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Friday, June 13, 2014
Greenwich AeroGroup Signs Navicom for LiveAero Broadband System
Source: Greenwich AeroGroup
Greenwich AeroGroup continues to expand its dealer network domestically and internationally for the installation and certification of LiveAero Broadband SATCOM systems. The company recently signed Navicom Aviation, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan to its dealer network. Navicom is an avionics systems and flight-following solution provider to the Japanese market and is also a current dealer for Greenwich AeroGroup's DAC International.
LiveAero, developed by LiveTV of Melbourne, Fla., is a fixed wing and rotorcraft data broadband solution for passengers requiring smartphone, tablet or laptop connectivity. Based upon the Iridium OpenPort broadband technology, the system has Wi-Fi enabled, bi-directional data effective speed of up to 300 kbps through network built in optimization. The system also includes three separate voice lines for calls to be placed anywhere in the world. Connectivity is available in the air or on the ground.
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Increased risk of breast cancer associated with long-term shift work in Canada
- Anne Grundy1,
- Harriet Richardson1,
- Igor Burstyn2,
- Caroline Lohrisch3,
- Sandip K SenGupta4,
- Agnes S Lai3,
- Derrick Lee3,
- John J Spinelli3,5,
- Kristan J Aronson1
- 1Department of Public Health Sciences and Queen's Cancer Research Institute, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- 2Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- 3Department of Cancer Control Research, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- 4Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- 5School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Correspondence to Dr Kristan J Aronson, Division of Cancer Care and Epidemiology, Queen's Cancer Research Institute, 10 Stuart Street, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6; aronson{at}queensu.ca
- Received 5 March 2013
- Revised 6 May 2013
- Accepted 15 May 2013
- Published Online First 1 July 2013
Objectives Long-term night work has been suggested as a risk factor for breast cancer; however, additional studies with more comprehensive methods of exposure assessment to capture the diversity of shift patterns are needed. As well, few previous studies have considered the role of hormone receptor subtype.
Methods Relationships between night shift work and breast cancer were examined among 1134 breast cancer cases and 1179 controls, frequency-matched by age in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Kingston, Ontario. Self-reported lifetime occupational histories were assessed for night shift work, and hormone receptor status obtained from tumour pathology records.
Results With approximately one-third of cases and controls ever employed in night shift work, associations with duration demonstrated no relationship between either 0–14 or 15–29 years, while an association was apparent for ≥30 years (OR=2.21, 95% CI 1.14 to 4.31). This association with long-term night shift work is robust to alternative definitions of prolonged shift work, with similar results for both health and non-health care workers.
Conclusions Long-term night shift work in a diverse mix of occupations is associated with increased breast cancer risk and not limited to nurses, as in most previous studies.


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June 2006 Meeting Summary
Reno, Nevada
June 8, 2006
- The Board unanimously selected Jack Goldman to be the President of HPBA.
- Kirk Cleveland, Weber-Stephen Products Company, has resigned from the Board of HPBA, effective immediately. The Board voted unanimously to accept Mr. Cleveland's resignation and selected Tom Wenke of Weber-Stephen Products Company, by unanimous vote, to succeed Mr. Cleveland and complete the remainder of his term.
- The minutes of the March 7, 2006, Board meeting, the changes to the bylaws of the Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Education Foundation, and the Treasurer's Report were approved as submitted.
- The Budget and Finance Committee will meet in August to fully review the budget requests submitted by HPBA's committees; following the meeting, staff and committee chairs will be informed of the draft budget. When the draft budget is presented to the Board for approval at its November meeting, it will be accompanied by a narrative memo outlining major changes.
Expected Votes
- The Board approved, unanimously, a motion to provide exhibit space to patio furniture manufacturers at member exhibitor rates, for a period of five years.
- The Board unanimously approved a motion that HPBA file a position with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that existing natural gas tolerances, after mixing with liquefied natural gas, be maintained at current levels, and that FERC become active in supporting such a position.
Long-Range Policy Discussions
- The Board discussed the results of the Long-Range Planning Committee meeting, held in August 2005.
- Mr. Goldman, Ms. VanDermark, and Ms. Centra will develop a Business Continuity Plan in response to pandemics, terrorism, or other crises.
- The Board discussed whether to adopt measures to ensure that traffic remains robust in the indoor exhibit area at EXPO.
- Mr. Vukanovich reiterated that the affiliates and HPBA need to continue to share and communicate information and communicate; he also reported that affiliates were encouraged to develop strategic plans.
- The Board was told that the first meeting of the initial Member Success Club was a success.
- A retailer membership survey is about to be distributed via the web; the survey will get feedback on existing HPBA programs, and suggestions for new ones.
- With respect to the impact of increased Chinese manufacturing capacity, the Board recommended that HPBA examine the effect of counterfeit testing laboratory listings on the industry.
- Mr. Pugh reported that the Government Affairs Committee decided not to prepare a U.S.-nationwide policy on energy efficiency, but that one is appropriate for Canada.
- Mr. Belmont reported that the Barbecue Manufacturers Caucus is no longer active, but that members have become active in standing committees, such as Communications and Statistics; Mr. Goldman said that he would meet with major barbecue manufacturers to assess their needs.
- The Board endorsed expenditures in 2007 to promote wood stove changeout programs.
- EXPO: Salt Lake City had the highest attendance of any western trade show, and that sales for the 2007 EXPO in Reno are brisk.
- Government Affairs: Board members received an update on legislation affecting the industry from Allan Cagnoli, the new Senior Manager, Government Affairs; Mr. Pugh described the upcoming Government Affairs Academy, which is intended to help train a cadre of affiliate members on lobbying, testifying, media relations, and key issues affecting the industry.
- Communications: in response to the Long-Range Planning Committee recommendations, HPBA hired Carol Kaplan, Manager, Public and Media Relations, developed a strong relationship with HGTV and the Food Network, hired Strat@comm as the new public relations firm, and is redesigning the HPBA website.
- HPB Education Foundation: a job analysis survey on woodburning and gas appliance planning and installation knowledge is being circulated to the industry to ensure that the NFI Certification Program continues to follow national certification agency standards.
- Membership: membership is at an all-time high, a new business liability insurance program has been launched, and a retail membership survey is about to be distributed.
- Affiliate Leaders: the Committee reviewed 2005 financial results of most of the affiliates, using a standard form prepared by the Affiliate Board Committee; a similar exercise will be launched on member benefits; the first Member Success Club met in May in Nashville, and is off to a successful start.
- Affiliate Board Committee: the Committee reviewed most of the federal IRS 990 returns from the affiliates; the Committee is also examining what additional tools it could provide to the affiliates to fulfill the Committee's purpose.
- Statistics: results of the quarterly industry survey were distributed in May, top-of-the-line industry information was reported at EXPO, a new Internet-based consumer hearth survey is about to be distributed, and the manufacturers' rep quarterly survey results were distributed in May.
