text: Latest News Facebook is rolling out its censorship initiative According to the latest news, Facebook began testing new tools to carry out its "censorship plan" with the convenient name of "tackling fake news". Published 2 years ago on December 11, 2016 By The Duran 3,606 Views Share Tweet One of the tools being tested will enable users to inform Facebook if certain news stories are using "misleading language". Some users posted images of a Facebook survey asking them the following question: "To what extent do you think that this link's title withholds key details of the story?". It is still unclear what kind of actions will be carried out after this additional user data is collected, but it is likely that some sort of a database, containing the list of "misleading" news websites, will be generated. In a not so distant past, content curators from Facebook confirmed that they received direct orders from the company to decrease the relevance or even hide from the newsfeed stories and content with conservative language. While this happened in the US, similar stories have been reported in Brazil, the United Kingdom around the time of the Brexit, and in other countries. Recently, there were other reports that Facebook developed a special software for the Chinese market, that would enable "third parties" to authorize the contents before posting it to the users' timelines. The initiative would aim to lift the current ban of the social network in the country. The main difference between this new software and the current content restrictions in some countries is that instead of reacting to a government request to hide some specific content, Facebook would be giving the option to some parties to censor and take down content before it is even posted on the network. It is true that when you create a profile on Facebook or any other social network, you have to accept their terms and conditions in exchange of the "non-paid" use of their platforms. Most of these terms and conditions allow the social networks to analyze the information you are publishing and reading for several proposes, including targeted advertisements and many others, but is it ethical to take advantage of this information in order to define what content you should or should not see? Since Snowden's NSA information leak we know that we can be monitored at any given time by government agencies. The realization of this fact, however, didn't stop us from using the same networks, nor did it prompt the closure of the NSA or other agencies involved in the perpetual recording and storage of our data. But now we are entering a whole new level in which companies and governments will attempt to define what is right and wrong for us to see, read and talk about. What's even more bizarre is that the CEO of Facebook could potentially run for office, while retaining control over one of the most popular social networks in the world, with the capability of retrieving and accessing anyone's data without any sort of legal process or request. This Orwellian trend is truly scary and we should really start questioning ourselves about the extent to which we are willing to continue handing out personal data and information to these networks. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Related Topics:featuredFacebookcensorshipMark Zuckerbergfake news Up Next Britain's MI6 chief is spreading fake news about Syria (VIDEO) Don't Miss Hillary Clinton and CIA are staging a coup against Donald Trump Advertisement You may like Don't share this! 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Published 19 hours ago on September 25, 2018 By Eric Zuesse Originally posted at strategic-culture.org: Despite Barack Obama's economic sanctions against Russia, and the plunge in oil prices that King Saud agreed to with Obama's Secretary of State John Kerry on 11 September 2014, the economic damages that the US and Saudis have aimed against a particular oil-and-gas giant, Russia, have hit mostly elsewhere — at least till now. This has been happening while simultaneously Obama's violent February 2014 coup overthrowing Ukraine's democratically elected pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych (and the head of the 'private CIA' firm Stratfor calls it "the most blatant coup in history") has caused Ukraine's economy to plunge even further than Russia's, and corruption in Ukraine to soar even higher than it was before America's overthrow of that country's final freely elected nationwide government, so that Ukraine's economy has actually been harmed far more than Russia's was by Obama's coup in Ukraine and Obama's subsequent economic sanctions against Russia (sanctions that are based on clear and demonstrable Obama lies but that continue and even get worse under Trump). Bloomberg News headlined on February 4th of 2016, "These Are the World's Most Miserable Economies" and reported the "misery index" rankings of 63 national economies as projected in 2016 and 60 as actual in 2015 — a standard ranking-system that calculates "misery" as being the sum of the unemployment-rate and the inflation-rate. They also compared the 2016 projected rankings to the 2015 actual rankings. Top rank, #1 both years — the most miserable economy in the world during 2015 and 2016 — was Venezuela, because of that country's 95% dependence upon oil-export earnings (which crashed when oil-prices plunged). The US-Saudi agreement to flood the global oil market destroyed Venezuela's economy. #2 most-miserable in 2015 was Ukraine, at 57.8. But Ukraine started bouncing back so that as projected in 2016 it ranked #5, at 26.3. Russia in 2015 was #7 most-miserable in 2015, at 21.1, but bounced back so that as projected in 2016 it became #14 at 14.5. Bloomberg hadn't reported misery-index rankings for 2014 showing economic performances during 2013, but economist Steve H. Hanke of Johns Hopkins University did, in his "Measuring Misery Around the World, May 2014," in the May 2014 GlobeAsia, ranking 90 countries; and, during 2013 (Yanukovych's final year as Ukraine's President before his being forced out by Obama's coup), Ukraine's rank was #23 and its misery-index was 24.4. Russia's was #36 and its misery index was 19.9. So: those can be considered to be the baseline-figures, from which any subsequent economic progress or decline (after Obama's 2014 Ukrainian coup) may reasonably be calculated. Hanke's figures during the following year, 2014, were reported by him at Huffington Post, "The World Misery Index: 108 Countries", and by UAE's Khaleej Times, "List of Most Miserable Countries" (the latter falsely attributing that ranking to Cato Institute, which had merely republished Hanke's article). In 2014, Ukraine's misery-index, as calculated by Hanke, was #4, at 51.8. That year had 8 countries above 40 in Hanke's ranking. Russia was #42 at 21.42. So: Russia's rank had improved, but, because of the globally bad economy, Russia's absolute number was slightly worse (higher) than it had been before Obama's coup in Ukraine and subsequent sanctions against Russia. By contrast, Ukraine's rank had suddenly gotten far worse, #4 at 51.80 in 2014, after having been #23 at 24.4 in 2013. The figures in Bloomberg for Russia were: during 2015, #7 with a misery-index of 21.1; and projected during 2016, #14 with a misery-index of 14.5; so, Bloomberg too showed a 2015-2016 improvement for Russia, and not only for Ukraine (where in the 2016 projection it ranked #5, at 26.3, a sharp improvement after the horrendous 2015 actual numbers). "Hanke's Annual Misery Index — 2017" in Forbes, showed 98 countries, and Venezuela was still #1, the worst; Ukraine was now #9 at 36.9; and Russia was #36 at 18.1. Thus: whereas Russia was economically sunningly stable at #36 from start to finish throughout the entire five-year period 2013-2017, starting with a misery-index of 19.9 in 2013 and ending with 18.1 in 2017, Ukraine went from a misery-index of 24.4 in 2013 to 36.9 in 2017 — and worsening its rank from #23 to #9. During that five-year period Ukraine's figure peaked in the year of Obama's coup at 57.8. So, at least Ukraine's misery seems to be heading back downward in the coup's aftermath, though it's still considerably worse than before the coup. But, meanwhile, Russia went from 19.9 to 18.1 — and had no year that was as bad as Ukraine's best year was during that period of time. And, yet: that coup and the economic sanctions and the US-Saudi oil-agreement were targeted against Russia — not against Ukraine. If the US were trying to punish the people of Ukraine, then the US coup in Ukraine would have been a raving success; but actually Obama didn't care at all about Ukrainians. He cared about the owners of America's weapons-making firms and of America's extractive firms. Trump likewise. During that same period (also using Hanke's numbers) the United States went from #71 at 11.0 in 2013, to #69 at 8.2 in 2017. US was stable. Saudi Arabia started with #40 18.9 during 2013, to #30 at 20.2 in 2017. That's improvement, because the Kingdom outperformed the global economy. During the interim, and even in the years leading up to 2014, Russia had been (and still is) refocusing its economy away from Russia's natural resources and toward a broad sector of high technology: military R&D and production. On 15 December 2014, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute headlined, "Sales by Largest Arms Companies Fell Again in 2013, but Russian Firms' Sales Continued Rising," and reported, "Sales by companies headquartered in the United States and Canada have continued to moderately decrease, while sales by Russian-based companies increased by 20 per cent in 2013." The following year, SIPRI bannered, on 14 December 2015, "Global Arms Industry: West Still Dominant Despite Decline," and reported that, "Despite difficult national economic conditions, the Russian arms industry's sales continued to rise in 2014. … 'Russian companies are riding the wave of increasing national military spending and exports. There are now 11 Russian companies in the Top 100 and their combined revenue growth over 2013–14 was 48.4 per cent,' says SIPRI Senior Researcher Siemon Wezeman. In contrast, arms sales of Ukrainian companies have substantially declined. … US companies' arms sales decreased by 4.1 per cent between 2013 and 2014, which is similar to the rate of decline seen in 2012–13. … Western European companies' arms sales decreased by 7.4 per cent in 2014." This is a redirection of the Russian economy that Vladimir Putin was preparing even prior to Obama's war against Russia. Perhaps