Police Attack CUNY Protest Against War Criminal Petraeus (click title to entry - thank you)

Really? A man that has spent his entire life in the military under nothing but structure, can't handle life when it isn't? Seriously?

David Petraeus should have come outside to where the demonstrators were and talked to them. No matter what they had to say, it was never as bad as the bullets his soldiers faced every day. This is the freedom his military was suppose to protect. He can't handle it? He should be marching with them.

David Petraeus needs to hold a Town Hall on the campus to confront the anger. It won't do him or anyone else any good to pretend the Iraq War didn't happen.

Why is Israel in Kenya?

Why did the USA go to Afghanistan?

Thursday, 28 November, 2002, 20:51 GMT 

At least 15 people have died (click here) in a suicide bombing at an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, just as two missiles were fired at an Israeli holiday jet that had taken off from the city's airport.
The missiles narrowly missed the Arkia airline plane - a Boeing 757 carrying 261 passengers - but a large part of the Paradise Hotel was reduced to rubble and the rest is a smouldering shell.... 

Why Westgate Mall? 

Israeli-Owned Kenya Mall Targeted as Bloody Nairobi Terror Attack Kills 68 
Israeli Advisers Helping With Rescue of Hostages (click here) 
By Reuters/Barak Ravid
Published September 21, 2013

...Mobile phone signals began to fail in the area as darkness fell. Kenya’s president, vowing to stand firm against Somali militants, was cautious about the outcome, saying chances of the attackers being “neutralised” were “as good … as we can hope for”....

And let's not leave out the bazooka attack on the aircraft.

Arkia Airlines flight IZ582 (click here) was just passing through the 500ft mark as it climbed out of Mombasa airport bound for Tel Aviv when passenger Ezra Gozlan heard a distinct boom from outside. As the plane shook, he looked up, just in time to see a small trail of smoke to the left of the Boeing 757 charter jet. "It went about one metre above the wing _ It was a bazooka or something like that," the 62-year-old Israeli said yesterday. "I said to someone 'It's a missile', but he said 'No, maybe something got caught in the engine'."
Other passengers were just as confused. "It felt like something fell off the wing," said Kerry Levy...

It could be stated, Israel went to Kenya because the USA went to Afghanistan. Attacks on Israel has escalated since the USA went to war. The IDF is as good as it is because of the escalation of violence in the region. There is a reason why Israel is always focused on it's military prowess and part of that it is because they are our ally in the region of the Middle East. The other part is the creation of Israel itself, but, the Hebrews now have a homeland. Israel's existence is important. It needs to exist.

What is the US Military Industrial Complex counting on?

Easy one and I am confident everyone has already 'gone there.'

This is an opportunity for Obama to exonerate the Right Wing political dogma to actually teach the American people Kenya is real and the jokes and political victimization for rhetoric is sadly chosen.

Why not fight the war Obama needs to fight in his father's memory. Everyone becomes a hero and the Democrats are the hottest ticket in the USA.

"Go, GI Joe."

And don't state that is imagineering.

Who are the 'bad guys' in Sub-Sahara Africa?

Remember this mess? They meant no harm in producing this movement that relied on social media for it's momentum. 

Try to put this into context with the idea there are warlords/militias that rule in Africa with long histories. The currently political systems are structured out of these power leaders. Basically, how does The West or Europe or any other First World nation bring about the end of corruption and killing?

That question is extremely complicated. The poverty provides reasons for children to be recruited into militias where they can receive food and water. The NGOs are limited to their ability to control the country, but, only their missions. A country entrenched in guerrilla warfare will thrive on natural resources that are cheap to secure. The GUNS in the countries are the enemies. But, the guns are there and they are in the hands of very determined and dangerous people that operate in countries with impunity because of weak central governments. Those central governments are corrupt and aren't really interested in war so much as personal wealth.

Enter The West or Europe to try to bring about a humane component to end the violence and establish civilization that makes sense to The West and Europe and what occurs is more guns into a country, opportunity for a different type of corruption (the corruption of wealth beyond the imagination) and the USA and EU become the ultimate warlords in alliance with central governments with no control. 

Then there is the 'on the ground' reality of the people and we have "Westgate Mall." Westgate sounds too close to Texas to realize it could be us. 

