• No one is certain what the 'p' in "pH", the standard of acidity and alkalinity, stands for. The "H" stands for Hydrogen
• Jasmine Revolution may refer to:
  • The 1987 coup d'état in Tunisia that led to the rise to the presidency of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who was later to be deposed in another Jasmine Revolution, below. There is no Wikipedia article on this coup
  • The Sidi Bouzid Revolt (WP) in which President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was forced to flee the country with the loot he had gotten from privatization, dubbed "the Jasmine Revolution" by media early in 2011, which inspired the Arab Spring and the 2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests
  • The Arab Spring. See Jasmine Revolution
  • The 2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests in the People's Republic of China, named a "Jasmine revolution" by some of the organisers
• North Carolina Stop Torture Now! was responsible for media attention to the subject of extraordinary rendition, and yet had its article deleted from Wikipedia
• The US 'Hearts & Minds' campaign in Hīt, Iraq, and presumably other areas, was largely about buying the support of a few individuals
• Hunt Saboteurs were successful in convincing the U.K. government to ban fox hunting. Drag hunting with human-laid scent trails is now in some cases used instead, but partly because it was advocated by their mortal enemies, hunt saboteurs, some hunt clubs are 'cutting off their nose to spite their face' and refusing to implement the alternative
• The Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit (LEIU) is an privately owned but government funded organization used by the United States Department of Justice (USDOJ) to amass files on private citizens while evading the United States Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
• "...everyone knows what 'fairness' means..." The average world income is the same as the U.S. "poverty line" See, Egalitarianism "...the world economy is not a zero sum (WP) game..."
• ...The name of Montreal's anarchist bookstore, Librairie l'Insoumise, means "The Insubordinate", a derogatory moniker given to the French anarchist and participant in the Paris Commune, Louise Michel. She was accused of:

1. Trying to overthrow the government
2. Encouraging citizens to arm themselves
3. Possession and use of weapons, and wearing a military uniform
4. Forgery of a document
5. Using a false document
6. Planning to assassinate hostages
7. Illegal arrests, torturing and killing

All before she had even become an anarchist. She was not radicalized until she was sent to prison

• ...Because they are much smaller than previous types of satellites, Microsatellites can be placed in orbits much closer to Earth. Because they are closer, the area from which they can receive signals and to which they can send them is much smaller, in the opposite way to a goalie protecting more of a soccer goal with the same reach, the further out from the goal he is, or the same way as a torch/flashlight shines its light on a smaller area the closer to a a reflective surface it comes. Despite the fact that this requires many microsatellites to be launched at the same time, to cover the same area, it is still cheaper to launch and maintain the 'constellations' of satellites, as their formations are called, and they cover their assigned areas faster

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An article on this subject was deleted by redirect on Wikipedia. See Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hīt during the Iraq War

Hīt or Heet (هيت) is a city in al-Anbar province, Iraq (WP). Hīt lies northwest of Ramadi, the provincial capital, in the Sunni Triangle. Along with other cities in Iraq, it was the target of a concentrated effort to throw money at the problem of the occupation of Iraq by US forces and the US puppet regime. The US army, after the third invasion of Iraq (the first being the covert support of Saddam Hussein's revolutionary forces by the CIA, in which they gave him information that would help him kill the communists in Iraq) were the instruments of this policy, dubbed "winning 'Hearts and Minds'"

Shop in Hit in May 2008

In the sense of it being a program that relied on a great deal of money to implement, that remained largely in the form of money, and to a lesser extent wage labor (WP) bought with money, throughout its execution, it was similar to the Importation subsidy (no WP equivalent) program initiated in Viet Nam (WP) by the Ngo Diem regime, before the start of the Viet Nam War (WP). The US paid for goods imported into Viet Nam, sold to local merchants at artificially low prices, and gave the proceeds to the Diem government, on loan. In this way, the US in particular and the Diem government by extension was made more popular with the merchant class, the merchant class was financially empowered and politically motivated (bribed, in fact). The Vietnamese people would later be exposed to the Western lifestyle and attendant bribes in much the same way during the war, only with cigarettes and chewing gum.^[1]

