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After speaking [on April 8] at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library in Austin to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, [former President Jimmy] Carter spoke with TIME by phone about his recent [activities] and his recent book, A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power.You say in A Call to Action that Jesus Christ was the greatest liberator of women in his culture. Why was that? One of the examples that he set invariably in every word and deed of his life was to emphasize the equality of women and even to exalt women well beyond any status they had enjoyed in any previous decades or centuries or even since then. What could the U.S. do better to address human trafficking? [In the US] for every brothel owner or pimp or male customer, there are 50 girls who are arrested for being prostitutes. Other countries have tried the other way around, and it works beautifully. Sweden is the No. 1 example that other countries are now emulating, where they bring the charges against the brothel owners and the pimps and the male customers, and they do not prosecute the girls, who quite often are brought into that trade involuntarily. You said last week that "the U.S. is the No. 1 warmonger on earth". Yes, it is. It has been. You can look at the record: ever since the United Nations was formed after the Second World War, the United States has almost constantly been at war somewhere. There are about 30 countries where we have initiated armed conflict.
Last week, Stanford University and New York University released a major study about the use of drones in the ever-evolving but never-ending war on terror. Drones are terrorizing an entire civilian population. [We] spent weeks in Pakistan interviewing more than 60 people from North Waziristan. Many were survivors of strikes. Others had lost loved ones and family members. All of them live under the constant threat of annihilation. What my colleagues and I learned from these unnamed and unknown victims of America's drone warfare gave the report its title: "Living Under Drones." Drones are a constant presence in the skies above the North Waziristan tribal area in Pakistan, with as many as six hovering over villages at any one time. People hear them day and night. They are an inescapable presence, the looming specter of death from above. And that presence is steadily destroying a community twice the size of Rhode Island. The routines of daily life have been ripped to shreds. Indisputably innocent people cower in their homes, afraid to assemble on the streets. "Double taps," or secondary strikes on the same target, have stopped residents from aiding those who have been injured. A leading humanitarian agency now delays assistance by an astonishing six hours. What makes this situation even worse is that no one can tell people in these communities what they can do to make themselves safe. No one knows who is on the American kill list, no one knows how they got there and no one knows what they can do to get themselves off. It's all terrifyingly random. Suddenly, and without warning, a missile launches and obliterates everyone within a 16-yard radius.
Note: The author of this report, Jennifer Gibson, is a staff attorney with Reprieve, a London-based legal charity that represents dozens of Pakistani drone victims. For an excellent, seven-minute video by professors exploring the tragic reality of drone strikes in Pakistan, click here. For the "Living Under Drones" website where you can read a summary and download this report by Stanford University and the New York Times, click here. To learn about a beautiful movement to place large photos of children's faces in target areas to stop drone operators from killing innocents, click here.
A Senate intelligence committee investigation found that the Central Intelligence Agency employed brutal interrogation methods that turned out to be largely useless and then lied about their effectiveness. The Senate report contradicts the main defenses of the Bush-era torture program: That harsh methods were needed to produce "actionable results," and that the program itself helped save American lives by foiling terror attacks. Instead, the CIA overstated the effectiveness of the program and concealed the harshness of the methods they used. Intelligence breakthroughs credited to the "enhanced interrogation" program by the CIA were instead gleaned through other means, and then used by the agency to bolster defenses of the program. Conservative media figures incessantly hyped former Bush administration officials' at times verifiably false claims about the efficacy of the program. The Bush administration's trip to the "dark side" provided pundits, op-ed columnists, and other media personalities an endless stream of satisfaction from talking like the greased up protagonists of 1980s action films.
Note: For an article explaining how even though this report may be declassified, the public will not have access to most of it, click here. For more on the realities of intelligence agency operations, see the deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources available here.
The US came under sharp criticism at the UN human rights committee in Geneva on [March 13] for a long list of human rights abuses that included everything from detention without charge at Guantánamo, drone strikes and NSA surveillance, to the death penalty, rampant gun violence and endemic racial inequality. The experts raised questions about the National Security Agency's surveillance of digital communications in the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations. The committee's 18 experts [are] charged with upholding the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), a UN treaty that the US ratified in 1992. The US came under sustained criticism for its global counter-terrorism tactics, including the use of unmanned drones to kill al-Qaida suspects, and its transfer of detainees to third countries that might practice torture, such as Algeria. Committee members also highlighted the Obama administration's failure to prosecute any of the officials responsible for permitting waterboarding and other "enhanced interrogation" techniques under the previous administration. Walter Kälin, a Swiss international human rights lawyer who sits on the committee, attacked the US government's refusal to recognise the convention's mandate over its actions beyond its own borders. The US has asserted since 1995 that the ICCPR does not apply to US actions beyond its borders - and has used that "extra-territoriality" claim to justify its actions in Guantánamo and in conflict zones.
