"G": Anton Gerashenko - people's deputy of Ukraine in faction "People's Front", secretary of Verkhovnaya Rada committee on issues of legal basis of law enforcement. Advisor to the minister of interior, Arsen Avakov, resident agent of US special services
"R.": Ramzan Machelikashvili - cousin of Ruslan Machelikashvili, infamous field commander of Islamic State, callsign Seyfullakh. Commander of special anti-aircraft unit, received special training in the ATO zone. Anti-aircraft specialist sent to Syria.
M. Let him come in!
M. Sit down, David! Everything should be done on time, as we discussed. You understand the importance of everything! Wait a second, I will turn on anti-surveillance.
McCain confirmed the plan, everything is in place so you know. We got cover from the US Senate. In Syria, Russians must be hit, or else if Russians and Americans fundamentally agree, they will really dump Ukraine. Donbass is on conservation, project Transnistria is suspended. If it goes on, we are done! We should speed things up in Syria!
Have you prepared our guys?
K: Yes, everything is done. Today, they fly to Antalya and then go to Syria.
They received good training and will tear everything with their spirit. These are our Kistintsy (Georgian Chechens living in the Pankisi Gorge in Georgia), tough guys. Ramzan Machelikashvili was appointed a commander, all four obey him. They shoot from all weapons, they are anti-aircraft professionals. They are waiting for specific instructions.
M. Give Ramzan this phone number and cell phone. Upon arrival it is necessary to send a message, there is Warren's man from the CIA, he will greet and take the guys. Turks are warned and will let them through. In short, this agent of Steve Warren knows everything and speaks Russian. After, Ramzan should give him this phone.
M. Yes, yes, will turn it off.
K. It's all clear, but what about equipment and weapons?
M. Wait, wait! I have to pick up the call from Gerashchenko .
M. Hello Anton! Our guys are leaving today. Is it all ready?
G. Mr. Mikhail Nikolayevich! It is loud over there!
G. Now I can hear! Avakov (Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine) transported everything, there are five anti-aircraft [PZRK - rus.] "Willow" [Verba" - rus.] and "Needle S" ["Igla S" - rus.], full ammunition and equipment. Large anti-aircraft guns are on the road. As soon as they pass the border, your chieftain, what's his name, Ash-Shushani will meet them, the guys will be on the case.
M. Excellent! Excellent! Well, talk to you later.
M. David! All you need is already in place and when they cross the border they will get everything. There they will be greeted by Tarhan Batirashvili. You know who he is? He has great influence in the Islamic State, all Chechens pass through him, his nickname is Ash-Shushani. Also Ramzan's cousin, Ruslan Machelikashvili will also meet them. He is a ruthless thug, Americans told me.
So, the whole group will be in Latakia, in the Al-Nusra zone, the goal is to shoot down American plane. They will get flight information, there is a local Kurd there for that. The plan is turning out very cool! American plane will be shot down by Russian military. This will be told by the Prisoner, that the target was shot down from PZRK. The scene will be amusing, the whole world will talk about it.
After this group will go to Hasaka, it is a city near the Kurds and there they will destroy a Kurdish village, the Russians will do everything. In return, the Kurds will shoot down a Russian plane with Stingers. The goal is to pit the Americans and Russians in Syria. The Turks will be grateful, they promise to rouse the Crimean Tatars.
After it is done in Syria, you will see, if Americans don't bring troops to Ukraine and all our projects will begin operating. McCain is waiting for our actions. Otherwise, Obama will not raise his ass, elections are coming soon and he will do nothing. You see, Poroshenko also began to wag his tail in front of Putin.
C. I don't know, Misha! It's your plans, you know better. I'll explain everything to the guys and will send them on the way. It's great that Tarhan Batirashvili will meet them, he knows how to fight and will supervise everything. At one time I accepted him into the Army. His mother is Kistinka, and a Georgian father.
