Un pétrolier navigue le long du golfe de Finlande. Après avoir vogué en haute mer, le navire change de cap pour une raffinerie de pétrole sur la côte. Lors de ce passage, l?homme, la technologie et la nature se confrontent les uns aux autres.
Elli Rintala est née en 1978. Elle étudie à l?Université des Arts et du Design d?Helsinki (Finlande) depuis 2004. Parmi ses récentes réalisations, citons notamment le documentaire « Eilisen eväät » (2005).
Video explore the relations between son and father (student/master), which is bring to inconspicuous, childish game. Situation plays in family house, where actors are my father, brother and myself. ?Preludium? is a memoir of my request to my father, who refused to teach me play piano, saying, that is too late.
In 2008 I began study on Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. My first individual exhibition ?See you all? took place in CSW Kronika in Bytom. In 2012 I took part in group exhibition; ?Whoever seen, whoever knows?, (CSW Kronika, Bytom). I was invited to take part in project ?Public space as tool for shaping social attitudes? in Chisinau (Moldova) where I made film ?Campers?. My second individual exhibition was in Częstochowa (Centrum Promocji Młodych); entitled ?No fun?. In collaboration with French curator Lore Gablier, I was co-create film ?D?eux?, based on two weeks traveling through France and England. I was chosen, as one of 20 polish artist, in polish edition of project Curators Network, which intend to promote selected artists by international group of curators in Poland and abroad. In 2013 I was participant in group exhibition young Silesian artists ?Milk Teeth? in BWA (Katowice) where I showed my film ?Preludium?. I was chosen, as one of 10 artist, in project Showoff?13. On behalf on project Showoff (cooperating with Photo Month in Krakow) I was showing my works in gallery Grey house Exhibition was entitled ?Eine kleine Werke?.
An interview with David Stodolsky, member of the Cryonics Institute, who guides us trough the Building-Monument built over the previous house of Walter Gropius in Dessau, Germany. Renovated by Bruno Fioretti Marquez Architects in 2008, the construction reproduces the original volume of Gropius` house. In the film, the house works as a metaphor of what is fossilized. The idea of Modernism remains in this case in a fossil state, and survives in time as a trace of what once was. This video is part of a reflection on the act of conservation (of ideas, of bodies) as a human activity.
Esteban Rivera, Bogotá, Colombia (1981). He is finishing his Master studies in Art and Media in the Arts University in Berlin (Universität der Künste, Berlin) under Prof. Ai Weiwei and also as student of Prof. Anna Anders. He studied Graphic Design and a Master in Arts in the National University of Colombia (Universidad Nacional de Colombia). He makes films and videoinstallation and currently works in Berlin.
?Some things didn?t really matter, you know, some mutations didn?t matter all that much?they were neither beneficial to survival nor detrimental to survival?but if they just hung on, there?d come a time when?that was the thing that saved the day.? Charting the beginnings of the time, through the descent of man, on to an uncertain future - all shot throughout the seasons in the garden of S, who lives in the wilderness and builds contraptions.
Born 1972. Studied Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art. Co-founded and programmed Brighton Cinematheque from 1996-2006. He has exhibited at many international film festivals and galleries, winning various awards, including Tiger Award, IFF Rotterdam 2008. He has been the recipient of a number of commissions, most recently a London Artist?s Film and Video Award. Recent shows include; ?A World Rattled of Habit? A Foundation, Liverpool; ?An Entangled Bank? Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; and artist-in-focus screenings in Courtisane Festival; Pesaro International Film Festival, London Film Festival, Punto de Vista, and upcoming at Tirana Film Festival and Indielisboa.
Un récit fragmenté et l'exploration d´espaces abandonnés, utilisant les sons et la musique pour créer un suspense et jouer avec les attentes des spectateurs.
Ben Rivers a étudié les Beaux Arts à l´Ecole des Arts des Falmouth. Depuis lors il travaille essentiellement des films 16mm qui sont projetés lors de festivals internationaux, dans des galleries et des cinémas britanniques. En 1996 il co-fonda la Cinémathèque de Bighton qu´il co-dirige/prgramme depuis.
Ce film retravaillé à la main montre des milliers de personnes faisant l'ascension d'un terrain sur une montagne rocheuse. La destination et l'objet de leur ascension restent obscurs. Un pèlerinage incertain, mystérieux et troublant pavé d'intentions inconnues. Le titre "The Coming Race" est tiré d'un roman de l'époque victorienne de E.G.E Bulwer-Lytton portant sur un peuple vivant sous une montagne.
Studied Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art. Co-founded and programmed Brighton Cinematheque from 1996-2005, while developing his artistic practice -predominantly working with moving-image. He has exhibited at many international film festivals and galleries, and won various awards, most recently Jury Prize at IFF Rotterdam. He has been the recipient of a number of commissions, most recently a London Artists Film and Video Award, for which he will make a new work: « Origin of the Species ». Current/upcoming shows include 'If' Bloomberg Space, London, 'Art with Strangers' Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, and solo show with Measure, London, and retrospective screenings in Chicago, Hull IFF and Courtisane, Ghent.
La maison d?une famille dans le désert, en dehors du temps ; des animaux élevés en plein air et des enfants, un bric-à-brac et la nature, le tout dans un paysage des plus sublimes. Le travail vise à représenter l?idée de liberté, qui se reflète dans l?utilisation manuelle du format scope, affaiblie par une sorte de mauvais pressentiment. Il n'y a pas d'histoire particulière, seulement des fragments de vie vécue, de rites effectués.
Ben Rivers a étudié les Beaux-Arts à la Falmouth School of Art (Royaume-Uni). Il a travaillé ensuite principalement sur des films en format 16mm. Ses ?uvres sont montrées dans des galeries et des festivals internationaux, qui lui ont décerné de nombreux prix. Parmi ses expositions récentes, signalons notamment « If » au Bloomberg Space de London, « Nought to Sixty » à l?ICA de Londres, ou encore « On Overgrown Paths » à la Permanent Gallery de Brighton.
?What would be left of human action, human traces, human constructions, human buildings and wider ripple effects of humans after that length of time?assuming, that humans disappear in the geologically near future.? A fragmented road trip through Britain on the peripheries. Down empty roads, off in the wilderness, a few lone stragglers. My first stop geologist Jan Zalasiewicz, talking about the Earth in One-hundred millions years time.
Ben Rivers studied Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art. Since then he has worked predominantly in 16mm film, showing in international festivals, galleries and UK theatres. Recent works have included two commissions from Paul Harnden Shoemakers ? making works which fall somewhere between documentary and fiction. These works are then exhibited in mock miniature cinemas in boutiques in Japan, Europe and USA. His latest work is an ongoing series of portraits of people living somehow outside of (the generally accepted idea of) society. The first part ? ?This Is My Land?, was premiered at London Film Festival 2006 and exhibited by Measure Arts in London 2007. In 1996, Ben co-founded and has since co-managed/programmed Brighton Cinematheque - renowned for screening a unique programme of film from its earliest days through to the latest artist?s film and video.
Drawing upon the name of earthly paradise in Greek mythology, the film 'Fortunate Isles: Landings' explores the awakening of sentience and biological complexity within digital images. To fully inhabit utopian and cinematic visions of analog & digital interpretations of landscape, 'Fortunate Isles: Landings' is filmed on location at sites of human achievement and continuous habitation; the level Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah and remote cliffs of Salvage, Newfoundland. During filming, performers wore chroma-key suits on location that, in post-production, allow the suit's geometric faces to be digitally blanked and replaced with hand-drawn animation. Through the dialogue of gaps and joins created by the subtle collapsed spaces between layers of inter-narrative animation, questions of evolution, reality, and wonder begin to surface. The figures each carry a drawn experience inscribed into their outer forms. A patina of frames progressing forward echoes an imprinted memory; Landscapes are portable.
Jacob Rivkin is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Philadelphia, PA, USA. His animations and sculptures focus on how we experience and internalize landscape, memory, and desire. His work has exhibited widely, including at the Arlington Arts Center, the Chemical Heritage Foundation Museum, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Animation Block Party, and the National Museum of Australia. He holds lecturer positions at the University of Pennsylvania and the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. He received his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2013 and BA from Vassar College in 2007. His awards include selection as a finalist for the anthropoScene Film Competition in 2016, a Fulbright Student Grant in 2008 to study Chinese Traditional Landscape Painting in Hangzhou, China, and the Weitzel Barber Art Travel Prize in 2006 to study Buddhist Sculpture Practices in Western China. He is a member of the OOF Animation Collective and in 2014 he was an Artist-in-Residence at the Hacktory in Philadelphia, PA.
"Yasujiro?s Journey" fait le portrait de l`errance fictionnelle de Yasujiro Yamada qui, en 2002, voyage en Indonésie à la recherche du grand père dont il a reçu le nom. Ce grand père a apparemment été un soldat japonais qui a survécu à un crash d`avion au dessus de l`Indonésie, sur sa route vers Pearl Harbor en 1942, mais qui n`est jamais rentré chez lui. Le voyage du jeune homme n`est pas tant une quête au sens littéral pour retrouver le vieil homme, mais est une recherche spirituelle, dans ce paysage étranger que son ancêtre a parcouru. Le fait qu`il ne trouve pas ce qu`il cherche, et que c`est lui-même qu`il ne trouve pas, est particulièrement significatif dans l`une des scènes du film, où il empile des pierres qui emplissent la hauteur de l`écran, puis s`éloigne, est insatisfait, les renverse et construit à nouveau un monticule. Le son du vent, très présent tout au long du film, fonctionne comme un avertissement, comme si un démon socratique l`avertissait d`une erreur. Le thème du voyage est central dans ce film, et dans l`?uvre du cinéaste. Il interroge également son pays natal et les générations antérieures, qui n`ont pas vécu dans un environnement urbain. Faozan Rizal veut aussi explorer le paysage du point de vue d`un étranger, et il est significatif que le protagoniste de cette errance soit un Japonais.
