It's Sunday NightSunday, September 13, 2015
Ramdesh Kaur, MA, (click here) is an IKYTA Certified Kundalini Yoga teacher trained
by Gurmukh.
She writes extensively on yoga, spirituality and mantra. She hosts the
show "Spirit Voyage Radio with Ramdesh" on Unity FM, one of the Top 100
Itunes Podcasts, and leads Spirit Voyage's 40 Day Global Sadhanas, which
bring together 20,000 meditators from 65 countries.
Before working with Spirit Voyage, she was the residential Kundalini
yoga teacher at Parmarth Niketan in Rishikesh, India in the Himalyan
foothills, and has a Master's Degree from the Courtauld Institute in
London.
She is the author of "Yoga and Mantras for a Whole Heart" with Karan
Khalsa and has three best selling guided meditation CDs "Journey into
Stillness", "Relaxation Meditations", and "Stress Relief Meditations"
(with crystal singing bowl master Ashana) all available on Spirit
Voyage, ITunes and Amazon.
She teaches at festivals internationally and leads powerful personal
creativity retreats in Mexico with her partner Harnam Singh, an
accomplished mantra musician.
Earth Prayer by Snatam Kaur (Click here for offical website)
“Pavan Guru Pani Pita Mata Dharat Mahat
(English Translation: Air is the Guru, Water is the Father, the Great Earth is our Mother)”
To often Americans are disconnected from nature. There are cultures that know little else and claim a spirituality with it. Snatam Kaur is one of those priestesses of spirituality.
“Pavan Guru Pani Pita Mata Dharat Mahat
(English Translation: Air is the Guru, Water is the Father, the Great Earth is our Mother)”
To often Americans are disconnected from nature. There are cultures that know little else and claim a spirituality with it. Snatam Kaur is one of those priestesses of spirituality.
Inmates are dying on a regular basis at a private prison with a contract to Oklahoma.
Oklahoma's privately owned and operated prisons is turning prison time into a death sentence without appeal.
September 13, 2015
CUSHING — Three inmates died, (click here) with five more hospitalized after a “disturbance” at Cimarron Correctional Facility in Cushing on Saturday....
...A DOC spokeswoman declined to comment on the incident because it is under investigation.
September 13, 2015
CUSHING — Three inmates died, (click here) with five more hospitalized after a “disturbance” at Cimarron Correctional Facility in Cushing on Saturday....
...A DOC spokeswoman declined to comment on the incident because it is under investigation.
...The
Cimarron Correctional Facility is a 1,720-bed prison owned and operated
by CCA housing medium- and maximum-security male inmates for the
Oklahoma Department of Corrections.
In
June, Cimarron went under lockdown after inmates from three housing
units got into a fight that sent 11 of them to the hospital.
There
was a unit-wide fight there in March 2013, which involved inmates
smashing windows, breaching security doors and being pepper-sprayed
after making weapons from destroyed property.
Another
incident at the prison in May 2013 involved 10 offenders and began when
one of them hit an inmate who was eating lunch in the dining hall.
Officers used more than a pound of pepper spray against the inmates
after they refused orders to stop fighting.
The murder got life in prison while blamed Richard Cossip for talking him into the crime. Glossip was given the death penalty.
Glossip was nowhere near the murder scene. He was scapegoated for a lesser sentence for the confessed and actual murderer. This is all backwards and Oklahoma hasn't yet corrected the trajectory.
September 11, 2015
Dear Governor Mary Fallin: (click here)
We urge you to stay the execution of Richard Glossip so that deep concerns about his guilt can be addressed.
On September 16, unless you act, the State of Oklahoma will put Mr. Glossip to death for the murder of Barry Van Treese. Justin Sneed--who by his own admission beat Van Tresse to death with a baseball bat--will not meet that fate....
...The National Registry of Exonerations lists 115 defendants who were sentenced to death and later exonerated and released after new evidence of innocence was discovered. Of those 115 innocent defendants who had been sentenced to death, 29, a quarter of the total, were convicted after another person who was himself a suspect in the murder gave a confession that also implicated the innocent defendant....
...Oklahoma has come close to executing innocent defendants. Ron Williamson's story is well known from John Grisham's book, The Innocent Man. He came within five days of execution. Fortunately, a federal judge ordered a new trial. Four years later Williamson was exonerated by DNA tests--which also identified the real killer, who was later convicted of the murder....
...Unfortunately, Governor, in this case you are the last state official with the power to prevent a deadly mistake.
Sincerely,
Sen. Tom Coburn, U.S. Senator for Oklahoma (2005-2015) and U.S. Representative for Oklahoma's Second Congressional District from (1995-2001) Barry Switzer, Head Football Coach, The University of Oklahoma (1973-1988) John W. Raley, Jr., U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of Oklahoma (1990-1997) Barry Scheck, Co-Director of the Innocence Project Samuel Gross, Professor of Law, University of Michigan and Editor, National Registry of Exonerations
September 11, 2015Dear Governor Mary Fallin: (click here)
We urge you to stay the execution of Richard Glossip so that deep concerns about his guilt can be addressed.
On September 16, unless you act, the State of Oklahoma will put Mr. Glossip to death for the murder of Barry Van Treese. Justin Sneed--who by his own admission beat Van Tresse to death with a baseball bat--will not meet that fate....
...The National Registry of Exonerations lists 115 defendants who were sentenced to death and later exonerated and released after new evidence of innocence was discovered. Of those 115 innocent defendants who had been sentenced to death, 29, a quarter of the total, were convicted after another person who was himself a suspect in the murder gave a confession that also implicated the innocent defendant....