2nd Battalion 7th Marines (2/7) returned to the Hīt area from supporting Wikipedia:Operation Vigilant Resolve. Its focus of operations was to propagandize the occupation and buy off local leaders to get the maximum amount of control in the area. U.S. military sources suggest that 2/7 civil affairs efforts injected nearly $3 million USD into local reconstruction and security efforts. Control was further increased by training armed forces such as Iraqi National Guard units and police forces. Psy Ops forces were used in Hit in March 2007, the same month as the Task Force oversaw the successful delivery of five billion Iraqi Dinar to the Hit bank. In April, the Task Force paid out almost $100,000 to local Hīt business owners.

See the rest of the article, albeit one that is primarily US Armed Forces propgaganda, at US 'Hearts & Minds' campaign in Hīt, Iraq. The rest of the article was deemed of insufficient propaganda value to justify the leak of the information about the true nature of 'Hearts and Minds' as being bribes and payoffs, so that article was redirected to the city article.

<center> It was also a good year for peace, apparently
The ONLY year, after 1945, in which the US did NOT instigate military conflicts in other countries or actions leading to them, according to the admittedly unexhaustive list at List of military interventions by the US :
1977

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Micronation diplomacy

Pretenders and micronations are a fascinating subject, because in their impotence, they lay bare the lack of any real power that states have. All is in the mind of the governors or the governed, or Guns or Butter (WP)

One of the first micronations (WP) to be established, in 1865, was the Kingdom of Redonda, on a Caribbean island; there are hundreds more today.^[2] Many micronations have diplomatic relations with other micronations; inasmuch as no macronation, or undisputed country, will recognize a micronation, their diplomatic relations are usually limited to other micronations.^[3] However, micronations often make pronouncements with respect to nations, or declare policy with respect to nations, some more substantial^[2][3] than the common micronation declaration that they 'give gifts' to nearby or encompassing nations rather than pay taxes.^[2][3][4] According to the declarative theory of statehood of the Montevideo Convention, countries need population, territory, government, and diplomacy to be considered sovereign.^[5][6] Many micronations will not recognise less serious micronations than themselves.^[7] While micronational diplomacy usually consists of friendly contact between micronations,^[3] some micronations, such as the Principality of Seborga and the Madison Kingdom of Talossa,^[8] refuse to recognise any micronation as an unofficial or official policy. The reverse is also true; the Hutt River Principality is visited by officials of the Australian government, despite its unrecognized status.^[3]

In at least three instances, the foundation of a micronation was a protest against the laws or administration of the nearby macronation.^[4][2][9] The Gay and Lesbian Kingdom of the Coral Sea Islands (WP) was founded in response to Australia's ban on gay marriage.^[2][10][11]The Mittagong, New South Wales city council decided to divert construction of a sewer line, after the Principality of Dubeldeka was formed, to the outskirts of its property;^[2] the founders of the micronation claim that the hotel they planned to restore would have been destroyed by the original course of pipelaying.^[2] The Principality of Wy decided being part of a local council that denied them road access was not worth it, and seceded in 2004.^[4] The NSK micronation opposes the very concept of nations,^[12][13] and Cyber Yugoslavia is critical of Yugoslavian nationalism.^[12]

The dissolution of the Soviet Union created areas that were no longer parts of the former USSR (WP) or Russia (WP), nor established states; micronations whose sovereignty and relationship to other countries was unclear, yet whose national borders and ethnic constituency still had precedence in history.^[14]

