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The only viable way that US peace organizations can effect change in the United States is through elections. Every other organization in the United States is controlled by the military. A peace NGO can form a PAC similar to the National Rifle Association. This PAC/NGO will support either candidate, on the left or on the right. For example, the NGO would publicly support antiwar Tea Party candidates and Rand Paul.

In the first election cycle, in 2022, the PAC/NGO will mobilize in one blue state, against, for example, a vulnerable blue dog democrat. This PAC/NGO will use guerilla marketing against the vulnerable blue dog democrat. If the vulnerable blue dog Democrat loses, the strategy is replicated in 2024 with 3 election races. If the vulnerable blue dog Democrat wins, the PAC/NGO reassess its strategy, and repeats this strategy in 2024.

Proposals and background

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Index

Invest in America First - Proposal for peace organization (power point) - page 1 - 5

[To do: Retrieve missing PowerPoint slides - Conclusion - American politicians is the toe hold into creating viable and lasting change]

Proposal to Peace Action Montgomery - page 6-8

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Guerrilla Marketing

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Guerrilla Campaign (Noun) - is an advertisement strategy concept designed for businesses to promote their products or services in an unconventional way with little budget to spend. This involves high energy and imagination focusing on grasping the attention of the public at a more personal and memorable level.

In late 2014 I was working @ Peace Action Montgomery. After brainstorming ideas about mascots with the group, during the 2014 Election we dressed up as the "Peace Chicken" (in the spirit of "Chicken George" that hounded George Bush Sr) and followed around Maryland 6th District Democratic Delaney, a multimillionaire who has only a score of 63% on Peace Action West and was the most vulnerable candidate in the area. Delaney was being challenged by Republican Dan Bongino. Bongino promised peace. We met with the Bongino campaign before launching the "Peace Chicken" mascot and he supported our efforts.

The 2014 election was right before Halloween, only eight days before the election, inspired by the 1996 election with "Chicken George", we bought a chicken suit from Party Center in Rockville. We then tried to "Roger and Me" Delany (ambush and ask Delaney unpopular questions on video tape). We called reporters and emailed attempted to find out where he was going to be next. Unfortunately, because the election was only a couple of days away, we never caught Delaney on camera.

• But we did stand outside of his campaign headquarters for the last three days of the election in chicken costumes, eight hours a day, and waved signs supporting Bongino's peace promises.

The website, peacechicken.com has expired, but I have copies of the website.

Despite incumbent Delany having a huge war chest, and spending millions of dollars of his own money on the campaign, Bongino lost the election by only 5,000 votes. Peace Action Montgomery had a part in this extremely narrow victory.

Structure

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An organization run like the NRA

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Gallery

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Notes

May1787 * Iraq War

The Pentagon paid 500 million dollars to British PR firm to make fake Al Qaeda videos during the Iraq War. US government spent over $500m on fake Al-Qaeda propaganda videos that tracked location of viewers. The Pentagon hired a UK-based PR firm to produce and disemminate videos during the Iraq War A former contractor for a UK-based public relations firm says that the Pentagon paid more than half a billion dollars for the production and dissemination of fake Al-Qaeda videos that portrayed the insurgent group in a negative light. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reported that the PR firm, Bell Pottinger, worked alongside top US military officials at Camp Victory in Baghdad at the height of the Iraq War. The agency was tasked with crafting TV segments in the style of unbiased Arabic news reports, videos of Al-Qaeda bombings that appeared to be filmed by insurgents, and anti-insurgent commercials – and those who watched the videos could be tracked by US forces. The report of Bell Pottinger’s involvement in the video hearkens back to more than 10 years ago, when the Washington-based PR firm Lincoln Group was revealed to have produced print news stories and placed them in Iraqi newspapers. According to the Los Angeles Times, who obtained the 2005 documents, the stories were intended to tout the US-led efforts in Iraq and denounce insurgent groups. The key players in the Iraq War 11 show all Bell Pottinger was first tasked by the interim Iraqi government in 2004 to promote democratic elections. They received $540m between May 2007 and December 2011, but could have earned as much as $120m from the US in 2006. Lord Tim Bell, a former Bell Pottinger chairman, confirmed the existence of the contract with the Sunday Times. The Pentagon also confirmed that the agency was contracted under the Information Operations Task Force, but insisted that all material distributed was “truthful”. However, former video editor Martin Wells, who worked on the IOTF contract with Bell Pottinger, said they were given very specific instructions on how to produce the fake Al-Qaeda propaganda films. “We need to make this style of video and we’ve got to use Al-Qaeda’s footage,” Mr Wells told the Bureau, recalling the instructions he received. “We need it to be 10 minutes long, and it needs to be in this file format, and we need to encode it in this manner.” According to Mr Wells’ account, US Marines would then take CDs containing the videos while on patrol, then plant them at sites during raids. “If they’re raiding a house and they’re going to make a mess of it looking for stuff anyway, they’d just drop an odd CD there,” he said. FindTheData.org | Graphiq The CDs were encoded to open the videos on RealPlayer software that connects to the Internet when it runs. It would issue an IP address that could then be tracked by US intelligence. “If one if looked at in the middle of Baghdad … you know there’s a hit there,” Mr Wells said. “If one, 48 hours or a week later shows up in another part of the world, then that’s the more interesting one, and that’s what they’re looking for more, because that gives you a trail.” Mr Wells said the CDs were viewed in countries like Iran, Syria, and the United States. The programmes produced by Bell Pottinger would move up the chain of command, often requiring the signatures of high level generals, including Gen David Petraeus, and could sometimes go as high up as the White House for approval. Lord Bell maintains that Bell Pottinger’s work in Iraq was beneficial to the overall effort. READ MORE Chilcot report: Blair didn't tell truth about WMDs, the deal with Bush or the warnings of fallout – how Britain went to war in Iraq How butterflies are harbingers of hope in war-torn Iraq Was the war in Iraq worth it? Even after ten years, it's still too early to tell “We did a lot to help resolve the situation,” he said. “Not enough. We did not stop the mess which emerged, but it was part of the American propaganda machinery.” But Mr Wells is not quite as convinced. “I mean if you look at the situation now, it wouldn’t appear to have worked,” he said. “But at the time, who knows, if it saved one life it [was] a good thing to do."

• Russian foreign policy suggestion to subvert the United States (PowerPoint)

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Protests
Peace:Psychological Research Explains Why People Protest * Peace:Russian Peace * Peace:Russian Peace
Regions of the World with American Wars
Peace:Yemen
Quotes
"The loud little handful will shout for war. The pulpit will warily and cautiously protest at first…The great mass of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes, and will try to make out why there should be a war, and they will say earnestly and indignantly: ‘It is unjust and dishonorable and there is no need for war.' Then the few will shout even louder…Before long you will see a curious thing: anti-war speakers will be stoned from the platform, and free speech will be strangled by hordes of furious men who still agree with the speakers but dare not admit it...Next, statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." --Mark Twain

Vision

Motto: "A Peaceful World is Possible"

Alternative: "Invest in America First"

Mission

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To create a peaceful world by pressuring local United States representatives in Congress to vote for peace or lose in the next election.

Objectives

Internationally, the United States is the most violent country in the world.

The goal of May 1787 Political Action Committee is to change American foreign policy for the purpose of:

• Investing more money domestically instead of internationally.
• [Stop terrorism blowback]

Our goal is to put extreme pressure on targeted Congressmen to vote for Peace or lose in their next election. Using the National Rifle Association as a guide, we will support pro-peace candidates, regardless of their party affiliation.

Quotes

• Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman or child is likely to be displaced, tortured, killed or "disappeared", at the hands of governments or armed political groups. More often than not, the United States shares the blame. — Amnesty International. 1996.
• ... A "conservative estimate is (that the United States has killed) at least 6 million civilians and soldiers (since the end of World War 2)." — The Washington Post.

Gallery

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Powerpoint presentation

Invest in America First
Military-Industrial Complex
Congressional Military-Industrial Complex
The Six organizations which support the status quo of war.
Which of these six organizations are most influenced by a grassroots organization?
Military
Corporations
Government (Congressional)
Education
Foreign Governments
Media
The government is the most influenced by grassroots organizations.

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External Links

Word Document: File:Week 6 final paper social change the united states most violent country in world BIGGER.docx

On any given day a person is displaced, tortured or killed, usually the United States shares the blame

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government. I cannot be silent. — Martin Luther King (Cohen & Solomon, 1995; King, 1967).

What are you willing to do for your deepest held beliefs? In September 2015 I moved to Moscow Russia to seek political asylum, knowing that I may never return. I almost died there. In September 2018 I will return yet again to help Russia subvert the United States.

Internationally, the United States is the most violent country in the world. Conservative estimates are that the United States has killed 6 million civilians and soldiers since the end of World War 2 (Tirman, 2011). The London based non-governmental organization Amnesty International explained that, "Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman or child is likely to be displaced, tortured, killed…at the hands of governments or armed political groups. More often than not, the United States shares the blame" (Human Rights & US Security Assistance, 1996). The United States "maintains nearly 800 military bases in more than 70 countries" (Vine, 2015). Today the United States nearly spends more on its military that the next fourteen countries combined, accounting for the third of global spending on arms (Carroll, 2016; U.S. defense spending compared to other countries, 2019; Taylor & Karklis, 2016). The United States is the biggest arms seller in the world, selling half of all weapons on the global arms market, many of these arms are sold to friendly dictatorships which use the equipment to brutally suppress domestic and regional threats (Theohary, 2016; United States biggest arms seller, 2016). There are countless examples of American wars being waged today, such as the America's proxy War in Yemen. In the War in Yemen, the United States supplies the planes, arms, and logistical support to Saudi Arabia, it trained the pilots and it refuels the planes in the bombing runs against Yemen (Pawlyk, 2018; Turse, 2011; Wickenden, 2018). According to the United Nations, Yemen now has the "the worst man-made humanitarian crisis of our time". Yemen faces the fastest growing cholera epidemic ever recorded (Nikbakht & McKenzie 2018; Carey & Algethami, 2018).

In The Death of Others, Tirman (2011) asks why the average American is concerned about the number of American troops killed in foreign wars, "but are indifferent, often oblivious, to the far greater number [of civilian casualties]" (Tirman, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015). The author cites three reasons for American's indifference. First, our self-image called the "frontier myth" – in which righteous violence is used to subdue or annihilate savages. The second reason is racism which ties closely into the frontier myth. The third is what social scientists call "just world" theory, which posits that humans "naturally assume that the world should be orderly and rational. When the 'just world' is disrupted, we tend to explain away the event as an aberration." Therefore Americans tend to ignore or blame the victims of American wars (Tirman, 2011, 2012).

One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. — Martin Luther King (1963)

If you were asked to be a member of the Underground Railroad for a slave would you participate? In Nazi Germany, if you had the chance to hide a Jew in your home, would you do it? Conservatively, the United States has killed as many people as Jews in the Holocaust, and they are continuing this death toll even today. While conservatives actively support the deaths of millions, liberals ignore the death tolls and instead focus on the deaths of mass shootings and deaths at the hands of the police, which is an infinitesimal fraction of the people that the United States government kills everyday. “All empires die of indigestion” Napoléon Bonaparte mused (The empire that is dead, 1996). The United States is on the precept of rapid decline and collapse. The last two empires, the Soviet Union in 1991, and the British Empire in 1956, both collapsed peacefully because of the invention of the nuclear bomb (Brown, 2001). Based on my social science research for the past two decades I am convinced that the United States and its people, inventor of the atomic bomb, is different, the United States will not go quietly into the night. Despite my virulent hatred of United States foreign policy and its arrogant and self-righteous people as a whole, I love the culture that I grew up in, I love a small handful of individual people in this county, and I love so much about this incredible capitalist empire. My deepest desire is for the United States to collapse and become a shadow of itself, but to implode peacefully and let China takes its rightful place as leader of the world, as it has done for the majority of the history of mankind.

I have worked in the Peace Movement for two decades. The Peace Movement in the United States is a farce full of "useful idiots". I have a viable plan to create a peace movement in the United States, but I do not have the resources or support of the American oligarchic government (Study: US is an oligarchy, 2014). Space prohibits me from explaining the history of the subversion of political movements by the United States and my personal experiences trying to launch a career in the Peace Movement in Washington DC in 2014 and 2015. As a result, in 2015, over a year before Trump was elected, I moved to Moscow, Russia to help subvert the United States and seek political asylum. I smuggled over a secret cyber security document to show the Russian government my sincerity. I had an incredibly troubling experience, while applying for political asylum the FSB (KGB) lawyer, across the street from the infamous Lubyanka headquarters, had me draw up a list of all of the websites I had created. I had the list on his desk and before I said anything, he pointed to my peace movement political action committee website and said this site is unacceptable. This told me three important factors:

• Unsurprisingly, like the United States, this proved the FSB was monitoring my internet activity and already knew about the website.
• At least at the time, the Russian government was not interested in me developing a peace movement against the United States.
• More importantly it showed that I would have to get the explicit permission of the Russian government to do anything in Russia. As a KGB spy in East Germany, Putin watched the collapse of the Soviet Union and is extremely anti-protest.

My Career Path

Education

I already have earned three degrees, I have a bachelors in marketing, I am a lawyer, and I have a Masters in International Relations. My law school thesis on American violence in Colombia was my second published book. Currently I am earning a master’s degree in Sociology from ASU while concurrently earning a Masters from a very prestigious university in Moscow, Russia. I am studying in Moscow as a career path for two reasons: 1) To understand and learn the way the Russian elite run the country 2) Make crucial contacts in the Russian government. This university’s alumni includes some of the top leaders and elite of the former Soviet Union. I will apply for an internship at a Russian think tank in the summer of 2019. After graduation my career goal is to work for a Russian think tank or for a member of the Duma, Russia’s congressional body, advising Russia on how to subvert the United States. The ultimate, long term career path is in one to two decades, is to be the first American to ever be elected to the Russian Duma.

Russian NGO

While in Moscow in 2015, “by chance” I met a former member of the номенклату́ра – Soviets ruling class while walking my dog in Бу́тово, a “bedroom community” in Moscow. “Ivan” worked for decades around members of the KGB and has numerous KGB contacts. I am almost certain that he is former or current KGB/FSB himself. “Ivan” suggested that I start a NGO in Russia for as little as 5,000 rubles, which he was researching for me last week. Despite pushing the limits of the security services patience when I lived in Moscow before, “Ivan” gave me explicit permission to return to Russia when I met him in Moscow in May, as long as I did not pursue political asylum again.

References

Brown, D. (2001). 1956: Suez and the end of empire. The Guardian. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2001/mar/14/past.education1

Carey, G. & Algethami, S. (2108). Your Questions About Yemen’s Humanitarian Crisis, Answered. Bloomberg. Retrieved from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-22/who-s-to-blame-for-pestilence-near-famine-in-yemen-quicktake

Carroll, L. (2016). Obama: US spends more on military than next 8 nations combined. Politifact. Retrieved from https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jan/13/barack-obama/obama-us-spends-more-military-next-8-nations-combi/

Cohen, J. & Solomon, N. (1995). The Martin Luther King You Don’t See on TV. Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Retrieved from https://fair.org/media-beat-column/the-martin-luther-king-you-dont-see-on-tv/

King, M. (1967). Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence. Common Dreams. Retrieved from https://www.commondreams.org/views04/0115-13.htm

King, M. (1963). Letter from a Birmingham Jail April 16, 1963. African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved from http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

Nikbakht, D. & McKenzie, S. (2018). The Yemen war is the world's worst humanitarian crisis, UN says. CNN. Retrieved from https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/03/middleeast/yemen-worlds-worst-humanitarian-crisis-un-intl/index.html

Pawlyk, O. (2018). General argues to continue refueling Saudi Planes in Yemen fight. Military.com Retrieved from https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/03/13/general-argues-continue-refueling-saudi-planes-yemen-fight.html

Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy. (2104). BBC. Retrieved from: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746

Taylor, A. & Karklis, L. (2016). This remarkable chart shows how U.S. defense spending dwarfs the rest of the world. The Washington Post. Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/02/09/this-remarkable-chart-shows-how-u-s-defense-spending-dwarfs-the-rest-of-the-world/?utm_term=.c2f5f0466665

The empire that is dead. (1996). The Herald. Retrieved from http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12123024.The_empire_that_is_dead/

Theohary, C. (2016). Conventional arms transfers to developing nations, 2008-2015. Congressional Research Service (a division of the Library of Congress). Retrieved from https://fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/R44716.pdf

Tirman, J. (2011). The deaths of others: the fate of civilians in america's wars. London, UK: Oxford University Press.

Tirman, J. (2012). The forgotten wages of war. The New York Times. Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/04/opinion/the-forgotten-wages-of-war.html

Tirman, J (2013). ‘Kill anything that moves: the real American war in Vietnam’ by Nick Turse. The Washington Post. Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kill-anything-that-moves-the-real-american-war-in-vietnam-by-nick-turse/2013/01/25/f6f8db0c-5e95-11e2-90a0-73c8343c6d61_story.html

Tirman, J. (2015). The human cost of war and how to assess the damage. Foreign Affairs. Retrieved from https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/middle-east/2015-10-08/human-cost-war

Turse, N. (2011). America's Saudi air war. Al Jazeera. Retrieved from https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2011/03/2011316131230188238.html

U.S. defense spending compared to other countries (2018). Peter G. Peterson Foundation. Retrieved from https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0053_defense-comparison

United States biggest arms seller, sold $40 billion in arms, says report. (2016). FirstPost. Retrieved from https://www.firstpost.com/world/united-states-biggest-arms-seller-sold-40-billion-in-arms-says-report-3176084.html

Human Rights & US Security Assistance (1996). Washington Office of Amnesty International. Wickenden, D. (2018). The American Bombs Falling on Yemen. The New Yorker. Retrieved from https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/the-american-bombs-falling-on-yemen

Vine, D. (2015). Where in the world is the U.S. military? Politco. Retrieved from https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/us-military-bases-around-the-world-119321

Notes

[FOOTNOTE - 4 [iv]] This is an actual political term.

[FOOTNOTE - 5 [v]] Not his real name. I was told not to publish details of what happened in Moscow when I was living there before, lest the government would not allow me to return.

[FOOTNOTE - 6 [vi]] From Helen Keller to Charlie Chaplain, Americans often sanitize famous Americans. For a more in depth study of this trend, see Loewen, J. (2008). Lies My Teacher Told Me for Young Readers: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong. New York City, NY: New Press

Application for Amnesty international

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the job was only open 10 days. Which means it was probably already filled before they posted it.😓

Cover letter

For nearly two decades I have wanted to work for Amnesty International, but I just didn’t know it. In 2000 I served in the United States Peace Corps Ukraine. It is there that I had a deep paradigm shift, realizing that the people of the Soviet Union were not as bad as I was lead to believe in the Cold War. I fell in love with the people and I started to study American foreign policy in Odessa. When I returned to America with my new wife and step son, I began to deeply research American foreign policy in my free time. In those thousands of hours of studies I found a gem by Amnesty International:

"Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman or child is likely to be displaced, tortured, killed or "disappeared", at the hands of governments or armed political groups. More often than not, the United States shares the blame." -- Amnesty International, 1996

In 2004 my new family moved to San Antonio Texas were I earned a Masters in International Relations concurrent with my Juris Doctorate. I loved my International Masters Degree program, I would debate passionately about the role America had in the world with current US military and NSA students. For my law school writing requirement I wrote my second published book, America’s Other War, Terrorizing Colombia (2017). The law professor I wrote it for felt the book should be more legally centered, but I felt that it was important to share the stories of the plight of the Colombian people. At the same time, I had two extenships in law school, including working 9 months at the Center for Legal and Social Justice defending immigrants in Federal District Court.

After graduating with honors from my International Relations master’s degree program, I took the Texas bar in 2007 and failed. My heart simply wasn’t into it – when I was supposed to study, I spent too much time writing articles on Wikipedia such as Union of Banana Exporting Countries instead of studying. My dream was to work internationally or domestically being a voice to those victims of the United States government. Graduated and jobless, I traveled to numerous large international relations job fairs in Washington DC and was deeply disappointed at how few organizations focused on violent American foreign policy. As was typical, at one job fair I met one very young girl at a shabby booth in an obscure corner of the job fair. Her booth was to volunteer for an organization against Israeli aggression which was supported by the United States. I asked her some specific questions and it was abundantly clear that the organization was poorly managed and had little influence on American foreign policy.

I took a job at the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) in Washington DC. Overlooking Congress and the Mall our office was the very top legal firm of DHHS. DHHS is the umbrella organization for all federal programs involving health. One of the attorneys suggested I take the Washington DC bar exams, which I passed in 2009. When I passed my boss allowed me to shadow another attorney and help write legal briefs on procurement. Again, my heart was not into it and the attorney went on to write the briefs without me. I applied for numerous other jobs in DC over the next 5.5 years but none of them involved shedding a light on violent American foreign policy. The breaking point was in 2013 when I assisted another attorney to defend the government in the case: Manuel Gudiel Garcia, et al. v. Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al., (2011). It was a horrific incident that I had read about years before, colloquially called the Guatemala syphilis experiment, in which United States government doctors intentionally secretly infected Guatemalans with syphilis. As I read these documents and helped file the briefs defending the United States government I was horrified that I had even a small part in defending these immoral murders. The plaintiffs lost and DHHS won. After nearly six years and without a backup job I quit DHHS in 2013. I had been divorced in 2012 so I was now free to pursue my true passion.

I started to network in Washington DC with the international community and the available jobs were the same, none of them focused on confronting the violence of the United States overseas. For example, the federal United States Institute of Peace indirectly supported violent US foreign policy. USAID helped clean up after US Wars but did nothing to challenge American violence. In the interim to make money immediately, I started a solo law practice focusing on bankruptcy and foreclosure, but again, it was not my true passion. Finding no real peace organizations in the United States Federal government, I began to study and network with the small peace movement in the United States. I was detained at the Pentagon and outside of the CIA. I went to seminars and networked with people in the peace movement. I wrote up detailed power point on how to create a national grassroots organization could push for peace. I quickly found that the contemporary peace movement is a disorganized joke and there are no jobs immediately available. I created a Political Action Committee (PAC) and website called May1787.com – named after the month in which the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade was formed. When these men met in 1787, three quarters of the world was in bondage. These twelve men did the impossible – they abolished slavery in the British Empire in their lifetime, which led to the end of slavery worldwide. I know that war can be abolished the same way that slavery was two hundred years ago.

In September 2015, two years after the divorce was finalized and I won the martial home, I quitclaimed the house to my ex-wife and moved to Moscow, Russia with $1,000 in my pocket. I had a job as an English Teacher but my ambitions were much greater. I quickly formed a partnership with a Moscow lawyer to do Employment Law cases in Moscow court. I was on Russian national television three times, once as a foreign policy expert on America. In April 2016 I walked into the main KGB (FSB) headquarters in downtown Moscow and ask for political asylum. I hired an attorney across the street on a 500,000 ruble installment plan to get me political asylum. I turned over a secret cyber-security document I had found in Washington DC, the original that I had hand delivered to the Washington Post but never heard back from. With my Moscow director friend from Ukraine the plan was for me to work the Russian television circuit exposing American violence.

Today I have returned to suburban Utah. I posted the above 1996 Amnesty International quote on Facebook last week, and it suddenly dawned on me: Amnesty International, an organization which I wrote letters for in my undergraduate university over two decades ago, has always been hidden in plain sight, you are the organization that I have wanted to work for almost my entire adult life.

Word Document: File:Week 6 final paper social change the united states most violent country in world BIGGER.docx

On any given day a person is displaced, tortured or killed, usually the United States shares the blame

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government. I cannot be silent. — Martin Luther King (Cohen & Solomon, 1995; King, 1967).

What are you willing to do for your deepest held beliefs? In September 2015 I moved to Moscow Russia to seek political asylum, knowing that I may never return. I almost died there. In September 2018 I will return yet again to help Russia subvert the United States.

Internationally, the United States is the most violent country in the world. Conservative estimates are that the United States has killed 6 million civilians and soldiers since the end of World War 2 (Tirman, 2011). The London based non-governmental organization Amnesty International explained that, "Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman or child is likely to be displaced, tortured, killed…at the hands of governments or armed political groups. More often than not, the United States shares the blame" (Human Rights & US Security Assistance, 1996). The United States "maintains nearly 800 military bases in more than 70 countries" (Vine, 2015). Today the United States nearly spends more on its military that the next fourteen countries combined, accounting for the third of global spending on arms (Carroll, 2016; U.S. defense spending compared to other countries, 2019; Taylor & Karklis, 2016). The United States is the biggest arms seller in the world, selling half of all weapons on the global arms market, many of these arms are sold to friendly dictatorships which use the equipment to brutally suppress domestic and regional threats (Theohary, 2016; United States biggest arms seller, 2016). There are countless examples of American wars being waged today, such as the America's proxy War in Yemen. In the War in Yemen, the United States supplies the planes, arms, and logistical support to Saudi Arabia, it trained the pilots and it refuels the planes in the bombing runs against Yemen (Pawlyk, 2018; Turse, 2011; Wickenden, 2018). According to the United Nations, Yemen now has the "the worst man-made humanitarian crisis of our time". Yemen faces the fastest growing cholera epidemic ever recorded (Nikbakht & McKenzie 2018; Carey & Algethami, 2018).

In The Death of Others, Tirman (2011) asks why the average American is concerned about the number of American troops killed in foreign wars, "but are indifferent, often oblivious, to the far greater number [of civilian casualties]" (Tirman, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015). The author cites three reasons for American's indifference. First, our self-image called the "frontier myth" – in which righteous violence is used to subdue or annihilate savages. The second reason is racism which ties closely into the frontier myth. The third is what social scientists call "just world" theory, which posits that humans "naturally assume that the world should be orderly and rational. When the 'just world' is disrupted, we tend to explain away the event as an aberration." Therefore Americans tend to ignore or blame the victims of American wars (Tirman, 2011, 2012).

One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. — Martin Luther King (1963)

If you were asked to be a member of the Underground Railroad for a slave would you participate? In Nazi Germany, if you had the chance to hide a Jew in your home, would you do it? Conservatively, the United States has killed as many people as Jews in the Holocaust, and they are continuing this death toll even today. While conservatives actively support the deaths of millions, liberals ignore the death tolls and instead focus on the deaths of mass shootings and deaths at the hands of the police, which is an infinitesimal fraction of the people that the United States government kills everyday. “All empires die of indigestion” Napoléon Bonaparte mused (The empire that is dead, 1996). The United States is on the precept of rapid decline and collapse. The last two empires, the Soviet Union in 1991, and the British Empire in 1956, both collapsed peacefully because of the invention of the nuclear bomb (Brown, 2001). Based on my social science research for the past two decades I am convinced that the United States and its people, inventor of the atomic bomb, is different, the United States will not go quietly into the night. Despite my virulent hatred of United States foreign policy and its arrogant and self-righteous people as a whole, I love the culture that I grew up in, I love a small handful of individual people in this county, and I love so much about this incredible capitalist empire. My deepest desire is for the United States to collapse and become a shadow of itself, but to implode peacefully and let China takes its rightful place as leader of the world, as it has done for the majority of the history of mankind.

I have worked in the Peace Movement for two decades. The Peace Movement in the United States is a farce full of "useful idiots". I have a viable plan to create a peace movement in the United States, but I do not have the resources or support of the American oligarchic government (Study: US is an oligarchy, 2014). Space prohibits me from explaining the history of the subversion of political movements by the United States and my personal experiences trying to launch a career in the Peace Movement in Washington DC in 2014 and 2015. As a result, in 2015, over a year before Trump was elected, I moved to Moscow, Russia to help subvert the United States and seek political asylum. I smuggled over a secret cyber security document to show the Russian government my sincerity. I had an incredibly troubling experience, while applying for political asylum the FSB (KGB) lawyer, across the street from the infamous Lubyanka headquarters, had me draw up a list of all of the websites I had created. I had the list on his desk and before I said anything, he pointed to my peace movement political action committee website and said this site is unacceptable. This told me three important factors:

• Unsurprisingly, like the United States, this proved the FSB was monitoring my internet activity and already knew about the website.
• At least at the time, the Russian government was not interested in me developing a peace movement against the United States.
• More importantly it showed that I would have to get the explicit permission of the Russian government to do anything in Russia. As a KGB spy in East Germany, Putin watched the collapse of the Soviet Union and is extremely anti-protest.

My Career Path

Education

I already have earned three degrees, I have a bachelors in marketing, I am a lawyer, and I have a Masters in International Relations. My law school thesis on American violence in Colombia was my second published book. Currently I am earning a master’s degree in Sociology from ASU while concurrently earning a Masters from a very prestigious university in Moscow, Russia. I am studying in Moscow as a career path for two reasons: 1) To understand and learn the way the Russian elite run the country 2) Make crucial contacts in the Russian government. This university’s alumni includes some of the top leaders and elite of the former Soviet Union. I will apply for an internship at a Russian think tank in the summer of 2019. After graduation my career goal is to work for a Russian think tank or for a member of the Duma, Russia’s congressional body, advising Russia on how to subvert the United States. The ultimate, long term career path is in one to two decades, is to be the first American to ever be elected to the Russian Duma.

Russian NGO

While in Moscow in 2015, “by chance” I met a former member of the номенклату́ра – Soviets ruling class while walking my dog in Бу́тово, a “bedroom community” in Moscow. “Ivan” worked for decades around members of the KGB and has numerous KGB contacts. I am almost certain that he is former or current KGB/FSB himself. “Ivan” suggested that I start a NGO in Russia for as little as 5,000 rubles, which he was researching for me last week. Despite pushing the limits of the security services patience when I lived in Moscow before, “Ivan” gave me explicit permission to return to Russia when I met him in Moscow in May, as long as I did not pursue political asylum again.

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Notes

[FOOTNOTE - 4 [iv]] This is an actual political term.

[FOOTNOTE - 5 [v]] Not his real name. I was told not to publish details of what happened in Moscow when I was living there before, lest the government would not allow me to return.

[FOOTNOTE - 6 [vi]] From Helen Keller to Charlie Chaplain, Americans often sanitize famous Americans. For a more in depth study of this trend, see Loewen, J. (2008). Lies My Teacher Told Me for Young Readers: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong. New York City, NY: New Press In the War in Yemen, the United States supplies the planes, arms, and logistical support to Saudi Arabia, it trained the pilots and it refuels the planes in the bombing runs against Yemen (Pawlyk, 2018; Turse, 2011; Wickenden, 2018). According to the United Nations, Yemen now has the "the worst man-made humanitarian crisis of our time". Yemen faces the fastest growing cholera epidemic ever recorded (Nikbakht & McKenzie 2018; Carey & Algethami, 2018).

US Senate: No military support for Saudi war in Yemen. Pentagon: LOL

https://qz.com/1514582/us-supports-saudi-war-in-yemen-even-after-senate-votes-no/

Just 16 days after a bipartisan group of US senators approved a resolution to end military support for Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the civil war in Yemen, the Trump administration is doing what appears to be exactly the opposite.

The Dec. 19 measure passed 56-41, and was the first time the Senate has invoked the War Powers Act of 1973, which requires the president to consult with Congress “in every possible instance” before sending troops into conflict. The four-year-old conflict in Yemen broke out when the Houthis, a rebel group backed by Iran, seized the capital city of Sana’a. A Saudi-led coalition intervened and an estimated 50,000 people have died since. Nearly 12 million are reported to be on the verge of starvation.

“Today we declare we will not long participate in the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen which has caused the worst humanitarian crisis on Earth, with 85,000 children starving to death,” Bernie Sanders of Vermont said on the Senate floor. “Today we tell the despotic regime in Saudi Arabia that we will no longer be part of their military adventurism.”

The resolution was largely symbolic (GOP leaders blocked the House from taking up any Yemen-related legislation for the rest of the year), and the US Air Force today (Jan. 3) issued a request seeking suppliers to provide airplane parts—horizontal stabilizers, fuel lines, circuit-card assemblies, air inlets—to keep Saudi F-15 jet fighters flying.

“This solicitation provides a direct counter to the claims the US makes at times, that if the US didn’t sell weapons to Saudi Arabia, Russia and China will,” Andrea Prasow, deputy Washington director at Human Rights Watch, told Quartz. “But these weapons systems are all from US manufacturers and they require US parts, and they can’t get those from Russia or China. It’s useful for people to understand that even if Congress were to ban sales [to Saudi] tomorrow, it wouldn’t significantly alter the defense industry’s relationship with Saudi Arabia.”

Saudi Arabia has the third-largest fleet of F-15s in the world, behind only the US and Israel. Since March 2015, Saudi and coalition aircraft have carried out over 16,000 air strikes according to human-rights groups, nearly one-third of which have hit civilian sites including hospitals, weddings, and water-desalination plants. In August, a Saudi-led coalition warplane bombed a school bus in northern Yemen, killing 51 people, 40 of them children. The coalition blamed “mistakes in compliance to the rules of engagement.”

“The Saudis have prosecuted the war in Yemen with little regard for the United States’ views while simultaneously demanding the Pentagon’s logistical support and the uninterrupted flow of munitions,” Steven Cook of the Council on Foreign Relations wrote recently. As of November, US tankers no longer refuel coalition aircraft over Yemen. Yet the US military continues to provide maintenance, tech support, and training to the Royal Saudi Air Force, as investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein has reported.

It would be difficult to impose restrictions on Saudi Arabia use of US-supplied materiel writ large, said Scott Paul, Oxfam America senior humanitarian policy advisor.

“If your existing contract is for horizontal stabilizers for F-15s, how do you legislate that? Yes, it’s OK to provide horizontal stabilizers for F-15s if they’re not fighting in Yemen?” he told Quartz. “Members [of Congress] have been uneasy writing off entire defense contracts with the Saudis. They would rather find a more precise way to extract the US from its role in the conflict in Yemen.”

The public conversation around the US-Saudi defense relationship has made it out to be an all-or-nothing proposition. The F-15 procurement notice shows a bit of the “humdrum, everyday foundational piece that isn’t really entering the conversation,” Paul said. Military cooperation with Saudi Arabia will certainly continue in a broad sense, especially as the US has five strategic bases in the kingdom. However, he continued, “there are a lot of people who take exception to the fact that this alliance is uncontroversial.”

In September, US secretary of state Mike Pompeo said the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen was “undertaking demonstrable actions to reduce the risk of harm to civilians and civilian infrastructure.” Pompeo’s statement drew an immediate rebuke from California Democratic congressman Ro Khanna, who called it “a farce.”

Rep. Ro Khanna ✔ @RepRoKhanna

Pompeo’s ‘certification’ is a farce. The Saudis deliberately bombed a bus full of children. There is only one moral answer, and that is to end our support for their intervention in Yemen.

If this executive will not do it, then Congress must pass a War Powers Resolution.

John Hudson ✔ @John_Hudson A month after a Saudi-led airstrike bombed a bus with children in it, Secretary Pompeo certifies today that Riyadh and UAE are "undertaking demonstrable actions to reduce the risk of harm to civilians"

Some legislators are now “trying to reshape the defense relationship around shared interests as opposed to a blank check,” said Paul.

Nevertheless, said Andrea Prasow, “This administration doesn’t intend to change its relationship with Saudi Arabia.”

How Yemen Became a Humanitarian Nightmare: Untangling a Complex War

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/world/middleeast/yemen-war-explainer.html

June 13, 2018

When a civil war in Yemen erupted more than three years ago, it fractured what was already the poorest Arab nation and eventually plunged it into the planet’s worst humanitarian disaster.

While the world has turned its gaze from the prolonged conflict, it has ground on without easing and grown increasingly complex.

An assault by the Saudi-led coalition that has been battling Iran-backed Yemeni rebels for more than three yearsbegan Wednesday on the city of Al Hudaydah, which has a port that serves as a vital route for humanitarian aid and other vital supplies to the bulk of Yemen’s population. It was the latest turn in a situation moving toward catastrophe for millions of civilians.

The war has already killed thousands of civilians and left three million people internally displaced.

Who are the main parties to the conflict?

The conflict began as a fight between armed Houthi rebels from the north of the country and the government, then led by President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi. The Houthis are part of the Shiite Muslim minority in Yemen.

Saudi Arabia and its neighbor and close ally, the United Arab Emirates, intervened in 2015 because of perceived Iranian support for the rebels. The Sunni Muslim monarchy of Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran are rivals for power and influence across the Middle East, and Yemen has become a battlefield for one of the proxy wars between them.

Iran has denied supporting the Houthis, but Iranian-made missiles have been used by the group during the fighting.

Still, Yemen’s war stems more from a dispute about national political influence than sectarian conflict, analysts say.

The conflict has carved the country up into Houthi-controlled zones in much of the northwest, including the capital, Sana, and large parts of the south and east controlled by pro-government Saudi-led coalition forces.

How did Yemen’s conflict reach this point?

The conflict has its roots in Yemen’s Arab Spring uprising, which began in 2011 and forced the longtime authoritarian president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, an ally of the United States, from power. Though Mr. Saleh had led a unified Yemen since the 1990s, competing interests loosened his grip on the nation. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), one of the most potent offshoots of the global terrorist network, thrived in large parts of the country, and Houthi rebels gained power in the north.

A demonstration calling for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down in Sana in 2011.CreditSamuel Aranda for The New York Times

Then, months after the Arab Spring protests began, Mr. Saleh handed leadership of Yemen to his deputy, Mr. Hadi, and stepped down. But Mr. Hadi struggled to control a nation already deeply divided, and Mr. Saleh continued to wield power by aligning with the Houthis.

By 2014, the Houthis and their supporters — including sections of the Yemeni military loyal to Mr. Saleh — stormed the capital and forced Mr. Hadi and his internationally recognized government into exile in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia and several allied Arab states, including the United Arab Emirates, intervened in 2015. Backed by the United States and Western allies, they launched airstrikes on Houthi forces and drastically escalated the conflict. The Houthis responded by firing missiles into Saudi territory.

Civilians, mostly those in Houthi areas, were increasingly caught in the crossfire. Then Mr. Saleh, the former president, was killed by Houthis late last year after he abruptly abandoned the alliance with them.

For millions under Houthi control, the Red Sea port of Al Hudaydah is the only supply route for humanitarian aid — including food and medicine — and other vital materials. An estimated two-thirds of the population relies on it.

A ship carrying food aid docked at the port of the Yemeni coastal city of Al Hudaydah in 2017.CreditAbdo Hyder/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

The city is home to about 400,000 people, and with just two main routes in and out, a prolonged siege could leave hundreds of thousands cut off, unable to flee. Many aid groups pulled staff members out of the city in anticipation of the battle.

Wednesday’s offensive was carried out by Yemeni troops, trained and funded by the United Arab Emirates. Both the Emiratis and the Saudis have accused the Houthis of using the city to smuggle Iranian weapons into Yemen. United Nations monitors say it’s unlikely that weapons are being smuggled through Red Sea ports, and are most probably coming across land borders.

A humanitarian crisis threatens to worsen.

Yemeni women holding their malnourished children during treatment at a hospital in Sana.

The United Nations and aid agencies have warned that an attack on Al Hudaydah could exacerbate an already out-of-control humanitarian crisis and called for a cease-fire.

“They must act now to secure a cease-fire before the people in Hodeidah city suffer the same fate as those in Aleppo, Mosul or Raqqa,” David Miliband, the president and chief executive officer of the International Rescue Committee, said in an email statement, likening the potential outcome to long-term sieges in Syria and Iraq. ' Relentless airstrikes have already shattered the infrastructure in many Houthi-controlled areas, with bombings damaging hospitals and sewage facilities.

