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Letter to BBC on "Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Program and the plan by the US military to destroy it"
Zahir Ebrahim
August 16, 2008
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To: BBC Radio 4 Document Series
Dateline: Saturday August 16, 2008, 2:28 PST
Subject: Mike Thomson's documentary in the"Uncovering Pakistan" season titled "USA and Pakistan in the 1970s" on "Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Program and the plan by the US military to destroy it" being re-broadcast today (August 16, 2008) http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20080204.shtml
There are many omissions and inaccuracies in Mike Thomson's program on Pakistan's bomb. Apart from the fact that the attitude and tenor of the program reflected the "White mans burden" quite clearly – obviously as heard with only "non-white" ears – it lacked information on the shenanigans of the real sponsors of terror in the world regarding the removal of Z. A. Bhutto, and the Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan.
To correct this in a followup program – please refer to the following three references:
1) Profiles of Intelligence by ISI Director Brig Tirmazi. Published 1996. A detailed excerpt from this memoir regarding how Z. A. Bhutto was "judicially assassinated" by the United States in the words of Pakistan's own chief spymaster can be found in my essay discussing who killed Benazir Bhutto: "Who Killed Benazir Bhutto? In her own words!" at: http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/02/who-killed-benazir-bhutto-herownwords.html
2) There is something propagandistic about the continued allegations in the West that A. Q. Khan "stole" the bomb secrets – when a Dutch court presumably exonerated Khan. The court verdict is reproduced in a Khan biography titled Pakistan's Bomb or Islamic Bomb by Zahid Malik. The biographer is editor and owner of the Observer newspaper in Islamabad which is reputed to have been funded by A. Q. Khan. What is the real truth of the matter? Is the court verdict whose photocopy is included in the book a forgery? Or was the court verdict also merely a superpower's "convenience"? If the court verdict is genuine, then didn't BBC just re-slander Khan and Pakistan by continuing to echo the CIA/Pentagon propaganda?
While trying to uncover the real truth of the matter, please also address the details of how Israel got its nuclear weapons through clandestine assist from the French and Israeli covert operations and theft upon the Pentagon by covering J. Pollard et. al., and the Israeli whistleblower Vanunnu who languished in the Israeli jail for 18 years. A contrasting of Pakistan's and Israel's bombs and West's attitudes towards each would make for a far more revealing documentary on nuclear bombs and the West's continued white mans burden. Most listeners of the BBC will surely find such accurate and analytical perspectives [far] more interesting than rehearsal of deliberate propaganda. Perhaps Mike Thomson and the BBC producers are themselves victims of such?
3) Regarding the "surprising" Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan which Mike Thomson suggests magically came to Pakistan's rescue as it serendipitously turned the superpower's relations with Pakistan 180 degrees around, please refer to the interview of Zbigniew Brzezinski from 1998, and the present head of Pentagon Robert Gates's autobiography From the Shadows. A snippet from Brzezinski's interview to "Le Nouvel Observateur" is reproduced below, and it is quoted at length in my essay where you may glean the grotesque reality of the "islamic fundamentalism" and "radical islam" and "islamofascism" that is deliberately distorting the world today: "Saving Pakistan from Synthetic 'Terror Central'" at: http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2007/12/saving-pakistan-from-synthetic-terror.html
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Question: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs ["From the Shadows"], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?
Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.
Question: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan, people didn't believe them. However, there was a basis of truth. You don't regret anything today?
Brzezinski: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
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When Brzezinski cold-bloodedly confesses to the "secret operation" as Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor, then the speech of Jimmy Carter reproduced by Mike Thomson in which Carter two-facedly condemns the Soviet intervention makes this BBC series an undeniable exercise in propaganda that would make Edward Bernays and Goebbells proud! Surely this is only inadvertent? And to forensically link the past to the present, in case you wish to do a documentary on Russian Intervention in Georgia, please see my essay: "Georgia-Russia: It's a Classic Brzezinski Project!" at: http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2008/08/georgia-russia-its-aclassic-brzezinski.html
There are unfortunately no ["secret"] documents available at the present time to validate the informed speculation on the Russian Intervention in Georgia apart from a rational reading of available facts and connecting of the dots based on the hindsight of history and declared doctrines of conquest – just wait another 20 years for memoirs, confessions, and much redacted de-classified documents upon which at least more accurate documentaries can be made. But history has been relegated to mindless rehearsals of spinned documentaries for mass entertainment from its (theoretical) lofty perch as the "responsibility for the future"! I hope the BBC will choose to sit on that perch!
Thank you.
Zahir Ebrahim
Letter submitted to BBC Radio 4 on its request for documents form http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_form.shtml
The author, an ordinary researcher and writer on contemporary geopolitics, a minor justice activist, grew up in Pakistan, studied EECS at MIT, engineered for a while in high-tech Silicon Valley (patents here), and retired early to pursue other responsible interests. His maiden 2003 book was rejected by six publishers and can be read on the web at http://PrisonersoftheCave.org. He may be reached at http://Humanbeingsfirst.org. Verbatim reproduction license at http://www.humanbeingsfirst.org#Copyright.
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Letter to BBC on Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Program and the plan by the US military to destroy it


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Spring Design: Here's How Barnes & Noble Turned Our Reader Into the Nook
Puzzled by the weird story of the "Alex," the would-be e-reader that looks something like the "Nook," the e-reader Barnes & Noble introduced last month? Then this won't clear anything up: Spring Design's court case against the bookseller, which it says broke an "implicit promise" and stole its idea for a two-screen device.
Spring sued Barnes & Noble yesterday in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., accusing the bookseller of turning its "Alex" design into the Nook. I have embedded a copy of the complaint below, but here's the short version:
- The Nook, which is on sale now and is supposed to ship this month, runs on Google's Android (GOOG) platform and sports a large monochrome screen and a smaller color screen. The Alex, which doesn't appear to be in production yet, is also supposed to run on Android and will feature two screens.
- Spring signed an NDA with Barnes & Noble (BKS) on Feb. 12 this year and says it first met with the company to show off its design for a dual-screen e-reader shortly after that.
- By May, Spring was showing the design to B&N.com president William Lynch. Spring says Lynch warned it not to work with Amazon (AMZN) because that company would "steal Spring's unique idea."
- The two companies talked a few more times during the summer.
