Project Title: Adopt-an-Haitian-Internet-technician-or-facility

Project Description: The project aims to collect money and telecom gear to provide mid-term financial aid to IT technicians that have been affected with their families during the January 12, 2010 earthquake. Money, telecoms gears, time, software, etc will serve to setup technology community centers to support schools, universities, vocational centers that have collapsed.

Begin Date
February 2010

End Date
August 2010

The Context: On the January 12, 2010, Haiti one of the poorest country in the world is hurt by a 7.3 Earthquake that caused major damage to Port-au-Prince, Jacmel, Leogane and other settlements around. Many notable landmark buildings were significantly damaged or destroyed, including schools, universities, vocational schools even the Port-au-Prince Cathedral, and the main jail. Among those killed are a lot of technicians, students, teachers.

Many countries responded to appeals for humanitarian aid, pledging funds and dispatching rescue and medical teams, engineers and support personnel. Communication systems, air, land, and sea transport facilities, hospitals, schools, universities, and electrical networks had been damaged by the earthquake, which hampered rescue and aid efforts; confusion over who was in charge, air traffic congestion, and problems with prioritization of flights further complicated early relief work. As rescues tailed off, supplies, medical care and sanitation become priorities. Among them we also need to address education on a mid term run. With a lot of destroyed schools and dead teachers e-learning can be a good way to overcome this problem.

Deliverables and criteria for close-out

The projects has 2 majors deliverables:

1. Providing financial support to at least 50 technicians whose houses have been destroyed during the seism. The idea is getting them a job so they don’t have to worry about their family basic needs and keeping them on their workplace
   
2. Setup mobile IT community centers to provide IT services to schools and universities.
   
3. Contents production for e-learning
   

The project boundaries: This project aims to provide technical support to teachers helping them putting their courses online or on DVD and make it available for remote schools or schools whose teachers have been killed during the quake. Data Center in a box will facilitate access to those courses by the students. Project will be conducted in joint venture with the Ministry of Education that will define the priority based on must affected area and teacher availability.

The main risks: The main risk of this project is not having enough funds to address all the needs in supporting the schools in producing online courses because it’s a well-known fact that in schools in Haiti adopted their own curriculum ignoring sometimes the official one. The second concern

Stakeholders:
Client(sponsor): Ministry of Education

Project Manager: Reynold Guerrier

Project Team: Reynold Guerrier, Max Larson Henry,

Steering committee: Reynold Guerrier, Stéphane Bruno, Sergey Gaillard, Roque Gagliano, Max Larson Henry

Other Stakeholders: Local ISP, LACNIC, ISOC, IDB

Budget and resources: ($, people, equipment, facilities, software, etc.)

• 100,000.00 USD for salaries to support technicians and their family to get them back on track
  
• 5 contents production units
  
• Production software
  
• Management software
  
• 10 data center in a box
  

Milestones
Date Key deliverables

Feb-March 2010: Financial support to technicians and families
March 2010: Data center in a box
March-August 2010: Implementation period

Bank Account Info:
Bank: SOGEBANK
Bank Address : Route de Delmas, Delmas 29, Port-au-Prince, HAITI
Account Number: 130212988

Swift code : SOGHHTPP
Beneficiary : Association Haïtienne pour le Développement des Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication
Beneficiary Address: 18, rue Moise, Pétion-Ville, HAITI

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Jonah really got into moving his VHS collection into the new house, a few blocks away, bigger, and immediately adjacent to the elementary school Kezzie and now Sam attend. Jonah and I will be using this school for after-school activities, along with Kezzie and Sam, as we won't have to run, (today was a bolt and a half) back to the house to meet Jonah's bus.

Tomorrow I'll move all of his videos over to the new house, less a working set to keep he and his video player engaged. He goes to an inclusion program Wednesday's at the local Youth Bureau, where I'll pick him up at 5pm.

I think Thursday I'll have him bag up all the letters on the fridge and we'll take them over to the new house.

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Gaza Division Commander Brig. Gen. Eyal Eisenberg and Givati Brigade Commander Col. Ilan Malka have been disciplined "for exceeding their authority in a manner that jeopardized the lives of others" when ordering fire missions on Gaza's Tel al-Hawa neighborhood.