Note: How sad that it appears this news was not reported in any major US media.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein accused the CIA on [March 11] of violating the law and the Constitution of the United States by interfering in a committee investigation into Bush-era torture of terror suspects. Feinstein said the CIA had removed documents provided to the committee through a special, segregated network set up by the agency for the committee to pursue its investigation. Among the documents removed was an internal review of CIA interrogation techniques conducted by then-CIA Director Leon Panetta, which committee members have said corroborated committee findings critical of the agency's interrogation program. "The CIA just went and searched the committee's computers," Feinstein said on the Senate floor. "This was done without the knowledge or approval of committee members or staff, and in violation of our written agreements. Further, this type of behavior would not have been possible had the CIA allowed the committee to conduct the review of documents here in the Senate," Feinstein said. Feinstein said that the CIA's activities may have violated the Fourth Amendment, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and executive order 12333, which bars the CIA from conducting domestic surveillance. Feinstein also said the CIA's activities violated the separation of powers principles in the Constitution by interfering with congressional oversight of the executive branch.
Note: For more on the out-of-control activities of intelligence agencies, see the deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources available here.
Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden accused Sen. Dianne Feinstein of hypocrisy ... for complaining about alleged CIA spying on U.S. senators while tolerating government spying on private citizens. "It's clear the CIA was trying to play 'keep away' with documents relevant to an investigation by their overseers in Congress, and that's a serious constitutional concern," said Snowden in a statement to NBC News. "But it's equally if not more concerning that we're seeing another 'Merkel Effect,' where an elected official does not care at all that the rights of millions of ordinary citizens are violated by our spies, but suddenly it's a scandal when a politician finds out the same thing happens to them." Snowden was ... referring to German Chancellor Angela Merkel's indignation at reports that the U.S. had listened in on her personal conversations, but her failure to condemn the NSA for mass surveillance of communications of German citizens. Both were revealed by the release of documents that Snowden took from NSA computers and distributed to journalists.
Note: For more on the out-of-control activities of intelligence agencies, see the deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources available here.
The confirmation in December that former CIA Director Leon Panetta let classified information slip to "Zero Dark Thirty" screenwriter Mark Boal during a speech at the agency headquarters should result in a criminal espionage charge if there is any truth to Obama administration claims that it isn't enforcing the Espionage Act only against political opponents. I'm one of the people the Obama administration charged with criminal espionage, one of those whose lives were torn apart by being accused, essentially, of betraying [their] country. The president and the attorney general have used the Espionage Act against more people than all other administrations combined, but not against real traitors and spies. The law has been applied selectively, often against whistle-blowers and others who expose illegal, corrupt government actions. After I blew the whistle on the CIA's waterboarding torture program in 2007, I was the subject of a years-long FBI investigation. In 2012, the Justice Department charged me with "disclosing classified information to journalists, including the name of a covert CIA officer and information revealing the role of another CIA employee in classified activities." I had revealed no more than others who were never charged, about activities ... that were hardly secret. I am serving a 30-month sentence. The Espionage Act, the source of the most serious charges against me, was written and passed during World War I and... is so outdated that it refers only to "national defense information" rather than "classified information," because the classification system had not yet been invented.
Note: The author of this article, John Kiriakou, is a former CIA counter-terrorism officer and former senior investigator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is incarcerated in the Federal Correctional Institution in Loretto, Pa. You can read about his case at http://www.defendjohnk.com. For more on the out-of-control activities of intelligence agencies, see the deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources available here.
In the early morning hours of February 5, a group of armed men – some dressed in Pakistani police uniforms – appeared at Kareem Khan's home, awoke him and his family at gunpoint, and took him away in an unmarked vehicle. Khan was hooded, shackled around the wrists and ankles, and driven for hours, eventually arriving at a building where he was thrown into a windowless holding cell. There he stayed for more than a week, during which he was subjected to sensory deprivation and physical abuse. Khan says he was repeatedly beaten on the soles of his feet and threatened with death by his captors. He was kept hooded and shackled for most of the day, and fed only dry bread and water. Khan has no doubts about why he was targeted. He is the first person to attempt a legal challenge to the CIA drone program in Pakistan, after his son and brother were killed in a drone strike near his home in North Waziristan on December 31st 2009. His abduction and detention occurred just over a week before Khan was to travel with [his Pakistani lawyer, Shahzad] Akbar and Jennifer Gibson, a lawyer with the UK-based legal charity Reprieve, to speak with European parliamentarians about the CIA drone program. Among the topics of discussion were the extralegal nature of the program, as well as covert intelligence sharing by European spy agencies. While in captivity, Khan was interrogated by men who refused to identify themselves, and who questioned him repeatedly about his plans to speak with the media and about the cases of others who had been killed by drones. Since the start of the "War on Terror" it has been estimated by local human rights groups that as many as 8,000 Pakistani citizens have been "disappeared" by local intelligence agencies, often at the behest of their American counterparts.
Note: The Intercept is the new media source being funded by Pierre Omidyar and featuring Glenn Greenwald and other top reporters known for their independence. For more on the atrocities committed by the US and UK in the illegal "global war on terror", see the deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources available here.