- Spring says that "up until B&N's Nook announcement on October 20…it believed that it was disclosing the confidential features of its Alex device in exchange for B&N's implicit promise that it would seriously consider acquiring Spring's product."
Happy to hear from experts who know consumer electronics and/or trade-secret law, but I can't say I'm convinced by Spring's argument.
For one thing, Barnes & Noble would have had to work very fast to copy Spring's design and get it to market in less than a year. Another problem with Spring's case: As far as I can tell–based on its own complaint–Spring only showed Barnes & Noble some PowerPoint slides, which means there wasn't much for it to copy.
Eric Kmiec, Spring's VP of sales and marketing, told me last month that he and CEO Priscilla Lu were brought in this summer to "focus" the Cupertino, Calif.-based firm, which had previously been "playing around in R&D" and had "no real market focus." It's hard to believe that the bookseller had made a promise–even an "implicit" one–to buy something that didn't exist.
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New creative director Alistair Carr reworked the British label's classics and offered brightly coloured knits and interesting ropework detailing
Having taken the helm of the Pringle Womenswear line as Design Director back in March, this is the first full collection for Alastair Carr, who has worked previously at Balenciaga under Nicolas Ghesquière, Chloe and Cacharel. Firmly getting hold of the luxurious British knitwear label, Carr has looked first to their archives for his inspiration, referencing the heritage of the Pringle but updating his finds for a modern sophisticated womans wardrobe. The first looks took the classic Pringle intarsia and gave it an injection of colour, producing it in vivid yellows, blues and reds against a soft grey background, the combination being used on short dresses, sleeveless cardigans and back button tops.
A number of the knitwear pieces also featured a ropework graphic, contrasting the geometrics of the intarsia. The ropework was also seen on a number of cotton and silk blouses, a super fine long sleeve knit and again on the back buttoning tops. As the show progressed layers began to be added, looser blouses over the more form fitting knitwear and then into much more minimal garments. Structured and tailored dresses with contrasting textures, panels and colour blocks were a firm example of a new direction for Carr's Pringle.
Dazed Digital: How did you look to update the heritage of Pringle?
Alastair Carr: I started in the archive to look at the different techniques as I have only just started doing knitwear. The main things were the intarsia which started the show, these kind of abstract argyle pieces, which was all done by hand. Normally intarsia is flat so we were looking at how to make that 3D, and then the jacquard which came through second in the really textured dresses.
DD: Was there a particular era you were looking at from the archive?
Alastair Carr: The 60s, but not to make it retro. I really didn't want to have something that seemed to much in the past. Obviously with Pringle the heritage of the company is so important, and it is what our customers know, but at the same time it was incredibly important to me to bring that forward for a modern woman.
DD: How did you go about updating things?
Alastair Carr: I was really just thinking about the woman that I have in my head who wears these pieces, and the woman that I want to speak to, the woman I want to wear it. I was in love with the amazing textures from the 60s but the woman I had in mind wouldn't wear anything 60s, so it was how to twist it and make it relevant. It was important to make it easy as well, everyone wears knitwear so I wanted it to be accessible.


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The Adventures of Guy-ShiSubmitted by klc on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 18:02.
(Author's note: The past eighteen months have been Hell on Earth. The fact that I have finished this piece is a sign that some of my burdens are beginning to ease. The backstory is available in the Eighth Adventure, also posted here in my blog.)
Ninth Adventure
The Adventures of Guy-ShiSubmitted by klc on Mon, 04/05/2010 - 01:20.
(The Rap on what this is all about is at the end of the post.)
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The batshit crazy part is that you have to believe in magic swords. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Call me Guy. Guy–Shi, if you want to be more formal. It's what I am, and it's what I do. I'm going to try to tell you the story, but sometimes the story might be telling me…
For purposes of this discussion I must posit the existence of the multiverse. N universes, where n is very large, perhaps even infinite. The problem is, this multiverse is unstable. Very unstable. So what to do?


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This question is focused on extracting the advantages and disadvantages of using Web based Frameworks: such as Cake PHP, Zend, jQuery, ASP.NET). This question is completely language agnostic. Let me start with the notion of "Standing on the shoulders of Giants".
- Empowers Developers - by taking features that would have previously have taken 100's of lines of code and compressing them into one simple function call empowers developers to integrate more complex features into their Web Sites.
- Allow for Quicker development of applications - this is very relevant for people that need websites created in a very small window (has anyone any examples of this?)
- Lower Costs - allows programmers to pass cost savings onto the customer, a whole new range of customers generated that wanted a website but previously could not afford the higher development costs.
- Lost Understanding - by relying on the features of a framework a developer is in danger of loosing understanding on how things work (underneath the hood).
- The configuration cliff - once you go further than the configuration of your framework your productivity drops right off, it can be difficult to implement features outside of a frameworks configuration.
- Developer tramlines - you (the developer) has to do things the way that the developer want you to do things.
I wonder what people make of my points, and whether anybody disagrees with them? Also if people have additional points I would be grateful.


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Everyone has a hero or two or three. For you, it might be Abraham Lincoln, the great emancipator. For others, it might be Caterina Sforza, George Washington Carver, or John Lennon. For myself, I've always had a soft spot for Mike Haggar.
"Who the hell is Mike Haggar?" is what I'm imagining the vast majority are saying upon reading that, and possibly "Why would he be so worthy of praise?" if they were prone to speaking aloud any thought that passed through their head.
Well to me, as I'm sure is the case with others, a personal hero is someone who inspires you by exemplifying the traits you find admirable in humanity. Unfortunately, I often find that the nature of politics is ill suited for nobility and perseverance. Even those who accomplish great things turn out to have plenty of dark secrets, human foibles or just plain bad habits that make it hard to not get too cynical about them.
If you dig deeper, you'll find that Gandhi probably beat his wife, Martin Luther King Jr. swore worse than a sailor and might have stolen some of his best lines from other speeches, and Lincoln was often depressed if not possibly living a double life. In the grand scheme of things, they're still noble men, but men all the same and so fallible.
Thus, as a child growing up in the birth of the digital generation it was easy for me to latch onto heroes that would only exist in bits and bytes that could be controlled only via an arcade stick or mouse and keyboard. There were plenty to choose from: Mario, Sonic, Guybrush Threepwood, Mega Man. All of these characters were favorites and loved for a time, but as the years went by, most passed into the territory of "remembered fondly".