...Oklahoma has come close to executing innocent defendants. Ron Williamson's story is well known from John Grisham's book, The Innocent Man. He came within five days of execution. Fortunately, a federal judge ordered a new trial. Four years later Williamson was exonerated by DNA tests--which also identified the real killer, who was later convicted of the murder....
...Unfortunately, Governor, in this case you are the last state official with the power to prevent a deadly mistake.
Sincerely,
Sen. Tom Coburn, U.S. Senator for Oklahoma (2005-2015) and U.S. Representative for Oklahoma's Second Congressional District from (1995-2001) Barry Switzer, Head Football Coach, The University of Oklahoma (1973-1988) John W. Raley, Jr., U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of Oklahoma (1990-1997) Barry Scheck, Co-Director of the Innocence Project Samuel Gross, Professor of Law, University of Michigan and Editor, National Registry of Exonerations
Saturday, September 12, 2015
The next great moral dilemma, who gets to live forever?
9 September 2015
By
Sarah Griffiths
A Chinese surgeon (click here) has joined forces with an Italian doctor to prepare for what would be the world's first human head transplant.
A
Russian man who suffers from a serious medical condition is set to
become the first person to undergo the controversial procedure, devised
by Sergio Canavero and Ren Xiaoping.
Dr
Canavero said that the operation will change the course of history and
could lead to cures for previously incurable conditions, such as Valery
Spiridonov's muscular atrophy....
TPP
The eastern hemisphere sees over 300 million people to market to in the USA and realize wealth. That is completely flawed. It is a one way market place. Nothing produced in the USA will sell to dirt cheap labor. AND Nothing produced with dirt cheap labor will provide a viable market place in the USA. The entire eastern hemisphere is diluted to think a trade agreement is going to provide wealth. It won't.'
Countries have to establish a Middle Class of consumers before trade agreements can be written.
How does it do that?
There is manufacturing, yes? Set a minimum wage to improve the quality of life of the laborers. What is so difficult about this? There are really great unions in the USA that would love to have international members.
Product quality cannot be compromised in anticpation of selling to the USA. Human beings are human beings, a safe world is the same for everyone. Now, if the eastern hemisphere doesn't value human life to insure Occupational Safety and Health, then the USA should not be trading with them anyway.
Clean Air, Clean Water, Concern for Earth and emissions of greenhouse gases and human beings valued for their worth and not treated as slaves with a work stipends.
The paradigm of the Third World with a market place in the First World has no viability.
Countries need to compete in the real world without the USA compromising it's quality of life to poverty. Poverty's consumer is about subsistence and not disposable income.
OMG, they earn more than their house payment and weekly groceries; how did that happen?
Countries have to establish a Middle Class of consumers before trade agreements can be written.
How does it do that?
There is manufacturing, yes? Set a minimum wage to improve the quality of life of the laborers. What is so difficult about this? There are really great unions in the USA that would love to have international members.
Product quality cannot be compromised in anticpation of selling to the USA. Human beings are human beings, a safe world is the same for everyone. Now, if the eastern hemisphere doesn't value human life to insure Occupational Safety and Health, then the USA should not be trading with them anyway.
Clean Air, Clean Water, Concern for Earth and emissions of greenhouse gases and human beings valued for their worth and not treated as slaves with a work stipends.
The paradigm of the Third World with a market place in the First World has no viability.
Countries need to compete in the real world without the USA compromising it's quality of life to poverty. Poverty's consumer is about subsistence and not disposable income.
OMG, they earn more than their house payment and weekly groceries; how did that happen?
Where is the study published?
I already know it is invalid. Where are the deficits and what did the Marine Corp due to correct the deficit?
September 10, 2015
WASHINGTON — A Marine Corps study (click here) that found all-male ground combat units more effective than teams that included women has raised new concerns about the Pentagon's push to open all jobs to women next year.
A summary of results released Thursday from the unprecedented study showed that all-male ground combat squads were faster, stronger and more lethal in most cases than units that included women.The women also suffered higher injury rates during physically demanding training.
The Marine Corps and other services face a deadline the Pentagon has set for requiring military branches to open all specialties to women, including infantry and special operations forces, beginning next year.
The services have until the end of this month to request an exception to the order for some occupations....
To begin, there can't be units that are compromised to allow higher incidents of injury or death. The Marine Corp are the first to respond to any combat issue and to simply say women are in or women are out is not correct. So, to begin with the Marine Corp has to first reset it's standards to where members of a combat unit have the optimum outcomes. That means initially women are excluded, however, that is not a long term vision for our military.
...Administration officials have said their intent is to open all jobs to women and have set the bar high for waivers. "The department's policy is that all ground combat positions will be open to women, unless rigorous analysis of factual data shows that the positions must remain closed," Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said last month....
Administrative decisions is not where this belongs. I want my son and/or daughter home safely, that comes first. In recognizing one study to assure a man or woman's well being within the Marine Corp is not valid in decision making. However, it is valid to make a path to success for women to achieve rank for now.
There needs to be subsequent studies that provides for compensation of a woman's ability to meet the unit's goals.
The military is a man's world and it always has been, but, in the year 2015 that is not a realistic outcome for the USA military. There is nothing saying women are not going to be a larger percentage in the future and the need for them significant. Subsequent studies have to take into account the fact the future is not set and women are just as important to a combat position as a man. No one is going tell me there aren't women that aren't stronger than some men in the military either. That is inconsistent with any measurable population.