In the years after the end of WWII, CIA and US intelligence operatives tested LSD and other interrogation techniques on captured Soviet spies—all with the help of former Nazi doctors. It was 1946. The Joint Chiefs of Staff were preparing for 'total war' with the Soviets. They even set an estimated start date of 1952. U.S. military officers had been capturing and then hiring Hitler's weapons makers in a Top Secret program that would become known as Operation Paperclip. Soon, more than 1,600 of these men and their families would be living the American dream, right here in the United States. In 1948, Operation Paperclip's Brigadier General Charles E. Loucks ... was working with Hitler's former chemists when one of the scientists [shared] information about a drug with military potential ... LSD. Documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reveal that the U.S. developed its post-war enhanced interrogation techniques ... under the CIA code name Operation Bluebird. The CIA teamed up with the Army Chemical Corps at Camp Detrick, in Maryland, to conduct further research and development on the chemistry of mind-altering drugs. One [Detrick agent was] Dr. Frank Olson, a former army officer and bacteriologist turned agency operative whose sudden demise—by covert LSD poisoning—in 1953 would nearly bring down the CIA. In one of the rare, surviving official documents from the program, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles sent a secret memo to Richard Helms: "In our conversation of 9 February 1951, I outlined to you the possibilities of augmenting the usual interrogation methods by the use of drugs, hypnosis, shock, etc., and emphasized the defensive aspects as well as the offensive opportunities."
Note: To read excerpts from incredibly revealing declassified CIA documents on these programs, click here. For more on secret government mind control programs which have had a powerful hidden influence on global politics, see our Mind Control Information Center available here.
The National Security Agency is using complex analysis of electronic surveillance, rather than human intelligence, as the primary method to locate targets for lethal drone strikes – an unreliable tactic that results in the deaths of innocent or unidentified people. According to a former drone operator for the military's Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) who also worked with the NSA, the agency often identifies targets based on controversial metadata analysis and cell-phone tracking technologies. Rather than confirming a target's identity with operatives or informants on the ground, the CIA or the U.S. military then orders a strike based on the activity and location of the mobile phone. The former JSOC drone operator ... states that innocent people have "absolutely" been killed as a result. Some top Taliban leaders, knowing of the NSA's targeting method, have purposely and randomly distributed SIM cards among their units in order to elude their trackers. As a result, even when the agency correctly identifies and targets a SIM card belonging to a terror suspect, the phone may actually be carried by someone else, who is then killed in a strike. The Obama administration has repeatedly insisted that its operations kill terrorists with the utmost precision. Within the NSA ... a motto quickly caught on at Geo Cell: 'We Track 'Em, You Whack 'Em.'" In December 2009, utilizing the NSA's metadata collection programs, the Obama administration dramatically escalated U.S. drone and cruise missile strikes in Yemen. The first strike in the country known to be authorized by Obama targeted an alleged Al Qaeda camp in the southern village of al-Majala. The strike, which included the use of cluster bombs, resulted in the deaths of 14 women and 21 children.
Note: For an in-depth interview on this important topic, click here. Would anyone in a developed country tolerate their citizens being killed by the drones of a foreign government? Note also that The Intercept is the new media source being funded by Pierre Omidyar and featuring Glenn Greenwald and other top reporters known for the their independence.
A series of revelations about the rocket believed to have delivered poison sarin gas to a Damascus suburb last summer are challenging American intelligence assumptions about that attack and suggest that the case U.S. officials initially made for retaliatory military action was flawed. A team of security and arms experts, meeting this week in Washington to discuss the matter, has concluded that the range of the rocket that delivered sarin in the largest attack that night was too short for the device to have been fired from the Syrian government positions where the Obama administration insists they originated. The authors of a report released Wednesday said that their study of the rocket's design, its likely payload and its possible trajectories show that it would have been impossible for the rocket to have been fired from inside areas controlled by the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad. In the report, titled "Possible Implications of Faulty U.S. Technical Intelligence," Richard Lloyd, a former United Nations weapons inspector, and Theodore Postol, a professor of science, technology and national security policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, argue that the question about the rocket's range indicates a major weakness in the case for military action initially pressed by Obama administration officials. Postol said that a basic analysis of the weapon ... would have shown that it wasn't capable of flying the 6 miles from the center of the Syrian government-controlled part of Damascus to the point of impact in the suburbs, or even the 3.6 miles from the edges of government-controlled ground.
Note: For more on government lies designed to start wars, see the deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources available here.
In early 2003, two senior CIA officers arrived at the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw to pick up a pair of large cardboard boxes. Inside were bundles of cash totaling $15 million that had been flown from Germany via diplomatic pouch. The Americans and Poles then sealed an agreement that over the previous weeks had allowed the CIA the use of a secret prison — a remote villa in the Polish lake district — to interrogate al-Qaeda suspects. The Polish intelligence service received the money, and the CIA had a solid location for its newest covert operation, according to former agency officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the interrogation program, including previously unreported details about the creation of the CIA's "black sites," or secret prisons. The CIA prison in Poland was arguably the most important of all the black sites created by the agency after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. It was the first of a trio in Europe that housed the initial wave of accused Sept. 11 conspirators, and it was where Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-declared mastermind of the attacks, was waterboarded 183 times after his capture. In December, the European Court of Human Rights heard arguments that Poland violated international law and participated in torture by accommodating its American ally. "In the face of Polish and United States efforts to draw a veil over these abuses, the European Court of Human Rights now has an opportunity to break this conspiracy of silence and uphold the rule of law," said Amrit Singh, a lawyer with the Open Society Justice Initiative.
Note: For more on the realities of intelligence agency activities, see the deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources available here.