But then there's Mike Haggar. While in most ways, he's just a beefcake sporting a Freddy Mercury mustache who beats up thugs, because he is, he also represents something a little more admirable. In the context of 1989's Final Fight, Mike Haggar is the mayor of the beleaguered Metro City, a town in turmoil where crime (in the form of the street gang Mad Gear) has taken hold so thoroughly that police will forgo subtlety and attack public officials openly, and I don't mean with fiery rhetoric, but actually assaulting them in order to keep the city in its stranglehold. Haggar, a former wrestler, ran for office on a platform of cleaning up his once fair berg. Mad Gear attempts to deal with this new public servant the same as the others — with bribes — but when that doesn't work they resort to kidnapping his daughter to use as leverage and maintain control.
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As it turns out, Mike Haggar is not only incorruptible, he's also just a badass, since his reaction to these threats to both his integrity and family is to call a couple of his tougher friends to his side, hulk out and start delivering beatings to everyone standing in his way. While his platform may have ridden entirely on a similar premise, I doubt he thought he would actually be delivering reform in such a "personal" sense. Still, when push comes to shove, he rolls up his sleeves or in his case, rips off his shirt and just does it. Talk about a politician to admire!
Though of course this is just a simple plot to get a game about street brawling going, it always stuck with me. Why can't all politicians be this tough? This unyielding when pressed, or as noble? He even seems to be well suited for public office, as he remains Mayor in subsequent games, continuing a fight he starts with his fists with what I hope is legislation as strong as his bodybuilder physique. Sure it's a juvenile ideal, more ingrained in the culture of martial arts than in actual politics, but at least for me it set a standard I have yet to see in reality, though of course that's because it would be impossible.
Or at least, I used to think so. Then in 1999, a little-known, but eerily similar guy was elected as the governor of Minnesota. I'm talking of course about Jesse "The Body" Ventura. A former Naval Demolitions expert, wrestler and actor, Ventura entered into politics and from most accounts was a rather successful governor for the Reform party and the people of his state. Now I'm not going to get into his various controversies or policies, as a California native (rather than a Minnesotan) I really can't say I've got a full picture, and I certainly think the man's latest turn as professional conspiracy theorist is a bit disappointing, but damn if it isn't an eerie act of life imitating art on at least a couple of levels.
It's not the only such occurrence either, since I'm living in a state being run by one of Ventura's old buddies, Arnold Schwarzenegger, another body builder/actor/action star who's taken a turn in politics. Though governor "Ahnold" has certainly run into plenty of controversy and trouble during his stint as leader, perhaps we've been going about it all wrong. Maybe we should be using guys like him and Ventura like the protagonists of video games, air dropping them into crime ridden neighborhoods to deliver as many suplexes as speeches to lawbreakers. We could televise it and make a profit for our struggling economy, and should they go down in the fight for justice, at least their critics would be sated. If they're successful, well hey, we have the footage to prove they've actually done something useful during their time in office!
Okay, it's a silly thought, I know. Ventura and Schwarzenegger are only human, and thus prone to having many faults, so they could probably never live up to the example Mike Haggar had started in '89. But his memory lives on, and only last week was it announced that the champion of Metro City would be returning to gaming in the upcoming crossover combat of Marvel VS. Capcom 3. Fans of larger than life politics are currently rejoicing.
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But what does this all build up to? Well, in honor of Haggar's grand return and past glory, I'm setting up a little blog here at the California Literary Review. It's going to ostensibly be about videogames, but I want to focus a little bit more on the issues and debates that occur within the industry and the fandom. Since videogames aren't necessarily the focus of the site, it's also going to be a place to inform and educate, as well as space for we reviewers to debate in a standard "town hall" manner. My main goal is to look at all sides of the various issues, think about them rationally and reasonably, and then be unafraid to deliver a swift drop-kick of justice to those who require it.
Videogames are essentially about two things: rules and actions. You have to play by the rules set up within the game, and perform the actions allowed to get through them. The very real game of politics is similar: men and women struggling to succeed by their actions and words in a world filled with myriad rules both written and implied. I for one can't see a better symbol for the merging of the two than Mike Haggar.
So welcome to the Metro City Reform Committee! I hope to see you soon, and encourage any and all comments and feedback you might have. Of course, if you're just here to troll, look out. Our original leader and founder might just be wandering the streets looking to deliver you some "law and order" of his own before feasting on some of that fine Metro City trashcan turkey.
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Mariners likely to play it safe with injured Iwakuma
PEORIA, Ariz. -- Hisashi Iwakuma told Japanese reporters he figures he needs only three starts under his belt to get himself ready for the regular season, but the Mariners might have other ideas as they vow to be careful with their standout right-hander after he was diagnosed with a strained tendon in his middle right finger this week.
Iwakuma will be reevaluated in early March and isn't expected to begin throwing for several weeks after that, which figures to push his return past Opening Day on March 31 even in the most optimistic scenario.
"The doctors have told me he's out 4-6 weeks, then he's going to have to throw and get himself ready," manager Lloyd McClendon said. "He's too valuable to rush back. We have to make sure he's at full strength when he does come back."
McClendon said Iwakuma, who finished third in the American League Cy Young Award voting last year after going 14-6 with a 2.66 ERA, will need to be able to throw six or seven innings and 85-95 pitches before he's ready for a regular-season game.
Building up to those levels usually takes pitchers five or six starts over the course of Spring Training, so Iwakuma's idea of getting ready in just three starts likely won't gain much traction with McClendon and new pitching coach Rick Waits.
"It would make me real happy if that was the case, but we'll see," McClendon said. "We'll do right by Iwakuma, that's for sure."
The Mariners were looking for another veteran starter even before Iwakuma's injury, so they could be in the market for another addition. Veterans Scott Baker and Randy Wolf have been given non-roster invites as they come off Tommy John surgeries, and former Angels starter Matt Palmer is in the mix as well.
Youngsters James Paxton, Taijuan Walker, Blake Beavan, Brandon Maurer and Erasmo Ramirez will also compete for starting jobs, and McClendon said he wants eight or nine pitchers getting stretched out through camp to fill the final five-man rotation.
