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LOS ANGELES — Henry Keith Watson remembers April 29, 1992, as if it happened just last week. History won't allow him to forget it.
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It was a day that marked the beginning of one of the deadliest, most destructive race riots in the nation's history, and one in which Watson's spur-of-the-moment decision to take part made him one of the enduring faces of the violence.
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He was at home that day like thousands of others when he heard the news that was racing across Los Angeles: A jury with no Black members had acquitted four police officers in the videotaped beating (pictured) of Rodney King, a Black man stopped for speeding nearly 14 months before.
"I got caught up in the emotions like everyone else," Watson says 20 years after a riot that would leave 55 people dead, more than 2,300 injured and himself forever recognized as one of the attackers of White truck driver Reginald Denny, who himself became the enduring image of the innocents victimized during the chaos.
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South Los Angeles, where the riot began, has changed considerably two decades later, as has Watson. But many things remain the same.
While racial tensions fanned by the verdict and the general feeling of disenfranchisement and distrust of police among LA's black population have moderated, residents of the city's largely Black and Hispanic South Side complain that the area still is plagued by too few jobs, too few grocery stores and a lack of redevelopment that would bring more life to the area.
One place in particular that time seemingly forgot is the intersection of Florence and Normandie, where Denny was attacked on that dark day the riot began. It remains a gritty corner that's home to gas stations where men rush up to incoming cars and pump fuel for spare change, as well as a liquor store with more foot traffic than any other business in sight.
"Have things changed? Not really. People are just more mellow these days," Frank Owens says with a smile. The unemployed landscaper sat on a bus stop bench near the intersection recently, visiting with friends before going across the street to buy lottery tickets at the liquor store and joke with its owner, James Oh.
Much like Los Angeles as a whole, the neighborhood's Latino population has grown while the black population has declined.
In this part of town, high school dropout rates are higher than for the city as a whole, and only 8 percent of the area's residents have college degrees, compared with 30 percent for all residents of Los Angeles, according to American Community Survey estimates from 2006 to 2010.
More than three times as many households in the area reported yearly incomes of less than $20,000 during the same period than homes with yearly incomes of more than $100,000. That's in stark contrast to the city as a whole, where there were more households with incomes above $100,000 than those with incomes of less than $20,000.
The economic disparity, coupled with racial animosity and distrust of the police created the powder keg that was the neighborhood on April 29, 1992, Watson says. Then word of the King verdict set it off.
"The riots were the last spark," said Connie Rice, a director of the civil rights group Advancement Project and an attorney who has brought numerous civil rights lawsuits against the Los Angeles Police Department. "People had had enough."
As the liquor store at the intersection of Florence and Normandie was being looted and white passersby were fleeing a barrage of rocks and bottles, Denny stopped his big rig to avoid running over someone.
He was quickly dragged from the cab and nearly beaten to death by Watson and a handful of others. As the attack unfolded on live TV, Watson stepped on Denny's head after Damian Williams smashed the trucker's skull in with a brick.
Rioting spread across the city and into neighboring suburbs. Cars were demolished and homes and businesses were burned. Before order was restored, more than 1,500 buildings were damaged or destroyed. Almost a quarter century had passed since the tumultuous urban riots of 1968, and even longer since LA's Watts rioting in 1965. The magnitude of this new racial paroxysm shocked a nation that thought it had moved on.
Today, Watson still struggles to explain why he took part in the destruction. Known as Keith to his family and "KeeKee" to friends, he was a 27-year-old ex-Marine with a wife and a job who came from a good family. His father had been his neighborhood's block captain, no less, and he acknowledges his family didn't raise him to be a troublemaker.
"I guess you could say, you know, looking at my background and whatever, how could I have gotten caught up in it?" he mused on a recent sun-splashed morning as he sat on the front porch of the home he grew up in, located just a few blocks from the intersection.
After a long pause and a sigh, he continues: "You know, honestly, it was something that just happened, man. I never even knew Reginald Denny. Just the anger and the rage just took hold to where I nor anyone who was out there that day was in their right frame of mind."
Watson was convicted of misdemeanor assault and sentenced to time served for the 17 months he spent in jail before his case was resolved.
But that day was a rage, he and others in the community say, fueled by years of high unemployment, abuse and neglect by police, and rising tension with recently arrived Korean store owners.
"We wanted jobs around here, we wanted respect and we didn't get none of that. And then the police just harassed us all the time," says Sharon McSwain, who for 22 of her 45 years has lived within walking distance of the intersection where Denny was attacked. He was saved by a black truck driver who rushed out to help after seeing the brutal beating on television.