After a tumultuous year at the war-on-terror detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the U.S. military's motto is "Safe, Humane, Legal, Transparent," operations are cloaked in secrecy. The prison approaches the start of its 13th year next week with a new reclusive regime that no longer discloses what was once routinely released information. The daily tally of hunger striking detainees — the protest that engulfed more than 100 prisoners at its peak this summer — stopped in December. Guards and other prison camp troops are under orders to withhold their names when talking to reporters. On the witness stand in the war court recently, a lawyer in the uniform of an Air Force officer gave sworn testimony under a curious, unexplained fake name — "Major Krueger." Guantanamo is remote, and what is happening there in this new era has mostly gone unnoticed. The government controls access to everything pertaining to Guantanamo. Journalists have to get the military's permission to go there, navigate censorship of their pictures, wait 40 seconds to hear what happens in court and then wait weeks to see court filings. The current crackdown on information can range from the mildly curious to the outright comedic. At times it seems to signify a gratuitous use of power by troops on rotation with sudden power to [wield] a censor's scissors. At times, it suggests a government bureaucracy whose default is knee-jerk secrecy.
Note: For more on government secrecy, see the deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources available here.
[Many questions] have dogged the [CIA] for years. This secret body [is] known to have overthrown governments and installed others, raised armies, staged an invasion of Cuba, spied and counterspied, established airlines, radio stations and schools. Was it in fact damaging, while it sought to advance, the national interest? Former President Truman, whose administration established the CIA in 1947, said In 1963 that by then he saw "something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic positions." President Kennedy, as the enormity of the Bay of Pigs disaster came home to him, said to one of the highest officials of his administration that he wanted "to splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds." In the 19 years that the CIA has been in existence, 150 resolutions for tighter congressional control have been introduced - and put aside. Few persons in or out of the American Government know much about its work, its organization, its supervision or its relationship to the other arms of the executive branch. In 1960, CIA agents in Laos, disguised as "military advisers," stuffed ballot boxes and engineered local uprisings to help a hand-picked strongman ... set up a "pro-American" government. It was the CIA that built up Ngo Dinh Diem as the pro-American head of South Vietnam after the French ... had found him in a monastery cell in Belgium and brought him back to Saigon as Premier. The revelation that CIA agents served among Michigan State University scholars in South Vietnam from 1955 to 1959 has contributed to the fear [of infiltration of universities].
Note: For a longer, even more revealing summary of this very lengthy article, click here. To see a full copy of this article, click here. For more on the secret and illegal activities of major intelligence agencies, see the deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources available here.
It may seem strange to greet with relief a book [A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier] that chronicles the brutal life of a former child soldier, but given what our society considers printworthy, it is refreshing that the memories and reflections of 26-year-old Ishmael Beah receive attention. Beah was born in 1980 in rural Sierra Leone. "The only wars I knew about," Beah writes, "were those that I had read about in books or seen in movies such as Rambo: First Blood, and the neighbouring Liberia that I had heard about on the BBC news." But Beah was to find out about war in the worst way. In 1991, when he was 11, his country descended into a brutal and chaotic civil war between Foday Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and the largely ineffective and corrupt Action Peoples Congress (APC). At the centre of the conflict were issues of representation and control over Sierra Leone's diamonds. The conflict was to last through most of the 1990s and, in common with the civil war in Liberia, became intimately linked with the use of child soldiers. According to the United Nations, there are 300,000, if not more, child soldiers around the world. The majority of these children - some as young as six - live and fight in sub-Saharan Africa, and their plight has largely been ignored by the west. Beah's book stands as a vivid testament to his time as one of the nameless and faceless 300,000. After fleeing from rebels who sacked his village, getting separated from his older brother and friends, surviving alone in the forest and evading execution, Beah - at 12 - was inducted into a government corps of boy soldiers. Beah's life became a series of violent spells where killing was "as easy as drinking water".
Note: For more on the ravages of modern war, see the deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources available here.
Whenever I read comments by politicians defending the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Predator and Reaper program – aka drones – I wish I could ask them a few questions. I'd start with: "How many women and children have you seen incinerated by a Hellfire missile?" Few of these politicians who so brazenly proclaim the benefits of drones have a real clue of what actually goes on. I, on the other hand, have seen these awful sights first hand. What the public needs to understand is that the video provided by a drone is not usually clear enough to detect someone carrying a weapon, even on a crystal-clear day. This makes it incredibly difficult for the best analysts to identify if someone has weapons for sure. One example comes to mind: "The feed is so pixelated, what if it's a shovel, and not a weapon?" I felt this confusion constantly, as did my fellow UAV analysts. We always wonder if ... we destroyed an innocent civilian's life all because of a bad image or angle. I know the feeling you experience when you see someone die. Horrifying barely covers it. When you are exposed to it over and over again it becomes like a small video, embedded in your head, forever on repeat, causing psychological pain and suffering. UAV troops are victim to not only the haunting memories of this work that they carry with them, but also the guilt of always being a little unsure of how accurate their confirmations of weapons or identification of hostile individuals were. The UAVs in the Middle East are used as a weapon, not as protection, and as long as our public remains ignorant to this, this serious threat to the sanctity of human life – at home and abroad – will continue.