The largest intermicronational organisation in micronational history is the Organisation of Active Micronations (OAM),^[15] which boasts over 80 member nations.^[16] The League of Small Nations (LSN), modelled after the League of Nations (WP), consists of the Dominion of British West Florida, the Sovereign Barony of Caux, the Grand Duchy of Greifenberg and the Republic of Molossia.^[17] There are also intermicronational organisations that are reputable, while accepting nations and micronations that do not necessarily meet all of the Montevideo Convention requirements for a state, such as the Micronational Professional Registry (MPR)^[18] and the League of Secessionist States (LoSS)^[19] The United Micronations Multi-Oceanic Archipelago (UMMOA) claims recognition from an organization in Italy by the name of International Parliament for Safety and Peace.^[20]

The continent of Australia swells the number of micronations considerably;^[2][3][4] micronations there attend to diplomatic business at micronation conferences,^[2] including the April 2010 PoliNation conference on an island just off the coast of Sydney, Australia.^[11][21]

Ambassadors to other micronations tend to visit, rather than live in them, or conduct diplomacy at a distance.^[3] Ambassadors can be assigned to macronations (most commonly to the macronation that surrounds a micronation), but are never recognised as ambassadors by the macronation. The definition of state visit remains the same for micronations as larger ones. Grand Duke Paul of Greifenberg made a state visit to President Kevin Baugh of Molossia on April 21, 2008, where they talked about micronationalism.^[22] On May 23, 2008, Grand Duke Paul visited Baron John I of the Barony of Caux.^[23] From June 27–30, 2008, Prince Christopher and Princess Erin of Vikesland visited Molossia. During the visit, they engaged in joint military and rocket projects.^[24] All of these state visits were between members of the League of Small Nations.

Micronations typically use definitions of embassies and ambassadors loosely. Lovely,^[25] for example, declares any location its flag is displayed to be an embassy. Some will declare just about any location to be an embassy, including a webpage. Some micronations consist purely as embassies. The citizens of Atlantia, a micronation on the Australian continent, all claim dual citizenship, both Australian and Atlantian.^[2]

Micronational war (WP) is usually done jokingly. For instance, micronations, such as the Conch Republic,^[26] and the Hutt River Province^[27] in 1977,^[2] have declared war on the macronations that surround them.^[3] Macronations generally ignore this. Wars may be declared between micronation; Molossia helped to create another micronation, Mustachistan, and after a territorial dispute went to war with it.^[28] Molossia also declared a never-ending war on East Germany (WP), which it claims still exists, on Ernst Thälmann Island.^[29] Slightly more serious incidents include Sealand, off the coast of England, whose territory is an island that was a military base during World War II base, that once fired warning shots when a British Navy boat came close to shore,^[2] and 'civil wars' in which citizens of a micronation declare war on it, hacking into its website to crash it.^[12]

References

• Micronations John Ryan, George Dunford, Simon Sellars Review. The Australian
• Jody Shapiro will teach you How to Start Your Own Country; Vanessa Farquharson, Oct. 21, 2010, National Post
• How to Start Your Own Country YouTube (WP)
  • How to Start Your Own Country Pt2 YouTube Alternative title: How to Finish Your Own Country?

The lie of WMDs in Iraq admitted

The USA retains over 10,000 nuclear warheads, down from a Cold War average of 20,000

Eight years ago, Colin Powell, on behalf of the Bush administration, set the USA, with its nuclear arsenal still at half its Cold War level, on a course for war with Iraq, with a cry of WMDs! OMG! The administration bulldozed their way past Intelligence agencies that decried their evidence as faulty, but Powell's and later Bush's 16 words speeches went on as planned. With the war, the fabrication of the war, and the aftermath of the war, there was much to obscure the fact that one of the reasons for the Bush administration's success in pulling a war out of a hat was that they had the pretext of a real person, albeit unreliable as a source, who was behind the story as they told it. Now, the source of the information, codenamed Curveball, has come clean.^[30]

"Key Bush Admin "Source" Admits to Lying about Iraqi WMD"

Weapons of mass destruction are nuclear, biological, or chemical

An Iraqi defector whose claims were used to help build the case for the U.S. invasion of Iraq has admitted for the first time that he lied. In an interview with The Guardian of London, Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi—codenamed "Curveball"—says he fabricated tales of mobile biological weapons laboratories and other secret sites under Saddam Hussein. Janabi says he was hoping to topple Saddam Hussein’s government and was "shocked" when his claims were cited in then-U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell’s infamous address to the United Nations eight years ago. Top Bush administration officials insisted on highlighting Janabi’s claims despite widespread doubts amongst U.S. intelligence.^[30] - Headlines for February 16, 2011, Democracy Now!