- Pellet Fuels Institute: the Institute is focusing efforts to obtain an appropriation for the Renewable Energy Security Act, is reviewing pellet fuel standards, and the annual meeting will be held in Keystone, Colorado.
- The Executive Committee approved a check signing policy that requires two signatures for all checks in excess of $2,000, as HPBA's bank no longer enforces the requirement.
- The Board approved an increase in the maximum reimbursement for travel to Board meetings by Board members and Committee chairmen from $500 to $750.
- Executive Committee & Board Meeting – Quebec City
- Executive Committee – 6:00pm – 9:00pm, Saturday, November 4
- Board of Directors – 9:00am – 5:00pm, Sunday, November 5


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so this meeting is to discuss submissions for the winter/ spring programme and not much else!
the november meeting will be to discuss the festival programme for 2010
a point to raise here though is that because of the problems with theft from the last show it would be good to get roller blinds for the doors so that the gallery can be closed on busy nights. this has been discussed so many times but i think that with the longer shows that we are now having it would be respectful to the artists to help them look after their shows. the staff in cafe don't have time to check the gallery every 5 minutes on busy nights and check there are no hoodlums in there! the reality is that we don;t have time to always be there and neither do the artists, nor do we have time to re-paint after every show and the walls and window seat get badly damaged and this would hopefully help cut down on wear and tear of the paint work as well.i am happy to look for some blinds and i am sure we can get some money for this if no-one objects.


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The Fragrances of L'Artisan Parfumeur
No discussion of L'Artisan would be complete without a look at the fragrances that put them on the map. Their approach to the creation of perfumes is often likened to contemporary art: challenging, deeply personal, and by necessity incorporating a great degree of freedom to express oneself. The house's perfumers – foremost of whom is Bertand Duchaufour who joined L'Artisan in 2008 – are all artists whose unique vision and approach bring different things to the table.
Undoubtedly, the most successful fragrance to come from L'Artisan is Mure et Musc. Created in 1978, this iconic scent pushed boundaries when it first came out as it made use of a then-unheard of combination of musk and blackberry. It is still one of the house's best selling perfumes, and an argument might even be made that it was singlehandedly responsible for the current popularity of blackberry-based scents in the beauty market today.
Another stellar innovation was 1994's Premier Figuier. This was the first known fig fragrance, and as if that was not unique enough, this scent takes into account the entire tree rather than focusing on the blossom or the fruit as is the usual practice. This perfume evokes the leaves, branches and fruit in a combination that is truly avant-garde.
The house is no stranger to bold marketing moves either – none of which involve commercials. One of the most celebrated of these was the release of the Mon Numero line in 2008. The almost-bespoke fragrances created for this line were withdrawn from the shelves immediately after a customer purchases a bottle so as to ensure exclusivity. Though 8 of the original rare scents were later sold as limited edition products, it is to be hoped that L'Artisan does something of this kind again.
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10/11/91 TO: Colleagues RE: Closing the Department of Linguistics at Minnesota Dear Colleagues, The Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Julia Davis, has recommended that the Department of Linguistics at the University of Minnesota be abolished because of the financial crisis that the University is currently in. The linguistics curriculum is to be totally eliminated. Thus, the undergraduate linguistics major would be eliminated, the graduate program would become nonexistant, and there would be no curriculum to train students in other programs (e.g. cognitive science, communication disorders, natural language processing in computer science, language teaching and education, etc.). There would be no long range plan to rebuild the Department. No new students will be admitted. Current students will have to seek financial support elsewhere at the University, complete their degrees without the Department or linguistics courses in place, finish their degree elsewhere, or abandon it altogether. If the current Department faculty remain at Minnesota, they would have to move individually to other departments and fit in with the teaching needs of those departments, even if it means "retooling". Linguistics as a discipline, will be eliminated from the curriculum. Whereas some courses in linguistics might be occasionally taught in other departments, there would be no future administrative support for teaching a coherent linguistics curriculum or for reconstituting linguistics outside of the current Departmental arrangement. At a meeting with a number of faculty this morning, Dean Davis projected that the immediate "savings" to the University would come from our loss of the supply budget, T.A. salaries, the secretary, and the Chair's augmentation. The largest part of the "savings" are expected to come from faculty attrition over the long run. The effectiveness of this plan therefore depends on the salaries of the present faculty eventually being "freed up". This proposal will be reviewed and voted upon by CLA committees beginning October 17th and ending on October 22nd. The Linguistics Department has been in existance at Minnesota for twenty-five years. We would like to enlist your support in making a strong case to the effect that it is not in the University's best interest to abolish either the Linguistics Department nor the linguistics curriculum and the undergraduate or graduate degrees at the University. Please send two copies of your message. One can go to Dean Julia Davis, College of Liberal Arts. The email address is BARDOUCHUMNACVX (bitnet), or BARDOUCHVX.ACS.UMN.EDU (internet). Please send a carbon copy of your letter to the Linguistics Department email address for our files: UMLINGUMNACUX (bitnet), or UMLINGUX.ACS.UMN.EDU. This is a matter of utmost urgency. The support of colleagues in linguistics and related disciplines will be crucial to the outcome of this proposal. We appreciate your support.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue


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by John MacArthur
God is sovereignly in control of all things. That fact alone ought to dispel much of our anxiety. And when we consider the Lord's fatherly care for His people, we see just how foolish, unnecessary, and impotent our worry truly is.
We've been looking at Christ's teaching in Matthew 6 on avoiding anxiety. We'll pick it up where we left off yesterday, with two more vivid examples of God's paternal care for us.
Worry Is Unable to Accomplish Anything Productive
In Matthew 6, Jesus gives us an extremely practical observation that highlights the folly of worry: "And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life?" (Matthew 6:27). Not only will you not lengthen your life by worrying, but you will probably shorten it. Charles Mayo, cofounder of the Mayo Clinic, made the observation that worry adversely affects the circulatory system, heart, glands, and the entire nervous system. In the medical journal American Mercury, Mayo said he never knew anyone who died of overwork, but he knew many who died of worry. You can worry yourself to death, but you'll never worry yourself into a longer life.
We live in a day when people are in a panic to lengthen their lives. They have an excessive interest in vitamins, health spas, miracle drugs, and exercise. God, however, has previously determined how long we will live. Job 14:5 says of man, "His days are determined, the number of his months is with You; and his limits You have set so that he cannot pass."
Does that mean we should disregard sensible advice about our diet and exercise? Of course not. It will increase the quality of our lives, but there's no guarantee about the quantity. When I exercise and eat right, my body and brain work better and I feel better all around. But I'm not going to kid myself that by jogging in the neighborhood every day and eating healthy, balanced meals that I'm going to force God to let me live longer.
To worry about how long you are going to live and how to add years onto your life is to distrust God. If you give Him your life and are obedient to Him, He will give you the fullness of your days. You will experience life to the fullest when you live it to the glory of God. No matter how long or short, it will be wonderful.
God Arrays Even the Meadows in Splendor
Jesus goes on in Matthew 6 to give us another illustration from nature on why we don't need to worry: "Why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin, yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith!" (Matthew 6:28-30).