What to do? What we are doing. We support social and cultural improvements, we take corrupt leadership to the Hague and we continue to seek ways to provide better economies for these nations. There is no military solution to this. The military presence only brings in more guns, munitions and escalates the problem. 

What is Israel doing? Israel is doing what Israel needs to in providing intelligence and consulting to bring about a more stable government; to assist these leaders into understanding the very infrastructure that disables their countries. 

There are ONLY political solutions to these problems. The people of Kenya have to solve their own problems. 

But, but, but, this is going on forever already.

That is correct and we need to keep at it. This is real and there is no package tied up in a bow that can be achieved.

I've been waiting for this one.

Wall Street media needs to terrify the public in order to engage war. I knew it. I was waiting for the media to parlay the Kenya Mall attack into being a threat to the USA. They are amazing.

..."The concern (click here) would be if any of those have come back to the United States and would use those abilities here in the United States,'' he said.
"I would assume that the FBI and local law enforcement are looking into those Somali-American communities today and if there are any leads or indicators using all their sources and resources to make sure there's no follow-up attempt here in the United States.''...

The word "if" needs to be removed from the media dialogue. It is the worst word in burgeoning war mongering in the USA.

The Kenya Mall attacks have nothing to do with the USA. The mall attacks is retaliation of Kenyan forces entering Somalia. 

OMG, OMG there are American Somalia warriors. Talk to John Walker Lindh.

This is so outrageous.

Currently, Israel has a deployment of their military in Kenya. They have been acting as consultants during the entire episode. There are reports the Israeli military personnel has been assisting with hostage circumstances in the mall itself. I applaud Israel for providing a stable intelligence infrastructure to the Kenyan government.

Ya ready for this? The Hague has released William Ruto for one week to return to Kenya for this emergency. This is such a hideous story that demonstrates the MONSTERS in the region and the American media cares to NOT report on any of it, except, to PORTRAY the poor Kenyan people besieged unassisted by anyone and IN NEED of American Forces to race to the rescue. It is such propaganda you have no idea.

By MIKE CORDER
Associated Press 

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- In an unprecedented decision, (click here) judges at the International Criminal Court excused Kenya's deputy president from his crimes against humanity trial for a week Monday so he could return home to help deal with the mall hostage crisis.
At a hastily arranged hearing, Presiding Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji said William Ruto could leave on a morning flight to Kenya. The hearing was quickly halted and Ruto was ushered from the courtroom to be rushed to the airport....

Why burden Americans with the truth rather than let House Representative Peter King run around fear mongering with his hair on fire?

Politically "Homeland Security" House Committee works for Peter King, because, he is from New York and of course he is protecting NYC from buildings falling to the ground again.

It never fails. If there is a way to create a 'Made for TV Movie' out of daily news, the American media will find it.

The opening statements to this attack in the American media was that there were Americans involved. The media enticed Americans into believing there were Americans dead and/or injured and NOW in pure amazement as only the American media can conduct it, the Americans involved are in the Somalia military. 

Look, there are Americans everywhere within these international criminal networks, no different than Lindh was. They are there for Jihad. So, Americans need to get their minds around that. It could be considered treason and it would end the RE-ENTRANCE of these people to the sovereign USA. But, there are Americans everywhere performing Jihad in the world. The reason that is not an IDENTITY the American people are familiar with is because there would be a degree of sophistication that could not be exploited.

This is so very, very typical.

The Israeli forces involved must be doing a heck of a job because the militiants from Somali and their network are complaining about it. I was reading about the Israeli forces in Kenya in the Jerusalem Post, but, here is an American source.

By Nicholas Soi and Robyn Dixon

September 22, 2013, 9:01 a.m.

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Israeli advisors (click here) were reported to be helping Kenya's government try to free hostages held by terrorist gunmen in an upscale shopping mall, after an attack that killed at least 59 people and wounded 175, but President Uhuru Kenyatta said the rescue attempt remained a domestic operation.
"For the time being, this remains an operation of the Kenyan security agencies. I thank all our international friends who have reached out to us and stood with us," Kenyatta said.
Kenyan and Israeli sources told news agencies Israelis were involved in the siege as it entered its second day, with occasional gunfire rattling out, as police and army units surrounded the Westgate shopping mall, where 10 to 15 gunmen were holed up with hostages.
"The Israelis have just entered and they are rescuing the hostages and the injured," a Kenyan security source told Agence France-Presse....