Tensions in the community had been running high before the riot, fueled in part by the case of a Korean grocer who shot to death a black teenager she had accused of trying to steal a bottle of orange juice. The grocer, Soon Ja Du, was convicted of manslaughter for killing 15-year-old Latasha Harlins, but received a sentence of only probation and community service.
Like King's beating, the shooting had been captured on videotape, by Du's store surveillance camera. The images stoked the anger.
The store shooting occurred just two weeks after George Holliday stood on the terrace outside his San Fernando Valley home and videotaped four LAPD officers kicking King, using stun guns on him and delivering more than 50 blows from their police batons.
On April 29, 1992, it seemed Holliday's videotape would be the key evidence leading to a guilty verdict against the officers. When they were instead acquitted, violence erupted immediately.
Police, seemingly caught off-guard, were quickly outnumbered by rioters and retreated. As the uprising spread to the city's Koreatown area, shop owners armed themselves and engaged in running gun battles with looters.
"I think we did the right thing," says attorney David Kim, who had gone on Korean-language radio to encourage people to take up arms because the police weren't protecting them.
Not that violence had been totally unexpected.
In the weeks before the verdict, nearly a dozen black community leaders had been meeting regularly with then-Mayor Tom Bradley, discussing what to do if there was an acquittal, the Rev. Cecil "Chip" Murray recounts.
When the verdict was announced, some 150 volunteers fanned out across the city, urging calm, says Murray, retired pastor of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church and now a religious studies professor at the University of Southern California. They were successful in some instances and likely would have been more so if police had backed them up, he says.
King himself, in his recently published memoir, "The Riot Within: My Journey From Rebellion to Redemption," says FBI agents warned him a riot was expected if the officers walked. They advised him to keep a low profile so as not to inflame passions.
He did until the third day, when he went on television and made an emotional plea for calm, famously asking, "Can we all get along?"
In the aftermath, much of the blame was placed on Police Chief Daryl Gates, who resigned under pressure soon after.
Before the uprising, Gates had been hailed in national police circles as an innovator, widely credited with helping pioneer both the modern police special weapons and tactics team and the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program that partners police with schools.
Until his death in 2010, he angrily defended his actions, accusing his officers of failing to carry out a plan he said was in place to stop any trouble. He was particularly critical of his command staff for leading the retreat.
"The captain, lieutenant, deputy chiefs, commanders – they all screwed up in my judgment," Gates, who had been chief for 14 years, told The Associated Press in 2002.
Whoever was to blame, Gates remains a polarizing figure in LA's black community, where words like Gestapo, Nazi and racist are routinely used to describe the way he ran the LAPD.
After the riot, a number of reforms were instituted, including limiting a police chief to a maximum of two five-year terms. Stricter guidelines in the way the LAPD investigates civilian complaints and disciplines its officers were also implemented after both federal officials and an independent review board concluded the department had for years been guilty of a pattern of civil rights abuses.
Anger toward the department as a whole is less intense now.
"Cops are still cops," says Marqueece Harris-Dawson, president of the Community Coalition of South Los Angeles. "They do lots of things we don't like but this idea you're under threat of assassination or torture or beating, it's just not as present anymore."
"There is no figure on the scene in this region that has the vitriol, the racism and the open disregard for the citizens of this city that Darryl Gates had," Harris-Dawson adds.
Violent crime fell citywide by 76 percent between 1992 and 2010, according to Los Angeles police statistics.
Meanwhile, tensions between the black and Korean communities have lessened over the years, according to both sides. Rioters targeted and caused $400 million worth of damage to Korean-American businesses, many of them liquor stores that residents said were blights on the community. Language barriers and cultural differences were also key.
Tom's Liquor, on the corner of Florence and Normandie, was once notorious in the neighborhood for selling hardly anything but booze and for allowing drunks to congregate out front.
The Korean-born Oh, who took ownership three years ago, says he has gone out of his way to treat all his customers as special and to learn the names of his regulars.
"It's just common sense to communicate with people, to understand each other, to know each other's cultures," Oh says.
Since taking charge, Oh says, he has asked the drinkers to leave, painted over the graffiti and expanded his inventory to include a selection of food, baby items and other goods he says people have told him they are hard-pressed to find in the neighborhood.
About a mile from Florence and Normandie things have gotten better. A popular strip mall has sprouted, developed by Magic Johnson and others. It boasts a Starbucks, a grocery store, several name-brand shops and a Jamba Juice where $4 fruit smoothies were selling fast on a recent day.
Many problems still persist in nearby neighborhoods, however.
Some businesses never returned after they were destroyed, including Maria Muniz's father's welding workshop. Unable to buy new equipment, he never reopened. Eventually her parents divorced and her mother took a job in a sweatshop.
"I don't know what would have been of our lives if the riots hadn't happened," says Muniz, who now works for Community Coalition.