"I'm always looking for eight or nine starters," he said. "Whether they're out there or Jack [Zduriencik] is going to acquire somebody else, I don't know. But I'm always looking. You always want to get better and you always want to have a surplus."
McClendon said Zach Miner, another non-roster veteran, has the ability to start and be a "swing-man" type pitcher, but will be looked at more as a reliever at this point.


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Ride Home 11/29 will happen, but I won't be writing about it tonight
Professional obligations will keep me at work until around nine this evening and I plan to ride home and immediately go to sleep, leaving me no time to blog the ride. Unless, of course, I sleep-blog, which hasn't yet happened, but someday might, thereby increasing the quality of the posts immensely. But I plan on writing up the ride tomorrow (ambitious!), so no worries. Not that you're worrying.
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Law professor blogs about environmental issues while teaching in Spain and Italy
March 22, 2011
Melissa Powers, an associate professor of law, has launched a blog called "Enumerated Powers" to share her observations about environmental issues in Spain and Italy, where she will be teaching climate change law this spring.
Among her first blog entries, Powers muses over the vast differences between Bilbao, Spain's mass transit system and those common in the United States.
"Bilbao was a heavily industrialized city for many, many years that fell on hard times when steel production slowed down in Western Europe," Powers writes. "After a long period of depression, Bilbao decided to invest in the arts and culture as a way to revive its economy. It welcomed the amazing Guggenheim Museum (more on that later), and invested in infrastructure improvements, like a subway and pedestrian bridges and light rail, all designed to make the city more livable and welcome to tourism. From my perspective, these efforts have paid off."
Powers will be teaching as a visiting professor in Pamplona, Spain at the University of Navarra and then in Trento, Italy, at the University of Trento. This is her second time teaching at the University of Trento, thanks to the law school's participation in the International Union for Conservation of Nature Academy of Environmental Law, an academic organization focused on increasing capacity of and collaboration between environmental law scholars.
Powers teaches courses in energy law, climate change law, ocean and coastal law, among other topics. Her research interests include statutory interpretation and domestic policies aimed at mitigating climate change. She and fellow law professor Chris Wold co-authored the first legal textbook on climate change in the world.
From 2003-2008, Powers was a clinical professor at the Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center, the environmental law clinic at Lewis & Clark. Her clinical work focused primarily on pollution-control litigation, with a particular emphasis on the Clean Water Act. During her tenure there, Powers successfully litigated several cases in federal and state courts.


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dCore Concepts
dCore, like Tiny Core, uses standard technologies common to all Linux distributions in an ingenious way. A layman's understanding of these concepts helps understand the necessary steps for setting-up and managing a dCore installation. This simplified explanation cuts some technical corners and is meant to outline Tiny Core Linux to new users.
Linux Operating System
To operate a modern computer, one needs an operating system,in our case Linux. More precisely, we use the Linux kernel but that is not all it takes. The kernel operates your computer, that is it manages the hardware components including RAM, video, network, input devices like keyboard or mouse, hard-disks, USB- and other interfaces etc. Furthermore, it keeps an eye on files, users and permissions (and of course does a lot more work, too).
Simply put, the kernel is the first program running on a computer (neglecting BIOS/EFI and boot-loader). It does not do much on its own; instead it provides a platform for running user space programs. After the initial boot phase which makes the kernel run, control usually is handed over to the so-called init-process ('/sbin/init') which calls the individual init-scripts.
As init-scripts are shell scripts, they need a shell to run their commands. So the init-process must launch a shell program and make necessary tools available (typically some of GNU coreutils like e.g. cp, rm, md5sum etc. plus some more like find, grep, sed etc.). These utilities are usually stored as single executables on hard-disk (under '/bin/') and loaded from there when needed.
Initial RAM disk
The initial RAM disk (initrd) steps in to close a gap between the kernel and files on hard-disks. The basic difficulty lies in the fact that the kernel may need drivers to access special file systems. If these drivers lie on such a file system themselves there would be no way of accessing them. Such situation typically arise with encrypted file systems.
The initrd (or more precisely initramfs) contains an archive of a basic root file system. The kernel un-packs this archive in RAM (hence the name) and mounts it as its first root system. From there it runs the init-on-initrd process which can load necessary drivers etc. before the real root file system can be mounted from hard disk. After that the un-packed initrd can be cleared from RAM and the "real" init-process takes over.
Running from RAM
dCore is said to run from RAM which means that it does not leave the root file system loaded from the initrd. This avoids loading executables from hard-disks and makes the system run much faster. It necessitates, however, some restrictions in memory usage as one cannot simply dump the full of a regular desktop installation into an initrd. Furthermore, the initrd imposes a crucial restriction by its being read-only by design. (See below about how dCore overcomes this.)
There are various degrees of frugality, and *Core certainly shines. Other notable examples include the installers of most Linux distributions.
Due to its very frugal nature, dCore makes use of BusyBox to provide shell and system tools. The shell provided by BusyBox is Ash (Almquist shell). It is "virtually" POSIX-compatible does not provide all the extras of other shells like Bash or Dash.
dCore Specifics
Running from RAM yields some interesting consequences which mostly revolve about the fact that the root file system used is not only minimal but also ephemeral in the sense that any change to it will be only written to RAM but not back to the initrd archive on disk.
Running from arbitrary file systems
dCore needs two files to run, namely the Linux kernel and the initrd. Both files can be loaded from arbitrary file systems, most notably FAT32 commonly used on USB-sticks. The file systems does not need to support the Linux file system permissions.
Pristine image
At every boot the root system is in its pristine initial state. So there is no way of inadvertently breaking the system by mis-configuring any system files (but cf. below).
Picture yourself, or somebody else for that matter, issueing the command
sudo mv ./* ~/data/ but omitting the tiny dot by a lapse of concentration.
Sure enough, you will get an interesting collection of data in that folder, there will be error messages about Linux' fundamental inability of moving '/proc/', '/sys/' and maybe some more and, to round off the whole snafu, no further command will succeed and you won't even be recognized as valid system user any more.
Time to re-install from scratch on any regular operating system, probably. With dCore you simply shut off the system (magic SysRq should still work, although your keyboard layout might be messed up as well) and re-boot. Nothing more is left to do other than cleaning out your home directory.