Subsequent studies can't be worked out on paper, they have to be met in training sessions and realized by the unit itself. A unit knows how it functions. Today's USA military unit is emotionally closer and more dedicated to the well being of every member. The best assessment for any study is going to be within the unit itself. The women have brains, right? Then the study of these results were garnered from have to have assessments. There needs to be assessments by the women and where the US Marine Corp failed their requirements to participate. To think women are going to be thrown in the mix and meet any standard without accommodation is invalid.
There is an abuse of a woman's participation in most professions that have belonged exclusively to men and that is women are not met with a welcome that includes their success at the standard that already exists. Within the study where are the accommodations for women? Where did the USA Marine Corp fail their participation?
As an example: Today in the real world in the USA there are two bathroom facilities, men and women. Where is the Unisex bathroom that provides privacy for transgender? And even for having that Unisex bathroom does there have to be exclusion of these members of society from either men or women's bathrooms? How does the society police that? And in including transgender men and women in a bathroom where does perversion enter the standard of abuse? Now, I realize the American public is not the Marine Corp, but, the same applies. The answer to the people concerned about perversion in American bathrooms is to realize neither men exclusively or women exclusively bathrooms provides for naked exposure by anyone.
Having a qualifier within the place for women in a unit to be allowed to fail already insures their failure. What the USA Marine Corp has done is to guarantee they do not have to change any methodology for success and simply threw women into the mix without compromise.
The USA military has to be a place of excellence, because, otherwise people die. A dead soldier is not reasonable as a standard or is it efficient and provides for a victory in combat. So, what the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs has to do is make soldier safety and survival a high priority. That comes first. The country will accept his assessment and the study of women and HOW THEY ARE accommodated in the Marine Crop needs to continue but not by compromising the battlefield or the survival of the country's soldiers. The efficient unit as it stands today is paramount, the future holds a different and more sophisticated vision.
This study is not invalid. It is the first step.
The Marine Corps PCP (click here) has two main components - The Physical Fitness Test and the Body Composition Program.
I think I am disappointed. No. I know I am disappointed. You mean to tell me any official page of the US Marine Corp during this study never incorporated the image/picture of women in their training requirement? The picture doesn't even include women. The physical picture at this website does not include a woman.
The Marine Crop knows women have different abilities, but, they also know AGE delineations are legitimate. They recognize the difference in a human beings capacity and are considered acceptable ranges. Why didn't it work?
You mean to tell me women are unable to accomplish three pull ups? I find that odd.
New York City Marathon
Overall Women (click here)
US Placed Fifth - Desiree Linden - Michigan - 2:28:11
Overall Men (click here)
US Placed fourth - Meb Keflezighi - California - 2:13:18
If women in the USA Marine Corp are not even required to meet the same tests of strength the unit will fail to perform to standards. I know women can do three chin ups because there are physical fitness teachers all over the USA that require that for a grade for report cards. And if they don't because their students are 'girls' then they are mislead and have compromised a woman's excellence in physical ability. I can't believe they are not required to do chin ups. The leadership of the Marine Corp compromised a woman's ability to compete and to lead. We need to try this again. I don't want dead or maimed people, so the methodology needs to include EXPERTISE from the civilian sector.
The study has to be reviewed by non-peer groups that are exclusively men, exclusively women and then a meeting of both teams.
Studies are not to make the Commander and Chief happy for elections, it is to meet requirements for a fit and excellent combat unit that brings everyone home without injury.
See, the first study is always the worst. That is not unusual. As a matter of fact it is very normal. The standards for the first study is based in estimates and thought standards. When each study is completed it will reveal the real world in more perfection.
The requirement for women in the military at all levels of excellence has to be realized. There is no NOT having such standards of excellence. What does the weakest man look like and how have they performed? What does the strongest woman look like and how have they performed? The standards above have overlapping requirements of each gender. The outcome to this study is in question.
The timeline for women to be inclusive extends into the future, there is no dead line for ultimate decision making. Ultimate decision making is incompetent in it's inception. This has to be an ongoing to study until redundancy is all too obvious.
A military has to win. So win. No dead soldiers. Get rid of acceptable losses. The American people demand better. There is no such thing as acceptable losses. That only insures a compromise to a higher standard.
I mean you've got to be joking when realizing the USA military is fighting people from the stone age.
The Taliban and Daesh are not ethnic standards. They are militias no different than the Third Reich. They have no overlying protections based in humanity. What is the problem? Kill or be killed, that is the only reasonable assessment. There is no politics for the USA when dealing with protecting its' valuable personnel. We should be finished with all this already. I guarantee you Russia and Assad won't be kind and say pretty please. There is a common enemy for everyone in Syria. It is not Hezbollah or any other Shi'ite group. It is Deash. Surrender or die.
Realizing there is no standard that is going to bring about national security for Iraq or Syria because the soldiers simply run away and keep running away in the face of the USA's best efforts, the strategy has to change. The USA came home to peace time after WWII. What's the problem?
The USA doesn't compromise because some figurehead leader decides he wants to maintain his office and money and corruption if he enlists enough bad guys in an election. We protect our military from such corruption itself. What has gone on in Iraq and Afghanistan is a travesty to the final outcome of governments that are self sustaining and able to maintain borders. The idea Turkey has finally decided it's border with Syria and Iraq is important after 14 years of USA supervised war is hideous.
Do you know what happened in Berlin after WWII? The occupying forces took over and removed all propaganda and educational materials and instilled their own. That is what happened when the bad guys of the Third Reich finally fell. And it is believed Hitler committed suicide. Well, good for him.
Daesh cannot stand without munitions from outside sources. What the hell is going on? Pretty please don't supply the murderers? Yes? I don't think so. Where is the impenetrable wall that ends all supplies into Daesh? This is crazy. The coalition has to end the war with cave men.