Watson, meanwhile, has gotten on with his life. He's become a successful businessman, having "taken lemons and made lemonade," he likes to say with a laugh.
He has two daughters in college and for years has operated his own limousine business. Following a drug possession bust a few years after the riot he has stayed out of trouble and now helps keep watch on his neighborhood, just as his late father once did. He has spent most of his life in the neighborhood, returning to the house he grew up in last year to care for his elderly mother.
His limo customers, he says, have included everyone from a Saudi Arabian princess he chauffeured last year to people from the neighborhood celebrating birthdays and weddings and, as more Hispanics have moved into the area, quinceaneras.
"You get a sense of pride and accomplishment when you can help a person's evening or event and you see the smiles and the love and the joy on their faces," says the burly Watson, breaking into a smile himself.
Asked if he feels badly about what he did to Denny, he says simply that what happened to the trucker that day was "unfortunate."
"But I can't take it back. There's nothing I can do."
Watson did apologize personally to Denny some years ago, the only one of his attackers to do so. Another time he offered to send a limo to pick him up and take him to Florence and Normandie, then somewhere afterward where the two could have a drink and talk.
He says Denny, who lives quietly in Arizona these days, declined. The trucker has shunned interviews for years, and repeated attempts to contact him by mail, phone and in person for this story were unsuccessful.
"He chooses to remain in private," Watson said. "And we respect his privacy. So be it."
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QGIS gets Oracle support!
Seems this is a good day for QGIS Oracle users. According this commit made by Jürgen QGIS now has built-in Oracle support. Win!
Native Oracle support can now see QGIS being opened up to a wider user base yet again. A large user base normally means more people willing to sponsor awesome new features and bug fixes. Having seen the growth in the user base from having native MS SQL Server 2008+ support I can imagine what it will be like with Oracle.
The list of formats QGIS can open and edit is getting larger and larger with each release. Is there a future for vendor lock in? I can't see it.
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- Pizza Pan, to keep your pie crust crisp while still allowing your toppings to brown
With these bakeware basics, you can whip up your favorite sweet treats with ease. Even if you don't find yourself digging through recipe books looking for a cookie recipe that rivals your grandmother's every other night, you'll need these kitchen essentials.
- Baking Dish (with cover), for perfectly shaped breads, family-sized lasagnas and meatloafs
- Baking Sheets, for baking cookies and meringues, as well as for roasting vegetables
- Cookie Sheets, to give your cookies the perfect outer crunch and keep the center soft
- Cooling Rack, to cool your cookies evenly and preserve the even bake
- Cake Pan, for birthdays or special holiday dessert cake
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- Tongs, to firmly grasp and safely flip big cuts of seared meat or vegetables over high heat; good for serving, too
, both dry and measuring cups to cover all your ingredients
While there are countless kitchen appliances, there are only a few absolute necessities.
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St Mary of the Cross... Patroness of Whistleblowers?
But only now, in the run-up to the historic day, the backdrop to one of the more intriguing angles of MacKillop's journey to sainthood has come to light with a revelation that, given the tenor of these times, is bound to make her final ascent even more high-profile than it's already been.
Five years after her establishment of the Sisters of St Joseph, alleging that the foundress had incited her community to "disobedience and defiance," Bl Mary -- then all of 29 years old -- was excommunicated by the bishop of Adelaide, who retracted the sentence five months later on his deathbed... and in a documentary slated to air on Oz's state broadcaster a week before the 17 October canonization, the context behind the move emerges:
While serving with the Sisters of St Joseph, MacKillop and her fellow nuns heard disturbing stories about a priest, Father Keating from the Kapunda parish north of Adelaide, who was allegedly abusing children....and, well, just further proof that, as often as not, a "Saint" above is just another term for one whom "The Church" persecutes here below.
They told their director, a priest called Father Woods, who then went to the Vicar General.
The Vicar General subsequently sent Father Keating back to his home country of Ireland, where he continued to serve as a priest.
Father Paul Gardiner, who has pushed for MacKillop's canonisation for 25 years, says Father Keating's fellow Kapunda priest Father Horan swore revenge on the nun for uncovering the abuse.
"The story of the excommunication amounts to this: that some priests had been uncovered for being involved in the sexual abuse of children," he said.
"The nuns told him and he told the Vicar General who was in charge at the time and he took severe action.
"And Father Horan, one of these priests, was so angry with this that he swore vengeance - and there's evidence for this - against Woods by getting at the Josephites and destroying them."
Father Horan was by now working for Adelaide's Bishop Shiel and urged him to break the sisters up by changing their rules.
When MacKillop refused to comply, she was banished from the church.