Preventable diseases have run rampant. A 2017 cholera epidemic in Yemen was the largest and fastest outbreak of the disease on record. The United Nations has said both the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthis have carried out actions thatcould amount to war crimes, and both sides have been accused of intentionally targeting dozens of hospitals and health care facilities as well as civilian centers.

Even before the most recent offensive, millions of Yemenis were teetering on the brink of famine, with about 60 percent of the population of 29.3 million categorized as food insecure, according to the World Food Program.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said that it had stockpiled food, medicine and water purification systems in the area in anticipation of the battle, but that the aid could not be distributed while fighting is underway.

“Real people, real families, will suffer if no food is getting in, and we are concerned that ongoing military operations continue to hamper the arrival of essential goods,” said Robert Mardini, the regional director of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

The Economist: How Yemen became the most wretched place on earth

The new Gulf war

How Yemen became the most wretched place on earth

A report from a conflict zone the world ignores

Print edition | Briefing

Nov 30th 2017 | ADEN, HODEIDA AND SANA’A

ALONG the road from the port city of Hodeida to Sana’a, Yemen’s capital, rugged mountains rise sharply from a coastal plain, then level off, giving way to a raised plateau. Old stone farmhouses overlook terraced fields, fed by mountain rains. To the south are lush forests, where baboons and wildcats live. Yemen’s vast deserts spread to the east. The diversity of the landscape is breathtaking. But amid all this natural beauty, there is misery.

Yemen was the poorest country in the Middle East even before the outbreak of war in 2014 between Houthi rebels and government forces. The conflict has heaped devastation upon poverty. Since fighting began Yemen has suffered the biggest cholera outbreak in modern history and is on the brink of the harshest famine the world has seen for decades. The conflict has shattered the water, education and health systems. The UN says that it is the world’s worst current humanitarian crisis. Three-quarters of the population of 28m need help.

The war in Yemen, and looming humanitarian catastrophe, has gone largely unnoticed beyond its borders. The fighting is rooted in old conflicts and now involves many groups, sucking in Yemen’s neighbours. But no single force has emerged that is strong enough or competent enough to hold the entire country together, making the prospects for peace dim.

Yemen’s infrastructure has been crumbling for years, so it is difficult for a visitor to tell between buildings that are falling down through neglect and those half-levelled by explosions. But locals point out the damage wrought by a bombing campaign led by Saudi Arabia, part of an international coalition that supports the government. Although American and British military advisers have helped the Saudis to choose targets, and their governments have provided them with precision-guided munitions, or “smart bombs”, the air strikes often seem to miss their mark.

The Houthis, a group of Shia rebels, are the main target. Unhappy with reforms to the state and their share of power, they swept out of their northern stronghold in 2014 and overran Sana’a. With the support of Iran and the forces of a former dictator, Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Houthis then moved south, taking control of most of the rest of Yemen. The president, Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, fled—first to Aden, a southern port, then to Saudi Arabia, where he remains. At his request, the Saudis stepped in and, with local forces, pushed back the Houthis to the north of the country.

Coalition air strikes have targeted factories and food-storage warehouses, as well as the airport in Sana’a. The road from the capital to Hodeida is pockmarked with craters. At the port, the cranes used to unload ships have been put out of action. Once the lifeline of the north, it now operates at well under its former capacity. For months America tried to supply new cranes, but they were turned back by Gulf members of the coalition.

Ships and planes carrying food, fuel and medicine are monitored by the UN to ensure that arms are not entering the north. But the coalition still holds up shipments. In November it cut off northern ports completely for over two weeks. Even the more limited blockade has created a cycle of suffering. A lack of fuel has crippled water-pumping stations, so locals have resorted to drinking from dirty sources. Cholera is often the result. The medicine to treat it is also held up by the coalition.

Nowhere is safe

Nothing seems out of bounds for the bombers. About 40 health centres were struck by the coalition over the first six months of the war. Amnesty International, a pressure group, has accused it of deliberately targeting civilians, hospitals, schools, markets and mosques; and of using imprecise weapons, such as cluster bombs, which most countries have outlawed. A spokesman for the coalition once declared the entire city of Saada, home to about 50,000 people, a military target.

That is where Ali Marhad (see picture) lived before fighting about a decade ago forced him to flee. He moved into a camp for displaced people in Mazraq. But it was bombed in 2015 by the coalition, killing 40 people, including his two sons, he says. He then moved to a camp in Hajjah. Earlier this year another bomb fell near his home, a collection of sticks and tarpaulin. It is exceedingly difficult for ordinary Yemenis to escape the fighting.

This is home for Ali Marhad

At least 10,000 people, most of them civilians, have been killed by bullets and bombs. Around 40 times more people have died in Syria’s war, which also sent a wave of refugees to Europe. Perhaps that is why it has gained international attention, while the conflict in Yemen is overlooked. Less than half of the British public is aware of it. The death toll is anyway misleading. Many more Yemenis have died from a lack of food and medicine than from the fighting, of which the shortages are a direct result. The war continues, though the front line has hardly budged in the past year.

Fighting is not unusual in Yemen. Sitting at the south-western tip of the Arabian peninsula, on important trade routes, the land has long been coveted by foreign powers. In the past century it has seen about a dozen conflicts, involving over half a dozen countries.

Some seeds of today’s fighting were sown in battles in the 1960s—a civil war in the north and an insurgency against British colonial forces in the south. Two distinct Yemeni states arose. Leaders in the north turned to religious authority for their legitimacy, enlisting the support of Islamic clerics. The more secular south adopted Marxism and aligned itself with the Soviet Union. Political feuding led to further wars in 1972 and 1979, but economic hardship and the end of the cold war brought the sides together. After a series of failed agreements in the 1970s and 1980s, north and south at last agreed on a new constitution in 1990, in the hope that a show of unity would attract foreign investment and increase the extraction of Yemen’s oil.

Money briefly flowed in and oil out. But simmering ill-feeling erupted into civil war in 1994 in which Mr Saleh’s northern forces were victorious. In the aftermath his General People’s Congress (GPC) dominated parliament, then set about consolidating power. Parliamentary elections in 2003 were postponed and critics detained. Mr Saleh and his henchmen are thought to have stolen billions of dollars of state funds, while most Yemenis got by on less than $3 a day. Resentment of his rule grew.

The Zaydis, a Shia sect, who make up perhaps 40% of the population, felt particularly marginalised by Mr Saleh (though he is one of them). The Houthis emerged from this group in the 1990s, bristling at the growth of the Saudis’ conservative religious influence and Yemen’s alliance with America in its war on terror. Mr Saleh, in turn, accused the group of wanting to overthrow his government. Hundreds of people died in fighting between the Houthis and pro-government forces between 2004 and 2010—including Hussein Badruddin al-Houthi, the group’s leader, from whom it takes its name.

Opposition to Mr Saleh’s rule came to a head during the Arab spring of 2011, when tens of thousands of Yemenis took to the streets. With a push from the Gulf states, he stepped down in 2012 and was succeeded by Mr Hadi, his vice-president. Thus began a short-lived period of hope. Talks overseen by the UN led to a plan in 2014 for a new constitution enshrining a federal system and a parliament split between northerners and southerners.

The Houthis, however, continued to distrust the government. They boycotted an election won by Mr Hadi in 2012 and opposed the agreement of 2014, on the grounds that it stuck most of them in a region with few resources and no access to the sea. Nor had they received positions in the government that they wanted. Their frustration was shared by Mr Saleh, who sought to undermine the transition in the hope of regaining the presidency or, at least, handing it to his son.

Resentment towards Mr Hadi and disquiet over the growing power of Islah, an Islamist party affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s main Islamist group, brought the Houthis and Mr Saleh into an unlikely alliance in 2014. In September of that year their forces entered Sana’a—and were welcomed by many Yemenis who had become disenchanted with Mr Hadi’s ineffective leadership. A power-sharing deal between the Houthis and the government was brokered by the UN—and then ignored. In early 2015 the rebels seized full control of the capital. By March they had made it to Aden.

Muhammad fears a Houthi

But it was also becoming clear that the Houthis, motivated by grievances, did not have a plan for ruling Yemen. In areas under their control, rubbish is piling up, cash is hard to get hold of and the lights have gone out. “My sense of it is that they never really had a clear political agenda, both during the wars with Saleh and after,” says April Longley Alley of the International Crisis Group, a think-tank.

The incompetence of the Houthis has been compounded by the involvement of Saudi Arabia. Saudi meddling in Yemen is nothing new. In 1934 Saudi soldiers retook towns seized by the Zaydis. Prince Saud, their leader, would later become king. Today Prince Muhammad bin Salman is first in line to the throne. But his adventure in Yemen, which seemed designed to build him a reputation as a strong leader, has led Saudi Arabia into a quagmire.

Responding to Mr Hadi’s call for help, Prince Muhammad organised a coalition that included Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Sudan, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain. They began striking Yemen from the air and the sea in March 2015. A month later the Saudis declared the air campaign over. It had “achieved its military goals”, officials said. A new operation would supposedly focus on finding a political solution in Yemen.

In reality, the war was just beginning. Over the next months, local forces backed by coalition air strikes (and later soldiers) pushed the Houthis back. However, they have not been able to drive them out of territory seized in the north, including Sana’a. So instead the coalition seems intent on starving the north.

The Saudis have created much of the misery that blights Yemen, but blame falls on others, too. The Houthis and Mr Saleh’s forces have also carried out indiscriminate attacks in cities such as Taiz and Aden. They have held up aid and are accused of war profiteering. Mr Hadi says the Houthis looted around $4bn from the central bank to pay for the war (the Houthis say the money was used for food and medicine). So he moved the bank from Sana’a to Aden in 2016 and stopped paying the salaries of public servants in the north. Schools and hospitals have closed and many northerners face destitution.

For Saudi Arabia, the region’s Sunni champion, the failure of its campaign in Yemen is twofold. Not only was it designed to reinstate Mr Hadi’s government—it was also supposed to send a signal to Iran’s Shia regime. The two powers are locked in a struggle for regional dominance that has spilled over into Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. The Saudis fear that, in the Houthis, Iran is nurturing a Shia proxy, akin to Hizbullah, the Lebanese militia that it backs. Yet again Yemen is the playground of bigger powers.

America has concluded that Iran does not exert “command and control” over the Houthis. But there is little doubt that it is arming the group. It appears to have supplied missiles the Houthis have fired. America’s most senior admiral in the region told the New York Times in September that Iran is providing anti-ship and ballistic missiles, mines and exploding boats that the rebels have used to attack coalition ships in the Red Sea. When the Saudis shot down a missile fired from Yemen on its way to Riyadh on November 4th, they called it an “act of war” by Iran.

The possibility that the war might end soon is slender. The Saudis have powerful backing to continue their fight. President Donald Trump has nothing but praise for them. When he visited Riyadh in May he applauded their “strong action” against the Houthis and agreed to sell them $110bn worth of “beautiful” arms. The war has also been a blessing for Britain’s defence industry, which has hugely increased sales of missiles and bombs to Saudi Arabia since the start of the war. As the European Parliament approved a non-binding arms embargo against the Saudis in 2016, David Cameron, then the prime minister, sounded almost Trumpian, praising the “brilliant” weapons that Britain was selling to the kingdom. His successor, Theresa May, at least expressed her concerns over the war.

America and Britain not only support Saudi Arabia but have blocked other countries from putting pressure on it. Along with France, which also sells weapons to the Saudis, they undercut a UN resolution in 2015 that would have set up a panel to examine abuses in the war. When urging the creation of a new panel earlier this year, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the UN high commissioner for human rights, condemned “the reticence of the international community in demanding justice for the victims of the conflict”. The panel was approved—but only after America, Britain and France had watered it down.

The UN has organised three rounds of peace talks. But Mr Hadi’s government insists that the Houthis lay down their arms and withdraw from the areas they have seized. The Houthis complain that they are the only group that UN resolutions ask to give ground. In May a convoy led by Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the UN envoy to Yemen, was attacked by demonstrators in Sana’a. “There will be no more contact with [him] and he is not welcome here,” said Saleh al-Samad, a Houthi leader, a month later.

As the war drags on, both sides appear unsteady. In the south the Saudis along with the Emiratis, who are the largest foreign force on the ground, have built an unwieldy alliance of Salafists, southern secessionists and other militias. “Whatever Gulf money can buy,” says an observer. Some of these groups are accused of working with jihadists, such as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, though the Emiratis have pushed back al-Qaeda. No one thinks Mr Hadi has a long-term future.

North-south divides

In the north the Houthis accuse Mr Saleh of negotiating secretly with the coalition (though they have done the same). Mr Saleh, who is the weaker partner, fears being left out of any settlement. Things came to a head in August, when clashes between Houthis and supporters of Mr Saleh led to deaths on both sides. They have since made up but tension remains high. And there is a split within the Houthis, between hardliners and moderates. The group’s leader, Abdel-Malik al-Houthi, is seen as willing to negotiate. However, analysts say that, the longer the war goes on, the stronger the hardliners become.

Some spy an opening. Ms Alley reckons that the divisions, as long as they do not develop into open conflict, are an opportunity for some kind of deal. “Carrots have to be offered to those willing to compromise—right now it is all sticks,” she says. Yet the Saudis, under little pressure from abroad, do not look like backing down and seem to hope that the population in the north will rise up against the Houthis. Frustration with Houthi rule is growing, something Mr Saleh seems keen to exploit, but so far the streets are mostly quiet.

Others may not want peace. Warlords profit from extortion or by selling looted aid on the black market. Mr Hadi’s government and other combatants are accused of creating shortages so that they can sell items, such as fuel, at a big mark-up. Even if the Saudis were to withdraw, many analysts think that the fighting within Yemen would continue—between northerners and southerners, the Houthis and Mr Saleh or Islah and any number of parties.

Ordinary Yemenis are less interested in such divisions. A crowd gathers around Ali Marhad’s tent as he dispassionately recounts his hardship. They come from Houthi territory, but they say they have no tribe, no money, no home, “just Allah”. Do they care who wins the war? “No!” they cry. They just want it to end.

This article appeared in the Briefing section of the print edition under the headline "From bad to worse"

The Economist: The war the world ignores How—and why—to end the war in Yemen

A pointless conflict has caused the worst humanitarian crisis in the world

Print edition | Leaders

Nov 30th 2017

YEMEN lost the title of Arabia Felix, or “Fortunate Arabia”, long ago. It has suffered civil wars, tribalism, jihadist violence and appalling poverty. But none of this compares with the misery being inflicted on the country today by the war between a Saudi-led coalition and the Houthis, a Shia militia backed by Iran.

The UN reckons three-quarters of Yemen’s 28m people need some kind of humanitarian aid. Mounting rubbish, failing sewerage and wrecked water supplies have led to the worst cholera outbreak in recent history. The country is on the brink of famine. The economy has crumbled, leaving people with impossible choices. Each day the al-Thawra hospital in Hodeida must decide which of the life-saving equipment to run with what little fuel it has.

Perhaps the worst of it is that much of the world seems unperturbed (see Briefing), calloused by the years of bloodshed in Syria and other parts of the Middle East, and despairing of its ability to effect change. To be cynical, Yemen is farther away from Europe than Syria is; its wretched people do not, on the whole, wash up in the West seeking asylum.

Yet the world ignores Yemen at its peril. Set aside for a moment the obligation to relieve suffering and protect civilians. Hard security interests are also at stake. The world can ill afford another failed state—a new Afghanistan or Somalia—that becomes a breeding-ground for global terrorism. Yemen, moreover, dominates the Bab al-Mandab strait, a choke-point for ships using the Suez canal. Like it or not, the West is involved. The Saudi-led coalition is fighting with Western warplanes and munitions. Western satellites guide its bombs.

Slippery Saleh

Like so much else in the Arab world, Yemen’s agony can be traced to the Arab-spring uprisings of 2011. Mass protests, a near-assassination of the then president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and a shove from neighbouring petro-states forced him to step down in 2012 in favour of his vice-president, Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi. A draft constitution in 2015 proposed a federal system and a parliament split between northerners and southerners. But the Houthi rebels, who had fought Mr Saleh, rejected it. The Houthis, who follow the Zaydi branch of Shiism (as do perhaps 40% of Yemenis), complained that, among other things, the constitution stuck them in a region with few resources and without access to the sea.

Now allied with Mr Saleh, who spotted an opportunity for a comeback, the Houthis ousted Mr Hadi from Sana’a, the capital, and chased him all the way to Aden. Saudi Arabia gathered a coalition of Arab states and local militias—among them Islamists, Salafists and southern separatists—and forced the Houthis to retreat partway. For the past year, the battle-lines have barely moved. The Houthis are too weak to rule over Yemen but too powerful for Saudi Arabia to defeat.

As a result, Yemenis have become the pawns in the regional power-struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Alarmed by Iran’s spreading influence, the Saudis have begun to speak of the Houthis rather as Israelis refer to the Lebanese militia, Hizbullah: a dangerous Iranian proxy army on their border. Indeed, the Saudis have much to learn from Israel’s experience. Even with the most sophisticated weapons, it is all but impossible to defeat a militia that is well entrenched in a civilian population. The stronger side is blamed for the pain of those civilians. For the weaker lot, survival is victory.

So, even though the Houthis are primarily responsible for starting the war and capable of great cruelty, it is the Saudis who are accused of war crimes. Often the accusation is justified. In their air campaign, they have been careless and incompetent at best, and probably cynical. Human-rights groups say bombs have been aimed at schools, markets, mosques and hospitals. And the blockade raises suspicion that the Saudis are using food as a tool of war.

The longer the war goes on, the more Saudi Arabia’s Western allies are complicit in its actions. President Donald Trump has given Saudi Arabia carte blanche to act recklessly (see article). He may think it is all part of confronting Iran; or he may want to support the liberalising reforms of the Saudi crown prince, Muhammad bin Salman; or he may hope to profit by selling the Saudis “lots of beautiful military equipment”. Whatever the case, he is damaging America’s interests. Precisely because of the importance of Saudi Arabia—the world’s biggest oil exporter and home to Islam’s two holiest places—the West should urge restraint on the impetuous prince and help disentangle him from an unwinnable war.

How? Peace talks led by the UN have begun with the demand that the Houthis surrender. That is unrealistic. Better to freeze the conflict and find another mediator, such as Oman or Kuwait. A deal should involve a phased withdrawal of Houthi fighters from Sana’a and the Saudi border, and the end of the Saudi blockade. Yemen needs an inclusive government, elections and a new structure for the state. Saudi Arabia will need guarantees that Iranian arms are not flowing into Yemen. Then it will have to cough up the cash to rebuild the country.

None of this will be easy. But a reasonable peace offer is more likely to crack the Houthis than more bombing. Without the cover of fighting Saudi aggression, the Houthis will have to answer for their failures. The public is increasingly turning against them, the alliance with Mr Saleh is fraying and the Houthis themselves are divided.

Stop the war

Right now, far from halting the spread of Iran’s influence, the war has deepened the Houthis’ reliance on Iran, which has an easy and cheap means of tormenting the Saudis. And because Saudi Arabia is bogged down in Yemen, Iran has a freer hand to set the terms of a settlement in Syria. The war is a drain on the Saudis at a time of austerity and wrenching economic reforms at home. They should therefore learn another lesson from Israel’s experience of fighting Hizbullah. If wars are to be fought at all, they should be short, and have limited aims. Deterrence is better than debilitating entanglement.

This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline "The war the world ignores"

The Economist: Donald Trump’s Muddled East

America’s neglect and confusion aggravate problems in the Arab world

Giving free rein to Saudi Arabia is destabilising the region

Print edition | Middle East and Africa

Dec 2nd 2017| CAIRO

WHEN it is finished, America’s imposing new embassy in Lebanon will be its second-biggest in the world. Yet it was France, not America, that stepped in to resolve Lebanon’s latest political crisis. Speaking from the Saudi capital, Riyadh, on November 4th, Saad Hariri, the Lebanese prime minister, abruptly announced his resignation. What followed was a bizarre two-week saga in which he seemed to be under house arrest in the kingdom. Though America’s State Department criticised the move, it fell to France to negotiate Mr Hariri’s return to Beirut. He has since suspended his resignation.

Nearly a year into his presidency, Donald Trump’s Middle East policy could best be characterised as one of neglect and confusion. His term coincides with a period of radical change in Saudi Arabia. King Salman and his son, Muhammad, the all-powerful crown prince, have abandoned the Al Sauds’ plodding caution in favour of a more aggressive foreign policy. Their actions have unsettled friends and neighbours. Even Israeli diplomats, no fans of Mr Hariri, use words like “reckless” to describe the Saudis’ pressure tactics in Lebanon, which risked upsetting its delicate sectarian balance.

Yet the Saudis have found a receptive audience in the White House, particularly in Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law. Team Trump thinks that it has helped to kindle the liberalising economic, social and religious reforms of Prince Muhammad. Mr Trump has not evinced any concern about the Saudi-led war in Yemen that has, with American support, laid waste to the region’s poorest country (see Briefing). He has enthusiastically praised a Saudi-led blockade of Qatar, and a recent wave of anti-corruption arrests in the kingdom, even though American diplomats have deep doubts about both policies.

Many Syrians cheered in April when America bombed a Syrian air base in response to a chemical attack in Idlib province. Since then Mr Trump seems to have lost interest. Russia and Iran have filled the vacuum, helping Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, to reconquer lost territories. Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, gave Mr Assad a warm welcome in Sochi last month, and then hosted the presidents of Iran and Turkey, both of whom support Mr Assad’s continued rule.

As The Economist went to press, Syrians were gathered in Geneva for another round of UN-backed peace talks. The opposition delegation is now stacked with figures willing to leave Mr Assad in power, a shift engineered by the Saudis. Under Saudi pressure Riyad Hijab, a former Syrian prime minister and a resolute critic of the regime, has resigned as head of an opposition umbrella group. The Saudis may be hoping, implausibly, to split Russia from Iran. America, which has long demanded Mr Assad’s departure, said nothing.

Other allies feel similarly confused. Mr Trump is cutting military aid to the Syrian Democratic Forces, a Kurdish-led militia that paid a heavy price fighting the jihadists of Islamic State. Asked whether America would name a special envoy to mediate a dispute between Iraq’s Kurds and the central government in Baghdad, the State Department demurred. “They can probably work it out on their own,” a spokeswoman said. Even Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has been disappointed. He is unhappy with the latest “de-escalation” agreement in southern Syria, negotiated by America and Russia, which allows Iranian-backed militias within 5km of his northern border. Despite warm contacts with the Trump administration, Jordan, too, feels left in the lurch by American plans to halt financial aid to Arab rebels in southern Syria next month.

Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, the Egyptian president, met Mr Trump during the campaign, and was the first foreign leader to congratulate him on his victory. But he was stunned in August when America slashed $100m in aid to Egypt, and withheld another $195m until it saw “progress on democracy”. The move also astonished American diplomats in Cairo. “I had to explain this to my Egyptian counterparts the next morning, and I had no guidance from Washington on why we did it,” says one.

Spread the blame around

Mr Trump does not deserve all the blame for meek and muddled American policy. Barack Obama, though he called for Mr Assad’s removal, did little to support the Syrian opposition. The war in Yemen started on his watch, too. And, to be fair, Mr Trump is engaged in one area: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. After much shuttle diplomacy by Jason Greenblatt, his special envoy, the president is preparing to unveil a peace plan in early 2018.

This is a rite of passage for American presidents. The last three tried, and failed. There is no reason to think Mr Trump will succeed, either. Israel is still led by a far-right coalition loth to make concessions, and the divided Palestinians by a government that lost its legitimacy years ago. But the Saudis have egged him on, knowing that the president is eager to strike what he calls “the ultimate deal”. By supporting Mr Trump’s efforts in Jerusalem, they hope to win a free hand in Yemen and elsewhere.

Mr Trump never misses a chance to criticise his predecessor. Yet he is repeating some of his mistakes. Mr Obama was accused of pursuing a nuclear agreement with Iran at all costs, and ignoring Iran’s meddling in Syria and Iraq. Now Mr Trump seems obsessed with reneging on the deal, which would weaken the curbs on Iran’s ability to make a nuclear bomb, and is doing little (apart from a few more sanctions) to contain Iranian influence.

He is enabling autocrats in Egypt, and losing the confidence of close allies, such as Israel and Jordan. Meanwhile the Saudis are free to pursue destabilising policies, and the future of Syria is largely in Russian and Iranian hands. “This is not a time for the US to be absent,” says another Western diplomat. “We need some supervision.”

This article appeared in the Middle East and Africa section of the print edition under the headline"Donald Trump’s Muddled East"

Conflict in Yemen: From Ethnic Fighting to Food Riots

Gros A., Gard-Murray A.S., Bar-Yam Y. (2015) Conflict in Yemen: From Ethnic Fighting to Food Riots. In: Fellman P., Bar-Yam Y., Minai A. (eds) Conflict and Complexity. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, New York, NY, pp 269-280. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1705-1_15

Yemen is considered a global terrorist base for Al-Qaeda and in recent years rampant violence is threatening social order. Here we show that the socio-economic origins of violence recently changed. Prior to 2008, violence can be attributed to inter-group conflict between ethnically and religiously distinct groups. Starting in 2008, increasing global food prices triggered a new wave of violence that spread to the endemically poor southern region with demands for government change and economic concessions. This violence shares its origins with many other food riots and the more recent Arab Spring. The loss of social order and the opportunities for terror organizations can be best addressed by directly eliminating the causes of violence. Inter-group violence can be addressed by delineating within-country provinces for local autonomy of ethnic and religious groups. The impact of food prices can be alleviated by direct food price interventions, or by addressing the root causes of global food price increases in US policies that have promoted conversion of corn to ethanol and commodity speculation. Addressing the food prices is the most urgent concern as a new bubble in food prices has been projected to begin before the end of 2012.

Conflict in Yemen: From Ethnic Fighting to Food Riots

Andreas Gros, Alexander Gard-Murray and Yaneer Bar-Yam

New England Complex Systems Institute

238 Main St. Suite 319 Cambridge MA 02142, USA

(Dated: July 24, 2012)

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Violence has been common in Yemen since the founding of a modern state in the southern Arabian peninsula nearly 100 years ago [1, 2], but recent attacks and social disruption are particularly severe [3–5]. Yemen is one of the global bases of Al-Qaeda [6–10], with the attacks on the USS Cole in 2000 and American Embassy in 2008 as the most well known local incidents. Yemeni Al-Qaeda has also been involved in global terror activities including an alleged attempt to bomb a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day of 2009. At the beginning of that year, Yemeni Al-Queda joined with the smaller Saudi Al-Queda to form Al Queda of the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). The current social disruption increases concerns that Yemen may become an even stronger terrorist base, threatening security worldwide.

Here we show that the nature of violence in Yemen has changed between 2005 and 2011 from being ethnically and religiously based to being dominated by the effects of increases in food prices on an impoverished population. During the period of ethnic and religious inter-group violence, geographical locations of incidents are consistent with a theory that predicts areas of violence based upon the geographical composition of the population [11, 12], building on a tradition of geographic analysis in social science [13–15]. In contrast, the later period of violence begins at the time of globally increasing food prices in 2007, and spread from areas of ethnic conflict in the north to the endemically poor southern part of Yemen.

Our results have immediate implications for strategies to reduce violence and limit the growth of terrorist influence. Rather than direct military and security operations, effective interventions may require eliminating the primary economic and social drivers of violence. First, the immediate economic drivers can be relieved by addressing the problems of the global food market, which has been implicated more broadly in the revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East [16–18]. Second, by providing partial internal autonomy to ethnic and religious groups, the origins of the longer term inter-group violence can also be alleviated [12].

The interventions we identify would not only address the growing security risks, but also improve the living conditions of millions of people, reducing severe poverty, social disruption and endemic violence. Indeed, these two goals are directly linked as the social and economic conditions are the origins of social disorder, in whose shadow terrorist activities can grow.

Our analysis of violence in Yemen begins from an understanding of the role of geography in conflict between distinct self-identifying groups defined by properties like ancestry, culture, language, and religion [11, 12]. In this paper we use the term ethnic violence to describe this

kind of inter-group conflict. Such violence is typically though not exclusively directed against or by civilians. When self-identifying groups are either sufficiently separated or sufficiently well-mixed, violence is unlikely. Separation limits inter-group friction, while integration inhibits inter-group alienation. Ethnic violence occurs most frequently in areas that have a certain intermediate degree of population separation, but in which control of the area is not separated accordingly, i.e. neither political nor physical boundaries exist to allow for local autonomy. In places where self-identifying groups separate into geographical patches of a critical size, in the range of 20-60 km, a group is able to impose its cultural norms, religious values, language differences and in-group social signaling within public spaces. These spaces may include public squares, markets, restaurants, places of worship and schools. However, when social expectations are violated because of the proximity of other ethnic domains, the resulting friction is likely to cause radicalization of some members of the population. Even a small radicalized minority is enough to lead to endemic conflict, and the propensity for violence becomes high. The violence may engage political and military components. Still, the origin of the conflict in the self-identity of the groups is likely to be manifest in violence directed against those who are not politically or militarily powerful. For patches larger than the critical geographical size individuals remain largely within their own domains and de facto local sovereignty exists. If patches are smaller than the critical size, ethnic groups cannot impose their own norms and expectations about behavior in public spaces, allowing for the peaceful coexistence of the multiple ethnic groups that are present. Natural and political boundaries can increase autonomy to allow for separation that can prevent violence in areas where it would otherwise occur. Tests of ethnic violence in various parts of the world have indeed shown that ethnic violence occurs in the vicinity of patches of a critical size without well-defined boundaries [11, 12].

In contrast to ethnic violence, social unrest reflecting socio-economic despair is often directed against authorities that fail to satisfy the most basic needs of the population, especially available or affordable food. Indeed, the relationship between food prices and social unrest has been demonstrated [16, 19–22]. Food riots around the world in 2007-8 and 2010-11 were triggered by steep increases in food prices. Since Yemen is one of the poorest countries in the Arab World [23], increases in food prices severely impact a large portion of the population [24]. According to the World Bank’s 2007 Poverty Assessment Report, 35% of the country’s population is classified as poor [25].

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In order to perform a more detailed and quantitative analysis we start by considering the ethnic geography of Yemen. There are four commonly described self-identifying ethnic and religious groups in Yemen: Zaydi Shiites, Ismaili Shiites, mainstream (Shafi’i) Sunnis and Salafi (Wahhabi) Sunnis. Together these groups are estimated to represent 99% of the population (55% Sunni and about 44% Shiite) [26]. Yemen’s societal structure has a strong tribal aspect, especially in rural areas [1, 27]. While neither tribal allegiances nor political attitudes necessarily align with their members’ religious denomination [6], it is nevertheless reasonable to assume as a first approximation that conflict arises between self-identified ethnic and religious groups. Obtaining data about the geographical distribution of these groups is difficult as there is no direct census and the distribution has changed in recent times, especially due to the spread of Salafism [28]. Moreover, since political and religious affiliations may be linked, various movements including the Moslem Brotherhood may have both political and religious connotations. For our analysis of ethnicity and violence we use spatial demographic data from 2004 [29] to identify the populated areas and an approximate map of the spatial distribution of the four major groups in 2000 obtained from a compilation of sources [30] to identify ethnic compositions, as shown in Figure 1. The approximate nature of the available data limits the precision of the calculations we perform. Demographic dynamics, specifically the spread of Salafism in recent years changed the sectarian associations across Yemen. Our conclusions only depend on very general features of spatial geography, specifically the presence of groups of a given geographic size in a region of the country. The conclusions are therefore robust to all but very specific localized changes relative to surrounding areas. This is a strength of our method, especially in application to areas where data is poor and changes are ongoing. Data on violent incidents was obtained from the Worldwide Incident Tracking System (WITS) [31] from which we selected the incidents that involved civilian casualties.

We calculated the propensity for violence in any given populated area by identifying patches of ethnic groups of a critical size of 56 km. This size is consistent with the value that provides predictive success in other countries [11, 12]. Mathematically we use a wavelet filter [11] that weighs the presence of ethnic types in a circular area around a focal point against the presence of ethnic types in the surrounding area. If ethnic types are well mixed or the whole area is populated uniformly by only one type, the output of the filter is small. However, if the inner area is populated by a different type than the surrounding area, forming

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Figure 1: Estimated spatial distribution of major self-identifying groups in Yemen in 2000 [30];

Zaydi Shiite: magenta, mainstream Sunni: yellow, Ismaili: cyan, Salafi: black an ethnic island or peninsula, the output will be high. We perform this analysis for focal points on a fine regular mesh throughout Yemen with results shown in Figure 2. Actual incidents of violence involving civilians are indicated for each year from 2005 through 2011.

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Figure 2: Propensity for violence (color bar) and incidents of violence (black dots) in populated areas of Yemen. Dashed vertical line delineates the western part of Yemen that we consider in the correlation analysis (Figure 3). Much of the area to the east has a population density of less than 1 person per square km.

[GRAPH] 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

year

Figure 3: Correlations between shortest distances to locations of predicted and actual violence; the confidence values for the years 2005, 2006, and 2007 are 98.00%, 96.58%, and 99.23%, respectively.

We quantify the level of agreement between our prediction and the data on violent inci-dents by correlating maps of shortest distances to locations of violent incidents and locations of predicted violence. We calculate the distance to the closest violent incident and the clos-est location of predicted violence at every point on the spatial mesh for a given year. We consider a location of predicted violence to be any point where the violence potential is above a threshold of 0.48 (the average propensity to violence plus two standard deviations).

We performed the analysis for the western part of Yemen, in which most of Yemen’s population resides (see vertical dashed line in Figure 2). Figure 3 shows the correlations between shortest distances to actual and predicted locations of ethnic violence in the west

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over time. The correlation values are approximately 0.70 for 2005, 2006, and 2007, and drop to between -0.2 and 0.20 for 2008 through 2011, showing a distinct shift away from ethnically-motivated conflict. The confidence values for the correlations in years 2005, 2006, and 2007 are 98%, 97%, and 99%, respectively. We calculate confidence intervals using 100,000 trials with random placement of the same number of predicted locations of violence within the western part of Yemen and compare the correlations between the corresponding maps of shortest distances. The correlation values for the years 2005, 2006, and 2007 are lower than reported in previous studies [11, 12], perhaps due to the limitations of the geographic ethnic data and reporting of incidents in the Worldwide Incident Tracking System for these years. However, the confidence values for 2005, 2006, and 2007 are still well above 95%. Our results are consistent with reports that ethnic violence plays a significant role in Yemen resulting in the deaths of more than 2,000 people annually [32]. Some violence is politicized in the form of the Houthi rebellion, but it also has sectarian roots and manifests in violence against civilians in a manner characteristic of ethnic conflict [33–35].

The marked drop in correlations after 2007 indicates that the nature of the conflict changed and was no longer solely ethnically motivated. In order to identify the origins of violence after 2007 we turn to an understanding of social unrest in which food prices are a key component [16]. Figure 4 shows the global Food Price Index over time and the occurrence of food riots and revolutions associated with the Arab Spring [16]. The dates of the food riots in Yemen in early 2008 and 2011 are marked in red and coincide with similar events in many other countries. The co-occurrence of global food riots with large spikes in food prices is consistent with a causal role of food prices in social unrest. (An alternative hypothesis positing that the spread of Salafism caused the violence in the south is not supported by direct analysis, indicating they were not particularly involved [28].) Figure 4 shows that food riots in 2007-08 and 2010-11 were not a local phenomenon, but affected a broad spectrum of regions in Africa and the Middle East as well as Haiti and India. We can therefore understand the appearance of social unrest at these times based upon a hypothesis that widespread unrest is not necessarily related to governmental activities, or, in the case of Yemen, to terrorist actions. Instead, social unrest is induced by the government’s perceived failure to provide food security to the population [16]. The poverty prevalent in Yemen [3], and southern Yemen’s dependency on imported wheat [6, 24, 36], similar to Egypt and Tunisia [37], in combination with rising food prices, are very likely to have been

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[GRAPH] 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Figure 4: Global food price index and the occurrence of food riots (number of casualties in brackets); food riots in Yemen are marked red; reproduced with permission from [16] the underlying trigger for violent incidents in 2008 and later.

Geographically, the violence in 2008 expanded from the north to the south. The southern violence can be understood from the recent political and economic history of Yemen. From 1967 through 1990 South Yemen existed as an independent state. The separation between North and South Yemen is partially, but not completely, according to ethnic regions. After unification in 1990, the north dominated and the south was economically marginalized. Ownership of resources was transferred to northern individuals and organizations [38–40]. The corresponding political disaffection manifested in a brief civil war in 1994. In 2007, during the first food price peak, political discontent coalesced into the Southern Movement, which was reenergized by food riots in 2010 to demand a wide range of economic and social concessions [41, 42]. While the expansion of violence to the south is a key change, poverty

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is also widespread in the north. An increase in violent activity in 2008 and 2010 in the north can be attributed to food based riots overlaid upon the preexisting ethnic conflict. Similar to other countries associated with recent revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East, the unrest based on food riots developed into a broader revolutionary process based upon persistent economic and social conditions, with implications for both local political instability and global terror.

Our work has identified two major sources of violence in Yemen: partial ethnic separation with poorly defined boundaries and unreliable food security for a vulnerable population. These conclusions have direct implications for policy.

The most urgent socioeconomic problem driving violence is high food prices. Recent work has shown that there is likely to be another food price bubble by the end of 2012 [43]. Based on this prediction conditions in Yemen will deteriorate if no mediating policy changes take effect to lower food prices. Current political efforts to broaden the governmental basis through assembling a National Dialogue Conference aim to tackle political grievances but do not address the problems of food prices. The most direct method to achieve food price stability is to provide subsidies as have been implemented in many countries in the face of the inability of the population to afford available food. Such subsidies are, however, difficult to afford for impoverished countries and would require external financing. More fundamentally, while many different factors have been considered for causing the rise of global food prices, a quantitative analysis has shown that the drivers of food price increases originate in US agricultural policies that are affecting food prices globally. These include two distinct domains of domestic policy. The first is subsidies for corn-to-ethanol conversion, which resulted in growth over less than a decade from negligible rates to 40% of the US corn crop being converted to ethanol [44]. More recently, concerns about their impact has led to the elimination of these subsidies as of December, 2011 [45]. However, regulations that specify the amount of ethanol to be produced continue [46] The second is the elimination of constraints on commodity speculation in 2000 [47], which led to rapid growth of speculative activity through commodity index funds that do not follow supply and demand, and result in speculative bubbles [48, 49]. The Commodity Future Trading Commission is in the process of reimposing constraints on commodity trading to avoid speculative bubbles [50, 51]. However, the market participants are seeking to dilute the impact of these new regulations [52–56] These examples show that increased attention to the impact of food prices and their role

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in global social unrest necessarily links global security planning and domestic agricultural policy.