When the Third Reich was defeated it was the most powerful military on Earth and occupied north Africa. Therefore?
If the people of the middle east can't find the will for a military win, then so be it. We handled Saddam with No Fly Zones. ?????
Deash is an outcrop of the wayward war in Iraq. I even knew there was going to be a surge in jihadists after the USA left. If no one cares but us, there is no reason to be involved.
The Iraq War is an abject failure. Even H.W. knew better. Iraq continues to be a failure. No more. A failure is a failure, the USA doesn't go back and repeat it.
No one is that stupid except Dick Cheney. There is nothing stopping him from leading the FOX 5000 militia on a tour of Iraq. We don't keep repeating Vietnam over and over. We need to be finished once and for all without nation building, it leads to corruption and defeat. War is war, it is not occupation. War reparations after victory is far cheaper and better than nation building. Nation building is bigotry and racism.
One single payment for what the USA destroyed and not what the country wants to replace of what was destroyed. Iraq should be governing with it's natural resources, having pilgrimages, improving on human rights, educating their people and a government or religious leader that can get the job done. How it achieves that is their own business. ie: Vietnam wants to trade with the USA. It is worried about China stealing it's offshore natural resources. There is something dysfunctional about that due to the USA invasion? No, there isn't and the peace within Vietnam exists.
Vietnam needs to compete for USA's market fairly and without a stupid trade agreement with the eastern hemisphere.
September 10, 2015
WASHINGTON — A Marine Corps study (click here) that found all-male ground combat units more effective than teams that included women has raised new concerns about the Pentagon's push to open all jobs to women next year.
A summary of results released Thursday from the unprecedented study showed that all-male ground combat squads were faster, stronger and more lethal in most cases than units that included women.The women also suffered higher injury rates during physically demanding training.
The Marine Corps and other services face a deadline the Pentagon has set for requiring military branches to open all specialties to women, including infantry and special operations forces, beginning next year.
The services have until the end of this month to request an exception to the order for some occupations....
To begin, there can't be units that are compromised to allow higher incidents of injury or death. The Marine Corp are the first to respond to any combat issue and to simply say women are in or women are out is not correct. So, to begin with the Marine Corp has to first reset it's standards to where members of a combat unit have the optimum outcomes. That means initially women are excluded, however, that is not a long term vision for our military.
...Administration officials have said their intent is to open all jobs to women and have set the bar high for waivers. "The department's policy is that all ground combat positions will be open to women, unless rigorous analysis of factual data shows that the positions must remain closed," Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said last month....
Administrative decisions is not where this belongs. I want my son and/or daughter home safely, that comes first. In recognizing one study to assure a man or woman's well being within the Marine Corp is not valid in decision making. However, it is valid to make a path to success for women to achieve rank for now.
There needs to be subsequent studies that provides for compensation of a woman's ability to meet the unit's goals.
The military is a man's world and it always has been, but, in the year 2015 that is not a realistic outcome for the USA military. There is nothing saying women are not going to be a larger percentage in the future and the need for them significant. Subsequent studies have to take into account the fact the future is not set and women are just as important to a combat position as a man. No one is going tell me there aren't women that aren't stronger than some men in the military either. That is inconsistent with any measurable population.
Subsequent studies can't be worked out on paper, they have to be met in training sessions and realized by the unit itself. A unit knows how it functions. Today's USA military unit is emotionally closer and more dedicated to the well being of every member. The best assessment for any study is going to be within the unit itself. The women have brains, right? Then the study of these results were garnered from have to have assessments. There needs to be assessments by the women and where the US Marine Corp failed their requirements to participate. To think women are going to be thrown in the mix and meet any standard without accommodation is invalid.
There is an abuse of a woman's participation in most professions that have belonged exclusively to men and that is women are not met with a welcome that includes their success at the standard that already exists. Within the study where are the accommodations for women? Where did the USA Marine Corp fail their participation?
As an example: Today in the real world in the USA there are two bathroom facilities, men and women. Where is the Unisex bathroom that provides privacy for transgender? And even for having that Unisex bathroom does there have to be exclusion of these members of society from either men or women's bathrooms? How does the society police that? And in including transgender men and women in a bathroom where does perversion enter the standard of abuse? Now, I realize the American public is not the Marine Corp, but, the same applies. The answer to the people concerned about perversion in American bathrooms is to realize neither men exclusively or women exclusively bathrooms provides for naked exposure by anyone.
Having a qualifier within the place for women in a unit to be allowed to fail already insures their failure. What the USA Marine Corp has done is to guarantee they do not have to change any methodology for success and simply threw women into the mix without compromise.
The USA military has to be a place of excellence, because, otherwise people die. A dead soldier is not reasonable as a standard or is it efficient and provides for a victory in combat. So, what the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs has to do is make soldier safety and survival a high priority. That comes first. The country will accept his assessment and the study of women and HOW THEY ARE accommodated in the Marine Crop needs to continue but not by compromising the battlefield or the survival of the country's soldiers. The efficient unit as it stands today is paramount, the future holds a different and more sophisticated vision.
This study is not invalid. It is the first step. The Marine Corps PCP (click here) has two main components - The Physical Fitness Test and the Body Composition Program.
I think I am disappointed. No. I know I am disappointed. You mean to tell me any official page of the US Marine Corp during this study never incorporated the image/picture of women in their training requirement? The picture doesn't even include women. The physical picture at this website does not include a woman.
The Marine Crop knows women have different abilities, but, they also know AGE delineations are legitimate. They recognize the difference in a human beings capacity and are considered acceptable ranges. Why didn't it work? You mean to tell me women are unable to accomplish three pull ups? I find that odd.