Naturally, the use of WP rounds in the fire mission was not a subject of the disciplinary action, as the issue there is whether the fire mission's use of WP was a legitimate exercise of masking fire, or illumination, or not. If not, it was the use of WP against a civilian population, and therefore a war crime. Look at the photo above. Legitimate use (fusing sufficient to provide smoke and light only) or not?

What about this one? Same elevation, same fire mission, same munitions. Notice any difference in fusing? This is what Gaza Division Commander Brig. Gen. Eyal Eisenberg and Givati Brigade Commander Col. Ilan Malka have been disciplined for, jeopardized the lives of others when using 155mm tubes to deliver WP at the ground level as an area denial fire mission ... targeting a densely inhabited area which included this UN school.

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NGL Outreach Assistance

The Internet Society (ISOC) is happy to announce a new programme beginning in 2010: the ISOC Next Generation Leaders (NGL) programme. The NGL was officially launched 6 October 2009 at a youth forum lunch during the ITU Telecom World week in Geneva. The programme is aimed at emerging talents across the globe, between the ages of 20 and 40, and is a unique blend of coursework and practical experience to help prepare young professionals from around the world to become the next generation of Internet technology, policy, and business leaders.

Programme entrants will complete a tailored eLearning course, covering the essential topics required for effective interactions and relationships within the Internet ecosystem, as well as key concepts and emerging issues in Internet governance. They will be encouraged to apply for the Internet Society?s representation programmes, such as ISOC Ambassadorships to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), the World Bank, and OECD, and the ISOC Fellowship to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

At the end of the programme, all Next Generation Leaders programme graduates will be invited to submit a proposal for a project focused on an Internet development issue within their own communities. Of those, three projects will be chosen and the respective project leaders will be invited to Geneva for a final, one-week course in Internet diplomacy. The three project leaders will be recognized as the Next Generation Leaders programme laureates, rewarded with special opportunities to network with some of the Internet?s most respected leaders and to participate in special leadership events, and they may be encouraged to start new Internet Society Chapters in their communities.

More information on the programme can be found at www.InternetSociety.org/Leaders.

You may sign up to receive periodic information on the NGL but visiting the programme site and clicking on "Candidates: Register for NGL Information."

We will be sharing application details for the eLearning component through the sign up information list in the coming months.

If you have any questions or comments about the Next Generation Leaders programme, please contact leaders@InternetSociety.org

Best wishes,

Connie J Kendig
Sponsored Programs & Grants Manager
Internet Society
www.isoc.org

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I can provide clue to anyone interested in taking a closer look at this.

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A few months ago I came across Victoria Stroud's Doesn't Fall Off His Horse while browsing for stories for Sam. The phrase "dosen't fall off her horse" just jumped into my head this morning. Chellie is doing something specific about Haiti, which I'm not at liberty to disclose, but it has something to do with keeping the Haitian Internet functional, blogged about oddly enough, here at Wampum (and on NANOG). But in addition to this incredibly altruistic effort which I personally know is very, very time consuming, she's also not fallen off her horse.

And if you don't know what that phrase could refer to, look at the number of Dems who ran on Single Payer, who ran on Peace, who ran on Progressive Economic Stimulus, who ran on Financial System Reform, who ran on Reproductive Choice, who ran on Accountability for the previous appointed, election stealing, war crimes committing regime, who ...

Chellie and Jared Polis (D-CO) and Chellie Pingree (D-ME) are urging fellow House Dems to sign a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) calling on him to pass the public option through reconciliation.

There is something for each of us to do call a CongressCritter.

Don't fall off your horse, and don't let your Congress Man or Congress Woman dismount without a reminder.

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Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren caught my eye about a year ago when I was looking at the issue of trying to define what kind of banks, financial institutions generally, should CORE allow to register in any financial TLD(s) that CORE pursues.

Our basic problem is that banks think that the DNS is .COM, and that .COM is just for brand promotion. The idea that public data networks running open protocols, with DNS as a name to resource mapping, and public key digital security to authenticate the parties, and public key crypto to obscure the authenticated transaction, could displace private networks running proprietary protocols, without DNS mapping, and with proprietary security, or simply obscurity, isn't something that comes natural to them.