M. What I said, do in time, give each one of the five $10 thousand. Give $20,000 to Tarhan's father in Ahmet.
K. I already paid the guys, and my people will pass $20 thousand to Tbilisi.
Machelikashvili is waiting in the reception, want to have a couple words with him?!
M. Sure!
Sveta! There's a man with a beard who came with David, named Ramzan, let him in.
S. Of course, Mikhail Nikolayevich
M. How are you Ramzan! How are things?
R. Batono Misha! We are ready to execute all the tasks.
M. Very good! The peace in the whole world depends on you! I and Dato will support you and your families in everything.
R. Thank you very much. David is very helpful. After completing the tasks in Syria, we will bring you back to Georgia, this is our next task. We will blow up the entire Georgia, if necessary!
M. Thank you Ramzan, this time will come, but for now we should take care of Ukraine. Dato will explain, everything is ready. Our guys will meet, Ruslan is your cousin, Aslan Margoshvili, Tarhan Batirashvili and others. You will be in good hands. Say hello to the guys and be careful. Take care of yourself.
R. You make me feel better, Misha batono. I did not know that the brother will meet, we will do everything 100%. I thought Tarhan died, I heard he was blown up along with El-Baghdadi. Insha Allah, he is alive.
M. Ramzan, take it! This is a dagger from me.
R. May Allah protect you, batono Misha! We will not disgrace ourselves and do everything, I swear to you!
K. Ok, Ramzan, wait in the waiting room, I will come out soon!
M. Ramzan is a tough man, right?! Tell me, are the Swiss accounts already available ?!
K. The court has closed my cases and the accounts are available, just need to submit documents to the bank. Adeishvili was very helpful. His guys did everything at the court. I sent them some, and will have to send more.
M. Kama still has to be paid. You said that you transferred the shares to Kakha's people [Kaladze, Minister of Energy of Georgia] and it was closed. What is f#cken wrong with everyone to throw my money away like that!
K. Don't yell! I told you, 35% I gave from the port and oil infrastructure. From gas I gave 10%, and added 10% for Bezhuashvili. Otherwise they didn't agree. And in court they did everything, for Meishvili, Shavliashili and Levna Murusidze I must send fifty, I gave nothing to them yet, first just to pay the judges who were on my case. I told you everything in advance. If not, I would get a judgement like Ugulava, and would block access to the accounts.
M. F#ck their mother, b#tch! This f#cking Magis sold Kolomoisky the video. Penguin caught it and they posted the frames with Bacho f#ggots. For this reason, all the planned actions had to be stopped, against Gazprom and in defense of Rustavi 2. I said a thousand times, remove this Kardav or pay the money to this bastard. Ilham too can be offended and cut off our debt in SOCAR. It must be solved somehow. When are you going to Zurich?
K. I will send our guys, tomorrow I'll go to Kiev and from there to Switzerland. After going to Baku, there I will tackle SOCAR issues.
M. Watch out for our Pankisi guys, so they are happy. This is the most important thing right now. As soon as we pit Moscow and Washington, then smoothly will move to Kiev. Ok, later!
M. Wait, wait. Glad I remembered! Tina asked, in Sagarejo, that her relative needs help with elections. Our guys are doing everything, and Tina will involve the military but Azersky Muganlo is crucial. Our deputy, Azik, he will contact you and when you will arrive to Baku, he will come, give him the money to bribe Muganloisk muftis. Also ask the Baku elite, to help me in this regard. There is a bitch Iniashvili, she should not win elections, California Senators support her, but I don't care.
Do you understand what to do ?! Prior to going to Kiev meet with Adeishvili, and he will explain all the details.
K. Yes, let Zura explain everything, there are so many things, I can get lost, I need his help.
M. Good. As soon as you send the guys, let me know, I have to inform McCain, he is waiting!
K. Ok, Misha! I must go, a lot to do.


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Two years ago, a team of epidemiologists at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Heath in Baltimore published a study in the Lancet estimating that the US invasion and occupation of Iraq had led to approximately one hundred thousand excess deaths. While the study caused a storm of outrage among supporters of the war, its methodology and conclusions were generally regarded as robust and repeatable. The authors of the study have now done exactly that, repeating their sampling with a greater number of clusters. Their midpoint estimate for the number of excess deaths is now 655,000.