New York City Marathon
Overall Women (click here)
US Placed Fifth - Desiree Linden - Michigan - 2:28:11
Overall Men (click here)
US Placed fourth - Meb Keflezighi - California - 2:13:18
If women in the USA Marine Corp are not even required to meet the same tests of strength the unit will fail to perform to standards. I know women can do three chin ups because there are physical fitness teachers all over the USA that require that for a grade for report cards. And if they don't because their students are 'girls' then they are mislead and have compromised a woman's excellence in physical ability. I can't believe they are not required to do chin ups. The leadership of the Marine Corp compromised a woman's ability to compete and to lead. We need to try this again. I don't want dead or maimed people, so the methodology needs to include EXPERTISE from the civilian sector.
The study has to be reviewed by non-peer groups that are exclusively men, exclusively women and then a meeting of both teams.
Studies are not to make the Commander and Chief happy for elections, it is to meet requirements for a fit and excellent combat unit that brings everyone home without injury.
See, the first study is always the worst. That is not unusual. As a matter of fact it is very normal. The standards for the first study is based in estimates and thought standards. When each study is completed it will reveal the real world in more perfection.
The requirement for women in the military at all levels of excellence has to be realized. There is no NOT having such standards of excellence. What does the weakest man look like and how have they performed? What does the strongest woman look like and how have they performed? The standards above have overlapping requirements of each gender. The outcome to this study is in question.
The timeline for women to be inclusive extends into the future, there is no dead line for ultimate decision making. Ultimate decision making is incompetent in it's inception. This has to be an ongoing to study until redundancy is all too obvious.
A military has to win. So win. No dead soldiers. Get rid of acceptable losses. The American people demand better. There is no such thing as acceptable losses. That only insures a compromise to a higher standard.
I mean you've got to be joking when realizing the USA military is fighting people from the stone age.
The Taliban and Daesh are not ethnic standards. They are militias no different than the Third Reich. They have no overlying protections based in humanity. What is the problem? Kill or be killed, that is the only reasonable assessment. There is no politics for the USA when dealing with protecting its' valuable personnel. We should be finished with all this already. I guarantee you Russia and Assad won't be kind and say pretty please. There is a common enemy for everyone in Syria. It is not Hezbollah or any other Shi'ite group. It is Deash. Surrender or die.
Realizing there is no standard that is going to bring about national security for Iraq or Syria because the soldiers simply run away and keep running away in the face of the USA's best efforts, the strategy has to change. The USA came home to peace time after WWII. What's the problem?
The USA doesn't compromise because some figurehead leader decides he wants to maintain his office and money and corruption if he enlists enough bad guys in an election. We protect our military from such corruption itself. What has gone on in Iraq and Afghanistan is a travesty to the final outcome of governments that are self sustaining and able to maintain borders. The idea Turkey has finally decided it's border with Syria and Iraq is important after 14 years of USA supervised war is hideous.
Do you know what happened in Berlin after WWII? The occupying forces took over and removed all propaganda and educational materials and instilled their own. That is what happened when the bad guys of the Third Reich finally fell. And it is believed Hitler committed suicide. Well, good for him.
Daesh cannot stand without munitions from outside sources. What the hell is going on? Pretty please don't supply the murderers? Yes? I don't think so. Where is the impenetrable wall that ends all supplies into Daesh? This is crazy. The coalition has to end the war with cave men.
When the Third Reich was defeated it was the most powerful military on Earth and occupied north Africa. Therefore?
If the people of the middle east can't find the will for a military win, then so be it. We handled Saddam with No Fly Zones. ?????
Deash is an outcrop of the wayward war in Iraq. I even knew there was going to be a surge in jihadists after the USA left. If no one cares but us, there is no reason to be involved.
The Iraq War is an abject failure. Even H.W. knew better. Iraq continues to be a failure. No more. A failure is a failure, the USA doesn't go back and repeat it.
No one is that stupid except Dick Cheney. There is nothing stopping him from leading the FOX 5000 militia on a tour of Iraq. We don't keep repeating Vietnam over and over. We need to be finished once and for all without nation building, it leads to corruption and defeat. War is war, it is not occupation. War reparations after victory is far cheaper and better than nation building. Nation building is bigotry and racism.
One single payment for what the USA destroyed and not what the country wants to replace of what was destroyed. Iraq should be governing with it's natural resources, having pilgrimages, improving on human rights, educating their people and a government or religious leader that can get the job done. How it achieves that is their own business. ie: Vietnam wants to trade with the USA. It is worried about China stealing it's offshore natural resources. There is something dysfunctional about that due to the USA invasion? No, there isn't and the peace within Vietnam exists.
Vietnam needs to compete for USA's market fairly and without a stupid trade agreement with the eastern hemisphere.
Meb Keflezighi
Friday, September 11, 2015
Hillary Clinton can be hawkish in her run for President because the right wing is stuck in war mongering.
The troops still at war for the USA has to come home. Fourteen years is ridiculous.
The Vietnam War can be stated to have begun June 1955 under Eisenhower who sent supplies. Kennedy sent advisers and had decided against troops. Johnson was the president that sent troops in March of 1965.
From 1955 to 1975 was a couple months short of 20 years, but, the troops were only there for less than ten years. So, the occupation of Afghanistan is second so far to that of Vietnam.
We need to be out of there and allow the Afghans to defend their country.
The 911 remembrance will continue no differently than Pearl Harbor. But, the continued occupation of Afghanistan doesn't even relate to September 11th anymore.
The occupation of Afghanistan is about the Taliban. It is time to leave the region and let them settle the peace.
The troops still at war for the USA has to come home. Fourteen years is ridiculous.