it was because of the entire thrust of the US aristocracy's post-Soviet determination to conquer Russia whenever the time would be right for NATO to strike and grab it. Obama's public ambivalence about Russia never persuaded Putin that the US would finally put the Cold War behind it and end its NATO alliance as Russia had ended its Warsaw Pact back in 1991. Instead, Obama continued to endorse expanding NATO, right up to Russia's borders (now even into Ukraine) — an extremely hostile act. By building the world's most cost-effective designers and producers of weaponry, Russia wouldn't only be responding to America's ongoing hostility — or at least responding to the determination of America's aristocracy to take over Russia, which is the world's largest trove of natural resources — but would also expand Russia's export-earnings and international influence by selling to other countries weaponry that's less-burdened with the costs of sheer corruption than are the armaments that are being produced in what is perhaps the world's most corrupt military-industrial complex: America's. Whereas Putin has tolerated corruption in other areas of Russia's economic production (figuring that those areas are less crucial for Russia's future), he has rigorously excluded it in the R&D and production and sales of weaponry. Ever since he first came into office in 2000, he has transformed post-Soviet Russia from being an unlimitedly corrupt satellite of the United States under Boris Yeltsin, to becoming truly an independent nation; and this infuriates America's aristocrats (who gushed over Yeltsin). The Russian government-monopoly marketing company for Russia's weapons-manufacturers, Rosoboronexport, presents itself to nations around the world by saying: "Today, armaments and military equipment bearing the Made in Russia label protect independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of dozens of countries. Owing to their efficiency and reliability, Russian defense products enjoy strong demand on the global market and maintain our nation's leading positions among the world's arms exporters. For the past several years, Russia has consistently ranked second behind the United States as regards arms exports." That's second-and-rising, as opposed to America's first-and-falling. The American aristocracy's ever-growing war against Russia posed and poses to Putin two simultaneous challenges: both to reorient away from Russia's natural resources, which the global aristocracy wants to grab, and also to reorient toward the area of hi-tech in which the Soviets had built a basis from which Russia could become truly cost-effective in international commerce, so as to, simultaneously, increase Russia's defensive capability against an expanding NATO, while also replacing some of Russia's dependence upon the natural resources that the West's aristocrats want to steal. In other words: Putin designed a plan to meet two challenges simultaneously — military and economic. His primary aim is to protect Russia from being grabbed by the American and Saudi aristocrats, via America's NATO and the Sauds' Gulf Cooperation Council and other alliances (which are trying to take over Russia's ally Syria — Syria being a crucial location for pipelining Arab royals' oil-and-gas into Europe, the world's largest energy-market). In addition, the hit to Russia's economic growth-rate from the dual-onslaught of Obama's sanctions and the plunging oil prices hasn't been too bad. The World Bank's April 2015 "Russia Economic Report" predicted: "Growth prospects for 2015-2016 are negative. It is likely that when the full effects of the two shocks become evident in 2015, they will push the Russian economy into recession. The World Bank baseline scenario sees a contraction of 3.8 percent in 2015 and a modest decline of 0.3 percent in 2016. The growth spectrum presented has two alternative scenarios that largely reflect differences in how oil prices are expected to affect the main macro variables." The current (as of 15 February 2016) "Russia GDP Annual Growth Rate" at Trading Economics says: "The Russian economy shrank 3.8 percent year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2015, following a 4.1 percent contraction in the previous period, according to preliminary estimates from the Economic Development Minister Alexey Ulyukayev. It is the worst performance since 2009 [George W. Bush's global economic crash], as Western sanctions and lower oil prices hurt external trade and public revenues." The current percentage as of today, 17 September 2018, is 1.9%, after having plunged down from 2.2% in late 2017, to 0.9% in late 2017; so, it is rebounding. The World Bank's April 2015 "Russia Economic Report" went on to describe "The Government Anti-Crisis Plan": On January 27, 2014, the government adopted an anti-crisis plan with the goal to ensure sustainable economic development and social stability in an unfavorable global economic and political environment. It announced that in 2015–2016 it will take steps to advance structural changes in the Russian economy, provide support to systemic entities and the labor market, lower inflation, and help vulnerable households adjust to price increases. To achieve the objectives of positive growth and sustainable medium-term macroeconomic development the following measures are planned: • Provide support for import substitution and non-mineral exports; • Support small and medium enterprises by lowering financing and administrative costs; • Create opportunities for raising financial resources at reasonable cost in key economic sectors; • Compensate vulnerable households (e.g., pensioners) for the costs of inflation; • Cushion the impact on the labor market (e.g. provide training and increase public works); • Optimize budget expenditures; and • Enhance banking sector stability and create a mechanism for reorganizing systemic companies. So: Russia's anti-crisis plan was drawn up and announced on 27 January 2014, already before Yanukovych was overthrown, even before Obama's agent Victoria Nuland on 4 February 2014 instructed the US Ambassador in Ukraine whom to have appointed to run the government when the coup would be completed ("Yats," who did get appointed). Perhaps, in drawing up this plan, Putin was responding to scenes from Ukraine like this. He could see that what was happening in Ukraine was an operation financed by the US CIA. He could recognize what Obama had in mind for Russia. The "Russia Economic Report, May 2018: Modest Growth Ahead" says: Global growth continued its 2017 momentum in early 2018. Global growth reached a stronger than- expected 3 percent in 2017 — a notable recovery from a post-crisis low of 2.4 percent in 2016. It is currently expected to peak at 3.1 percent in 2018. Recoveries in investment, manufacturing, and trade continue as commodity-exporting developing economies benefit from firming commodity prices (Figure 1a). The improvement reflects a broad-based recovery in advanced economies, robust growth in commodity-importing Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (EMDEs), and an ongoing rebound in commodity exporters. Growth in China – and important trading partner for Russia – is expected to continue its gradual slowdown in 2018 following a stronger than-expected 6.9 percent in 2017. Putin's economic plan has softened the economic blow upon the masses, even while it has re-oriented the economy toward what would be the future growth-areas. The country that Putin in 2000 had taken over and inherited from the drunkard Yeltsin (so beloved by Western aristocrats because he permitted them to skim off so much from it) was a wreck even worse than it had been when the Soviet Union ended. Putin immediately set to work to turn it around, in a way that could meet those two demands. Apparently, Putin has been succeeding — now even despite what the US aristocracy (and its allied aristocracies in Europe and Arabia) have been throwing to weaken Russia. And the Russian people know it. PS: The present reporter is an American, and used to be a Democrat, not inclined to condemn Democratic politicians, but Obama's grab for Russia was not merely exceedingly dangerous for the entire world, it is profoundly unjust, it is also based on his (and most Republicans') neoconservative lies, and so I don't support it, and I no longer support Obama or his and the Clintons' Democratic Party, at all. But this certainly doesn't mean that I support the Republican Party, which is typically even worse on this (and other matters) than Democratic politicians are. On almost all issues, I support Bernie Sanders, but I am not a part of anyone's political campaign, in any way Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest Viktor Orban strikes back at EU. Visits Moscow to do business with Putin (Video) The Duran – News in Review – Episode 117. Published 19 hours ago on September 25, 2018 By Alex Christoforou The Duran's Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss Viktor Orban's recent trip to Moscow following a contentious EU Parliament session where the Hungarian PM was punished by MEPs with an Article 7 sanctioning of Hungary, for daring to take on the George Soros globalist paymaster. Remember to Please Subscribe to The Duran's YouTube Channel. Authored by John Laughland via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity: The "salon des refusés" of political dissidents in the EU is getting bigger by the day. Less than a week after his government was condemned in a vote in the European parliament, Orban is in Moscow for talks about energy with Putin. His visit to Russia is the political equivalent of giving the EU the finger following last week's humiliation. Orban is not alone. In his battle with the EU over immigration and the rule of law, he is supported by Poland and the Czech Republic. Poland, which is also facing an Article 7 procedure against it by the European Commission, has vowed to protect Hungary, just as Hungary has vowed to protect Poland. So there is no way that the voting rights of either country can be removed, since the ultimate vote to do so requires unanimity. Orban also recently received the support of Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis and of the Italian Minister of the Interior, Matteo Salvini. These politicians have voiced support for Orban's stance against immigration. But they also support his pragmatic approach to Russia. Salvini is a well-known critic of the Russia sanctions, and Italy has said they should end. Parts of the Austrian government