Need for boot parameters
As the root file system is loaded from the initrd there is no other way to influence early startup options than to specify them as boot parameters (e.g. black-listing kernel modules).
It is clear that a 10+ MB root file system does not allow for great leaps by itself. So there must be a way to allow for additional resources to be added, in order to supply user space software like X11, web browser etc. In the traditional way this is done by supplying several files (executables, libraries etc.) scattered over a file system. There may be dependencies among the applications which are resolved by having several programs installed in parallel.
dCore does things differently by providing software in form of extensions. Simply put, an extension is an archive containing all needed files the same way an initrd contains a complete root file system. The archive (of type .sce which basically is a SquashFS) is created by importing the necessary files from external (Debian-type) repositories. Thus any extension is provided as a single archive file under 'tce/sce/'.
Extensions can be "loaded" which basically means mounting the archive read-only as overlay into the root file system to provide the desired application. Unlike for the initrd, the loading does not happen in RAM and may be done on demand as well as on boot. Since extensions are loaded individually, they must, a priori, be fully self-contained, resolving all dependencies on their own. This makes extensions rather big but has the advantage, again, that any application is loaded in its pristine initial state. Furthermore, dCore does support dependencies among extensions.
A pristine system state at boot is fine but configuring the same things over and over again does eventually get tiresome. So there must be a mechanism of providing persistence in configuration files. Indeed, one can specify a list of files and directories to be saved to disk in a text file (namely '/opt/.filetool.lst'). The files are saved in an archive (namely 'tce/mydata.tgz') and unpacked by the init process to over-write the respective files in the root file system. Similar for the home directory.
The '/home' and '/opt' directories can be included in the persistent storage or also put somewhere on a regular file system to make it persistent. The latter avoids (de-)compressing the full home folder at every bootup or shutdown.


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You know the saying: "It's not a popularity contest."
Hogwash. And we all know it is. Everything that involves human selection is a popularity contest. And in the world of international soccer, you're only as good as your last appearance. Or are you?
Anyone who follows the U.S. national team knows there are names that keep popping up, almost inexplicably, despite what fans often view as habitually less-than-stellar performances.
Yet here we are less than two weeks from Bob Bradley naming his 30-man provisional camp roster for the World Cup, and you just know some of those names will make it. And you know who I mean: The guys fans love to hate.
But there is clearly a reason Bradley sticks by these guys, despite what the critics say. They are the Dangerfields of the national-team pool.
Here are three of those names, why they can't get no respect and why, in reality, they have a place in the national-team picture this late in the game.
Conor Casey
Dangerfield credentials: No one's going to accuse the big Colorado Rapids forward of possessing breakaway speed. And as far as a light touch goes, well, he's about as nimble as Michael Clarke Duncan. Though he can get on the score sheet, he doesn't have the clinical finishing ability of a prototypical target guy.
Why he's in the mix: For one, the thinness of the U.S. strike force. We have to assume Charlie Davies and Brian Ching won't be at full strength, or available at all. And Jozy Altidore's confidence has fallen with a dip in form in his final days with Hull City.
But the "he's all that's left" argument doesn't hold water here either. No one Bradley has used during his tenure has a presence in the box like Casey. At 6-foot-1, 185 pounds, the broad-shouldered Colorado bruiser is a beast.
For an idea of what dimension Casey adds, look no further than last Saturday's Rapids match at New England. In the 73rd minute, Casey took a pass at the top of the box and, with his back to goal drew not one, not two, but five Revs defenders. With the bodies flocking to the big man, Casey held the ball up for a good six seconds before calmly laying it off to a trailing Pablo Mastroeni, who ripped a near 30-yard missile into the net. (Watch: Casey makes his case)
Now, to be fair, fighting off Seth Sinovic and Darrius Barnes isn't exactly like maintaining possession in the box against John Terry and Rio Ferdinand. But against a big team, or if the U.S. is sitting on a result late in a game, Casey's presence is invaluable.
Sacha Kljestan
Dangerfield credentials: Kljestan's nasty habit of shrinking in big games and his shattered confidence have become a chicken-and-egg cycle. It's been more than a year since Chivas USA's new captain was a regular in the rotation, and with central midfield being one of the U.S.' deepest positions, fans wish Bradley would lean on other options.
Why he's in the mix: Kljestan is not the two-way threat Bradley wishes he could be. But the former Chivas gaffer drafted him while he was coaching the Goats in 2006 and clearly saw the ingredients there, which explains his patience with him.
True, Kljestan was rightfully dropped out of the picture for awhile. He simply wasn't getting the job done and you have to imagine it was a hard decision for Bradley. But when Kljestan has the right complementary pieces around him, he can generate the space to do great things.
Chivas USA's win over San Jose last weekend saw Kljestan rediscover his form of a year ago – he dictated the pace of his offense the entire match, found pretty passing lanes and even launched his own long-range rocket. (Watch: Kljestan's stunning golazo)
When you give Kljestan the right support in the midfield – a Ricardo Clark type to win balls and absorb pressure – that frees him up to do what he does best. Plus he has the experience of knowing Bradley's system for longer than almost anyone on the team.
Jonathan Bornstein
Dangerfield credentials: When Bornstein makes a mistake, it's almost always a big one. Witness his poor clearance against El Salvador in World Cup qualifying that led to a goal, or his takedown of Wesley Sneijder in the box in last month's friendly at the Netherlands. The pace of the international game often looks like it's beyond him.
Why he's in the mix: Again, it's true there aren't a lot of other options. Even if rehabbing Oguchi Onyewu is fully fit (still no sure thing), and Bradley pairs him with Jay DeMerit, pushing Carlos Bocanegra outside, there isn't a single natural left back on the roster with more experience at this level.
That said, Bornstein isn't the type of player who stands out when he's putting in a solid performance – fans only seem to remember his missteps or last-second heroics. However, he does play good defense and has the pace to keep up with speedy wingers. And his tackling ability is much better than advertised.
What might make him most invaluable, however, is his versatility. Bornstein has spent a good deal of time filling in at center back for Chivas USA. Not that he'll be supplanting anyone in the middle on the national team, but you never know what can happen when someone gets a red card or an injury.
You may not love these guys, but there's a reason they're still in the picture. Besides, at a certain point, all the complaining is a waste of energy. Those final 23 in South Africa are all we'll have. Show some respect.