Now, if we didn't think that ethical banking could be defined, or that we'd not want to damage our brand by providing unethical institutions, then asking what are the profiles of consumer interest rate setting entities wouldn't have crossed my mind. But that is just we intend to do, without the participation of the ABA, or probably its largest and lobbying agenda setting members, some of whom went under a year ago, and some of whom didn't. We'll use the European banks, and the non-banks such as the S&Ls.

In any event, it is good to see her in the Obama White House, even if just for a brief visit.

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This is a second call for suggestions about what we recognize, about what we value. My own thoughts are that Series and Writing are wicked important, as blogging is about sequences of writings, as are Expert and Single Issue, as this is more than just uninformed "news" and lack of focus.

I have never been happy with the "Best Blog" thing, as it tends to be a largest posse question, both PRO and AM.

Then there is humor, and in the real world XKCD rulez (Dimensional Analysis had me laughing till I cried, on each panel!). However, I'm informed that taste varies and not everyone thinks that pi is a punchline that gives for days on end, or that of course better milage in a Prius means Blighty drifts out into the waves. Why escapes me.

The counter to the biggest posse problem are the blogs that are about place, about localities. I've a fondness for these too.

We have:

• Best Blog – Non-Sponsored Division
  
• Best Blog – Pro Division
  
• Best Writing
  
• Best Post
  
• Best Series
  
• Best Group Blog
  
• Most Humorous Blog
  
• Most Humorous Post
  
• Best Expert Blog
  
• Best Single Issue Blog
  
• Best New Blog
  
• Most Deserving of Wider Recognition
  
• Best Commenter
  
• Best Community Blog
  
• Best Locality Blog

Suggestions thus far have been:

• Econoblog
  
• Vblog/podcast
  
• Individual
  
• Commenting community

Of these, econoblog and the community of commenters seem of the body. Any more suggestions before we start?

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This morning's news confirmed last night's expectation of food aid for the technicians on the Hill, who ran out of food on Thursday. Reynold Guerrier writes to NANOG:

I received yesterday morning from Mr. Montaigne Marcelin, Director of Contatel[1] the aid that has been given by Codetel to help the technicians in the Telecommunications sector:

• 9 packs of rice 60 Kg
  
• 2 packs of beans 60 Kg
  
• 2 containers of oil 30 pounds each
  
• 4 herring boxes
  
• 354 containers of pica pica
  
• 2 boxes of plastic spoon
  
• 110 packs of water
  
• 4 boxes of polystyrene plate
  
• 2 packs of maggi
  
• 1 pack of salt
  
• 4 boxes of tomato pasta
  
• 3 rations of bananas
  
• 7 packs of spaghetti
  
• 4 gallons of hot sauce
  

The distribution of this aid is being coordinated by Napoleon Richard (509-3746-xxxx) an associates member of the board of AHTIC. This aid is provided to support the needy technicians families while they are making themselves available to work,

Thanks to Mr. Edwin San Roman from CODETEL and all of you on the NANOG list that has been pushing for that.

Reynold Guerrier
Treasurer
AHTIC
Network Engineer
509-3446-xxxx

Up until now the technicians had to present themselves in person at an aid station to receive exactly one ration of whatever the aid station was distributing, which made work on the Hill profoundly difficult. Efforts to find a way to get Dominique Guerrier and the two Guerrier children, Nikki (3) and Aurelia (1) out of the Delmas area of Port au Prince and to safe long-term (weeks) housing with accessible food and water continue. My money is on Chellie Pingree who is working this issue hard. Also contributing are Stacy Burner, Nancy Pelosi, Maria Cantwell and others.

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[1] Contatel is the CONSEIL NATIONAL des TELECOMMUNICATIONS, a government administration responsible for management of the telecommunications sector. CONTATEL is equivalent to FCC in USA.

See also Julius Genachowski's comments here: FCC Chairman makes statement regarding two Contatel deaths and Haitian relief efforts

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For the past week I've been to busy to post, even the note that yesterday's SCOTUS ruling on campaign finance contained the Court's first mention of the word "blog" was a noted-but-not-posted kind of thing.

On the 15th, while I was still in Geneva I sent the following to the NANOG list:

After the Katrina landfall a diverse group of wireless people started organizing a relief effort, culminating in work around Waveland. There was also a group from the NPGS in Monterey, who worked on the Boxing Day Tsunami aftermath.

Does anyone have a similar contact set?