agree, the Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl having recently had Putin as a personal guest of honor at her wedding, while the Vice-Chancellor, Heinz-Christian Strache, is well known for his pro-Russian and pro-Putin views. On the other hand, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has reassured critics that Austria is rooted in the EU and shares its stance towards Russia. The striking thing about Orban, and about his Central European allies (who incidentally include the Czech President Milos Zeman), is that they are from countries which, as Orban puts it, suffered greatly "under Russia" in the past. He is referring to the countries' membership of the Warsaw Pact, and their subjection to communist rule, after World War II. In Hungary's case, the suffering was especially violent because of the suppression of the 1956 revolution in Budapest by Soviet troops. Yet it is precisely these countries who today advocate a pragmatic relationship with Russia, while countries such as Britain, and even Germany, treat Russia as if it were still a communist dictatorship with the Cold War in full swing. The irony is all the greater because Orban personally played a key role – but one which is often forgotten by historians – in bringing about the end of Soviet rule in Central Europe. His speech in Heroes' Square in Budapest on June 16, 1989 on the occasion of the re-burial of the leader of the 1956 uprising, Imre Nagy, was the first time anyone in the Warsaw Pact had publicly called for the withdrawal of Soviet troops. The very making of this speech showed that the old taboos – and, with them, the power of the communist dictatorship – had collapsed. This was two months before the Hungarian government opened its border with Austria, allowing tens of thousands of East Germans to cross into West Germany, and five months before the Berlin wall came down. Orban's contribution to the chain reaction which led to these later events was therefore decisive. There is only one explanation for this apparent paradox that some former anti-communist Central European leaders are now pro-Russian. Unlike their Western colleagues, who were never directly affected by communist rule, the states of the former Warsaw Pact understand not only that Russia is no longer the old USSR, having abandoned communism, but also that national identity, and pride in national identity, were the key to undoing communist rule in Central Europe and then in Russia itself. Orban's 1989 speech was a patriotic appeal to Hungarians: it traced their battle for national freedom back to 1848. Freedom and national pride went hand in hand. As in Poland, where not only national identity but also religion played a key role in the downfall of communism, Hungarians (and Czechs and many others) now see with dismay that same national identity which freed them from communism under attack from the new commissars in Brussels. This is because the approach in Western Europe is directly the opposite. Pride in one's nation is considered backward and dangerous, largely because national pride was irredeemably damaged during the war. The fact is that all the early member states of the EU were defeated in the war, whether by the Germans or by the Allies. During the process of defeat, national pride was ruined, either through the barbarism of Nazism and fascism or through various forms of nationalist collaboration with it. All these stain the national record. Only in Britain was national pride the key to victory; for everyone else it was the key to defeat. (The only partial exception to this rule is France, which retained some sense of national pride after the war. But, in later decades, the memory of the Gaullist resistance was effaced by a stronger memory of the national shame of Vichy.) Because of this, Western European states have adopted the EU ideology, according to which European history before the creation of the EU was nothing but wars between nation-states. Indeed, national rivalry was the key to these wars. In order for there to be peace, it is argued, Europe's nation-states must be dissolved in a supranational entity. Germany has accomplished the task of making a clean slate of its national history in a more complete manner than any other European state but the other countries share parts, sometimes large parts, of this same German historiographical and political model. To be sure, the states of Central Europe have skeletons in their own cupboards concerning the war. Hungary was an ally of Nazi Germany throughout it. But the more recent memory of national victory over communism has rekindled national pride, whereas the Western European states have not enjoyed any comparable victory and so they instead put all their faith in the post-national and post-modern European project. Moreover, whereas Communism was largely rejected as an ideology by the people living under it – including in Soviet Russia – the ideology of liberalism has penetrated very deeply into the Western European consciousness, to the extent even of extinguishing national sentiment. Liberalism has been more successful in this regard than communism was, even though orthodox Marxism also called for an end to the nation-state. This East-West fracture is a major ideological dividing line inside the European Union. The vote in the European Parliament last week, in which over two thirds of MEPs ganged up on a member state in the name of their biased interpretation of "the rule of law," was a historic moment which brought into the open the depth of this radically different approach to politics and history. Opposite attitudes to Russia are also part of this division. As Marx said, history repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as farce, as we saw in Strasbourg last week: the European Union, like the Soviet Union, will in due course discover that national identity is stronger even than its political ideology. Laughland is a Member of the RPI Board of Advisors. Reprinted with permission from RT. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest The Magnitsky affair: the confession of a hustled hack A Cypriot journalist's confession of how he too fell for the wrong account of the Magnitsky Affair Published 19 hours ago on September 25, 2018 By Elias Hazou Before getting down to brass tacks, let me say that I loathe penning articles like this; loathe writing about myself or in the first person, because a reporter should report the news, not be the news. Yet I grudgingly make this exception because, ironically, it happens to be newsworthy. To cut to the chase, it concerns Anglo-American financier Bill Browder and the Sergei Magnitsky affair. I, like others in the news business I'd venture to guess, feel led astray by Browder. This is no excuse. I didn't do my due diligence, and take full responsibility for erroneous information printed under my name. For that, I apologize to readers. I refer to two articles of mine published in a Cypriot publication, dated December 25, 2015 and January 6, 2016. Browder's basic story, as he has told it time and again, goes like this: in June 2007, Russian police officers raided the Moscow offices of Browder's firm Hermitage, confiscating company seals, certificates of incorporation, and computers. Browder says the owners and directors of Hermitage-owned companies were subsequently changed, using these seized documents. Corrupt courts were used to create fake debts for these companies, which allowed for the taxes they had previously paid to the Russian Treasury to be refunded to what were now re-registered companies. The funds stolen from the Russian state were then laundered through banks and shell companies. The scheme is said to have been planned earlier in Cyprus by Russian law enforcement and tax officials in cahoots with criminal elements. All this was supposedly discovered by Magnitsky, whom Browder had tasked with investigating what happened. When Magnitsky reported the fraud, some of the nefarious characters involved had him arrested and jailed. He refused to retract, and died while in pre-trial detention. In my first article, I wrote: "Magnitsky, a 37-year-old Russian accountant, died in jail in 2009 after he exposed huge tax embezzlement…" False. Contrary to the above story that has been rehashed countless times, Magnitsky did not expose any tax fraud, did not blow the whistle. The interrogation reports show that Magnitsky had in fact been summoned by Russian authorities as a witness to an already ongoing investigation into Hermitage. Nor he did he accuse Russian investigators Karpov and/or Kuznetsov of committing the $230 million treasury fraud, as Browder claims. Magnitsky did not disclose the theft. He first mentioned it in testimony in October 2008. But it had already been reported in the New York Times on July 24, 2008. In reality, the whistleblower was a certain Rimma Starova. She worked for one of the implicated shell companies and, having read in the papers that authorities were investigating, went to police to give testimony in April 2008 – six months before Magnitsky spoke of the scam for the first time (see here and here). Why, then, did I report that about Magnitsky? Because at the time my sole source for the story was Team Browder, who had reached out to the Cyprus Mail and with whom I communicated via email. I was provided with 'information', flow charts and so on. All looking very professional and compelling. At the time of the first article, I knew next to nothing about the Magnitsky/Browder affair. I had to go through media reports to get the gist, and then get up to speed with Browder's latest claims that a Cypriot law firm, which counted the Hermitage Fund among its clients, had just been 'raided' by Cypriot police. The article had to be written and delivered on the same day. In retrospect I should have asked for more time – a lot more time – and Devil take the deadlines. For the second article, I conversed briefly on the phone with the soft-spoken Browder himself, who handed down the gospel on the Magnitsky affair. Under the time constraints, and trusting that my sources could at least be relied upon for basic information which they presented as facts, I went along with it. I was played. But let's be clear: I let myself down too. In the ensuing weeks and months, I didn't follow up on the story as my gut told me something was wrong: villains and malign actors operating in a Wild West Russia, and at the centre of it all, a heroic Magnitsky who paid with his life – the kind of script that Hollywood execs would kill for. Subsequently I mentally filed away the