"Mary was not excommunicated, in fact or in law. She submitted to a farcical ceremony where the Bishop had ... lost it," Father Gardiner said.
"He was a puppet being manipulated by malicious priests. This sounds terrible but it's true."...
A statement from the Sisters of St Joseph says the events of September 1871 have "been comprehensively documented".
"There were several factors that led to this painful period for Mary and the sisters," the statement said.
For good measure, the story leads tomorrow's broadcasts and papers Down Under; ABC features another interview with Gardiner, the first postulator of the MacKillop cause.
Recently praised (and effusively so) by Australia's "first atheist" -- the freshly-elected Prime Minister Julia Gillard -- as "a pioneering woman who embodied the very best of our values and the best of the Australian spirit," a formal apology for Bl Mary's excommunication was tendered to her spiritual daughters by the current archbishop of Adelaide last year.
The significance of the move -- which saw weeping among several of the sisters in attendance -- was only heightened by Archbishop Philip Wilson's added standing as president of the Australian bishops.
(Above: in a moment which he later said "deeply moved" him, B16 praying at MacKillop's tomb in Sydney during his Aussie visit for World Youth Day 2008.)


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The Winter Garden will go back to it's original roots as a connection to the World Trade Center.
In a move that is set to break hearts in our community, a likely victim will be the beloved World Financial Stairs. After several weeks of speculation and a protest from the SEBC union workers in the World Financial Center, the stairs will be demolished to make way for a connection path from the Fulton Street Transit Hub.
The World Financial Center was connected to World Trade Center mass transportation through the Vesey Street bridge, which was destroyed during the 9/11 terror attacks.
In light of the rebuilding of both the World Trade Center and Fulton Street Transit hub, Brookfield Properties has announced a plan to connect Battery Park City with an underground tunnel. According to Brookfield, keeping the Winter Garden Stairs "would not only create an obstacle between the escalators from the underground tunnel and the Winter Garden, but would also waste a once-in-a-century opportunity to open the interior of lower Manhattan to the waterfront,†according to letter correspondence between Brookfield and City Planning officials according to the Downtown Express.
It is speculated that by eliminating the stairs would also provide increasing retail space in the World Financial Center, increasing revenue for Brookfield Properties.
In July, Community Board 1 officials have put in a formal request that the stairs be preserved. They are often seen as a standing landmark of the terror attacks and also provide unparalleled views of the waterfront. Officials from City Planning as well as Brookfield properties are set to address the demolition of the stairs when the Community Board is back in session in September.
The top of the stairs is currently used by tourists as a prime viewing area of the World Trade Center site.
Residents have been disheartened by news of the potential demolition of the stairs,
"The Winter Garden, and especially the Staircase, has become an iconic symbol of renewal as well as being the most beautiful space downtown," says Betty Heller on BatteryParkCity.com,"Â Destroying it would be an act of vandalism akin to the destruction of the Pennsylvania Railroad Station. Brookfield has been a remarkably good guardian of this precious space until now. It would be a shame to destroy their reputation."


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President George W. Bush today announced his intention to nominate two individuals, appoint one individual, and appoint and designate one individual to serve in his administration:
The President intends to nominate Paul V. Applegarth, of Connecticut, to be Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Mr. Applegarth currently serves as Chief Executive Officer for Value Enhancement International, LLC. In addition, he also serves as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State and to the Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs at the State Department. Previously, Mr. Applegarth worked for Emerging Markets Partnership in England, Washington, DC and Hong Kong. He earned his bachelor's degree from Yale University, his master's degree from Harvard Business School, and his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.
The President intends to nominate John Campbell, of Virginia, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Federal Republic of Nigeria. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Mr. Campbell serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Resources at the State Department. He previously served as Dean of the Foreign Service Institute's School of Language Studies. Earlier in his career, Mr. Campbell was the Counselor for Political Affairs in South Africa. He earned his bachelor's degree and master's degree from the University of Virginia, and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.
The President intends to appoint John W. McCarter, Jr., of Illinois, to be a Member of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee (Museum Representative), for the remainder of a three-year term expiring April 25, 2006.
The President intends to appoint LaSalle Doheny Leffall, Jr., of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the President's Cancer Panel for a three-year term expiring February 20, 2007, and designate him Chairman for a one-year term beginning May 29, 2004.
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On Tuesday, 2 November 1982, a new channel was launched on British Television. The mandate of Channel 4 was to present adventurous and challenging programming. The opening night set the tone with the first "Film on Four" feature Walter, directed by Stephen Frears (The Hit, My Beautiful Laundrette) and starring Ian McKellen as Walter, a mentally handicapped man. It was an auspicious, though controversial, debut portending the future success of Channel 4, which remains a strong force supporting independent film and television worldwide.