The violence that is ethnic in nature could be dramatically reduced by increasing political independence by establishing internal country boundaries between ethnic groups [12]. The paradigmatic example of the use of internal political boundaries to successfully promote peace is that of the Cantons in Switzerland which were established to separate Catholic and Protestant populations at a time when conflict was prevalent. The success of this approach of internal autonomous regions can be considered a model for other areas of the world. The value of a federal system of governance to reduce the propensity for violence in Yemen has been recently suggested [57]. More political self-determination has been demanded by the Southern Movement [42] and would most likely be easier to implement than separate nations. One form of potential boundary is the implementation of road blocks, which are currently used by the government as well as by tribes [58], Al-Qaeda, and Ansar al-Sharia [59]. However, access control is met with hostility where the authority over group territories is not legitimized or established historically. Legitimizing partial autonomy in a context of central government power, in regions determined by the geographical distribution of the main ethnic groups, would be effective according to our analysis.

We have shown that science can directly analyze social disruption and violence and iden-tify their causes, as well as provide recommendations about policy changes to mitigate them. Our framework enables us to consider violence within its socioeconomic context. Terrorist organizations proliferate in the power vacuum in countries in which the government is in-herently unable to provide order. For the specific case of Yemen, insurgents benefit from and amplify existing social disruption as the government and military are caught up in con-flicts stemming from food insecurity and ethnic differences. Food prices and ethnic conflict can be seen to play a direct role [60]. We recommend the implementation of jointly de-fined internal political boundaries, within which the different groups can enjoy a degree of self-determination, in addition to lowering food prices through within-country subsidies and global food policy actions, as these measures have the greatest chance of stabilizing Yemen.

We thank Jeb Boone and Charles Schmitz for helpful comments on the manuscript. This work was supported in part by AFOSR under grant FA9550-09-1-0324.

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NOTES

1. P. Dresch, Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen (Clarendon Press, 1989).
2. P. Dresch, A History of Modern Yemen (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
3. K. Fattah, Yemen: A Social Intifada In a Republic of Sheikhs, Middle East Policy 18, 79 (2011).
4. P. Bernin, Yemen’s hidden war, Le Monde Diplomatique (2009). Translated by Robert Water-house.
5. C. Boucek, Yemen: Avoiding a downward spiral, The Carnegie Papers (2009).
6. M. N. Katz, Breaking the Yemen - Al Qaeda connection, Current History 102, 40 (2003).
7. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (New York Times, 2012). http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/a/al _qaeda_in_the_arabian_peninsula/.
8. J. Masters, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (Aqap) (Council on Foreign Relations, 2012).
9. S. Phillips, What Comes Next in Yemen? Al-Qaeda, the Tribes, and State-Building (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2007).
10. B. Prados, J. M. Sharp, Yemen: Current Conditions and U.S. Relations (Congressional Research Service, 2007).
11. M. Lim, R. Metzler, Y. Bar-Yam, Global Pattern Formation and Ethnic/Cultural Violence, Science 317, 1540 (2007).
12. Rutherford, D. Harmon, J. Werfel, S. Bar-Yam, A. Gard-Murray, A. Gros, Y. Bar-Yam, Good Fences: The Importance of Setting Boundaries for Peaceful Coexistence, arXiv:1110.1409v1 [physics.soc-ph] (2011). http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1409.
13. Berry, D. Marble, Spatial analysis: a reader in statistical geography (Prentice-Hall, Engle-wood Cliffs, NJ, 1968).
14. R. Chorley, P. Haggett, eds., Models in geography (Methuen, London, 1967).
15. D. Harvey, Explanation in geography (Edward Arnold, London, 1969).
16. M. Lagi, Y. Bar-Yam, K. Z. Bertrand, Y. Bar-Yam, The food crises: a quantitative model of food prices including speculators and ethanol conversion, arXiv:1109.4859v1 [q-fin.GN] (2011). http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4859.
17. Ciezadlo, The New Arab Revolt: What Happened, What It Means, and What Comes Next (Council on Foreign Relations).

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[18] L. R. Brown, The New Geopolitics of Food, Foreign Policy (2011).
[19] R. Arezki, M. Brükner, Food prices and political instability (2011). International Monetary Fund Working Paper.
[20] M. F. Bellemare, Rising food prices, food price volatility, and political unrest.
[21] R. Bush, Food Riots: Poverty, Power, and Protest, Journal of Agrarian Change 10, 119 (2011).
[22] J. Walton, D. Seddon, Free Markets and Food Riots (Blackwell, 1994).
[23] The world factbook (Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC, 2011).
[24] Yemen: Soaring food prices force more people below poverty line — WFP, Integrated Regional Information Networks (2008).
[25] Yemen Poverty Assessment, Vol. I: Main Report (The Government of Yemen, the World Bank, and the United Nations Development Program, 2007).
[26] Yemen (Institut Européen de Recherche sur la Coopération Euro-Arabe (MEDEA), 2007). http://www.medea.be/en/countries/yemen/yemen/.
[27] E. M. Manea, Islam et changement social (Editions Payot, Lausanne, 1998), chap.
La tribu et l’Etat au Yémen, pp. 205–218. English translation at http://www.al-bab.com/yemen/soc/manea1.htm.
[28] L. Bonnefoy, Salafism in Yemen: Transnationalism and Religious Identity (C. Hurst & Co. Publishers Ltd., 2012).
[29] Villages (Yemen Ministry of Public Health & Population, 2004). http://www.mophp-ye.org/docs/Data/shp_villages_2004.zip.
[30] M.Izady, Yemen: Religious and ethnic composition (2011). http://gulf2000.columbia.edu/images/maps/Yemen_Ethno_Religious_lg.jpg.
[31] Worldwide Incidents Tracking System (U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, 2012). https://wits.nctc.gov/FederalDiscoverWITS.
[32] In-depth: Guns out of control: The continuing threat of small arms, IRIN (21 May 2006). http://www.irinnews.org/InDepthMain.aspx?InDepthId=8&ReportId=41050.
[33] Yemen:Sectarian tensions rise, IRIN (30 November 2010). http://www.irinnews.org/Report/91245/YEMEN-Sectarian-tensions-rise.
[34] Yemen:Over 40 killed in sectarian clashes, IRIN (25 January 2012). http://www.irinnews.org/Report/94724/YEMEN-Over-40-killed-in-sectarian-clashes.

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[35] A. France-Presse, Yemen: Over 40 killed in sectarian clashes, Pakistan Today (27 Novem-ber 2011). http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/11/27/news/foreign/20-killed-70-injured-in-yemen-ethnic-violence/.
[36] United States Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service, Production, Supply and Distribution Online (http://www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/).
[37] North Africa Brief, FAO/GIEWS Global Watch (2011).
[38] Yemeni Civil War (1990-1994) (GlobalSecurity.org, 2000). http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/yemen1.htm.
[39] B. Whitaker, The birth of modern Yemen (2009). http://www.al-bab.com/yemen/birthofmodernyemen.

[40] Fault lines: Tracking armed violence in Yemen, Small Arms Survey Issue Brief (2010).
[41] Is South Yemen preparing to declare independence?, TIME Magazine (2011). http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2081756,00.html.
[42] S. Day, Yemen on the brink – The political challenge of Yemen’s Southern Movement, vol. 108 of Middle East Program (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC, 2010).
[43] M. Lagi, Y. Bar-Yam, K. Z. Bertrand, Y. Bar-Yam, Update 2012 – The food crises: predictive validation of a quantitative model of food prices including speculators and ethanol conversion, arXiv:1203.1313v2 [physics.soc-ph] (2012). http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.1313.
[44] Production, Supply and Distribution (United States Department of Agriculture, Foreign Agri-cultural Service, 2012). http://www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline.
[45] R. Pear, After three decades, tax credit for ethanol expires (New York Times, 2012). http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/02/business/energy-environment/after-three-decades-federal-tax-credit-for-ethanol-expires.html.
[46] Federal and State Ethanol and Biodiesel Requirements (U.S. Energy Information Administra-tion, 2007). http://205.254.135.7/oiaf/aeo/otheranalysis/ethanol.html.
[47] Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 106-554, Sec. 1(a)(5) [H.R. 5660], Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A-365) (U.S. Federal Government, 2000).
[48] F. Kaufman, The food bubble: How Wall Street starved millions and got away with it, Harper’s Magazine pp. 27–34 (2010).
J. Ghosh, The unnatural coupling: Food and finance, Journal of Agrarian Change 10, 72 (2011).

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[50] Position limits for futures and swaps, Federal Register 76, 71626 (2011).

[51] S. Patterson, J. Trindle, CFTC raises bar on betting, Wall Street Journal (2011).
[52] J. Trindle, CFTC may change application of speculative limits, Market Watch – The Wall Street Journal (2012). http://www.marketwatch.com/story/cftc-may-change-application-of-speculative-limits-2012-05-17.
[53] S. Brush, CFTC proposes easing of Dodd-Frank speculation limit rules, Bloomberg (2012). http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-18/cftc-proposes-easing-of-dodd-frank-speculation-limit-rules.html.
[54] Speculative Position Limits, Futures Industry Association (2011).
[55] C. S. Donahue, Re: CFTC Proposed Rulemaking on “Federal Speculative Position Limits for Referenced Energy Contracts and Associated Regulations,” 75 Fed. Reg. 4144 (Jan. 26, 2010), CME Group (2010).
[56] J. M. Damgard, Re: Position Limits for Derivatives (RIN 3038-AD15 and 3038-AD16), Futures Industry Association (2011).
[57] The roots of Yemen’s uprising: Interview with Khaled Fattah, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (31 July 2011). http://senjournal.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/the-roots-of-yemen%E2%80%99s-uprising-interview-with-khaled-fattah/.
[58] A. Dawood, Bani Hushaish tribesment block Sana’a–Mareb road, Yemen Times (2012). http://www.yementimes.com/en/1561/news/673/Bani-Hushaish-tribesmen-block-Sana%E2%80%99a-Mareb-Road.htm.
[59] S. Qaed, A. Anees, Different armed groups govern Aden, Yemen Times (2012). http://yementimes.com/en/1564/report/718/Different-armed-groups-govern-Aden.htm.
[60] Arc of Convergence: AQAP, Ansar al-ShariÕa and the Struggle for Yemen, CTC Sentinel (21 June 2012). http://christopher-swift.com/publications/arc-of-convergence-aqap-ansar-al-sharia-and-the-struggle-for-yemen.

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Wikipedia: Famine in Yemen

• Famine in Yemen (2016–present)

Sources

Sources for first paragraph, full article found here.

• Carey, G. & Algethami, S. (2108). Your Questions About Yemen’s Humanitarian Crisis, Answered. Bloomberg. Retrieved from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-22/who-s-to-blame-for-pestilence-near-famine-in-yemen-quicktake
• Nikbakht, D. & McKenzie, S. (2018). The Yemen war is the world's worst humanitarian crisis, UN says. CNN. Retrieved from https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/03/middleeast/yemen-worlds-worst-humanitarian-crisis-un-intl/index.html
• Pawlyk, O. (2018). General argues to continue refueling Saudi Planes in Yemen fight. Military.com Retrieved from https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/03/13/general-argues-continue-refueling-saudi-planes-yemen-fight.html
• Turse, N. (2011). America's Saudi air war. Al Jazeera. Retrieved from https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2011/03/2011316131230188238.html
• Wickenden, D. (2018). The American Bombs Falling on Yemen. The New Yorker. Retrieved from https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/the-american-bombs-falling-on-yemen

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Peace Corps purpose

I agree that the Peace Corps is not taken seriously in most elite circles (especially I can imagine in Moscow where outsiders are often disdained and seen as a threat). But one of Peace Corps central purposes is a way to get Americans acquainted with the world for US government jobs and intelligence services.

Personally, It was the best 2 years of my life. _(As a farm boy from rural Idaho, it was the first time I had ever met and associated with East and West coast wealthy liberals and I was so surprised at how rude they were)_ After the Peace Corps there is a literal fast track way to get federal jobs after you return to America. Many people settle or get jobs in DC.

I applied for the Foreign service twice and was rejected because I failed the writing portion.

I was actually accepted a second time in 2014 after my divorce but I didn't want to go to some Podunk 3rd world country. So I was going to teach English in China, then move to Siberia, but I got a job in Moscow. I am so thankful that the Peace Corps allowed a "country bumpkin" like me to associate and rub elbows with the elite like you. I am not surprised you have disdain for Peace Corps volunteers.

I found it fascinating that intelligence is malleable (changes).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleability_of_intelligence

Also that poor people tend to be less intelligent than rich people on standardized IQ tests, but in broader tests, like general problem solving they tend to be just as smart. http://moscowamerican.com/wiki/Sociology:_Class

http://moscowamerican.com/wiki/Sociology:_Class

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The only viable way that US peace organizations can effect change in the United States is through elections. Every other organization in the United States is controlled by the military. A peace NGO can form a PAC similar to the National Rifle Association. This PAC/NGO will support either candidate, on the left or on the right. For example, the NGO would publicly support antiwar Tea Party candidates and Rand Paul.

In the first election cycle, in 2022, the PAC/NGO will mobilize in one blue state, against, for example, a vulnerable blue dog democrat. This PAC/NGO will use guerilla marketing against the vulnerable blue dog democrat. If the vulnerable blue dog Democrat loses, the strategy is replicated in 2024 with 3 election races. If the vulnerable blue dog Democrat wins, the PAC/NGO reassess its strategy, and repeats this strategy in 2024.

Proposals and background

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Index

Invest in America First - Proposal for peace organization (power point) - page 1 - 5

[To do: Retrieve missing PowerPoint slides - Conclusion - American politicians is the toe hold into creating viable and lasting change]

Proposal to Peace Action Montgomery - page 6-8

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Guerrilla Marketing

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Guerrilla Campaign (Noun) - is an advertisement strategy concept designed for businesses to promote their products or services in an unconventional way with little budget to spend. This involves high energy and imagination focusing on grasping the attention of the public at a more personal and memorable level.

In late 2014 I was working @ Peace Action Montgomery. After brainstorming ideas about mascots with the group, during the 2014 Election we dressed up as the "Peace Chicken" (in the spirit of "Chicken George" that hounded George Bush Sr) and followed around Maryland 6th District Democratic Delaney, a multimillionaire who has only a score of 63% on Peace Action West and was the most vulnerable candidate in the area. Delaney was being challenged by Republican Dan Bongino. Bongino promised peace. We met with the Bongino campaign before launching the "Peace Chicken" mascot and he supported our efforts.

The 2014 election was right before Halloween, only eight days before the election, inspired by the 1996 election with "Chicken George", we bought a chicken suit from Party Center in Rockville. We then tried to "Roger and Me" Delany (ambush and ask Delaney unpopular questions on video tape). We called reporters and emailed attempted to find out where he was going to be next. Unfortunately, because the election was only a couple of days away, we never caught Delaney on camera.

• But we did stand outside of his campaign headquarters for the last three days of the election in chicken costumes, eight hours a day, and waved signs supporting Bongino's peace promises.

The website, peacechicken.com has expired, but I have copies of the website.

Despite incumbent Delany having a huge war chest, and spending millions of dollars of his own money on the campaign, Bongino lost the election by only 5,000 votes. Peace Action Montgomery had a part in this extremely narrow victory.

Structure

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An organization run like the NRA

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Date: March 29, 2018 for Easter Sunday Time: From approximately 7 pm to 9 pm. Event: Attended Catholic mass with him for 2.5 hours. Location: Downtown Salt Lake City Pete Keidl: Age unknown - Around my dads age. Appearance: Glasses, Silver Beard Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/adam.keidl.5 [canceled friend request] Occupation: Retired Previous occupation: United State Air Force Importance: Was in the palace on 9/11/1973 - with "suitcases full of money" when Allende was assassinated.

To do

Research

• Find out if "suitcases full of money by CIA when Allende was disposed on 9/11/1973" has been released by Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
  • certainly no testimony of a person "working in the same room as the CIA" has been released.

Media contacted

• Sent to Washington Post two e-mails
  • peter.winn@tufts.edu
  • patrick.mcdonnell@latimes.com

no response

Pete Keidl says he was a: Vietnam Vet

• Flew sorties over Vietnam.
• Supplies
  • Worst Vietnam memory - KIA bodies would not be secured and the stomachs would explode and gas would come out, roll around in back.
• Never shot down
• Flew planes for 14 years.

Pete keidl is a: Involved with flying for Reagan during Reagan years

(Details unknown - ask if he was involved in flying drugs - etc during Sandanistas - answer unclear)

>>>> Pete keidl was working with CIA in the palace when Pinochet was deposed <<<<

• 1973 Chilean coup d'état
• Later at end of night: "Was in the palace when it was bombed" (?)
• "6 of us" had briefcases full of money.
  • "Never worked with the CIA", but was in the room.
• Said his wife did not believe him for 40 years until "it was released". (FOIA)?
  • He said until it was "declassified"
  • I told him this was not declassified yet. [Is it declassified????]
  • He said it was secret. For the third time @915 pm, I said I had local reporter friend, would you like to talk to her?
  • He started to stammer
• I said the first 9/11? He initially did not know what I was talking about.
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Pete keidl: How we met

• Walking to state capital
  • my phone was dead from taking pictures
    • Recording was not made. (phone dead)
  • i was looking in window of bookstore
  • he spit tobacco
  • I said "you are not Mormon are you?"
  • we started talking
• He was walking to Catholic Church.

Pete keidl: Habits - Personal

• Catholic
• Chews tobacco
• VFW -- Member of Veterans of Foreign Wars.
• Daughter is a microbiologist - went to school for 13 years.

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Musings - coincidences only??

Occam's razor

April fools is Sunday

• Actor?
  • Who benefits from me looking stupid at this very moment [April 1st - Easter and April Fools Day]?
    • Old job with Hetri.
      • "Accidental" text from C. - IT guy today in the afternoon, with many other people [cc'd in telephone call].
        • C. is an EXPERT at computers - he is deeply intertwined with Hetri.
        • I put all my passwords on computer that C. now has.
      • I responded with a barrage against him, about cease and desist.
    • Information I gave to "Pete"
      • BAD: I gave Pete my exact address while walking home.
      • BAD: "Used to work at W.C."
      • BAD: I sent a facebook request, but then deleted it before he could respond

(etc. etc.)

• This is an open wiki.
• Didn't mention Allende until the end of two hour catholic service and trips to bathroom.
  • After I went to bathroom.
• A2 this week in P..

Other musings

• Bought ticket to Russia to go to Russia on March 27 [two days befpre].
• While in Russia 2015 -
  • G.I. said "the CIA is Everywhere" conversation next to his house in Moscow, while he was still living with V.I.
  • Head down, very calm and very slowly said, emphasis on each word. [wanted me to hear it]

• I mentioned to Pete Keidl - G.I.'s story about 6 billion dollars getting funneled to Ukraine through Australian embassy.
  • But who knows if this is true because Russians lie like we drink water.

This Facebook Russian speaker yesterday (3/28/18) posted (shared) the below scripture above my face on his own feed.

• He is now sharing several of my posts from [Ukraine?? I don't recall the conversation where he is from].

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Philip Giraldi online photoshop: https://www.photopea.com/ combine images: https://www.quickpicturetools.com/en/combine_images/

Moscow/Political Asylum

(Extremely redacted and edited public version)

See also: Smuggling classified secret cyber documents to Russia

On June 8, 2016, I walked into the main KGB (FSB) building in Moscow and asked for political asylum. I had smuggled a Secret Document from the United States government to Russia which I gave to the KGB (FSB)

Actively seeking Russian political asylum (June 2016)

Background

Lubyanka building

Where I entered the Lubyanka building twice. Location of the lawyer's office

Petr Pavlensky being arrested in front of the Lubyanka building

During Stalin's Great Purges. Lubyanka Building (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubyanka_Building) was the main headquarters of the KGB (NKVD). Many prisoners were tortured in the building and executed. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the KGB was renamed the FSB.

In November 2015, Russian activist Petr Pavlensky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr_Pavlensky set fire to the door of the infamous FSB (KGB) Lubyanka building.

Walking into the infamous FSB (KGB) Lubyanka building (June 8?, 2016)

Lubyanka building door I entered

Layout of the inside of the Lubyanka building

Security tensions in this infamous building were high by June 2016.

On June 8?, 2016, after trying since arrival in Moscow to get the attention of the Russian intelligentsia, I entered this KGB building unannounced and stated that I wanted political asylum to the guard. The guard said he could not help me.

Amazingly, I was able to just walk out of the building and I was not detained.

Lawyer's office across the street from the FSB (KGB)

2018 update: As of 2018, this office location has been closed and has been extensively remodeled.

I walked outside into the beautiful sunlight and immediately noticed a lawyer’s office directly across the street at Furkasovsky Lane, 3 (Фуркасовский переулок, 3). It was a pastel lime green building and had an old Soviet style lawyer's (юрист) sign above it - with no company name. The law offices have many names, including Боярцев и Партнеры and https://yandex.ru/maps/org/tsentr_pravovoy_pomoshchi/237725855937/ Legal Aid Center]. Their site: http://www.urpark.ru

I entered the building and requested a lawyer's consultation.

Akob Edyardovich's business card

Business card with time to meet next

The secretary took me back to met Akob Edyardovich. There were several men in the office. I told him that I had just walked into FSB (KGB) Lubyanka building, this put everyone in the office in a panic. One man looked out the curtain window at the building across the street. They really were surprised. Akob agreed to help me with political asylum.

Contract for political asylum

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Contract for political asylum

On June 8, 2016, Akob Edyardovich drew up a contract. For 500,000 rubles (approximately $8000 at the time) Edyardovich would help me get political asylum. I had read in the Moscow Times that it was impossible for Americans to get political asylum, even for Edward Snowden. But the end goal was not political asylum, the end goal was to put my name out their to those in power and show that I was dedicated completely and wholly to Russia.

I returned with 20,000 Rubles later. In another visit, Akob Edyardovich asked me to renounce my family and my ex-wife. I said no I could not.

I was explicitly warned (threatened) by Akob that I many lawyers like me are killed all the time in Russia.

Akob told me not post any political comments on Facebook or social media. In response, I increased the number of Facebook political comments.

Application for political asylum (June 13, 2016)

This statement which was submitted to four Russian government organizations.

Application for political asylum
В УФМС Российской Федерации Адрес; 109240, г. Москва, ул. Верхняя Ршищевская, д. 4. стр. Г-иа США Бзйли Трэвиса Ли ЗАЯВЛЕНИЕ на НРСДОСТЗВЛЕНИ! ПОЛИТИЧССКОГО убежища Я. Бэйлн Трэвис Ли. являюсь гражданином Соединенных Штатов Америки. Нахожусь на территории Российской Федерации с г. Настоящим заявление прошу предоставить мне политическое убежище на территории Российской Федерации. до моет прибытии в Россию проживал на территории США. Однако с п‘ " Г. Я начал ПОДВОРГЗТЪСЯ ДЗВЛЗННЮ 00 СТОРОНЫ ГОСУДЗрСТВЭННЫХ органов США из-за своего несогласия с внешней политикой, которую на сегодняшний день пропагандирует Президент страны Барак Обама. Свое недовольство я. не таясь, всегда выражал вслух, так как являюсь специалистом по английскому язьпку‘ (профессором, преподавателем). публиковал школьную газе-ту с волнующей меня тематикой. В связи с этим мои политические взгляды не остались ие замеченными государственными структурами США. Я постоянно испытывал негативное отношение к себе. опасался за свою жизнь и безопасность. На сегодняшний день я лишен всего своего имущества (дом, автомобиль, личные вещи). Приехав в Россию, понял. насколько эта страна отличается от Соединенных Штатов Америки своей доброжелательностью и отношением к своим граэкданам. Еще проживая в США. я изучал русскую тшасснческуто литературу. Уверен, что мои знания английского языка принесут пользу ШОДЯМ. ИЗУЧЫОЦШМ ЯЗЫК.	In the Federal Migration Service of the Russian Federation; Address; 109240, Moscow, ul. Upper Rshischevskaya, 4. p. Mr Bailey Travis Lee STATEMENT on ?? THE POLITICAL ASYLUM I Bailey Travis Lee. I am a citizen of the United States of America. I am on the territory of the Russian Federation with Mr. Hereby I ask you to grant me political asylum in the territory of the Russian Federation. Before Russia, I lived in the United States. However, in 2015 I began to be reinforced by the fact that the state party bodies of the United States because of their disagreement with foreign policy, which President Barack Obama is currently advocating. I am dissatisfied with myself. not concealing, always expressed aloud, because I am an expert in English poetry (professor, teacher). published a school gas-tu with an exciting topic. In this regard, my political views did not remain not seen by the US state structures. I was constantly feeling negative about myself. feared for his life and safety. To date, I have been deprived of all my possessions (house, car, personal belongings). Arriving in Russia, I understood. how this country differs from the United States of America in its goodwill and attitude towards its people. Still living in the US. I studied Russian classic literature. I am confident that my knowledge of English will benefit
Конституцией Российской Федерации определено. что в Рошснйской Федерации гарантируются права н свободы человека н гражданина согласно общепризнанным принципам и нормам международного права (статья 17. часть Е); Российская Федерация предоставляет политическое убежище иностранным гражданам и лицам без гражданства в соответствии с общепризнанными нормами международного права (статья 63, часть 1). Названным конституционным положениям корреспоидирует статья 14 Всеобщей декларации прав человека, провозглашающая право каждого искать убежище от преследования в других странах и пользоваться этим убежищем и устанавливающая. что это право не может быть использовано в случае преследования, в действительности основанного на совершении неполитического преступления или деяния, противоречащего птелям и принципам Организации Объединенных Наций. Право убежища закреплено также в Конвенции о статусе беженцев (1951 год) и Протоколе. касающемся статуса беженцев 0967 год), являющихся в силу статьи 15 (часть 4) Конституции Российской Федерации составной частью российской правовой системы. Основания н порядок признания беженцем ва территории Российской Федерации, а также экономические, социальные и правовые гарантии зашиты прав н законных интересов беженцев установлены Федеральным законом от 190249925 М 4528-1 "О беженцах". Названный Федеральный закон. помимо предоставления иностранному гражданину или лицу без гражданства статуса беженца (статья 3). предусматривает также возможность предоставления данным лицам временного убежища, т.е. права временно пребывать на территории Российской Федерации (подпункт3 пункта 1 статьи 1. статья 12). Согласно правовой позиции Конституционного Суда Российской Федерации. изложенной в определении от 30.09.2010 Ы 1317-О-П, отсутствие в указанных выше Федеральном’ а и конкретнзирующем его постановлении Правительства Российской Федерашти исчерпывающего перечня ОбСТОЯТСПЬСТВ. ОТНОСЯШИХСЯ К гуманным ПОБУЖДЗНИЯМ. ДОСТЯТОЧНЫМ	The Constitution of the Russian Federation is defined. that in Roshsy Rights and freedoms of a person and a citizen under the universally recognized principles and norms of international law (Article 17. part E); The Russian Federation provides political asylum foreign citizens and stateless persons in accordance with the universally recognized norms of international law (art. 63, part 1). The above constitutional provisions are corroborated by Article 14 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, proclaiming the right of everyone seek refuge from persecution in other countries and refuge and setting. that this right can not be used in the case of prosecution, in fact based on the commission of a non-political crime or an act that is contrary to the principles of the United Nations. The right of asylum is secured also in the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (1951) and the Protocol. concerning Status of Refugees 0967), which are in force under Article 15 (Part 4) The Constitution of the Russian Federation is an integral part of the Russian legal system. The grounds and the procedure for the recognition of refugees by the territory of the Russian Federation Federation, as well as economic, social and legal guarantees of protection rights and legitimate interests of refugees are established by the Federal Law of 190249925 M 4528-1 "On refugees". The named Federal law. apart from granting a foreign citizen or stateless person a status refugee status (art. 3). provides for the possibility of providing given to temporary asylum seekers, i. the right to be temporarily territory of the Russian Federation (subparagraph 3 of paragraph 1 of Article 1. Article 12). According to the legal position of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation Federation. stated in the definition of 30.09.2010 N 1317-O-P, the absence in the above-mentioned Federal Law and its specific The resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation exhaustive list of CIRCUMSTANCES. RELATING TO THE MANY PEOPLE. ACCESSIBLE
КОТОРЫВ не ПРОТИВОРСЧЗТ ДВМОКРЕТИЧССКИМ ПРННЦНПЗМ. ПРИЗНЗННЫМ мировым сообществом. нормам международного права. При тшм принимается во внимание, что преследование направлено непосредственно против лица. обратившегося с ходатайством о предоставлении политического убежищ Условия предоставления возможности временного пребывания на территории Российской Федерации определяются постановлением Правительства РФ 303274 от 09.04.2001 года и Порядком предоставления временного убежища на территории Российской Федерации (в редакции Постановлений Правительства РФ от 28.03.2008 Ш 220, от 06.04.20! 1 Не 251. от 23.04.2012 К: 363). В соответствии с пунктом 2 статьи 12 Федеральною закона "О беженцах" рременное убежище может бьгп. предоставлено иностранному гражданину или лицу без гражданства. если они имеют основания для признания беженцем, но ограничиваются заявлением в письменной форме с просьбой о предоставлении возможности временно пребывать на территории Российской Федерации (позшункт 1); либо не имеют оснований для признания беженцем. но из гуманных побуждении не могут быть выдворены (депортнровшты) зв пределы территории Российской Федерации (подпункт 2). Предусмотренное подпунктом 2 пункта 2 статъи 12 данного Федерального закона основание предоставления иностранному гражданину или лицу без граишансгва временного убежища конкретизируется в пункте 711остановления Правительства Российской Федерации от 9 апреля 2001 года М 274 ‘О предоставлении временного убежища на территории Российской Федерации": временное убежище может быть предоставлено в случае существования гуманных причин, требующих временном пребывания липа на территории Российской Федерации (например, состояние здоровья). до устранения таких причин или изменения правового положения лица Отсутствие н указанном Федеральном законе, а также конкретизирующем его Постановлении Правительства Российской Федерации исчерпывающего перечня обстоятельств. относящихся к гуманным побуждениям. достаточным для предоставления лицу временного убежища на территории Российской Федерации. не означает, однако,	WHICH DOES NOT CONTRAIN THE DOMOKRETCHISKI PRNTSNPZM. RECOGNIZED world community. norms of international law. When tm is taken into account, that the pursuit is directed directly against the person. who petitioned for granting of political asylums Conditions for granting the possibility of temporary stay on territory of the Russian Federation Government of the Russian Federation 303274 of 09.04.2001 and the Procedure for Granting temporary asylum on the territory of the Russian Federation (in redaction Decrees of the Government of the Russian Federation of March 28, 2008 Sh 220, of 06.04.20! 1 Not 251. from 23.04.2012 К: 363). In accordance with paragraph 2 of Article 12 of the Federal Law "On refugees "A temporary asylum may be granted to a foreign citizen or stateless person. if they have grounds for recognition as a refugee, but limited to a written statement with request for the possibility of temporary stay in the territory The Russian Federation (pos. 1); or have no basis for recognition as a refugee. but from humane motives can not be expelled (deportnirovshty) from the territory of the Russian Federation (subparagraph 2). Provided by subparagraph 2 of clause 2 of article 12 of this The federal law provides for the granting of a foreign citizen or a person without a Greek temporary refuge is specified in paragraph 711 of the Government of the Russian Federation of April 9, 2001 year M 274 'On granting temporary asylum in the territory Russian Federation ": temporary asylum may be granted in If humane causes exist that require a temporary The presence of a lime tree on the territory of the Russian Federation (for example, health status). until such reasons are eliminated or legal position of a person Absence of this Federal Law, as well as concretizing its Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation Federation of an exhaustive list of circumstances. relating to humane motives. sufficient to provide the person with a temporary asylum in the territory of the Russian Federation. does not mean, however,
наличия у правопримеиителя неограниченной свободы усмотрения при разрешении вопроса о предоставлении временного убежища, - принятие такого решения должно осуществляться с учетом правовой природы и предназначении: института временного убежища, а также конституционного принципа признания прав и свобод чсзювека высшей ценностью (статья 2 Конституции Российской Федерации). По своей правовой природе временное убежище, предоставляемое в соответствии с подпунктом 2 пункта 2 статьи 12 Федерального закона ‘О беженцах", является мерой дополнительной защиты. препятствующей выдвореиию (депортации) лиц, не имеющих законных оснований для пребывания на территории Российской Федерации. однако, в силу сложной жизненной ситуации временного характера вынужденных находиться на территории Российской Федерации. Данный институт носит экстраординарный характер и действует наряду с общими основаниями легализации пребывания (проживания) иностранных прижми и лип без гражданства на территории Российской Федерации. Исходя из изложенного, прошу предоставить мие политическое уймище в связи с обстоятельствами. изложенными мной в данном заявлении и по указанным основаниям. Приложение: 1. Копия паспорта гражданина США 2. Копия визы	The right of the entre- preneur has unlimited freedom of resolution of the question of granting temporary asylum; Such a decision should be carried out taking into account the legal nature and the institution of temporary asylum, as well as the constitutional the principle of the recognition of the rights and freedoms of the citizen of the highest value (Article 2 Constitution of the Russian Federation). By its legal nature, the temporary asylum granted in accordance with subparagraph 2 of paragraph 2 of Article 12 of the Federal Law 'On refugees ", is a measure of additional protection. expulsion (deportation) of persons who do not have legal grounds for stay on the territory of the Russian Federation. however, due to the complex life situation of a temporary nature forced to be on territory of the Russian Federation. This institute bears Extraordinary character and operates along with common grounds legalization of stay (residence) of foreign presses and limes without citizenship on the territory of the Russian Federation. Proceeding from the foregoing, I ask you to provide me with a political a lot due to circumstances. as set forth by me in this application and for the reasons stated. Application: 1. A copy of the passport of a US citizen 2. Copy of the visa

Secret recordings in the KGB/FSB lawyer offices

• https://soundcloud.com/travis-lee-bailey-59125603/sets/hidden-conversations-at-lawyers-office-across-the-street-from-lubyanka-fsb-kgb/s-iPlwQ 3 Clips] (Explained in context in the calendar timeline below).
• 5 clips, 3 audio and 2 video: https://yadi.sk/d/U9zvQjw_7bWfXg
  • 2 videos have NOT been uploaded to Youtube yet.

Translators

I had 3 translators that helped me translate with the lawyers office across the street from the FSB:

Vlad First translator. Vlad is my first court appointed translator I had during my legal case against Language Link	Vlad - Picture from https://www.instagram.com/vladuard/ Instagram].
Darya (Dasha) Glishanova (Дарья Гришанова) On July 11, 2016 I told Darya that I was recording the lawyer meetings by email and had her translate what was said in the meeting. Darya was a personal translator for FSB Lawyers. I met her at a meetup. She was the girlfriend on Nick, who I helped come to America. (See Clips below)	Darya Glishanova
Наталья Селуянова A notary translated the information on my family, ex-wife, past political associations, where I once worked, and where I lived before.	No picture

Offered to teach English in the United State Embassy (June 16, 2016)

Kathleen Zabelin

I am 90% certain that Kathleen Zabelin is working closely with the American Embassy. See 2020 American Embassy scandal#Kathleen Zabelin phone call.

On June 10, one day after I met Akob in the lawyers office across the street from the main FSB building, Kathleen Zabelin contacted me.

Kathleen, an American, of the Moscow University of Finance and Law in the high rises of Capital City.

On June 16, I interviewed to teach with her. The job included teaching in the United States Embassy, Zabelin asked if I felt "comfortable" working at the embassy. Zabelin had been married to a Russian for decades. She said she found my profile on Linkedin. She said there was only one other candidate.

As I wrote on Facebook that day:

"It is patently absurd that someone who works that close to the American embassy would offer me a job. A cursory look at any of my statements on Russian television, my Facebook posts and the thesis papers on my Linkedin profile would show my feelings about American foreign policy."

Walking in to the FSB a second time

In approximately August of 2016 I walked into the FSB building a second time. This time on a side door facing the bookstores. There was a secretaries desk encased in glass.

Door similar to the Lubyanka building door I entered

Return to America

I returned to America on September 15, 2016.

Timeline

Early April 2016

On the television game show, Let's Get Married as the "hero", see below.

June 2016

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5	6	7	8 Walked into the main Lubyanka building FSB (KGB) Building. Date of legal contract for asylum	9 Meet FSB lawyers about political asylum at 1 pm. That evening at 7:30 pm I attended the https://www.meetup.com/CherrypieClub/events/past/ Cherrypie Language Club] - https://www.meetup.com/CherrypieClub/events/231534778/ TED Talk Discussions with Kate] This meetup was changed from the original. The talk was instead https://www.ted.com/talks/kang_lee_can_you_really_tell_if_a_kid_is_lying TED talk on detecting a liar] with a psychologist in attendance.	10 Sent emails to places that I worked about potential phone calls from Akob's office Contacted by American with university job	11
12	13 Second meeting with Akob. Promise of temporary residency.	14	15	16 (Wrote on private Facebook post: "I just walked in [to the FSB building] last week.")	17	18 Hidden recording Akob was not there, spoke with Vitaly Anreivich who gave me his business card. Recording 1: https://soundcloud.com/travis-lee-bailey-59125603/voice-007-immigration-saturday/s-FyiuX Voice 007 - Immigration - Saturday Meeting - June 18 (8m)] Recording 2: https://soundcloud.com/travis-lee-bailey-59125603/voice-006-immigration-saturday/s-6Yvqt Voice 006 - Immigration - Saturday Meeting - June 18 (21m)]
19	20 Hidden recording https://soundcloud.com/travis-lee-bailey-59125603/voice-009-immigration-tuesday/s-RMVNc Voice 009 - Immigration - Monday Meeting - June 20 (1h32m)]	21	22	23	24	25
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August 2016: walked into the FSB building a second time through a second door facing the bookstore

July 2016

• https://soundcloud.com/travis-lee-bailey-ukrainesunset/immigration-conversation-with-dasha-voice-001/s-OUrbv Secret recording in July] Dasha (Дарья Гришанова) listened to this tape and translated it for me.
• July 27 meeting with translator Dasha at FSB lawyer.

Events before walking into FSB - getting the attention of the FSB (KGB)

Inquiring about the KGB in first television interview (October 2015)

In October 2015 I was on television for the first time. I secretly audio recorded the entire interview. [ADD LINK] In the audio the staff laugh about me being CIA from the start. At the end of the interview I asked how I can get involved or join the KGB.

Threatened to be reported to the FSB by previous employer

Guided around Lubyanka Building after a party on the last day by two students.

American Leftist and former peace hippie states that I should just renounce my citizenship

On February 10, 2016, Karen Porter a very active peace activist during the Iraq War and fellow lawyer I met in Moscow suggested that I revoke my US citizenship because of my criticism of the United States:

"The US is far from perfect, but I would never go to a much, much less perfect country [Russia] and shame my country. Despite its flaws, the US is far better than most. Here we can and do feel free to criticize just about everything, but I feel that here is where I do that and not in a place where people can only dream of what happened in New Hampshire last night. Again, I don't go abroad to criticize my country, which is only fodder for some very dangerous interests. I will not be used by those interests and will have the freedom and courage to make my comments where they do good, which is here. I do not go abroad with a mistaken notion that I know how to change things where it is none of my business to do so - I will make change at home, where my voice is appropriate."

"If you feel so strongly, perhaps you should revoke your US citizenship and apply for Russian citizenship. Sounds like the route for you."

Walking off the set of Let's Get Married (April 2016) - Asking for political asylum on camera

Let's Get Married (Давай поженимся, Davay Pozhenimsya: literally "Let's Marry") is a Russian dating program on Channel One Russia.

See Let's Get Married

KGB day celebration (May 28, 2016)

Alexander Babenko (Александр Бабенко) outside of park on KGB day

On May 26, 2016 Alexander Babenko (Александр Бабенко) invited me KGB day at a large park in central Moscow.