Browder story, while being aware it was in the news. But the real red pill was a documentary by Russian filmmaker Andrei Nekrasov, which came to my attention a few weeks ago. Titled 'The Magnitsky Act – Behind The Scenes', it does a magisterial job of depicting how the director initially took Browder's story on faith, only to end up questioning everything. The docudrama dissects, disassembles and dismantles Browder's narrative, as Nekrasov – by no means a Putin apologist – delves deeper down into the rabbit hole. The director had set out to make a poignant film about Magnitsky's tragedy, but became increasingly troubled as the facts he uncovered didn't stack up with Browder's account, he claims. The 'aha' moment arrives when Nekrasov appears to show solid proof that Magnitsky blew no whistle. Not only that, but in his depositions – the first one dating to 2006, well before Hermitage's offices were raided – Magnitsky did not accuse any police officers of being part of the 'theft' of Browder's companies and the subsequent alleged $230m tax rebate fraud. The point can't be stressed enough, as this very claim is the lynchpin of Browder's account. In his bestseller Red Notice, Browder alleges that Magnitsky was arrested because he exposed two corrupt police officers, and that he was jailed and tortured because he wouldn't retract. We are meant to take Browder's word for it. It gets worse for Nekrasov, as he goes on to discover that Magnitsky was no lawyer. He did not have a lawyer's license. Rather, he was an accountant/auditor who worked for Moscow law firm Firestone Duncan. Yet every chance he gets, Browder still refers to Magnitsky as 'a lawyer' or 'my lawyer'. The clincher comes late in the film, with footage from Browder's April 15, 2015 deposition in a US federal court, in the Prevezon case. The case, brought by the US Justice Department at Browder's instigation, targeted a Russian national who Browder said had received $1.9m of the $230m tax fraud. In the deposition, Browder is asked if Magnitsky had a law degree in Russia. "I'm not aware that he did," he replies. The full deposition, some six hours long, is (still) available on Youtube. As penance for past transgressions, I watched it in its entirety. While refraining from using adjectives to describe it, I shall simply cite some examples and let readers decide on Browder's credibility. Browder seems to suffer an almost total memory blackout as a lawyer begins firing questions at him. He cannot recall, or does not know, where he or his team got the information concerning the alleged illicit transfer of funds from Hermitage-owned companies. This is despite the fact that the now-famous Powerpoint presentations – hosted on so many 'anti-corruption' websites and recited by 'human rights' NGOs – were prepared by Browder's own team. Nor does he recall where, or how, he and his team obtained information on the amounts of the 'stolen' funds funnelled into companies. When it's pointed out that in any case this information would be privileged – banking secrecy and so forth – Browder appears to be at a loss. According to Team Browder, in 2007 the 'Klyuev gang' together with Russian interior ministry officials travelled to Cyprus, ostensibly to set up the tax rebate scam using shell companies. But in his deposition, the Anglo-American businessman cannot remember, or does not know, how his team obtained the travel information of the conspirators. He can't explain how they acquired the flight records and dates, doesn't have any documentation at hand, and isn't aware if any such documentation exists. Browder claims his 'Justice for Magnitsky' campaign, which among other things has led to US sanctions on Russian persons, is all about vindicating the young man. Were that true, one would have expected Browder to go out of his way to aid Magnitsky in his hour of need. The deposition does not bear that out. Lawyer: "Did anyone coordinate on your behalf with Firestone Duncan about the defence of Mr Magnitsky?" Browder: "I don't know. I don't remember." Going back to Nekrasov's film, a standout segment is where the filmmaker looks at a briefing document prepared by Team Browder concerning the June 2007 raid by Russian police officers. In it, Browder claims the cops beat up Victor Poryugin, a lawyer with the firm. The lawyer was then "hospitalized for two weeks," according to Browder's presentation, which includes a photo of the beaten-up lawyer. Except, it turns out the man pictured is not Poryugin at all. Rather, the photo is actually of Jim Zwerg, an American human rights activist beaten up during a street protest in 1961 (see here and here). Nekrasov sits down with German politician Marieluise Beck. She was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (Pace), which compiled a report that made Magnitsky a cause celebre. You can see Beck's jaw drop when Nekrasov informs her that Magnitsky did not report the fraud, that he was in fact under investigation. It transpires that Pace, as well as human rights activists, were getting their information from one source – Browder. Later, the Council of Europe's Andreas Gross admits on camera that their entire investigation into the Magnitsky affair was based on Browder's info and that they relied on translations of Russian documents provided by Browder's team because, as Gross puts it, "I don't speak Russian myself." That hit home – I, too, had been fed information from a single source, not bothering to verify it. I, too, initially went with the assumption that because Russia is said to be a land of endemic corruption, then Browder's story sounded plausible if not entirely credible. For me, the takeaway is this gem from Nekrasov's narration: "I was regularly overcome by deep unease. 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NEW DELHI, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- India has put on hold procurement of 262 Israeli-made Barak I missiles until the Central Bureau of Investigation finishes a report into possible corruption.
The navy wants the missiles for its anti-missile defense systems on 14 frontline warships, including the country's aircraft carrier Viraat and three new Shivalik class stealth frigates, a report by The Economic Times said.
The Indian Ministry of Defense has called the $140 million purchase of the short-range surface-to-air missiles as having "critical operational urgency."
Navy chief Adm. Sureesh Mehta told the Times of India in 2008 that he hoped the CBI investigation wouldn't get in the way of buying more much-needed Barak I missiles.
However, the Defense Ministry indicated last week that its hands were tied because of the CBI investigation into an alleged Barak kickbacks scheme, unnamed sources told The Economic Times.
The CBI is the government's main anti-corruption investigation agency.
"Legal opinion obtained from the law ministry and the solicitor general holds that the fresh procurement case should not be progressed for the cabinet committee on security till the CBI probe is complete," said a source.
An end to the CBI's investigation doesn't appear anywhere in sight, after an initial six years, The Economic Times reported. Things are getting serious for the navy, which has cut back on practice firings of the Barak I AMD systems to save its stockpile of missiles.
In August 2007 The Times of India reported the CBI told Supreme Court it has unearthed payment of around $10.6 million in alleged kickbacks to Baccano Holdings Inc. in the United Kingdom.
The payments appeared to be part of the Barak missile deal signed between India and an Israeli firm in 2001, reported The Times of India. Baccano is believed owned by arms dealer Vipin Khanna.
CBI had registered a First Information Report -- the initial step for setting up a formal investigation -- in 2006, The Times of India said.
The FIR named former Defense Minister George Fernandes, former Samata Party President Jaya Jaitly, former Samata Party Treasurer R. K. Jain and former Navy chief Sushil Kumar in connection with irregularities in the deal for seven Barak-I Anti-Missile Defense systems and 200 missiles.
The deal with Israel Aerospace Industries and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems was worth $268.6 million.
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Veterans Day: "This is my first Veterans Day after having served a year in Afghanistan. Both my time in a combat zone and my return to Jamestown give me pause to reflect on the meaning of this day. The day marks the sacrifices of millions who have served our country in distant lands. But, Veterans Day also represents an important connection between veterans and the country. We are volunteers, but military service means sacrifice to further national interests so all of us can pursue the ideals we dearly hold. We can do this knowing full well that we have the support we need for ourselves and our families.
"For those who wear and have worn the cloth of our nation, the day also gives us veterans an opportunity to say 'thank you' to the country we love. Though eight and a half time zones away in Kabul, I never doubted the country's faith in me. This was obvious with the quality of training we received, gear we were issued, and a commitment to care if wounded. This was on display when I arrived in Providence, greeted with applause and welcomed by yellow ribbons driving down America Way.
"I am grateful for the support given to my family while deployed. As hard as it was in Afghanistan, it was harder on those I left behind. In a real way, it meant my children lacked a father to help with homework, my wife lacked a husband to co-parent, and an empty chair at the dinner table. I am grateful for my family's never-ending love and support. And I am grateful for my neighbors and community that supported my family while deployed.
"On this Veterans Day, please honor those that served. Go to East Ferry, read the names of the fallen, and think of those serving America throughout the world. But also see how you can serve your neighbors to honor of those in uniform supporting our way of life. As I can attest, coming home is great, but coming home to a great community like Jamestown is even better."
Cmdr. Reveron lives on America Way with his wife, Kirie, and daughters Ada, 10, and Esme, 5.
When the Jamestown Community Theatre's presentation of "The Wizard of Oz" opens tomorrow night at 7 at the rec center, one actor on stage has been in every JCT musical production since she was 7 years old. Dana Larkin, now 15 and a sophomore at NKHS, plays the role of Glinda, the good witch.