Faozan Rizal est un jeune cinéaste indonésien. Ses films ont fait l`objet d`une rétrospective non officielle au 18ème festival international du film de Singapour en 2005. Il a réalisé plusieurs courts métrages de type expérimental, ou se situant aux frontières de différentes pratiques. Il explore les propriétés et les textures du film, explorant les régions entre cinéma et photographie. Il a également réalisé une série de moyens métrages, d`environ 30 minutes, en collaboration avec la danseuse Katia Engel, dans lesquels la danse et la photographie sont si intimement unies que ce serait une erreur de les décrire comme de simples films expérimentaux. Il serait en effet difficile d`imaginer la performance indépendamment de sa retranscription dans le film. L`imbrication de différentes formes d`art n`est pas surprenante dans le travail de Faozan Rizal, qui a étudié et pratiqué la danse javanaise dans sa jeunesse, et qui a étudié la peinture avant de s`inscrire à la Fémis. Il a été acteur, directeur de la photographie, scénariste et réalisateur. Son travail se situe au-delà de la narration linéaire. Il exprime des sentiments et transmet des idées par la juxtaposition d`images concrètes et spécifiques, par la répétition de mouvements, l`usage de longs plans séquences. Ses films ne sont pas transparents au niveau de la narration, mais le son y est hautement significatif. Rizal n`a pas abandonné l`idée de récit d`histoires, mais il abandonne ce qui n`est pas nécessaire au c?ur essentiel de la narration, c?ur qui est l`essence de toute narration.
Apprendre à aimer à nouveau, tout en ayant peur, le film alterne entre le romantique et l'horrible, en donnant une forme tour à tour sceptique et indulgente à l'expérience du beau. Un monologue de Frank O'Hara (provenant d'une pièce de théâtre du même nom) tente de miner la sincérité du paysage, mais des forces plus puissantes font surface.
Depuis l'an 2000, Michael Robinson a réalisé un ensemble de films, vidéos et oeuvres photographiques qui explorent la poétique de la perte et les dangers du travail médiatisé. Son travail a été projeté au cours de représentations tantôt personnelles, tantôt collectives, à l'occasion de divers festivals, cinémathèques et galeries, dont le Festival International du Film de Rotterdam, le New York Film Festival, le Times BFI London Film Festival, Media City, Anthology Film Archives, Viennale, Cinematexas, le Wexner Center for the Arts, ICA London, Impakt, le Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Chicago Filmmakers, PDX, et le Festival du Film International de San Francisco, d'Oberhausen, et de Hong Kong. Son film "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" a été élu "Meilleur Film International" au Festival de l'Image de Toronto en 2006, "Meilleur Film du Festival" à l'Underground Film Festival de Milwaukee en 2006, et Michael s'est vu attribuer le prix du "Meilleur Espoir de la Réalisation" à l'Ann Arbor Film Festival en 2007. Originaire du Nord de New York, Michael a obtenu un Bachelor of Fine Arts à l'Ithaca College, et un Master of Fine Arts à l'University of Illinois à Chicago. Il réside actuellement à Chicago.
Michael Robinson (b.1981) is an American film, video and collage artist whose work explores the joys and dangers of mediated experience, riding the fine lines between humor and terror, nostalgia and contempt, ecstasy and hysteria. His work has shown in both solo and group shows at a variety of festivals, museums, and galleries including The 2012 Whitney Biennial, The International Film Festival Rotterdam, The New York Film Festival, The BFI London Film Festival, REDCAT Los Angeles, MoMA P.S.1, The Sundance Film Festival, The Walker Art Center, Anthology Film Archives, The Images Festival, The European Media Art Festival, and Whitechapel Gallery in London. Michael was the recipient of a 2014 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a 2012 Creative Capital grant, a 2011-2012 Film/Video Residency Award from The Wexner Center for the Arts, a 2009 residency from The Headlands Center for the Arts, and his films have received awards from numerous festivals. He was featured as one of the "50 Best Filmmakers Under 50" by Cinema Scope magazine in 2012, and listed among the top ten avant-garde filmmakers of the 2000`s by Film Comment magazine. Michael holds a BFA from Ithaca College, and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His work is distributed by Video Data Bank and represented by Carrie Secrist Gallery in Chicago.
Cette animation nous plonge dans le monde quotidien de Benjamin. La bande-son a été créée en se basant sur son état émotionnel. Celle-ci est composée de sons qu?il émet lui-même ou bien de sons qui le fascinent. Les images de cette ?uvre tentent d?interpréter les perceptions et sensations de Benjamin.
Robles a obtenu une Licence en Communication Visuelle en 1999. Durant ses études, elle a participé à un atelier d?animation où elle a réalisé un spot publicitaire pour l?UNICEF. Celui-ci a reçu le premier prix du "Television and Video Festival ANUIES 2000" (National Association of Universities and Institutions for Education). En 2001, elle a créé le groupe dobleA (doubleA) en association avec Adriana Bravo. Depuis elles ont toujours travaillé ensemble sur leurs projets. En 2002, Robles a suivi un atelier donné par Jesse Lerner au Centro de la Imagen (Centre de l?Image) où elle a créé Mirada Perdida (Lost Sight) qui est une animation réalisée avec des objets. La même année, elle a produit Contemplación (Contemplation) et Experimento (Experiment). Elle a réalisé Anatomy of a Moth en 2004. Cette animation faite avec des dessins au crayon a gagné une bourse du "Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes" (Assemblée Nationale des Arts et de la Culture). La même année, elle a reçu la subvention Jóvenes Creadores 2004-2005 (Jeunes Artistes 2004-2005) du "Fondo National para la Cultura y las Artes" (Fond National pour les Arts et la culture). Pendant cette période, Robles a produit Microftalmía (Microphtalmie), animation expérimentale composée de peintures à l?huile sur verre.
Born in Lisbon in 1966. Pedro Rodrigues attended the Lisbon Film School, in which he graduated in 1989. From 1989 to 1996 he worked as assistant director and editor with well-known names of the portuguese cinema, such as Teresa Villaverde. His short ?Parabéns!? (1997) participated at the Cinema Festival of Venice of 1997 and received a special distinction of the Jury. And his feature, ?O Fantasma?, of 2000, received the Award for the Best Foreign Feature Film at the Cinema Festival of Belfort in the same year. Recently he directed ?Odete?, Special Mention from Cinémas de Recherche in Cannes 2005, Director?s Fortnight .
INFLECTIONS is a real-time generative system that temporally rearranges video sequences based on mathematical equations. It explores the relationship between duration, simultaneity, and expectation. The technical concept of the work is based on the idea of a one-dimensional random walk: a mathematical representation of a journey along a linear path. The path contains several nodes or decision points. At each node along the path, the walker decides at random whether to go forward or backwards. In this work, the ?path? is the timeline of a movie clip. The program identifies a set of "inflection points" (or ?decision points?) along this timeline. An inflection point is a moment that contains no motion, where movement comes to a standstill. It is thus a good point to change direction. Imagine now the computer program walking along a movie timeline. When it reaches one of those inflection points, it makes a yes-no decision, either to go forward or move back. In this project, the walk is not random, because the program relies on some non-linear dynamical equation to make each decision. Inflections uses equations that exhibit chaotic behavior and for this reason can be used to simulate a random process.
Hector Rodriguez is a digital artist and theorist. His animation Res Extensa received the award for best digital work in the Hong Kong Art Biennial 2003 and has been shown in India, China, Germany, and Spain. His essays about film theory/history and digital art have been published in Screen, Cinema Journal, and Game Studies, and he has participated in various art and technology conferences. He was Artistic Director of the Microwave International Media Art Festival, where he has also taught workshops on Java programming and organized an exhibition on art and games, and is now a member of the Writing Machine Collective. He currently teaches at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. He has taught courses on game studies, generative art, software art, media art theory, contemporary art, and film history.
J?ai demandé aux habitants du camp Aïda à Bethléem d?esquisser des cartes de ce qui les entoure. Les dessins en train de se faire ont été enregistrés en vidéo, de même que les récits qui animent ces géographies subjectives. À travers six chapitres qui forment autant de courts-métrages potentiellement indépendants, vous découvrirez pas à pas le camp de réfugiés et ses environs, vous suivrez les trajets d`hommes, de femmes et d`enfants et leurs tentatives aventureuses de composer avec l?état de siège sous lequel ils vivent. Un hommage à ce que j?appellerai résistance par contournement, à l?heure où la possibilité même de cette résistance semble disparaître.
Till Roeskens, né en 1974 à Freiburg (Allemagne), vit à Marseille. Amateur de géographie appliquée, Till Roeskens appartient à la famille des artistes-explorateurs. Son travail se développe dans la rencontre avec un territoire donné et ceux qui tentent d?y tracer leurs chemins. Ce qu?il ramène de ses explorations, que ce soit sous la forme d?un livre, d?un film vidéo, d?une conférence-diaporama ou autres formes légères, ne se voudrait jamais un simple rapport, mais une invitation à l?exercice du regard, un questionnement permanent sur ce qu?il est possible de saisir de l?infinie complexité du monde. Ses « tentatives de s?orienter » s?élaborent avec le souci récurrent de toucher un public non averti et de rendre les personnes rencontrées co-auteurs de l??uvre. A exercé entre autres au Plateau à Paris, à la Forteresse de Salses, à la Villa Saint-Clair à Sète, au Musée d?Art Moderne et Contemporain et au CEAAC à Strasbourg (Bourse de la Ville de Strasbourg), à Langage Plus (Québec), au Musée d?Art Moderne de Collioure (Prix Collioure), aux divers FRAC : Alsace, Languedoc-Roussillon et PACA où il élabore actuellement un premier long métrage documentaire. A récemment remporté le Grand Prix de la compétition française au FID (Festival International du Documentaire de Marseille) 2009.