Jonah Freedman is the managing editor of MLSsoccer.com. His "Throw-Ins" column appears every Thursday.


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This phrase meaning to accept responsibility, suffer consequences is an Americanism dating to the mid-19th century. The underlying metaphor is uncertain. From the New Hampshire Statesman and State Journal of 17 February 1834:
We want no equivocation—"face the music" this time—Gove and Barton are able backers.
Many of the earliest citations of the phrase are from New Hampshire, indicating that the term arose there, or at least arose in New England.
There are a couple of common explanations for the phrase, but none have any conclusive evidence to support them. The first explanation is that it derives from the stage. With the musicians in a pit before the stage, to face the music is to turn towards the audience and either their hoots or cheers. Another is that it is military in origin, and refers to a ceremony where an officer is cashiered and is literally drummed out of the service.
Because of the early citations from New Hampshire, it has also been suggested that face the music may have originated in contra dancing, a social dance form that was popular in 19th century New England and is still practiced in New Hampshire today. But like the other proposed explanations, no evidence definitively linking the phrase to the dance form has been unearthed.
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I have an expression of the form:
$$\int\limits_{-\infty}^{\infty}\exp \left\{ \frac{-1}{2\sigma^2} (x-\mu)^2 \right\} dx = \sqrt{2\pi\sigma^2}$$
and I need to take its derivative with respect to $\sigma^2$. The right hand side seems easy enough:
$$\frac{\partial}{\partial\sigma^2}{(2\pi\sigma^2)}^{\frac{1}{2}} = \frac{1}{2}\sqrt{2\pi}(\sigma^2)^{\frac{-1}{2}},$$
right? What about the left hand side? I don't know how to take the derivative of something that's inside an integral -- can someone please help? I'm more interested in understanding how it would work then just the answer itself.
EDIT: corrected RHS.
Through applying the chain rule, the LHS becomes:
$$\int\limits_{-\infty}^\infty \frac{1}{2}(x-\mu)^2\frac{1}{\sigma^4} \exp{\lbrace \frac{-1}{2\sigma^2} (x-\mu)^2 \rbrace } dx $$
Does this look right? I'm unsure of how to handle the derivative of a function w.r.t to a squared variable (e.g. $\frac{\partial}{\partial\sigma^2}$ as opposed to $\frac{\partial}{\partial\alpha}$). For example, is this true: $\frac{\partial}{\partial\sigma^2} \sigma^{-2} = -\sigma^{-4}$ ?


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Hersey, John Richard hûr´sē [key], 1914–93, American author, b. China, grad. Yale, 1936. Reflecting his experiences as a war correspondent in World War II, many of his writings are concerned with the problem of intolerance and inhumanity. His first novel, A Bell for Adano (1944; Pulitzer Prize), depicts the American occupation of a rural town in war-torn Italy. Later novels include The Wall (1950), about the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis; The War Lover (1959); The Child Buyer (1960); Letter to the Alumni (1970); The Conspiracy (1972); and Antonietta (1991). His nonfiction works include Hiroshima (1946), a powerful report of the effects of atomic bombing; The Algiers Motel Incident (1968), concerning an occurrence in the 1967 Detroit race riot; and Blues (1987), about fishing. Collections of his short stories include Fling and Other Stories (1990) and his last, Key West Tales (1994).
See studies by D. Sanders (1967) and N. L. Huse (1983).
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=== Attatch an existing running program to screen ===
=== Attatch an existing running program to screen ===
If you started a program outside screen, but now you would like it to be inside, you use '''reptyr''' to reparent the process from it's current tty to one inside screen.
If you started a program outside screen, but now you would like it to be inside, you use '''reptyr''' to reparent the process from it's current tty to one inside screen.
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zh-CN:GNU Screen GNU Screen is a wrapper that allows separation between the text program and the shell from which it was launched. This allows the user to, for example, start a text program in a terminal in X, kill X, and continue to interact with the program. Here are a couple of tips and tricks you may be interested in.
- 1 Installation
- 2 Usage
- 3 Tips and tricks
- 3.1 Change the escape key
- 3.2 Start at window 1
- 3.3 Nested Screen Sessions
- 3.4 Use 256 colors
- 3.5 Use 256 Colors with Rxvt-Unicode (urxvt)
- 3.6 Informative statusbar
- 3.7 Turn welcome message off
- 3.8 Turn your hardstatus line into a dynamic urxvt|xterm|aterm window title
- 3.9 Use X scrolling mechanism
- 3.10 Attatch an existing running program to screen
- 3.11 Add a GRUB entry to boot into Screen
- 4 Troubleshooting
- 5 See Also
GNU Screen can be installed using the screen package found in the official repositories.
Commands are entered pressing Template:Keypress and then the key binding.
Common Commands
- Template:Keypress Template:Keypress Displays commands and its defaults (VERY important)
- Template:Keypress Template:Keypress Enter to the command prompt of screen
- Template:Keypress Template:Keypress Window list
- Template:Keypress Template:Keypress opens window 0
- Template:Keypress Template:Keypress Rename the current window
- Template:Keypress Template:Keypress Sends Template:Keypress to the current window
- Template:Keypress Template:Keypress Create a new window (with shell)
- Template:Keypress Template:Keypress Split current region into two regions
- Template:Keypress Template:Keypress Switch the input focus to the next region
- Template:Keypress Template:Keypress Toggle between current and previous region
- Template:Keypress Template:Keypress Enter Copy Mode (use enter to select a range of text)
- Template:Keypress Template:Keypress Paste text
- Template:Keypress Template:Keypress Close all regions but the current one
- Template:Keypress Template:Keypress Close the current region
- Template:Keypress Template:Keypress Detach from the current screen session, and leave it running. Use
screen -rto resume
Tips and tricks
Change the escape key
The escape key can be changed with the
escape option in
~/.screenrc. For example:
escape ``
sets the escape key to Template:Keypress.
Start at window 1
By default, the first screen window is 0. If you'd rather never have a window 0 and start instead with 1, add the following lines on your configuration:
bind c screen 1 bind ^c screen 1 bind 0 select 10 screen 1
Nested Screen Sessions
It is possible to get stuck in a nested screen session. A common scenario: you start an ssh session from within a screen session. Within the ssh session, you start screen. By default, the outer screen session that was launched first responds to Template:Keypress commands. To send a command to the inner screen session, use Template:Keypress Template:Keypress, followed by your command. For example:
- Template:Keypress Template:Keypress Template:Keypress Detaches the inner screen session.