"Walter, a harrowing drama in which Ian McKellen portrayed a mentally handicapped adult, provoked about 50 calls to the new station, a large number for even the most controversial programme. Channel 4 insisted that about 30 percent of these were praising the programme. The Independent Broadcasting Authority, however, also reported more than a dozen calls — all of them complaining about the film.
"But Walter met almost universal praise from the critics." — Sue Summers
Ian McKellen was named Royal Television Society Performer of the Year for his portrayal of the gentle, mentally-handicapped Walter.
Walter's success for Channel 4 continued with the sequel Walter and June, which aired in May 1983. The two films are also sometimes shown combined under the title Loving Walter.
A shocking first night on Channel 4
"Channel 4 is taking the extraordinary step of launching itself with one of the most shocking films about mental illness ever shown on British TV.
"Walter, which occupies the key slot in next Tuesday's opening night schedule, features scenes of homosexual molestation in a mental hospital, patients covered in excrement, and a suicide in a barber's shop.
"Starring Ian McKellen in the title role it is well acted, superbly filmed — and extremely harrowing. It is bound to cause controversy on the channel's opening night.
"The story, adapted by David Cook from his own Hawthornden Prize-winning novel, follows what happens to Walter when first his father and then his mother die.
"Finding his mother dead in bed, and unable to comprehend what has happened, Walter moves his pigeons into her bedroom, keeping a vigil while her body becomes progressively covered in bird droppings.
"Later, on his first night in a mental hospital, he is sexually molested by a paraplegic dwarf.
"Next morning he is ordered to help to clean up incontinent wardmates.
"In these scenes nothing is left to the imagination" — Geoffrey Phillips and Sue Summers


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Yesterday, the judge in Bradley Manning's show trial found Manning guilty on nearly every charge but the most draconian of "aiding the enemy," which could have brought the death penalty. If such a trial were going on in Russia today, what angle do you suppose we would hear from the U.S.'s major news outlets and from our highest public officials? That the Russian government was making sure to protect the welfare of the Russian people by going after spies out to harm the Russian people? Hardly. We'd be regaled with talk of how repressive and hypocritical Russia's leaders and system are.
Our leaders would be patting themselves on the back about how unrepressive and unauthoritarian America is by comparison. Lucky you live America, my friend! You could instead be someplace where the government spies on everyone, turns everyone into an informer, the people live in fear of their government, the media are mouthpieces of the government and tell people colossal lies daily, and where dissidents are tortured and killed through judicial and extra-judicial action. Oh wait…!
In today's Guardian, Glenn Greenwald reveals more information to the "enemy" (aka the American public and the world) due to Edward Snowden's revelations. In so doing, Snowden shows once again what liars the NSA and Barack Obama and nearly the entirety of Congress are. It is exactly this kind of activity that the U.S. government is so deathly afraid of and why they are out for blood against people like Manning and Snowden.
XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
- XKeyscore gives 'widest-reaching' collection of online data
- NSA analysts require no prior authorization for searches
- Sweeps up emails, social media activity and browsing history
- NSA's XKeyscore program – read one of the presentations
A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals, according to documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The NSA boasts in training materials that the program, called XKeyscore, is its "widest-reaching" system for developing intelligence from the internet.
The latest revelations will add to the intense public and congressional debate around the extent of NSA surveillance programs. They come as senior intelligence officials testify to the Senate judiciary committee on Wednesday, releasing classified documents in response to the Guardian's earlier stories on bulk collection of phone records and Fisa surveillance court oversight.
The files shed light on one of Snowden's most controversial statements, made in his first video interview published by the Guardian on June 10.
"I, sitting at my desk," said Snowden, could "wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge or even the president, if I had a personal email".
US officials vehemently denied this specific claim. Mike Rogers, the Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee, said of Snowden's assertion: "He's lying. It's impossible for him to do what he was saying he could do."
Let's turn now to what President Obama said about this when the NSA scandal broke and Obama had to try to quell the level of discontent. He appeared on the Charlie Rose Show and specifically claimed that the NSA has to get a warrant to listen in on any Americans' electronic communications and that they have not been doing so without a warrant.
From my June 18, 2013 article "Stop the US Government's Attempt to Criminalize Dissent!":
Here is a pertinent portion from the Charlie Rose interview of Obama on June 17, 2013:
Obama: … Now, with respect to the NSA, a government agency that has been in the intelligence-gathering business for a very long time —
CHARLIE ROSE: Bigger and better than everybody else.
BARACK OBAMA: — bigger and better than everybody else and we should take pride in that because they're extraordinary professionals. They're dedicated to keeping the American people safe. What I can say unequivocally is that if you are a U.S. person the NSA cannot listen to your telephone calls and the NSA cannot target your e-mails.