For some people, the most important place in their whole world is the closet. Instead of being afraid they won't have anything to wear—a major concern in biblical times—these jaded individuals fear not being able to look their best! Lusting after costly clothes and idolizing one's own appearance is a common sin in our society.
Whenever I walk through a shopping mall, I am overwhelmed by how much stuff is hanging on the racks. I don't know how those stores can sustain their inventory. We have made a god out of fashion. We indulge in a spending spree to drape our bodies with things that have nothing to do with the beauty of character: "Your adornment must not be merely external—braiding the hair, and wearing gold jewelry, or putting on dresses; but let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God" (1 Peter 3:3-4).
If you want to talk about fancy clothing, though, Jesus tells us that the best this world has to offer doesn't even compare to "the lilies of the field" (Matthew 6:28). Look at the simplest flowers around you—there is a free and easy beauty about them. You can take the most glorious garment ever made for a great monarch like Solomon, put it under a microscope, and it will look like sackcloth. But if you likewise examine the petal of a flower, you could become lost in the wonder of what you would see. If you've ever taken a good look at a flower, you know there is texture, form, design, substance, and color that man with all his ingenuity cannot come close to duplicating.
So what's the point? That "if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you?" (Matthew 6:30). Wildflowers have a very short lifespan. People would gather dead batches of them as a cheap source of fuel for their portable cooking furnaces. A God who would lavish such beauty on temporary fire fodder certainly will provide the necessary clothing for His eternal children. An anonymous poem expresses this lesson simply:
Said the wildflower to the sparrow:"I should really like to knowWhy these anxious human beingsRush about and worry so."Said the sparrow to the wildflower:"Friend, I think that it must beThat they have no heavenly Father,Such as cares for you and me."
Said the wildflower to the sparrow:"I should really like to knowWhy these anxious human beingsRush about and worry so."Said the sparrow to the wildflower:"Friend, I think that it must beThat they have no heavenly Father,Such as cares for you and me."
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Thank you John! The Word of God gives us so much truth and wisdom. God assures us through His Word that He will never leave nor forsake us! We need to believe that, and not be concerned about the trends and the wisdom this world gives. Thank you LORD!!!
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Thanks Pastor MacArthur! I'm so blessed to be raised by godly
parents, who always are concerned about my spiritual growth and well being! And to constantly have Pastor MacArthur's sermons,blogs,books, and articles over me!
Thanks GTY!!!
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How beautiful this truth is. Not one day passes that I'm not reminded of this truth spoken by our Savior. My two-year-old daughter has to have open-heart surgery in four months, and in two weeks she has to have two surgeries to correct her GI tract. If that wasn't enough, our sink broke last week and flooded our wood floors. If that wasn't enough, my family of five all got the flu. Simply, I'm not worried. Of course I would rather not be going through all this, but God always works things for the good for those who love Him. All of this means nothing as I look ahead to the promises of seeing Jesus face to face when He will wipe away every tear. I love this life God has blessed me with. I wouldn't change any of it. As Martin Luther once said, "We see God more on our knees than on toes." Thank you for the beautiful reminder that we are cared for by an all loving, all knowing, and all powerful God.
How refreshing it is when saints give thanks!
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In short: Amazing views on quiet country lanesIn full: Slick, slick, slick organisation. Starts in Basingstoke town centre but quickly leaves for stunning running in glorious (but hilly) countryside.A super race all roundDate of review: October 8, 2013
In short: Explore the Basingstoke Alps on this rural hilly adventure.In full: Slick organisation from Filicity, Nina and the Team. Super facilities at the race start, no waiting for toilets, fast bag drop, great catering, super marshalls and well supported by enthusiastic locals, what more could you ask for. Dispel all thoughts of the usual tedious town centre half going through boring streets, this race quickly gets onto lovely (closed) country lanes for a hilly adventure. This is my fav local race and its a real credit to the Destination Basingstoke team. Very proud of you all.Thanks a millionJason BurkeChineham Park Running ClubDate of review: October 8, 2012
In short: The basinstoke alps provided a wonderfull challenging raceIn full: Very well organised event, its hard to believe its the first on. Very proud that the locals all came out to cheer us runners on in the searing heat. Course was challenging but very scenic, some very big hills to negotiate. A well organised, well supported event, well done!...Date of review: October 4, 2011
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Gnocchi Nicoise
- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- 4 ounces bacon, diced
- 4 cloves garlic, smashed
- 1/2 pound coarsely ground beef (look for "chili grind")
- 2 tablespoons brandy or red wine
- 3 shallots, chopped
- 1 cup diced carrots
- 1 stalk celery, sliced
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
- 1 15 -ounce can plum tomatoes
- 1 cup low-sodium chicken broth
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 1 -inch strips orange peel
- 2/3 cup nicoise olives, pitted and chopped
- 1 package (about 1 pound) vacuum-packed gnocchi
Heat the oil in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Add the bacon and garlic; cook until the bacon starts to brown, about 4 minutes. Add the ground beef; cook, stirring, 3 minutes. Add the brandy, shallots, carrots, celery and tomato paste; cook until the vegetables soften, about 4 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
Crush the tomatoes into the pan with your hands and add any juices from the can. Stir in the broth, bay leaf, orange peel and olives. Bring to a simmer and lower the heat; cover and cook 20 minutes. Uncover, increase the heat and bring to a boil to thicken the sauce.
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil the gnocchi until one floats to the top, about 1 minute. Drain immediately to prevent the gnocchi from becoming mushy. Remove the orange peel and bay leaf from the sauce and season with salt and pepper. Toss the gnocchi with the sauce.
Photograph by Antonis Achilleos
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Can a Verizon iPad Mini be used on Sprint by swaping the nano-SIM card?
I ask this because the iPad Mini for Verizon and Sprint have the same exact model # (Model A1455) for LTE bands 13 and 25. Also, the 9.7 inch iPads use nano-SIM cards for LTE access.
Are the nano-SIM cards on the Wifi+Cellular iPad Mini removable? If so, does this mean that I can swap out the Verizon card for a Sprint card? I have contacted Apple customer support and they were not sure of the answer. But they did say that because the Verizon iPad uses a nano-SIM card for LTE access that it would not require providing the carrier with the ESN of the device to verify if the device was purchased for their network.
I am a Sprint customer but they have no plans to deploy LTE coverage in my area any time soon. There is only Verizon in my area. So I want to know if it is possible to switch to Sprint LTE on the same device if all I need is a Sprint nano-SIM card.
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Skip to comments.Euro destroying EU, and Germany should save it: Soros
Posted on 10/15/2012 8:12:00 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The European Union could be destroyed by the "nightmare" euro crisis, and Germany needs to take the responsibility to save the common currency, billionaire fund manager George Soros said on Monday
Soros, who made his mark as an investor on a big bet against the British pound in 1992, said the other alternative is for Germanythe eurozone's biggest economyto simply leave the 17-member currency bloc.