The Vietnam War can be stated to have begun June 1955 under Eisenhower who sent supplies. Kennedy sent advisers and had decided against troops. Johnson was the president that sent troops in March of 1965.
From 1955 to 1975 was a couple months short of 20 years, but, the troops were only there for less than ten years. So, the occupation of Afghanistan is second so far to that of Vietnam.
We need to be out of there and allow the Afghans to defend their country.
The 911 remembrance will continue no differently than Pearl Harbor. But, the continued occupation of Afghanistan doesn't even relate to September 11th anymore.
The occupation of Afghanistan is about the Taliban. It is time to leave the region and let them settle the peace.
It never fails.
Every time I put Michael Moore on this blog the government interrupts my internet. Every time. It doesn't matter if it is a Michael Moore reference or the TCFF, the government crawlers attack my computer. Amazing.
How long since Fahrenheit 911? Eleven years, right?
Amazing.
Vladimir Putin and Russia doesn't even do that. Seriously. The USA has far too much money.
Homeland Security needs to be looking for the bad guys, not citizens. It is shameful.
This is what our tax dollars are doing, looking for supporters of anti-war movements. Far too much money.
Michael Moore is a citizen of the USA. He is a brilliant documentarian and that is the real issue. He is a brilliant man with a long history of fighting for the little guys.
I never get this type of computer disruption when I do advocacy regarding the planet. It is ridiculous. It is harassment of completely innocent people that happen to believe the USA military can be a wayward product of the USA government. Go, ahead, deny it. The USA military, not it's soldiers. The USA military establishment needs to deny it has fought completely unnecessary wars. Go ahead, deny it.
See, the Republicans will cut spending for the most "W"rong reasons in the world. It will cut food stamp benefits, but, don't touch the Department of Homeland Security. Go ahead, cut spending to Planned Parenthood and cause another decrease of the bond rating for the USA. It will increase the interest rate on the national debt and use up more tax dollars for unproductive purposes. But, whatever Congress does it should not cut the military budget and money for border guards to our southern border. Let 'em starve in the USA.
How long since Fahrenheit 911? Eleven years, right?
Amazing.
Vladimir Putin and Russia doesn't even do that. Seriously. The USA has far too much money.
Homeland Security needs to be looking for the bad guys, not citizens. It is shameful.
This is what our tax dollars are doing, looking for supporters of anti-war movements. Far too much money.
Michael Moore is a citizen of the USA. He is a brilliant documentarian and that is the real issue. He is a brilliant man with a long history of fighting for the little guys.
I never get this type of computer disruption when I do advocacy regarding the planet. It is ridiculous. It is harassment of completely innocent people that happen to believe the USA military can be a wayward product of the USA government. Go, ahead, deny it. The USA military, not it's soldiers. The USA military establishment needs to deny it has fought completely unnecessary wars. Go ahead, deny it.
See, the Republicans will cut spending for the most "W"rong reasons in the world. It will cut food stamp benefits, but, don't touch the Department of Homeland Security. Go ahead, cut spending to Planned Parenthood and cause another decrease of the bond rating for the USA. It will increase the interest rate on the national debt and use up more tax dollars for unproductive purposes. But, whatever Congress does it should not cut the military budget and money for border guards to our southern border. Let 'em starve in the USA.
September 11, 2015
Cuba (click here) has said it will release more than 3,500 prisoners in a goodwill gesture ahead of a visit by Pope Francis.
Those found guilty of crimes against state security will not be eligible, seemingly ruling out several high-profile political prisoners.
The Pope will make a three-day visit to the island next week....
By Jake Coyle
TORONTO (AP) — The Toronto International Film Festival (click here) opened its 40th year with a gala double feature of Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Moore.
The opening night premieres of "Demolition" by Quebecois filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallee ("Dallas Buyers Club") and Moore's "Where to Invade Next" made an unlikely pair to kick off Toronto's fall-movie launching pad on Thursday. "Demolition" won't hit theaters until April, and "Where to Invade Next" is being shopped for buyers. Filmed clandestinely, Moore's first film in six years wasn't known to exist until its Toronto debut was announced last month.
Of the two, Moore's documentary held more surprises. While it had been expected to be an investigation of the American military industrial complex, Moore does the invading in the film himself, traveling to other countries (mostly in Europe) to find "America's soul."
Moore's premise is that decades of patriotic chest-thumping and constant war have prevented the United States from taking care of its own democracy. In Slovenia, he finds free university; in Finland, he marvels at its top education system; in Italy, he sees eight weeks of annual vacation and strong unions....
Watching the air attacks on MSNBC (I have watched it every year. There is always something new I hear.) it became clear why Donald Trump became political.
One World Trade Center was 1,368 feet (417 m).
Trump International Center in Chicago is 1,389 feet (423 m)
Trump Tower in New York City is far less in height than the Chicago tower is 861 feet high.
Donald Trump has a vested interest in USA policy regarding national security. I had put those pieces together until I was watching that film.
I am sorry the attacks of 911 has had such a profound impact on his life. That apology goes to the owners of all the skyscrapers that are a point of pride for USA cities.
Donald Trump is very serious about his candidacy. Very. Interesting guy. It begins to explain his tenacity.
One World Trade Center was 1,368 feet (417 m).
Trump International Center in Chicago is 1,389 feet (423 m)
Trump Tower in New York City is far less in height than the Chicago tower is 861 feet high.
Donald Trump has a vested interest in USA policy regarding national security. I had put those pieces together until I was watching that film.
I am sorry the attacks of 911 has had such a profound impact on his life. That apology goes to the owners of all the skyscrapers that are a point of pride for USA cities.