CHARLIE ROSE: And have not?
BARACK OBAMA: And have not. They cannot and have not — by law and by rule. And unless they — and usually it wouldn't be they, it would be the FBI — go to a court and obtain a warrant and seek probable cause. The same way it's always been…
So Obama is lying about what FISA says, which Sen. [Ron] Wyden makes clear ["Under the FISA Amendments Act the government does not have to get the permission of the FISA Court to read particular emails or listen to particular phone calls"][i] , and he is also lying about the fact that the NSA is not and has not listened into the content of Americans' conversations. See this story from ABC as an example of how the NSA is in fact listening in on content, discussed here. What Obama does not say and won't reveal is that the NSA is recording and storing everything, available to be listened to at any time they please.
Here is an example of why whistleblowers are so valuable to societies: without them authorities could cover up what they're actually doing and bulldoze any resistance to their activities merely by the power that being in authority provides. The mainstream of any society will go along with authorities simply because they are the authorities. This is true in "democratic" societies, in fascist societies, in religious authoritarian societies, in slave societies, and in genuinely or pseudo-socialist societies. Departing from the mainstream and striking out in a radically different direction is not something that the majority in any society are willing or able to do absent a competing moral and political authority being present and having enough support among those in the mainstream. The Obama Administration has made a fetish of how "transparent" it is but in reality it has hounded whistleblowers, journalists, and dissenters more aggressively than Bush and Cheney did.
Rather than hailing Manning and Snowden as brave truth-tellers and pursuing charges against the crimes that Manning, Snowden, and other lesser known whistleblowers have revealed, Obama et al have pilloried these courageous individuals, maligned their motives and characters, and battened down the hatches of their damaged ships of state. No one has been penalized, including those who have tortured innocent people to death and killed children, other than the messengers here. All of the criminals that have been uncovered have been left to continue their crimes and continue to be honored as society's leaders and patriots. Needless to say, of course, actually pursuing criminal charges against those responsible for war crimes, corruption, lying, wanton murder and torture, and crimes against humanity would mean that the very highest levels of the government and members of both the Republican and Democratic Parties would be indicted.
There is honor among thieves, as the saying goes, and these thieves will not prosecute each other because it means that they themselves will find themselves in the dock. So what you have instead is a tragi-comedy or perhaps a farce in which the grandest criminals stand like Inquisitors over those who have honor and who pursue justice, trying to annihilate them and in so doing, to extinguish facts, reason, and truth.
Whose verdict will prevail? The verdict that truth-tellers are society's greatest enemies or the verdict that those in authority responsible for grave crimes are society's greatest threats?
That verdict is up to the people. The consequences are something that all of us and all of those who come in our footsteps will feel in our bodies and in our souls.
Dennis Loo is a member of the Steering Committee of World Can't Wait. His website is dennisloo.com.


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Manage and Harness Stress
Stress is not something that happens to you; stress is the result of what you do with what happens to you!
When stress is not balanced with relaxation, it accumulates in the system and often leads to physical, mental, emotional and behavioral symptoms, and the spirit weakens. When stress is balanced with relaxation, it is the source of our wellness, joy, inspiration and greatest success.
The four steps to managing stress and harnessing its energy;
- Step 1. Realize that stress is a reaction, a behavior.
- Step 2. Understand, deeply, that physical tension, anxiety, and the "fight or flight" reaction are of little value in meeting the challenges confronting you.
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U.S. President Barack Obama plans to release a long-awaited executive order aimed at improving the nation's defenses against cyber attacks as early as Wednesday, according to sources familiar with the matter.
The order, drawn up after Congress failed to pass cyber defense legislation last year, is meant to improve the protection of critical industries and infrastructure from cyber intrusions.
(Read More: Microsoft, Symantec Bust Major Cyber Crime Ring)
Concerns about cyber attacks, which have hit a succession of major U.S. companies and government agencies in recent months, also could be raised by Obama in his annual State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday evening.
One of the White House's major goals is to improve information-sharing about attacks among private companies, and between companies and the government.
"Our biggest issue right now is getting the private sector to a comfort level so they can report anomalies, malware, incidents within their network" without undue fear of being "outed" as victims, said FBI Executive Assistant Director Richard McFeely, head of the Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch.
The order is expected to give the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) the lead role in protecting critical U.S. infrastructure, according to a government official who had seen a final draft of the order's executive summary.
DHS will be tasked with setting up a system for sharing cyber threats with private industry and be responsible for protecting critical infrastructure, the official said. Most of the critical U.S. infrastructure is run by private industry.