Germany should act as the leader of the union in the same that the United States did for the free world after World War Two, Soros said at a luncheon hosted by the National Association for Business Economics.
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Deutschland uber alles!
Scary about Soros...ao many of the people who complain about him...follow his economic advice...especially on Free Trade and Globalism
Germany needs to get out of the EU, dump the Euro, and start putting tariffs on non-competitive trading partners. If Germany truly wants to lead Europe and the EU...this is what to do
Soros and Free Trade Globalists will not agree with this...but their era is passing.
The first nation to dump Globalism, Regionalism, and Free Trade, will be the first nation to truly rebound economically.
Isn't there a nation or five we could extradite this guy to?
Let S0r0$ save it.
Germany isn't going to "get out of" something it invented. The whole shebang, the EU itself, the euro currency, is that country writ large over the other member states. There's a reason why the "social market economy" is written into the treaties. The euro itself is patterned after the Deutsche mark. (There's also a reason why the European Central Bank is on German soil.)
Seems like people don't realize that Germany is not like the USA; it is not a free market, but a social market. German economists are quite hostile to the free market, which they call the "Anglo-Saxon capitalist market", and would like to see it gone. Whether the EU remains the vehicle to achieve that or it happens via another medium, it'll be their plan being executed.
Who wouldn't welcome him with open arms?
We should petition Romney when he's in the White House to have Soros arrested for economic terrorism and extradited to Russia. Putin would have him breaking rocks in the gulag where he belongs.
He's likely asking Germany to save him. It's my understanding that bet big on the Euro and will probably lose billions if it goes under.
If I was Merkel I would walk.
So George Soros is short the Euro....
He has all that money he made from destroying other currencies.
After expanding Germany's hegemony that much?
Most Europeans, including the Germans themselves, have a somewhat unfortunate recollection of German hegemony, even of the supposedly benevolent sort. And if we are to be persuaded that benevolent hegemony is an arrogant posture for the United States to take - persuaded by Soros himself - why on earth would the Germans step into that thankless, expensive, and ultimately futile role?
It certainly wouldn't be in pursuit of any Thousand Year Reich, however newly packaged by Mr. Soros. If the EU is to stand or fall by virtue of a single member state then the Germans may find that they needn't claim hegemony, it will claim them.
Soros forgot to turn in his Dmarks and they are now worthless.
He wants to correct his blunder.
If I was Angela Merkel, I'd let the Euro and the EU die a painful death, then Germany can do as it chooses. It will be tough, but Germany will be the undisputed big dog along with Great Britain and they can dismiss the PIIGS and other beggars in the EU and, SCREW BRUSSELS! Then, toss all the ragheads off European property.
Unlikely. Right now, the only government in Europe with the balls to actually kick the ragheads out is the Greek one (what have they got left to lose?). Getting rid of the EU is only the beginning. You then have to dethrone all of the multicult nutjobs. Look at Norway. Not in the EU, but still a haven for parasites. These people should be rounded up on treason charges.
That's not the outlook in Germany. Such an alliance with Britain would be distasteful to social marketeers.
I am sure he is invested in it.
Let it go, people, let it go
At various times, two nations wanted him. Britain, and Malaysia, or another Asian nation. He screwed with their currencies. As I understand it, he did it with other nations too. Seems I read that he was wanted in two to four nations on currency manipulation. Perhaps those were settled years ago. Perhaps not. I'd sure like to find out and send him on vacation to the one with the stiffest laws.
We share the same thoughts on this guy.
>>At various times, two nations wanted him. Britain, and Malaysia, or another Asian nation
Also Thailand.
If we were able to extradite the bastard, a twenty year sentence would pretty well get him out of our hair. They could demand all his financial holdings to recompense his transgressions there.
That'll put a dent in the Left's piggy bank.
Then, if we could take down the EPA, they'd be hard pressed to pay for a lot of things that come easy these days.
Soros has an angle. Soros always has an angle.
He laid out two options as the only options. Therefore, there is a third option, and that's the way to go.
...Whatever it is.
I'm so confused... ;^)
The very last thing Germany wants or needs is advice from the likes of soroz.
Maybe I should clarify. Thailand doesn't 'want' him in the sense they issued an arrest warrant for him. But they call him the devil. I think if some people here got their hands on him he'd wish they did issue a warrant!
I understand. Sounds like they've got his number also.
Germany isnt going to get out of something it invented. The whole shebang, the EU itself, the euro currency, is that country writ large over the other member states. Theres a reason why the social market economy is written into the treaties. The euro itself is patterned after the Deutsche mark. (Theres also a reason why the European Central Bank is on German soil.)
Seems like people dont realize that Germany is not like the USA; it is not a free market, but a social market. German economists are quite hostile to the free market, which they call the Anglo-Saxon capitalist market, and would like to see it gone. Whether the EU remains the vehicle to achieve that or it happens via another medium, itll be their plan being executed.
Interesting analysis. Thanks
Seems Germany has two choices: Control the EU by staying in it. Control the EU by getting out of it. The latter will be better for them in the long run
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When I was a college freshman, I took a class called Moral Philosophy. The thrust of the class boiled down to how one can live a fulfilled life and what actions produce the greater good. Although I believe the torture issue is overblown in the extreme, is still remains that three men were waterboarded. Given that our terrorist foes with which we are contending are committed to acts of viciousness and violence never before witnessed (chemical, biological, nuclear, acts that are literally inconceivable to the civilized mind)), I am not troubled by the actions that this country engaged in to obtain information from the three high value prisoners of whom had already committed great atrocities and were committed to more of the same. To me it boiled down to what produced the greater good. The alternative is to hold to our ideals and perhaps let thousands, even millions be subject to great cruelty or death. Just a few weeks ago, President Obama or dered missiles fired into some Afghan villages to kill some terrorists there. We also killed a number of women and children. They were not tortured, but they are graveyard dead. Obama seems unperturbed by this turn of events. I suppose he felt that this is the collateral damage of war, and he seems ok with that. I might add that the three terrorists we waterboarded are still alive. This presents an interesting contradiction of realities. By definition, Obama, by extension, killed innocent people. Meanwhile, Obama rails at the Bush administration for the "torture" because it fits his definition and provides a current political advantage. Those three men are still alive and may live for many years yet to come. And, many of us may be alive today because of what was done. I am not advocating torture as a matter of course. But, in war, ideals can be abused. War is a bad business. However, I still believe with a clear conscience that there are times when we have to consider the gre ater good, Monday morning quarterbacking and demagoguery will offer no valuable solution to this issue.
Let's dispel two myths about torture.
1)The objective of torture is not getting "Information".
The objective of torture is getting compliance,
to get the victim to do or say what the torturer demands.
2) The method of torture is not the infliction of pain, but the infliction of fear.
The torture doesn't have to touch the victim, or be in the same room, or even the same continent.
Torture can be done by threatening the victim's spouse, parents, children, friends, or property.
Torture is not wrong simply because it's against the Geneva Convention, or un-Christian, or un-American.