The American media are bozos and the Republicans are tied to them with an umbilical cord for their politics. Ya gotta love it. It is so corrupt. 

They suckered everyone.

They suckered everyone.

They suckered everyone right into their story line. 

The best defense against this is for the President of the USA to call them on it and actually speak to the American people about FACTS and our support for the efforts currently in Kenya and NO we are not sending troops. It is questionable with Kerry and Powers war mongering at the UN that Obama would ever do that though.

We don't belong in Kenya.

We never did. 

"Good night, Moon"

We know where the edge of the solar system is and how long it takes to get there. It is amazing this has been accomplished in my lifetime.

As soon as space travel beyond the protective atmosphere of Earth is found to be safe without life threatening radiation; the universe can our new home. But, I caution that idea. The radiation found at the edge of the solar system is most likely not benign.

Not to underestimate the daunting task this actually is, but, in time it will happen and intergalactic space travel may become a reality.

I congratulate NASA on it's visionary space model and the will to see it through. It is all money well spent. Not a dime wasted. If ever an agency of the USA wanted to survive for the right reasons it is NASA. Did we ever realize how incredible this mission was to be.

By Brooks Barnes
Published: September 12, 2013

 PASADENA, Calif. — The spacecraft’s technology (click here) was laughable by today’s standards: it carried an 8-track tape recorder and computers with 240,000 times less memory than a low-end iPhone. When it left Earth 36 years ago, it was designed as a four-year mission to Saturn, and everything after that was gravy.

...“I don’t know if it’s in the same league as landing on the moon, but it’s right up there — ‘Star Trek’ stuff, for sure,” said Donald A. Gurnett, a professor of physics at the University of Iowa and the co-author of a paper published Thursday in the journal Science about Voyager’s feat. “I mean, consider the distance. It’s hard even for scientists to comprehend.”...

While the nation takes a breath of relief, the Obama Administration pushes for war.

Russia has said it would change it's mind about Syria IF the agreements were broken or schedules were not honored. Today, there is no reason that is or will be the case. The USA is endangering more lives with complete withdrawal by Syria if it continues to cry and carry on about a war option.

“I’m talking now theoretically and hypothetically, but if Russia becomes sure that [President] Assad, for example, is cheating, we might change our position. But so far we don’t have such evidence,” Sergey Ivanov, Kremlin Administration Chief said.

One resolution does not preclude another. Here we go with American politics and immorality, yet again. Kerry and Samantha Powers just can't keep their fingers off the trigger, can they?

Published time: September 22, 2013 09:48
Edited time: September 22, 2013 19:42 

The US is pushing Russia (click here) into approving a UN resolution that would allow for military intervention in Syria, in exchange for American support of Syria’s accession to OPCW, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.

“Our American partners are starting to blackmail us: ‘If Russia does not support a resolution under Chapter 7, then we will withdraw our support for Syria’s entry into the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). This is a complete departure from what I agreed with Secretary of State John Kerry',” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Channel 1's Sunday Time program. 

Chapter 7 of the UN charter would allow for potential military intervention in Syria.

Western countries blinded by 'Assad must go' attitude

The head of Russia’s Foreign Ministry went on to say he was surprised by the West’s “negligent” approach to the conflict... 

People died. They died senseless deaths.

When is this nation going to realize why these deaths occurred? When is it going to come to terms with the merchanizing of death for the sake of profits? If no one was making money there would be profoundly different outcomes. The USA is a pitifully immoral nation. It prefers profit over life.

For those seeking information of a safe food supply there is a government agency that meets regularly to decide safe food policy. These are the current regulations. 

The case with ISPM is that dates change with each publication and not whether or not there was a change within the regulation. Legal precedent has been abandoned for a moving baseline. There is literally no way of telling if the regulation was written today or 100 years ago.