(Read More: Businesses Facing Increasing Cyber Threats: Security Experts)
"We know the executive order isn't going to go as far as legislation could or will go, but it's a good start," the official said.
Some Republicans had wanted the Department of Defense to play the lead role instead of DHS.
Cyber security experts say the executive order - which does not have the same force as a law - is a step in the right direction and indicates Obama takes the problem seriously.
"I think this can fairly be described as a down payment on legislation," said Stewart Baker, former National Security Agency general counsel and a past assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Homeland Security.
Stewart said he thought the executive order would make a difference in policy and practical terms "but whether it will provide practical protection from cyber attacks is still in doubt."
(Read More: Execs Say Cyber-Attacks a Top Threat)
The executive order will make it easier for people at private companies to get security clearances so classified information can be shared, according to earlier drafts that were leaked and posted online.
It will also make companies work with the National Institute of Standards and Technology to come up with sector-specific standards for cyber security and will then require companies to engage with their regulators to decide how those standards are implemented.
"Companies aren't going to, at first, be required to do anything. These are voluntary standards, except for a few critical infrastructure companies," said James Lewis, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
"If you're regulated, the regulator will be able to say, 'Here are some new standards.' If you're not regulated you won't be touched at all."


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Ammonia production
Ammonia production facilities provide the base anhydrous liquid ammonia used predominantly in fertilizers supplying usable nitrogen for agricultural productivity. Ammonia is one of the most abundantly-produced inorganic chemicals. There are literally dozens of large-scale ammonia production plants throughout the industrial world, some of which produce as much as 2,000 to 3,000 tons per day of anhydrous ammonia in liquid form. The worldwide production in 2006 was 122,000,000 metric tons.[1] China produced 32.0% of the worldwide production followed by India with 8.9%, Russia with 8.2%, and the United States of America with 6.5%. Without such massive production, our agriculturally-dependent civilization would face serious challenges.
History of ammonia manufacturing processes
Before the start of World War I, most ammonia was obtained by the dry distillation of nitrogenous vegetable and animal products; the reduction of nitrous acid and nitrites with hydrogen; and the decomposition of ammonium salts by alkaline hydroxides or by quicklime, the salt most generally used being the chloride (sal-ammoniac).
The Haber process, which is the production of ammonia by combining hydrogen and nitrogen, was first patented by Fritz Haber in 1908. In 1910, Carl Bosch, while working for the German chemical company BASF, successfully commercialized the process and secured further patents. It was first used on an industrial scale by the Germans during World War I. Since then, the process has often been referred to as the Haber-Bosch process.
Modern ammonia-producing plants
A typical modern ammonia-producing plant first converts natural gas (i.e., methane) or LPG (liquified petroleum gases such as propane and butane) or petroleum naphtha into gaseous hydrogen. The method for producing hydrogen from hydrocarbons is referred to as "steam reforming".[2][3][4][5] The hydrogen is then combined with nitrogen to produce ammonia. [6][7]
Starting with a natural gas feedstock, the processes used in producing the hydrogen are:
- The first step in the process is to remove sulfur compounds from the feedstock because sulfur deactivates the catalysts used in subsequent steps. Sulfur removal requires catalytic hydrogenation to convert organic sulfur compounds (RSH) in the feedstocks to gaseous hydrogen sulfide (H2S):
- H2 + RSH → RH + H2S (gas)
- The gaseous hydrogen sulfide is then passed through a reactor containing zinc oxide (ZnO) where it is converted to solid zinc sulfide (ZnS) in a batch process (i.e., when all of the zinc oxide has been converted to zinc sulfide it is removed and replaced with fresh zinc oxide):
- H2S + ZnO → ZnS + H2O
- Catalytic steam reforming of the sulfur-free methane (CH4) feedstock is then used to form carbon monoxide (CO) plus hydrogen (H2):
- The next step then uses catalytic shift conversion to convert the carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide (CO2) and more hydrogen:
- The carbon dioxide is then removed either by absorption in aqueous ethanolamine solutions or by adsorption in pressure swing adsorbers (PSA) using proprietary solid adsorption media.
- The final step in producing the hydrogen is to use catalytic methanation to remove any small residual amounts of carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide from the hydrogen by converting them into methane:
To produce the desired end-product ammonia, the hydrogen is then catalytically reacted with nitrogen (N2) derived from process air to form anhydrous liquid ammonia (NH3). This step is known as the "ammonia synthesis loop" (also referred to as the Haber-Bosch process):
The nitrogen required for the Haber-Bosch process is obtained in either of these two ways:
- The catalytic steam reformer has two sections: a primary reformer and a secondary reformer. By the introduction of air into the secondary reformer, the air reacts with some of the hydrogen produced in the primary reformer to form nitrogen and water:[5][6]
- H2 + air → N2 + H2O
- By the low-temperature distillation of air
The steam reforming, shift conversion, carbon dioxide removal and methanation steps each operate at absolute pressures of about 25 to 35 bar, and the ammonia synthesis loop operates at absolute pressures ranging from 60 to 180 bar depending upon which proprietary design is used. There are many engineering and construction companies that offer proprietary designs for ammonia synthesis plants. Haldor Topsoe of Denmark, Technip of France, Uhde GmbH of Germany, and Kellogg Brown & Root of the United States are among the most experienced companies in that field.