It is wrong because it is unethical, immoral, and simply against our long term interest. It is counterproductive.
Even if our opponent is inhumane, we can not win if we drop to his level.
Some claim that is better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion, and much easier.
I was not going to listen to today's program on torture because I was fearful it would get into the graphic description. However, I did keep my radio on and what I heard was more chilling than the feared descriptions of inflicted atrocities. Prof. Rejali's historical look at where certain dehumanizing practices originated shows that the blame for torture is not able to be placed on 'those people' or 'over there.' All civilizations share culpability. And his reference to the Stanford experiment, which I heard about a number of years ago should make us squirm as we wonder what we would do in a similar situation.
A very important part of my classrooms over my 36 years of teaching was helping kids who were bullied-sometimes by teachers!- and those who bullied. I worked hard to build a safe environment built on empathy-giving a voice to those who were bullied and a listening ear to the bullies.
I would suggest that empathy played a huge role in those students who did not listen to the directions to increase the 'electricity' in the Stanford experiment and in those people within the govenment agencies who quit their jobs or were the whistle blowers. Those people probably also had at least one person in their lives who supported their empathetic belief system.
A final thought about why church goers spiked higher in favor of torture. I think it could have something to do with the mainline churches paternalistic view of god. I grew up in a conservative Lutheran Synod and later joined an Episcopalian church. When I attended my uncle's funeral back in a Lutheran church, I was struck by the strong paternalistic, militaristic language in the confession and in the hymns that I clearly saw then but had been blithely parroting and singing well into my 20's. Perhaps religions that truly preached an integrative maternal/paternal view of god would result in fewer people inflicting pain on members of God's family.
I loved this in-depth look at the issues surrounding an extremely difficult topic, that most people are incapable of intelligently discussing or even facing at all. The one issue I have never heard raised, outside of Naomi Klein's work, is essential: that torture works. We know that it doesn't work to extract reliable "intelligence", and that the "ticking time bomb" scenario never actually occurs in real life. I mean that it works for it's intended purpose: terrorizing domestic populations, to increase the amount of fear, and thus prevent communal political action. The elite in every society know something simple: they can only rule in the manner they do because the bulk of the population complies with their rule voluntarily. I mean "voluntary" in the sense that most accept as normal to work punishing hours to pay for taxes, rents, and debt. These expenses have nothing to do with human survival on Earth, which is about clean food, clean water, shelter, and community. They are about enriching a tiny, non-productive, completely parasitic class. If the bulk of the people say, in America, suddenly realized the intensity of their voluntary slavery, they would rise up and quickly massacre the tiny elite making the money from their slavery. Nothing quite like the fear that your government can quickly disappear you and torture you to death to effectively prevent this kind of organizing. This is why the Abu Ghraib photos were released at all. It was to frighten the American sheeple into even greater submission.
Thanks for the most comprehensive report on torture that I've seen so far. The following quote may be of interest:
St. Augustine on Torture
Over 1,500 years ago Augustine of Hippo reflected on the practice of torture – a topic in the public conversation today.
City of God, St. Augustine, 426 AD
(English translation, Gerald G. Walsh, S.J., Demetrius B. Zema, S.J., Grace Monahan, O.S.U., Daniel J. Honan)
Book XIX, Chapter 6
"Even when a city is enjoying the profoundest peace, some men must be sitting in judgment on their fellow men. Even at their best, what misery and grief they cause! No human judge can read the conscience of the man before him. That is why so many innocent witnesses are tortured to find what truth there is in the alleged guilt of other men. It is even worse when the accused man himself is tortured to find out if he be guilty. Here a man still unconvicted must undergo certain suffering for an uncertain crime – not because his guilt is known, but because his innocence is unproved. Thus it often happens that the ignorance of the judge turns into tragedy for the innocent party. There is something still more insufferable – deplorable beyond all cleansing with our tears. Often enough, when a judge tries to avoid putting a man to death whose innocence is not manifest, he has him put to torture, and so it happens, because of woeful lack of evidence, that he both tortures and kills the blameless man whom he tortured lest he kill him without cause. And if, on Stoic principles, the innocent man chooses to escape from life rather than endure such tortures any longer, he will confess to a crime he never committed." St. Augustine
When the Abu Ghraib tortures were revealed, I wrote a Letter to the Editor and sent it off. It was not published. It is still pertinent.
Here it is:
I love my brothers and sisters in Iraq. But right now, I am too angry to be polite or pull punches.
During the attack, Secretary Rumsfeld had our forces move faster, and hit harder.
That's what I want now of the President, the Pentagon, and the American authorities in Iraq. I am not speaking of tactics. I am speaking of justice. I am speaking of the rebuilding of honor and what will be a very long, very painful labor of restoring our reputation in the world.
I know we are not all like that. I know that our young men and women weren't raised to act that way! It is not necessary to make that excuse, and it is shameful that anyone should try. None of us should be like that. What our soldiers did to prisoners in their care in Iraq cannot be excused as an aberration. It can only be mercilessly rooted out.
First, the military unit running our prison there must immediately be replaced. It should be publicly disbanded, and its colors burned. Its leaders should all be relieved and segregated. It would not be too much to arrest them all, pending investigation. Those implicated in the criminal mistreatment of prisoners of war must be charged with war crimes, and those we have offended, yes, even the insurgents we are fighting, must be allowed to take part in the investigation and prosecution of the war criminals involved.
Our repentance must be public and dramatic. As a first step, those convicted of "mere" abuse might be imprisoned in Iraq, not in the USA. They might be publicly cashiered, in the old, ceremonial manner, with ranks, decorations and even military buttons ripped off. Then those convicted of causing the death of prisoners might be executed by firing squad, in Iraq, where Iraqis, Arabs and the whole world can see. And if it HURTS; well, that is part of repentance. Our shame can only be expiated by pain, by remorse, and by reformation.
Because "We aren't like that!" doesn't stop us from becoming like that. We have been getting "that way" for a long time. Self discipline, duty, a common moral body, these have been eroding longer than many of those soldiers have lived. The fanatics who fight us, many of them, see our freedom and moral laxity as what they fight. They see us leading the whole world to abandon morality, manners, and virtue. And so do many of our friends.
Many will not agree, but I think it might be a good idea if the President were to call for a day of public prayer and repentance. We need to move faster, and hit harder. There's an enemy waiting to destroy us, just inside the mirror.
Cortland E. Richmond,
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As I say, it was not published.
I, along with colleagues at the law firm from which I recently retired, represent three Guantanamo detainees in a habeas corpus action. My wife and I try to listen each week to "Speaking of Faith" as we find that it generally bridges the Intellect/faith divide for us with provocative topics. But tonight's penetrating discussion with Darius Rejali on torture, its history and repercussions, had particular resonance. I never thought I would live to see the day when torture was the subject of rational debate much less national policy in this country. In the midst of a media fueled, Cheney centered debate on the "efficacy" of torture, Mr. Rejali and Ms. Trippett brings this issue back to its essential moral, human roots. This program should be required listening for all Americans.