THU, MARCH 21, 2019 - Adams has been informed that he won't break camp with the Phillies, and he'll head to minor-league camp Tuesday, Todd Zolecki of MLB.com reports. The Phillies couldn't find room for Adams, so he'll head to the minors and wait for his next opportunity. He has a respectable .263/.333/.467 career line in 154 major-league plate appearances, so he could help a team in a bench role if given the opportunity.


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The Neocon Myths Behind Afghanistan and Iraq
Posted on September 21, 2014 by stuartbramhall
The Power of Nightmares
Directed by Adam Curtis
Part 3 Shadows in the Cave
Part 3 concerns the mythology the neoconservatives created around international terrorism to justify the US wars against Afghanistan and Iraq.
The US Invents al Qaeda
The final video starts with the car bombing of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in August 1998. These were the first attacks Bin Laden and Zawahiri organized against US interests as part of their new international jihad (see How the CIA Funds Jihad). They recruited four bombers from training camps Abdullah Azzam started during the Soviet occupation.
Contrary to the myth promoted by the neocons, these camps were exclusively dedicated to training Muslims to conduct jihad in their own countries (e.g. Uzbekistan and Chechnya). Their leaders wanted absolutely nothing to do with international terrorism or Bin Laden's jihad against the US. They allowed Zawahiri and Bin Laden to recruit from these camps because he was financing them. Nevertheless, even members of Islamic Jihad opposed what they were doing.
In Jan 2001 the US government brought the embassy bombers to trial in the US. They also tried Bin Laden in absentia. To charge him under existing US law, federal prosecutors had to prove an organized group he commanded carried out the bombings. Because no such group existed, they invented one. The name al Qaeda came from a paid FBI informant.
Immediately following his election George W Bush, like his father, totally rejected the neoconservative's insistence that the US should invade other nations and "dictate how to run their countries."
9-11 would change all this, propelling Richard Perle, Wolfowitz, Cheney and Rumsfeld to international power with four terrifying myths:
That Bin Laden was responsible for the 9-11 attacks (according to official FBI accounts, Khalid Sheik Mohammed was responsible for the "plane operations)."*
That "al Qaeda," a phantom organization the neocons latched onto for propaganda purposes, was a genuine international entity running sleeper cells in 50-60 countries.
That "al Qaeda's" ultimate goal was to force the US to live under Islamic fundamentalism.
That the invasion of Afghanistan was essential to destroy the heart of "al Qaeda."
During the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, the US and NATO allied themselves with the Afghan Northern Alliance. The latter hated the foreign Muslims who came to came to Afghanistan for training and received a generous bounty for handing them over to US troops. Nearly all of them ended up in Guantanomo, despite having no connection with bin Laden or international terrorism.
The Role of Hollywood
Following the US invasion, the neocons invested two new myths. The first was that bin Laden was hiding out in a sophisticated bunker built into the Torah Borah caves on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. The second was that the US was harboring a vast network of terrorist sleeper cells preparing a new attack on US soil. Although both were totally discredited by mid-2003, these myths would be solidified in the public mind by dozens of TV dramas about hidden terrorist sleeper cells in major US cities.
A popular theme of these dramas was the dirty bomb*, which according to actual DD tests was unlikely to kill anyone because the radiation produced by a dirty bomb was so dispersed.
So-called "dirty bombs** featured prominently in most of these productions, despite numerous Pentagon tests demonstrating dirty bomb radiation is too widely dispersed to kill anyone.
World Leaders Rush to Sign On
Inspired by the immense power this ideology of fear gave political leaders, other western leaders quickly signed on to the terror agenda. When the neocons began circulating the new mythology in mid-2002 that Saddam Hussein was linked to al Qaeda and 9-11, British Prime Minister Tony Blair became one of its most vocal proponents. Despite knowing from the outside that the war on Iraq was based on fabricated evidence.
*This video was produced in 2003, when it was still widely believed that 19 Muslim hijackers were responsible for the attack on the Twin Towers. This version of events is now totally discredited.
**A dirty bomb is an explosive device made from nuclear waste combined with conventional explosives – with the intent of spreading radioactive material over a widely populated area
***This revelation is all the more remarkable given that Curtis made this documentary prior to Dr David Kelly's so-called "suicide" in 2003. Kelly worked for the British Ministry of Defense and was a former UN weapons inspector in Iraq. He came to public attention in July 2003, when a BBC journalist published an-off-the record discussion about the British role in fabricating evidence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. He died under extremely suspicious circumstances in later that month. A group of British doctors is demanding a fresh investigation into Kelly's death: Doctors Claim Cover Upl
Posted in Hidden history, Media censorship and propaganda, War in the Middle East | Tagged 9-11, adam curtis, afghanistan, al qaeda, azzam, bid laden, cheney, dirty bombs, dr david kelly, embassy bombings, guantanomo, Iraq, kenya, khalid sheik mohammed, richard perle, rumsfeld, tanzania, tony blair, torah borah, wolfowitz, zawahiri | 8 Replies
Banned in the USA: the Film You Didn't See
Posted on June 9, 2014 by stuartbramhall
The War You Don't See
Produced and directed by John Pilger
Americans now have the opportunity of seeing Australian John Pilger's critically acclaimed The War You Don't See on YouTube. The groundbreaking documentary was effectively banned in the US when Patrick Lannan, who funds the "liberal" Lannon Foundation, canceled the American premier (and all Pilger's public appearances) in June 2010. Pilger provides the full background of this blatant act of censorship at his website. After watching the film, I believe its strong support of Julian Assange (who the US Department of Justice is attempting to prosecute) is the most likely reason it wasn't shown in American theaters.
Pilger's documentary centers around the clear propaganda role both the British and US press played in cheerleading the US/British invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. It includes a series of interviews in which Pilger confronts British and American journalists (including Dan Rather) and news executives regarding their failure to give air time to weapons inspectors and military/intelligence analysts who were publicly challenging the justification for these invasions. The Australian filmmaker focuses heavily on the fabricated evidence (Saddam Hussein's non-existent weapons of mass destruction and links to 9-11) that was used to convince American and British lawmakers to go along with an illegal attack on a defenceless nation (Iraq).
Making News Executives Squirm
Pilger also confronts the British news executives (from the BBC and ITV) for reporting — unchallenged — Israeli propagandist Mark Regev regarding the May 2010 Israeli attack (in international waters) of the international peace flotilla and murder of nine Turkish peace activists (including six who were executed in the back of the head at point blank range).
Although none of the news makers offer a satisfactory explanation for their actions, British news executives show obvious embarrassment when Pilger forces them to admit they knew about opposing views and failed to offer them equal air time. In my view, the main value of the film is reminding us how essential it is to hold journalists to account for their lack of objectivity. Too many activists (myself included) have allowed ourselves to become too cynical about the mainstream media to hold individual reporters and their editors and managers accountable when they function as government propagandists instead of journalists.
The War You Don't See was released in Britain in December 2010, in the context of a Parliamentary investigation into the Blair government's use of manufactured intelligence to ensnare the UK into a disastrous ten year foreign war. Government/corporate censorship is far more efficient in the US, and the odds of a similar Congressional investigation occurring in the US seem extremely low.
Edward Bernays: the Public is the Enemy
The film begins with a thumbnail history of modern war propaganda, which Pilger traces back to Edward Bernays, the father of public relations. Bernays, who began his career by helping Woodrow Wilson to "sell" World War I to the American people, talks in his famous book Propaganda about the public being the "enemy" which must be "countered."
Independent Journalism is Hazardous to Your Health
The most powerful segment features the Wikileaks gunship video released in April 2010, followed by Pilger's interview with a Pentagon spokesperson regarding this sadistic 2007 attack on unarmed Iraqi civilians. This is followed by excerpts of a public presentation by a GI on the ground at the time of assault, who was denied permission to medically evacuate two children injured in the attack.
The documentary also focuses heavily on the Pentagon's deliberate use of "embedded" journalists to report the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as the extreme threat (often from American forces) faced by independent, non-embedded journalists. According to Pilger, a record 240 independent journalists were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. In Palestine, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) has killed ten independent journalists since 1992. The War You Don't See includes footage of a recent IDF attack on a Palestinian cameraman, who miraculously survived, despite losing both legs.
Pilger goes on to talk about the deliberate bombing of Al Jazeera headquarters in Kabul and Baghdad, mainly because the Arab network was the only outlet reporting on civilian atrocities. This section features excellent Al Jazeera footage of home invasions of two civilian families — in one case by British and the other by American troops — who were brutally terrorized and subjected to torture tactics.
The Interview that Got the Film Banned
The film concludes with a brief interview with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who discusses the increasing secrecy and failure of democratic control over the military industrial intelligence complex. Assange presents his view that this complex consists of a network of thousands of players (government employees and contractors and defense lobbyists) who make major policy decisions in their own self-interest with virtually no government oversight.
Pilger and Assange also discuss the aggressive prosecution of whistleblowers by Obama, who has the worst record of First Amendment violations of any president. They also discuss the positive implications of the willingness of military and intelligence insiders to leak hundreds of thousands of classified documents. It shows clear dissent in the ranks about the blatant criminality that motivates US foreign policy decisions.
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Are partnerships that begin as "hookups," "friends with benefits," or casual dating relationships less satisfying and rewarding than serious sexual involvements? This research tests whether selection, experience, or mediation processes affect associations between types of sexual involvement and relationship quality. Drawing on a sample of 642 urban adults, we estimated ordinary least squares and treatment-effects regressions examining associations among types of sexual involvement, joint investments, and relationship quality. The results indicated that sexual involvements in nonromantic and casual dating contexts were associated with lower relationship quality in comparison to serious contexts, but these effects were completely accounted for by selectivity. Controlling for joint investments did not mediate these selection effects. The findings support the notion that screening processes associated with sexual involvement have important implications for later relationship quality.
Paik, Anthony. 2010. ""Hookups," Dating, And Relationship Quality: Does The Type Of Sexual Involvement Matter?" 39 (5). Social Science Research: 739 - 753. doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2010.03.011.