"I love playing her and it's fun working with all the cute Munchkins. It's also a pleasure working with Anza," she said. In the play Dana sings "Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are" and "Step Into The Sun." She said she loves to dance and sing and is in the concert choir at high school. She also placed second in an All-State singing competition. "Mary Wright is doing a great job and it's very exciting being so close to the play's opening," Dana added.
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Other performances will be Saturday, Nov. 12, at 7 p.m.; Sunday at 4 p.m.; next weekend on Friday, Nov. 18, and Saturday, Nov. 19, at 7 p.m.; and the next day, Sunday, at 4 p.m.
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The Jamestown Community Chorus is in rehearsals working on favorite choruses from G.F. Handel's "Messiah" for its concert on Sunday, Dec 11, accompanied by a festival chamber ensemble at the rec center. The concert is the highlight this year of what the chorus brings to the community each year. It has been some 20 years since an orchestra has been in concert with the chorus. The members are now underway with the chorus' annual fundraiser seeking donations for its other annual community-building programs: scholarships for promising musicians and donations of music to the Jamestown Philomenian Library. Support their efforts by sending a check to P.O. Box 602, Jamestown, RI 02835.
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Star Scout Owen Baertlein of Boy Scout Troop 1 reports that 110 boxes of food weighing approximately 2,000 pounds were collected during the Scouting for Food drive on Saturday. The Cub Scouts of Pack 1 Jamestown, under the leadership of Will Tuttle, also participated and assisted in the sorting and boxing of food at St. Mark.
The collection and boxing of food lasted from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. The most unusual food was Wild Burgundy Escargot from France and the oldest food received was jambalaya mix that expired in 1997!
"Thanks from Troop 1 to all those who donated and participated with the gathering, sorting and packing," Owen said.
Kudos to all!
Elizabeth Mancini and Cheryl Fernstrom write that last week's poser is from the song "Bark at the Moon" written in 1983 and performed by Ozzie Osbourne. It also is the name of the album in which it first appeared.
Kudos to all the students and their families who donated more than 100 coats to the Melrose Cozy Coat Drive for people in need this upcoming Christmas season.
If there's a trick or treater out there who is missing a black velour hat with the gold letter "J" and red letter "M," you can retrieve it from Anna Templeton-Cotill at 34 Columbia Ave. Bring her one of your treats.
The Jamestown Fire Department is asking islanders for donations to enable it to continue to strive for excellence in all aspects of its services. Chief Jim Bryer said, "At this time we again ask you for your support to help us with equipment, training and other necessities required to keep the fire department current and moving forward."
Donations will be divided with half going to fire services and half to emergency medical services. Any special requests can also be accommodated. Send your contribution to 50 Narragansett Ave., Jamestown, RI 02835.
Support this great group of islanders who are on call around the clock to help us all should we need them.
What was the cost of opening three polling places during Tuesday's election and disrupting two schools? With only three candidates on the ballot, the rec center alone would have sufficed.
Tired of Christmas yet?
Kudos to the new and returning members of the Jamestown Boy Scout Troop 1 committee. They are: Larry Bartley, representative from the Jamestown Rotary Club that is the troop's charter organization; Jack Christie, outdoor activities coordinator; Bill Pratt, treasurer; Shelly Johnson, secretary; Mary Waddington, fundraising chair; Jack Hawkins, equipment coordinator; Kevin Masterson, training coordinator; and Elena McCarthy and Alyce Dwyer, coadvancement coordinators. The committee's chair post will not be determined until next month.
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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow marks a new beginning for the Castlevania series, with Madrid-based developer Mercury Steam working closely with Konami's respected Kojima Productions studio, led by Hideo Kojima. The title is an incredibly ambitious and ground-breaking title that mixes stunning combat elements, with a fully interactive 3D realm populated by all manner of undead and inhuman denizens.
The game's as yet unnamed protagonist, voiced by Jason Isaacs, is heard to proclaim he will "wipe the name of Belmont from this world… forever", while a mysterious new Mask adds further to the mystery…
Konami has released a demo for Castlevania: Lords of Shadowvia Sony's premiere PSN+ subscription service today, giving users an early sampler of a game. The demo will be available exclusively for one week from PSN+, but will be widely available on the standard PSN service from Sept. 29th and will also be released on X360 via Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade service, with dates to be confirmed.
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is set in a ravaged Europe of the middle ages. The planet has been devastated by a powerful magic. The souls of the dead are trapped on our earthly plane unable to find peace, and inhuman creatures of nightmare now roam the Earth, wreaking havoc. Having witnessed his wife Marie (voiced by Natascha McKelhone) murdered at their hands, Gabriel (Robert Carlyle) pledges revenge against those responsible: the mysterious Lords of Shadow.
Gabriel learns from an ally called Zobek (Patrick Stewart) that each of the Lords possesses pieces of a relic called 'The God Mask' that, when assembled, can purify the world and has the power to bring the dead back. Thus, Gabriel must face the three factions of the Lords of Shadow and confront them – defeating huge adversaries that dominate the screen, making his way across inhospitable but beautifully realised locations, and using the Combat Cross device to whip, swing, and rappel his way to the Mask's location.
Gabriel will stop at nothing to see his beloved returned to him but someone has other plans for Gabriel and the mask holds the key. For good or for ill, Gabriel will meet his destiny: what is the secret of the masks and how are the Belmonts involved.
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Dubai, June 12, 2013: Job applications submitted via the Dubai Government job portal (eJob) have risen by 36%, according to official statistics revealed by Dubai eGovernment Department (DeG). This coincides with the successful awareness campaign launched by DeG in May 2013, its participation in Careers UAE 2013 and new updates to the portal.
The rise in number of registrants in the eJob portal, www.ejob.ae, was accompanied by an upward growth in the number of applicants for vacancies to 3,716 over the three weeks that followed the media campaign as compared to 2,739 applicants for the same period before the promotional campaign. The eJob portal provides a fully electronic mechanism for dealing with job applications starting with the department's vacancies, to submission of applications, posting of resumes, management of interviews, sending job offers, tracking applications, receiving correspondence, fixing dates for personal interviews and finally selecting the eligible candidates.
H.E. Ahmad Bin Humaidan, Director General of Dubai eGovernment, said: "Dubai eGovernment's eJob portal has strategic importance as a fundamental mainstay for embodying the directives of our prudent leadership towards encouraging the optimal investment in human resources. The increasing adoption of the eJob services reflects the increasing confidence in eServices and Dubai's leading position as a destination attracting qualified staff, be they UAE graduates or others from around the world. This motivates us to carry on employing the latest technologies to facilitate the access of as many as national graduates and job-seekers for pushing the accelerating wheel of development in Dubai."
Bin Humaidan noted that the number of government entities participating in eJob rose to 13 this year, stressing DeG's keenness on bringing all government authorities under the eJob umbrella over the coming three years. This is in line with DeG's drive towards enhancing government integration and keeping pace with best practices in global standards in a bid to increase the available job opportunities, while exerting maximum efforts to access a larger section of the targeted categories in line with the government's future prospects.
Bin Humaidan added: "We in DeG have succeeded in consolidating the concept of digital transformation, which is based on excellence and innovation. We are looking forward to entering a new stage by responding to the mobile smart government initiative launched recently by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, for employing the local infrastructure, to reach new prospects of growth and prosperity in Dubai in particular and the UAE in general."
DeG has held 12 training workshops for 125 employees of human resources sections at Dubai government departments and entities, enabling them to get familiar with the new design as well as the updates that were made on eJob. The updates were meant to meet the needs of job seekers and government entities as now logging into the eJob requires only simple steps to be taken.
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As a philosophy and mathematics double major, Benjamin Hoffman B.A. '13 is used to going above and beyond. This passion for exceeding expectations earned Hoffman the 2013 Rena J. Ratte Award, the undergraduate college's highest academic honor.
While at Lewis & Clark, Hoffman conducted research in the fields of physics, mathematics, philosophy, and geology. The summer after his first year, he studied tree roots and soil transport as part of the Juneau Icefield Research Program. Hoffman has since published a paper reflecting on that experience in the peer-reviewed publication Earth Surface Processes and Landforms.
"Benjamin is intellectually fearless and insatiably curious in diverse intellectual areas," says Liz Safran, associate professor of geological science. "He is the kind of person who plunges into difficult endeavors assuming he can do them—and he succeeds in whatever he attempts."
