Sorry .. Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in <20220317213743.oWVJv%steffen@sdaoden.eu>: |Matt Johnson-Pint wrote in | <CAKxAwDom9DMFYYTHV-R43GY0sf-C_0z=JpnhSv07J4523mkG3g@mail.gmail.com>: ... |I really wish anyone would talk about the ~1.3 million death |human beings in Irak, Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as the |millions of people starving in Yemen due to western supported |warfare. ~1.3 Million, and Germany was involved! By Jove!!! Ever since yesterday my stomach screams one of the receivers is thinking the numbers are way too high, therefore this. Two things, first of all, why don't you ask then. And second, this is a fall-out of the problems in the western world, all the institutions including UNO and even the noble price are misused for political reasons for no good, thousands of little screw drivers turn the truth a little bit so it fits their bill more. Heck, our society more and more rests on the hollow ground of lies and misinformation! These numbers are from a meta study from the IIPNW Germany / PSR / PGS divisions of the IPPNW (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War), it is called "Body Count", they collect studies taken in the ten years after the start of the (so-called) war against terror. The covered studies include Lancet (John Hopkins University) and IFHS of WHO, and several others. The range spans widely, but, in fact, even the WHO study gives a much lower number than for example Lancet, but that number only seems to cover a small portion of the overall number of deads that the WHO study agrees with: if you do look at the _overall_ number of deaths, then you see a factor two increasement of the number of deaths ever since March 2003, almost as much as Lancet, which gave factor 2.4. If you look at this overall count, you end up with the numbers i gave. Of course, if i would be a jiddish comedian from New York i would possibly say that the very, very large difference in deaths has to be attributed to a misinformation of the Iraqi people, they thought they have to eat at McDonalds now that the Americans are coming, and preferred leaving to a different world. (These numbers do not include missing persons, the meta study refers to the ICMP (International Commission on Missing Persons), which estimated the number of missing persons in Iraq to be in the range of 250.000 and 1.000.000 people. And they also do not include illnesses and misforcaused by poisining due to weapons, for example ammunition with radioactive materials.) |Thank you. |(On topic i have nothing to say, i do not oppose the name of |course, especially if there will remain a link.) In Germany Kiew really is dominant as far as i see, Kyiw sounds like "kiff" (smoking joints, "i" is spoken like english "e".), i do not know whether that will make it. But, IANA TZ DB names are not for end users anyway :) Have a nice weekend, if you can. Ciao and greetings from Germany, --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)