Note: For more on war crimes committed by the US and UK in the illegal "global war on terror", see the deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources available here.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh accused the Obama administration ... of having "cherry-picked intelligence" regarding the Aug. 21 chemical attack in Syria that served as evidence for an argument in favor of striking President Bashar Assad's government. Though President Barack Obama eventually decided not to strike Syria, the administration made a public case for war by saying that Assad's regime was responsible for a poison gas attack in the outskirts of Damascus. The U.N. later concluded the attack had involved the nerve agent sarin. In his piece -- titled "Whose Sarin?" -- Hersh reported that al-Nusra, a jihadi group fighting in Syria's long-running civil war, had also "mastered the mechanics of creating sarin and was capable of manufacturing it in quantity." Therefore, he wrote, "Obama did not tell the whole story" when stating with certainty that Assad had to be responsible, crossing a so-called "red line" that would trigger U.S. retaliation. Hersh is a freelancer, but he's best known these days for his work in The New Yorker, where he helped break the Abu Ghraib scandal in 2004. In an email, Hersh wrote that "there was little interest" for the story at The New Yorker. Hersh then took the story to The Washington Post. Hersh wrote that he was told by email that Executive Editor Marty Baron decided "that the sourcing in the article did not meet the Post's standards." Hersh [then] sent the Syria story to editors at the London Review of Books, LRB Senior Editor Christian Lorentzen [said]. Lorentzen said the piece was not only edited, but thoroughly fact checked by a former New Yorker fact checker who had worked with Hersh in the past.
Note: For more on government lies to provide pretexts for war, see the deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources available here.
[In] Miram Shah, the frontier Pakistani town that has become a virtual test laboratory for drone warfare, ... residents paint a portrait of extended terror and strain within a tribal society caught between vicious militants and the American drones hunting them. Their claims of distress are now being backed by a new Amnesty International investigation that found, among other points, that at least 19 civilians in the surrounding area of North Waziristan had been killed in just two of the drone attacks since January 2012 — a time when the Obama administration has held that strikes have been increasingly accurate and free of mistakes. Miram Shah ... has become a fearful and paranoid town, dealt at least 13 drone strikes since 2008 — more than any other urban settlement in the world. Even when the missiles do not strike, buzzing drones hover day and night, scanning the alleys and markets with roving high-resolution cameras. The strikes in the area mostly occur in densely populated neighborhoods. The drones have hit a bakery, a disused girls' school and a money changers' market, residents say. The constant presence of circling drones — and accompanying tension over when, or whom, they will strike — is a crushing psychological burden for many residents. Sales of sleeping tablets, antidepressants and medicine to treat anxiety have soared, said Hajji Gulab Jan Dawar, a pharmacist in the town bazaar. Women were particularly troubled, he said, but men also experienced problems. State services have virtually collapsed. At the local hospital, corrupt officials are reselling supplies of medicine and fuel in the town market, doctors said.
Note: For more on the illegal killing worldwide of innocent men, women, and children by missile strikes from US drones, see the deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources available here.
Europe's human rights court shone a rare public light [December 3] on the secret network of European prisons that the CIA used to interrogate terrorism suspects, reviving questions about the "extraordinary renditions" that angered many on this continent. At [the] hearing, attorneys for two terrorism suspects currently held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, accused Poland of human rights abuses. The lawyers say the suspects fell victim to the CIA's rendition program, in which terrorism suspects were kidnapped and transferred to third countries; they allege that the two were tortured in a remote Polish prison. All the prisons were closed by May 2006. Interrogations at sea have replaced CIA "black sites" as the U.S. government's preferred method for holding terrorism suspects and questioning them without access to lawyers. One of the cases heard [concerns] 48-year-old Saudi national Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who faces U.S. terrorism charges for allegedly orchestrating the al-Qaeda attack on the USS Cole in 2000, a bombing in the Yemeni port of Aden that killed 17 sailors. The second case involves 42-year-old Abu Zubaida, a Palestinian also held in Guantanamo who has never been charged with a crime. Both men say they were brought in December 2002 to Poland, where they were detained and subjected to harsh questioning at a Polish military installation in Stare Kiejkuty, a village in the country's remote northeast. There they were subject to mock executions, waterboarding and other tortures, including being told their families would be arrested and sexually abused, said Amrit Singh, a lawyer representing Nashiri.
Note: For more on war crimes by the US and UK in the "global war on terror", see the deeply revealing reports from reliable major media sources available here.
Twelve years ago, on 13 November 2001, President George W Bush signed an order authorizing the detention of suspected al-Qaida members and supporters, and the creation of military commissions. A total of seven detainees out of the 779 men ever held at Guantánamo have been convicted and sentenced. Five of the seven are no longer at Guantánamo creating a paradox: you have to lose to win. Those lucky enough to get charged and convicted of a war crime have good odds of getting out of Guantánamo, but those who are never charged could spend the rest of their lives in prison. Since nearly all of the men held at Guantánamo have been there since long before 2006 and most were at best low-level flunkies, the government's inability to charge them with providing material support for terrorism means they likely will never face a military commission for a trial that might have enabled them to find a way out of Guantánamo. In September 2006, 14 high-value detainees held in CIA black sites were transferred to military custody at Guantánamo. Only one has been tried and convicted. The law that has evolved from Guantánamo has been a black eye for the country: from the Supreme Court ruling that President Bush's military commissions were illegal to the Washington DC circuit ruling [that] all of the men convicted in military commissions were charged with an offense that was not a legitimate war crime. America's enemies and allies alike, in their criticism of US war on terrorism practices, cite Guantánamo as an example of failed leadership.