- Template:Keypress Template:Keypress Template:Keypress Kills the inner screen session.
Use 256 colors
By default, screen uses an 8-color terminal emulator. Use the following line to enable more colors, which is useful if you are using a more-capable terminal emulator:
term screen-256color
If this fails to render 256 colors in xterm, try the following instead:
attrcolor b ".I" # allow bold colors - necessary for some reason termcapinfo xterm 'Co#256:AB=\E[48;5;%dm:AF=\E[38;5;%dm' # tell screen how to set colors. AB = background, AF=foreground defbce on # use current bg color for erased chars
Use 256 Colors with Rxvt-Unicode (urxvt)
If you are using rxvt-unicode from the official repositories, you may need to add this line in your
~/.screenrc to enable 256 colors while in screen.
terminfo rxvt-unicode 'Co#256:AB=\E[48;5;%dm:AF=\E[38;5;%dm'
Informative statusbar
The default statusbar may be a little lacking. You may find this one more helpful:
hardstatus off hardstatus alwayslastline hardstatus string '%{= kG}[ %{G}%H %{g}][%= %{= kw}%?%-Lw%?%{r}(%{W}%n*%f%t%?(%u)%?%{r})%{w}%?%+Lw%?%?%= %{g}][%{B} %m-%d %{W} %c %{g}]'
Turn welcome message off
startup_message off
Turn your hardstatus line into a dynamic urxvt|xterm|aterm window title
This one is pretty simple; just switch your current
hardstatus line into a
caption line with notification, and edit accordingly:
backtick 1 5 5 true termcapinfo rxvt* 'hs:ts=\E]2;:fs=\007:ds=\E]2;\007' hardstatus string "screen (%n: %t)" caption string "%{= kw}%Y-%m-%d;%c %{= kw}%-Lw%{= kG}%{+b}[%n %t]%{-b}%{= kw}%+Lw%1`" caption always
This will give you something like
screen (0 bash) in the title of your terminal emulator. The caption supplies the date, current time, and colorizes your screen window collection.
Use X scrolling mechanism
The scroll buffer of GNU Screen can be accessed with Template:Keypress Template:Keypress. However, this is very inconvenient. To use the scroll bar of e.g. xterm or konsole, add the following line:
termcapinfo xterm* ti@:te@
Attatch an existing running program to screen
If you started a program outside screen, but now you would like it to be inside, you can use reptyr to reparent the process from it's current tty to one inside screen.
Install the package reptyr from the Official Repositories.
Get the PID of the process (you can use
ps ax for that). Now just enter the PID as argument to reptyr inside a screen window.
$ reptyr <pid>
Add a GRUB entry to boot into Screen
If you mostly use X but occasionally want to run a Screen-as-window-manager session, here is one way to do it by adding a GRUB entry for Screen on a virtual console (text terminal).
GRUB allows you to designate what runlevel you want so we will use runlevel 4 for this purpose. Clone an appropriate GRUB entry and add a
4 to the kernel boot parameters list, like so:
# (0) Arch Linux title Arch Linux Screen root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/disk/your_disk ro acpi_no_auto_ssdt irqpoll 4 initrd /initramfs-linux.img
Add some entries to
/etc/inittab to indicate what should happen on runlevel 4, substituting your user name for <user>:
# GNU Screen on runlevel 4 scr2:4:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --autologin <user> tty1 linux
The above line uses mingetty to automatically login some user to a virtual console on startup. You will need to install the mingetty package from the official repositories. The inittab line segments are separated by colons. The first part (scr*) is simply an id. The second part is the runlevel: This should only happen on runlevel 4 (which is not used in any default setup - 3 is by default for a tty login and 5 is for X). 'Respawn' causes init to repeat the command (i.e. autologin) if the user logs out.
We will need to see that nothing else happens on virtual console 1 when we use runlevel 4, so remove
4 from the the first of the agetty lines:
c1:235:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/1 linux
Once we are logged in, we want to ensure that screen is started. Add the following to the end of your
vico="$(tty | grep -oE ....$)" case "$vico" in tty1) TERM=screen; exec /usr/bin/screen -R arch;; esac
This checks for the current runlevel and will launch a screen session immediately after the automatic login if the runlevel is 4.
This can also be adapted to run screen on a virtual console next to X, simply checking for the current tty instead of the current runlevel. This checks to see if we are on virtual console 3:
vico="$(tty | grep -oE ....$)" case "$vico" in vc/3) TERM=screen; exec /usr/bin/screen;; esac
Set inittab/mingetty to automatically log in to vc/3 on runlevel 5 and you are set.
Fix Midnight Commander hard hang when starting in screen
In some cases (need deeper inspection) old gpm bug gets alive. So, then you try to run mc inside screen, you get a frozen screen window. Try to kill gpm daemon before starting mc and/or disable it in
Fix for residual editor text
When you open a text editor like nano in screen and then close it, the text may stay visible in your terminal. To fix this, put the following:
altscreen on
See Also
- MacOSX Hints - Automatically using screen in your shell
- Gentoo Wiki - Tutorial for screen
- Arch Forums - Regarding 256 color issue with urxvt
- Arch Forums - .screenrc configs with screenshots
- tmux, another multiplexer
- Ratpoison - A window manager based on gnu screen
- Xpra - An utility to detach/reattach X programs, in a way similar as screen does for command line based programs


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WASHINGTON — An alliance of American churches, including the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, met with President Obama last week, urging that programs aiding the poor be exempted from any spending cuts.
The ecumenical appeal was cast as a non-partisan initiative, but some critics viewed it as a wrong-headed measure that will keep taxes high and prevent investments by small businesses that would lead to job creation.
After meeting with Obama, the group held a teleconference with members of the media emceed by John Carr, the executive director of the USCCB's Department of Justice Peace and Human Development. He called the alliance "unprecedented," adding, "Across a broad spectrum of religious life, a group of leaders have come together around a simple and clear moral principle, which is the need to protect the poor and vulnerable in this budget process."