Hoffman's passion for learning and taking on new challenges is also seen beyond the classroom. The avid outdoorsman revived the Geology Club and scheduled several weekend-long trips throughout the state. Hoffman also organized a faculty and student reading group that discussed works on the philosophy of mathematics.
Hoffman is considering his options for graduate study in mathematics. He spent the summer working at Mission: Wolf sanctuary in Colorado. "I really enjoyed the simple life, the remoteness, and the sense of shared purpose I had at Lewis & Clark," Hoffman says. "The college helped shape me into a pretty curious and tenacious person."
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Derby Hospitals have launched a new campaign today, on National No Smoking Day (Wednesday 12th March) to reinforce the ban on smoking anywhere in hospital grounds.
The 'Think Again' campaign aims to create a healthier environment for patients, visitors and staff by urging everyone to keep the city's hospitals and grounds smoke free.
The new campaign will ensure that patients and visitors are aware before they arrive that Derby Hospitals are smoke free zones. All patients will receive a leaflet with their appointment letter to ensure they and their visitors know about the smoke free policy.
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"It is really important for us to have a completely smoke free environment" explained Derby Hospitals' respiratory consultant Dr Chris Whale "I spend every week looking after patients with lung cancer and other respiratory illnesses, many of which are caused by smoking, so week in week out I see what damage smoking does. We need people to come to our hospitals with a different attitude towards smoking and we recognise this won't happen over-night but we want to encourage people to make this shift."


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Gallery: Celine Dion Sexes It Up In V Magazine
"Celine Dion" and "sexy" might not be two words you readily associate with one another, but did you know you're wrong? In the latest issue of V Magazine, Celine causes countless weird boners by strutting around in her underthings and making blowjay eyes at the camera. The accompanying article is less disturbingly good and more run-of-the-mill good (if you're into reading about Celine Dion); in addition to her adorable quote about how she loves Adele, she talks about the music industry, motherhood, and her infamously big mouth.
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Gary produces a hip, new orientation video to prepare new arrivals for Hell.
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Satan travels to the fringes of Hell to meet with some mysterious co-workers.
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When Satan introduces women to the workplace, things start to get a little steamy and a little acidic and a little swollen.
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By Alex Alford
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Coming off the best season in program history, it may seem like the Campos sisters of Baylor's soccer team would take some time to relax. However, for sophomore Bri and redshirt senior Larissa there was no time for leisure.
During their first year playing together, the sisters from Centennial, Colo., proved to be a force to be reckoned with. While Bri was named Big 12 Newcomer of the Week on Oct. 9, 2012, Larissa took Baylor's only penalty kick of the season and put it in the back of the net against TCU on Oct. 26.
"There is a little bit of competition between us but I think that's what makes us good players," said Bri. "We are always trying to one-up each other and be better than each other. It makes us good."
The healthy competition between Bri and Larissa definitely proved effective in the 2012 season. Not only did the Bears set the program record for wins in a season (19), they also made it to the third round of the NCAA Championship for the first time in program history. As of Sept. 9, Baylor is ranked No. 7 in the country and has a 5-0-1 record. The Campos sisters believe that their support of one another helps them to be successful.
"We support each other more than a normal teammate would," said Larissa. "I mean, she's my sister and we want each other to ultimately succeed and have the best things happen for both of us."
The girls' healthy competition and support for one another dates back to their high school days, when Bri joined her sister on the field.
"Bri never lets me live it down because I played center-mid in high school. Then, she came and the coaches kicked me back to center-back and she played center-mid," said Larissa. "So she always tells me 'oh, I took your spot,' when in reality they just needed a tall person in the back."
Though they may seem to live and breathe soccer, their relationship goes much deeper. Whether it is sickness or schoolwork, the girls know they will have one another to rely on.
"She always is there for me," said Bri when reflecting on her older sister. "When I'm sick and I'm like, 'Larissa go get me something,' she runs off and gets me whatever I need. Or when I'm writing papers I'm like, 'I have a paper and it's due tomorrow and it is five pages will you help me?,' and she'll sit down and help me."
Although Larissa graduates this year, Bri isn't worried about moving on without her older sister by her side, because she knows her sister will always be there rooting for her.
"Yes, I'm a little nervous," said Bri. "But I'm sure she'll still be around. And I know she will always be there to support me."
The support Bri and Larissa have for one another will not only help them finish out their last season together, but will stay with them the rest of their lives even when they are no longer teammates.


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Recently having been granted the honor to help test Longhorn in it's alpha stages, I would like to offer the people here a take on what to expect and what needs to be understood about Microsoft's upcoming OS, codenamed Longhorn. My point here today is to shed light beyond the rumors, beyond all the "OMFG H4T3!!!", and all the 'fanbois', but primarily to let you see a bit of the future Windows has to offer. Let's finish with the introductions and get straight into the heart of it!
Computer specs tested in:
- Pentium III 800mhz
- 400 megs of RAM
- WDC 40 gig HD on IDE (primary partition set at ten gigs, other 30 is blank)
- Nvidia GeForce 2 MX w/ 64 megs of RAM on AGP
- Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-M1612
- DM288 52x cdwriter
- Microsoft optical wireless two button mouse with horizontal and vertial scrollwheel
- Microsoft natural keyboard
- Sound Blaster Live! PCI
- Running at 1024x768 resolution 32 bits (@85hz, or else I would be in 1240x1028)
Longhorn version:
Longhorn alpha build 4074
Longhorn, schedualed for release in 2006, is going to change the way an OS interacts with the user. The bar of desktop design, usability, and features is going to skyrocket. The very philosophy behind how OSes and desktops are programmed will be changed. Why such a dramatic impact? Because Microsoft is doing what everyone has said they would never do.
1. Give it a professional look, not a candy-land look.
2. Give it security on locked-down level, by default.
3. Give the OS the tools to do proper security handling.
4. Make Windows be more than "just a new release"
Let's review the sections of Longhorn and how it compares to the old school windows releases.
Installation process
No more command line mode, period. From the time it is insert to the time the installation completely finishes, you never once have to deal with a command line, ncurses similar installation interface.
Primary installation screen: http://thetao.no-ip.com/longhorn/install.jpg
It's clean, it's quick, it gets the job done. Not an overly large thing, but it is good to see a 100% seamless installation process. From setting the computer name, to accepting the Terms of Agreement, to even partitioning, it's a beauty to install just to see the differences.
Partitioning screen: http://thetao.no-ip.com/longhorn/partitioning.jpg
Formatting is now allowed on more than one partition, rather than on the only one you will be installing on. NTFS is default, as FAT and FAT32 is no longer supported (and for good reasons). It is noteable that the reasoning behind NTFS being used is because the WinFS (a service in Longhorn) uses the NTFS structuring ability to organize files automagically and intuitivly.
For more information on WinFS, read : http://msdn.microsoft.com/Longhorn/u...fs03112004.asp
To give a brief summary, WinFS keeps constant tabs on the system and the content of the system to place them in the appropriate places. For example, let's say you have 400 music files in C:\music. WinFS keeps tabs on them and adds those files to a library (not literally move) in which you can access to view the files you have from C:\music and C:\download\share\music all in one spot (similar to putting a ton of shortcuts in one folder) . So, think of WinFS as a librarian who finds out where everything is and creates a very well organized database of those files so they can be accessed with ease.
The installation process itself is very painless, requiring minor input. In fact, after telling it the serial key, your computer name, and partitioning, there is nothing left to do. It will install, reboot, detect hardware, configure hardware (for first time use) all on it's own. Why is this such a good thing? I always hated how wheever I installed 2k or XP I was required to always be nearbye to input a question halfway through the intallation. Getting all the information at the beginning means thirty to fourty minutes of free time to go and do something else while it installs.
Which brings me to a common rumor.
The hardware configuration and checking on installation takes 9 hours!
This is simply not true, but does branch from half true. You see, at the very end of the installation, Windows runs through a process to detect all of your hardware and install the best drives possible right off the bat. It took twenty minutes for me (of the total fifty). However, for those with much less common hardware that what I mentioned to be running above, it may take longer. I have see first hand a case of fourty minutes, but with hardware so obscure it should have it's own green card.
That being said, the duration in which it configures the hardware is also the same timeframe in which the installer begins to peice together the final aspects of Windows. You see, there is only one reboot during a Longhorn installation, to reboot and begin using the copied setup files from the harddrive rather than the cd rom. This means once Windows is done installing, it's literally done installing. It heads straight into the desktop. This also means that a bit of extra configuration and finalization is expected during the hardware configuring process. None the less, disregard the rumor, for the sake of everyone.
