Monday, April 09, 2018

What crimes are the doctors charged with and why does her mother accuse them of murder.

Perhaps Ekaterina's family needs to visit a neutral country to provide information that brings them to the conclusion of murder. Regardless, if this is an accident, the doctors involved need to face charges.

April 8, 2018
By Will Stewart

Her mother, pictured, has accused medics of 'murder' following the incident in Ulyanovsk, Russia

...After being flown (click here) to another hospital, in Moscow, she briefly woke from her coma before dying of multiple organ failure.

Her mother Galina Baryshnikova and husband Igor were with her when she came round from the surgery in her ward.

"Her legs were moving, she had convulsions, her whole body was shaking," said her mother.

"I put socks on her, then a robe, then a blanket but she was shivering to such an extent, I can’t even describe it....           

Congratulations to Israel. Obviously, Russia wasn't going to protect lives, was it?

April 9, 2018
By Jane Onyanga-Omara and John Bacon

Russia on Monday (click here) said the Israel Air Force was responsible for a missile attack on an air base in central Syria that activists say killed at least 14 people. 

Russia's claim came hours after the Pentagon denied Syrian media reports that it conducted the air strikes in Syria in retaliation for an alleged chemical attack on civilians on Saturday.

Israel refused to comment on the allegations, the Times of Israel reported. Israel carried out an airstrike on the T4 base on Feb. 10  after an Iranian operator working there flew a drone into Israeli territory, according to Israeli media reports.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said two Israeli fighter jets launched eight guided missiles at the T4 air base from Lebanon’s air space early Monday....

...Rami Abdurrahman, head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group, said 14 people were killed, most of them Iranians or members of Iran-backed groups....

Why am I not surprised Iranians are involved? With the evidence of Iranians involved in chemical weapons that killed civilians in Syria, there is less and less doubt Iran is carrying out a war for religious domination.

The Iranian government needs to speak to it's involvement with the Syrian Civil War and President Assad. It needs to state it's intentions and why this assault with chemical weapons took place. There are Iranians that made the decision, where are they?

Basically, does Iran condemn the use of chemical weapons and denies official involvement in the Syrian Civil War?

Iran hasn't ratified the Geneva Conventions since 1977, the year before the Iranian revolution, however, it does belong to the "Convention of the Rights of the Child."

On 21 December 1976,(click here) the United Nations General Assembly declared 1979 to be the International Year of the Child in commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, proclaimed by it on 20 November 1959 (Resolution 1386 (XIV)). In the course of the preparations for this commemoration the Polish government proposed that a draft Convention on the rights of the child be drawn up....




Declarations: (click here)

"The Islamic Republic of Iran, on the basis of the Islamic principles and beliefs, considers chemical weapons inhuman, and has consistently been on the vanguard of the international efforts to abolish these weapons and prevent their use.

1. The Islamic Consultative Assembly (the Parliament) of the Islamic Republic of Iran approved the bill presented by the Government to join the [said Convention] on 27 July 1997, and the Guardian Council found the legislation compatible with the Constitution and the Islamic Tenets on 30 July 1997, in accordance with its required Constitutional process. The Islamic Consultative Assembly decided that:

The Government is hereby authorized, at an appropriate time, to accede to the [said Convention] - as annexed to this legislation and to deposit its relevant instrument.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs must pursue in all negotiations and within the framework of the Organization of the Convention, the full and indiscriminate implementation of the Convention, particularly in the areas of inspection and transfer of technology and chemicals for peaceful purposes. In case the afore-mentioned requirements are not materialized, upon the recommendation of the Cabinet and approval of the Supreme National Security Council, steps aimed at withdrawing from the Convention will be put in motion....


It is most disappointing to see Iran provide backing to extremists that do not value human life. I am sure their allies in Iraq are outspoken when saying they will attack the Kurds as well. I am confident Iran does not want another war that will once against raise the issues held by Daesh. The methods employed by Daesh were heinous.