Today, as the newest ichthyologist at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Hilton's research focuses on the anatomy of fishes. From lakes to rivers to the ocean, there is an astonishing diversity of fishes, each with a different evolutionary history to share.
What kind of information? Hilton and other ichthyologists use specific details of anatomy to learn about the daily operation of fishes—what and how they eat, for instance—to unlock the mysteries of their evolution. Whether it is the slingjaw wrasse thrusting its jaw half a body length to capture food or the pipefish sucking plankton like a vacuum cleaner through its tubular snout, "we see that what fishes eat can drive their shape and structure," says Hilton.
There are around 30,000 species of fishes, but Hilton has concentrated much of his anatomy career studying the 25 species of sturgeons. One of the older scientific disciplines, comparative anatomy was established at least by the mid 1500s—some consider Aristotle to be among the first comparative anatomists in the 4th century BC. Recent advances in high-resolution imaging, however, have invigorated the field and will allow researchers like Hilton to gain new insight on rare species.
But, Hilton notes, there is no substitute for traditional dissections. A few years ago, Hilton was privileged to collect a specimen of a basking shark, a species that is unusual in natural history collections for obvious logistical reasons. "It was a relatively young animal, and only 27 feet long" Hilton recalls. The 1,500 pound head of the shark was eventually loaded into the bed of his truck via crane and he chuckles to recall the strange glances he received from the toll-booth attendants while transporting his bounty to the lab.
Every day for several weeks, Hilton worked to complete the shark dissection. "With blood vessels nearly 2 inches in diameter, I got such a better understanding of the shark circulatory system using just a knife and careful observation," says Hilton.