Donald Trump is very serious about his candidacy. Very. Interesting guy. It begins to explain his tenacity.
The latest developments as European governments (click here) rush to cope with the
huge number of people moving across Europe. All times local (CET):
11:30 a.m.
The governor of Greece's northern Aegean region says authorities have managed to register 20,000 refugees and migrants who had been on the island of Lesbos in the space of three days, significantly easing the overcrowding on the island.
Regional governor Christiana Kalogirou told private Skai television Friday that the number of refugees and migrants on the island had reached about 30,000. Greece's caretaker government, appointed about two weeks ago to lead the country to Sept. 20 early elections, sent extra staff to speed up registration and chartered two extra ferries to help move people to the mainland.
More than 250,000 people have reached Greece so far this year, the vast majority arriving on islands from the nearby Turkish coast. About half of all those who arrive do so on Lesbos. Few, if any, want to remain in financially stricken Greece....
The toddler that died when migrants' boat capsized was the son of the driver.
September 11, 2015
A woman on the same boat as Alan Kurdi (click here) says the boy's father is a people smuggler who begged her not to dob him in.
Zainab Abbas said Abdullah Kurdi had lied to the world after the image of his dead three-year-old son on a Turkish beach sparked a global outpouring of support for Syrian refugees.
"Yes, it was Abdullah Kurdi driving the boat," Ms Abbas told Network Ten through her cousin Lara Tahseen on Friday.
Ms Abbas also lost two children when the boat capsized shortly after leaving Bodrum for the Greek islands.
After the tragedy, Mr Kurdi told the media he took over steering the boat after the captain panicked and jumped ship.
But Ms Abbas said Mr Kurdi was the driver of the boat, and the man she paid to book her passage told her it would be safe because the driver was taking his wife and two children....
11:30 a.m.
The governor of Greece's northern Aegean region says authorities have managed to register 20,000 refugees and migrants who had been on the island of Lesbos in the space of three days, significantly easing the overcrowding on the island.
Regional governor Christiana Kalogirou told private Skai television Friday that the number of refugees and migrants on the island had reached about 30,000. Greece's caretaker government, appointed about two weeks ago to lead the country to Sept. 20 early elections, sent extra staff to speed up registration and chartered two extra ferries to help move people to the mainland.
More than 250,000 people have reached Greece so far this year, the vast majority arriving on islands from the nearby Turkish coast. About half of all those who arrive do so on Lesbos. Few, if any, want to remain in financially stricken Greece....
The toddler that died when migrants' boat capsized was the son of the driver.
September 11, 2015
A woman on the same boat as Alan Kurdi (click here) says the boy's father is a people smuggler who begged her not to dob him in.
Zainab Abbas said Abdullah Kurdi had lied to the world after the image of his dead three-year-old son on a Turkish beach sparked a global outpouring of support for Syrian refugees.
"Yes, it was Abdullah Kurdi driving the boat," Ms Abbas told Network Ten through her cousin Lara Tahseen on Friday.
Ms Abbas also lost two children when the boat capsized shortly after leaving Bodrum for the Greek islands.
After the tragedy, Mr Kurdi told the media he took over steering the boat after the captain panicked and jumped ship.
But Ms Abbas said Mr Kurdi was the driver of the boat, and the man she paid to book her passage told her it would be safe because the driver was taking his wife and two children....
Anti-War Activists need to rally on September 11th. Next year is the 15th anniversary of the attacks within the USA as stated by the CIA. Zucotti Park is opposite the site of the Memorial.
It might not be difficult getting a permit either. The President stays at the White House these days.
I am sure the 911 families never expected the attacks would turn into a forever war. The children are becoming adults.
Jindal "I think Trump has tapped into the frustration of Americans tired of the Washington establish." This statement from a man that just stated, "The Obama Administration has given us an Iran preparing for nuclear capacity, Planned Parenthood that sells body parts all over the country..." These are the politicians that embrace September 11th for all the wrong reasons. I think we need to get real about 911 politics. The politics has absolutely nothing to do with the dead.
It might not be difficult getting a permit either. The President stays at the White House these days.
I am sure the 911 families never expected the attacks would turn into a forever war. The children are becoming adults.
Jindal "I think Trump has tapped into the frustration of Americans tired of the Washington establish." This statement from a man that just stated, "The Obama Administration has given us an Iran preparing for nuclear capacity, Planned Parenthood that sells body parts all over the country..." These are the politicians that embrace September 11th for all the wrong reasons. I think we need to get real about 911 politics. The politics has absolutely nothing to do with the dead.
14 years of remembering 911. People are not forgetting.
I don't know what is more bizarre, the chronic war of Bush or the people that opposed it and still do. When are peace activists going to realize the New York Times will never put them front and center to USA policy?
"The Soapbox" by Cindy Sheehan, editor and chief (click here)
September 11, 2015
A Florida man (click here) is charged with plotting to set off an explosion at a 9/11 event. The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested 20-year-old Joshua Ryne Goldberg Thursday in Florida. Prosecutors say he told an online informant how to make the bomb he wanted.
Investigators originally thought the suspect was recruiting people to carry out attacks from a location in Australia, reports CBS News correspondent Jeff Pegues.
It turns out Goldberg was in the U.S., in a home near Jacksonville, where he was taken into custody. He shares the home in Orange Park with his parents.
According to court documents, he had set his sights on bombing a 9/11 memorial event -- the Kansas City Stair Climb.
Investigators said he was communicating online with someone he thought was sympathetic to his cause but who was actually an FBI informant, and the online conversations were being monitored. According to investigators, Goldberg encouraged the informant to build a pressure cooker bomb similar to what was used in the Boston Marathon bombing....