I had met Alexander Babenko my first week on a 25 kilometer hike. His English was superb. On a later hike, my friend Alina said how surprised how good his English was, because on previous hikes he acted like his English was not very good. He instantly started to invite me to activities and email me a lot.

That day, I told Alexander Babenko that I wanted to join the FSB (KGB). Alexander told me the same thing that every person said and I already knew: It was impossible as an American to join the KGB. That afternoon, Alexander said that there were two types of KGB, one that worked on the border, and one that was security like the FBI/CIA. I told him that I wanted to learn about political asylum. Alexander would not translate my questions and from my American perspective was being very duplicitous. I went around him and found former and current KGB officers who spoke English to answer my questions.

Email to FSB (June 4, 2016)

Hello, My name is Travis Lee Bailey. I am a 44 year old American Lawyer and English Teacher from Washington DC. I am interested in a Russian Passport and becoming a Russian citizen. I would like to teach Russians marketing, law, international relations, sociology, etc. from an American perspective. I am currently on a business visa but my work visa expired. I want to become a Russian Citizen legally. I would like to seek political asylum. I have been on RENTV twice denouncing America, and I was on Давай поженимся - Let's Get Married with Channel One. moscowamerican.com I have thought about coming to your office often. I walked around the building a few months ago in January with three other people from an English Club. I would like to discuss the issue with someone. If I can set up an appointment with an English speaking person in your office, that would be great. Please contact me at your earliest convenience. Sincerely, Travis Lee Bailey, Esq. 20160604224825

Political Prosecution in America

Political prosecution:

My lawyer Akob asked me in my interview for political asylum if I had ever been refused a job because of my political beliefs. I answered that I never had directly not been hired for my job to my knowledge, but I was open for years about my political beliefs which showed in my work product and published books, and I had been turned down for numerous positions. Often American companies do not explain why they do not hire a candidate.

I returned to America. In March 2018 I had an interview with DH Group @ 4020 700 E, Murray, UT 84107 and gave them a large portfolio of my work product. I accidentally included a copy of the cover of my book. On the back of my published book it states:

Travis Lee Bailey is an American Lawyer who has lived in the former Soviet Union for four years. After smuggling in secret documents from the United States Strategic Command into Russia, he is currently working towards Russian political Asylum.

In a secretly recorded second interview, they refused to give me the job based on this blurb. (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1BD0Le4eInV_h0lDxOWnI5vzPeDrrtaPa Audio Here])

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October 18 2022

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Error "E1460-B305" / "E583-B308" occurs when connected to a USB 2.0 port

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This problem is caused when a USB 3.0 supported Epson device is connected to a computer that supports USB 3.0 but is either connected to a USB 2.0 port or is connected to a USB 3.0 port using a USB 2.0 cable.

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Epson Scan 2 Unable to send data. Check the connection to the scanner and try again. (E583-B318) OK

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OLD printer Epson ET-2550

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Optimal printing preferences (PDF)

Refill printer for first time

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Epson

Customer service >> printer

1 (800) 463-7766 >> 3 - 1 - 2

single function printer??

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Send a free fax

https://www.lifewire.com/free-fax-services-2378048

Copy cyrillic webpage names

https://www.webatic.com/url-convertor

Calendar

https://www.calendarpedia.com/calendars/october-2022-calendar.html

VPN

FREE VPN for Windows PC Download in 2021 - BETTERNET.co - entire internet fix router

• TOMSGUIDE https://www.tomsguide.com/best-picks/best-free-vpn - excellent
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Download programs

• CNET excellent! https://download.cnet.com

windows 10 change mouse visible

Make your mouse more visible by changing the color and size of the mouse pointer.

Start button

Settings >

Ease of Access >

Cursor & pointer , and

choose the options that work best for you.

Desktop programs downloaded and installed

Programs downloaded

• Active Presenter -
• AnyMP4 Studio - Paid
• Audacity - Free open source - https://www.audacityteam.org/
• Badicut - Bandicut Video Cutter, Joiner and Splitter Software - Bandicam https://www.bandicam.com/bandicut-video-cutter
• FalshIntegro - https://www.videosoftdev.com/about-us
  • VSDC Free Audio Converter - https://www.videosoftdev.com/free-audio-converter
• Freemake -
• LabView -
• Lightshot - https://app.prntscr.com/en screenshot program
• ShareX -
• smart Notebook -
• WeChat -
• VLC Media player
• Free Cam 8 - WMV file only (cannot be uploaded needs to be converted first) - https://www.freescreenrecording.com

Bulk rename utility Bulk file rename utility

• https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Download.php

Firefox Need to get rid of "ImportEnterpriseRoots" Certificate

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/utbtdl/need_to_get_rid_of_importenterpriseroots

The two ways to lock a preference are:

(1) Enterprise Policy -- check about:policies

This can be done by dropping a file: https://support.mozilla.org/kb/customizing-firefox-using-policiesjson

(2) Autoconfig

This is done by dropping two files: https://support.mozilla.org/kb/customizing-firefox-using-autoconfig

What is "ImportEnterpriseRoots" Certificate

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1306557

This is a pretty common question that gets asked here.

The ImportEnterpriseRoots policy is setup by a lot of security programs (antivirus, firewall, etc). Security programs often use this policy so that they can view incoming secure connections to check that the content is safe, without triggering error messages in Firefox.

That policy has no impact on what settings you will be able to use in Firefox. It will cause the "Your computer is being managed by your organization" warning message to appear on top of the settings page, but that's it.

Removing that policy from your computer often causes your security program to stop working and/or will cause issues in Firefox when loading some websites.

Hope this clears things up for you.

Telegram

Telegram discussion group with "chat history for new members"

Called Discussion button

• https://www.v-user.com/en/blog/how-to-activate-comments-on-telegram-channels
• https://core.telegram.org/api/discussion
• https://www.alphr.com/add-comment-to-channel-telegram
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6SvNrM8QW0 Youtube 2022
• https://www.istaunch.com/export-telegram-contacts-and-group-members/

scrape users in telegram

• https://exybot.com/telegram-kit-2-0/ expensive $250
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Export telegram contacts on pc windows

How to Export Telegram Contacts and Group Members (PC) Download and install Telegram for Windows/Mac on PC.

Launch Telegram on your PC and login to your account using Phone Number or QR code.  

After successful login, it will take you to the Dashboard where you find the list of the conversations, here

1. tap on the three lines icon at the top on PC.
2. It will open a new menu with the list of options, select Settings.
3. Next, click on Advanced as shown in the below image.
4. Scroll down to the last and tap on the Export Telegram Data.
5. After that, select the data you want to export from Telegram. Just select the Account Information and Contact list option.
6. Scroll down and select the location where you want to download the data and select Human-readable HTML format. Tap on the Export.

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https://www.thewindowsclub.com/free-anonymous-file-sharing-services-which-allow-you-to-share-files-without-creating-an-account

https://www.veed.io/send-video

VLC MEDIA PLAYER

VLC

ActivePresenter

Record screen with video.

Excellent! Downloaded from RuTracker.org August 28 2022 only 44 MB.

https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6002607

How to Export ActivePresenter Projects to Videos

https://atomisystems.com/tutorials/export-activepresenter-projects-videos/

8 Best Screen Recorders for Windows 10 in 2022- Free & Paid

https://atomisystems.com/screencasting/record-screen-windows-10/

Bulk converting audio files into one

DOESNT WORK

VSDC Pro Video Editor 7.1

RuTracker.ORG

• https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6230344

19 Best Free Software to Batch Convert WMA To MP3 for Windows https://listoffreeware.com/free-software-batch-convert-wma-to-mp3-windows/

• https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=40113587 Wondershare UniConverter does not support .WMA wma files

AnyMP4 MXF Converter 8.0.10 RePack (& Portable) by TryRooM [2020,Multi/Ru]

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https://www.google.com/search?q=unlock+%22wma%22+protected+files

10 ways to bulk convert audio files into one

From: https://multimedia.easeus.com/video-editing-tips/audio-joiner.html#part3

3. Copy Command on Windows

Platform: Windows

Windows allows you to merge audio from the command prompt. Here is the command you can use is as follows:

copy /b *.mp3 c:\merged.mp3

The command above means it will find all MP3 files in the directory and join them into the merged.mp3 file.

If you want to add only a few files add them accordingly using a "+" sign in between.

Pros

No need to install a software

The simplest way to merge audio files without losing quality

Cons

Not possible to edit the files

No way to change the format of the output file

Cumbersome to use.

VLC

Source: https://www.videoproc.com/audio-editor/best-audio-mergers.htm

3. How to Merge MP3 Files on Windows 10 with VLC

VLC is an open-source free program that you can free access to. Based on its introduction of how to merge videos, we have tested its capability of combining audio files, and it turns out to be feasible as well. Before we kick off, you need to make sure that all of your audio files have the file extension of .mp3. Otherwise, this method may not work for you. (Notice: if you have different formatted audio files such as .flac and .mp3, see the workaround.)

Step 1. Download and install VLC on your computer.

You are recommended to install VLC locally by its default route.

Step 2. Use the keyboard shortcuts

Win+X > click Command Prompt in the pop-up list.

Or, use the hotkey combination

Win+R to open Run >

type cmd in the box >

hit Enter

Then the Command Prompt will be opened as well.

Run Command Prompt

[Win+R] > cmd to run Command Prompt

Step 3. In the Command Prompt, enter the command: cd c:\mp3, then hit the Enter key.

Sidenote: The c:\mp3 command is the file folder directory where your mp3 audio files are kept. If your audio files are kept on C disk, c:\ file location

Step 4: There will be c:\mp3> command already existing, copy and paste commands as follows:

"C:\PROGRAMFILES\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" -vv 1.mp3 2.mp3 --sout-keep --sout=#gather:transcode{acodec=mp3,ab=128}:standard{access=file,mux=dummy,dst=combinedout.mp3}

Sidenotes:

1. C:\PROGRAMFILES\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe command refers to the directory path where the VLC launching program is located in your Windows computer, which is also the default path of VLC setup. Change it if you've set a different destination path for your VLC installation.

2. The 1.mp3 2.mp3 command refers to the filename of your audio tracks. Customize the part based on your personal demands.

3. The combinedout.mp3 command refers to the file name of the combined file. You can change it to the one you like.

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Select Start >

Settings >

Accounts >

Sign-in options .

Under Password, select the Change button and follow the steps.

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Download YouTube videos that you've uploaded BASTARDS

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how to burn a disk

How to Burn a CD or DVD on Windows 10 https://www.howtogeek.com/689705/how-to-burn-a-cd-or-dvd-on-windows-10/

GRAMFILE

https://gramfile.com/active-iso-burner-download/

Ashampoo Burning Studio Free 1.23.8.0

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• https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/hp-ink-tank-wireless-410-series/16180953/manuals MANUALS

How do I switch between ink tank and cartridge on HP Ink 410 series ?

I want to disable the use of the ink cartridges completely.

Is there any articles or videos on how the HP ink cartridge works when there is tank?  I wanted to buy a printer WITHOUT a ink cartridge.  I did not realize there are  two expensive to replace  ink cartridges inside.

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Download whatsapp messages in bulk batch

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How to Take Batch Screenshots or Screencaps in VLC Media Player FEB 1, 2021

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Download all whatsapp contacts in a whatsapp group video

How to Export WhatsApp Group Contacts to Excel？ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll26Ha2Xfs0&t=67s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll26Ha2Xfs0&t=67s

Shortcuts for chrome webpages

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Subtitle Editor

https://nikse.dk/subtitleedit

Subtitle Edit

Overview

Subtitle Edit is a free (open source) editor for video subtitles - a subtitle editor :)

With SE you can easily adjust a subtitle if it is out of sync with the video in several different ways. You can also use SE for making new subtitles from scratch (do use the time-line/waveform/spectrogram) or translating subtitles.

For a list of features see below or check out the Subtitle Edit Help page. On my blog you can download latest beta version and read about/discuss new features.

Also, you can watch a few videos about installing and using Subtitle Edit.

Transfer import facebook to vk

Coding

https://github.com/mekhovov/Export-Posts-from-FB-2-LI-VK/blob/master/export_FB_2_LI_VK.rb

Convert audio m4a to video

https://www.freeconvert.com/m4a-to-mp4/download DOESNT WORK ON YOUTUBE

RUSSIAN SITE https://online-audio-convert.com/ru/m4a-to-mp4/ DOESNT WORK ON YOUTUBE

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• kdenlive crop a video
  • Click the zone start icon
  • Click he zone end icon
  • Right click the new zone and extract video

merge 2 videos online

Adobe

https://express.adobe.com/tools/merge-videos/#

Quotes background maker

Quotes background maker

Delete portions of a page for printing

• Print Edit WE
  • To start editing the page:
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  • A blue 'EDIT' (editing) badge will appear on the button.

• Not as good: How to Print Web Pages and Remove Unwanted Content
  • Print Friendly & PDF (overview)

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WiFi Keeps Disconnecting on Windows 10? Here’s the Fix

• Wi-Fi drops connection and available networks disappear
  • Suggestion: Turn Bluetooth on or off in Windows

Install a Bandwidth Monitor On Your Computer

• 10 Free Tools for Monitoring Network Bandwidth

What's system interrupts high CPU usage in Windows 10

Change Rename Batch Files and Folders in Windows

4 Ways to Batch Rename Files in Windows (USE POWERSHELL)

https://www.maketecheasier.com/batch-rename-files-in-windows/

Doesnt work:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22182409/replace-part-of-file-name-powershell

Rename files by matching partial name (power toys - doesnt work)

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-rename-multiple-files-bulk-windows-10

General:

6 Ways to Rename Files and Folders in Windows 10

https://www.howtogeek.com/665514/6-ways-to-rename-files-and-folders-in-windows-10/

How to set a default Folder View for all folders in Windows 11/10

How to set a default Folder View for all folders in Windows 11/10

• Open File Explorer by using key combination Windows Key + E and navigate to the folder you want to use as a source for view layout settings.
• Windows 10, navigate to the View tab in ribbon baron the top and change the settings per your wish. You can change the layout and choose the folder details to display, add extra panes, adjust column width, etc.
• Once done with the changes, click Options to open the File Explorer Options, earlier called Folder Options. window.
• Finally, navigate to View tab in Folder Options window.
• Click/Tap on Apply to Folders button.\

Sections in a taskbar

1. The Windows TaskBar
2. The Start Button--Opens the menu.
3. The Quick Launch bar--contains shortcuts to commonly used applications. ...
4. The main Taskbar--displays icons for all open applications and files.
5. The System Tray--contains the clock and icons for some of the programs running in the background.

Unpin a program on the taskbar

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/cant-unpin-or-remove-program-icons-from-windows-10-taskbar

QUICK LAUNCH open folder

[https://www.lifewire.com/add-quick-launch-toolbar-in-windows-10-5115231

Enter %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\ into the navigation field at the top of the window, and press Enter. Click Select Folder. You now have a quick launch toolbar on your taskbar. However, it's on the right side, and the original quick launch was on the left.Aug 4, 2021

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show blue links instead of { HYPERLINK link } in a document Word

How to show blue links instead of { HYPERLINK link } in a document Word

https://www.officetooltips.com/word_2016/tips/how_to_show_blue_links_instead_of___hyperlink_link___in_a_document_word.html

To change a representation of hyperlinks in a document, do the following:

1. On the File tab, click the Options button:

Options in Word 2016

2. In the Word Options dialog box,

• on the Advanced tab,
• under Show document content,
• uncheck the Show field codes instead of their values checkbox:

Advanced tab in Word Options 2016 After clicking OK, all hyperlinks in the document will be shown as usual, as blue hyperlinks:

Hyperlink in Word 2016

MICROSOFT WORD - get hyperlinks to show

File>Options>Advanced> [Show document content] section uncheck the box for "Show field codes instead of their values".

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Can You Have More Than One YouTube Channel? (January 21, 2021)

Visit your list of Channels, https://www.youtube.com/account

Click Create a new channel button.

Create a new channel button on YouTube

Give your new account a name, and then click Create.

New Brand Channel Create button on YouTube You'll immediately be taken to your new channel where you can customize your account and upload videos.

Screenshot program for laptop

LIGHTSHOT The fastest way to take a customizable screenshot

HOW TO GET FILE NAMES FOR ALL FILES IN A FOLDER

If the folder you want to open in Command Prompt is on your desktop or already open in File Explorer, you can quickly change to that directory.

Type cd followed by a space, DRAG AND DROP the folder into the window, and then press Enter. The directory you switched to will be reflected in the command line.

https://www.howtogeek.com/659411/how-to-change-directories-in-command-prompt-on-windows-10/#:~:text=If%20the%20folder%20you%20want,reflected%20in%20the%20command%20line.

INSTRUCTIONS:

0. Open Command Prompt

02: Copy and paste directory C:\Users\user\Desktop\STUFF

1. Type cd followed by a space,

2. drag and drop the folder into the window, and then

3. press Enter.

The directory you switched to will be reflected in the command line.

How to copy a list of file names in a folder to text file?

EXCELLENT!

• How to copy a list of file names in a folder to text file?

use cmd.exe

type dir /b > dirlist.txt

More instructions may 2024

Command to list all files in a folder as well as sub-folders in

Follow these baby steps:

1. Press Windows + R.

2. Press Enter.

3. cmd.

4. Press Enter.

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6. Type dir /b > dirlist.txt

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"change directory in cmd"

Open the Command Prompt (CMD) and type "cd" with a space, followed by the name of the directory,

or drag and drop the directory into CMD from File Explorer.

Press "Enter." Type "cd.." and press "Enter" to go back one directory.

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🇷🇺 Words which DO NOT EXIST in RUSSIAN: 🇷🇺

1️⃣ Make Love

2️⃣ Privacy

3️⃣ Have fun

4️⃣ Take Care

5️⃣ Efficiency

6️⃣ Challenge

The differences in language and literature—two significant products of a nation’s thought and psychology—demonstrate that English speakers and Russians are not very much alike. It is impossible to find precise Russian equivalents for the simple English word privacy, a concept that does not exist in Russian (nor in many other languages as well), other untranslatable words are above.

Source: From Nyet to Da: Understanding the New Russia 55Mohammed H. Salem and 54 others 274 comments 3 shares Like Comment Share Comments Anton Karnaev Anton Karnaev BS 8 Hide or report this Like

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Theodore Braden Theodore Braden Tochno... 3 Hide or report this Like

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Anna Golenko Anna Golenko but all of them exist... 6 Hide or report this Like

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Sasha Bibin Sasha Bibin Get a life chap :) 8 Hide or report this Like

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Travis Lee Bailey Travis Lee Bailey I am looking trying to understand Russia, despite atypical trollish behavior by some members of this community. Some people go through life with an extremely shallow understanding of the world. I am willing to ask tough questions to try and understand Russia. The problem with facebook is that the most worthless and meaningless posts like this one, get the same treatment as sincere constructive criticism of this authors and support of these authors as seen below. Edit or delete this Like

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Elisa Bastet Calderon Elisa Bastet Calderon How they don't existe... They do exist :) 4 Hide or report this Like

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Jennifer Howard Jennifer Howard I have to disagree with almost all. Russian may not have single words for those things, but they do have those concepts. 6 Hide or report this Like

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Igor Popov Igor Popov Jennifer Howard Russian have even single words for each of them. We did not have such as hamburger, spam, vegan, vegetarian, etc. 1 Hide or report this Like

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Olly Sydney Cee Olly Sydney Cee Thank you. I am actually very much upset with this citation. Hopefully the author of the post had a serious reason behind his question. Hide or report this Like

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Natasha Milchin Natasha Milchin Huh? 2 Hide or report this Like

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Theodore Braden Theodore Braden I can say all of those words in Russian. 6 Hide or report this Like

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Micah Williams Micah Williams As everyone else has said, all of these words exist as well as their concepts... And they're all pretty basic words/expressions that one learns early on when learning Russian. 10 Hide or report this Like

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Maria Katraseva Maria Katraseva They all exist. Both in the language and in the culture. So that was an unnecessary and non-smart sarcasm. 14 Hide or report this Like

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Theodore Braden Theodore Braden Someone probably wrote some fluff book on international business relations, trying to cash in on confusion and stereotypes. 15 Hide or report this Like

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Alex Obolonnik Alex Obolonnik It is not words, it is idioms. And of course all of them we have in Russian. 7 Hide or report this Like

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Travis Lee Bailey Travis Lee Bailey *sigh* I just report the news..... I expected this response (I have brought up the privacy quote before). I am quoting a book. RE: Privacy, this is the fourth or fifth time I have seen (western) scholars and authors say this. This is the second book that said there is no word for "make love". Again, just quoting a book. My Russian isn't good enough to confirm. 2 Edit or delete this Like

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Micah Williams Micah Williams Travis Lee Bailey Whoever wrote the book doesn't speak Russian well enough either, obviously... you have loads of Russian speakers here to confirm that. I have a pretty intermediate level of Russian and I know all of these words/expressions.. they're all very commonly used 7 Hide or report this Like

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Michael Lutz Michael Lutz Travis Lee Bailey this isn't news. This is nonsense. 6 Hide or report this Like

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Vjaceslavs Kasins Vjaceslavs Kasins Travis Lee Bailey 1. е...я very short and powerful russian word for making love) 1 Hide or report this Like

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Elena Faleschini Elena Faleschini "Заниматься любовью" is make love in Russian Hide or report this Like

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Nickolas Parshin Nickolas Parshin Travis, stop hiding behind a "book quote" and yes, your russian isn't good enough Hide or report this Like

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Travis Lee Bailey Travis Lee Bailey Nickolas Parshin lol, hiding what? Ridiculous. I am looking for confirmation or refutation of what these authors say. Please tell me the conspiracy theory behind that! 🤣🤣🤣🏆 Edit or delete this Like

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Rie Rie Rie Rie What a BS 😂🤦‍♂️ 1 Hide or report this Like

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Toshka Kresch Toshka Kresch Strangely, all of those do exist 1. Ярить, еться (древнерусский) 2. Уединение 3. Веселиться 4. Заботиться 5. Эффективность 6. Испытание And many other synonyms and variations of translation 10 Hide or report this Like

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Gavriel Heine Gavriel Heine Toshka Kresch уединение is solitude. Not privacy. Privacy involves personal space and personal information. 4 Hide or report this Like

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Toshka Kresch Toshka Kresch Gavriel Heine in some context it can be translated as that. When you ask for some privacy, you want to be alone (уединиться) Hide or report this Like

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Gavriel Heine Gavriel Heine Toshka Kresch Thoreau wanted to уединиться. Privacy is a different concept. It is being left alone, but not necessarily being in solitude. 1 Hide or report this Like

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Gavriel Heine Gavriel Heine Think of it this way: Solitude is “I’m going somewhere to be by myself”. Privacy is “Back the f*** up”. Hide or report this Like

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Toshka Kresch Toshka Kresch Gavriel Heine I understand both the concept of privacy and being in solitude. I'm a native Russian speaker, and like I said, some context allows you to translate privacy as уединение. I cam see your point of view though 1 Hide or report this Like

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Gavriel Heine Gavriel Heine Toshka Kresch some context does seem to work, with one important caveat: уединение places the burden on the person who “for some reason desires solitude”. Privacy places the burden on society to respect the individual’s right to privacy. Major philosophical difference. 2 Hide or report this Like

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Keith Harris Keith Harris Toshka Kresch I think someone just wants to win an argument. So as the arbiter, Ive decided. There is no privacy in Russia. Nor in America or China cause they’re spying on your phone calls anyway. 😏 4 Hide or report this Like

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Toshka Kresch Toshka Kresch Keith Harris I agree 😅 1 Hide or report this Like

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Gavriel Heine Gavriel Heine Make love: заниматься любовью Have fun: развлекаться, желаю хорошо повеселиться (which nobody says) Take care: береги себя, всех благ, счастливо (keep in mind that nobody actually means “Take care” when they say this. It’s just a way of saying “Later”. Challenge: бросать вызов (v), сложная задача, трудное испытание 4 Hide or report this Like

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Micah Williams Micah Williams I'd also like to say that I strongly disagree with the basic premise. I just wrote a dissertation in university on the surprising similarities between Russian and American cultures, and did a lot of research in the process. And what you realize in this research is that there are, of course, a LOT of huge differences, but the cultures share a lot of peculiar commonalities which most people don't realize, since they see the two nations as "ideological enemies" 11 Hide or report this Like

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Jane Evgenia Fainberg Ivanov Jane Evgenia Fainberg Ivanov Micah Williams I would love to read your findings 2 Hide or report this Like

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Micah Williams Micah Williams Jane Ivanov it's in French, so if you read French I'm happy to send it to you! You could run it through Google translate if not, but it might not be such a good translation. 3 Hide or report this Like

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Jane Evgenia Fainberg Ivanov Jane Evgenia Fainberg Ivanov Micah Williams dang. French is not one of my working academic languages. But if you have a summary I would love to try 1 Hide or report this Like

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Ksenia Mironova Ksenia Mironova Micah Williams I always said “Russian and American mentality is more alike than any of the sides is ready to admit!” 😀😀 Can I have your work 🙏🏻 3 Hide or report this Like

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Anastasia Lemberg-Lvova Anastasia Lemberg-Lvova Moi je veux bien lire, si ça te gêne pas :) 1 Hide or report this Like

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Micah Williams Micah Williams Ksenia Mironova Anastasia Lemberg-Lvova Jane Ivanov send me your email address in a PM and I'll send it over! 1 Hide or report this Like

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Ksenia Mironova Ksenia Mironova Micah Williams done Hide or report this Like

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Marina Dzhashi Marina Dzhashi Micah Williams just pmed you :) Hide or report this Like

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Marcus Campbell Marcus Campbell 'Posh' is a commonly used english word which my students often have difficulty finding an exact translation 2 Hide or report this Like

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John Pedersen John Pedersen Marcus Port out, Starboard home... So the rich people had the best view all trip So it's not really a word as such. 1 Hide or report this Like

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Ksenia Mironova Ksenia Mironova Marcus Campbell пафосный 3 Hide or report this Like

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Sofia Lee Sofia Lee Using words and concepts represented by them to describe the world and experiences are like cutting a cake into pieces, two persons' cut may not be identical, and it usually just mean they categorize the world a bit differently, not that one of them is lack of insight. Btw, that's why you might need different words to translate the same foreign word used in different contexts. 1 Hide or report this Like

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Tarabelinha Xeada Tarabelinha Xeada How is ‘to make love’ a word?? Could we learn some Grammar first? 14 Hide or report this Like

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Мохамед Эльви Мохамед Эльви Tarabelinha Xeada was about to write same comment 2 Hide or report this Like

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Yulia Smirnova Yulia Smirnova Tarabelinha Xeada spot on! 1 Hide or report this Like

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Tarabelinha Xeada Tarabelinha Xeada Мохамед Эльви that goes for ‘to have fun’ or ‘to take care’ too 🤗 2 Hide or report this Like

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Мохамед Эльви Мохамед Эльви Tarabelinha Xeada or may be even to the whole post 3 Hide or report this Like

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Yulia Smirnova Yulia Smirnova I believe Travis Lee Bailey should take the CHALLENGE to educate himself a bit 🤦‍♀️ Hide or report this Like

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Janneta Janneta Y'all talking about grammar without realizing that "make love" is two words and that the OP never defined it as "a word." 🤦‍♀️ 2 Hide or report this Like

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Ларисса Рутерфорд Ларисса Рутерфорд Hahaha guys he just says there’s not a Russian word for that he wasn’t trying to say that those are single words in English. How did you get that from that statement?? 2 Hide or report this Like

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Мохамед Эльви Мохамед Эльви Ларисса Рутерфорд He is stating that there is no English word for this action as well. Hide or report this Like

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Stanislava Kostenko Stanislava Kostenko Ларисса Рутерфорд , he shouldn't have "teased the geese", as Russkies say. Hide or report this Like

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Yulia Smirnova Yulia Smirnova Maybe you should just try to learn Russian instead of reposting BS like this? These are pretty basic words which I'm pretty sure exist in every language as well as concepts. 9 Hide or report this Like

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Adam Kowalczuk Adam Kowalczuk Either you are just trying to offend someone or you need to learn more Russian.Do not believe what they say,try it yourself. 5 Hide or report this Like

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Alexander Bychkov Alexander Bychkov BS. The one word which truly does not have an exact & easy equivalent in Russian is "compliance". Hide or report this Like

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Micah Williams Micah Williams Alexander Bychkov соблюдение I thought was pretty close, no? (I could be wrong, I'm not a native Russian speaker so forgive me if I am!) Hide or report this Like

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Alexander Bychkov Alexander Bychkov Майка Уильямс соблюдение by itself doesn't have a meaning in Russian. You always are supposed to explain соблюдение of what? As a result, you get a rather long and heavy construction - this is exactly what I meant. 2 Hide or report this Like

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Micah Williams Micah Williams Alexander Bychkov ahhh, yes I see what you mean! Thanks! 1 Hide or report this Like

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Stanislav Krapivnik Stanislav Krapivnik Alexander Bychkov это потому что мы вольный люд... 1 Hide or report this Like

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Ksenia Mironova Ksenia Mironova Alexander Bychkov and that’s what utterly bothers me in germans! Especially men.. they seem so coward for that 🙈🙈🤣 (I admit is my own perception ) 1 Hide or report this Like

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Anna Sorokina Anna Sorokina All words exist in Russian, don’t say stupid things 9 Hide or report this Like

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Мохамед Эльви Мохамед Эльви So a book is claiming it understands a certain nation is actually offending them?! 2 Hide or report this Like

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Gavriel Heine Gavriel Heine In the OP’s defense: “Privacy” as a single word does not exist in Russian translation. Privacy involves the concepts of: - non-breach of personal space - non-disclosure of personal information - Do Not Disturb 2 Hide or report this Like

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Travis Lee Bailey thanks! although these are not my words, these are quotes. Micah Williams Micah Williams Searched Google for the book OP is referring to and found this Amazon review which gave me a hearty laugh... And yes, it appears that the person who wrote this book is a former US foreign service member who doesn't speak Russian very well, and is not at all an academic in the field. Hide or report this Image may contain: text 5 Like

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Stanislav Krapivnik Stanislav Krapivnik Майка Уильямс a lot of these myths were made in america during the cold war to show how evil those russians are who have no concept of privacy, fun or efficiency...see that is why we must spend trillions to defend you sheep...er tax payers from evil commi ruskies. 4 Hide or report this Like

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Stanislav Krapivnik Stanislav Krapivnik Майка Уильямс i had an italian project manager (ok the whole company was italian and I was the only non italian project procurement manager) building giant industrial infrastructural projects in Russia. This psychotic ass treated with our Russian suppliers as if he was a Roman talking to the unwashed barbarians. That is when he wasnt throwing temper tantrums and storming out of meetings when he didnt get his way. Not only the suppliers but all of us couldnt stand the little bastard. And a lot of Italians have this same superiority complex. 1 Hide or report this Like

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View 1 more reply Harold De Gauche Harold De Gauche 1. Заниматься любовью. 2. Частность. 3.берегись 4. Эффективность. 5. Вызов (there isn't really a good verb for this though, challenge yourself may be a little hard to translate) . Words that in my experience don't exist or only exist within the confines of a borrowed word. 1. Posh. 2. Gentrification. 3. Serendipity. 4. Bullying/to bully. 3 Hide or report this Like

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Hide 34 replies Alexander Bychkov Alexander Bychkov Harold De Gauche Posh does have equivalents in Russian. The closest by general sense is "понтовый", but there are more, depending on what part of "posh" you mean in a given moment. ) 2 Hide or report this Like

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Harold De Gauche Harold De Gauche Alexander Bychkov no single word that captures all the layers though. As no single word in english captures all layers of тоска 2 Hide or report this Like

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Yves Shangas Yves Shangas Harold De Gauche to bully - бычиться) but I think closest translation could be ‘задирать’, but it doesn’t really address the whole concept of bullying 2 Hide or report this Like

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Harold De Gauche Harold De Gauche Yves Shangas i use приследовать too sometimes, but different too Hide or report this Like

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Stanislava Kostenko Stanislava Kostenko 3 is also "береги себя". "Берегись" is "watch out". 1 Hide or report this Like

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Stanislava Kostenko Stanislava Kostenko Alexander Bychkov , "posh" is also "пафосный" in slang. "Такой пафосный ресторан":) (Shouldn't be confused with its usual meaning, as in "пафосные речи"). 1 Hide or report this Like

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Stanislava Kostenko Stanislava Kostenko Yves Shangas , "бычится" and "задирать" are different things, though. "Бычится" rather shows response ans not the process of harassing someone. (Note the -СЯ suffix which is "self") 1 Hide or report this Like

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Yves Shangas Yves Shangas Stanislava Kostenko that’s why I put ‘)’ next to it. Also you should spell “бычиться” with ‘ь’- неопределённая форма глагола все-таки. And it does not necessarily implies response, быковать и бычиться можно и просто так. After I was only ironic about this version of translation 1 Hide or report this Like

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Yves Shangas Yves Shangas Stanislava Kostenko касательно возвратного суффикса «ся» - он далеко не всегда придаёт глаголу возвратное значение. Подробнее об этом у Розенталя. 2 Hide or report this Like

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Harold De Gauche Harold De Gauche Stanislava Kostenko спасибо) Hide or report this Like

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Harold De Gauche Harold De Gauche Stanislava Kostenko а пафосный человек, может примениняться к человеку? 1 Hide or report this Like

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Stanislava Kostenko Stanislava Kostenko Yves Shangas , Человек бычиТСЯ. That doesn't mean "to bully someone". It's an intransitive verb. Hide or report this Like

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Stanislava Kostenko Stanislava Kostenko Yves Shangas , the usage of "СЯ" has exceptions. But we didn't discuss them. "Бычиться" is still непереходный глагол. Hide or report this Like

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Stanislava Kostenko Stanislava Kostenko Harold De Gauche , in slang, yes! Of course, it's not the correct usage. "О, какой пафосный дяденька!". Here "пафосный" is (wrongly) used instead of "надутый", "напыщенный", "претенциозный". 1 Hide or report this Like

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Stanislava Kostenko Stanislava Kostenko Yves Shangas , but I love it: "бычиться можно и просто так". Too true! 2 Hide or report this Like

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Stanislava Kostenko Stanislava Kostenko Yves Shangas , oh, yes! Just noticed my "тся" instead of "ться ". That's позор, indeed! Hide or report this Like

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Stanislava Kostenko Stanislava Kostenko "Academic" has it, look: https://translate.academic.ru/бычиться/ru/en/ Hide or report this Перевод бычиться с русского на английский TRANSLATE.ACADEMIC.RU Перевод бычиться с русского на английский Перевод бычиться с русского на английский Like

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Harold De Gauche Harold De Gauche Да, ся вообще означает не переходный глагол. Разветвляться, страна разветвлялась, или наверняка совершенный более подходящее тут подходит. И предприятие разветвляют в новое направление. Но куча исключения имеются. Бычиться крутой во всяком случае. Высокомерный, вычернный, надменный, все синонемы. But posh is still a little different. For instance, 'he's a bit posh' may have 0% of the perjorative. The Russian equivalents we've given, for me, contain a greater sense of derision and contemn the person in question a little more. At least, as far as I understand them. 2 Hide or report this Love

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Alexander Bychkov Alexander Bychkov Yves Shangas bully - есть куча русских синонимов: издеваться, задирать, притеснять. На современном сленге - чморить. 3 Hide or report this Like

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Harold De Gauche Harold De Gauche Издеваться не целиком совпадается. Чморить, happy to have found a nice new word. Cheers 2 Hide or report this Like

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Yves Shangas Yves Shangas Stanislava Kostenko yeah, I was just ironic about “бычиться”. I used ‘)’ so people wouldn’t get it serious. 2 Hide or report this Like

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Harold De Gauche Harold De Gauche Haha, just got it. Ha, what a dope. Hide or report this Like

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Stanislava Kostenko Stanislava Kostenko Harold De Gauche , forgot "чморить"! (The young nowadays tend to use English words, allegedly. Alas.) "Издеваться" is that example when "СЯ" doesn't mean what it should - "издеваться над кем-то". I also like the Russian "-СЯ" when it's used instead of the Passive Voice constructions. As if our inanimate objects wash themselves, sell themselves. You can use the Active Voice here in English too. Guess humans just want the dishes etc to wash themselves. 1 Hide or report this Like

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Yves Shangas Yves Shangas Alexander Bychkov а я разве спорил? 1 Hide or report this Like

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Stanislava Kostenko Stanislava Kostenko Alexander Bychkov , "притеснять" is a good bookish one. Can relate to nationalities, minorities etc. 1 Hide or report this Like

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Alexander Bychkov Alexander Bychkov Yves Shangas это не на ваш счёт, извините. ) Я просто слово прокомментировал. 1 Hide or report this Like

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Yves Shangas Yves Shangas Alexander Bychkov да все нормально, не стоит извиняться. Вообще мне нравится такая интеллигентная дискуссия под таким явно провокационным постом) 3 Hide or report this Like

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Stanislava Kostenko Stanislava Kostenko Yves Shangas , it's an awesome example! You guys put us, locals, to shame. I am really impressed! Hide or report this Like

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Stanislava Kostenko Stanislava Kostenko Yves Shangas , we argue with you because we are afraid to look weak;) Hide or report this Like

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Stanislava Kostenko Stanislava Kostenko Yves Shangas , always good to discuss a language indeed. Textbooks and dictionaries aren't perfect, to put it mildly. I found really weird sentences in one yesterday. They may have been constructed by a native speaker but sounded quite bizarre. Although examples in textbooks tend to convey the author's passions, fears and OCDs, so who knows... Hide or report this Like

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Yves Shangas Yves Shangas Stanislava Kostenko stop flattering me... or better keep going, I kinda like it) 1 Hide or report this Like

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Harold De Gauche Harold De Gauche Издеваться над кем-то, встречаться с кем-то, поклоняться кому-то, радоваться за кого-то. Like all the passives too, мне наплевать на..., мне жаль его, внуждаться в заботи о общей благе, for example. Endless fun, but hard for me to pull off in actual conversations, although with a little practice with new phrases, it works more than half the time 1 Hide or report this Like

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Stanislava Kostenko Stanislava Kostenko Harold De Gauche , Russian Cases are our боль! Hide or report this Like

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Travis Lee Bailey Travis Lee Bailey Harold De Gauche translating for others: Yes, sy generally means not a transitive verb. Forking, the country forking, or for sure perfect is more suitable here. And the enterprise is branched into a new direction. But there are a lot of exceptions. Beat cool anyway. Arrogant, blackened, arrogant, all synonymous. Edit or delete this Like

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Avi Hersh Avi Hersh Customer service 7 Hide or report this Like

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Stepan Voronov Stepan Voronov There are so many examples of so-called “untranslatable” expressions, and this is the best that book could come up with? 4 Hide or report this Like

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Masha Alieva Masha Alieva Even Siri knows 😊 Hide or report this Image may contain: phone, text that says "17:55 7 What is make love in Russian Tap to Edit TRANSLATION make love English Russian 3aHRTbcR лю6oBbю" 8 Like

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1 reply Stanislav Krapivnik Stanislav Krapivnik Have fun: получай удовольствия Hide or report this Like

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Frida Gudim Frida Gudim Радоваться, беситься)) развлекаться Hide or report this Like