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Fischer: Abortion, Gay Rights, & Environmentalism are 'The Work of Satan Himself'
As is customary, Bryan Fischer began his radio program yesterday with a discussion of his current reading in the Bible, in this case a passage from the Book of Ephesians pertaining to Satan, demons, and spiritual warfare. The discussion prompted Fischer to declare that Satan's spiritual warfare is always at work in our culture and that Satan is behind everything from gay rights to Planned Parenthood to environmentalism:
Any time you see some kind of agenda that is anti-human being, it's anti-baby, it's anti-humanity, it's anti-population growth, you're looking at something that ultimately comes from Satan himself. He hates human beings. Why? Because we are made in the image of God. We remind Satan of the God that he hates and so he wants to stir up in human beings the same kind of hatred for humanity that he has. And he'll use Planned Parenthood to do it, he will use the pro-abortion movement to do it. He will use the pro-gay movement to do it because you can't get human beings out of the homosexual lifestyle; it's not possible so that's one way to slow population growth. He can get there through the environmental movement which is flatly opposed to population growth and actually proposes abortion policies as a way of reducing pressure on the environment. So anywhere you see that anti-human agenda, you are looking at the work of Satan himself.
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In 1989, Hank Pym (Douglas) confronts S.H.I.E.L.D. about their attempts to acquire and replicate the Pym Particle, a technology Hank discovered that allows living beings to shrink to very small sizes while maintaining full or increased physical ability. S.H.I.E.L.D. executives, including Howard Stark (John Slattery) and Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) reason that the technology is necessary to maintain a level of security. Pym vows to take the secret of the Particle to the grave, believing it to be too dangerous to be reproduced.
The film flashes forward to present day, where Scott Lang (Rudd) gets released from prison to find his friend Luis (Michael Peña) with a new heist opportunity, but Lang promises to give up his life of crime to make a legitimate living for the sake of his daughter. After seeing his daughter and ex-wife (Judy Greer), Scott realizes that his family is moving on without him, making his attempt to get things straight all the more urgent.
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Scott Lang's only job prospect falls through, citing his criminal record. With no other options, he takes Luis's tip about stealing a large fortune from a home with an absentee owner. The fortune is revealed to be nothing more than an old red suit and helmet, but Lang leaves with it anyway. He tries on the suit and accidentally shrinks himself; the suit is powered by the fabled Pym Particle. Hank Pym communicates to Scott that now that he's found the suit, he has a job to offer him.
Scott's character moments come up right as he's introduced as somewhat of a joker and atoning criminal. Despite his wanting to get out of crime, he's not shy about what he knows how to do. His compatriots in crime, particularly Luis, also have their own little quirks that make them distinct. Luis, while very detailed about plans of action, is also very detailed about extraneous information, which is exclusively played for laughs. Hank Pym is almost straight atoner for the duration of the film. He discovered something very powerful and takes steps to make sure it doesn't stumble into the wrong (or right) hands. There are two specific moments that break from his reserved nature and show how nasty he can be. The moments were put in to reflect the source material, where Hank Pym has a tendency to commit domestic violence. That obviously wouldn't make for a good hero, so the temper was put in a slightly different direction. Hope's focus to accomplish a mission is compared and often clashes with her relationship with her father. She's very capable of completing a mission put in front of her, which she puts up every time she's directed -not- to do something. A lack of sympathy for her father is addressed in pieces throughout the film.
Any technical terms, such as the mention of atomic sciences, is often explained so the audience can understand the context. At times, though, it has to be explained even further for some of the characters for a comedic effect. Those moments come often enough to be recognized but not enough to be trite or belittling. Any swearing is kept to a minimum, being a film intended for a wide audience. In particular, a character is called an "ass-hat," to the chagrin of another character. It's met with a paraphrased, "What's wrong? I said 'hat.'"
Redemption is brought up deliberately when it comes to Scott Lang and a much more subtle way with Hank Pym. Scott redeems his criminal past by committing an act for the greater good, while Hank struggles to reconcile with a daughter he pushed away. Passing judgment is also touched on, citing why heroes are reduced to trusting criminals to accomplish a mission. Family is mentioned at the forefront as well, with Scott and Hank both trying to place the pieces together with their respective estranged daughters.
During the climax fight, a song is used that's more or less lampshading the use of music to heighten a situation and instead makes it more lax. Score music for training montages and drama are also present, but not overbearing.
The growing/shrinking with the Ant-Man suit is the biggest spectacle, for obvious reasons. For several instances, this effect is used for scale between small fights and its real-life observation. The climax fight with the train set is the most obvious example, used in the trailer.
Star Power
Paul Rudd gets front billing with the movie, drifting away from his straight comedy and in to a more action-based movie. Evangeline Lilly as the female supporting character is a wonderful choice considering her past fantastical roles, such as The Hobbit. Corey Stoll plays a good villain, which is different from his more recognizable dramatic role in House of Cards. Michael Douglas gets back billing as Samuel L. Jackson does for the Avengers movies, and perhaps the biggest pull for the older audience members.
Who to Watch With
As with the previous Marvel films, the main target are the comic book fans. Most people are only vaguely aware of Ant-Man, likening him to Aquaman in terms of usefulness once they understand his powers. Many audience members who don't know who he is may have the same feelings toward this movie as Guardians of the Galaxy, being a lesser known comic series. But through and through, it will attract audiences across the spectrum with humor, action, and fantasy.