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Excellent program yesterday on torture. I am an infant-parent therapist working in the field of Infant Mental Health where there has been a great deal of research done on the attachment relationship between babies/toddlers and their mothers (or primary caregivers). It is my understanding that most children are securely attached but many fall into the category of avoidant/dismissive attachment. These types are able to function normally in society but have much less empathy for others (hence the importance of the work IMH therapists do). I have often wondered with others in the field if people capable of torture who certainly don't present like "the devil personified" or a sociopath would have had and still have avoidant attchment style relationships (since the early relationship with Mom greatly determines future capacity for relationships). The example you gave on the show of the man who would go no further with the study until the conditio n of the victim was investigated (can't remember the name of the study) suggests to me that further research on the relationship between attachment style and people capable of torture would be interesting. Thanks for your good work.
It strikes me as such an "academic" discussion to explore this topic focusing on such an "objective" analysis. Your carefully measured questions (& answers) sound as clinical as the legal reasoning of the torture memos. You are so much more concerned with understanding the "implications" for society, & "democracy", I suppose that is your justification for this "soul-searching" exploration. Of course, that's a luxury that you can afford, having not been a victim of such state-supported "enhanced policies".
Forgiveness is a great idea, HOWEVER .....
It seems to me that forgiveness has significant implications with regard to the prosecution of individuals charged with war crimes at the Hague. Specifically, how can the United States, in good conscience, support the prosecution of such individuals if we are going to start from the point that prominent figures in the U.S. should be let go scot free even BEFORE a determination has been made whether or not their actions constituted war crimes?
I appreciate your program.
Dan Brown
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Letter to Darius Rejali and Krista Tippett
I listened to your discussion with Krista Tippett today with great interest. I haven't had time yet to hear the whole inerview. It is 9 AM Sunday morning. To get to the point.
In 1990 I organized an exhibition here in Atlanta of art by artist friends who I knrw to be the children of alcoholic parents - like myself. Looking at the works on the gallery wall I quickly saw what we all had in common, or, rather, the colors, symbols and general themes and compositions. Two years later we had a second show, this time including anyone who felt they had suffered childhood abuse of any kind. The numner jumped from twenty or so participants in the Children of Alcoholism show to seventy-five.
I spent the next year collecting the "icons of abuse", which eventually included those from not only the history of art but from literature, science and music.
Torture, of course, looms large among the several hundred entries as a metaphor of child abuse, along with War, Contortion, and more abstract concepts like Cones, Wedges and the Electris Light Bulb. To check the backgrounds of inventors such as Edison I read a lot of biographies. Edison is famous for claiming that without the physical abuse he got from his parents he wouldn't have ever invented the tnings he did.
If you are interested in this topic or find it related to your own investigations I would be glad to send you a CD facsimile of the book called "The Iconography of Abuse".
There is also an article I wrote for the MIT's Leonardo-Journal of Art, Sciens and Technology , Vol 28 Nr 1 1995, on this subject .
A performance at the original exhibition, Children of Alcoholism, os at
Here is a related poem by my late wife
Metaphors are dangerous
they take over
and start to lead
their own lives.
You sink, but the Titanic
keeps creating panic.
She will never get to the shore,
the ghost ship the metaphor.
I am a footless urn
filled with oil. blood or wine.
How artistic I am!
How fine!
I turn, I pour
the liquid my metaphor.
The metaphor is a danger
It walks - the lost staranger
into your bed and path,
cleanses itself in your bath,
starts a war
to defend a metaphor.
A wife turning into a whore
What for?
She is merely a metaphor.
You can buy it in any store.
Not him, not you or she!
But the metaphor is me.
Wrapped in smoke
Head under hood
it is not a joke
Barely understood
Stripes, bars, cross, hammer
or dragon -
it sails with any old flag on.
Ronnog Seaberg
3-27 1998
Steve Seaberg
"Steve, we believe in/food, sex and joy./We are hard to employ." from Egg Poems by Ronnog Seaberg 1995
Thank you for your discussion of torture and the many long-term, sometime hidden effects. This is an important discussion that we need to have, but could easily ignore.
I wanted to congratulate you on your program discussing the moral and social implications of the use of torture by a democratic society. I was especially pleased that you pointed out the need to pay increased attention to moral resisters, like the one you highlighted from the Milgram study. When I teach (at the University of Minnesota) about the causes of human rights violations, I talk about Milgram's conclusions regarding our "predisposition to obey authority," but I also emphasize the important role of the dissenter in his study. When an actor voiced opposition to using the electric shock it significantly changed the outcomes, empowering the subjects in the study to resist the pressure of the supervisors as well. The role of civil society, including human rights activists and NGOs, is to point out the moral risks of torture so that our democratic societies are empowered to refuse to accept immoral practices carried out in our name.
Thanks for your attention to this important issue.
Considering how long certain people of faith have been working in the area of accompanying survivors of torture, I was surprised at your choice of guest. When survivors are brave enough to share their stories, hearing them is an experience one never forgets. This program was an opportunity for this type of transformative experience.
I suggest you consider learning about Claude-Marie Barbour who has been teaching seminarians at CTU how to accompany survivors of torture. These classes are graced by visits from actual survivors. Claude-Marie is herself a survivor.
Another person to consider is Dr. Mary Fabri, Senior Director, Torture Treatment Services and International Training at the Kovler Center.
Perhaps if people of good will were more exposed to the destructive personal consequences of trauma on the rest of a person's life, they would be more motivated to clearly end our nation's involvement in torture. Your program affords such an opportunity.
If you are going to reflect on "torture" why do you never talk about torture techniques? From reading your sanitized descriptions, most people would have the impression that torture consists of "scaring people" and making them "uncomfortable."
Wikipedia provides a starter list:
"Waterboarding" is child's play in the torture business.
We live in a sometimes very cruel world. I'm sure that nations that use these methods don't have difficulty getting volunteers to do these things.
The question that lingers in my mind after hearing the show is: why do we (USA) as a society show by our actions and by what we are willing to tolerate that we do, in fact, condone torture, even though Darius Rejali quotes a poll saying that the majority of US citizens don't approve of it?
My own answer: because we, as a society, support those values of which torture is a natural consequence.
My entire life (almost 60 years), the US has treated anything that wasn't under the control of the US government as a threat. Every war the US has fought in my memory, starting with the Vietnam war, has been about making sure that this or that country did things the way we wanted. In my view, what really traumatized people in the US about the September 11 attacks was not the loss of life (which was less than one year of auto accidents), but the attack on our sense of inviolability: that sense that we were in control enough that nobody could do anything to us.
In my view, torture is really an attempt on the part of the torturer to feel in control of whatever fear it is that the victim represents. That's why torture is such a common "solution" in so many movies and TV shows. If you feel that being in control of all threats, real or imagined, is more important that moral qualms (which is the prevailing view in public life in the US), then it's hard to really put your foot down about what is really just a more extreme form of keeping control.