ISPMs (International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures) (click here)

 ...2013-08-26: The year of copyright for ISPM 15 has been changed to 2013: it changes every time that a modification to the entire ISPM text is made (including re-formatting of any parts of the standard). This is to keep track of all text and format modifications of an ISPM. On the other hand, the year of adoption remains 2009: a change to the year of adoption of an ISPM only occurs when the main text of the ISPM is modified....

The USA Standards are not a moving baseline. They are updated and recorded. There is a name, address and phone number at the bottom of the entry. The USDA - APHIS standards and regulations are an ongoing process without an end date. I suggest those so inclined take an interest and assist the USDA in upgrading the standards.

USDA - APHIS (American Plant Health Inspection Services) (click here)

The online Federally Recognized State Managed Phytosanitary Program Manual (click here) has been revised to update Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Appendix B, Appendix E, and to add new Appendices F, G, and H. The manual numbering system has also been changed from 3-digits to 2-digits.
Revisions, indicated by black change bars in the left page margins, are on the following pages:

Chapter 3: Procedures: Pages 3-3 through 3-6.

Chapter 4: Roles and Responsibilities: Pages 4-1 through 4-6.

Appendix B: Federally Recognized State Managed Phytosanitary 

Programs/Links to State Program Websites: Page B-1.

Appendix E: Analysis Aid for States (formerly Audit Checklist): Pages E-1 through E-10.

Appendix F: Supporting Action, Program Process, and Program Flow: Pages F-1 and F-2.

Appendix G: Audit Checklist: Pages G-1 through G-7.

Appendix H: Online Resources: Page H-1.

Bruce Attavian
Technical Manuals Writer
USDA-APHIS-PPQ-RPM-ISMU
92 Thomas Johnson Drive, Suite 200

Frederick, MD 21702-4593
Phone: 240-529-0355
bruce.n.attavian@aphis.usda.gov

Some things never change. If they aren't dropping them on us, they are flying them over our heads.

And they tell us we need nuclear energy besides. Oh, they are safe. Yeah, right up to the point where they ain't.

Do we really need this on our planet? Do we? In our societies? 



Journalist uses Freedom of Information Act to disclose 1961 accident in which one switch averted catastrophe (click here)

Ed Pilkington in New York
The Guardian
Friday 20 September 2013 12.03 EDT
A secret document, published in declassified form for the first time by the Guardian today, reveals that the US Air Force came dramatically close to detonating an atom bomb over North Carolina that would have been 260 times more powerful than the device that devastated Hiroshima....

Where were YOU on January 23, 1961? We just inaugurated John F. Kennedy as President on the 20th and three days later this is what the taxpayer gets.  Oops. That is what we get, oops.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs was, General Lyman Louis Lemnitzer, he took office under Eisenhower, the man who gave us "Atoms for Peace." General Lemnitzer would take a command with NATO within the next year. 

Goldsboro revisited: account of hydrogen bomb near-disaster over North Carolina – declassified document (click here)
This document was written on 22 October 1969 by Parker F Jones, the supervisor of the nuclear weapons safety department at Sandia national laboratories. The document has recently been declassified having been acquired under freedom of information provisions by the investigative reporter Eric Schlosser for his new book Command and Control. It is published here for the first time.... 

Atoms for peace. I would if they ever asked the Eves if they though it would work. So sorry, that was Adam not Atom. Just think there could be no North Carolina right now. Hm?

The Holiday Season is at hand. Hint for local economies.

Halloween happens in a few weeks, then Thanksgiving and before you know it the winter holidays have past.

Local economies should promote gift giving with the desire to purchase more in the future. 

One of my favorite gifts to give at any dinner party I am invited is a bottle of wine, a favorite food garnish or jelly, including savory cooking jellies and/or an innovative local economy taste treat. When I bring these items with me I always bring the information to where my friends or family can order more. 

Local economies should encourage communication with it's gift recipients on labels or tags. Word of mouth is how small empires are built and how local economies expand.

What I like about this label is the quaint and homey quality of it. The only thing missing is a quality statement about careful preparation of it's safety integrity. "Prepared in a certified kitchen." There are many wonderful chefs that prepare their products in 'shared commercial kitchens' and these kitchens are conducted according to legal standards. A label could easily be made to reflect the integrity of the product as well or even better than large commercial enterprises.