At about the same time, Kim Davis who works for the IANA wrote an update on ICANN's blog. Since then it has been a blur of hard work. For no particular reason I became a skype contact of the last remaining engineer at the NAP on Boutilliers Hill, east of Port au Prince, and spent the weekend of the 15th and 16th working contacts in the industry and the USG (State and Southern Command) to get diesel to the NAP to keep the generators running. On the 17th Reynold Guerrier had managed to scrounge up 56 gallons of diesel, moving the NAP's dry tank fail point some 8 hours, into the morning of the 18th, with battery fail point some 8 hours later. Noon Eastern on the 18th I deplaned at Newark and sat down at a hotspot to start work. The chain of consequences letters then reached into the Whitehouse, the DoJ, State, and Southern Command, which released 5 jerrycans of 54 gallons each and the Dominican Republic embassy release another 2 jerrycans to Reynold late in the day of the 18th, which made the Boutillier facility fuel-secure through Friday.

The Boutillier facility is where Haiti's Internet Service Providers (approximately 5) maintain their network infrastructure, datacenters, an Internet Exchange Point (IXP), which allows Internet users to connect within the country, and microwave links to the Dominican Republic. The network facilities are housed in two buildings on the crest of a ridge on the Haiti/D.R. border. Here are some photos of the hill and antenna farm and random snapshots.

Meanwhile Mary Beth had been pursuing information about an orphanage where two four-year old girls, twins, were waiting for final approval of their paperwork for adoption by the professor who taught her ConLaw class during the Fall term. Susie Madrak wrote a summary on the 18th that captures the complexity -- How Bloggers Helped Save The Orphans – And The Haiti Internet and again on the 20th -- Still Trying To Save The Haitian Internet -- progressive and feminist bloggers to Congressional staffers. Not in Susie's post of the 20th is the rest of the trajectory -- members (Chellie Pingree, Earl Blumenaur, Pat Murray, ... ) to the State Department and Homeland Security to the Speaker's Office.

On the 19th Reynold spent the morning at the airport with ministers and posted the following to NANOG:

We would like to provide to the haitian government a UC systems with several branches:

• President office -- 10 Endpoints
  
• PM office -- 10 endpoints
  
• 12 mayor city hall offices -- 3 for each -- 36 endpoints
  
• Ministries -- (9 differents locations 3 for each) -- 27
  
• Communications Center -- 20
  
• emergency Clusters -- 14

Total -- 117 endpoints

and started work getting a T3 run from the hill down to the airport where the Haitian government was now located.

That afternoon I replied to someone from Google [ask if they want their names] who responded to my note(s) to NANOG

... one of the things we don't have is current imagery. Everyone uses Google Maps, but the images are pre-event. Reynold responded to me a couple of days ago when I asked the address where his wife and small children are (their house collapsed), see below:
[1/17/10 5:15:10 PM] reygji: wshe lost it when she tried to escape the house
[1/17/10 5:16:52 PM] reygji: there is practically no address system in Haiti
[1/17/10 5:16:58 PM] Eric Brunner-Williams: ok
[1/17/10 5:17:01 PM] reygji: in Port-au-Prince now
[1/17/10 5:17:12 PM] reygji: no street
[1/17/10 5:17:24 PM] reygji: it's practically rubble
[1/17/10 5:17:44 PM] reygji: my only point of contact is the phone number and my email
At some point the base imagery needs to be replaced. I'm not talking about the Google car (it would have trouble finding the streets), but Google doing something Google is good at -- getting images tied to space and making a incrementally completing mosaic available. ...

Within minutes I'd this reply

Ok, I think we can check one thing off your list... :-)

Downloadable KML overlay for Google earth with updates.

Post-Earthquake imagery.
http://www.google.com/relief/haitiearthquake/#imagery

All I did was have a blank mind (one of my qualities) while walking two blocks to pick up my 1st grader wondering "what could Google do?" I skyped this to Reynold who started to pull the images (large data sets) so that the best current imagery could be local to the Haitian governmental network segment (the NAP and IX servers. It was that quick. The next day I wrote a friend at Google, copying the Geo-Data people who'd contacted me from NANOG:

this kind of stuff makes me proud to even know you, let alone use your product.

http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-imagery-of-port-au-prince.html

Somehow file transfer made me ask if Reynold needed an account on a machine outside of Haiti, so I set that up on the machine next to the machine that hosts this blog and he pushed family pictures so that I could get them to State.