Satirical graphic made in reaction to the internet blackout in Egypt

This shows a different side to the plausible deniability tactic, and a double standard for the reliability of information: providing just enough information to silence dissenters makes information reliable for allies and supporters, where just enough doubt for allies and supporters makes dissenters' information unreliable.

2011 Egyptian media censorship

The Hacktivism (WP) group Anonymous (WP) displayed the altruistic side of direct action for the uninitiated, with low-tech faxes, to update Egyptians behind the information 'Iron Curtain'^[31] during the January 2011 internet block in Egypt.^[31]

2011 USA intervention in Haitian elections

In 2009, the Fanmi Lavalas party, closest to Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was forbidden participation in Haiti's November '10 elections by the provisional election council created by the current president, Rene Praval. Under cover of the Egyptian protests, the US, to the orchestrated swell of allegations of voter fraud as a pretext for runoff elections, pressured Haiti to remove Jude Celestin, the candidate least affiliated with right-wing Haitian government, US-backed Haitian governments, Haitian dictators, or all three, after the election was criticized as unfair. The US also pressured Haiti to add Michel Martelly to the ballot, to face Mirlande Manigat in the revised election.^[32]
Election fraud debunked; voter boycott proved
Michelle Martelly won the subsequent runoff election, that was also "marred by problems". The fact that 71% of Haitians stayed away from an election without Lavalas was used to justify the runoff election and give credence to the claims of voter fraud by Celestin. But at the runoff election itself, the turnout was even lower; 25% instead of 29%.^[32] The recent voter turnouts are a slump back to pre-Aristide levels; 60% or more of Haitians voted in all the elections in which Jean-Bertrand Aristide or his Lavalas party were on the ballot.^{[33][34][35][36]}

• Michel Martelly, 'popularly known as' "Sweet Micky" — a moniker sometimes used interchangeably to refer to himself as well as his band — is a Haitian performing and recording artist, composer,^[37] and musical sociopolitical activist, who breaks the expected lefty mold of American and British entertainers with his well-hidden support for the Duvalier regime.^[38] Between the time of the 1991 coup d'état and the return of Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1994, he also supported the government of disbanded Haitian military and pro-US forces that deposed Aristide and took power.^[38][39] He ran on a platform of nothing much in particular, being described as a joke candidate by many reports. However, he claimed nepotism and voter fraud by Celestin, as did Mirlande Manigat.

Coalition to Save the Preserves

Coalition to Save the Preserves was a name chosen in 2002 by Mark Sands to cover up his arson of a building that he did not want in his area by portraying it as Propaganda of the deed (or more specifically, 'eco-terrorism').^[40]

The fact that Sands had been perpetrating a hoax, however dangerous a hoax, never seemed to fully sink into the minds of some US. security agency employees, and most likely others decided it would be expedient to ignore this fact, and they have issued numerous lists of terrorists with the CtStP included:

• In 2006, the Department of Homeland Security issued a threat assessment that included the CtStP as one of the threats on US soil that had carried out domestic terrorism.^[41]
• Listing on the Global Terrorism Database by START National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, a Center of Excellence of the US Department of Homeland Security based at the University of Maryland^[42]

Understandably, Sands' Not In My Back Yard (NIMBY) activity was something of a threat to real direct action (WP) advocates, and Earth First! (WP), with considerably fewer resources than the FBI or the later security agencies, was at the time, at pains to point out that it was not responsible for his activity^[43]

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