First experience, on the desktop
It takes a moment or two to go from desktop wallpaper to a full desktop, and this is because the services in Longhorn are numerous, esecially on a fresh installation. That's not a worry though, because as soon as it loads you are staring at a marvelous interface.
Default Longhorn Desktop: http://thetao.no-ip.com/longhorn/default.jpg
Icons with transparent abilities, a stable (and memory leaking fixed) sidebar, with the professional feel of the slate theme. So what is my first thought, after the initial shock of the beautiful interface?
Damn, it's a bit too slow for my tastes.
Which reminds me, what are the requirements for Windows Longhorn? To clear up another rumor, here is the answer: NO ONE HAS ANY IDEA OR OFFICIAL WORD FROM THE HIGHER-UPS! SO STOP MAKING IT UP! As a beta tester I can tell you that the 'projected' minimum according to the documentation given to the testers is a 4ghz and 1 gig of ram, but anyone who has ever beta tested anything in their life can tell you how often 'projections' can change. Why so much RAM and processing power?
Let me ask a question to answer that question, and then I will proceed to answer the first question again, but with an answer.
my question: You mean one gig of RAM won't be common by 2006, in the same way 500 wasn't common today? Two years ago 500 megs was the same impressive thing to show your friends as having one gig is now. I can see in two years that showing off two gigs of ram will be the next impressive thing, honestly. Pentium IV 3.2 an expensive and overlypowerful processor, much less a Pentium IV 4ghz minimum? Think back a few years ago, when a Pentium IV came out and how no one ever thought people would need that speed.
my answer: It is a common misconception that a newer (better) OS should take less RAM, less resources, and be bug free. I can agree with the last one but not the first two. You see, by tne very nature of computers they are improved upon. What good is hardware that no one takes advantage of? Another common misconception is that a newer OS should be streamlined in code, thus a smaller filesize. Do not confuse bad code with coded better/more secure/more efficient. Let's be honest here, do you honestly think people are going to code worse and worse JUST to spite you? No, as a company I am sure Microsoft is streamlineing its code to a very well rehearsed degree. This means faster computing for better OS processing, more features, more stability, etc etc. This means more RAM for better graphics, more features, more stability. Constantly improving, getting bigger better and faster. That is how the OS industry lives and works. (I use linux as my primary OS, so don't any zealots here try to say their distro's are getting smaller)
However, we never judge an OS by an initial use. There is always more to learn, and thus ways to improve it in which we have not yet discovered. As you will see later, those requirements can be brought down quite a bit.
side note: Total Longhorn installation size was approx 3g. Keep in mind that this is an OS with tons of debugging and symbols kept within the code for the developers, and is in no way the final released (without the hundreds of megs of debugging code) product.
New interface handling and graphics
Beauty. Harmony. Professionalism with a touch of 'rebel' in it. That's how I feel I can best describe the new UI of Longhorn. The changes are major, but in such a way that it feels natural. Let's set aside words, and show you what has changed:
New error reporting and program 'force shutdown':
Computer navigation toolbar improvement:
Two choices, each at the click of a button
Normal, by clicking on an empty area in the toolbar:
Quick navigation, by clicking on one of the folder words and selecting a different folder in the same folder as it:
Mouse icon highlight as it moves:
Normal mouse movement, across files, no clicking, to get a sense of where you are:
Mouse highlighting or clicking an item:
Images zoom and information while mouse hovers:
Folders give sneak peak of content inside
Navigation controls look sharp, and glow. From check boxes to radials, buttons to menus, everything fades in and fades out, glows a bit and glows out. In a good, nonobtrusive and distracting way:
With the help of WinFS, audio files across the system can be organized and catagorized automagically, placed into an easily searchable and navigational interface, built right into the User interface:
The same appies to games:
And email/MSN contacts:
And videos:
IE gets a facelift, as a built in pop-up blocker, the ability to say no and remember the setting to activex requests, and built in download manager with priority setting ability:
The new Sidebar, which offers quite a few choices to plugin:
This tile is used to store files that you want to send or copy. It is very similar to "My Briefcase" in Windows 9x.
This tile displays your Windows Messenger contact list on the sidebar. Note that WinFS and Windows Messenger 6 are required for this tile to function correctly.
News Feed:
Anyone who is familiar with the MSDN SDK samples will know that you could compile this tile for 4051. Now this tile is included by default. It displays the news off of the Longhorn dev center.
Notification History:
This tile displays all previous notifications that have been presented on the current boot.
People Nearby:
I am really not sure what this tile does but i am assuming it does what the name suggests. It displays contacts that are nearby and available.
This tile displays an analog clock along with the digital time below it and the date. When you click on this tile, a flyout appears with a Calendar.
Quick Launch:
This tile displays the items in your Quick Launch folder (which is located at %userprofile%\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch).
Classic Tray:
This tile displays the items that were once next to the clock on the taskbar. Some icons may not display correctly (colors may appear distorted or elements may be missing) or they may not display at all. To access these icons, click on the tile, and a flyout will appear.
Slide Show:
This tile displays a slide show of all the pictures contained in your My Pictures folder. This is great to enable if you have family photos that you enjoy to see, albeit this tile is not very customizable in this build.
This tile is used for file synchronization. Requires WinFS to be enabled to work properly.
Power (Transient):
This tile displays the status of a battery in a laptop computer. You need to set the Transient value to 0 in the registry in order for this tile to work.
Web Host Tile (Transient):
This tile is a traffic webcam tile similar to what was seen in earlier builds.
Most things on the sidebar have the ability to expand for better viewing, for example the RSS feed and clock
A screenshot of My Computer
Dozens of other things exist in changes to the UI that a screenshot simply will not do justice to. Animations, movement, fluid changes. Does it take a hit on resources and processing? Of course. Will it be worth it in terms of balancing something that looks good but could still be used for twelve hours straight a day? Yes.
You see, the interface of Longhorn is no longer strictly 2d, as they have a completely new gui handler called Avalon. Avalon takes the low memory requirements of 2d and the ability of DirectX 8 to deliver both to the desktop seamlessly. This means animations, 3d interactions, pixel shading, real transarency, shadows, and so forth.
Optimizing the system
Like any good admin, the only way to properly use an OS is to learn what makes it tick. And learn to make it tick I did. I am very impressed with the amount of configuration avaliable to the users. I found very few things which I was unable to change, and change easily. Microsoft has begun to learn how to make tools more robustly appealing to Linux users and thus not only do you have your normal section of options, but a plethora of ones that I even had to use the little '?' button on. Granted, there is room for even more choices and settings, but they have yet to be programmed in. No worries, I'm quite sure the one or two things that really -need- an option for (coughs- multiple RSS feeds on sidebar -coughs)
In short, streamlining the graphics, WinFS, toolbars, icon settings, eye-candy settings, process handling, memory handling, was a peice of cake. Although I will not explain the process I went through to get it to where I have it now (because about 1% of the people here even have it, legally), I can say that it runs almost idential to XP in terms of speed. Explorer.exe does take up more RAM due to the features I still have enabled (at 87 megs right now) but the hit isn't noticible enough for me to care. So let's dispell another rumor: "Longhorn requires you to have a Pentium 4 6 ghz with 4 gigs of RAM to run ::PPP".
Hey, all of you who say that over and over like a mantra...Pentium III 800mhz on 400 megs of RAM, with very few features disabled, running as fast as XP. Eat it, and stop spreading lies just to MS bash.
Final thoughts
While I can not go too in depth about the full functionality due to it not being a full release yet, I can say that I am impressed with it. Longhorn does have it's flaws but then again this is an alpha release. However, the good points and natural flow in which Microsoft has decided to take outweighs the minor irritations and feature limits (both which will be resolved by final release). As an OS, it has great potiential to shake the very foundations of OS development. As an interface, it has brought us one step closer to slick interfaces that we all see in movies of the future. Will it have it's downsides? I'm sure it will. But don't ever let a few bad things cloud the overall good something can have not only on it's primary use, but on the people and community around it. Never forget that.
How has it done overall good to the communities of computing? It's redone the ICF (internet connection firewall) that comes with Windows, which is where the firewall in Windows XP Sp2 has come from. It's given Linux zealots some tools and configuration options to be jealous of. It's enhanced IE security through pop-up handling and deep activex control. It's balanced 'merely being an OS' with 'leave me some RAM to play games with'. It's starting to become everything people thought it would never be. And because of these courageous strides and innovation, many will benefit. Be it the Open Source communities that gain new ideas from Longhorn, or the users that liked the stability of Windows 2000 but with a professional interface that XP never reached.