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Q: Flutter multiple where case is not working Is that possible to get value based on multiple  doc id ?
CollectionReference col1 =  Firestore.instance
        .collection('service');
     col1.where("title", isEqualTo:"Ac replaciment")
    .where("title",isEqualTo:"Oil Service")
        .getDocuments()

This code not give any result
 CollectionReference col1 =  Firestore.instance
            .collection('service');
         col1.where("title", isEqualTo:"Ac replaciment")

            .getDocuments()

This code i got resultBut i have title with both "Ac replaciment" and "Oil Service" but when i call tougher it is not giving result
I need query like where title =="Oil Service" or title =="Ac replaciment" How todo this in firestore with flutter

When i run this code it return all data from server
CollectionReference col1 = Firestore.instance.collection('service');

    col1.where("title", isEqualTo: "Ac replaciment");

    col1.getDocuments().

but i only need to get result if title=="Ac replaciment" why this issue happening ?what is the correct code?

A: I can think of two solutions.
1. Push two separate query calls and concatenate the result.
This might result in longer data retrieval as you send two separate query to the server.
CollectionReference col1 = Firestore.instance.collection('service');
final acReplacimentList = await col1.where("title", isEqualTo: "Ac replaciment").getDocuments();
final oilServiceList = await col1.where("title", isEqualTo: "Oil Service").getDocuments();
return acReplacimentList.documents.addAll(oilServiceList.documents);

2. Filter documents locally.
This might be a faster solution but it will expose all other unnecessary documents.
CollectionReference col1 = Firestore.instance.collection('service');
final allList = await col1.getDocuments();
return allList.documents.where((doc) => doc["title"] == "Ac replaciment" || doc["title"] == "Oil Service");

UPDATED
3. Use Query Snapshots
CollectionReference col1 = Firestore.instance.collection('service');
final snapshots = col1.snapshots().map((snapshot) => snapshot.documents.where((doc) => doc["title"] == "Ac replaciment" || doc["title"] == "Oil Service"));
return (await snapshots.first).toList();