What Rejali says echoes Robert Jay Lifton's writing on "atrocity-producing situations." Torture doesn't just affect society down the road, but changes those involved immediately. Performing a behavior for the first time creates a new circuit in one's brain, and repeating the behavior reinforces the circuit, so that it's more easily activated in the future. When we torture we start to become torturers, not just in a tautological but in a neural sense.
"torture and its perceived rightness -- which may be distinct from its morality "
What then is morality? And why was the question of support for torture among the religious elements in the United States so readily dismissed? There was a time in this country when moral-political issues were discussed (after the atomic bombing of Japan for example). Now however the vast religious community ignores the moral question of torture while spending altogether to much breath condemning the immorality of the secular community.
Sadly "On being" seems to be no exception.
Tonight's show is about torture. I object to your using the propaganda term "simulated drowning" for water-boarding. That's like calling a firing squad "simulated shooting" if the squad was told to aim for the extremities. Water-boarding isn't "simulated" anything. It is DROWNING. It is just CONTROLLED drowning, and that's how it should be defined: "controlled drowning."
Ms. Tippett,
I recently moved to Iowa and discovered your program on Iowa Public Radio. I've been listening to it for the past month or so, and have become an enormous fan.
In particular, the program I heard today on torture was stunningly well done. Your guests are compelling, the shows are captivating, and you are a consistently intelligent and astute interviewer.
Well done, indeed! I'm happy to have discovered your excellent work.
Mike Huberty
Dear Krista,
Thanks for the interview with Darius Rejali. You, and he, might like my songs, "The War of the Wild Goose" and "We Had the Will, We Found the Way". These are both on the web (for free streaming) at XB Cold Fingers, xbcoldfingers.com.
In "The War of the Wild Goose", The "Decider" speaks - and told me to take down the "Listen" link. So I did on account I don't want to go "hunting" with Vice. But then I remembered that they're out of office.
"We Had the Will, We Found the Way", with thanks to Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Kennedy, looks at who we were and asks who we have become. Asks how did we go from the New Deal, the Four Freedoms, and the Space Program to Katrina and Iraq?
You and Darius may argue that my songs discuss the mythical America, and your interview discusses the real America.
"Wild Goose" discusses the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and concludes:
I fooled 'em for a long time With tales of guns and terror
Ignored real threats and placed my bets error after error.
I fooled 'em for a long time and some are still confused
Others call to bring to justice for power much abused.
And It's Butcher of Baghdad or bust
We'll hang freedom if we must
We'll hang freedom on the noose
Of the war of the Wild Goose
Scowling Richard Faint-Heart and Condi Rice the Fool
Lead Squinting George The Yale Man with Ice Cold Rove The Jewel.
They must be brought to justice. No one's above the law.
Torture is illegal and not what we stand for.
Larry "XB Cold Fingers" Furman
This week's program about torture, with a reference to the Stanley Milgram experiment that had subjects believing they were torturing people with high-voltage electric shocks, included the actual audio clip of one subject refusing to go along, even though he was repeatedly and strongly pressured to continue administering the shocks. Somehow that audio clip, the man's steadfast refusal to submit to "authority" and do something he felt and knew was wrong, is relevant to today's political environment. I think there is something afoot that would tend to diminish one person's ability to care about another person's suffering, and it is a bad turn of events. Parallel to that, I see religious iconography, it looks to me as though there is a mob, manipulated by the richest and most self-serving, demanding the political crucifixion of Barack Obama, out of sheer meanness.
"Painfully Informative" -:). As a freelance reporter/writer/researcher, this interview & other programs are thoughtful and provacative. As a "Recover Catholic", Episcopalian, slightly Buddist, there is a fine line between corporal punishment a child experiences & systemically applied torture. The nun who ruled with a crickett clicker, a police whistle and a one foot ruler i recall while playing Bach, or a misspelled word- pain is the only teacher!
Wow! Thank heavens for daylight savings time! I turned on NPR this morning expecting Weekend Edition and there you were, talking about torture. What a wonderful program! I had no idea NPR did important stuff like that, in fact I had started calling them "Nolonger Public Radio". I just want to congratulate you so much, that there is still a spark of reality and morality that we can hear in national media, thank you so much for what you are doing. I'm sure I'm not alone in believing that you are providing an important thread for the United States to hold on to the wonderful parts of our history and our being. Very sincerely! John Strauss
I really enjoy your show, which (unfortunately) here in CT, airs Sunday mornings at 7am on WNPR. My only complaint is that it's so early (for me), that I'm usually half asleep listening to it. (Smile)
Anyway, the show I heard this Sunday morning (11/7/10) talked about torture. At one point, it touched on how (conservative/fundamentalist) church-going Christians were most inclined to rationalize or accept the use of torture by the US Government. That really got my attention.
I think you could do an entire show based on the way - in my humble opinion - conservative politicians disingenuously exploit so-called Christian values to their advantage ... to promote people's support for their political agenda.
I first began to think about this when I heard Ronald Regan talking about the old USSR. At one point, he referred to the USSR as the "Evil Empire". It struck me that he used that phrase in a very calculated way: He intended to frame the debate on how to deal with the "USSR Problem" in terms of a fundamentalist religious dichotomy: that of Good and Evil.
That perspective is one that most every working class, fundamentalist/conservative church-going citizen from Middle America could relate to. And it frames the debate into a basic choice: We, as God's chosen people have a religious duty to fight the Godless Soviets. Onward Christian Soldiers.
Over the years, I believe that approach has been perfected and continues to be exploited to this day. Witness how Islam and all Muslims are demonized and used to spread fear amongst the average citizens as a way of justifying a never-ending War on Terrorism that is hugely expensive in terms of both money and bloodshed.
It seems this approach has a much greater appeal to such people than if these politicians were to come right out and say,
"Would you please support us in training and deploying your husbands/wives, sons/daughters and/or brothers/sisters to kill Godless/Heathen foreigners who live in a foreign country with tremendous natural resources (like oil!) that our corporate handlers covet dearly? And even if they do kill people (in direct contradiction of the 10 Commandments), this is Manifest Destiny, after all. And even if your loved one is killed, you'll be comforted knowing that s/he died patriotically doing God's Will to support this great Christian Country of ours ... and s/he will, of course, be buried in Arlington National Cemetery."
OK. A little sarcastic, I realize. And I appreciate this might well be too politically controversial, even for NPR or wherever. But I am sincere in my belief that this bastardized marriage of religion and politics is immoral, reducing Christianity (for that matter, all Religion in America) to the status of hand-maiden to politics ... and reducing our once-proud military to the status of Mercenaries.
It's not for nothing, IMHO, that the US Government grants churches and other places of worship Tax-Exempt status: Can you imagine what would have happened during, say, the Vietnam War, if the Pope had gone public with his plea to "stop the killing in this immoral war? Remember the 10 Commandments? Killing is immoral, even if ordered by your government!"