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Stanislav Krapivnik Stanislav Krapivnik Frida Gudim да, так тоже. 1 Hide or report this Like

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Stanislav Krapivnik Stanislav Krapivnik Now try to full explain справедливость in all the cultural subtlety as a russian understands it. Hide or report this Like

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Stanislav Krapivnik Stanislav Krapivnik Take care: берегись Efficiency: эффективность Hide or report this Like

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Hide 12 replies Gavriel Heine Gavriel Heine Stanislav Krapivnik not exactly. There’s a difference between efficacy and efficiency. Hide or report this Like

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Stanislav Krapivnik Stanislav Krapivnik Гавриэль Гейне what?. He stated efficiency the Russian word is effektivnost. Hide or report this Like

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Gavriel Heine Gavriel Heine Stanislav Krapivnik or effectiveness Hide or report this Like

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Stanislav Krapivnik Stanislav Krapivnik Welp, amazingly but in some languages, one word can actually have multiple meanings...shocking. Hide or report this Like

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Gavriel Heine Gavriel Heine Stanislav Krapivnik efficiency is how little it takes for something to work. Not how well it works. 1 Hide or report this Like

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Gavriel Heine Gavriel Heine Stanislav Krapivnik a refrigerator is efficient if it uses a minimum of electricity. A conductor is efficient if he can rehearse an orchestra with a minimum amount of words or explanation. Hide or report this Like

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Harold De Gauche Harold De Gauche Russian has one word here, we have three. Effective, umbrella term, efficiency emphasises the system and the use of resources. Efficacy emphasises the result. Efficient system, efficacious result/outcome. But yes, the post states efficiency, and the Russian эффективность covers all more or less methinks Hide or report this Like

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Stanislav Krapivnik Stanislav Krapivnik Гавриэль Гейне an efficient refrigerator as in saving electricity is: электросберегательный. Or electricity saving сберегать means to conserve. Hide or report this Like

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Gavriel Heine Gavriel Heine Harold De Gauche but it’s a totally different emphasis. Efficiency emphasizes the economy of energy spent to achieve an outcome, and Effectiveness emphasizes the power and impact of the outcome. Hide or report this Like

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Stanislav Krapivnik Stanislav Krapivnik Оно эффективно работает. Says everything about it working efficiently. If you want to specify efficiency, then add in электросберегательный. Hide or report this Like

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Harold De Gauche Harold De Gauche Гавриэль Гейне as I already perfectly adumbrated. Hide or report this Like

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Maya Mashnikoff Maya Mashnikoff Stanislav Krapivnik Берегись=beware, it’s a threat. Take care =береги себя. Hide or report this Like

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Stanislav Krapivnik Stanislav Krapivnik Privacy: личное дела, личная жизнь Challenge: вызов You should speak to a Russian who understands english before posting these old cold war era stereotypes. 13 Hide or report this Like

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Janneta Janneta One word I haven't found a good Russian equivalent for is "vicariously." In the context of "Parents live vicariously through their children's victories." 3 Hide or report this Like

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Irina Manakina Irina Manakina Janneta there is a word "опосредованно" , in my opinion though it is a bit softer than "vicariously", and "вчуже" is better, but it is a rare word...you can always play around with "чужой", "отчужденный", "сторонний" ) 1 Hide or report this Like

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Janneta Janneta Hmm... I don't think that any of those really work, though "опосредованно" is the closest. "I love living vicariously through your Instagram travel posts!" Curious, how would you translate that? Hide or report this Like

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Stanislava Kostenko Stanislava Kostenko Janneta , so true! It seems that there's no word for this, only rephrasing would work. "Слежу за + представляю себя на твоём месте" Hide or report this Like

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Christiaan Botes Christiaan Botes Get a life and stop posting on this group when you are bored. 8 Hide or report this Haha

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Travis Lee Bailey Travis Lee Bailey Pot calling the Kettle Black, except I don't launch into trollish behavior.and personal attacks. This comment says more about you, then it does me. Unfortunately with Facebook, Anyone can post meaningless worthless comments and they get as much attention as sincere ones. Personal Comments like this are the reason why online media got rid of comment sections. https://www.impactbnd.com/.../no-comment-why-companies... reminds me of: Internet Comments Talk Show - Saturday Night Live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81FllbAcjqg 🤣🤣🤣 Edit or delete this No Comment: Why Companies Continue to Move Away from Comment Sections on Their Website IMPACTBND.COM No Comment: Why Companies Continue to Move Away from… No Comment: Why Companies Continue to Move Away from Comment Sections on Their Website Like

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Kasper J H Ditlevsen Kasper J H Ditlevsen 61, now 62 comments in 49 minutes. Russian critics certainly gains traction fast here 😂 С праздником! Hide or report this Like

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Stanislav Krapivnik Stanislav Krapivnik Каспер Дитлевсен its the boredom of lockdown, mate. 1 Hide or report this Like

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Janneta Janneta I find it curious that people say Russian has an equivalent word for privacy, and yet everyone has so far offered completely different translations for it 😁 3 Hide or report this Haha

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Stanislava Kostenko Stanislava Kostenko Janneta , because a word can have many interpretations, and not only in Russian. https://translate.academic.ru/privacy/xx/ru/ Hide or report this Перевод privacy со всех языков на русский TRANSLATE.ACADEMIC.RU Перевод privacy со всех языков на русский Перевод privacy со всех языков на русский Like

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Janneta Janneta That's the point of this post, though. That there are certain words that don't have a direct translation into the other language. It's not that Russian people don't understand the concept of 'privacy,' but that there's many close translations and phrases to describe it in the Russian language, but no exact match to the English "privacy." 2 Hide or report this Love

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Travis Lee Bailey Travis Lee Bailey Exactly, Janneta that is the entire point, which is lost. Many people go through life seeing only black and white, with no concept or desire to understand the gray, finer distinctions. Edit or delete this Like

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Marco Labarile Marco Labarile Most useless post I've seen in months 3 Hide or report this Like

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Travis Lee Bailey Travis Lee Bailey The fundamental weakness with internet chat groups is there is no bar for inclusion. Anyone can post meaningless worthless comments and they get as much attention as sincere ones. Personal Comments like this are the reason why online media got rid of comment sections. https://www.impactbnd.com/.../no-comment-why-companies... reminds me Marco Labarile of Internet Comments Talk Show - Saturday Night Live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81FllbAcjqg 🤣🤣🤣 Edit or delete this No Comment: Why Companies Continue to Move Away from Comment Sections on Their Website IMPACTBND.COM No Comment: Why Companies Continue to Move Away from… No Comment: Why Companies Continue to Move Away from Comment Sections on Their Website Like

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Gavriel Heine Gavriel Heine If your Russian-language definition of “Privacy” does not take into account the phrase and concept of “Invasion of Privacy”, then your definition is not a definition. 2 Hide or report this Like

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Stanislav Krapivnik Stanislav Krapivnik Гавриэль Гейне не лез в мое личное дела или не лез в мое дела. Или: не твое дела. Hide or report this Like

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Gavriel Heine Gavriel Heine Stanislav Krapivnik those are already imperative statements. 1 Hide or report this Like

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Stanislav Krapivnik Stanislav Krapivnik Гавриэль Гейне again, languages are structured differently. We are not a romance-germanic-keltic гоголь-моголь. 3 Hide or report this Like

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Dasha Bundina Dasha Bundina What’s wrong with приватность — exact word that even sounds similar to privacy and comes from the same french privaute. Also, private as an adj. Приватный exists and in usage. The rest was explained above. 3 Hide or report this Like

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Hide 16 replies Gavriel Heine Gavriel Heine Dasha Bundina because it’s a калька. 1 Hide or report this Like

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Dasha Bundina Dasha Bundina Gavriel Heine no more than the English version of that French word... then English would need its own term following the logic you’re suggesting... 1 Hide or report this Like

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Gavriel Heine Gavriel Heine Dasha Bundina it’s also not in standard usage. I think the interesting aspect of the post is the existence - or lack of - a genuine sharing of the “concept” of each word listed, as presented in translation. As far as I can see, there is no innate concept of “privacy” in the Russian language. Hide or report this Like

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Dasha Bundina Dasha Bundina Gavriel Heine I got where you’re coming from now. Russian definition is the exact same idea that the French origin and English has a different meaning of it. Hide or report this Image may contain: text that says "PRIVAUTÉ, subst. fém. A. Excès de liberté dans le comportement auprès de personnes qui ne sont pas considérées comme intimes. https://www.cnrtl.fr definition pr... PRIVAUTÉ Définition de PRIVAUTÉ- Cnrtl" Like

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Dasha Bundina Dasha Bundina Hide or report this Image may contain: text that says "приватность сфера жизненных интересов, жизнедеятельности, эмоций, привязанностей отдельного человека, частного лица, индивида, обособленная от др. общественных сфер (см. публичность)." Like

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Gavriel Heine Gavriel Heine Dasha Bundina forgive me, but I don’t think the word приватность in Russian is much older than you are, when it comes to actual usage. Frankly, in my 23 years in Russia, I don’t think I’ve ever encountered the word in conversation or in print. 1 Hide or report this Like

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Yves Shangas Yves Shangas Гавриэль Гейне https://ru.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/приватный Hide or report this приватный — Викисловарь RU.WIKTIONARY.ORG приватный — Викисловарь приватный — Викисловарь Like

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Yves Shangas Yves Shangas Гавриэль Гейне the word has been there for a while, though the privacy concept may not be yet around) 1 Hide or report this Like

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Stanislava Kostenko Stanislava Kostenko Dasha Bundina here's a very good site : https://translate.academic.ru/privacy/xx/ru/ Hide or report this Перевод privacy со всех языков на русский TRANSLATE.ACADEMIC.RU Перевод privacy со всех языков на русский Перевод privacy со всех языков на русский Like

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Stanislav Krapivnik Stanislav Krapivnik Yves Shangas riiight...go stick your nose in someone's cares and you'll find out all about that concept. Hide or report this Like

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Stanislav Krapivnik Stanislav Krapivnik Гавриэль Гейне yeah, kind of like россияни...I hate that word. Even worse when in ignorance someone says: российская империя....what? Русская Империя. Русски народ или русские народы and the race is руссычи. Hide or report this Like

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Yves Shangas Yves Shangas Станислав Крапивник очень ценный совет от очень умного человека. Как же я жил без вашей агрессии... Hide or report this Like

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Stanislav Krapivnik Stanislav Krapivnik Yves Shangas худо-бедно Hide or report this Like

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Yves Shangas Yves Shangas Станислав Крапивник здравый смысл прошёл мимо нашего диалога... удачи вам. Hide or report this Like

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Dasha Bundina Dasha Bundina Gavriel Heine yes, it's a bit more academic language. In conversations, you more likely to hear лично rather than приватно. Exception would be I guess приватный танец, приватный разговор that are used in day-to-day talks. Again, depending on whom you’re talking with mostly and what you’re reading. It’s quite advanced language, casual synonym is личный, лично, that is personal (ly) in English. Private and personal are quite similar words in English either, however, used in different collocations. I totally agree with that privacy isn’t a common word in daily speech. Nevertheless, reading or having a conversation over more abstract topic you encounter it as well as the concept of personal space physically, emotionally and mentally that the word means. 1 Hide or report this Like

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Joseph O Kidworth Joseph O Kidworth Customer care 🤣🤣🤣 Hide or report this Like

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Evgenya Gromova Evgenya Gromova And many many more))) Hide or report this Like

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Evgenya Gromova Evgenya Gromova Please)) already everybody uses: фан, челлендж, прайвеси - ie literally transcribed into Russian))) I mean in business communication 1 Hide or report this Like

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Gavriel Heine Gavriel Heine Evgenya Gromova Американ бой, уеду с тобой! 2 Hide or report this Like

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Evgenya Gromova Evgenya Gromova Гавриэль Гейне exactly🤣🤣🤣 1 Hide or report this Like

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Sydney Vicidomini Sydney Vicidomini Заниматься любовью 4 Hide or report this Like

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Mihail Evans Mihail Evans This is made to sound like a simple contrast of Russian and English. But privacy is an extremely recent invention everywhere and is associated with the emergence of bourgeois and middle class living conditions. Even royalty did not know privacy as recently as the seventeenth century. 4 Hide or report this Love

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Harold De Gauche Harold De Gauche Mihail Evans very true. The notion of public and private was non-existent up until recently. The idea of political representation was completely different too. Representation was before the people, not for the people. Hide or report this Like

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Mihail Evans Mihail Evans Don't start me ... That is a professional interest ... Btw, are you a fellow Wickela man? Hide or report this Like

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Travis Lee Bailey Travis Lee Bailey how recent Mihail Evans? Edit or delete this Like

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Evgenya Gromova Evgenya Gromova I'm saying it as a joke, it's horrible, but what are gonna do... 1 Hide or report this Like

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Jonny Tickle Jonny Tickle Have a day off, Travis 6 Hide or report this Like

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Travis Lee Bailey Travis Lee Bailey fundamental worthless and pointless comment. The problem with internet chat groups is there is no bar for inclusion. Anyone can post meaningless comments and they get as much attention as: 1,3 and 4 are a phrase. There are pretty tough equivalents. But wise versa, could you translate full meaning of Russian “Авось»?))) and Agree about 1-4 (conceptually) Personal Comments like this are the reason why online media got rid of comment sections. https://www.impactbnd.com/.../no-comment-why-companies... reminds me of Internet Comments Talk Show - Saturday Night Live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81FllbAcjqg Edit or delete this No Comment: Why Companies Continue to Move Away from Comment Sections on Their Website IMPACTBND.COM No Comment: Why Companies Continue to Move Away from… No Comment: Why Companies Continue to Move Away from Comment Sections on Their Website Like

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Ahmed Saihood Ahmed Saihood I don't want to be rude saying you are wrong, but you are really wrong!🙃 all these words have it's equivalent 9 Hide or report this Like

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Travis Lee Bailey Travis Lee Bailey Not me. Authors that wrote this. Edit or delete this Like

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Anastasia Lemberg-Lvova Anastasia Lemberg-Lvova I think the author of the book simply never understood how translation worked :D 2 Hide or report this Like

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Stanislava Kostenko Stanislava Kostenko Each of these words/phrases is translated into Russian just fine. What are you talking about?! 3 Hide or report this Like

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Travis Lee Bailey Travis Lee Bailey I dont know why these authors wrote what they did ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Edit or delete this Like

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Yves Shangas Yves Shangas Make love - создавать любовь Privacy - звание рядового Have - иметь веселый Take care - брать заботиться Efficiency- КПД Challenge - дерзание As easy as it could be 4 Hide or report this Like

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Marco Labarile Marco Labarile Yves Shangas mmmm it does not quite work like that, man. That's a word-to-word translation 1 Hide or report this Like

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Stanislav Krapivnik Stanislav Krapivnik Yves Shangas best get a better translation. And if you tell some иметь..the slang translation is "to fuck" or to know them in a biblical sense. Old joke Народ власте: имейте совесть Власть: имели...удовольствия не получили. Hide or report this Like

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Yves Shangas Yves Shangas Станислав Крапивник просветили, спасибо, а я-то, дурак, думал, у кого совета спросить. 1 Hide or report this Like

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Yves Shangas Yves Shangas Марко Лабариле irony. Google this word some time. Hide or report this Like

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Marco Labarile Marco Labarile Yves Shangas hard to tell you were ironic. Sorry ma'am Hide or report this Like

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Yves Shangas Yves Shangas Марко Лабариле read some books. It should help) Hide or report this Like

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Marco Labarile Marco Labarile Yves Shangas I don't think you need to read books for that. It depends on how one writes and how the other interprets Hide or report this Like

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Yves Shangas Yves Shangas Марко Лабариле ‘I don’t think...’ - now I see the roots of the problem. Hide or report this Like

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Marco Labarile Marco Labarile Yves Shangas which comedy show you work for? I'll have a look Hide or report this Like

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Stanislava Kostenko Stanislava Kostenko Yves Shangas , "две пчелы или не две пчелы". 1 Hide or report this Like

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Tanya Anatoli Tanya Anatoli So many experts recently... all are on fb 😂 5 Hide or report this Like

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Ayka Askerova Ayka Askerova Lyuba Alexeyeva what do you think? Hide or report this Like

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Renato Calderón Renato Calderón This is a very very basic comparison between languages... I know this guy is trying to say that 'psychologically' there is a difference.... But in fact it has political, sociological and anthropological roots..... I guess whoever who really have russian friends, real ones, have descovered how all those concepts have a real meaning and they are very deep inserted in their society. Of course every country, culture or language has a different Interpretation of them, because language= evolution, and it is adapted to new realities..... This post it's like ready that someone discovered that the sky is blue...... And why the source is understanding the new Russia?.... Maybe those words are now more present that ever.... Sometimes some books are like internet... The fact that they are printed and they can be sold on a shop doesn't mean that who wrote it made a deep research. It's like that shit of the coconut and the peach??? ... Can two cultures be explain as easy as that.... No way...... 2 Hide or report this Like

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Travis Lee Bailey Travis Lee Bailey By this guy, you mean the authors, because I am just quoting authors. Thanks for your thoughtful comments! Edit or delete this Like

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Bernd D. Ratsch Bernd D. Ratsch "Y'all" doesn't exist either. 😉 4 Hide or report this Like

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Stanislav Krapivnik Stanislav Krapivnik Bernd D. Ratsch an nether das aint..day say aint no such word as aint...so I axe them why everybody be saying aint... 1 Hide or report this Like

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Bernd D. Ratsch Bernd D. Ratsch Stanislav Krapivnik Ain't gonna happen, no sir-ee, and y'all are supposed ta use an axe for chopping wood. 😉 Hide or report this Like

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Stanislava Kostenko Stanislava Kostenko Bernd D. Ratsch , aint : 1) "нету" ( = don't have) ; 2) "(somebody) никакой не (+ a noun)", " (somebody) вам не (+ a noun)" У нас нету денег. Он вам не Димон. Hide or report this Like

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Hisham Haydar Hisham Haydar Come on this totally wrong. Following your own example making love isn't a net English word, privacy as well these words are coming from non English origins, yet they don't manifest the people's behavior 1 Hide or report this Like

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Travis Lee Bailey Travis Lee Bailey not my example, this is an authors example Edit or delete this Like

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Travis Lee Bailey Travis Lee Bailey Thank you for your comments. Edit or delete this Like

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Vjaceslavs Kasins Vjaceslavs Kasins 4.Гой еси ) 2 Hide or report this Like

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Andrew Romeo Andrew Romeo Of course, English doesn’t have ‘распиздяйство» or «выебываться» so we natives have no equivalent concepts. 6 Hide or report this Like

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Masha Alieva Masha Alieva Andrew, and the list goes on... 😇 2 Hide or report this Like

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Bernd D. Ratsch Bernd D. Ratsch Andrew Romeo You mean in comparison to "be done with it" or "half-assed". 2 Hide or report this Like

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Michael Byrne Michael Byrne Bernd D. Ratsch https://youtu.be/RAGcDi0DRtU Hide or report this Ismo: Ass Is The Most Complicated Word In The English Language - CONAN on TBS YOUTUBE.COM Ismo: Ass Is The Most Complicated Word In The… Ismo: Ass Is The Most Complicated Word In The English Language - CONAN on TBS 1 Like

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Frida Gudim Frida Gudim Make love заниматься любовью((в отличие от просто секса и тд)) 4 Hide or report this Like

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An Ki An Ki All those words and expressions exist in the Russian language 2 Hide or report this Like

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Stanislav Krapivnik Stanislav Krapivnik Hell, make love, as a phrase only showed up in the 60s with the bloody hippies. 3 Hide or report this Love

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Igor Popov Igor Popov 1,3 and 4 are a phrase. There are pretty tough equivalents. But wise versa, could you translate full meaning of Russian “Авось»?))) 2 Hide or report this Like

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Elena Faleschini Elena Faleschini For those of you who says that all those words exist, translate 'challenge' for me please. And don't use 'вызов' because it wouldn't work in a frase like 'stay at home challenge' 1 Hide or report this Like

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Yves Shangas Yves Shangas Elena Faleschini frase? 1 Hide or report this Like

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Toshka Kresch Toshka Kresch Испытание 1 Hide or report this Like

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Gavriel Heine Gavriel Heine Elena Faleschini I think испытание, because looking out the window, it seems that Russians find staying at home quite challenging. Hide or report this Like

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Harold De Gauche Harold De Gauche sorevnovanie? Stay at home competition. Not so far off, but maybe doesn't capture everything. Anyway, that's my two cents. Hide or report this Like

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Laura James Laura James Испытание Hide or report this Like

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Elena Faleschini Elena Faleschini Yves Shangas, sorry, phrase Hide or report this Like

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Elena Faleschini Elena Faleschini But sometimes a challenge is good yet challenging. I believe we don't have a word for 'challenge' in Russian. I think it's 'испытание'+'comptetition'+'вызов'. We do have the idea of a challenge in our culture. Like all those videos of people challenging one another to do crazy things when drunk. Or to drink a bottle of vodka and survive🍺🍾 2 Hide or report this Like

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Tim Abram Tim Abram Elena Faleschini I think you're right that "challenge" in the sense of "stay at home challenge" or some social media video challenges cannot be neatly translated into Russian in one word. I agree that it is a combination of вызов (calling upon someone to do something), соревнование (competing against others), and испытание (a trial, a test, something difficult which has to be endured). "Challenge" in this context carries elements of all three Russian words. Therein lies the "challenge" of translation 🤔👍. 2 Hide or report this Like

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Prateek Chachra Prateek Chachra Isnt take care Beregi cebya? 2 Hide or report this Like

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Hide 14 replies Gavriel Heine Gavriel Heine Prateek Chachra yes but Americans use “Take care” much more casually - no different than saying “Take it easy” or “see ya”. 1 Hide or report this Like

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Marco Labarile Marco Labarile Prateek Chachra it is. Who knows what kind of Russian this guy learnt Hide or report this Like

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Semyon Kurlykov Semyon Kurlykov Gavriel Heine just like the word love, they use it casually, throwing it here and there - love you, love this love that. The word loses it’s power being thrown around like that. 1 Hide or report this Like

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Gavriel Heine Gavriel Heine Semyon Kurlykov only if you are used to using it strictly conservatively. The meaning has context-dependent nuance. Think of it like the difference in grammar, where one language has strict cases presented with suffixes and the other has implied cases based on context and word combinations. Hide or report this Like

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Semyon Kurlykov Semyon Kurlykov Gavriel Heine I know the meaning, English isn't exactly a new language to me. I moved out of Russia when I was 9. Yet still the word is being thrown around a bit too much. Hide or report this Like

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Gavriel Heine Gavriel Heine Semyon Kurlykov I’m not implying you don’t know the meaning, but you are making emotional value judgments based on an aspect of a language that functions differently than your own native language. Hide or report this Like

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Semyon Kurlykov Semyon Kurlykov Gavriel Heine okay lets put it this way English is my first language. What now? Hide or report this Like

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Gavriel Heine Gavriel Heine Semyon Kurlykov If you moved out of Russia when you were 9, then it’s doubtful that English is your first language - especially considering your words “they use it casually” (if you felt it was your first language, you would have typed “we use it casually”). Perhaps you should consider looking at the English language as then one which allows for expanded function and nuance when it comes to context. I would argue that the Russian language also uses «любить» in many contexts where an English speaker would instead use the word “like”. Hide or report this Like

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Semyon Kurlykov Semyon Kurlykov they Americans? Maybe I am not an American? Hide or report this Like

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Semyon Kurlykov Semyon Kurlykov Gavriel Heine What the hell are you trying to argue with me for? I say it is used as shit word right now, generations change and use different words differently. What u are trying to do is try to seem smart on some facebook to some stranger that literally gives zero fucks about you. Yes English is my first and second language, I was raised by two different people, one spoke English one spoke Russian. Hide or report this Like

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Gavriel Heine Gavriel Heine Semyon Kurlykov calm down - you’re the one who tagged me in a post. Hide or report this Like

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Gavriel Heine Gavriel Heine Semyon Kurlykov I wouldn’t say the word “love” has lost any meaning when used in a traditional context - rather, it has gained function in more casual usage. Hide or report this Like

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Semyon Kurlykov Semyon Kurlykov Gavriel Heine here we go again rofl Hide or report this Like

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Semyon Kurlykov Semyon Kurlykov Hide or report this

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Voin Artem Voin Artem 🇷🇺 Words DO EXIST in RUSSIAN: 🇷🇺 1️⃣ Make Love - заниматься любовью 2️⃣ Privacy - приватность 3️⃣ Have fun -веселиться 4️⃣ Take Care - заботиться 5️⃣ Efficiency - эффективность 6️⃣ Challenge - испытание And these are just few examples 19 Hide or report this Like

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Girard Ramsay Girard Ramsay I have several Russian friends who have struggled with эффективность in English - whether it’s effectiveness or efficiency. Hide or report this Like

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Yulia Zhubreva Yulia Zhubreva Girard Ramsay depends on the context. If we talk about appliences we Russians use word энергоэффективный или энергосберегательный. If other cases эффективный works fine 1 Hide or report this Like

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Voin Artem Voin Artem Yulia Zhubreva same in English Hide or report this Like

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Girard Ramsay Girard Ramsay Yulia Zhubreva How would it work for something else, like a computer algorithm or any method for reaching some goal? Ex. an efficient (and hopefully also effective vs. an inefficient though effective) search algorithm, or an effective (efficiency doesn’t necessarily even apply here) way to prevail in a negotiation? Hide or report this Like

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Danny Wayne Armstrong Danny Wayne Armstrong What a strange thing to lie about for attention. 3 Hide or report this Like

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Travis Lee Bailey Travis Lee Bailey You mean the authors? I am quoting the authors of books. Edit or delete this Like

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Alex Kibalov Alex Kibalov Do you have precise meaning of the Russian word «Дебил» ? 2 Hide or report this Like

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Gavriel Heine Gavriel Heine Alex Kibalov retard 1 Hide or report this Like

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Alex Kibalov Alex Kibalov Гавриэль Гейне or moron 2 Hide or report this Like

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Gavriel Heine Gavriel Heine Alex Kibalov moron works too. Hide or report this Like

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Michael Byrne Michael Byrne Polished Professional.. we had a bit of a debate about which Russian Translation encapsulated that term best.. 😂 😂 2 Hide or report this Like

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Julia Branco Julia Branco Да нет, наверное Mic drop 9 Hide or report this Like

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Maria Kras Maria Kras I am excited 🙄 can never properly translate it. Я взволнована is a totally different thing 2 Hide or report this Like

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Tim Abram Tim Abram Maria Kras I've struggled with expressing that in Russian too. As with many such phrases context is all-important. It can sometimes be я жду не дождусь or жду с нетерпением in the sense of looking forward to something. And возбуждён is a good equivalent for excited in the sense of "aroused". I understand я взволнован(а) to mean something like nervous excitement, butterflies-in-the-stomach expectation etc. 1 Hide or report this Like

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Maria Kras Maria Kras Tim Abram exactly. Very interesting how languages work. My mom was a linguistic scientist and I grew up totally fascinated by them. 1 Hide or report this Like

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Gavriel Heine Gavriel Heine Maria Kras excellent example Hide or report this Like

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Tim Abram Tim Abram Maria Kras I agree that languages are indeed fascinating! Hide or report this Like

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Natasha Milchin Natasha Milchin How about fancy? Unable to 'translate' into US English, let alone Russian! Hide or report this Like

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Voin Artem Voin Artem Взбудоражен Hide or report this Like

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Maria Kras Maria Kras Voin Artem не то 🙄 Hide or report this Like

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Yulia Zhubreva Yulia Zhubreva So funny:) maybe you should learn some Russian before posting this? 7 Hide or report this Like

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Shohrux Mardiyev Shohrux Mardiyev Surely, u need to learn russian 1 Hide or report this Like

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Alex Petrov Alex Petrov Agree about 1-4 (conceptually) 1 Hide or report this Love

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Mihail Evans Mihail Evans Differences in society explain why language varies in almost all cases: "The word ‘loneliness’ did not enter the English language until the late 16th century." https://www.spectator.co.uk/.../a-loneliness-pandemic... Hide or report this A ‘loneliness pandemic’ could prove as dangerous as coronavirus | The Spectator SPECTATOR.CO.UK A ‘loneliness pandemic’ could prove as dangerous as coronavirus | The… A ‘loneliness pandemic’ could prove as dangerous as coronavirus | The Spectator 3 Love

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Григорий Гулаков Григорий Гулаков That is not true 2 Hide or report this Like

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Travis Lee Bailey Travis Lee Bailey Russia Direct: What are the other major specifics of the Russian mentality that affect business culture and make Russia different from other countries? T.I.: Value number one for Russians would be collectivism. Russian culture is very collective and there is no concept of privacy. This is why business relations are always built on personal relationships. https://www.rbth.com/.../tips-on-dealing-with-russians-be...

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Cursor & pointer , and

choose the options that work best for you.

Desktop programs downloaded and installed

Programs downloaded

• Active Presenter -
• AnyMP4 Studio - Paid
• Audacity - Free open source - https://www.audacityteam.org/
• Badicut - Bandicut Video Cutter, Joiner and Splitter Software - Bandicam https://www.bandicam.com/bandicut-video-cutter
• FalshIntegro - https://www.videosoftdev.com/about-us
  • VSDC Free Audio Converter - https://www.videosoftdev.com/free-audio-converter
• Freemake -
• LabView -
• Lightshot - https://app.prntscr.com/en screenshot program
• ShareX -
• smart Notebook -
• WeChat -
• VLC Media player
• Free Cam 8 - WMV file only (cannot be uploaded needs to be converted first) - https://www.freescreenrecording.com

Bulk rename utility Bulk file rename utility

• https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Download.php

Firefox Need to get rid of "ImportEnterpriseRoots" Certificate

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/utbtdl/need_to_get_rid_of_importenterpriseroots

The two ways to lock a preference are:

(1) Enterprise Policy -- check about:policies

This can be done by dropping a file: https://support.mozilla.org/kb/customizing-firefox-using-policiesjson

(2) Autoconfig

This is done by dropping two files: https://support.mozilla.org/kb/customizing-firefox-using-autoconfig

What is "ImportEnterpriseRoots" Certificate

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1306557

This is a pretty common question that gets asked here.

The ImportEnterpriseRoots policy is setup by a lot of security programs (antivirus, firewall, etc). Security programs often use this policy so that they can view incoming secure connections to check that the content is safe, without triggering error messages in Firefox.

That policy has no impact on what settings you will be able to use in Firefox. It will cause the "Your computer is being managed by your organization" warning message to appear on top of the settings page, but that's it.

Removing that policy from your computer often causes your security program to stop working and/or will cause issues in Firefox when loading some websites.

Hope this clears things up for you.

Telegram

Telegram discussion group with "chat history for new members"

Called Discussion button

• https://www.v-user.com/en/blog/how-to-activate-comments-on-telegram-channels
• https://core.telegram.org/api/discussion
• https://www.alphr.com/add-comment-to-channel-telegram
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6SvNrM8QW0 Youtube 2022
• https://www.istaunch.com/export-telegram-contacts-and-group-members/

scrape users in telegram

• https://exybot.com/telegram-kit-2-0/ expensive $250
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6uixkts8Lk&ab_channel=ExyBotCom

Export telegram contacts on pc windows

How to Export Telegram Contacts and Group Members (PC) Download and install Telegram for Windows/Mac on PC.

Launch Telegram on your PC and login to your account using Phone Number or QR code.  

After successful login, it will take you to the Dashboard where you find the list of the conversations, here

1. tap on the three lines icon at the top on PC.
2. It will open a new menu with the list of options, select Settings.
3. Next, click on Advanced as shown in the below image.
4. Scroll down to the last and tap on the Export Telegram Data.
5. After that, select the data you want to export from Telegram. Just select the Account Information and Contact list option.
6. Scroll down and select the location where you want to download the data and select Human-readable HTML format. Tap on the Export.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M6LRDTIPjE&t=42s&ab_channel=SmartFixer

upload video anonymously drag and drop

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/free-anonymous-file-sharing-services-which-allow-you-to-share-files-without-creating-an-account

https://www.veed.io/send-video

VLC MEDIA PLAYER

VLC

ActivePresenter

Record screen with video.

Excellent! Downloaded from RuTracker.org August 28 2022 only 44 MB.

https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6002607

How to Export ActivePresenter Projects to Videos

https://atomisystems.com/tutorials/export-activepresenter-projects-videos/

8 Best Screen Recorders for Windows 10 in 2022- Free & Paid

https://atomisystems.com/screencasting/record-screen-windows-10/

Bulk converting audio files into one

DOESNT WORK

VSDC Pro Video Editor 7.1

RuTracker.ORG

• https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6230344

19 Best Free Software to Batch Convert WMA To MP3 for Windows https://listoffreeware.com/free-software-batch-convert-wma-to-mp3-windows/

• https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=40113587 Wondershare UniConverter does not support .WMA wma files

AnyMP4 MXF Converter 8.0.10 RePack (& Portable) by TryRooM [2020,Multi/Ru]

https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5956123

https://www.google.com/search?q=unlock+%22wma%22+protected+files

10 ways to bulk convert audio files into one

From: https://multimedia.easeus.com/video-editing-tips/audio-joiner.html#part3

3. Copy Command on Windows

Platform: Windows

Windows allows you to merge audio from the command prompt. Here is the command you can use is as follows:

copy /b *.mp3 c:\merged.mp3

The command above means it will find all MP3 files in the directory and join them into the merged.mp3 file.

If you want to add only a few files add them accordingly using a "+" sign in between.

Pros

No need to install a software

The simplest way to merge audio files without losing quality

Cons

Not possible to edit the files

No way to change the format of the output file

Cumbersome to use.

VLC

Source: https://www.videoproc.com/audio-editor/best-audio-mergers.htm

3. How to Merge MP3 Files on Windows 10 with VLC

VLC is an open-source free program that you can free access to. Based on its introduction of how to merge videos, we have tested its capability of combining audio files, and it turns out to be feasible as well. Before we kick off, you need to make sure that all of your audio files have the file extension of .mp3. Otherwise, this method may not work for you. (Notice: if you have different formatted audio files such as .flac and .mp3, see the workaround.)

Step 1. Download and install VLC on your computer.

You are recommended to install VLC locally by its default route.

Step 2. Use the keyboard shortcuts

Win+X > click Command Prompt in the pop-up list.

Or, use the hotkey combination

Win+R to open Run >

type cmd in the box >

hit Enter

Then the Command Prompt will be opened as well.

Run Command Prompt

[Win+R] > cmd to run Command Prompt

Step 3. In the Command Prompt, enter the command: cd c:\mp3, then hit the Enter key.

Sidenote: The c:\mp3 command is the file folder directory where your mp3 audio files are kept. If your audio files are kept on C disk, c:\ file location

Step 4: There will be c:\mp3> command already existing, copy and paste commands as follows:

"C:\PROGRAMFILES\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" -vv 1.mp3 2.mp3 --sout-keep --sout=#gather:transcode{acodec=mp3,ab=128}:standard{access=file,mux=dummy,dst=combinedout.mp3}

Sidenotes:

1. C:\PROGRAMFILES\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe command refers to the directory path where the VLC launching program is located in your Windows computer, which is also the default path of VLC setup. Change it if you've set a different destination path for your VLC installation.

2. The 1.mp3 2.mp3 command refers to the filename of your audio tracks. Customize the part based on your personal demands.

3. The combinedout.mp3 command refers to the file name of the combined file. You can change it to the one you like.

Reset password Change or reset your Windows password

Select Start >

Settings >

Accounts >

Sign-in options .

Under Password, select the Change button and follow the steps.

https://www.rbth.com/articles/2011/12/07/a_rewarding_challenge_13919.html

Download youtube videos in bulk

YouTube Playlist: How to Download YouTube Videos in Bulk

https://gadgets360.com/how-to/features/download-youtube-videos-playlist-bulk-computer-phone-4k-video-downloader-videoder-2279719

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https://www.4kdownload.com/products/videodownloader/21

Download YouTube videos that you've uploaded BASTARDS

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/56100?hl=en

how to burn a disk

How to Burn a CD or DVD on Windows 10 https://www.howtogeek.com/689705/how-to-burn-a-cd-or-dvd-on-windows-10/

GRAMFILE

https://gramfile.com/active-iso-burner-download/

Ashampoo Burning Studio Free 1.23.8.0

https://www.majorgeeks.com/mg/getmirror/ashampoo_burning_studio_free,1.html

HP INK TANK WIRELESS

• https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/hp-ink-tank-wireless-410-series/16180953/manuals MANUALS

How do I switch between ink tank and cartridge on HP Ink 410 series ?

I want to disable the use of the ink cartridges completely.

Is there any articles or videos on how the HP ink cartridge works when there is tank?  I wanted to buy a printer WITHOUT a ink cartridge.  I did not realize there are  two expensive to replace  ink cartridges inside.

https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Printing-Errors-or-Lights-Stuck-Print-Jobs/How-do-I-switch-between-ink-tank-and-cartridge-on-HP-Ink-410/m-p/8414833#M951251

Download whatsapp messages in bulk batch

https://www.unictool.com/whatsapp/export-all-whatsapp-chats-at-once/

How to Take Batch Screenshots or Screencaps in VLC Media Player FEB 1, 2021

https://turbofuture.com/computers/How-to-take-batch-screenshots-or-screencaps-in-VLC-Media-Player

Download all whatsapp contacts in a whatsapp group video

How to Export WhatsApp Group Contacts to Excel？ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll26Ha2Xfs0&t=67s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll26Ha2Xfs0&t=67s

Shortcuts for chrome webpages

subtitles and closed caption freeware

Subtitle Editor

https://nikse.dk/subtitleedit

Subtitle Edit

Overview

Subtitle Edit is a free (open source) editor for video subtitles - a subtitle editor :)

With SE you can easily adjust a subtitle if it is out of sync with the video in several different ways. You can also use SE for making new subtitles from scratch (do use the time-line/waveform/spectrogram) or translating subtitles.

For a list of features see below or check out the Subtitle Edit Help page. On my blog you can download latest beta version and read about/discuss new features.

Also, you can watch a few videos about installing and using Subtitle Edit.

Transfer import facebook to vk

Coding

https://github.com/mekhovov/Export-Posts-from-FB-2-LI-VK/blob/master/export_FB_2_LI_VK.rb

Convert audio m4a to video

https://www.freeconvert.com/m4a-to-mp4/download DOESNT WORK ON YOUTUBE

RUSSIAN SITE https://online-audio-convert.com/ru/m4a-to-mp4/ DOESNT WORK ON YOUTUBE

kdenlive: crop a video

• kdenlive crop a video
  • Click the zone start icon
  • Click he zone end icon
  • Right click the new zone and extract video

merge 2 videos online

Adobe

https://express.adobe.com/tools/merge-videos/#

Quotes background maker

Quotes background maker

Delete portions of a page for printing

• Print Edit WE
  • To start editing the page:
    • click on the Print Edit WE button on the main toolbar, or
    • select Print Edit WE > Start Editing on the context menu.
  • A blue 'EDIT' (editing) badge will appear on the button.