Uses of ammonia
About 80% or more of the ammonia produced is used for fertilizing agricultural crops in the form of aqua ammonia (an aqueous solution of ammonia), ammonium sulfate (NH4)2SO4, ammonium phosphate (NH4)3PO4, ammonium nitrate NH4NO3 and urea (NH2)2CO. Some anhydrous liquid ammonia is also used directly as a fertilizer.
Ammonia is also used for:
- Manufacture of nitric acid (HNO3)
- Manufacture of nylon and other polyamides
- Refrigerant in household, commercial and industrial refrigeration systems
- Manufacture of dyes
- Manufacture of explosives
- Cleaning solutions
Safety concerns with ammonia
There are several safety-related concerns with anhydrous ammonia and with aqueous solutions of ammonia. It is a respiratory irritant that is a highly hazardous chemical.[8] Release could take place through a simple industrial or transportation accident, a deliberate release caused by terrorists, or by improper handling by those using it in the illegal synthesis of methamphetamines.
Storage tanks on farms used for dispensing ammonia as fertilizer are referred to as nurse tanks and contain approximately 2,500 pounds (1134 kg) of anhydrous ammonia, so any farm with four or more nurse tanks needs to assess its safety. In fact, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) mandates the performance of an Offsite Consequence Analysis (OCA) as part of their Risk Management Plan (RMP) requirements for any facility that stores more than 10,000 pounds (4,536 kg) of anhydrous liquid ammonia or 20,000 pounds (9,072 kg) of aqueous solutions of ammonia.[9] The RMP requirements apply for ammonia refrigeration systems or any other ammonia storage facilities as well as farms. The U.S. Occupational Health & Safety Administration(OSHA) has mandated very similar requirements as part of Process Safety Management (PSM) regulations for hazardous chemicals.[10]
In transport, ammonia containers must have proper hazardous material placards, and, if the pertinent threshold quantity is exceeded, may need additional safeguards, such as reporting the shipment to industry monitoring services such as CHEMTREC[11] or additional local agencies. There may be restrictions on transporting hazardous materials through tunnels, or possibly streets in high-density areas.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, citing its major concern as toxic release, lists anhydrous ammonia, or mixtures containing at least 1 percent ammonia, when stored in quantities of 10,000 pounds or more, as a chemical of interest, which falls under the Risk for Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) regulations and guidance.[12] Organizations that store or transport more than the threshold quantity of 10,000 pounds, or believe they are at a higher than normal risk, should use the Chemical Security Assessment Tool.[13]
The Environmental Protection Agency has issued an additional safeguards document, with special emphasis on the theft of ammonia.[14]
- ↑ United States Geological Survey publication
- ↑ Gary Maxwell (2004). Synthetic Nitrogen Products: A Practical Guide to the Products and Processes, First Edition. Springer. ISBN 0-306-48225-8.
- ↑ Twygg, Martyn V. (1989). Catalyst Handbook, 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 1-874545-36-7.
- ↑ Samuel Strelzoff (1987). Technology and Manufacture of Ammonia. Krieger Publishing. ISBN 0-89464-250-2.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 John J. Mcketta (Editor) (1993). Chemical Processing Handbook, 1st Edition. CRC. ISBN 0-8247-8701-3.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 J.R. Jennings (Editor) (1991). Catalytic Ammonia Synthesis, First Edition. Springer. ISBN 0-306-43628-0.
- ↑ Sami Matar and Lewis F. Hatch (2001). Chemistry of Petrochemical Processes, Second Edition. Gulf Publishing. ISBN 0-8841-5315-0.
- ↑ NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards
- ↑ Risk Management Plan (from the website of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
- ↑ Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals (from the website of the U.S. Occupational Health & Safety Administration)
- ↑ CHEMTREC: the 24-hour HAZMAT Communications Center
- ↑ Federal Register (November 20, 2007) Part II, Department of Homeland Security, 6 CFR Part 27 Appendix to Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards; Final Rule
- ↑ Chemical Security Assessment Tool (From the website of the U.S. DHS
- ↑ Anhydrous Ammonia Theft (From the website of the U.S. EPA)
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