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There is a small travel expensive fee if the location is over a 60 mile round trip from Rutland.
Add a second photographer to capture even more candid and natural moments of the day. The groom also has the option to be photographed getting ready in the morning.
The Storybook has a classy feel and design, it comes in a large range of styles that suits everyone's taste. You choose around 140 images of your choice to go into the album.
For cover designs visit the link below.
This lovely A4 fine art book allows you to have more than one image on a page, telling the story of the day perfectly. The parents can choose up to 85 images they would like which are spread over 30 pages.
Choose your favourite image from the engagement shoot and have it framed for the wedding for guest to leave a personal message around the border. This can be kept or replaced with your favourite photo from the wedding afterwards.
PLEASE NOTE – THIS CONTRACT IS AGREED ONCE YOUR INITIAL 20% DEPOSIT IS PAID – NO SIGNATURE IS REQUIRED ON EITHER PART.
1a – The client is responsible for all travel expenses for weddings further than 60 miles round trip from Rutland, unless agreed otherwise, in writing.
1b – If you would like an engagement shoot out of a 60 miles round trip of Rutland then additional travel expenses apply.
1c – A fresh hot meal should be provided for the photographer if agreed on as outlined in the client questionnaire. You must state yes or no so I can come prepared please.
2a – Media & Albums: colour, black and white photographs provided on USB, all high resolution with no watermarks. Your album photographs will be chosen by yourselves, not the photographer.
2b – The client agrees to inform Lee Daniels immediately, in writing, of any alterations in the details listed on the questionnaire form including postponement or cancellation of the Wedding.
As I hope you can appreciate, I will not be able to rebook a date at short notice and will more than likely have turned down other customer enquiries.
2g – If for any reason you need or want to change your date of the wedding there is a fee of £400.00 to do so. These terms come into affect if the date change is 14 months or less to the original wedding date. Anything over 14 months no extra fees apply. This is regardless of the circumstances I'm afraid. This fee is due to me most likely turning down numerous enquiries for the same date and therefore will effectively lose out. If I am free on the date you would like to rebook the wedding for, then I can move your booking across, but still the £400.00 fee applies regardless.
3a – Lee Daniels agrees to devote his full time, attention and ability for the duration of the wedding day.
4a- Elements beyond Lee Daniel's control such as: equipment failure, damaged to media storage, civil disturbances and/or weather conditions, road closures, traffic jams and accidents (Acts of God) which may inhibit or prevent Lee Daniels from completing in whole or in part.
In such events refunds are negotiable dependant on severity of outcome.
Lee Daniels will have back up equipment and media cards on his person to minimise the incidence of such occurrences. He will endeavour to avoid traffic jams etc wherever possible.
4b – Death or serious injury of illness of a close family member of either client or Lee Daniels.
4c – Injury to or illness of Lee Daniels personally.
4d – By mutual consent of both parties.
5a – Lee Daniels undertakes to obtain insurance against liability for professional negligence and against circumstances which prevent him from fulfilling this contract.
6a – Lee Daniels reserves the right to display images in his portfolio, on social media sites for promotion, in albums for promotion and on exhibition displays and backdrops unless client request otherwise in writing on the questionnaire.
6b – I hand over the copyright of the pictures to use at your will, all images are high resolution with no watermarks. I will also keep a backup copy on file for a year, with the objection to system failure or theft.
7a – Neither party shall be liable for any breach of its obligations resulting from causes beyond their reasonable control.
7b – Causes deemed to be beyond reasonable control shall include: Death or serious injury to or illness of the Client and/or to a close family member; Death, injury to or illness of Lee Daniels personally.
7c – Each of the parties agrees to give notice immediately to the other upon becoming aware of an event of force majeure such notice to contain details of the circumstances giving rise to it.
8a – Lee Daniels acknowledges that this agreement is personal to him and accordingly he shall not be entitled to assign the benefit of it.
9a – In the event of a dispute arising out of or in connection with this Contract and which has not been resolved following discussions and negotiations between a person or persons appointed or authorised by the Customer and the Writers then they undertake to attempt to settle the dispute by engaging in good faith with the other in a process of mediation before commencing arbitration or litigation.
10c –Album design deadline– Once your album has been designed and you have been sent your proofs you have 8 months to make any changes and amendments, after this time period your album gets wiped of the system. I will not redesign your album as this effectively is designing two albums, so you lose the right to have an album.
10d –Thank you card images– I can not guarantee sending images prior to them being edited, this is due to a high volume of editing and prioritising getting clients images to them as soon as possible.
11a – Creativity– The photographer has creative licence to take photos that he feels appropriate. The bride and groom can suggest photos and group set ups they would like but these cannot be guaranteed; although I will do my best to capture all you require. Elements out of my control, such as weather, venue restrictions, and guest roaming off may result in the customers not getting the photographs they desire.
12a –Hotel and over night accommodation – The photographer would expect over night accommodation to be paid in full by the client if the travelling distance is over 100 miles from home to venue, especially if the client would like wedding photography to start early in the morning. This ensures the photographer avoids any potential road delays and arrives fresh after a good nights sleep. Please not this is not essential but can be discussed prior to booking.
13a – Engagement Shoot– I will do my best to accommodate a particular date you would like your shoot, but this cannot be guaranteed. Engagement shoots on Saturdays will be rare, so Sunday and mid-week dates are likely. In case of wet weather cancelations I will do my best to re-arrange the date but I can't guarantee I'll be free on preferred dates.
14a Second photographers– I the photographer cannot be held responsible for the second shooters actions. For example, if they become ill, are late, system failure and non-attendance. I can also not be held responsible if the images from the second photographer are not to your liking. I will do my best to offer a reliable and qualified second shooter and I will not select anyone who I feel is not suitable for the position.


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A Tribute and a Legacy
By Diane Sova with the SBRC Alumni
One man's dream spawned a company that impacted the way we see our world even today. The roots of Santa Barbara Research Center were established when founder Dave Evans set up radio communications for the round-the-world flight of infamous Howard Hughes. Dave went to work for Hughes, became head of the Hughes Aircraft Electronics Department, then struck out on his own with an ambitious vision.
Gathering superior talent, Dave and five men pulled together to build something deemed impossible, a daylight star tracker for navigation. The journey was not easy, but their innovations produced instruments and results that were ultimately in high demand by United States defense forces and NASA's space explorations.
The family of Santa Barbara Research Center bonded and thrived, supporting our country through several war efforts, the Space age, the Cold War, and beyond. For over fifty years, SBRC provided the technologies for star navigation, for soldiers to see at night, for astronomers to peer into deep space, and for tracking world-wide weather. Eventually, big business interests and a political train wreck led to the death of a dream and the disbursement of technical genius and talent that could never be recaptured. This is our story.
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Go West Young Man! This year's Harvest Hoedown is Thursday, November 1. Don your best pioneer clothes and join us for this year's festivities. Our pioneer themed potluck begins at 5:30pm. Don't forget to tie up your hoss before you come into the barn!