Half the guys fighting over there were from the lower-class and Christian, if not Catholic. The war would have come to an end even sooner than it did. And the reason the vast majority (like, what?, 99%) of Priests, Pastors and Rabbis did not make such a plea is because the US Government would have revoked their tax-exempt status. A very effective way of preventing any serious, religious institutional resistance to the immorality of the wars that politicians launch to benefit their corporate masters.
Well, I'm rambling (Smile). I'll let it go at that. Hope you'll consider doing a show along those lines. However, if you don't, I'll understand .. and I'll keep listening to your show. (Smile)
Take care, Richard Bowen
PS If you're interested in looking at how this use of Religion by Government and the Special Interests behind government policy has a history going back centuries, watch the Robert DeNiro movie, "The Mission". Shows how government, even 100s of years ago, used the Church to their ends ... supporting the Church in sending in Missionaries who proselytized for a Christian God, breaking down the cultural underpinnings of the native society by destroying their religious mores/spiritual mythology ... making them easier to conquer and control ... and ultimately exploit their natural resources for the State and its backers.
The question may be misleading as it has been framed because it appears to separate the political from the moral and ethical dimensions of torture. The discussion, in as much as it was addressed by Ms Tippet and Mr. Rejali, pertains almost entirely to political torture, and in my opinion if torture is political it is definitionally immoral.
There are, however, perfectly moral, ethical and even fruitful uses for torture qua torture, if we can agree that torture is the deliberate infliction of pain by one person empowered to do so on another person.
Torture in a political context emerges fundamentally out of disagreement, meaning there's a lack of ascent by one person to another's position. In order to come to agreement various morally tenable conventions abound, such as debate, polling, drawing straws, etc. What makes these options moral is that the participants consent first to the ground rules for determining the contest, which is what I believe Mr. Rejali might call the "public trust". What makes torture political is precisely this lack of consent, this violation of trust.
In instances where one person inflicts suffering on another who has consented to the experience reasonable people may disagree about whether this constitutes torture, but the suffering is no less genuine and may in fact be more effective with respect to desired results. Certainly many athletic contests entail the deliberate infliction of pain - take boxing as a ready example. But just as certainly there are people of sound mind and strong body who employ physical suffering in its sensual mode, and many more who do so as a means of spiritual discipline. Common to all these varieties of intentional suffering is trust - a boxer does not think that his opponent intends him no harm, but he does have faith that the limits of the harm have been agreed upon and will be honored. Violation of that trust generally means forfeit of the game.
The fallacy of political torture is not merely that the results are demonstrably unreliable; it includes the conceit that torture's "rightness" is determined by its utility - if the torture of the prisoner prevented the bombing of the orphanage then it could be said to be ethical. Indeed no orphanages may be lost in this calculation, but the integrity of the public trust, and in the case of the US, the consent of the governed, has been devastatingly debased. Absent the integrating effects of consent, government by, for and of the people is as hollow a construct as any of the failed experiments preceding it. Just because we are now clever enough to to avoid the referee's notice does not mean nothing is forfeit; cancer can be just as lethal as a knife attack. The former is a lot harder to see coming, but that doesn't make it worth having for a crack at avoiding the latter.
It's unfortunate that we get caught up in the more media-genic details of how what was done to whom (it's easy to find how-to videos on waterboarding), rather than who we become and what we lose when we abide political torture.
Just letting you know that
Just letting you know that the unedited interview ends after 50 minutes even though it's 1:45 minute interview. Hope it can be restored as it is a wonderful interview.
Thanks for letting us know
Thanks for letting us know Kyle. All 1:45 minutes of unedited conversation should be available again. Happy listening!


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The University of Richmond Dance Team
The SpinnURs dance team performs at all UR basketball games and some football games. We also take part in various spirit activities such as pep rallies and Spider Mayhem. We are student-run and our choreography includes jazz, pom, and hip-hop. We have auditions in the beginning of the fall semester and encourage girls of all dance backgrounds to try-out. We practice twice a week in the fall and spring semesters. If you have dance experience and enjoy performing in front of a crowd, SpinnURs may be the place for you! You can check us out on FACEBOOK. Please contact us (information below) if you have any questions.
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In 1972, 42 states had laws in their constitution that forbid the killing of children in the womb – 42 sates out of 50. At the time that would have been the representative voice of about 220 million people.
However nine judges decided that this majority, or preponderance of voices, should not and would not be heard as they ruled that women may kill their unborn child. So much for majority rule and democracy.
Late last year, the University of South Carolina Lancaster archivist posted on the USCL Facebook page a 1963 clipping from The Lancaster News.
Mrs. T.W. Boyce urged the citizens of Lancaster to support the continued growth of the four-year-old extension of USCL by donating money for the construction of Hubbard Hall.
They boast about how they "bring home the bacon." They take credit for new buildings, new parks and new programs for which they've secured public funding.
But all too often, politicians forget to thank the people who made it possible – the taxpayers.
Many of you may know that recently the Lancaster County School District filled another top-level position entitled director of secondary education.
What many of you may not know is that of the three finalists interviewed for this top-level position two were minority females, who I think had more qualifications than the person selected for the position.
Is there anyone who does not recognize this brilliant comment from the movie "Forest Gump?"
I'm sure that the scriptwriters who penned this statement never imagined how mainstream this observation on life would become.
The year is 2014. It is again time for a mid-term election. Is there any doubt as to the outcome of this exercise in futility?
In about 90 days, the people of Lancaster, Chester and Fairfield counties will go to the polls to elect a new circuit solicitor, known as a district attorney in other areas.
Much will be made of the backlog of pending criminal cases in our circuit during the solicitor's election and it is, of course, a tremendous issue, particularly in Lancaster County.
If you commute to Charlotte or regularly travel on U.S. 521, you might want to contact members of Lancaster County Council and ask what they are doing.
They passed the Panhandle Highway Corridor Overlay District so they could fix it. Now is the time to fix it.
Often it has been said, the devil is in the details.
"Our goal is by bringing the buildings forward, creating landscaping, it's going to slow down the traffic," said the county's consultant from North Carolina.
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The majority of pet owners say they have at least one dog or cat with behavioral problems, which easily can be exacerbated by such disruptive things as summer thunderstorms and road trips.
And unfortunately behavioral issues are the No. 1 reason for euthanasia in dogs and cats, resulting in the death of about 15 million pets each year.
On several recent occasions you may have heard pundits or public officials claim that South Carolina has gotten rid of Common Core.
The implication is that the state has retaken power from the federal government over education policy. There's some truth in that, and it's certainly encouraging to see some state officials moving in that direction, but to claim South Carolina has regained sovereignty over its academic standards would be – unfortunately – far from the truth.
Nearly eight months after a "destroyed" State Ethics Commission letter was provided to The Nerve, the longtime director of the state ethics-watchdog agency still won't explain how the letter exists despite his earlier statements to the contrary.
But in a written response July 18 to The Nerve, Herb Hayden said a pending lawsuit against him and the Ethics Commission in connection with the letter in question has nothing to do with a new media policy announced at a recent commission meeting.
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