It was my clear understanding the countries effected by Daesh and those in the region were working with each other to end the criminal killers. I never expected Iran to rally behind further violence in the Middle East.

The Syrian Civil War now appears to be interested in ethnic and religious killing. I would expect Iran to be a partner to end such violence and not propagate it for any purpose. 

I think the United Nations needs to call up the resolutions on Syria and review the good intentions of that resolution and where Syria is today. If Iran and it's backed groups appear to be instilling a greater war with the defeat of Daesh, the resolutions need to reflect those newly discovered intentions, by Assad, Iran and Iraq.

It would seem there are many aspects to current tensions in the Middle East that need to be revealed and documented by the UN. It would be to everyone's best interest to resolve the tensions, hold those responsible accountable, before extremists in places like Libya join the fray. 

Oprah on "60 Minutes."

It is sad to think about, but, to see the memorial to those lynched in anger and hate is a mark on the conscience.

It changes things a bit. The US Civil War (click here) was brutal. There were 620,000 men killed in that war, the majority were Union soldiers. The deaths in the Confederacy were about 16 percent less. But, the war and the deaths in that war were carried out because of treatment these people. They are very important people and to realize the impact of their experience in the USA is now memorialized is as important as them.

They were the reason people of moral intent put forward a very different vision of the US economy without slavery. The practice of slavery and the obscurity of their identity were both obliterated. They are still separate, aren't they? A new museum whereby the lynched are memorialized is separate from any other museum in the country that memorializes the Civil War. That remains a very sad reality, still today.

The war was memorialized in most Civil War museums, not the lynched as an impetus to war.
There is (click here) a reckoning taking place in America over how we remember our history. Much of the focus has been on whether or not to take down monuments that celebrate the Confederacy. But this story is about a new monument going up in Montgomery, Alabama. It documents the lynchings of thousands of African-American men, women and children during a 70 year period following the Civil War.
The project is being led by criminal defense attorney Bryan Stevenson, who is determined to shed light on a dark period in our past that most people would rather forget. It's a shocking and disturbing reality that lynchings were not isolated murders committed only by men in white hoods in the middle of the night. Often, they were public crimes, witnessed -- even celebrated -- by thousands of people. Stevenson believes if we want to heal racial divisions we must educate Americans -- of every color and creed....
"Morning Papers"

The Rooster 

"Okeydoke"

I thought this was a really cute idea. Romantic.

April 9, 2018
By Matt Fagan

Clifton, NJ (click here) — It took 28 years for Chris Gash and Jenn Sudol, who met as freshmen at Clifton High School, to get to the altar, or in their case to the hallway of their alma mater where their first sparks flew.

In took less than 10 minutes on Saturday for them to become Mr. and Mrs. Gash. 

In fact it might have taken longer to decide just where their lockers had been, for that's where they decided to hold their ceremony, on the first floor of the North Wing of Clifton High School where their lockers were located across the hall from one another.

It wasn't easy. In the ensuing years the lockers had changed: They were now Clifton green and stacked two high.

"They used to be brown," said Jenn Sudol, minutes before the nuptials. "They used to be longer."...

"Good Night, Moon"

The waning crescent

22.8 days old

43.6 percent

4/6/2018
By John Hageman

At about 1/4th of the size of the Earth, (click here) the Moon affects our planet in a number of ways. Since it is a formal name, the Moon is always properly capitalized.
The gravitational pull of the Moon causes tides, which creates bulges where the oceans face the Moon and on the opposite side of the Earth and lowers the water level of the ocean away from the bulge.

The daily difference in low to high tides can range from 3-to-50 feet, depending upon location. Incidentally, the effect of the Moon on Great Lakes and other inland water tides is less than two inches.

The Earth also pulls on the Moon, but since the sun is stronger, the Moon is slowly getting further away from our planet, which causes it to travel in an elliptical, not round orbit.

Before electricity was harnessed, lights illuminated the evening sky and television was invented, citizens throughout the world spent time gazing at the stars and other heavenly bodies to try to understand their place in the Universe....