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FBI backs CIA claim that Russian hackers meddled in US election
Obama says he's spoken directly to Putin, and that US must take action
By Josh Lederman and Bradley Klapper	17 December 2016, 12:40 am 8 Edit
Voters cast their ballots at a polling station at Hazelwood Central High School on November 8, 2016 in Florissant, Missouri. (Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images/AFP)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI said Friday it supported the CIA's conclusion that Russia interfered in the presidential election with the goal of supporting Republican candidate Donald Trump.
In a message sent to employees, CIA Director John Brennan said he had spoken with FBI Director James Comey and James Clapper, the director of national intelligence.
Brennan said in the message that "there is strong consensus among us on the scope, nature, and intent of Russian interference in our presidential election."
A US official who had seen the unclassified message from Brennan confirmed it to The Associated Press on Friday.
President Barack Obama meanwhile promised that the US will retaliate against Russia for its suspected meddling in America's election process, an accusation the Kremlin has vehemently denied.
US President Barack Obama holds a year-end press conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, December 16, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / ZACH GIBSON)
As the White House grew more bullish about suggesting President Vladimir Putin was personally involved, Obama said he'd spoken directly to Putin about his concerns about Russian meddling. He said whenever a foreign government tries to interfere in US elections, the nation must take action "and we will at a time and place of our own choosing."
"We have been working hard to make sure that what we do is proportional, that what we do is meaningful," Obama said in an NPR News interview airing Friday.
Obama's remarks were the clearest indication that whatever response the US is planning, it hasn't happened yet. The White House has insisted for months that when the US did retaliate, it might not be made public, a position that has created uncertainty about the strength and timing of any response.
Obama was expected to face questions about the hacking and his response during a news conference at the White House on Friday afternoon.
White House officials said it was "fact" that Russian hacking helped Donald Trump's campaign against Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. White House press secretary Josh Earnest on Thursday also assailed Trump himself over his refusal to acknowledge the hacking and his attacks on the US intelligence community.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a Valdai Discussion Club meeting of political scientists in Sochi on October 27, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / SPUTNIK / Mikhail KLIMENTYEV)
The tough talk from the White House fell flat in Moscow, where Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the accusations baseless and inappropriate.
"They should either stop talking about that, or produce some proof at last," Peskov told reporters Friday. "Otherwise it all begins to look unseemly."
There has been no specific, persuasive evidence shared publicly about the extent of Putin's role or knowledge of the hackings. That lack of proof undercuts Democrats' strategy to portray Putin's involvement as irrefutable evidence of a directed Russian government plot to undermine America's democratic system.
But the White House pointed to a US intelligence assessment released publicly in October that asserted "only Russia's senior-most officials could have authorized these activities." And Obama's deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes, connected the dots further, saying Thursday Putin was responsible for the Russian government's actions.
"I don't think things happen in the Russian government of this consequence without Vladimir Putin knowing about it," he told MSNBC.
Trump has been under increasing pressure from both parties to acknowledge Russia's actions, despite his insistence that he doesn't believe Moscow was meddling. Trump has rejected the CIA's assessment that Russia's aim was to help him win and argued on Twitter that "these are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction."
The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Republican Sen. Richard Burr, defended the US intelligence community in a statement Friday pushing back on the notion that the CIA was trying to undermine Trump for political reasons. Burr said intelligence officials "come from all walks of life and hold views across the political spectrum."
"We would all do well to remember the sacrifices they make on our behalf and keep in mind that what we do with the intelligence they provide is up to us," Burr said.
Yet Trump appeared undeterred, mockingly asking in a Twitter post "are we talking about the same cyberattack" in which embarrassing information about the Democratic National Committee was also revealed. His tweet invoked emails stolen from Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman and later released publicly in hacking that has been linked to Russia.
In the NPR interview, Obama sought to contrast the current incident with "a traditional understanding that everybody's trying to gather intelligence on everybody else."
"One of the things we're going to have to do over the next decade," he said, is find an international understanding on rules involving what has become "a new game." Obama said that US officials should not let "the inter-family argument between Americans" obscure the need for people to "stand together" on this issue.
"My view is that this is not a partisan issue," the president said, exhorting people to "take it out of election season and move it into governing season."
The explosive accusation suggests Putin, the leader of perhaps America's greatest geopolitical foe, directly undermined US democracy. US officials have not contended, however, that Trump would have been defeated by Clinton on Nov. 8 if not for Russia's assistance. Nor has there has been any indication of tampering with the vote-counting.
Copyright 2016 The Associated Press.
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Britain sending destroyer to Gulf amid Iranian threats
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If you're a business owner, you've likely had a quarter or two where you did a ton of work, served a million clients, and ended up with nothing more than a few pennies in your bank account. Don't fret though, I hear this is "normal." There's a popular saying that you need to spend money to make money. And that may be true. But if you're like me, I'm sure you've wondered if success could be a bit more affordable than it currently is.
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Good marketing is vital to every business. But with the number of businesses competing for attention today, it may be difficult to get yours to stand out to potential consumers. I'm sure you're already familiar with using social media posts, billboards in high traffic areas, TV commercials, newspaper advertisements, and direct mailing as methods of promotion. However, blockchain may make your marketing efforts even more effective.
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Includes history, significance, traditions, recipes, photographs, and online greetings.
Includes legends related to the holiday, descriptions of the five days, preparation tips, and recipes.
Includes recipes, greetings, and a description of the holiday.
Learn about the origin of the festival diwali, which marks the beginning of Hindu new year.
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Air Uganda Joins African Airline Association
May 28, 2014 Staff Writer
Uganda's quasi-national airline, Air Uganda, is the latest airline to join AFRAA, the African Airline Association, according to information received from the company's CEO, Cornwell Muleya.
Already active as a keynote speaker at the recently-held 3rd Convention for Aviation Suppliers and Stakeholders in Nairobi, the membership of U7 in Africa's premier aviation body has opened the door for the Ugandan carrier to join such winning initiatives as the joint fuel purchasing program and will be able to participate in the next big scheme, the joint ground-handling initiative.
During the Nairobi meeting, AFRAA mentioned over US$30 million in savings for fuel purchases that participating member airlines made last year, a very significant amount of money considering the volatile nature of the prices of Jet A1 aviation fuel.
Said Cornwell Muleya in his communication: "Air Uganda became a full member of AFRAA in May 2014. This is part of our broad strategy to participate fully in the industry associations as we continue to grow the company and business.
The membership gives us access to the full range of benefits including the joint fuel purchase scheme, the lower training costs organized by AFRAA and IATA, joint ground handling, coordinated lobbying for aviation policy changes etc." Cornwell went on to confirm that Air Uganda had already placed an application for full IATA membership and admission to the world airline body is expected to be confirmed in due course.
Air Uganda will also be present at the upcoming Routes Africa meeting in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe in June this year where Cornwell has been listed as one of the speakers of the event.
The airline, which took to the skies in late 2008, is presently fully owned by the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development, in short AKFED but talks are progressing with the Ugandan government, following an agreement between His Highness the Aga Khan and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to have the Government of Uganda acquire a strategic share in the airline, then making it formally the flag carrier of The Pearl of Africa.
IOSA certified Air Uganda operates a fleet of 3 CRJ200 jets and serves the wider region with flights from Entebbe to Nairobi, Juba, Bujumbura, Kigali (in codeshare with RwandAir), Kilimanjaro, Dar es Salaam, Nairobi and Mombasa and notably Mogadishu. It is understood that a fleet renewal exercise is being planned to acquire newer and larger jets, so don't miss those news and watch this space for breaking and regular news updates from the Eastern African aviation scene.
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Access to justice is a key governance concern in developed and developing countries alike. Community legal workers aim to help poor or comparatively powerless people defend themselves against land grabs, obtain public services, and challenge corruption. Can this bottom-up approach counter powerful interests seeking to entrench their control? Can legal empowerment help respond to rising authoritarianism and repression of civil society?
Carnegie and Namati hosted a discussion with three legal empowerment practitioners working in Sierra Leone, India, and elsewhere, on issues of land and environmental justice.
Speakers addressed the connection between local casework and large-scale systemic change, the role of legal empowerment in addressing the global environmental crisis, how to measure progress on access to justice, and whether the state should recognize or finance this type of grass-roots legal aid, among other topics. Carnegie's Sarah Chayes moderated.
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K.T. McFarland tapped as U.S. Ambassador to Singapore
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WASHINGTON D.C. – Deputy National Security Adviser K.T. McFarland is expected to be tapped as U.S. Ambassador to Singapore, according to Bloomberg.
She was asked to step down as deputy national security adviser, according to the report.
McFarland's departure has been rumored for several weeks. She was officially brought onboard Trump's transition team in November, weeks after the president's election. But with the departure of her then-boss National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and the arrival of new National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, her departure was also expected.
A replacement for her is expected, according to the report. A source told Bloomberg that she was not "a good fit" and that Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly was involved in the decision as well.
McFarland, 65, was a former Fox News national security analyst before joining the administration.
She played a formative role in creating Trump's National Security Council and in deliberations on what to do on North Korea.
Her expected appointment as ambassador to Singapore is not insignificant as the Trump administration has made North Korea and China top national security priorities, priorities in which Singapore can play a helpful role.
McFarland's first experience at the NSC came in 1970 under National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, when she joined as a college freshman as the nightshift secretary and left as a research assistant. She also served as one of the top-ranking women at the Pentagon under the Reagan administration.
Breitbart News profiled McFarland in March.
McFarland's anticipated departure comes amid a reorganization of the NSC in the past week. Stephen K. Bannon, Trump's chief strategist and senior counselor, is no longer officially part of the principals committee, consisting of agency heads who advise the president on national security issues but can still attend meetings.
McMaster said about the reorganization: "This is not as significant as it appears… Steve Bannon provides the president with advice on a broad range of issues and will continue to do so."
Other officials, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the CIA director, were added to the council, keeping in line with previous NSCs.
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The Real Dirty Mets Blog revealed some good news for fans of the New York Mets in late August -- apparently they're getting a new injury-proof uniform for next season.
"It will make sure that all the injuries of 2009 will never happen again," the blog reports. "No word on how much it will cost to put into production but sources say the first two will go to Carlos Beltran and Johan Santana."