Post-movie Thoughts
Thinking back on it now, there's a huge plot contrivance that was the make-or-break point of Scott Lang and Hank Pym from meeting. With all of the other moments that have the audience surrender to suspension of disbelief, the method that they get together is fragile at best, considering Scott originally wanting to stay out of flimsy crimes. That aside, the movie does well with a standalone hero as opposed to the multi-layer, multi-hero movies that the rest of the MCU has become.
Source Material
As with other Marvel films, the movie has a lot to work with, but forced to be contained within the universe made by the MCU. While Hank Pym is responsible for the creation of Ultron in the comics, it's not at all mentioned in the MCU because Tony Stark and Bruce Banner are responsible for Ultron. Hank Pym also had to go through a big character change to avoid the fact that he beat his wife in the comic series. That certainly wouldn't make a good hero for a movie perspective, but an interesting character in the realm of comic books.
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Graphical representation of FReDoWS' subflow Execute docking that executes the molecular docking simulations. We employ the AutoDock3.0.5 [7] suite of C and AWK programs to execute docking experiments. The C programs are addsol, autotors, autogrid (AGrid) and autodock (ADock) while mkgpf3 and mkdpf3 are the AWK scripts. The final model of this subflow contains eight activities which execute all steps necessary for autodock (ADock) execution and the analyses of its output. See text for details.
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Room, 2 Queen BedsMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children, 3 infants)
Room, 1 Queen Bed, Accessible, BathtubMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)
Suite, 1 King BedMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children, 3 infants)
Get an overview of this hotelFamily-friendly hotel with restaurant and indoor pool
This family-friendly Newark hotel is located in the historical district, within a 10-minute walk of Midland Theater, The Works Museum, and Heisey Glass Museum. Longaberger Basket Building and Newark Earthworks are also within 3 mi (5 km).
Hotel Features
Along with a restaurant, this smoke-free hotel has an indoor pool and a fitness center. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, a bar/lounge, a 24-hour business center, and a conference center are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 117 rooms provide conveniences like refrigerators and coffee makers, plus free WiFi and flat-screen TVs with cable channels. Other amenities available to guests include room service, premium bedding, and hydromassage showerheads.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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Hotel Amenities
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Newark Ohio features an indoor pool and a fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This 3-star property offers access to a 24-hour business center and meeting rooms. Event facilities measuring 5000 square feet (450 square meters) include a conference center and conference space. This family-friendly hotel also offers gift shops/newsstands, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Complimentary self parking is available on site. A total renovation of this property was completed in July 2014.
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Newark Ohio is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour business center
- 24-hour front desk
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Computer station
- Conference center
- Conference space
- Conference space size (feet) - 5000
- Conference space size (meters) - 450
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-out
- Fitness facilities
- Free parking nearby
- Free RV, bus, truck parking
- Free self parking
- Free WiFi
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Indoor pool
- Meeting rooms
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Number of floors - 6
- Number of meeting rooms - 5
- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Smoke-free property
- Television in lobby
- Total number of rooms - 117
- Wedding services
- Year Built 1974
Family Friendly Amenities
- Free Wi-Fi
- Indoor pool
- Refrigerator
- Rollaway/extra beds available
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking, Free RV, bus, truck parking, Free parking nearby
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Bathtub only
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Cable TV service
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free toiletries
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Daily housekeeping
- Desk
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- Hair dryer
- Hydromassage showerhead
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Iron/ironing board
- Phone
- Premium bedding
- Premium TV channels
- Private bathroom
- Refrigerator
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Room service
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Cooked-to-order breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6:30 AM and 10 AM.
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Newark Ohio has a restaurant on site.
Room service is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an indoor pool and a fitness center.
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
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- Accessible parking
- In-room accessibility
- Accessibility equipment for the deaf
- Braille or raised signage
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3:00 PM
Check-out time is 12:00 PM
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Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available.
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The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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Over time, we humans have come up with ways to organize and make sense of phenomena.
We see an object that provides light and warmth, and we give that object a name: the Sun. Then we observe that the sun appears over the horizon in one direction at first light and disappears in the opposite direction as it gets dark. We've identified a behavior of that object, and we name that behavior, sunrise and sunset or, if you're Buckminster Fuller, you name that behavior sunsight and sunclipse.
We now recognize a pattern, in this case a cycle that repeats each day, although we see variations in this pattern over the course of the year as day length varies, as does the location of sunrise and sunset.
To understand why these changes occur, we need to shift our perspective, from objects to interrelationships, from parts to patterns. Eventually, we come to understand that the behavior of the Sun and the behavior of Earth are intertwined, and that these two objects, the Sun and Earth, are part of a system, together with other objects such as the Moon that each have their own behaviors and interactions. These interrelationships cause a lot of the phenomena we experience, including day and night, seasons, tides, eclipses, and in the past century, interference with radio communication!
Here's the good news: There is a growing recognition — by planetary scientists, organizational and civic leaders, wildlife biologists, educators and more — that the objects, people, places, events, nature we study, manage, write about or design are parts of complex systems. Studying systems can help us to understand the whole set of interrelationships rather than just the parts, and to analyze how changing one or a set of parts, or changing the pattern of the parts, can have far-reaching and sometimes unexpected consequences in other parts of the system. Great examples of applied systems thinking here and here.