Small familes with small farms are needed to serve communities. SBA needs to seek out those looking to start these small businesses as well as traditional funding.

These animals are important animals and people knowledgeable to start these farms are important people. Start small and expand. Raising healthy animals as a food source can be experienced without going into huge debt.  

These animals are high profit animals when raised in excellent conditions.The word 'start up cooperative' comes to mind.

Poverty sometimes lends itself to rural residents with few options. Seeding those impoverished with opportunities to learn to raise these animals is a viable idea. Start small, start with two birds for personal consumption and encourage growth with success. It sounds like a Non-Profit opportunity for qualified persons to carry out the programs.

Small Farm Funding Resources(click here)

Mary’s Free Range Chickens (click here)

Mary’s Certified Organic Free-Range Turkey (click here)
Mary's Free-Range Organic Turkeys are an additional step up the ladder in humane farming practices; with freedom to move about and a premium diet void of any chemical stimulators.  Certified Organic feeds must be Certified by the USDA and everything that goes in them must be certified as well. Mary's Organic Turkey feed does not contain any of the following:
    •   NO Animal By Products
    •   NO Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
    •   NO Antibiotics
    •   NO Pesticide Treated Grains
    •   NO Grains Grown with Chemical Fertilizers 
    •   NO Synthetic Amino Acids 

What I find really interesting is that off duty police officers substituting in our educational system might have a use for these disasters on wheels.

This is really precious though. Ohio State University is in Columbus, Ohio.

Best I can find these are not for public sale, so they have to be brought to USA domestic government through arrangements. Those arrangements are probably made possible by US House members.

This is the US House member representing Columbus, Ohio. But, that isn't the best part. This is the best part.

Janaury 25, 2013

U.S. Congressman Pat Tiberi (R-OH) (click here) today announced his plan to give schools another tool when deciding how to best protect students from harm.  His bill would encourage off-duty law enforcement officers to substitute teach by allowing their substitute teaching wages to be tax-exempt.  This would provide the opportunity, within state substitute teaching requirements, for highly-trained, armed officials to be in schools at any given time....

Remember this plain crash? A private contractor? Right? Afghanistan. The cargo came loose.

3 June 2013
 
Investigators (click here) sifting through the wreckage of a Boeing 747-400 cargo plane that crashed in Afghanistan on April 29 have found that several of the straps used to tie down the 16-ton MRAP fighting vehicles broke after takeoff...

Guess what the cargo was? The military must be giving this stuff away. They cost plenty to build, about $700,00 each.

They are waste of military spending. The cargo was coming out of Afghanistan and being sent to Dubai.

????? Like what????? These were not deployed to protect American and/or Afghan forces? What happens here, the C-10 brings them in and then Karzai sells them to the highest bidder?

Crash: National Air Cargo B744 at Bagram on Apr 29th 2013, lost height shortly after takeoff following load shift and stall (click here)

By Simon Hradecky, created Monday, Apr 29th 2013 14:02Z, 
last updated Tuesday, Jun 4th 2013 15:01ZA 

National Air Cargo Boeing 747-400 freighter on behalf of US Mobility Command, registration N949CA performing cargo flight N8-102 from Bagram (Afghanistan) to Dubai Al Maktoum (United Arab Emirates) with 7 crew and cargo consisting of 5 military vehicles, has crashed shortly after takeoff from Bagram Air Base's runway 03 at 15:30L (11:00Z) and erupted into flames near the end of the runway within the perimeter of the Air Base. All 7 crew are reported perished in the crash....

...On Jun 2nd 2013 accident investigators by the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation of Afghanistan reported in a press conference that quickly shifting cargo, consisting of three armored vehicles and two mine sweepers totalling at 80 tons of weight, caused the accident. The cargo slammed so hard at the back of the aircraft, that parts of the aircraft separated and wiring in the back was severed. As result of the shift and loss of aircraft parts the center of gravity moved so far back, that the attitude of the aircraft could no longer be controlled, the nose of the aircraft rose beyond the flying envelope of the aircraft and the aircraft stalled destroying the aircraft and killing all crew in the resulting impact. Parts of the aircraft, that separated as result of the initial load shift, were recovered from the runway. The straps used to tie down the cargo were recovered from the accident site, although charred they provided evidence of having fractured before final impact, it was unclear however, whether the fracture(s) had happened before or after takeoff.