Is the "London's Arm Fair" a violation of the UN Small Arms Treaty?
10 September 2015
By Cahal Milmo
Regimes criticised (click here) for “appalling” human rights records have been extended official invitations by the Government to attend the world’s largest arms and security fair in London, The Independent can reveal.
The list of countries invited by UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) to attend the Defence and Security Equipment International Exhibition (DSEI) exhibition next includes countries criticised by campaigners for gross infringements of civil liberties, including Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Egypt and Thailand.
The invitation to Azerbaijan has been made despite a rebuke from a Government minister over its draconian imprisonment of a journalist for “questionable allegations”. Foreign Office minister David Lidington said Britain “will take every opportunity to raise concerns over human rights” in the country....
The UK needs to shutter this event forever based in international treaties. Anyone in attendance of the fair should it go forward that has a record of human rights abuses should be arrested and sent to the World Court at the Hague.
That standard should hold for every arms fair in any country that are signators to the UN Small Arms Treaty.
How much of the small arms market is supported by gun manufacturers?
I have absolutely no doubt Daesh representatives will be there. Mercenaries. So, the UK's Cameron states the country should oppose Daesh in Syria while it accepts migrants/refugees. Why bother if arms dealers are sanctioned? The UK and other NATO allies allow the purchase of arms that eventually will be used to kill NATO soldiers.
25 SEptember 2013
By Awr Hawkins
According to the NRA:(click here) “This treaty threatens individual firearm ownership with an invasive registration scheme [and is full of regulations and requirements that are] blatant attacks on the constitutional rights of every law-abiding American.”
The NRA warns that the ATT “urges record keeping of end users,
directing importing countries to provide information to an exporting
country regarding arms transfers, including ‘end use or end user
documentation’ for a ‘minimum of ten years.'” This information on end
users is a de-facto registry and one that could be “made available to
foreign governments.”...
How many CIA and Interpol will be attending to provide assistance to rebel groups? How many of so called Iran's terrorist networks do there shopping here and in markets like it?
By Cahal Milmo
Regimes criticised (click here) for “appalling” human rights records have been extended official invitations by the Government to attend the world’s largest arms and security fair in London, The Independent can reveal.
The list of countries invited by UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) to attend the Defence and Security Equipment International Exhibition (DSEI) exhibition next includes countries criticised by campaigners for gross infringements of civil liberties, including Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Egypt and Thailand.
The invitation to Azerbaijan has been made despite a rebuke from a Government minister over its draconian imprisonment of a journalist for “questionable allegations”. Foreign Office minister David Lidington said Britain “will take every opportunity to raise concerns over human rights” in the country....
The UK needs to shutter this event forever based in international treaties. Anyone in attendance of the fair should it go forward that has a record of human rights abuses should be arrested and sent to the World Court at the Hague.
That standard should hold for every arms fair in any country that are signators to the UN Small Arms Treaty.
How much of the small arms market is supported by gun manufacturers?
I have absolutely no doubt Daesh representatives will be there. Mercenaries. So, the UK's Cameron states the country should oppose Daesh in Syria while it accepts migrants/refugees. Why bother if arms dealers are sanctioned? The UK and other NATO allies allow the purchase of arms that eventually will be used to kill NATO soldiers.
25 SEptember 2013
By Awr Hawkins
According to the NRA:(click here) “This treaty threatens individual firearm ownership with an invasive registration scheme [and is full of regulations and requirements that are] blatant attacks on the constitutional rights of every law-abiding American.”
The NRA warns that the ATT “urges record keeping of end users,
directing importing countries to provide information to an exporting
country regarding arms transfers, including ‘end use or end user
documentation’ for a ‘minimum of ten years.'” This information on end
users is a de-facto registry and one that could be “made available to
foreign governments.”...How many CIA and Interpol will be attending to provide assistance to rebel groups? How many of so called Iran's terrorist networks do there shopping here and in markets like it?
I take it James Blake survived because he could still breath. That is an improvement over past performance for the NYPD.
By Bill Dwyer
...The James Blake story (click here) had the kind of stench that has been floating over U.S. law enforcement for all too long now. And it floated out to the tennis center, where there were lots of furrowed brows and shrugs of why?
Blake is a former U.S. tennis star, once No. 4 in the world. He was often a big attraction for his dynamic personality and similar play, especially during this tournament's famed night sessions. Ten years ago, he took Andre Agassi to five sets and into the wee hours of the morning....
There is a court ordered police commission in Cleveland now:
September 8, 2015
By
Here are the appointees (Their applications, where available, can be found at the links.): (click here)
- Anthony Body, good neighbor ambassador supervisor for the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District.
- Craig Boise, dean of Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.
- The Rev. Yvonne Conner, a retired Methodist pastor.
- Kathleen Clegg, director of community and public psychiatry and the public academic liaison program at University Hospitals Case Medical Center.
- Mario Clopton, a teacher in Shaker Heights and a former political organizer.
- Lee Fisher, a former Ohio lieutenant governor and president of CEOs for Cities.
- Lynn Hampton, president of the Black Shield and a Cleveland police detective.
- Timothy Higgins, a Cleveland police sergeant.
- Amanda King, a law student at Case Western Reserve University.
- Steve Loomis, president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association and a city police detective.
- The Rev. Max Rodas, the CEO of Nueva Luz Urban Resource Center.
- Dylan Sellers, activist project director at Children's Defense Fund Freedom Schools.
- Rhonda Williams, an activist and director of the Social Justice Institute at Case Western Reserve University.
All of the commission members are to serve four-year terms....
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