Six hundred and fifty-five thousand - that's 2.5% of the Iraqi population, dead due to America's war. Even the bottom of the confidence interval - 392,979 - is thirteen times higher than Bush's estimate of 30,000 dead, and more than twice as high as the estimated 182,000 killed in Saddam's Al-Anfal campaign of genocide against the Kurds, for which he is currently on trial. What does that suggest about the eventual fate of the architects of this obscene occupation?
(I am steadfastly Not Thinking about the top of the confidence interval. It doesn't top a million, but its certainly within reach).
Thanks to George Bush, 500 more Iraqis are dying a day than died under Saddam. 92% of them are dying due to violence, and 31% of those deaths are directly attributable to US forces. The rest is mostly gunshot wounds, car bombs, and other explosions (the researchers don't seem to have included a category for death squads). 500 a day. Maybe someone should start piling the skulls on the White House lawn?
For a war that was supposedly waged to help the Iraqi people, this has done precisely the opposite. "First, do no harm" is a basic principle of medicine. Maybe we should think about making it a principle of foreign policy too.


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Medvedev says Magnitsky fallout not bad for Russian business
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev used a prime-time TV interview on Saturday to dismiss concerns growing fallout from the 2009 death of anti-corruption lawyer Sergei Magnitsky would damage Russia's business interests.
Medvedev said the whistleblower's death in jail, for which no one has been brought to justice, was being used by Kremlin critics to score points but was of no import to business leaders.
The assurances seemed to contradict concerns aired by members of Russia's business elite this week on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where Medvedev was Moscow's top representative.
The United States adopted legislation last month called he Magnitsky Act, which bars entry to Russians accused of involvement in his death or other grave human rights abuses and freezes any U.S. assets they hold.
"It does not interest anyone, except maybe certain citizens who are trying to use it to accumulate political capital," said Medvedev, who was president from 2008 until Vladimir Putin returned to the Kremlin last May.
"Not a single businessman raises this issue," he told state television in an interview focusing on his role in the forum. "But unfortunately it has become a factor in political life."
Russia responded to the U.S. legislation by imposing similar measures against Americans accused of violating rights of Russians and also banning adoption of Russian children by Americans, adding tension to ties already strained since Putin's Kremlin return.
Magnitsky was 37 when he died after nearly a year in pre-trial custody on tax evasion changes. He said he was denied proper medical care and members of Medvedev's own human rights council said he was probably beaten to death.
Authorities said he died of a heart attack, but his former employer, investment fund Hermitage Capital, says he was killed because he was investigating a $230 million theft by mid-ranking interior ministry and tax officials through fraudulent tax refunds.
Magnitsky's death caused an outcry and underscored risks faced by Russians who challenge the state. In what Kremlin critics called a travesty of justice, Russia is trying him posthumously and preliminary hearings start on Monday.
Medvedev brushed off a question about the potential effects on investment in Russia, saying the issue had been politicized and had little relation to the economy.
At Davos, he said, "There was no business discussion (of the Magnitsky issue)."
For foreign executives, however, it is symbolic of broader concerns about operating in Russia, where perceived corruption and weak corporate governance add to the risks of investment.
A Russian billionaire at Davos expressed concern that the drive to punish Russians over Magnitsky could spread to the European Union and Britain, and some tycoons worry their cross-border money transfers will get hit by red tape. The billionaire asked not to be named.
Investigations with ties to the Magnitsky case have taken place in three European countries which are important conduits for fund transfers by Russian business.
Alexei Navalny, a Russian opposition leader, seemed to add a note of sarcasm when he posted a Russian news headline on Twitter: "Dmitry Medvedev believes the issue of Sergei Magnitsky is not of interest to Russian business."
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly; Editing by Jason Webb)


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