The second refueling took place yesterday. Another set of jerrycans. The NAP is fuel secure through Monday. But Reynold's wife Dominique, and their children Nikki and Aurelia, ages 3 and 1, remain in the Delmas region of Port au Prince.

Now back to work.

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So far we've not yet heard if the diesel has made it from the Americans, via the State Department, a contact we started 22 hours ago, to the Multilink NAP on Boutilliers Hill in Port au Prince. The NAP is going to run out of fuel Monday and it is powering the microwave backhaul from Port au Prince to the Dominican Republic, and all the remaining ISP traffic, that is, all governmental and NGO network access.

Wierd. To be the ones, in Geneva and Ithaca, actually in real-time communication with the NAP in PaP, who were unable all of yesterday to reach anyone in the rescue footprint that is spreading out from the air field. Using friendships (yes, neurologically atypical social networking) we now have State tasked to act and State calling the cell phone of the engineers at the NAP and the government/rescue now using the remaining data net as a critical resource ... which means the fuel is more likely to get there than when we started, 48 hours ago.

A NANOG contributor who works for Perot Systems couldn't fly in a cargo of kit due to the air control restrictions. He writes

Eric and Reynold,

See if the airport has received more JetA. I know they were out of ramp space and low on fuel on Friday. I was going to fly some emergency supplies down, but I was told they were turning airplanes away. If they have received fuel, you can use JetA in your diesel generator without any problem.

Reynold is the network engineer in Port au Prince I've been skyping with for the past 24 hours.

After the diesel replenishment there is replenishment of one of dozens of orphenages, this one simply because MB's ConLaw prof has 4 year old twins, girls, waiting for the adoption paperwork to clear. The latest information we have is the orphanage lost some resources to looters about 20 hours ago. A member of staff needs to be buried, a child needs an IV, and potable water, food, formula, charcoal, and above all, cash -- not "money" but the folding green stuff, in a world without banks or ATMs or anything except a cash-only economy of dire necessity.

The photo is 48 hours old. Things have deteriorated since.

A link worth clicking and reading: Parents for Ethical Adoption Reform

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One of my letters this afternoon after skyping with the NAP at Boutilliers, Port au Prince, Haiti, from Geneva, Switzerland. It has been 5+ hours. The taskforce-1@state.gov address has not generated a response.

ATTN DUTY OFFICER

The following SitRep is from real-time communications with the network engineer at the NAP in Boutilliers, Port au Prince, between 5:30pm and 6pm, Geneva time.

The generator at the NAP in Boutilliers is burning diesel at 8gal/hour. The Network Access Point is currently supporting all remaining governmental and NGO network traffic in Port au Prince, with microwave backhaul to the Dominican Republic.

The generator will run out of fuel in about 24 hours.

There is a 600 gal tank which obviously has been burned 2/3rds of the way through since the wireline infrastructure failed.

Getting 200gal/day of diesel to the NAP in Boutilliers is priority #1.

Because of existing conditions, the fuel will have to have an armed escort. There is no direct communications with the US or UN forces, and this communications path, from the North American Network Operators (NANOG) list, to a NANOG subscriber currently in Geneva, back to the NAP in Port au Prince, appears to be the "best path" at the moment.

The contact I've been skyping with is Reynold Guerrier, his cellphone is 509-3446-xxxx, and his title is AHTIC Treasurer.

The AHTIC is the Haiti Country Code DNS Registry.

Eric Brunner-Williams
CTO/CORE
skype: abenaki.wabanaki.net

In a follow-up mail to taskforce-1@state.gov I described the situation at the Maison des Infants de Dieu ("For His Glory") orphanage.

Separately, I'm trying to get assistance to an orphanage. The original address is below, I know the structure is collapsed and the children and surviving staff are in tents in a field adjacent to the collapsed structure. A helo LZ is operating from a nearby open space, but they are not receiving any assistance and are in dire need. The orphanage has "money", in the bank, but due to the collapse of everything, they are in critical need of cash. US dollars.

Their needs are: Formula, water, medicine, IV (one injured child) charcoal, diesel, help burying dead staff, and most importantly, cash. They have a few "Coleman style" tents, but mostly it is tarps on sticks, and vicks-under-the-nose is visible in the few photos, so decaying bodies are proximal.