• Not as good: How to Print Web Pages and Remove Unwanted Content
  • Print Friendly & PDF (overview)

wifi

WiFi Keeps Disconnecting on Windows 10? Here’s the Fix

• Wi-Fi drops connection and available networks disappear
  • Suggestion: Turn Bluetooth on or off in Windows

Install a Bandwidth Monitor On Your Computer

• 10 Free Tools for Monitoring Network Bandwidth

What's system interrupts high CPU usage in Windows 10

Change Rename Batch Files and Folders in Windows

4 Ways to Batch Rename Files in Windows (USE POWERSHELL)

https://www.maketecheasier.com/batch-rename-files-in-windows/

Doesnt work:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22182409/replace-part-of-file-name-powershell

Rename files by matching partial name (power toys - doesnt work)

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-rename-multiple-files-bulk-windows-10

General:

6 Ways to Rename Files and Folders in Windows 10

https://www.howtogeek.com/665514/6-ways-to-rename-files-and-folders-in-windows-10/

How to set a default Folder View for all folders in Windows 11/10

How to set a default Folder View for all folders in Windows 11/10

• Open File Explorer by using key combination Windows Key + E and navigate to the folder you want to use as a source for view layout settings.
• Windows 10, navigate to the View tab in ribbon baron the top and change the settings per your wish. You can change the layout and choose the folder details to display, add extra panes, adjust column width, etc.
• Once done with the changes, click Options to open the File Explorer Options, earlier called Folder Options. window.
• Finally, navigate to View tab in Folder Options window.
• Click/Tap on Apply to Folders button.\

Sections in a taskbar

1. The Windows TaskBar
2. The Start Button--Opens the menu.
3. The Quick Launch bar--contains shortcuts to commonly used applications. ...
4. The main Taskbar--displays icons for all open applications and files.
5. The System Tray--contains the clock and icons for some of the programs running in the background.

Unpin a program on the taskbar

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/cant-unpin-or-remove-program-icons-from-windows-10-taskbar

QUICK LAUNCH open folder

[https://www.lifewire.com/add-quick-launch-toolbar-in-windows-10-5115231

Enter %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\ into the navigation field at the top of the window, and press Enter. Click Select Folder. You now have a quick launch toolbar on your taskbar. However, it's on the right side, and the original quick launch was on the left.Aug 4, 2021

How to Add the Quick Launch Toolbar in Windows 10 - Lifewire

show blue links instead of { HYPERLINK link } in a document Word

How to show blue links instead of { HYPERLINK link } in a document Word

https://www.officetooltips.com/word_2016/tips/how_to_show_blue_links_instead_of___hyperlink_link___in_a_document_word.html

To change a representation of hyperlinks in a document, do the following:

1. On the File tab, click the Options button:

Options in Word 2016

2. In the Word Options dialog box,

• on the Advanced tab,
• under Show document content,
• uncheck the Show field codes instead of their values checkbox:

Advanced tab in Word Options 2016 After clicking OK, all hyperlinks in the document will be shown as usual, as blue hyperlinks:

Hyperlink in Word 2016

MICROSOFT WORD - get hyperlinks to show

File>Options>Advanced> [Show document content] section uncheck the box for "Show field codes instead of their values".

YOUTUBE Add more channels to YouTube

Can You Have More Than One YouTube Channel? (January 21, 2021)

Visit your list of Channels, https://www.youtube.com/account

Click Create a new channel button.

Create a new channel button on YouTube

Give your new account a name, and then click Create.

New Brand Channel Create button on YouTube You'll immediately be taken to your new channel where you can customize your account and upload videos.

Screenshot program for laptop

LIGHTSHOT The fastest way to take a customizable screenshot

HOW TO GET FILE NAMES FOR ALL FILES IN A FOLDER

If the folder you want to open in Command Prompt is on your desktop or already open in File Explorer, you can quickly change to that directory.

Type cd followed by a space, DRAG AND DROP the folder into the window, and then press Enter. The directory you switched to will be reflected in the command line.

https://www.howtogeek.com/659411/how-to-change-directories-in-command-prompt-on-windows-10/#:~:text=If%20the%20folder%20you%20want,reflected%20in%20the%20command%20line.

INSTRUCTIONS:

0. Open Command Prompt

02: Copy and paste directory C:\Users\user\Desktop\STUFF

1. Type cd followed by a space,

2. drag and drop the folder into the window, and then

3. press Enter.

The directory you switched to will be reflected in the command line.

How to copy a list of file names in a folder to text file?

EXCELLENT!

• How to copy a list of file names in a folder to text file?

use cmd.exe

type dir /b > dirlist.txt

More instructions may 2024

Command to list all files in a folder as well as sub-folders in

Follow these baby steps:

1. Press Windows + R.

2. Press Enter.

3. cmd.

4. Press Enter.

5. ch (name of directory) Example: C:\Users\**\Desktop\**\** 1994\1993 ** central **

6. Type dir /b > dirlist.txt

7. Press Enter.

from search "get names of all files windows 10 in a folder":

[2] STACK OVERFLOW

"change directory in cmd"

Open the Command Prompt (CMD) and type "cd" with a space, followed by the name of the directory,

or drag and drop the directory into CMD from File Explorer.

Press "Enter." Type "cd.." and press "Enter" to go back one directory.

SSL certificate

Free SSL certificate: https://app.zerossl.com/

Recording voice "on the fly"

Recording voice "on the fly": https://www.vocaroo.com

To sort

https://bulkresizephotos.com/en Bulk Resize photos]

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Renamer

• ReNamer

Send a free fax

https://www.lifewire.com/free-fax-services-2378048

Copy cyrillic webpage names

https://www.webatic.com/url-convertor

Calendar

https://www.calendarpedia.com/calendars/october-2022-calendar.html

VPN

FREE VPN for Windows PC Download in 2021 - BETTERNET.co - entire internet fix router

• TOMSGUIDE https://www.tomsguide.com/best-picks/best-free-vpn - excellent
  • Proton VPN Free - 10GB of unrestricted data run out very slow pace of 1Mbps. 12 locations in 9 countries. https://signup.privadovpn.com/best-free-vpn
  • Privado VPN
  • Windscribe
  • Atlas VPN
  • Hide.me
  • Hotspot Shield Basic

Download programs

• CNET excellent! https://download.cnet.com

windows 10 change mouse visible

Make your mouse more visible by changing the color and size of the mouse pointer.

Start button

Settings >

Ease of Access >

Cursor & pointer , and

choose the options that work best for you.

Desktop programs downloaded and installed

Programs downloaded

• Active Presenter -
• AnyMP4 Studio - Paid
• Audacity - Free open source - https://www.audacityteam.org/
• Badicut - Bandicut Video Cutter, Joiner and Splitter Software - Bandicam https://www.bandicam.com/bandicut-video-cutter
• FalshIntegro - https://www.videosoftdev.com/about-us
  • VSDC Free Audio Converter - https://www.videosoftdev.com/free-audio-converter
• Freemake -
• LabView -
• Lightshot - https://app.prntscr.com/en screenshot program
• ShareX -
• smart Notebook -
• WeChat -
• VLC Media player
• Free Cam 8 - WMV file only (cannot be uploaded needs to be converted first) - https://www.freescreenrecording.com

Bulk rename utility Bulk file rename utility

• https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Download.php

Firefox Need to get rid of "ImportEnterpriseRoots" Certificate

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/utbtdl/need_to_get_rid_of_importenterpriseroots

The two ways to lock a preference are:

(1) Enterprise Policy -- check about:policies

This can be done by dropping a file: https://support.mozilla.org/kb/customizing-firefox-using-policiesjson

(2) Autoconfig

This is done by dropping two files: https://support.mozilla.org/kb/customizing-firefox-using-autoconfig

What is "ImportEnterpriseRoots" Certificate

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1306557

This is a pretty common question that gets asked here.

The ImportEnterpriseRoots policy is setup by a lot of security programs (antivirus, firewall, etc). Security programs often use this policy so that they can view incoming secure connections to check that the content is safe, without triggering error messages in Firefox.

That policy has no impact on what settings you will be able to use in Firefox. It will cause the "Your computer is being managed by your organization" warning message to appear on top of the settings page, but that's it.

Removing that policy from your computer often causes your security program to stop working and/or will cause issues in Firefox when loading some websites.

Hope this clears things up for you.

Telegram

Telegram discussion group with "chat history for new members"

Called Discussion button

• https://www.v-user.com/en/blog/how-to-activate-comments-on-telegram-channels
• https://core.telegram.org/api/discussion
• https://www.alphr.com/add-comment-to-channel-telegram
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6SvNrM8QW0 Youtube 2022
• https://www.istaunch.com/export-telegram-contacts-and-group-members/

scrape users in telegram

• https://exybot.com/telegram-kit-2-0/ expensive $250
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6uixkts8Lk&ab_channel=ExyBotCom

Export telegram contacts on pc windows

How to Export Telegram Contacts and Group Members (PC) Download and install Telegram for Windows/Mac on PC.

Launch Telegram on your PC and login to your account using Phone Number or QR code.  

After successful login, it will take you to the Dashboard where you find the list of the conversations, here

1. tap on the three lines icon at the top on PC.
2. It will open a new menu with the list of options, select Settings.
3. Next, click on Advanced as shown in the below image.
4. Scroll down to the last and tap on the Export Telegram Data.
5. After that, select the data you want to export from Telegram. Just select the Account Information and Contact list option.
6. Scroll down and select the location where you want to download the data and select Human-readable HTML format. Tap on the Export.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M6LRDTIPjE&t=42s&ab_channel=SmartFixer

upload video anonymously drag and drop

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/free-anonymous-file-sharing-services-which-allow-you-to-share-files-without-creating-an-account

https://www.veed.io/send-video

VLC MEDIA PLAYER

VLC

ActivePresenter

Record screen with video.

Excellent! Downloaded from RuTracker.org August 28 2022 only 44 MB.

https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6002607

How to Export ActivePresenter Projects to Videos

https://atomisystems.com/tutorials/export-activepresenter-projects-videos/

8 Best Screen Recorders for Windows 10 in 2022- Free & Paid

https://atomisystems.com/screencasting/record-screen-windows-10/

Bulk converting audio files into one

DOESNT WORK

VSDC Pro Video Editor 7.1

RuTracker.ORG

• https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6230344

19 Best Free Software to Batch Convert WMA To MP3 for Windows https://listoffreeware.com/free-software-batch-convert-wma-to-mp3-windows/

• https://thepiratebay.org/description.php?id=40113587 Wondershare UniConverter does not support .WMA wma files

AnyMP4 MXF Converter 8.0.10 RePack (& Portable) by TryRooM [2020,Multi/Ru]

https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5956123

https://www.google.com/search?q=unlock+%22wma%22+protected+files

10 ways to bulk convert audio files into one

From: https://multimedia.easeus.com/video-editing-tips/audio-joiner.html#part3

3. Copy Command on Windows

Platform: Windows

Windows allows you to merge audio from the command prompt. Here is the command you can use is as follows:

copy /b *.mp3 c:\merged.mp3

The command above means it will find all MP3 files in the directory and join them into the merged.mp3 file.

If you want to add only a few files add them accordingly using a "+" sign in between.

Pros

No need to install a software

The simplest way to merge audio files without losing quality

Cons

Not possible to edit the files

No way to change the format of the output file

Cumbersome to use.

VLC

Source: https://www.videoproc.com/audio-editor/best-audio-mergers.htm

3. How to Merge MP3 Files on Windows 10 with VLC

VLC is an open-source free program that you can free access to. Based on its introduction of how to merge videos, we have tested its capability of combining audio files, and it turns out to be feasible as well. Before we kick off, you need to make sure that all of your audio files have the file extension of .mp3. Otherwise, this method may not work for you. (Notice: if you have different formatted audio files such as .flac and .mp3, see the workaround.)

Step 1. Download and install VLC on your computer.

You are recommended to install VLC locally by its default route.

Step 2. Use the keyboard shortcuts

Win+X > click Command Prompt in the pop-up list.

Or, use the hotkey combination

Win+R to open Run >

type cmd in the box >

hit Enter

Then the Command Prompt will be opened as well.

Run Command Prompt

[Win+R] > cmd to run Command Prompt

Step 3. In the Command Prompt, enter the command: cd c:\mp3, then hit the Enter key.

Sidenote: The c:\mp3 command is the file folder directory where your mp3 audio files are kept. If your audio files are kept on C disk, c:\ file location

Step 4: There will be c:\mp3> command already existing, copy and paste commands as follows:

"C:\PROGRAMFILES\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" -vv 1.mp3 2.mp3 --sout-keep --sout=#gather:transcode{acodec=mp3,ab=128}:standard{access=file,mux=dummy,dst=combinedout.mp3}

Sidenotes:

1. C:\PROGRAMFILES\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe command refers to the directory path where the VLC launching program is located in your Windows computer, which is also the default path of VLC setup. Change it if you've set a different destination path for your VLC installation.

2. The 1.mp3 2.mp3 command refers to the filename of your audio tracks. Customize the part based on your personal demands.

3. The combinedout.mp3 command refers to the file name of the combined file. You can change it to the one you like.

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Subtitle Edit is a free (open source) editor for video subtitles - a subtitle editor :)

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• Wi-Fi drops connection and available networks disappear
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Change Rename Batch Files and Folders in Windows

4 Ways to Batch Rename Files in Windows (USE POWERSHELL)

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Doesnt work:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22182409/replace-part-of-file-name-powershell

Rename files by matching partial name (power toys - doesnt work)

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6 Ways to Rename Files and Folders in Windows 10

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• Open File Explorer by using key combination Windows Key + E and navigate to the folder you want to use as a source for view layout settings.
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• Once done with the changes, click Options to open the File Explorer Options, earlier called Folder Options. window.
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1. The Windows TaskBar
2. The Start Button--Opens the menu.
3. The Quick Launch bar--contains shortcuts to commonly used applications. ...
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1. On the File tab, click the Options button:

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HOW TO GET FILE NAMES FOR ALL FILES IN A FOLDER

If the folder you want to open in Command Prompt is on your desktop or already open in File Explorer, you can quickly change to that directory.

Type cd followed by a space, DRAG AND DROP the folder into the window, and then press Enter. The directory you switched to will be reflected in the command line.

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INSTRUCTIONS:

0. Open Command Prompt

02: Copy and paste directory C:\Users\user\Desktop\STUFF

1. Type cd followed by a space,

2. drag and drop the folder into the window, and then

3. press Enter.

The directory you switched to will be reflected in the command line.

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1. Press Windows + R.

2. Press Enter.

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President Putin's inner circle

Addresses of Putin's inner circle

Putin's inner circle (According to the Russia RF book)

• СИСТЕМА РФ. (System RF [Russian Federation]) book.

!colspan=5 | Putin's Inner Circle listed in the book System RF (СИСТЕМА РФ) ___ |- ! Name, mentioned role in the book ! Position ! Address and contacts ! Translation ! Web site

|- valign=top | Михаил Гефтер | Историк (нет в живых) | | | |- valign=top | Владимир Путин

Putin | Письмо Путину можно написать обычным способом на листе бумаги и принести в приёмную Администрации Президента. Проследите‚ чтобы его зарегистрировали и присвоили вашему письму входящий индетификационный номер. Можно также отослать письмо по почте на | адрес:

10132‚ Российская Федерация‚ город Москва‚ ул. Ильинка‚ д. 23

На конверте обязательно указывать обратный адрес‚ иначе Ваше письмо не будет принято к рассмотрению.

It is necessary to indicate the return address on the envelope ‚otherwise your letter will not be accepted for consideration | | Other contacts are listed here http://kremlin.ru/contacts http://kremlin.ru/contacts]

Источник: http://xn--80aicbidd2apldmjyp6k.xn--p1ai/srok-rassmotreniya-zhaloby-prezidentu.html]

Одним из способов отправки сообщения Президенту России является оффициальный сайт Президента Российской федерации http: //www. Kremlin.ru. Каждый‚ кто хочет обратиться к Президенту‚ может воспользоваться этой возможностью‚ зайдя в раздел «Обращения» по адресу: Написать письмо и направить письмо прямо Президенту или в его Администрацию.

Источник: http://xn--80aicbidd2apldmjyp6k.xn--p1ai/srok-rassmotreniya-zhaloby-prezidentu.html http://xn--80aicbidd2apldmjyp6k.xn--p1ai/srok-rassmotreniya-zhaloby-prezidentu.html]

|- valign=top ! Name, mentioned role in the book ! Position ! Address and contacts ! Translation ! Web site |- valign=top | Сергей Кириенко, в книге гендиректор РосАтом

Sergey Kiriyenko, in the book, the general director of RosAtom | российский государственный и политический деятель. Первый заместитель Руководителя Администрации Президента Российской Федерации с 5 октября 2016 года.

Russian statesman and political figure. First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation since October 5, 2016. | Личная встреча

Уполномоченные сотрудники Администрации проводят личные встречи с гражданами. Существует несколько способов заявить о своей проблеме:

• Обратиться в Общественную приемную.
• Воспользоваться электронной приемной.
• Обратиться в мобильную приемную.

Общественная приемная

Адрес: г. Москва, ул. Ильинка, дом 23/16, подъезд 11.

Приемные часы: со вторника по субботу (включительно) с 9:30 до 16:30.

Прием ведется по предварительно записи. Чтобы записаться на личную встречу необходимо:

• Зарегистрироваться на официальном сайте kremlin.ru.
• Выбрать«Записаться на прием» в разделе «Контакты».
• Из предложенного списка выбрать свой федеральный округ.
• Позвонить по указанному телефону и записаться на прием к уполномоченному лицу.

Жители города Москва могут записаться на встречу в режиме он-лайн. По ссылке letters.kremlin.ru/receptions/list/appointment есть возможность просмотреть расписание и выбрать удобную дату.

Почта

Написать письмо можно по адресу:

ул. Ильинка, д. 23/16, подъезд 11, 103132, Москва, Россия.

Разборчиво укажите на конверте ваш полный и достоверный адрес, иначе письмо не примут в работу. | Personal meeting

Authorized employees of the Administration hold personal meetings with citizens.

There are several ways to report your problem:

1. Contact the Public Reception.

2. Take advantage of electronic reception.

3. Contact the mobile reception. Public Reception

Address:

Moscow, st. Ilyinka, house 23/16, entrance 11.

Reception hours:

from Tuesday to Saturday (inclusive) from 9:30 to 16:30.

Reception is conducted by pre-recording.

To sign up for a personal meeting you need to:

• Register on the official site kremlin.ru.

• Select “Make an appointment” in the “Contacts” section.

• From the list, select your federal district.

• Call the specified phone number and make an appointment with an authorized person. Moscow residents can make an appointment online.

Under the link letters.

kremlin.ru/receptions/list/appointment

it is possible to view the schedule and select a convenient date.

Mail

You can write a letter to the address:

st. Ilyinka, 23/16, entrance 11, 103132, Moscow, Russia.

Clearly indicate on the envelope your full and reliable address, otherwise the letter will not be accepted. | https://oletter.org/articles/%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F-%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0-%D1%80%D1%84] |- valign=top ! Name, mentioned role in the book ! Position ! Address and contacts ! Translation ! Web site |- valign=top | Аркадий Владимирович Дворкович

Государственный деятель

Arkady Vladimirovich Dvorkovich

Statesman | (до 07.05.2018 – Заместитель Председателя Правительства Российской Федерации) российский государственный деятель и экономист. Президент Международной шахматной федерации с 3 октября 2018 года. Действительный государственный советник Российской Федерации 1 класса. Сопредседатель фонда «Сколково» | | (Until 07.05.2018 - Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation) Russian statesman and economist. President of the International Chess Federation since October 3, 2018. Valid State Counselor of the Russian Federation 1 class. Co-Chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation | |- valign=top | Владислав Сурков

Помощник президента Российской Федерации

Vladislav Surkov

| российский государственный деятель, автор концепции «суверенной демократии». Помощник президента Российской Федерации с 20 сентября 2013 года. Действительный государственный советник Российской Федерации 1-го класса. | | Russian statesman, author of the concept of "sovereign democracy." Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation since September 20, 2013. Valid State Counselor of the Russian Federation 1st class. | |- valign=top | Сергей Викторович Лавров

Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov | Министр иностранных дел Российской Федерации

Советский и российский дипломат и государственный деятель. Министр иностранных дел Российской Федерации с 9 марта 2004 года. Постоянный член Совета Безопасности Российской Федерации. Чрезвычайный и полномочный посол. Полный кавалер ордена «За заслуги перед Отечеством».

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Soviet and Russian diplomat and statesman. Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation since March 9, 2004. Permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. Full holder of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland.

| Телефон:

+7 (499) 244-92-71

Факс: +7 (499) 244-24-00

Заместитель Министра Рябков Сергей Алексеевич

Телефон: +7 (499) 244-18-03

Email: SRyabkov@mid.ru

ПРИЕМНАЯ МИД РОССИИ

(Отдел по работе с обращениями граждан)

СПРАВОЧНАЯ ИНФОРМАЦИЯ

Почтовый адрес МИД России:

119200, Москва,

Смоленская-Сенная пл., 32/34

Электронный адрес: ministry@mid.ru

Справочные телефоны:

• МИД России:(+7) 499-244-16-06

Консульский департамент МИД России: (+7) 499-244-45-81

| Phone:

+7 (499) 244-92-71

Fax: +7 (499) 244-24-00

Deputy Minister Ryabkov Sergey Alekseevich

Phone: +7 (499) 244-18-03

Email: SRyabkov@mid.ru

RECEPTION MINISTRY OF RUSSIA

(Department of work with citizens)

REFERENCE INFORMATION

Mailing address of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia: Smolenskaya-Sennaya Sq. 32/34, Moscow 119200

Email address: ministry@mid.ru

Help phones:

• MFA of Russia: (+ 7) 499-244-16-06

• Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia: (+7) 499-244-45-81 | * |- valign=top | Александр Васильевич Бортников

Alexander Vasilyevich Bortnikov | Директор Федеральной службы безопасности

российский государственный деятель. Директор ФСБ России с 12 мая 2008. Генерал армии. Председатель Национального антитеррористического комитета, председатель Совета руководителей органов безопасности и спецслужб стран СНГ. | Приёмная ФСБ России (495) 624-31-58 Управление делами (УД) ФСБ России Москва, 107031, ул.Кузнецкий мост, дом 22 Контактная информация: почтовый адрес: г. Москва, 107031, ул. Большая Лубянка, дом 1/3 факс: 8 (495) 914-26-32

адрес электронной почты:

fsb@fsb.ru | Reception of the Federal Security Service of Russia

(495) 624-31-58

Case Management (DM) of the FSB of Russia

Moscow, 107031,

22, Kuznetsky Most Street

Contact Information:

Moscow, 107031,

st. Bolshaya Lubyanka, 1/3

fax: 8 (495) 914-26-32

E-mail address:

fsb@fsb.ru | http://www.fsb.ru/fsb/supplement.htm] |- valign=top | Виктор Петрович Иванов

Viktor Petrovich Ivanov | российский государственный деятель. Директор Федеральной службы Российской Федерации по контролю за оборотом наркотиков, председатель Государственного антинаркотического комитета. Действительный государственный советник Российской Федерации 1 класса. | | Russian statesman. Director of the Federal Service for the Control of Drug Trafficking of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the State Anti-Drug Committee. Valid State Counselor of the Russian Federation 1 class. | |- valign=top | Вячеслав Викторович Володин

Vyacheslav Viktorovich Volodin | Председатель Государственной думы VII созыва с 5 октября 2016 года. В прошлом — первый заместитель руководителя Администрации Президента Российской Федерации.

Duma of the VII convocation from October 5, 2016. In the past - the first deputy head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation.

Reception in Moscow | http://vvolodin.ru/contacts/ Приёмная в Москве]

Общественная приемная депутата Государственной Думы Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации седьмого созыва Вячеслава Викторовича Володина в Москве

Адрес приёмной

103265 г. Москва ул.Охотный ряд 1

+7 (495) 692-34-38
+7 (495) 692-30-63

| Reception in Moscow

Chairman of the State

Public reception of the seventh convocation deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Viktorovich Volodin in Moscow

Reception address

103265 Moscow, Okhotny Ryad 1 Str.

+7 (495) 692-34-38

+7 (495) 692-30-63 | http://vvolodin.ru/contacts/ |- valign=top | Игорь Иванович Стрелков

Igor Ivanovich Strelkov | государственный, военный и политический деятель, публицист и писатель. Сотрудник органов ФСБ России. Глава «Комитета 25 января». Руководитель общественного движения «Новороссия» с 2014 года. Военный пенсионер России. | Движение Новороссия: Начальник штаба Сороковой Алексей Викторович

тел: +7 (903) 363 70 16
e-mail: info@clubnb.ru

| statesman, military and political figure, publicist and writer. An employee of the FSB of Russia. The head of the “Committee on January 25”. Head of the public movement "Novorossia" since 2014. 'Military pensioner of Russia.' | ВКонтакте: https://vk.com/id267443437 Алексей Сороковой]

|- valign=top | Михаил Владимирович Леонтьев

Mikhail Vladimirovich Leontyev | российский журналист и телеведущий, публицист, топ–менеджер. Вице-президент и пресс-секретарь — директор департамента информации и рекламы/советник президента корпорации «Роснефть». Ведущий телепередач Первого канала «Однако» и «Большая игра», главный редактор журнала «Однако».

Russian journalist and broadcaster, publicist, top manager. Vice President and Spokesperson - Director of the Information and Advertising Department / Advisor to the President of the Rosneft Corporation. TV host of the Channel, however, and the Big Game, the chief editor of the magazine, However. | 14 января 2014 г. на должность пресс-секретаря – директора Департамента информации и рекламы в ранге вице-президента Компании назначен Михаил Владимирович Леонтьев, который будет курировать блок внешних коммуникаций, рекламы и выставочной деятельности «Роснефти».

Почтовый адрес

Российская Федерация, 117997, Москва, Софийская набережная, 26/1 Место нахождения: Российская Федерация, г.Москва Справочная служба:Телефон: +7 (499) 517-88-99 Факс: +7 (499) 517-72-35 Электронная почта: postman@rosneft.ru

| On January 14, 2014, Mikhail Vladimirovich Leontyev was appointed press secretary of the Department of Information and Advertising at the rank of Vice President of the Company, who will oversee Rosneft’s external communications, advertising and exhibition activities.

Mailing address:

Russian Federation, 117997, Moscow, Sofia Embankment, 26/1

Location: Russian Federation, Moscow

Inquiry service: Phone: +7 (499) 517-88-99 Fax: +7 (499) 517-72-35

E-mail: postman@rosneft.ru | Главный редактор Журнала «Однако»: http://www.odnako.org/edition/ |- valign=top | Михаил Зиновьевич Юрьев, российский предприниматель и политический деятель.

Mikhail Zinovievich Yuriev''''

Russian entrepreneur and politician. | С 27 апреля https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4 2017 года] — участник аналитического шоу «Главная Тема» на Радио «Комсомольская правда»

From April 27, 2017 - participant of the analytical show "Main Topic" on the radio "Komsomolskaya Pravda" | Радио «Комсомольская правда» 127287, Москва, Старый Петровско-Разумовский проезд, 1/23, стр. 1.

Тел. +7 (495) 777-02-82

Для рекламодателей:

Почтовый адрес:

125993, г.Москва, Старый Петровско-Разумовский проезд, д.1/23, стр.1

Тел./Факс: +7 (495) 777-27-72

Телефоны: + 7 (495) 777-02-80, + 7 (495) 637-64-10 | Radio "Komsomolskaya Pravda" 127287, Moscow, Old Petrovsko-Razumovsky passage, 1/23, p. 1.

Tel. +7 (495) 777-02-82

For advertisers:

Postal address:

125993, Moscow, Old Petrovsko-Razumovsky proezd, d.1 / 23, p.1

Tel / Fax: +7 (495) 777-27-72

Phones: + 7 (495) 777-02-80, + 7 (495) 637-64-10 | |- valign=top | Константин Львович Эрнст

Konstantin Lvovich Ernst | советский и российский медиаменеджер, продюсер, сценарист, телеведущий. Генеральный директор «Первого канала». | Офис «Останкино»:

127427, Москва

улица Академика Королева, дом 12.

Ostankino office:

127427, Moscow, Akademika Koroleva Street, 12. | Soviet and Russian media manager, producer, screenwriter, broadcaster. General Director of Channel One. | Электронная консультация: https://pravo.media/zhaloba/napisat-pismo-k-l-ernstu/ https://pravo.media/zhaloba/napisat-pismo-k-l-ernstu/] |- | Юрий Михайлович Лужков

Бывший Мэр Москвы

(уволен «в связи с утратой доверия Президента России») | советский и российский государственный и политический деятель, на протяжении 18 лет занимавший пост мэра Москвы. Также возглавлял Москву в 1990—1991 годах в качестве председателя исполкома Моссовета. | Yury Mikhailovich Luzhkov

Former Moscow Mayor

(dismissed "due to the loss of confidence of the President of Russia") | Soviet and Russian state and political figure, who for 18 years held the post of mayor of Moscow. He also headed Moscow in 1990-1991 as chairman of the executive committee of the Moscow Council. | |- valign=top | Дмитрий Сергеевич Песков

Пресс-секретарь президента России

Dmitry Sergeevich Peskov

https://www.google.ru/imgres?imgurl=https://uznayvse.ru/images/stories2016/uzn_1463662946.jpg&imgrefurl=https://uznayvse.ru/znamenitosti/biografiya-dmitriy-peskov.html&h=373&w=560&tbnid=A0oTpID4VAjFHM:&q=%D0%B4%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9+%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2&tbnh=114&tbnw=171&usg=AI4_-kTVLJRluVVuReXL9v32UfXUNWffrA&vet=1&docid=jV56bHDVawDt5M&itg=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiSyIe26LvfAhVHFCwKHenEAAEQ_B0wFHoECAYQEQ] ] | российский государственный деятель. Заместитель Руководителя Администрации Президента Российской Федерации — пресс-секретарь Президента Российской Федерации Владимира Путина с 22 мая 2012 года Действительный государственный советник Российской Федерации 1 класса. | Контакты пресс-службы Президента России

Департамент аккредитации и брифингов Управления пресс-службы и информации Президента России

Телефон: 8 495 606 32 32

Факс: 8 495 606 90 00

Contacts of the Presidential Press and Information Office

Accreditation and Briefing Department of the Presidential Press and Information Office

Telephone: 8 495 606 32 32

Fax: 8 495 606 90 00 | Russian statesman. Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation - Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin since May 22, 2012. Acting State Counselor of the Russian Federation of the 1st class. | Электронная почта: ACCREDIT@GOV.RU

|- valign=top | Эдуард Вениаминович Лимонов

Писатель

Edward Veniaminovich Limonov

| русский писатель, поэт, публицист, российский политический деятель, бывший председатель запрещённой в России Национал-большевистской партии, нынешний председатель одноимённых партии и коалиции «Другая Россия». Депутат и член совета Национальной Ассамблеи Российской Федерации. | Партия и коалиция “Другая Россия” почта: press@theotherrussia.ru

| Russian writer, poet, publicist, Russian politician, former chairman of the National Bolshevik Party banned in Russia, current chairman of the party of the same name and the Other Russia coalition. Deputy and member of the Council of the National Assembly of the Russian Federation. | https://twitter.com/edvlimonov https://twitter.com/edvlimonov]

https://vk.com/limonov_ed https://vk.com/limonov_ed] |- valign=top | Иван Крастев, talked to the author | Bulgarian politician | | | |- valign=top | Павловский Глеб Олегович – the author

Pavlovsky Gleb Olegovich | * Директор «Фонда эффективной политики»

• Главный редактор и издатель

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%B6%D1%83%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB Русского журнала]

• Директор «Русского института»

Советник Руководителя https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B9_%D0%A4%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B8 Администрации Президента РФ] (до апреля 2011) | Фонд эффективной политики name="contacts"

Контактная информация:
Адрес:

Павловский Глеб Олегович

109180, Москва, Б.Якиманка,1

Телефон: (095) 745-52-25
E-mail (по вопросам сотрудничества): https://web.archive.org/web/20050307061917/mailto:fep@fep.ru fep@fep.ru]
E-mail (по вопросам трудоустройства): https://web.archive.org/web/20050307061917/mailto:job@fep.ru job@fep.ru]
Адрес в Интернете: https://web.archive.org/web/20050307061917/http:/www.fep.ru/ http://www.fep.ru]

Русский Журнал, 1997-2015. Наши координаты: [mailte:info@russ.ru info@russ.ru] Тел./факс: +7 (495) 725-78-67

| | http://www.facebook.com/gleb.pavlovsky www.facebook.com/gleb.pavlovsky] |}

Putin's inner circle (According to the Minchenko Consulting)

If you want to have more reading on Putin's ear, you can check Yevgeny Minchenko and his Minchenko Consulting website. They publish regularly the Politburo 2.0 report, which shows the scheme of inner circles.

PDF Webpage, which includes names and contacts "Юбилейный доклад":

http://www.minchenko.ru/netcat_files/userfiles/2/Dokumenty/Yubileynyy_doklad_22.08.17.pdf

• "Юбилейный доклад" PDF
• File:Minchenko Consulting 2017 Russian contacts contacts from Юбиленый доклад (DRAFT 1-09-2019 from anastasia).docx

[Expand] Putin's Inner Circle listed in According to the Minchenko Consulting ___
Name, mentioned role in the document	Position	Address and contacts Web site
Игорь Иванович Сечин Президент компании Роснефти	главный исполнительный директор нефтегазовой компании ПАО «НК „Роснефть“». Ранее заместитель руководителя администрации Президента России, заместитель Председателя Правительства Российской Федерации.	Компания «Роснефть» Почтовый адрес: Российская Федерация, 117997, Москва, Софийская набережная, 26/1 Место нахождения: Российская Федерация, г.Москва Справочная служба: Телефон: +7 (499) 517-88-99 Электронная почта: postman@rosneft.ru Телефон 8(495) 777-44-22 Сайт http://www.rosneft.ru/ www.rosneft.ru]
Сергей Викторович Чемезов Генеральный директор Ростеха	Генеральный директор корпорации «Ростех», председатель общественной организации «Союз машиностроителей России», генерал-полковник. Член бюро Высшего совета партии «Единая Россия».	Корпорация «Ростехнологии» АДРЕС ГЛАВНОГО ОФИСА Москва, Усачева, 24, 119048, Российская Федерация E-MAIL info@rostec.ru ТЕЛЕФОН +7 (495) 287-25-25 КОНТАКТЫ ДЛЯ ПРЕССЫ +7(926)-911-28-36 pressa@rostec.ru сайт https://rostec.ru/
Сергей Борисович Иванов в прошлом Глава администрации президента	Сейчас Специальный представитель Президента Российской Федерации по вопросам природоохранной деятельности, экологии и транспорта. Постоянный член Совета Безопасности Российской Федерации.	Корпорация «Ростехнологии» АДРЕС ГЛАВНОГО ОФИСА Москва, Усачева, 24, 119048, Российская Федерация E-MAIL info@rostec.ru ТЕЛЕФОН +7 (495) 287-25-25 КОНТАКТЫ ДЛЯ ПРЕССЫ +7(926)-911-28-36 pressa@rostec.ru сайт https://rostec.ru/
Вячеслав Викторович Володин заместитель Главы администрации президента	Председатель Государственной Думы Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации седьмого созыва. Избран депутатом в составе федерального списка кандидатов, выдвинутого Всероссийской политической партией «ЕДИНАЯ РОССИЯ»	Контакты Департамент взаимодействия со СМИ ЦИК Партии "ЕДИНАЯ РОССИЯ" Адрес: 121170 г. Москва, Кутузовский проспект, д. 39 (м. Кутузовская) Телефон: (495) 788-44-93 (только для представителей СМИ) E-mail: press@edinros.ru (только для представителей СМИ) Общественная приемная Телефон/факс: (495) 786-82-89, 788-44-79 Можно отправить обращение через сайт: http://duma.gov.ru/duma/persons/99100829/news/ http://duma.gov.ru/duma/persons/99100829/news/]
Собянин Сергей Семёнович Мэр Москвы		Адрес Правительства Москвы: 125032, Москва, ул. Тверская, д.13; 121205, ул. Новый Арбат, д.36/9 Справочные телефоны отдела писем граждан: 692-17-03; 692-16-94 Приемная Правительства Москвы: 692-16-37 Телефон прямой связи Правительства Москвы с жителями города: 957-04-44 Адрес электронной почты: mayor@mos.ru
Геннадий Николаевич Тимченко бизнесмен	Основатель и акционер Volga Group, член совета директоров ОАО «СИБУР Холдинг» и OAO «НОВАТЭК». Председатель Экономического совета Франко-российской торгово-промышленной палаты.	Благотворительный фонд Елены и Геннадия Тимченко: Официальный сайт: http://timchenkofoundation.org Контакты: 125284, Москва ул. Беговая, дом 3, стр. 1, бизнес-центр «Нордстар» Телефон: +7 (495) 660 56 40 Факс: +7 (495) 660 56 41 E-mail: inform@timchenkofoundation.org Volga Group: Адрес: 119021, Москва ул. Тимура Фрунзе д.11, стр.1 Для представителей СМИ: Антон Куревин, Директор по связям с общественностью E-mail: akurevin@volga-group.com Телефон (общий): +7 (495) 777 38 98
Юрий Валентинович Ковальчук бизнесмен	Член Правления Фонда «Центр стратегических разработок «Северо-Запад» Председатель Консультативного Совета Акционеров Акционерного Банка «РОССИЯ» Почетный генеральный консул Королевства Таиланд в Санкт-Петербурге	Центр стратегически разработок Северо-запад: Адрес 199106, Россия, Санкт-Петербург, 26-я линия В.О., д. 15, корп. 2, лит. А, ЦСР «Северо-Запад» Телефон: '+7 (812) 380-03-20, 380-03-21' E-mail: mail(a)csr-nw.ru Помощник руководителя Телефон: +7 (812) 380-03-20, доб. 102, 120 Банк «Россия» Адрес: 191124, Санкт-Петербург, пл. Растрелли, д.2, лит. А. Сайт в сети Интернет: http://web.abr.ru/ www.abr.ru] Электронная почта: bank@abr.ru Единый контактный центр: 8 800 100 11 11
Аркадий Романович Ротенберг Бизнесмен	Генеральный директор спортивного клуба дзюдо Владеет акциями «Явара-Нева» «Стройгазмонтаж» (100%), «Минудобрения» (80%), компания TPS Avia (35%), контролирующая международный аэропорт «Шереметьево», СМП Банк (50%).	Явара-нева, Спортивный Клуб: https://www.google.ru/search?newwindow=1&q=%D1%8F%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0-%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B0,+%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9+%D0%BA%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B1+%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOPgE-LWT9c3LCkwMq0sTtGSzU620s_JT04syczPgzOsElNSilKLiwHNWVRDLgAAAA&ludocid=8352009947011868369&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwihuM7Yld_fAhUFs4sKHRXxBvUQ6BMwEHoECAwQIw Адрес]: Каменноостровский пр., 68, лит. А, Санкт-Петербург, 197022 https://www.google.ru/search?newwindow=1&q=%D1%8F%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0-%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B0,+%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9+%D0%BA%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B1+%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD&ludocid=8352009947011868369&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwihuM7Yld_fAhUFs4sKHRXxBvUQ6BMwEXoECAwQJg Телефон]: 8 (812) 234-94-50 Email: yawara-neva@mail.ru Сайт http://yawara.spb.ru/?utm_source=neva.today http://yawara.spb.ru/?utm_source=neva.today] (владелец акций многих компаний, но контакты найти сложно, так как посты в этих компаниях не занимает)
Алексей Анатольевич Навальный Политик	Лидер партии «Россия Будущего», учредитель «Фонда борьбы с коррупцией», позиционирует себя в качестве главного оппонента руководству России во главе с Владимиром Путиным.	Сайт: https://navalny.com/ https://navalny.com/] Юридический штаб Навального помощи пострадавшим на митингах: Телефон горячей линии: 8 800 333 02 95 Электронная почта: 26.03@navalny2018.org В соц сетях: https://www.facebook.com/navalny https://www.facebook.com/navalny] https://telegram.me/NavalnyBot https://telegram.me/NavalnyBot] https://vk.com/navalny https://vk.com/navalny]
Дмитрий Анатольевич Медведев Председатель Правительства Российской Федерации	Центральная приемная Председателя Партии Единая Россия: Адрес для почтовой корреспонденции: 121170, г. Москва, Кутузовский проспект, д. 39 Телефон: (495) 786-82-89; E-mail: priem.pp@edinros.ru Официальный сайт партии: http://www.er.ru/ www.er.ru] Личный сайт: http://da-medvedev.ru/ В социальных сетях: https://www.facebook.com/Dmitry.Medvedev https://vk.com/dm
Сергей Кужугетович Шойгу Министр обороны Российской Федерации	Написать письмо по адресу: Москва, ул Знаменка, 19 Телефон - Контактный номер общественной приемной: 8 (495) 296-39-55 E-mail: pm@mil.ru Личный сайт: mil.ru (более подробная информация на сайте https://oletter.org/letter/2124)
Денис Валентинович Мантуров Министр промышленности и торговли Российской Федерации	Министр промышленности и торговли Российской Федерации с 21 мая 2012 года. Заведующий кафедрой социальных технологий социологического факультета МГУ. Действительный государственный советник Российской Федерации 1 класса.	Минпромторг: адрес: 109074, г. Москва, Китайгородский проезд, дом 7 телефон Справочная служба Минпромторга России по общим вопросам http://minpromtorg.gov.ru/contacts/ 8 (495) 539-21-87] Группа по работе с обращениями граждан Тел.: http://minpromtorg.gov.ru/contacts/ 8 (495) 647-74-04] http://minpromtorg.gov.ru/contacts/ 8 (495) 632-80-72] http://minpromtorg.gov.ru/contacts/ 8 (495) 632-82-19] E-mail: info_admin@minprom.gov.ru Справочная информация о корреспонденции Тел.: http://minpromtorg.gov.ru/contacts/ 8 (495) 539-21-66]
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Алексей Леонидович Кудрин Политик	Председатель Счётной палаты Российской Федерации с 22 мая 2018 года	Счетная палата Российской Федерации: Адрес: 119991, г. Москва, ул. Зубовская, дом 2 Телефон: +7 (495) 986-05-09 info@ach.gov.ru Написать обращение можно через сайт: http://audit.gov.ru/public_reception/ Личный сайт: https://akudrin.ru/ https://akudrin.ru/] 'Комитет гражданских инициатив: http://komitetgi.ru/ http://komitetgi.ru] Facebook: http://fb.com/KomitetGI http://fb.com/KomitetGI] Twitter: http://twitter.com/KomitetGI http://twitter.com/KomitetGI] email: info@komitetgi.ru'
Герман Оскарович Греф	президент и председатель правления Сбербанка России, бывший министр экономического развития и торговли Российской Федерации	Сбербанк: Адрес: 117997 Россия, Москва, ул. Вавилова, д. 19' E-mail: media@sberbank.ru Можно написать письмо через сайт https://pravo.media/zhaloba/napisat-pismo-g-o-grefu/ https://pravo.media/zhaloba/napisat-pismo-g-o-grefu/]
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Рамзан Ахматович Кадыров Президент Чеченской Республики	Глава Чеченской Республики с 15 февраля 2007 года, премьер-министр Чеченской Республики, член бюро высшего совета партии «Единая Россия»	Президент Чеченской Республики: Адрес: Чеченская республика, город Грозный, улица Гаражная, дом 10, индекс 364000 cancchr@rambler.ru rupsprav@mail.ru feedback_95@mail.ru https://twitter.com/RKadyrov https://twitter.com/RKadyrov] https://vk.com/ramzan
Виктор Васильевич Золотов	российский военачальник. Директор Федеральной службы войск национальной гвардии Российской Федерации — главнокомандующий войсками национальной гвардии Российской Федерации с 5 апреля 2016 года, генерал армии.	Федеральная служба войск национальной гвардии РФ 111250, г.Москва, ул. Красноказарменная, д.9а +7 495 361-85-79
Эльвира Сахипзадовна Набиуллина Государственный деятель	российский государственный и политический деятель. Председатель Центрального банка Российской Федерации с 24 июня 2013 года. Заслуженный экономист России. Действительный государственный советник Российской Федерации 1 класса	Центробанк РФ: 107016, Москва, ул. Неглинная, д. 12, Банк России Факс +7 495 621-64-65, +7 495 621-62-88 проверка прохождения факса +7 495 771-48-30; Почтовые адреса и факсы https://www.cbr.ru/today/?PrtId=tubr территориальных отделений Банка России] Пункт приема корреспонденции Москва, Сандуновский пер., д. 3, стр. 1 понедельник – четверг: с 9:00 до 17:30 (перерыв с 12:00 до 13:00) пятница: с 9:00 до 16:15 (перерыв с 12:00 до 13:00)
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Олег Валентинович Белозёров	российский государственный деятель и управленец. Генеральный директор — председатель правления ОАО «Российские железные дороги».	ОАО «Российские железные дороги» Адрес: 107174, Москва, Новая Басманная ул., д. 2 Написать обращение на сайте: https://www.rzd.ru/public-reception/public/ru?STRUCTURE_ID=5216&layer_id=5571&refererLayerId=5763&veep_id=22]

RUSSIAN THINK TANKS

Government consultancy

• https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%86%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D1%80 "Think tanks" in Russian]

Russia has 215 think tanks.