The alliance of over 60 Christian leaders and organizations — named the "Circle of Protection" — was formed in April. Its founding statement calls on U.S. leaders to "consider tax revenues, military spending and entitlements in the search for ways to share sacrifice and cut deficits." It also states that "a fundamental task is to create jobs and spur economic growth. Decent jobs at decent wages are the best path out of poverty."
Among its members are two Evangelical social justice groups — Sojourners and Evangelicals for Social Action.
During their meeting with Obama and several senior administration officials, the religious leaders called on the White House to help form a "circle of protection" around poverty programs likely to face cuts as Capitol Hill struggles to resolve an acrimonious budget fight.
However, conservative Christian critics argue that the group's efforts are counter-productive, penalizing the very people they are designed to protect.
Collette Caprara, editor of the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society, a spinoff of the conservative Heritage Foundation based in Washington, D.C., described the Circle of Protection as "well-intended."
"But if programs are not achieving what was intended, you are not serving the people you are supposed to be helping by propping up such programs," she said.
Father Robert Sirico, president of the Acton Institute, a conservative think tank based in Grand Rapids, Mich., suggested the Christian activists may not be aware "of the root causes of poverty and wealth."
"Their statements are all about redistribution of wealth with almost nothing about wealth creation through production and labor," he said.
Catholic members of the "Circle of Protection" include Bishop Stephen Blaire of Stockton, Calif., chairman of the USCCB's Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development; Sister Simone Campbell, a member of the Sisters of Social Service religious community and executive director of NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby, which supported Obama's health insurance reform bill despite the USCCB's opposition; Patrick Carolan, executive director of the Franciscan Action Network, and the Father Thomas Cassidy, president of Conference of Major Superiors of Men and provincial superior of the Priests of the Sacred Heart.
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During the tele-press conference, Catholic Bishop Ricardo Ramirez of La Cruces, N.M., told reporters: "Matthew 25 doesn't say, 'Whatsoever you do unto the forgotten middle class, you do unto me.' We want to speak for 'the least of these.'"
Bishop Ramirez described the current budget debate, as it played out in New Mexico: "There seem to be some givens in the debate: for Republicans: no new taxes — given. For some Democrats, no cuts to Medicare — given; for others, no cuts to military spending — given. For the Obama administration; some additional revenues are given. Sadly, it seems while listening to the debate that protecting the poor and the vulnerable is not a given and that is why we are there."
The ecumenical alliance released its founding statement earlier in the year, counting among its signers representatives of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, Catholic Charities USA, the Jesuits, as well as 45 development or relief organizations.
The leaders of the alliance said they had been received sympathetically by Obama, but they declined to provide specifics about his actual remarks during the White House meeting. Their message appeared to be directed at church members, whom they hoped to reach through pastors and the news media.
Left-wing Evangelical leader Jim Wallis, founder of the Sojourners, said, "Almost every pulpit in America is connected to the Circle of Protection."
David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World, a nondenominational lobby group devoted to urging the U.S. government to give international food and development aid, added, "At least a quarter of the people in the country are at religious services every week. If we could get 10% of those folks to contact their member of Congress, there would be no risk [to poverty programs]."
According to Beckmann and other members of the alliance, the most serious threat is that foreign aid programs, especially emergency assistance, would be cut. Lives were at risk, he contended.
Asked if the needs of the poor had been presented to Congressional Catholics, such as House budget committee chairman Paul Ryan, Carr said a "significant, substantial and constructive meeting" had been held with Ryan and other GOP members of Congress — though another prominent Catholic, House Speaker John Boehner, had so far been too busy to meet.
"We're going to make this case everywhere we can because we think it's a measure of us as a community of faith and a measure of us as a nation whether we provide liberty and justice for all," Carr vowed.
Several speakers at the news conference asserted their lack of self-interest, claiming that this set them apart from other participants in the budget debate. However, the USCCB, for example, reported $58 million in government funding for its aid programs in 2009, while Catholic Relief Services netted $517 million.
Terry Heinrichs, chairman of the department of Political Science at Glendon College, York University in Toronto, described the Circle of Protection as " an obvious, Democrat-driven initiative intended to pressure Republicans to drop their insistence on cuts — especially to entitlements — and agree to raising taxes as a way to deal with the debt ceiling and budgetary issues."
Heinrichs said Obama wanted a long-term solution, so he wouldn't have to face negotiations later on, while the Republicans sought to raise the issue in 2012, an election year. He suggested that the president's direct appeals to the American people were increasingly ineffective. "The more he goes to TV the lower he gets in the polls. A lot of that zing is gone that he had when he first got into office and people saw him as rising above politics. He has turned out to be as partisan as any politician has ever been."
Other critics viewed the Circle of Protection's emphasis on preserving programs as wrong-headed.
"Any Christian would agree that we should put the poor and vulnerable first. The question is how," noted Father Sirico.
He argued that taxes on the middle class destroyed its ability to grow the economy and to generate surpluses that can be used to assist the poor or to create new jobs.
"Redistributing wealth is the way to keep the poor in poverty. The way to lift them out of poverty is with jobs," said Father Sirico, who added that he did not mean government jobs, but rather jobs generated through wealth creation in the private sector.
Father Sirico proposed cutting poverty programs in half, giving the savings back to the middle class as a tax credit for any donations to charities. "You'd save a huge amount on the bureaucracy," he said.
Collette Caprara made a similar case, extolling the work of the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, a national organization founded in 1981 which encourages inner-city community and church leaders to promote personal responsibility and self sufficiency as the route out of poverty, based in Washington, D.C.
In her view, government programs, including the programs the Circle of Protection seeks to protect, hurt more than they help. "A true measure of our nation's compassion is not the number of people who are sustained in a state of dependency but the number who are empowered to achieve self-sufficiency," Caprara said.
Carr emphatically rebutted Father Sirico's comments, saying, "We are for economic growth. It is one of the eight principles in our founding statement. There is literally nothing in that statement about wealth redistribution. "
He also said it was absurd to suggest the groups involved did so out of self-interest. "I work for the Catholic bishops. Bishop Ramirez works for the people of Las Cruces," he said. "Everyone involved wants only to protect the poor and vulnerable."
Register correspondent Steve Weatherbe writes from Victoria, British Columbia.


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