Understand that this is not a review of how good or bad Longhorn is! This is simply my take on it's progress, the rumors surrounding it, and to give everyone else a chance to see what is coming in the future. While brief, and maybe a bit scattered, these were my thoughts on Windows Longhorn 4074. I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I have enjoyed merely being in the Longhorn enviroment!
Longhorn 4074 background: http://thetao.no-ip.com/longhorn/bliss.jpg
My desktop screenshot: http://thetao.no-ip.com/longhorn/winscreenshot.jpg
Usage of Longhorn: http://thetao.no-ip.com/longhorn/usage.jpg
Finally figured out the finer points of the Aero Avalon system, and enabled the 3d effects on alt + tab This is a screenshot of my desktop in alt+tab mode, in which it alternates between windows like this to get a better idea of what you want. Current theme is the included Jade them.


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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Jurors heard emotional testimony Friday from one of the sons of a Missouri woman on trial for allegedly shooting her husband in Wyoming almost 40 years ago.
Todd Scott, 53, of Casper, testified that his mother, Alice Uden, of Chadwick, Missouri, told him in the 1970s she'd shot 25-year-old Ronald Holtz as he slept. His mother's words haunted him for years afterward, he said.
"I don't know why a mother would tell her children she killed somebody," Scott said, tearing up.
Scott said he later told police, employers — anyone who would listen — about what his mother had said to try to "rip this demon out of me."
He then turned to his frail, 75-year-old mother seated in a wheelchair across the courtroom and said: "I hate you."
The testimony of Scott and one of Uden's daughters bolstered prosecutors' argument that Holtz, Uden's third husband, was asleep when she shot him with a .22-caliber rifle in southeast Wyoming between Christmas Eve, 1974, and early February, 1975.
Uden's attorneys argue she acted in self-defense and to protect her 2-year-old daughter.
Investigators found Holtz's remains in an abandoned mine last summer.
Last fall, authorities arrested Alice Uden and her fourth and current husband, Gerald Uden, 71, in Missouri. Gerald Uden subsequently pleaded guilty and is serving life in prison for killing his ex-wife and her two children in central Wyoming in 1980.
Investigators haven't linked the two cases. Defense attorneys have asked Laramie County District Judge Steven Sharpe not to allow jurors to hear anything about Gerald Uden's case. As of Friday, Gerald Uden hadn't come up at Alice Uden's trial.
Uden met Holtz when she was a nurse at a Veterans Administration hospital in Sheridan, and Holtz, who'd been a helicopter gunner in Vietnam, was a psychiatric patient.
Uden's attorneys say Holtz became abusive soon after they married in September 1974, and Uden shot him in the back of the head when he was about to attack the little girl. Uden has three sons and two daughters from her first two marriages.
On Thursday and again Friday, prosecutors called Uden's daughter, Theresa Twyford, 55, of Naples, Illinois, to testify. Twyford said Friday her mother once told her, too, she shot Holtz as he slept.
The "matter of fact" conversation happened in Illinois, she said, where Twyford was living at the time in the 1970s. Both she and her mother had been drinking, she said.
"I don't remember any drama. I don't remember, really, any reaction. It just was," Twyford said.
Her mother also once told her that Holtz, following a car wreck in Illinois, had beat and kicked her on the side of the road, Twyford testified.
Scott testified that his conversation with his mother about Holtz's shooting happened as he was driving her home to Laramie from Buford, a remote town east of Laramie where Uden was a bartender.
Both of them were drinking during the drive, he said.
"She just, out of the blue, told me how she got up one night, got a .22, and shot Ron in the head," Scott said.
He said his mother told him a friend helped her dispose of Holtz's body in an abandoned gold mine on the Remount Ranch. Investigators have not named any accessories in the case.
The Remount Ranch is a small cattle outfit where Uden and her second husband, Donald Prunty, were caretakers in the early 1970s. Prunty died of natural causes in 1973.
The Remount Ranch is famous as the place where author Mary O'Hara wrote the 1941 children's novel, "My Friend Flicka." The book mentions a mine shaft where animal carcasses from the ranch were dumped.
Scott said he knew the mine his mother was talking about when she talked about disposing of Holtz's body because it was the same mine in the book.
Walking out of the courtroom after testifying, Scott muttered to his mother: "I hope it was all worth it."
Uden's attorney, Donald Miller, objected and Sharpe, who said he hadn't heard it, told the jury to disregard what Scott said.


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Juliana Taimoorazy, Founder and President of the Iraqi Christian Relief Council, will be speaking at Pathway Church, formerly Chippewa Evangelical Free Church, on Thursday, April 4, 2013 at 7 p.m.
Religious persecution caused Taimoorazy to flee Iran in 1989. She spent a week in a monastery in Zurich, before being smuggled into Germany, where she sought religious asylum through the U.S. embassy. After a year-long wait, Taimoorazy was granted an entry visa to America.
Taimoorazy, who attended Northeastern Illinois University, began mentoring young Christian women arriving in Chicago from refugee camps in Turkey and Syria. This experience led her to found the Iraqi Christian Relief Council. This is a nonprofit organization that cooperates with other U.S. entities to educate Americans about the religious and ethnic cleansing occurring to Christians in Iraq. The group′s objective is to raise awareness, obtain financial assistance and request prayers for these Iraqi Christians.
The organization′s current campaign is "Aid for Ninevites", which seeks to support families who are without food and shelter due to terror attacks. They are also working on a project to empower widows in Iraq who have lost their husbands to terrorism and are unable to properly support their families.
Working as a reporter since joining Chicago news media company Assyrians Around the World (AAW) in 1994, Taimoorazy has covered various events for both television and radio. She currently hosts the "Assyrian Open Forum Show," which airs worldwide on www.ninevehradio.com.
To find out more about Juliana Taimoorazy, visit her website: www.julianataimoorazy.com.
For more information about the Iraqi Christian Relief Council, visit www.iraqichristianrelief.org.
Taimoorazy is coming to Pathway Church as part of the Geneva College Visiting Artist and Lecture Series (GVALS). Her presentation is free and open to the public.
Geneva College is a comprehensive Christian college of the arts, sciences and professional studies. Founded in the tradition of the Reformed Christian faith, Geneva prepares students to serve Christ in all areas of society: work, family and the church. Geneva College′s philosophy of education is based on the Foundational Concepts of Christian Higher Education. Geneva is a founding member of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU).
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Songs for Cambodia
WATCHING their beautiful faces break into wide toothy grins, it is hard to believe the children of Cambodia have so little to smile about.
Squalor and poverty ravage the young lives of many in the country many of us in the west often see only as a tropical paradise.
Donna Cooper and her daughter Sam, from Woodend in Victoria, found more than sandy white beaches on their trip to Cambodia six years ago.
Faced with the harsh reality that is life in that country, they decided to make a change.
Apsara Music Festival organisers hope to give a voice to those in need and to raise much-needed funds for Donna and Sam's charity, The Cambodian Kids Foundation.
Donna's brother Chris Wright, who owns The Terrace Restaurant in Maleny, is the coordinator behind the event to help the foundation.
"It's an opportunity for us as Australians to help and do something great and something long-lasting and sustainable for the future of a country," Mr Wright said.
Apsara is the name of a mythical Cambodian angel and is the perfect representation for the work The Cambodian Kids Foundation does.
"In only six years the Cambodian Kids Foundation, with the help of hundreds of supporters in both Woodend and Maleny, have established 18 fantastic programs such as the Kimyeng Medical Centre, University Scholarships, the Women's Empowered program and One Day Spa and Training College," Mr Wright said.
"But without a doubt the program that will make the biggest positive impact on the Kampong Thom Province is the Soksan International School which has just opened stage one.
"When it is finished it will be the biggest free school in Cambodia with up to 1500 students in a country barren of opportunities.
"This school will surely be an oasis of education and positivity and where Cambodian kids can make their dreams a reality."
The majority of the work the foundation does is in the Kampong Thom Province and Mr Wright hopes Apsara will raise at least $10,000 to put towards the school.
For more, visit cambodiankidsfoundation.org.
WHAT: An all age event featuring Sarah McLeod, Tin Can Radio and Lincoln Mackinnon
WHEN: Sunday, December 9, between 10am and sunset
WHERE: Maleny Botanic Gardens
COST: $20 a person