Their conditions were reported to be "dire". I've just learned that looters have entered the orphanage, so "dire" is probably inadequate as a label of distress. One of MB's prof's is in the process of adopting twins, age 4, from this orphanage. 150 children, 30 surviving staff. No potable water. No food. Proximal to rotary wing aircraft. Not served. Yet.

I'm wicked pleased that people I think of as adults are responding responsibly, but I can only cross my fingers and hope.

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The Network Startup Research Center is sending parts of their teaching kit -- Ubiquity NS2, Ubiquity bullets, Ubiquity picostations -- and others are sending the wireless CPE units, UBS spectrum analysers, ... and of course, Cat5 rolls, that they have on hand.

The goal is to get the kit together to setup a wireless data network in the PaP area to connect 10 to 20 locations back to a central VSAT dish and provide over the network local data services (incl. VoIP, data sharing etc.) and as well internet access. And then deliver and install it.

More links: inveneo.org.

Discussion is on NANOG and off-list among the usual (humanitarian) suspects. Any wampum readers wanting to either sponsor some wifi kit (I'm going to be consistent with the NSRC's teaching package, which currently uses Ubiquity as the primary wifi h/w vendor) or send useful equipment leave a note in comments and I'll get back to you after I get back to Ithaca/Cornell from Geneva/CORE, early next week.

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Last Monday Northrop Grumman announced that 300 of its top executives are leaving Century City for the Washington area, including the Maryland and Virginia suburbs, leaving 21,000 people in Los Angeles County and another 9,000 people in the rest of California.

It is a big change, and part of a trend of the defense industry management teams flight from their WW2 origins in Pacific Theater airfields rich in trade and craft Okie labor and skilled SoCal technical labor, to the permanent war without locus waged from Washington. They, their product, their innovation, is simply insufficient to prevail in the expenditure driving deceit hawks who don't have to overcome a major technical challenge, ever, in their war against rhetoric and technique.

The next day ICANN announced that James 'Jamie' Hedlund, a Washington-based lobbyist, will take over at the end of the month as vice president for government affairs for the Americas. He is nominally replacing Paul Levins who held the position of Vice President of Corporate Affairs.

Now this isn't quite the same thing as shutting down one wing of a floor of the 4676 Admiralty Way site, but it bears repeating .. the VP for governmental affairs for the Americas will be someone who has never set foot in the building, has never attended an ICANN meeting, has never ...

His earnings, according to one source:

Year	Earnings	Client
2009	$1,060,000	Consumer Electronic Association
2008	$1,200,000	Yahoo!
2007	$1,625,700	Yahoo!
2006	$700,000	Yahoo!

I came across this quote: "This model of governance is innovative ... one that if done correctly, will succeed in maintaining a single Internet."

An interesting quote. I've been more open in the past year that the fundamental problem is managing the delta between the MdR and Beijing roots, a delta I'd a very small part in causing to come into existence. I doubt if he is aware that "maintaining a single internet" puts him on collision course with (a) the belief that the US can act arbitrarily without adverse consequence, that is, the dull bits of the DoD glitterati, (b) the belief that the US is the only competent jurisdiction, that is, the dull bits of the DoC competition law and letters set, and their counter parties, (c) the sharper bits of the PRC science and tech policy advisers and (d) the unamused European Commission. Oh well, a man paid to be optimistic.

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Rounds impacted the windshield and a rear window, suggesting two firing points, a head-and-tail ambush, or a single firing point able to engage the target uninterrupted for 15 seconds or longer, proximal to the path of the vehicle targeted. This was in Tehran, the former Presidential candidate (1st round) and Speaker of the 6th Majlis, was not harmed, according to his son Hossein.

In Yazd there was a home invasion by masked men on the residence of Ayatollah Sadoughi, member of the Association of Combatant Clerics, which was lead by Karubi until 2005.

Iranian television showed Ali Mottahari, conservative member of the Majlis, and Ali Larijani, the speaker of the current Majlis, speaking against the rhetorical escalation by Ahmadinejad-associated figures for the assassination or execution-after-show-trials of presidential candidates Mehdi Karubi and Mir-Hossein Mousavi.

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