The FAA had released a Safety Alert for Operators on May 20th 2013 regarding securing heavy vehicles in aircraft.

Cargo transporters needed guidance? They weren't qualified? The vehicles made it into Afghanistan just fine. This aircraft is not designed to carry these vehicles. 

Police Harrassment

The reason this woman was harassed was for the sole intention of intimidation. There was no other reason. She was on a public right of way the entire time. The officer asked her if anyone was with her because he knew her defense was valid if there was a witness that could testify.

A citizen does not have to cooperate with a police investigation as guaranteed under the Fifth Amendment. 

She is NOT GUILTY, but, they attempted entrapment anyway. The police should have told man who called to go to the court to file a complaint as there was no obvious evidence of misconduct at the time they arrived.

The owner/employee of the inhumane facility was obviously seeking inappropriate police power to intimidate. A person with compassion is allowed to seek the SAME POWER to facilitate their values as any other in this country.

Activists need to have two phones if they are using one to record events. The other phone to be used to be the first to call the police when they are confronted by people who harass them. In this case, the activist should have pressed charges for harassment by the facility owner. 

Basically, he stays on his side of the fence and she stays on her. The police officer VALIDATED her correctness. There were no other questions for the officer to ask her. They should have left and allowed her to continue to carry out her activism. She was within the law.

Title 76 Utah Criminal Code
Chapter 6 Offenses against property
Section 112.   Agricultural operation interference --Penalties. (click here)
            (1) As used in this section, "agricultural operation" means private property used for the production of livestock, poultry, livestock products, or poultry products.
            (2) A person is guilty of agricultural operation interference if the person:
            (a) without consent from the owner of the agricultural operation, or the owner's agent, knowingly or intentionally records an image of, or sound from, the agricultural operation by leaving a recording device on the agricultural operation;
            (b) obtains access to an agricultural operation under false pretenses;
            (c) (i) applies for employment at an agricultural operation with the intent to record an image of, or sound from, the agricultural operation;
            (ii) knows, at the time that the person accepts employment at the agricultural operation, that the owner of the agricultural operation prohibits the employee from recording an image of, or sound from, the agricultural operation; and
            (iii) while employed at, and while present on, the agricultural operation, records an image of, or sound from, the agricultural operation; or
            (d) without consent from the owner of the operation or the owner's agent, knowingly or intentionally records an image of, or sound from, an agricultural operation while the person is committing criminal trespass, as described in Section 76-6-206, on the agricultural operation.
            (3) A person who commits agricultural operation interference described in Subsection (2)(a) is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
            (4) A person who commits agricultural operation interference described in Subsection (2)(b), (c), or (d) is guilty of a class B misdemeanor.

Enacted by Chapter 213, 2012 General Session
        

A publically funded university has a war wagon? Who arranged for this disaster waiting to happen?

Ohio State University Gets Armored Military Vehicle, Repeatedly Dodges Questions About It (click here)

Zenon Evans

Sep. 19, 2013 2:24 pm

Ohio State University campus police (OSU PD) recently acquired what appears to be a Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected (MRAP) vehicle to add to their fleet. Several attempts to contact the university have garnered little information about why a vehicle, which was specifically designed for asymmetric warfare, is needed on campus....

All that Ohio State needs now in it's personnel department is a Brigade Combat Team Configuration.

Part 3 of Sense and Respond Series
Sense and Respond Logistics at the Unit Level
by Major Michael F. Hammond

This article, (click here) the final in a series of three on sense and respond logistics, looks at the brigade combat team’s existing capabilities and practices that follow the sense and respond approach....

Before examining how the BSB operates within the sense and respond framework, one must understand the composition of the battalion and the assets it carries. The BSB performs several basic functions on the battlefield. 

First, the battalion’s distribution company distributes food and water, paper supplies, petroleum and lubricants, construction and engineering materials, ammunition, personal demand items, complete assemblies like weapon systems and vehicles, medical supplies, and repair parts. The distribution company’s transportation section carries these sustainment stocks for the brigade. 