Russian Think Tanks and Soft Power (PDF)

• File:Russian Think Tanks and Soft Power (FOI-R--4451--SE).pdf
• File:Russian Think Tanks and Soft Power (Draft 2).docx

Moscow Russian think tanks, NGOs, political organizations

Other think tanks Wikipedia: Think tanks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_think_tanks#Russia Agentura.Ru Analytical Center for the Government of the Russian Federation Carnegie Moscow Center (United States-based) Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies Center for Strategic Research (Russia) Central Economic Mathematical Institute Civil Society Development Foundation Dialogue of Civilizations (DOC) (Berlin-based) Gorchakov Fund INSOR Institute for Election Systems Development Institute for US and Canadian Studies Institute of Democracy and Cooperation (IDC) (Paris-based) Institute of World Economy and International Relations Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISI) Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) SOVA Center Valdai Discussion Club Other think tanks: https://css.ethz.ch/content/specialinterest/gess/cis/center-for-securities-studies/en/services/search.html?_charset_=UTF-8&simple=true&keywords=Moscow&resourcetype=organization Russian Think tanks are usually attached to an institute.

|-valign=top ! Name ! Link(s) ! Contact information ! Source |-valign=top ! Institute for US and Canadian Studies | http://iskran.ru/en/homepage

| 121069 Moscow Khlebnyy Pereulok 2/3

https://yandex.ru/maps/-/CCUZBHTTCA

Metro: Light Blue

Arbaskaya 

| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_US_and_Canadian_Studies Institute for US and Canadian Studies ] |-valign=top ! Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) | https://russiancouncil.ru/en/

• https://russiancouncil.ru/en/press/calendar/ English calendar]
• https://russiancouncil.ru/press/calendar/ Russian calendar]
• https://www.facebook.com/RussianCouncilEn/ Facebook] - No events listed

"RIAC has access to the highest echelons of power"

| Metro: Orange and Brown line

Oktyabrskaya 

8 4th Dobryninsky Pereulok, Moscow, 119049

4-й Добрынинский переулок, 8, Москва, 119049

55.727536, 37.616917

https://yandex.ru/maps/-/CCUZ5LFqPD

Telephone: +7 (495) 225 6283 Fax: +7 (495) 225 6284

E-mail: welcome@russiancouncil.ru | File:Russian Think Tanks and Soft Power (FOI-R--4451--SE).pdf |-valign=top ! Valdai Club | http://valdaiclub.com/events/

• https://www.facebook.com/ValdaiClub/ Facebook]
  • https://facebook.com/pg/ValdaiClub/events/?ref=page_internal&mt_nav=0 Facebook events]

| 16/1 Tsvetnoy Boulevard St., Moscow, Russia, 127051

Цветной бульвар, 16/1, Москва, 127051

Metro Gray line

Цветной бульвар

55.769484, 37.622747

Phone: +7 (495) 734-72-77

Email: admin@valdaiclub.com

https://yandex.ru/maps/-/CCUZ5LRQwD

• http://valdaiclub.com/about/contacts/ contacts]

| File:Russian Think Tanks and Soft Power (FOI-R--4451--SE).pdf |-valign=top ! Council for Foreign and Defense Policy (SVOP) | http://svop.ru/category/announcements/ (new upcoming events)

• https://www.facebook.com/svopru Facebook]
  • https://facebook.com/pg/svopru/events/?ref=page_internal&mt_nav=0 Facebook events]

Appears to remain an important network for Russian experts

Closely affiliated with both SVOP and the RIAC, is published in both Russian and English

One of few Russian journals that reach an English-speaking community

| Malaya Ordynka Ulitsa 29

55.734045, 37.625855

Metro Orange line

Третьяковская

Exit 2

https://yandex.ru/maps/-/CCUZ5LREhB

| File:Russian Think Tanks and Soft Power (FOI-R--4451--SE).pdf |-valign=top | Gorchakov Fund Фонд Горчакова

https://gorchakovfund.ru/en/about/bio/ Origin of name] - Established in 2010 |

• https://gorchakovfund.ru/en/ (events on the right)
• https://gorchakovfund.ru/ (Russian page - events on the right)
• https://facebook.com/pg/FondGorcakova/events/?ref=page_internal&mt_nav=0 Facebook events]

• VK https://vk.com/gorchakovfund

| 10/1 Yakovoapostolsky pereulok

55.758671, 37.655239

Metro Blue and Brown circle line

Курская  

https://yandex.ru/maps/-/CCUZ5LRJWC

| File:Russian Think Tanks and Soft Power (FOI-R--4451--SE).pdf |-valign=top ! Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS) | https://riss.ru/

• Russian events: https://riss-ru.translate.goog/news/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en

• https://facebook.com/pg/ru.strategy/events/?ref=page_internal&mt_nav=0 Facebook events] Last ENGLISH event in May 2019

Think tank that is most likely to influence Russian foreign policy-making since its analyses are circulated within the Presidential Administration, the Security Council and government.

From 1992 to 2009, the RISI was an institute under the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). Mikhail Fradkov headed the SVR from 2007 to 2016 and took over as director of the RISI in January 2017. |

ADDRESS 1

119002 Москва, Смоленский бульв 26/9с1

Smolensky Boulevard, 26\9

55.743340, 37.584784

https://yandex.ru/maps/-/CCUZBHD5lD

Metro: DARK BLUE

Smolenskaya  Смоленская

ADDRESS 2

125413 Москва, ул. Флотская 15Б

ul. Flotskaja 15B

https://yandex.ru/maps/-/CCUZBHDnLD

Metro: GREEN

Rechnoy Vokzal  Речной вокзал 

mail@riss.ru email about events ( Электронная почта )

| File:Russian Think Tanks and Soft Power (FOI-R--4451--SE).pdf

|-valign=top ! Russia House | http://russiahouse.org/ | AMERICAN BASED

| From Ru Pac November 7, 2020

|-valign=top ! OLD & not valuable ! OLD & not valuable ! OLD & not valuable ! OLD & not valuable

|-valign=top !

Eurasia Heritage Foundation (Closed?)

| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasia_Heritage_Foundation Wikipedia]
http://www.fundeh.org/eng/ (link broken)
http://www.eurasianhome.org/xml/t/default.xml?lang=en&s=-1] (link broken) |

| G*** - Beverly Hills Cafe. April 3rd 2019 Wednesday |-valign=top ! Sakharov center

Very Liberal | https://www.sakharov-center.ru/ (Russian)

https://www.sakharov-center.ru/calendar (Russian) |

| G*** - Beverly Hills Cafe. October 18 2019 Friday, day before the "premier" of Trinity movie |-valign=top ! AUTHOR Russian Conservatism, Paul Robinson

Speech, 22nd October 2019, Tuesday MGIMO

| https://irrussianality.wordpress.com/author/paulfrobinson/ WordPress]

Subscribed through WordPress

|

| G**** Beverly Hills Cafe. October 18 2019 Friday, day before the "premier" of Trinity movie |- valign=top ! Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Moscow Center | https://carnegie.ru/about/?lang=en

https://carnegie.ru/events/?lang=en Events] | CALL

Only has event archive, no current events

| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_think_tanks#Russia Wikipedia] |- valign=top ! Institute of World Economy and International Relations of Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO) | https://www.imemo.ru/en

• https://www.facebook.com/imemo.ras Facebook]
  • https://www.facebook.com/pg/imemo.ras/events/?ref=page_internal Facebook events] - Last 2018

|

| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_think_tanks#Russia Wikipedia] |- valign=top ! MGIMO | https://english.mgimo.ru/news

• https://www.facebook.com/mgimo.en/ Facebook]

|

Other event pages available? | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_think_tanks#Russia Wikipedia] |- valign=top ! Institute for US and Canadian Studies ISKRAN | http://www.iskran.ru/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_US_and_Canadian_Studies English Wikipedia]
• https://www.facebook.com/pages/Institute-for-US-and-Canadian-Studies Facebook] - Old, March 2019.

|

| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_think_tanks#Russia Wikipedia] |- valign=top ! Independent Institute for Social Policy (IISP) | http://www.socpol.ru/eng/about/ Broken |

| https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017&context=think_tanks 2018 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report] |- valign=top ! St. Petersburg Center for Humanities and Political Studies | http://strategy-spb.ru/en/

• https://www.facebook.com/pages/Saint-Petersburg-Center-for-Humanities-and-Political-Studies-Strategy/256598887733191/ Facebook] Empty

|

| https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017&context=think_tanks 2018 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report] |- valign=top ! Centre for Independent Social Research | https://cisr.pro/en/about/

• https://cisr.pro/en/events/ Events]

|

| https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017&context=think_tanks 2018 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report] |- valign=top ! Center for Strategic Research | https://www.csr.ru/en/

• https://www.facebook.com/csr.moscow/ Facebook]
• https://www.facebook.com/pg/csr.moscow/events/?ref=page_internal/ Events]

| 3-5 bld. 1, Gazetny pereulok, Moscow, Russia, 125009

press@csr.ru

+7 (495) 725-78-06, +7 (495) 725-78-50

| https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017&context=think_tanks 2018 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report] |- valign=top ! Center for International and Regional Policy (CIRP) | http://www.cirp.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8&Itemid=4 Website]

• http://www.cirp.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=7&35ab755042543fdb4e52da8799ac7527=27f600d459160fd04d7a488face482d7/ Events] (last event listed 2010)

|

| https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017&context=think_tanks 2018 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report] |- valign=top ! Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IERAS) | http://en.instituteofeurope.ru/30let-ie-ras/about

• https://www.facebook.com/pg/Instofeu/about/ Facebook]

| Mokhovaya Str., 11/3

8 (495) 629-56-47, 692-12-06 europe@ieras.ru europe-ins@mail.ru

| https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017&context=think_tanks 2018 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report] |- valign=top ! Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SI RAS) | http://eng.socinst.ru/ | Saint-Petersburg, ul. 7-ya Krasnoarmeyskaya, d. 25/14 +7 (812) 316 2496, +7 (812) 316 3270 socinst@socinst.ru si_ras@mail.ru

| https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017&context=think_tanks 2018 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report] |- valign=top ! Russkiy Mir Foundation | https://russkiymir.ru/en/

• https://www.facebook.com/%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9-%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80-164050503624760/ Facebook]
• https://www.facebook.com/pg/%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9-%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80-164050503624760/events/?ref=page_internal/ Events]

| ул. Кржижановского, д. 13, корп. 2.8 (495) 981-56-80 info@russkiymir.ru

| https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017&context=think_tanks 2018 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report] |- valign=top ! Russian Institute of Europe | http://en.instituteofeurope.ru/30let-ie-ras/about | Mokhovaya Str., 11/3 europe@ieras.ru europe-ins@mail.ru

| https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1017&context=think_tanks 2018 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report]

|- valign=top ! Rossotrudnichestvo, Russkiy | |

| How Russian «soft power» manipulate Belarusian identity

|- valign=top ! Mir Foundation | |

| How Russian «soft power» manipulate Belarusian identity

|- valign=top ! The Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund | |

| How Russian «soft power» manipulate Belarusian identity

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|-valign=top ! Rethinking Russia (webpage broken) | https://rethinkingrussia.ru/

• https://www.facebook.com/rethinkingrussia Facebook] (no events)

Rethinking Russia was created as an alternative to the Valdai Club. |

| File:Russian Think Tanks and Soft Power (FOI-R--4451--SE).pdf

|-valign=top ! Information Security Institute (ISII) ABANDONED THINK TANK??? | http://www.iisi.msu.ru/

• http://www.iisi.msu.ru/events/ (No events listed)

Information Security Institute was founded in 2003 and is a separate department of Moscow State University. The institute’s work consists more in providing services to Russian government authorities and big business than in producing scholarly work. |

| File:Russian Think Tanks and Soft Power (FOI-R--4451--SE).pdf

|-valign=top ! Dialogue of Civilizations (DOC) (Based in Berlin) | https://doc-research.org/all-events/

• https://www.facebook.com/pg/DOCResearchInstitute/events/?ref=page_internal Facebook events]

The Dialogue of Civilizations research centre appears to be well funded. Yakunin is regarded as belonging to an inner circle of the power network around Vladimir Putin.

|-valign=top ! Dialogue of Civilizations (DOC) BERLIN BASED | https://doc-research.org/all-events/

• https://www.facebook.com/pg/DOCResearchInstitute/events/?ref=page_internal Facebook events]

The Dialogue of Civilizations research centre appears to be well funded. Yakunin is regarded as belonging to an inner circle of the power network around Vladimir Putin. | |}

Removed:

• Levanda Center - Yui Levada Analytical Center http://www.levada.ru/en/ https://www.facebook.com/levada.ru
• Memorial "Liberal"
• Soldiers Mothers Liberal 1st Chechnya War to get remains of soldiers
• The Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers of Russia (CSMR) ?? https://www.rightlivelihoodaward.org/laureates/the-committee-of-soldiers-mothers-of-russia-csmr/]  ?? "Liberal"

Legal meetings

Name	Link(s)	Address	Phone	Email		Source
Pericles (Perikl) - International Legal & Business Education Center	http://www.pericles.ru/able/ (upcoming events)	Marksistskaya St, 34, корпус 7	8 (495) 649-22-73
Lomonosov Moscow State University Faculty of Law	https://www.law.msu.ru/node/39173	Leninskiye Gory, 1, к. 13, 14	8 (495) 939-29-03
Moscow State Institute of International Relations	https://www.facebook.com/pg/mgimo.university/events/?ref=page_internal	prospekti Vernadskogo, 7	8 (495) 229-40-49
Higher School of Economics, Faculty of Law	https://www.facebook.com/pg/pravohseru/events/?ref=page_internal	Bolshoy Trekhsvyatitel'skiy Pereulok, 3	8 (495) 772-95-90
The International School of Moscow - Krylatskoe Campus	https://www.nordangliaeducation.com/our-schools/russia/moscow/international/home	Krylatskaya Ulitsa, 12	8 (499) 922-44-00

RUSSIAN MEDIA

EVENING WITH VLADIMIR SOLOVYOV - television show (vecher s Solovyevym) (вечер с Соловьевым)

Vladimir Solovyev (Владимир Рудольфович Соловьёв) host

https://russia.tv/brand/show/brand_id/21385/

https://goo.gl/maps/3YfWh9Nry1KkHzUk8

A Guide to Media and Journalism in Russia: https://geohistory.today/media-journalism-russia (Geo History)

This page was last updated in 2021 by SRAS Home and Abroad Scholar Jacob Babb. Bishkek Kyrgyzstan

https://sras.heiapply.com/catalogue/programmes/1240

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Solovyov_(journalist) - Россия-1

He is best known being an anchor on the television show Sunday evening with Vladimir Solovyov on Russia-1.

Строение 1, 5-я Ямского Поля ул., 19/21, Москва, 125040

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Urgant

Most famous late night television talk show host.

Major Russian News Agencies

https://tass.com TASS] is directly run by the Russian government.

https://ria.ru/ RIA Novosti] is another Russian government-owned agency, operated much like TASS.

https://sputniknews.com/ Sputnik] is a news agency that operates as a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_enterprise unitary enterprise] under the purview of the Russian Federal Agency on Press and Mass Communications (this means that they are officially independent, but give all profits to the government and the government owns all their property).

http://www.interfax.ru/ Interfax] is a privately held company founded by employees of the Voice of Russia radio station shortly before the fall of the Soviet Union. It has worked closely with some government entities (such as the Federal Financial Markets Service) as well as western entities such as Reuters news agency and Moody’s ratings service. Products and services are provided http://www.interfax.com/ in English], but only the Russian language site contains substantial free news.

http://www.rosbalt.ru/ Rosbalt] is a joint stock company controlled by Natalya Cherkesova, a journalist and the General Editor of Rosbalt. She is the wife of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Cherkesov Victor Cherkesov], a Duma Deputy with the Communist Party who once served in high positions under Vladimir Putin.

http://www.regnum.ru/ Regnum] is majority-owned and managed by its founders, http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2,_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 Modest Kolerov] (president) and Boris Sorokin (managing partner). Kolerov has served in state foreign policy positions. Both founders are known for conservative political view points and for supporting a strong role for Russia in its near abroad. Modest Kolerov has been banned from travel to Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Georgia for comments he has made about those states and their relationship with Russia.

http://ura.ru/ Ura.ru] is based in Ekaterinburg and is focused on news from the Urals Federal District. It is owned by businessman http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2,_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B9_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_(%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BA) Alexei Bobrov].

Russian newspapers

• https://www.4imn.com/ru/

Russia has more than 40,000 registered print publications. The following is a selection of some of the most popular or well-known and focuses on 'widely available papers.

http://www.rg.ru Rossiyskaya Gazeta] (RG) is the Russian government’s “paper of record” – meaning that the Russian government is required by law to publish new laws in the mass media and Rossiyskaya Gazeta is the paper in which it does so. RG also covers politics, business, and culture. It is a daily publication with print runs of 132,000 as of December 2016. RG-Nedelya, a weekly sister publication, runs at nearly 3.3 million copies. Both publications are directly owned by the Russian government.

http://vmdaily.ru/ Vchernaya Moskva] has the largest single weekly circulation of any newspaper in Moscow. Supported by the Moscow City Government as a “city newspaper of influence” (meant to disseminate the opinion of the city authorities) since 2011, Vchernaya Moskva publishes nearly one million newspapers in the capital every week. These are spread over three formats: a daily; a weekend edition; and a twice-weekly that is available for free in Moscow’s subway system. Emphasis is on business, government social programs and regulations, and culture in the city. Politics and society are also covered.

http://www.kommersant.ru Kommersant] focuses on business and politics. Originally owned by opposition-minded investors, the paper is now owned by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alisher_Usmanov Alisher Usmanov], known as a Kremlin-friendly oligarch. There have been some editorial clashes between Usmanov and the paper, although it does largely retain a reputation as independent. It has daily print runs of about 120,000.

http://www.rbcdaily.ru/ RBK Daily] is known for business coverage, but also covers other subjects. Its daily print runs are about 80,000. It is owned by the media group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBK_Group RosBusinessKonsulting], a publicly traded company that is majority owned by Cyprus-based Praga Ltd. which is controlled by http://www.onexim.org/ Onexim Group]; all of which previously controlled by famous liberal oligarch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Prokhorov Mikhael Prokhorov]. In July, 2021, RBK Daily came https://ria.ru/20210711/turkmeniya-1740838427.html under fire] from the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan, due to a claimed number of reports grossly misrepresenting the country’s handling of COVID-19, and supposed movement of Turkmen troops on the Afghan border.

http://www.vedomosti.ru/ Vedomosti] is daily paper with print runs of about https://cdn5.vedomosti.ru/application/2020/4c/13lfwp/original-1fbd.pdf 150,000]. It is owned by businessman Ivan Yeremin via his holding company Sapport and includes translated news from the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Moscow Times, as well as original reporting. In March of 2020, a controversy began over the publication’s new editor-in-chief and accusations of censorship to suit pro-government narratives. In June of 2020 much of the senior staff left Vedomosti to found the now defunct online publication known as “https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTimes VTimes].”

http://www.mk.ru/ Moskovskii Komsomolets] was once the official paper of the Moscow’s official communist youth group. It is still published every day but Sunday and is one of the most affordable papers on the market (30-50 cents). It is privately held by journalist and businessman http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%83%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B2,_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 Pavel Gusev], who chairs the Moscow Union of Journalists (see “Professional Organizations,” below) and who is on several government boards concerning human rights and civil society. Daily distribution is up to 470,000.

http://www.aif.ru/ Argumenti i Fakti] is a weekly publication and one of the world’s largest newspapers by circulation, with print runs of nearly three million, similar to The Sun (UK), to which it is also similar in style. Published since 1978, it comes in various regional, international, and topical issues. Once owned by Promsvyazkapital via the holding company Media 3 (see “Media Conglomerates” below), but now being sold to the Moscow City Government, which paid nothing for it, but did assume the paper’s debts totaling $55 million.

http://www.kp.ru/ Komsomolskaya Pravda] is the former mouthpiece of the Komsomol, the official youth group of the Communist Party. It’s now one of Russia’s https://advert.kp.ru/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B0-%D0%9A%D0%9F-6.2021-1.pdf largest tabloid-format] newspapers, printing about 600,000 daily copies and about two million weekly “fat editions” inside Russia (and nearly one million more outside of Russia). It is owned by Media Partner, a company controlled by the top 10 media entrepreneur and businessman http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%91%D0%B7%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD,_%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 Grigorii Berezkin], who also owns the Russian publications of http://www.metronews.ru/ Metro] (below) and holdings in the energy sector.

http://www.metronews.ru/ Metro] is a free, international tabloid based in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_International Luxembourg] and published in localized editions in major cities. All revenue comes from advertising. Its Russian editions are published daily in Moscow (450,000 print runs) and St. Petersburg (330,000 print runs) as well as weekly in other cities like Kazan (280,000), Ekaterinburg (100,000), and other cities. All of Metro’s Russian editions are published by Media Partner, again, a company controlled by businessman http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%91%D0%B7%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD,_%D0%93%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 Grigorii Berezkin], who also owns the paper http://www.kp.ru/ Komsomolskaya Pravda].

http://www.izvestia.ru/ Izvestia] was a paper of record for the USSR. While highly respected after the fall of the USSR (and a one-time partner with The New York Times), the paper was unprofitable and changed hands several times before being purchased by http://www.nm-g.ru/ National Media Group] (see Major Media Conglomerates, below) in 2011. The paper was shrunk in size and staff and became more oriented towards business and culture. It now has print runs in Russia of about 72,000. Chaired by businessman and journalist http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2,_%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC_%D0%90%D1%88%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 Aram Gabrelyanov] (see Lifenews.ru under “Internet Only,” below).

http://www.trud.ru/ Trud] was once a flagship of Communist ideology. By 2005, it was fully owned by Media 3 (see Media Conglomerates, below). Advertising revenues declined as the owners tried to rebrand one of Russia’s oldest newspapers for a younger audience. It was eventually sold to The Society of Free Journalists, an organization controlled by Sergei Tsoi, a former press secretary for former Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. Tsoi also once managed many of the extensive media holdings of the Moscow City Government (see “Media Conglomerates” below). Trud is published weekly with print runs of 85,000.

http://www.ng.ru/ Nezavisimaya Gazeta] was once owned by The Berezovsky Media Group (owned by former oligarch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Berezovsky_(businessman) Boris Berezovsky]). Since 2005, it has been owned by http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%BC%D1%87%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2,_%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 Konstantin Remchukov], a journalist and businessman who once also served as a Duma Deputy as a member of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Nemtsov Boris Nemtsov]‘s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_Right_Forces Union of Right Forces] Party. The paper is known for its opposition political and social reporting. It is published weekly with print runs of 40,000.

http://www.novayagazeta.ru/ Novaya Gazeta] was opened in 1993 by Mikhail Gorbachev using money from his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize. Gorbachev, with liberal oligarch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lebedev Alexander Lebedev], still owns 49% of the paper. The remaining 51% is owned by the newspaper staff. Known for oppositionist political reporting, the paper is known for the number of its journalists that have been assassinated (including http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Politkovskaya Anna Politkovskaya] and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Markelov Stanislav Markelov]). It is printed thrice weekly with a total of 123,400 copies printed each week.

http://lgz.ru/ Literaturnaya Gazeta] was first founded in 1830 by a literary group led by Alexander Pushkin. It became a staple of Soviet life and by 1989, it ran in print runs of 6.5 million, one of the largest of any newspaper ever. Today, without the massive Soviet subsidies, the paper prints weekly runs of just 113,800. Its focus is on literature (and itself publishes some stories and poems), news about literature and art, and also it also runs political and social commentary. It is owned and operated by a non-profit group of the same name that is specifically devoted to publishing the paper.

Russian Periodicals - electronic and in print

1. Foreign affairs in Russia ( in Russian - a periodical, magazine?)

2. JRL (Johnson's Russia list) Russian US daily.

https://russialist.org/

davidjohnson@starpower.net

Russia Beyond

(Interviewed Jeff Monson)

• • https://www.rbth.com/
  • https://www.youtube.com/user/RBTHvideo/about
  • https://www.facebook.com/russiabeyond
  • https://twitter.com/russiabeyond
  • info@rbth.com

Personalities to follow

Gordon M. Hahn

• GORDON M. HAHN
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_M._Hahn
  • https://web.facebook.com/gordon.hahn1
  • Heritage Foundation

Russian orthodox church

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpdkDZIkMbg Russia's rise in conservative family values], Alexander Dugin featured prominently at 12:30.

Notes

Here is a German documentary about Presidents Putin's time in power. Contrast this with the following facts.

6 FACTS:

1️⃣ President Putin has consistently won elections with *~60% or more of the electorate voting for him* All foreign press acknowledges that President Putin won Russian elections with overwhelming majorities and their are *hundreds of opinion polls* conducted by Western organizations which support this fact.

2️⃣ US Congressmen, US Senators and most state governors can stay in power for their entire lives. Of all 3 US branches of government only the President has term limits.

3️⃣ The Supreme Court is a lifetime appointment, along with many state and federal judges.

4️⃣ America supports brutal dictators such as Saudi Arabia which has killed hundreds of thousands of Yemenis with the United States blessings and active support.

5️⃣ When the USSR collapsed, Russia trusted America that they would be honest and fair. Instead, America conducted what is called the "Shock Doctrine" on Russia. They helped create and actively encouraged the destabilization of Russia. The US actively and brazenly interfered in Russia elections to reelect the drunkard Yeltsin. When President Putin came to power *2/3rds of the country* was in poverty. Further, the US promised not to expand NATO and they broke this promise repeatedly.

6️⃣ US President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski (Who also proudly admitted that the US goated the USSR into the Afghanistan War) *openly* admitted in his memoirs that social freedoms such as freedom of speech, etc, were used *solely* as a weapon to weaken the USSR.

Again, if America loves democracy so much, why does America actively support and fund one of the most oppressive countries in the world, Saudi Arabia?

https://youtu.be/lAjruwb-yms It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted in a profoundly sick society -- Jiddu Krishnamurti

🤔 “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they have tried everything else.” -- Winston Churchill

🤔 "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed things up and creatures and then retreated back into their money, or their vast carelessness... and let other people clean up the mess." -- Scott Fitzgerald "The Great Gatsby".

- As quoted in a apologetic article of American Imperialism in October, 2001: The Politics of Rage: Why Do They Hate Us?

https://www.newsweek.com/politics-rage-why-do-they-hate-us-154345

My critique of this article in 2004: https://bailey83221.livejournal.com/716.html

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle

Collective Guilt

To ignore evil is to become accomplice to it -- Martin Luther King

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything. -- Albert Einstein

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” — Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -- Edmund Burke

If you are neutral on situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor - Desmond Tutu

Povery is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil but because of those who look on and do nothing.

“The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money powers of the country will endeavor to prolong it’s reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.” ― Abraham Lincoln

Goliath is described in the biblical Book of Samuel as as a giant defeated by young David in single combat.

Valor and Bravery - Hope in the face of conflict

"There are moments in life when you must act even though you cannot carry your best friends with you. The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty." -- Mahatma Gandhi

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Be strong enough to stand alone, be yourself enough to stand apart, but be wise enough to stand together when the time comes.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret Mead

There are moments in life when you must act even though you cannot carry your best friends with you. The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty. -- Mahatma Gandhi

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter -- Martin Luther King

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) , Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"

кто не рискует, тот не пьет шампанского - There is no champagne without risk.https://www.proz.com/kudoz/russian_to_english/other/489543-%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE_%D0%BD%D0%B5_%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%B5%D1%82_%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%82_%D0%BD%D0%B5_%D0%BF%D1%8C%D0%B5%D1%82_%D1%88%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE.html]

"Jump and the net will appear"

Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything

Winston Churchill:You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Be the change you want to see in the World -- Mahatma Gandhi

Death

After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others. -- Julio Cortazar

Nature knows neither creation nor destruction. Nature knows only transformation.

-- Verner Von Braun

To sort

“To know one country is to know none" - Seymour Martin Lipset, Sociologist

The French have a saying, “Quand on connait sa maladie, on est à moitié guéri”—“When you know your sickness, you are halfway cured.”

"No, I'm not a pessimist. At some point the world shits on everybody. Pretending it ain't shit makes you an idiot, not an optimist."

Some thoughts should never be conceived. Some questions should never be asked, because they have no answer, and the questions themselves serve only to haunt with grinding guilt and second-guessing. -- Slow Burn, Dead Fire (Zombie Book)

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.-- Maya Angelou

Hate is like drinking poison, and hoping the other guy dies -- St.Augustine

"An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot." - Lawrence of Arabia - http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0918-04.htm

Wikipedia

"Wikipedia is a kind of truly collaborative and social platform [which] provides a good opportunity for sociologist...to better understand the evolution of social cognition - that is, the ability of a group of people to remember, think, and reason." -- Social Knowledge Dynamics: A Case Study on Modeling Wikipedia Benyun Shi doi=10.1.1.590.7210 https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.590.7210&rep=rep1&type=pdf

"It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society" -- Jiddu Krishnamurti

New to sort

What I don't like about Washington is people do not let you know how they feel. They're very nice to your face and then they take a shiv or a machete and they stab it in your back. I don't like it. I'm a Wall Street guy and I’m more of a front-stabbing person, and I would rather people tell directly how I feel about them than this sort of nonsense. - Scaramucci https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/26/16033638/scaramucci-front-stabbing-person-trump-tweet-health-care-murkowski]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_(slang) in colleges:June 12, 2017

• "But there is another view (about safe spaces) that is now ascendant … It’s a horrible view, which is that ‘I need to be safe ideologically, I need to be safe emotionally, I just need to feel good all the time. And if someone else says something that I don’t like, that is a problem for everyone else, including the administration.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/safe-spaces-college-intolerant_b_58d957a6e4b02a2eaab66ccf

Williamson articulated the level of courage it can take to overcome the fear of allowing our outer life to reflect the power of which our inner life is aware:

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we're liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. (p. 190–191)

One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. — Martin Luther King (1963)

In loving memory of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz and in deep appreciation of the trailblazer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub

Be the change you want to see in the World -- Mahatma Gandhi

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter -- Martin Luther King

Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment; and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. -- George Bernard Shaw

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.-- Helen Keller

A person begins to live only when he manages to surpass himself. -- Albert Einstein Russian: Человек начинает жить лишь тогда, когда ему удается превзойти самого себя. --Альберт Эйнштейн

When I was 5 years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy.” They told me I didn’t understand the assignment and I told them they didn’t understand life. -- John Lennon

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. -- Jack London

The only constant in life is change

The greatest enemy to prejudice is travel - Mark Twain

Ideologies

"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself." - Rollo May

"A man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still." -- Benjamin Franklin.

Cognitive dissonance

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

-- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) , Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"

A person who finds a topic very confusing will often suspend judgment and keep right on believing in whatever he hopes is true. Over time, his questions lose urgency, and though not resolved, cease to become bothersome. Trust in a system will also help sustain a person through confusion until he reaches the point of no longer caring whether an answer is reasonable or not, or indeed, whether an answer even exists.

--Chapter 12 http://www.irr.org/mit/Books/BHOH/bhoh1.html By His Own Hand Upon Papyrus]: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri

"When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it... Attack includes such mild forms as ridicule, and escape includes merely putting out of mind."

-- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author-exact=W.%20I.%20B%20Beveridge/002-9806057-1579261 William I.B. Beveridge], FFttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1932846050/qid=1119798738/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-9806057-1579261?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 The Art of Scientific Investigation], 1957

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity (clamness) opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

--Albert Einstein

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

-- Bertrand Russell

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

--Alexis de Tocqueville

"In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either." --Mark Twain

Political repression in America…is American as apple pie

--http://www.recordedbooks.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=scholar.show_course&course_id=40 American Inquisition: The Era of McCarthyism], Tape 9: Joe McCarthy and the Loss of China. Ellen Schrecker

"The lust for money may be distasteful, the desire for power ignoble, but neither will drive its devotees to the criminal excess of an idea on the march. Whether the idea is the triumph of the working class or of a master race, ideology leads to the graveyard." Corey Robin in the London Review of Books quoted here http://hnn.us/articles/24482.html http://hnn.us/articles/24482.html]

"Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski, in what he called the law of the infinite cornucopia, stated that there was never a shortage of arguments to support any doctrine one wanted to believe in for whatever reasons."MICHAEL COOPER http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/06/us/politics/06myths.html?src=twrhp Parsing the Myths of the Midterm Election] November 5, 2010

Beliefs never change

Adam Ruins Everything - Why Proving Someone Wrong Often Backfires <h>Q8NydsXl32s</h> Your entire show's built around the idea that if you prevent someone with better information you can change their mind. But the surprising truth is disproving a misconception can actually strengthen a person's belief in that misconception. It's called the backfire effect. The More you prove someone wrong the more they think they're right. That can't be true I change people's minds every day. You just proved my point I presented you with information that goes against you thinking and you just dug right into your beliefs. one study found that when people concerned about side effects with a flu shot were informed it was safe they actually became less willing to get it but those so illogical how is it possible? Because when you try to change someone’s mind the other person often feels attacked. Being proven wrong actually activates the same area of the brain as real physical paint [Music] World star stay ?? you can. A right hook will hurt ya. But her right facts will too. Being proven wrong hurts so much it often causes a fight-or-flight response I gotta get out of here. Nope you need to hear this Why am i reacting like this? Normally I love learning new things Simple you're protecting your identity. It’s called identity protective cognition [Music] Link http://www.trutv.com/shows/adam-ruins-everything/videos/why-proving-someone-wrong-often-backfires.html Sources http://www.trutv.com/shows/adam-ruins-everything/blog/adams-sources/emily-ruins-adam.html "But the surprising truth is, disproving a misconception can actually strengthen a person's belief in that misconception." Craig Silverman. http://archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_backfire_effect.php The Backfire Effect: More on the Press's Inability to Debunk Bad Information.] * Columbia Journalism Review, 17 Jun 2011. "One study showed that when people concerned about the side effects of the flu shot were informed that it was safe, they actually became less willing to get it." Cari Romm. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/12/vaccine-myth-busting-can-backfire/383700/ Vaccine Mythbusting can Backfire.] * The Atlantic, 12 Dec 2014. "Being proven wrong actually activates the same areas of the brain as real physical pain." C. Nathan DeWall, Geoff MacDonald, Gregory D. Webster, Carrie L. Masten, Roy F. Baumeister, Caitlin Powell, David Combs, David R. Schurtz, Tyler F. Stillman, Dianne M. Tice, and Naomi I. Eisenberger. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797610374741 Acetaminophen Reduces Social Pain.] * Psychological Science, 14 Jun 2010. "But when the truth threatens their identity, they push back hard." Maria Konnikova. http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/i-dont-want-to-be-right I Don't Want To Be Right.] * The New Yorker, 16 May 2014. "When a fact contradicts our beliefs, we often hide behind emotional arguments that can't be disproven." Troy Campbell. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-people-fly-from-facts/ Why People Fly From Facts.] * Scientific American, 3 Mar 2015. "The "Backfire Effect" happens because our emotions are faster than logical thoughts." Chris Mooney. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/03/denial-science-chris-mooney The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science.] * Mother Jones, May/Jun 2011. "Finding out you're wrong is the first step toward one day being right." Henry L. Roediger and Brigid Finn. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/getting-it-wrong/ Getting it Wrong: Surprising Tips on How To Learn.] * Scientific American Mind, 20 Oct 2009. "And people actually like you more if they see you screw up. It's called the 'Pratfall Effect.'" John Tauer. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/goal-posts/200907/image-is-everything-lebron-james-and-the-pratfall-effect Image is Everything: LeBron James and the Pratfall Effect.] * Psychology Today, 22 Jul 2009. "Doctors who are honest about their errors are more likely to have more trusting patients, not fewer." Kathleen M. Mazor, George W. Reed, Robert A. Yood, Melissa A. Fischer, Joann Baril and Jerry H. Gurwitz. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1924693/ Disclosure of Medical Errors: What Factors Influence How Patients Respond?] * The Journal of General Internal Medicine, 21 (7), Jul 2006.

• Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias Confirmation bias] - Confirmation bias, also called confirmatory bias or myside bias, is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.

• Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias#backfire_effect Backfire Effect]

• https://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/06/10/the-backfire-effect/ The Backfire Effect]

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_cognition Cultural Cognition]

Bible versus

John 4:18: There is no fear in love, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love.

2 Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

About hope in the face of conflict, overwhelming odds, and almost universal disdain, quotes

FIRST QUOTE: journalist I. F. Stone once wrote, "The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you are going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins. In order for somebody to win an important, major fight 100 years hence, a lot of other people have got to be willing - for the sheer fun and joy of it-to go right ahead and fight, knowing you're going to lose. You mustn't feel like a martyr. You've got to enjoy it."--Excerpt from the book: The Middle Mind Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves by Curtis White http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/America/Middle_Mind.html http://www.thirdworldtraveler.</wbr>com/America/Middle_Mind.html]

SECOND QUOUTE: Los Angeles Times:http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0125-27.htm The Idea That Brought Slavery to Its Knees] "...The reverberations from what happened on this spot, on the late afternoon of May 22, 1787, eventually caught the attention of millions of people around the world, including the first and greatest student of what today we call civil society. The result of the series of events begun that afternoon in London, wrote Alexis de Tocqueville decades later, was "absolutely without precedent…. If you pore over the histories of all peoples, I doubt that you will find anything more extraordinary." The building that once stood at 2 George Yard was a bookstore and printing shop. The proprietor was James Phillips, publisher and printer for Britain's small community of Quakers. On that May afternoon, after the pressmen and typesetters had gone home for the day, 12 men filed through his doors. They formed themselves into a committee with what seemed to their fellow Londoners a hopelessly idealistic and impractical aim: ending first the slave trade and then slavery itself in the most powerful empire on Earth."

THIRD QUOTE: Zinn recently said: "My hope is that whatever you do to make a good life for yourself -- whether you become a teacher, or social worker, or business person, or lawyer, or poet, or scientist -- you will devote part of your life to making this a better world for your children, for all children. My hope is that your generation will demand an end to war, that your generation will do something that has not yet been done in history and wipe out the national boundaries that separate us from other human beings on this earth."--From http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0524-31.htm Against Discouragement]FOURTH QUOTE: The struggle for justice should never be abandoned on the ground that it is hopeless, because of the apparent overwhelming power of those in the world who have the guns and the money and who seem invincible in their determination to hold on to their power. That apparent power has, again and again, proved vulnerable to human qualities less measurable than bombs and dollars: moral fervor, determination, unity, organization, sacrifice, wit, ingenuity, courage, and patience—whether by blacks in Alabama and South Africa; peasants in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Vietnam; or workers and intellectuals in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. No cold calculation of the balance of power should deter people who are persuaded that their cause is just.--From http://sunrisedancer.com/radicalreader/library/declarationsofindependence/declarationsofindependence11.asp Declarations of Independence] Chapter 11: The Ultimate Power page 279FIFTH QUOTE: “As http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0618104690/qid=1124175094/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-7300151-1151205?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 Adam Hochschild] points out, from the time the English Quakers first took on the issue of slavery, three quarters of a century passed before it was abolished it in Europe and America. Few if any working on the issue at the beginning lived to see its conclusion, when what had once seemed impossible suddenly began to look, in retrospect, inevitable.” “The African writer Laurens Van Der Post once said that no great new leaders were emerging because it was time for us to cease to be followers.”--From the Excellent Article: TomDispatch:http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=677 Rebecca Solnit on hope in dark times]

Another quote: “a number of famous mainland Chinese dissidents find themselves in the paradoxical position of a backyard bush that blooms on the neighbour’s side of the wall: enjoying great international fame but not recognised by the general public in their own country, known only within a small circle of people”.http://www.economist.com/blogs/asiaview/2010/10/nobel_peace_prize [2]]

Alexis de Tocqueville

Also see: http://www.dead-rising-wiki.com/wiki/Tocqueville Tocqueville]

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America. The Americans, in their intercourse with strangers, appear impatient of the smallest censure and insatiable of praise...They unceasingly harass you to extort praise, and if you resist their entreaties they fall to praising themselves. It would seem as if, doubting their own merit, they wished to have it constantly exhibited before their eyes. It seems, at first sight, as if all the minds of the Americans were formed upon one model, so accurately do they correspond in their manner of judging. A stranger does, indeed, sometimes meet with Americans who dissent from these rigorous formularies; with men who deplore the defects of the laws, the mutability and the ignorance of democracy; who even go so far as to observe the evil tendencies which impair the national character, and to point out such remedies as it might be possible to apply; but no one is there to hear these things besides yourself, and you, to whom these secret reflections are confided, are a stranger and a bird of passage. They are very ready to communicate truths which are useless to you, but they continue to hold a different language in public. In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through. An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting... As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

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Biography of Alexis de Tocqueville Download Tocqueville's three books for free: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/815 Democracy in America — Volume 1] http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/816 Democracy in America — Volume 2]http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8690 American Institutions and Their Influence]

Albert Einstein

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

--Albert Einstein

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

--Albert Einstein (From http://blog.zmag.org/index.php/weblog/comments/395/ Comments on Chomsky's web blog])

I MADE ONE great mistake in my life, Albert Einstein admitted, when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made...

--Albert Einstein http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0806-01.htm Hiroshima: A Mistake and A Crime]

Zinn

Zinn quotes Kissinger in his first chapter, on page 9: ""History is the memory of states," wrote Henry Kissinger in his first book, A World Restored, in which he proceeded to tell the history of nineteenth-century Europe from the viewpoint of the leaders of Austria and England, ignoring the millions who suffered from those statesmen's policies. From his standpoint, the "peace" that Europe had before the French Revolution was "restored" by the diplomacy of a few national leaders. But for factory workers in England, farmers in France, colored people in Asia and Africa, women and children everywhere, except in the upper classes, it was a world of conquest, violence, hunger, exploitation -- a world not restored but disintegrated."

Seed of peace planted in Zinn

In World War 2, a passing conversation with an warplane gunner changed Howard Zinn's life forever. Zinn argued that America was not imperialist and went away troubles with what this stranger said. Two weeks later this warplane gunner was shot down and killed. Decades later Zinn became an anti-war activist and author of the seminal "A People's History of the United States" This bombardier never truly knew the last legacy of love and peace he created in this world.

Just and Unjust War excerpt:

[Zinn] flew the last bombing missions of the war, got my Air Medal and my battle stars. I was quietly proud of my participation in the great war to defeat fascism. But when I packed up my things at the end of the war and put my old navigation logs and snapshots and other mementos in a folder, I marked that folder, almost without thinking, "Never Again."

I'm still not sure why I did that, because it was not until years later that I began consciously to question the motives, the conduct, and the consequences of that crusade against fascism. The point was not that my abhorrence of fascism was in any way diminished. I still believed something had to be done to stop fascism. But that clear certainty of moral rightness that propelled me into the Air Force as an enthusiastic bombardier was now clouded over by many thoughts.

Perhaps my conversations with that gunner on the other crew, the one who loaned me The Yogi and the Commisar, gave me the first flickers of doubt. He spoke of the war as "an imperialist war," fought on both sides for national power. Britain and the United States opposed fascism only because it threatened their own control over resources and people. Yes, Hitler was a maniacal dictator and invader of other countries. But what of the British Empire and its long history of wars against native peoples to subdue them for the profit and glory of the empire? And the Soviet Union--was it not also a brutal dictatorship, concerned not with the working classes of the world but with its own national power?

I was puzzled. "Why," I asked my friend, "are you flying missions, risking your life, in a war you don't believe in?" His answer astonished me. "I'm here to speak to people like you."

I found out later he was a member of the Socialist Workers party; they opposed the war but believed that instead of evading military service they should enter it and propagandize against the war every moment they could. I couldn't understand this, but I was impressed by it. Two weeks after that conversation with him, he was killed on a mission over Germany.

https://quaker.org/legacy/co/Writings/JustAndUnjustWar.htm

Chomsky

"Cuba has probably been the target of more international terrorism than the rest of the world combined and, therefore, in the American ideological system it is regarded as the source of international terrorism, exactly as Orwell would have predicted."

---Source: Talk titled "American Foreign Policy" Naom Chomsky at Harvard University (http://www.chomsky.info/talks/19850319.htm http://www.chomsky.info/talks</wbr>/19850319.htm]), March 19, 1985

"No less insidious is the cry for 'revolution,' at a time when not even the germs of new institutions exist, let alone the moral and political consciousness that could lead to a basic modification of social life. If there will be a 'revolution' in America today, it will no doubt be a move towards some variety of fascism. We must guard against the kind of revolutionary rhetoric that would have had Karl Marx burn down the British Museum because it was merely part of a repressive society. It would be criminal to overlook the serious flaws and inadequacies in our institutions, or to fail to utilize the substantial degree of freedom that most of us enjoy, within the framework of these flawed institutions, to modify them or even replace them by a better social order. One who pays some attention to history will not be surprised if those who cry most loudly that we must smash and destroy are later found among the administrators of some new system of repression."

--Source: American Power and the New Mandarins, 1969 Naom Chomsky

Wikiquote on Chomsky http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/N</wbr>oam_Chomsky] Wikipedia on Chomsky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N</wbr>oam_Chomsky

20th century bogymen

"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power."---Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Fascist Dictator of Italy

"Why of course the people don't want war ... But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."

--Hermann Goering, Nazi leader, at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II

In a memorable insight, http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=677 Rebecca Solnit] has suggested that the successes of social movements should often be measured not by their accomplishments, but by the disasters they prevent:

"What the larger movements have achieved is largely one of careers undestroyed, ideas uncensored, violence and intimidation uncommitted, injustices unperpetrated, rivers unpoisoned and undammed, bombs undropped, radiation unleaked, poisons unsprayed, wildernesses unviolated, countryside undeveloped, resources unextracted, species unexterminated."

The Iraqi resistance, one of the least expected and most powerful social movements of recent times, can lay claim to few positive results. In two years of excruciating (if escalating) fighting, the insurgents have seen their country progressively reduced to an ungovernable jungle of violence, disease, and hunger. But maybe, as Solnit suggests, their real achievement lies in what didn't happen. Despite the deepest desires of the Bush administration, to this day Iran remains uninvaded -- the horrors of devolving Iraq have, so far, prevented the unleashing of the plagues of war on its neighbor

--Tom Dispatch: http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0810-20.htm The Ironies of Conquest]

American Sociology

As Ed the Sock said last night, politicians are just a reflection of society. We don't want unpleasant truths, and demand to be lied to so as to feel better, and then complain when things don't work out perfectly. George Carlin also blames the American people for the problems with politicians, as they all come from American schools, churches, families, exposed to the same media and then voted on by their peers. Society creates the hated politician, who then pretends to be liked to sell you a product, just like cat food or laundry detergent. (http://www.thecommentary.ca/archives/20040701.html http://www.thecommentary.ca/a</wbr>rchives/20040701.html] Where is the George Carlin quote?)

"What should one write to ruin an adversary? The best thing is to prove that he is not one of us -- the stranger, alien, foreigner. To this end we create the category of the true family. We here, you and I, the authorities, are a true family. We live in unity, among our own kind. We have the same roof over our heads, we sit at the same table, we know how to get along with each other, how to help each other out. Unfortunately, we are not alone."

--Ryszard Kapuscinski in Shah of Shahs

“…in Britain, empire was justified as a benevolent "white man's burden." And in the United States, empire does not even exist; "we" are merely protecting the causes of freedom, democracy, and justice worldwide.”

--The Editors, "After the attacks…the war on terrorism", Monthly Review, 53, 6, Nov., 2001. P 7

"Explanation is not a justification for murder, criticism is not equivalent to treason, and offering a historical analysis of evil is not the same thing as consorting with evil."

--http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050926/wiener/2 Eric Foner] rejecting the arguments that "Trying to understand the 9/11 terrorists grievances is treasonous"

“When we are reduced to insisting that our depravity isn't as bad as the other guy's, we have fallen deep into a pit of moral equivalence that reveals what we have lost."

--http://www.livejournal.com/users/bailey83221/20945.html Their Humiliation, and Ours] The U.S. was forced to see itself as the world does — and it was painful to behold Time magazine Monday, May. 17, 2004

"Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy."

--Reinhold Niebuhr

"ALL empires die of indigestion," said Napoleon. They do. They bite off more than they can chew, swallow territories their colonial systems can't digest, and die. --The empire that is dead The Herald (Glasgow) August 1, 1996

Kerry will change his views to fit the facts; Bush will change the facts to fit his views

--Hillary Clinton in the 2004 race.

Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism...Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot consider themselves nobler, better, grander, more intelligent than those living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.

--Emma Goldman.

"The loud little handful will shout for war. The pulpit will warily and cautiously protest at first…The great mass of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes, and will try to make out why there should be a war, and they will say earnestly and indignantly: ‘It is unjust and dishonorable and there is no need for war.' Then the few will shout even louder…Before long you will see a curious thing: anti-war speakers will be stoned from the platform, and free speech will be strangled by hordes of furious men who still agree with the speakers but dare not admit it...Next, statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."

--Mark Twain

"...people believe that "imperialism" won out for military reasons. Osborne shows convincingly that commerce won out instead. America...seen as an "economic imperialist nation."

--The Christian Century book review of Annexation Hawaii

Tens of millions of Americans, who neither know nor understand [their own country’s bloody historical struggle for the material benefits they all enjoy today], march in the army of the night with their Bibles held high. And they are a strong and frightening force, impervious to, and immunized against, the feeble lance of mere reason.

–-Alteration of a quote by Isaac Asimov

43% of Americans have not read a book in the last year.

-- According to the National Endowment for the Arts on the 2002 US Census Bureau statistics http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2004-07-08-reading-study_x.htm http://www.usatoday.com/news/e</wbr>ducation/2004-07-08-reading-st</wbr>udy_x.htm]

More American teenagers can name three of the Three Stooges than can name the three branches of government (59% to 41%)

-- http://www.constitutioncenter.org/CitizenAction/CivicResearchResults/NCCTeens%27Poll.shtml http://www.constitutioncenter.</wbr>org/CitizenAction/CivicResearc</wbr>hResults/NCCTeens'Poll.shtml]

The greatest purveyor of violence on earth is my own government.

---Martin Luther King, Jr.

Pentagon briefers told President Johnson that the true U.S. goals in Vietnam were, “70% to avoid a humiliating U.S. defeat; 20% to keep South Vietnam (and adjacent territories) from Chinese hands; 10% to permit the people of Vietnam a better, freer way of life.”

-- Robert Freeman: http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0419-11.htm Is Iraq Another Vietnam? Actually, It May Become Worse]

My kind of loyalty is loyalty to one's country and not to one's institutions or officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing to watch over. Its institutions and clothing can wear out and become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease and death. To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags, that is a loyalty of unreason.' This is important because in the present discussion boundaries have been set, lines have been drawn. Those who go outside those boundaries and criticize official policy are called unpatriotic and disloyal. When they accuse dissenters of that they have forgotten the meaning of loyalty and patriotism. Patriotism does not mean support for your government. It means, as Mark Twain said, support for your country. --Howard Zinn, from the Artists in a Time of War CD

Where the "Disneyland" Quote comes from:

Leftists like to explain the disaffection of working-class people with public education as a natural reaction to the patriotism, conformity, and civility pushed by what they call the “ideological state apparatus.” The object of education, according to this view, is to police class boundaries by transforming most kids into a unquestioning drones while selecting a small number of others for management positions. Kids from blue-collar homes are supposed to know intuitively that this is the case, and they respond accordingly, cutting class and getting high and listening to The Wall over and over again. A more nuanced version of this critique, the 1995 book Lies My Teacher Told Me, points out that high school American history textbooks give ”a Disney version of history”: heroic, egalitarian, jam-packed with progress, and almost entirely free of class conflict. Teaching such an “Officer Friendly” account of reality, the author concludes, is merely to “make school irrelevant to the major issues of the day.” The kids know bullshit when they see it.

The disaffection of the Kansas conservatives with public education is almost precisely the opposite. They do not have a problem with the idea that schools should be designed to churn out low-wage workers; indeed, Kay O’Connor (A conservative Kansas state senator) told me that was a worthy goal. The Cons (conservative wing of the Republican party) are pissed off because they think the schools don’t provide enough Disney, enough Officer Friendly. --What's the Matter with Kansas?

copyright: piracy is not theft

“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.” - Oscar Wilde.

Dataclysm: Repelling some people draws others all the closer

🙶Repelling some people draws others all the closer... “Beauty is looks you can never forget. A face should jolt, not soothe.” For as with music, as with movies, and as with a wide variety of human phenomena: a flaw is a powerful thing. Even at the person-to-person level, to be universally liked is to be relatively ignored. To be disliked by some is to be loved all the more by others. And, specifically, a woman’s overall sex appeal is enhanced when some men find her ugly.🙷

🙶Given that everyone on Earth has some kind of flaw, the real moral here is: be yourself and be brave about it.🙷

🙶Repelling some people draws others all the closer.🙷

🙶In any group of women who are all equally good-looking, the number of (online dating app) messages they get is highly correlated to the variance: from the pageant queens to the most homely women to the people right in between, the individuals who get the most affection will be the polarizing ones. And the effect isn’t small—being highly polarizing will in fact get you about 70 percent more messages. That means variance allows you to effectively jump several “leagues” up in the dating pecking order—for example, a very low-rated woman (20th percentile) with high variance in her votes gets hit on about as much as a typical woman in the 70th percentile. Part of that is because variance means, by definition, that more people like you a lot (as well as dislike you a lot).🙷

-- Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity--What Our Online Lives Tell Us about Our Offline Selves, from the founder of the American dating App, OKCupid.

Media

“Walter Lippmann painstakingly demonstrated why no individual, however intelligent, educated, and motivated, was capable of becoming an expert, let alone being an "insider," on all the important issues of the day.

--http://www.livejournal.com/users/bailey83221/23176.html#ignorance Ignorance of the world has deep historical and cultural roots in the US]

The media makes politics out to be "liberal" vs. "conservative" when in fact the real model is Corporate America vs. Everyone Else.

--http://www.davidsirota.com/2005/07/nominee-john-g-roberts-r-corporate.html Sirotablog]

The media do not necessarily tell your what to think, but they tell you what to think about, and how to think about it.

--http://www.livejournal.com/users/bailey83221/34586.html The Rise and Fall of Professional Journalism] Robert McChesney

It is often noted that democracy requires journalism; what is less frequently emphasized is that journalism requires democracy. Unless there is strong political culture there will be little demand for excellent journalism.

--http://www.livejournal.com/users/bailey83221/34586.html The Rise and Fall of Professional Journalism] Robert McChesney

A politician stands a far greater chance to become the object of news media scrutiny if she or he is rumored to have not paid 10 parking tickets or if they failed to pay a bar bill than if they used their power to quietly funnel billions of public dollars to powerful special interests.

--http://www.livejournal.com/users/bailey83221/34586.html The Rise and Fall of Professional Journalism] Robert McChesney

A five year study of investigative journalism on TV news completed in 2002 determined that investigative journalism has all but disappeared on the nation’s commercial airwaves.

--http://www.livejournal.com/users/bailey83221/34586.html The Rise and Fall of Professional Journalism] Robert McChesney

In view of the fact that legitimate sources tend to be restricted to political and economic elites, this bias sometimes makes journalists appear to be stenographers to those in power; i.e. exactly what one would expect in an authoritarian society with little or no formal press freedom.

--http://www.livejournal.com/users/bailey83221/34586.html The Rise and Fall of Professional Journalism] Robert McChesney

This focus on government malfeasance and neglect of corporate misdeeds plays directly into the hands of those who wished to give more power and privileges to corporations, and undermine the ability of government to regulate in the public interest. As Ed Baker observes, professional practices, along with libel laws, “favor exposing governmental rather than private (corporate) wrongdoing”

--http://www.livejournal.com/users/bailey83221/34586.html The Rise and Fall of Professional Journalism] Robert McChesney

If the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped steadily for twenty years it would be front page and leading broadcast news day after day until the government took action. That 32 million of our population have their housing, food, and clothing “index” drop steadily for more than 30 years is worth only an occasional feature story about an individual or statistical fragments in the back pages of our most influential news organizations.

--Ben H. Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly

"How many times does the end of the world as we know it need to arrive before we realise that it's not the end of the world as we know it?"

--Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity Edited by Michael Lewis

American economy

we have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3 of its population. Our real task...is to devise a pattern of relationships, which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity.... -- George F. Kennan

Miscellaneous quotes

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us" --"The latern on the stern" The Economist, January 3, 2009, p 65. From http://books.google.com/books?id=AkiXWLPqoi8C&pg=PA380&dq=Coleridge++history++%E2%80%9Ca+lantern+on+the+stern&as_brr=3&ei=QL4zSoGLAaDczQS4t8yzBg On the Constitution of the Church and State] By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Tact is for people who aren't witty enough to be sarcastic."

--Unknown

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

-- Somerset Maugham

"It used to be believed that every event in the world-the opening of a morning glory...was due to direct microintervention by the Deity. The flower was unable to open by itself.God had to say “Hey, flower, open.” [Today]...because we know something about phototropism and plant hormones, we can understand the opening of the morning glory independent of divine mícrointervention...As we learn more and more about the universe, there seems less and less for God to do."

--Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science by Carl Sagan, page 334-335

"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis"

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A man in life has many disciples, but it is always Judas who writes the biography."

--Oscar Wilde

"In our time, political speech and writing is largely the defense of the indefensible."

--George Orwell

“Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: for the men who rule our world, rules are for other people. The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.”

--Guardian: http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/develop/debt/2003/1223greed.htm It's Greed, Not Ideology, that Rules the White House] By Naomi Klein

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Anastasio Somoza Debayle, brutal American puppet dictator of Nicaragua.

"The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes." --Justice Felix Frankfurter http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_sibel_ed_061129_sibel_edmonds_3a_the_h.htm [3]]

"So long to the dreams that make men free." -http://miska.dmusic.com/ James Miska, Pendleton Revisited]

Pride

"Pride is a form of selfishness." -David Lawrence

US in Central America

What we see in Central America today would not be much different if Fidel Castro and the Soviet Union did not exist

--US Ambassador to Panama Ambler Moss, 1980

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy

The US became staunchly anti-revolutionary after its own revolution The United States has countered [Central American] revolutions with its military power. Washington's recent policy, this book argues, is historically consistent for two reasons: first, for more than a century (if not since 1790), North Americans have been staunchly antirevolutionary; and second, U.S. power has been the dominant power outside (and often inside) force shaping the societies against with Central Americans have rebelled. ... Washington officials have opposed radical change not because of pressure from public opinion. Throughout the twentieth century, the overwhelming number of North Americans could not have identified each of the five Central American nations on a map, let alone ticked off the region's sins that called for an application of U.S. force. The United States consistently feared and fought such change because it was a status quo power. It wanted stability, benefited from the ongoing system, and was therefore content to work with the military oligarchy complex that ruled most of Central America from the 1820ss to the 1980s. The world's leading revolutionary nation in the eighteenth century became the leading protector of the status quo in the twentieth century. Such protection was defensible when it meant protecting the more equitable societies of Western Europe and Japan, but became questionable when it meant bolstering poverty and inequality in Central America.

--Page 12, 13, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393309649/qid=1121999305/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_ur_2_1/002-9806057-1579261 Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America] (The footnote states: This is argued in Eldon Kenworthy, “Reagan Rediscovers Monroe”, democracy 2 (July 1982): 80-90

US president’s racism and lust for empire Thomas Jefferson…interest in Latin America was extraordinary (he once remarked that young empire-builders should first study Spanish) Thomas Jefferson…concern about expanding U.S. power even led him in the 1780s to decide that it would be better if the Spanish held on to their territory “till our population can be sufficiently advanced to gain if from them piece by piece”…His [belief in] Manifest Destiny…was shared by most of the other Founders, including Jefferson’s great political rival, Alexander Hamilton.

--Page 19 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393309649/qid=1121999305/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_ur_2_1/002-9806057-1579261 Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America]

Theodore Roosevelt…the famed Rough Rider, who fought publicly…in Cuba during the 1898 war…called Latin Americans “Dagoes” because they were incapable of either governing themselves or—most important in Roosevelt’s hierarchy of values—maintaining order.

--Page 34 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393309649/qid=1121999305/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_ur_2_1/002-9806057-1579261 Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America]

The US intervenes in Central America to bestow the blessings of stability myth That the United States intervened in Central America simply to stop revolutions and bestow the blessings of stability tells too little too simply. The motive for Washington’s policy in Central America was not to stop upheavals, but to promote U.S. interests. In El Salvador, for example, North Americans—both in the business and the diplomatic community—continually encouraged a revolutionary faction between 1906 and 1913 because they knew the faction was more pro-United States (and anti-European capital) than the actual, legitimate government. Interests and imperial rivalry, not morality and consistency, drove U.S. policies.

--Page 39 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393309649/qid=1121999305/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_ur_2_1/002-9806057-1579261 Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America]

The 1907 Central American Court The 1907 Washington conference spun a web of agreements that were to make Central Americans more interdependent and—as the North American Progressives theorists of the time believed—more peaceful and cooperative. The meetings established a Central American Court of Justice…Future disputes were to go not to the battlefield, but the Court. The Central American Court quickly became the global symbol for the Progressives’ growing faith in legal arbitration for the settlement of disputes. One North American proudly wrote, “To the powers of Europe, to the great powers of the world who struggled with partial success…to establish a court of arbitral justice, the young republics of Central America may recall the scriptural phrase, ‘A little child shall led them.’” Retired steel billionaire Andrew Carnegie happily gave $100,000 for a building to house the Court. It turned out to be one of Carnegie’s few bad investments. Within nine years the institution was hollow because twice—in 1912 and 1916—the United states refused to recognize Court decisions that went against its interests in Nicaragua. The North Americans destroyed the Court they had helped to create, and in doing so vividly demonstrated how the Progressive faith in legal remedies was worthless when the dominant power in the area paced its own national interest over international legal institutions.

--Page 41-42 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393309649/qid=1121999305/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_ur_2_1/002-9806057-1579261 Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America]

Reagan

El Salvador...is nearer to Texas than Texas is to Massachusetts. Central America is simply too close, and the strategic stakes are too high, for us to ignore the danger of governments seizing power there with ideological and military ties to the Soviet Union. -- American President Ronald Reaga

The United States, said Ronald Reagan, "is engaged in a war on terrorism, a war for freedom" How familiar it all sounds. Merely replace Soviet Union and communism with al-Qaeda, and you are up to date. And it was all a fantasy.

My quotes

The stark difference between two of the three boogeymen of the twentieth century, Moa and Stalin and the United States is that we don't kill our own populations, we just kill everyone else's. From http://hnn.us/readcomment.php?id=92507&bheaders=1#92507 here]

Need to work on:

• In the marketplace of ideas some people are pickpockets. (basically some people have nothing to contribute in an argument/debate/conversation)

War

[America] is worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it. - Noam Chomsky

[America] is worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it. - Noam Chomsky

• As for those [who died] in the World Trade Center... they were civilians [which] formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire - the "mighty engine of profit" to which the military dimension of U.S. policy has always been enslaved - and they did so both willingly and knowingly...To the extent that any of them were unaware of the costs and consequences to others of what they were involved in - and in many cases excelling at - it was because of their absolute refusal to see. More likely, it was because they were too busy braying, incessantly and self-importantly, into their cell phones, arranging power lunches and stock transactions, each of which translated, conveniently out of sight, mind and smelling distance, into the starved and rotting flesh of infants. If there was a better, more effective,...way of visiting some penalty...I'd really be interested in hearing about it. [They were "little Eichmanns"] Ward Churchill

• What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? - Mahatma Gandhi

• I think the U.S. government enjoys playing with the stomachs of humanity.-- A Nicaraguan Mother

• It takes relatively few people and little support to disrupt the internal peace and economic stability of a small country.-- William Casey, CIA Director (From http://www.religion-online.org/showchapter.asp?title=2288&C=2189 War Against the Poor: Low-Intensity Conflict and Christian Faith by Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer])

• “If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care” Nelson Mandela just before the invasion of Iraq, Columbia Broadcasting System 2003.

• "Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman or child is likely to be displaced, tortured, killed or "disappeared", at the hands of governments or armed political groups. More often than not, the United States shares the blame." Amnesty International, 1996

• "We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth." -- New York Times columnist Sydney Schanberg, during the Gulf War. Beginning of documentary, War Made Easy - How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us To Death. (Sydney Schanberg warned journalists not to forget "our unquestioning chorus of agreeability when Lyndon Johnson bamboozled us with his fabrication of the Gulf of Tonkin incident." Schanberg blamed not only the press but also "the apparent amnesia of the wider American public.")

• Barbra Lee, Sept. 14, 2001: “However difficult this vote may be, some of us must urge the use of restraint, Our country is in a state of mourning. Some of us must say, Let’s step back for a moment, let’s just pause just for a minute, and think through the implications of our actions today so that this does not spiral out of control. And, she said: “As we act, let us not become the evil that we deplore.” The only politician who voted against giving war powers to Bush for invading Afghanistan. (Senate: 98 to 0, House 420 to 1)

Immaculate Genocide

American liberals support immaculate Genocide

The first concentration camps in the world were during the Boar War by the British in South Africa. The second country was America in the Philippine American War. Writing of the holocaust perpetrated by U.S. troops in the Philippines a century ago--an onslaught entailing orders that every male Filipino over the age of ten be slaughtered, and the resulting deaths of one in every six inhabitants on the island of Luzon --historian Stuart Creighton Miller describes "the tendency of highly patriotic Americans...to [vociferously] deny such abuses and even to assert that they could never exist in their country." The pattern is unmistakably similar to that exhibited by severe alcoholics who, despite all evidence of the damage their behavior has caused, chronically insist that "the opposite of everything is true."

More subtle than the characteristic refusal of "conservatives" to allow mere facts to in any way alter their core presumptions was/is the complementary nature of the "alternative" interpretation(s) most often posed by their "progressive" opponents. Noting that the Philippines genocide was a matter of public knowledge by 1901, Creighton Miller goes on to observe that collective "amnesia over the horrors of the war of conquest...set in early, during the summer of 1902." He then concludes by reflecting upon how "anti-imperialists aided the process by insisting that the conflict and its attendant atrocities had been the result of a conspiracy by a handful of leaders who carried out, through deceit and subterfuge, the policy and means of expansion overseas against the will of the majority of their countrymen."

"By refusing to acknowledge that most Americans had been bitten by the same bug that afflicted Roosevelt, Lodge, and Beveridge, anti-imperialists were letting the people off the hook and in their own way preserving the American sense of innocence. Unfortunately, the man in the street shared the dreams of world-power status, martial glory, and future wealth that would follow expansion. When the dream soured, the American people neither reacted with very much indignation, nor did they seem to retreat to their cherished political principles. If anything, they seemed to take their cues from their leader in the White House by first putting out of mind all the sordid episodes in the conquest, and then forgetting the entire war itself."

So it was then, the more so today. Contemporary conservatives, whenever they can be momentarily boxed into conceding one or another unsavory aspect of America's historical record, are forever insisting that whatever they've admitted can be "properly" understood only when viewed as an "exception to the rule," an "aberration," "atypical" to the point of "anamolousness." None have shown a readiness to address the question of exactly how many such "anomalies" might be required before they can be said to comprise "the rule" itself. When pressed, conservatives invariably retreat into a level of diversionary polemic excusable at best on elementary school playgrounds, arguing that anything "we have done is somehow excused by allegations that "they" have done things just as bad."

Progressives, on the other hand, while acknowledging many of America's more reprehensible features, have become far more refined in offering hook-free analyses than they were in 1902. No longer much preoccupied with such crudities as "conspiracy theory," they have become quite monolithic in attributing all things negative to handy abstractions like "capitalism," "the state," "structural oppression," and, yes, "the hierarchy." Hence, they have been able to conjure what might be termed the "miracle of immaculate genocide," a form of genocide, that is, in which--apart from a few amorphous "decision-making elites" --there are no actual perpetrators and no one who might "really" be deemed culpable by reason of complicity. The parallels between this "cutting edge" conception and the defense mounted by postwar Germans--including the nazis at Nuremberg--are as eerie as they are obvious.

Hitler's Willing Executioners - Americans are no different. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler%27s_Willing_Executioners

Crises are like buses

'Useful metaphor: Crises are like buses

A bus goes to the same destination but it's carrying a bunch of random people who have very different priorities and very different goals. They'll ride this crisis for a while until it is no longer useful to them. It seems to me that this crisis is completely fictitious but that a lot of people including Putin are getting a lot of advantage out of it a lot of mileage out of it certainly people in Washington certainly people in London certainly people in Moscow. So it's if you look at it like that and you realize this crisis has been sort of like pushed along by a wide variety of different people then it starts to make a hell of a lot more sense. Because if you think of it as just like unicausal then it it becomes like just this one thing and you're like wondering well why are these things happening or this over here is happening. But if you realize that many people are on this bus and want it to go a certain way but not too far then it becomes a lot more understandable. I think it's a good useful heuristic for this situation

The Duran: On the ground in Ukraine on 'invasion day'

https://youtu.be/pNj5gk9-zPo

Family

• Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people the only see once a year. And discover once a year is way too often. –Johnny Carson.

External links

Hundreds more liberal quotes:

• http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Authors/Quotations_page.html Third World Traveler Quotations page]
• http://www.brainyquote.com/ Tens of thousands of Famous Quotes and Quotations at the site BrainyQuote]
• http://proliberty.com/observer/20011211.htm Hundreds of Quotes about US]
• http://socialwork.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/DocsOUREMPIRE.html OUR EMPIRE: COLLECTED DOCUMENTS]
• http://www.amasci.com/weird/skepquot.html Quotes for the Open minded Scientist The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit]

Two legal systems

Anyone who is poor knows there are two legal systems: A corrupt legal system for the poor and one for everyone else.™

At the Bailey Law Firm justice is not an abstract term.

It's something we create everyday for our clients.

Lawyers suck The law profession should be called the "fear profession".

A person will come to an attorney either with a current legal problem (fear) or a potential legal problem (fear).

Attorneys usually will then create even more fear, then they tell the lay person to "trust me" they alone know what this afraid person can do to stop this fear. It is a wonderful way that attorneys personally enrich themselves. It is yet another example of the corrupting influence of money in American society.

In all of our dealings with other lawyers we have paid, we cannot think of a single time in which an attorney has stepped back and said, this maybe technically illegal, but the chances of you being prosecuted are infinitesimally small.

Again and again, we have paid an attorney to tell us the most expensive options available which would get them the most money. These attorneys will intentionally leave out free or low costs options which don't involve paying them.

There is a good reason why everyone hates lawyers. Attorneys suck.

Is our legal offices any different? We would sure like to think so. Contact us to find out.

Corporations: an era of corruption

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"The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes." --Abraham Lincoln

How we work From 80 to 92 percent of all cases settle.

There are two courts: a court of law and a court of public opinion.

If you can't get justice in traditional court, you can assuredly get justice by publicizing a corporation's bad acts.

Our goal is to get you compensation as quickly and painlessly as possible. We do this by threatening to publish the organizations bad acts on the internet. If they do not settle within two weeks, we viciously destroy their reputation.

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How America silents dissent

No man can struggle with advantage against the spirit of his age and country, and however powerful a man may be, it is hard for him to make his contemporaries share feelings and ideas which run counter to the general run of their hopes and desires.

--Alexis de Tocqueville

"In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either." --Mark Twain

The Overton window

Also known as the window of discourse, is the range of ideas tolerated in public discourse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

The Spiral of Silence

By Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann

👑 People who see that the dominant social attitudes contradict their own position, “fall silent”, to avoid expressing their point of view, because they are afraid to be in the minority.

👑 The more prevalent the prevailing point of view seems to them, the more they “fall silent”.

The Overton window is an approach to identifying the ideas that define the spectrum of acceptability of governmental policies. It says politicians can act only within the acceptable range. Shifting the Overton window involves proponents of policies outside the window persuading the public to expand the window.

Public opinion does not exist

Pierre Bourdieu "Public Opinion Does Not Exist", for the following reasons:

👑 Firstly, not all people are capable of producing their opinion.

👑 Secondly, not all people's opinions are significant.

👑 Third, asking everyone the same question implies the hypothesis that there is a consensus about the problem, that is, an agreement about which questions are worth asking.

Source:

The Dunning Kruger effect. The dumber you are the smarter you think you are

• The Dunning Kruger effect. The dumber you are the smarter you think you are. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

Videos

Crimes of Obama and Hillary Clinton by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Saleh Adam Saleh].

Obama and Hilary dropped 26,000 bombs on Libya, 7 countries in total [Trump is a war criminal too].http://indianexpress.com/article/trending/this-is-serious/h-star-adam-saleh-allegdly-kicked-off-delta-airlines-flight-for-speaking-in-arabic-with-mom-4439543/]

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