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Q: How to insert data into a table using SQL? Insert into the App.settings table the following values:
(99, DEFAULT, "horizontal", "2015-09-15 04:01:04")

I have a DATABASE called App with a settings table. I am trying to insert into the table but I can not seem to get it right.
My statement:
INSERT INTO App.settings
    VALUES(99, DEFAULT, "horizontal", "2015-09-15 04:01:04");

Am I doing it right? It says my answer is wrong.
mysql> DESC App.settings;
+-----------------+---------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field           | Type                | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+-----------------+---------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| user_id         | int(7)              | NO   |     | NULL    |       |
| email_frequency | tinyint(2) unsigned | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| layout          | varchar(70)         | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
| updated_at      | datetime            | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
+-----------------+---------------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
4 rows in set (0.01 sec)

A: When you use insert, always list the columns in the table.  Second, the default string delimiter is the single quote in SQL rather than the double quote.
So I would expect to see:
INSERT INTO App.settings (col1, col3, col4)  -- your real column names here
    VALUES (99, 'horizontal', '2015-09-15 04:01:04');

Note that col2 was removed from the INSERT and the VALUES because you seem to want a DEFAULT value.  Not all databases support that syntax.

A: you are sure that all the fields of the tuple are there and if so, they are in the correct order if you are not entering all the fields of the tuple you should use the following form: INSERT INTO App.settings(value, config, position, date ) VALUES(99, "DEFAULT", "horizontal", "2015-09-15 04:01:04");
In the same order

this is only an example i dont know the fields names you must be change for the you are using

A: Like @GordonLinoff said, you should include the columns in your query. That way, you can also skip entering the DEFAULT value for email_frequency.
As for the mistake, it's most likely the double quotes that you're currently using instead of single quotes.
Try the following:
INSERT INTO App.settings (user_id, layout, updated_at)
    VALUES (99, 'horizontal', '2015-09-15 04:01:04');


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The Kyle Rittenhouse Jury Is Still Out — But Sending Notes; Here's What We Know
Kyle Rittenhouse looks back as attorneys discuss items in the motion for mistrial presented by his defense during his trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse on Nov. 17, 2021 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. (Sean Krajacic/Pool/Getty Images)
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KENOSHA, Wis. — The Kyle Rittenhouse jury on Thursday began its third day of deliberations — something that seems almost inconceivable to the social media pontificators who made up their minds about the case more than a year ago.
For many legal experts, however, Kenosha County jurors are working right on schedule.
"I don't think the length of time says anything about what the jurors are thinking," veteran Chicago attorney Joe Lopez said. "But it definitely shows that it wasn't the slam-dunk many people thought it was."
The jury has sent five notes to the court during their deliberations, including three Wednesday dealing with video evidence. The last one, sent shortly before noon, indicated they hadn't made a decision on the fatal shooting of Joseph Rosenbaum, the first man killed by Rittenhouse.
"Please prepare Mr. Rosenbaum shooting (event 1)," the note read, before specifically requesting the following:
— FBI aerial video with all PIO's (persons of interest) marked.
— Drone video
— Zoomed in image still after Mr. Rittenhouse put down the fire extinguisher.
— Full event 1 video in regular and slow motion.
The request was signed by the foreperson, a white woman in her mid-50s who appeared to be taking copious notes during the trial. During the selection process, the soft-spoken woman said she had driven through downtown Kenosha after the unrest to look at the damage. She said it would not influence her decision in the case.
Before asking for the Rosenbaum footage, the forewoman — who is referred to as the presiding juror in court documents — sent a note asking for video of Rittenhouse's interaction with Gaige Grosskreutz, an armed medic whose right biceps was blown off that night.
"View video starting with Mr. Grosskreutz interview with Mr. Rittenhouse to 10 seconds after Mr. Grosskreutz shooting. In regular and slow motion," the note read.
The jurors were given everything they requested, except for the still images from the drone footage. The defense has been challenging the validity of the still shot since prosecutors received the drone records midway through trial.
Rittenhouse, then a 17-year-old resident of north suburban Antioch, volunteered to patrol downtown Kenosha in August 2020 amid turmoil surrounding the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man left partially paralyzed after being shot by a white police officer during a domestic disturbance call days earlier. Prosecutors later declined to charge the officer with wrongdoing.
Carrying an AR-15-style rifle that police say a friend illegally purchased for him, Rittenhouse fatally shot Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and wounded Grosskreutz during the third night of unrest in the city. Rittenhouse is charged with reckless homicide, intentional homicide and attempted intentional homicide related to his actions toward the men, respectively.
Rittenhouse, who faces five felony charges for his actions that night, has pleaded not guilty and said he shot the men in self-defense.
Jurors have been deliberating for more than 16 hours over the past two days, which legal experts said is typical for a case that has 36 pages of jury instructions and five felony charges to consider. The trial featured eight days of testimony, 30 witnesses, and voluminous video evidence.
"You can't predict a jury and it's hard to read tea leaves but, as a general guideline ... a day for every week of trial is a decent rule of thumb," former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Cramer said. "If we're having this conversation on Friday afternoon, and there's no verdict, then it's fair to say there could be some angst in that jury room."
Based on the jury's questions so far, Chris Grohman, a white-collar defense attorney and former federal prosecutor, said the panel appears to be on track.
"If there's been issues, I think you probably would have heard it by now. It sounds like they're working well together," Grohman said. "I don't think it's going to go on too much longer. "I would expect a verdict."
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Collaborative Art Installation Commemorates 20th Anniversary of Genocide in Rwanda
Lincroft, NJ (April 4, 2014)—A collaborative art installation consisting of more than 160 life-sized human forms will be on display April 6 through July 14 at the Center for Holocaust, Human Rights and Genocide Education at Brookdale Community College (Chhange) to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Rwanda Genocide.
The exhibit, entitled "100 Days of Silence," corresponds with the 100 days in 1994 when some 800,000 Rwandan men, women and children were killed by Hutu extremists. The title is a reference to the failure of the global community to intervene.
The forms, made of foam and designed by area middle and high school students, are part of a collaborative effort to learn about and respond creatively to the tragedy.
"The exhibit is a chance for students, educators and community members to reflect upon the human experience of the Rwandan people and the silence of the world," according to Dale Daniels, executive director of Chhange. "It is a powerful statement from our children and our community about genocide and humanity."
The exhibit is open to individuals from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Groups, as well as those wishing to view the exhibit at additional times, are asked to call 732-224-1889 to make arrangements.
Daniels credits retired art educator Arlene Smelson for making it possible to tell the Rwandan story in such a unique way.
Earlier in the year, art educators were invited to a workshop at the college where they received a comprehensive lesson plan on the genocide and the foam forms their classes would use to interpret it. During the workshop, they heard from Rwandan survivor Jacqueline Murekatete, who shared her eyewitness testimony. The students were able to hear her testimony through video that the art educators brought back to the classroom.
"It's a very powerful statement. The kids really got it," Daniels said.
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