Second, the battalion’s maintenance company performs field maintenance and vehicle recovery. 

Third, the battalion’s medical company provides health services in the form of medical dispensary, pharmacy, mental health, and physician’s assistant services. In a deployed environment, the medical company has surgeons on staff to stabilize combat casualties for transportation. 

Fourth, logistics planners in the battalion’s support operations office plan and coordinate the fulfillment of the brigade combat team’s sustainment requirements....

I'd like to see that job description.

May 25, 2012

Army.mil/News| by Kris Osborn, ASA(ALT)

The U.S. Army is in the process of refining (click here) a long-term plan for its fleet of 20,000 blast-deflecting, mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles, known as MRAPs, service officials explained.
Some of the MRAPS will be placed in brigade combat team configurations for as-needed troop transport and route clearance missions; some will be put in storage facilities and others will be kept for training purposes, according to Department of the Army G-8 officials.
"The MRAPs were a very successful program," said Col. Mark Barbosa, chief, Focused Logistics Division, Director of Material, G-8. "The $45-billion investment had Office of the Secretary of Defense, or OSD, oversight, with very strong support in Congress. The platform was rushed to theater to protect our Soldiers and it did very well. In order to meet the timelines we needed to meet, we had to go to multiple vendors and we had to go to very large quantities."...

Ohio States has an ROTC program (click here) that is an elective. It does provide some scholarships. This is what the programs CLAIMS it will do for their students.

- Build your confidence
- Teach you how to be a member of a team
- Teach you new skills
- Help you make life long friends
- Challenger your fitness level
- Show you what pride is all about
- Above all you will become a...LEADER

Now, if that vehicle is suppose to serve a purpose with students it needs to leave campus and be returned to it's military installation. If it part of the ROTC program it is nothing but hubris and needs to leave campus and be returned to it's military unit.

The American people are not suppose to be exposed to a militarized infrastructure. There is deploying the military directly and then there is deploying the 'military like' law enforcement that is a huge overreach of government. This is outrageous and it give incentive to idiots with military style weapons to purchase and arm themselves with more of the same.

A 92 year old man died in his bedroom because no one bothered to give a damn and this is societies answer. Enough.

Where is this man's body armor?

How does anyone expect the Kenyan police in Nairobi to take on a network of international criminals without the proper equipment? Then the USA wonders why there is violence in these countries in Sub-Sahara Africa. Why would a reasonable police officer, with far less equipment and training then the criminals actually confront them?

This is ridiculous. This is not a neighborhood dispute, it is an attack in a shopping mall by international criminals. 
By Larry Mcshane 
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Saturday, September 21, 2013, 8:32 AM
Updated: Sunday, September 22, 2013, 2:22 AM 

Somalia's militant group al-Shabab claimed responsibility (click here): 'The attack at #WestgateMall is just a very tiny fraction of what Muslims in Somalia experience at the hands of Kenyan invaders.' The White House National Security Council has offered its 'full support' to the Kenyan government in bringing the perpetrators to justice....

The entire international community should be ashamed of themselves. The longevity of the average Kenyan is about 18 years old and there are international criminal organizations reeking havoc within the country. Well, no surprise here, now there? Poverty and crime go hand in hand no matter what level of crime it is. This time it just happens to be very bad guys. 

How does the international community justify the lack of training and equipping of national and local police forces? How does any President of any country expect to stop the impoverishment in the country if the police are equipped and trained well enough to enforce the law and handle these networks of criminals?

Every country should be fully ashamed of itself, especially France whom claims so much good work in peacekeeping in Africa. Who are France's allies in Africa and why aren't they better trained and equipped? France can't get financial assistance from Wall Street? Wall Street can support funding for police and national stability in these countries, but, they want the USA to wage war so they can have what they want.

There is something extremely wrong here. There is no reason for any of these law enforcement agencies to be compromised if this disaster of crime is ever going to end.

The median age in Kenya is 18.8 years with a possible life expectancy of 57.9 years. If people die young, what is the sense of planning for the future or valuing a job and why not overthrow a government with the help of al Qaeda in hopes the life expectancy extends or there are better hospitals and medical facilities or clean water. Why not? If I came of age at 12 years old and only was going to live perhaps another 15 years or less , why not become a child soldier and get my kicks early and what would I care who I am affiliated with? 

How many children in Kenya know what their national flag looks like and what it means? In the USA the national flag has a meaning and every star and every stripe represents the history and current status of the USA. How many children in Kenya know what their national flag means and who to pledge allegiance to before they join al Qaeda as a child soldier?

The number one result of child malnutrition in Kenya is stunting (click here). Thirty-five percent of the children in Kenya are considered moderate to severely stunted because of malnutrition. Now, how many are actually learning? Beastfeeding is the best nutrition a child has, it starts at birth and continues in 54% of the child population until the age of 2 or later.

Forty-one percent of the people in Kenya are still drinking substandard water. The best quality of water is found in urban settings and then there are still 18 percent that don't have access to improved quality water. 

Only 23% of children are treated for malaria. Only 47% are sleeping under mosquito nets.

If a child is lucky enough to make it to the age of 15, he or she will have a 48% chance of receiving knowledge of HIV. It is possible to receive that information, too, since at the age of 15 there is a literacy rate of at least 92%. There is currently a 67% of males and 37% of females that use condoms to prevent HIV. 

The gross domestic product per capita is $820.00 US and the Purchasing Power per Capita (which is different than GDP) is $1720.00 per capita.

PPP (Purchasing Power PARITY per Capita) is an estimate. It is not a direct measure of the quality of life of a person in a country. Using a PPP basis is arguably more useful when comparing generalized differences in living standards on the whole between nations because PPP takes into account the relative cost of living and the inflation rates of the countries, rather than using just exchange rates which may distort the real differences in income. 

Kenya is ranked 153 by the World Bank and 158 by the International Monetary Fund. Is there any wonder why international criminal organizations such as al-Shabab or al-Qaeda can set up shop in Kenya? 

What is the global community doing to correct the course of the nations of Sub-Sahara Africa? Because what every it is is AIN'T working.

Widespread violence followed the 2007 election when both Mwai Kibaki, who had won the presidency in 2002, and rival candidate Raila Odinga claimed victory. Months of negotiations resulted in a power-sharing arrangement. A new constitution was adopted in August 2010. In November 2011, Kenya launched a military incursion into southern Somalia in response to alleged terrorist activity and kidnappings. Kenya is the transportation, communication, and financial hub of East Africa. Economic growth, hindered for decades by government mismanagement, weak property rights, and corruption, was improving before the post-election instability in 2007 and has picked up again since 2009. The government employs about one-third of the formal labor force, and civil service reform has been slow. Nearly 80 percent of employment is informal. Agriculture (primarily subsistence agriculture) accounts for about a quarter of GDP and employs a majority of the population.

There are many living off small parcels of land. I use the word subsistence loosely because even though the land is farmed to feed those that live on it, the production of the land hardly feeds those in need. There is considerable food insecurity and it should be no surprise children have poor outcomes.

10 September 2013  
Last updated at 07:03 ET

...Despite President Kibaki's (click here) pledge to tackle corruption, some donors estimated that up to $1bn had been lost to graft between 2002 and 2005.

Other pressing challenges include high unemployment, crime and poverty. Droughts frequently put millions of people at risk....

With severe droughts on a regular basis and their main export is dependent on agricultural outcomes there is complete understanding why Kenya fails it's people. Tourism had been a strong suit to the economy. The experience these nations have with oil production is more of a disaster than it is worth, but, it goes on anyway.

Kenya's chief exports are tea and coffee; fluctuations in their world prices and periodic droughts have tremendous economic impact......Kenya's population growth continually exceeds the rate of economic growth, resulting in large budget deficits and high unemployment. The country's well-developed transportation system has suffered from neglect in recent years.

Sub-sahara Africa is expected to fail all the time. The international community, while engaged, do not engage this region of the world with sincere success. This continent is expected to be over populated, under educated, impoverished and riddled with death and crime. This is chronic on this continent. Chronic. Nothing changes for the better? How are these nations ever to make the G20 into the G21 or the G22 if they haven't got a chance in the first place?

This shopping mall incident is retaliation within the war between Somalia and Kenya.