More good news: Children of all ages can understand systems. In kindergarten-2 they can identify parts of how they work together, and in grades 3-5, they can understand that the whole can carry out functions that the individual parts cannot and look at the interaction among the parts. In grades 6-8, students can begin to explore how systems interact with other systems.
To try your hand at "thinking about systems", take a look at the PBS Learning Media systems literacy site and walk yourself through the Teaching About Systems module or the Understanding Dynamic Systems module, designed for high school students. You can also check out the Waters Foundation and the Creative Learning Exchange for other great systems learning opportunities.
*Throughout his life, Buckminster Fuller urged people of all ages to pay attention to their language. The use of the words "sunrise" and "sunset" were of particular concern to him: "The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet's surface at that time. Everything else will follow." (Critical Path)
I've finished the manuscript for a children's biography about Buckminster Fuller, and now I wait. The editors in New York City and beyond are chewing him over, deciding if today's middle school kids will find "Bucky" — most famous for his geodesic domes – interesting, compelling, worth their time.
I, of course, will talk to anyone and everyone about Bucky (I've written about him here). Somehow I managed to weave him into a conversation with the cashier at the grocery store the other day. My kids think I've lost it. I now call my dog "Bucky" despite the fact that his name is Rugby. The walls of my office are plastered with sketches of Bucky inventions: a fly's eye dome, a 4D tower delivered by zepplin, rowing needles, a mechanical jellyfish.
So, why am I so hooked?
For me, a twenty-year plus systems educator, one of the most compelling connections is Bucky's focus on synergy.
Over forty years ago, Bucky popularized the term, reminding audiences around the world that synergy was "… the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system's separate parts or any sub-assembly of the system's parts. There is nothing in the chemistry of a toenail that predicts the existence of a human being" (Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1969, p. 78). One of the many benefits of understanding and even designing for synergy, is the opportunity to get off that problem solving treadmill, where our "solutions" often only create more problems or make the original problem worse. (See more benefits here).
Looking back at myself as a student forty years ago, my curriculum was for the most part compartmentalized: science was taught in one class, math in another, English in yet another, and never the twain shall meet. Such a fragmented approach reinforced the notion that knowledge was made up of many unrelated parts, leaving me with little opportunity to see recurring patterns of behavior across subjects and disciplines, to look for synergies, or for that matter, to think or talk about "whole systems."
My teachers were preparing me for a world in which "new technologies" like the computer were just beginning to play a role, and though I didn't know it at the time, the middle-aged gentleman teaching "computer science" was desperately trying to stay one step ahead of his eager students. With the shock of the gas crisis in the 1970s, came a nascent awareness of the relationship between non-renewable resources and population growth (what we call carrying capacity today).
It was a world that author and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman describes as being "characterized by one overarching feature—and that was division. That world was divided-up, chopped-up place, and whether you were a country or a company, your threats and opportunities in the cold war system tended to grow out of who you were divided from. Appropriately, this cold war system was symbolized by a single word—wall, the Berlin Wall." (Friedman, Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11, 2002, p. 3).
Today, our world has shifted. We've gone from an international system built around division and walls to a system increasingly built around integration and webs, a shift Friedman aptly describes here:
"The globalization system is different. It also has one overarching feature and that is integration. The world has become an increasingly interwoven place, and today whether you are a company or a country, your threats and opportunities increasingly derive from who you are connected to. This globalization system is also characterized by a single word -web, the World Wide Web." (Friedman, Longitudes and Attitudes, pp. 3–4).
Today's children are growing up in a world of webs and networks, of increasing interdependence and multiculturalism, of shrinking global borders, and of even more limited natural resources. For students of today, nothing exists in isolation. More and more of the pressing challenges children see in the headlines—global warming, economic breakdowns, food insecurity, institutional malfeasance, biodiversity loss, and escalating conflict—are generated by complex human systems.
Indeed our lives are embedded in systems.
Here's the wake-up call: Many of us were not explicitly taught skills related to understanding synergy, or for that matter, the behaviors and dynamics of complex systems. That means we tend to see events, parts and fragments when we are in fact, embedded within and surrounded by interconnected systems. There's now a lot of research out there, including my own, that deep misconceptions about the dynamics of complex systems persist, even among highly educated adults. Here's the short version: when faced with dynamically complex systems—with multiple feedbacks, time delays, nonlinearities, and accumulations—performance is suboptimal, at best.
What to do? Facing a similar question, Buckminster Fuller once said: "If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking."
The good news is, new tools and new frameworks are coming. Here are just a few examples (send me more if you have them):
Camp Snowball: A summer "camp" experience that brings together students, parents, educators, and business and community leaders to build everyone's capacity around systems thinking, sustainability and leading in the 21st century.
WorldLink: An innovative media, education and civic engagement organization dedicated to cultivating a generation of "design scientists" who can creatively respond to the most pressing issues of our time. See NOURISH (using public TV and school curriculum to explore food and food systems).
The GeoDome: Using immersive projection design to understand and have a tangible experience of the planet as a living system.
Quest to Learn: A game-based public school in New York City (brainchild of Katie Salen and team) and in particular it's "need to know" approach to building twenty-first century skills like systems thinking, creative problem-solving, collaboration, time management and identity formation.
PBS Learning Media: I'm working with PBS now to integrate systems literacy tools and concepts into digital media for both educators and students. The pilot will be available in the fall. Exciting!
Student-created simulations of complex systems, game-based learning, portable "learning" domes, repurposed digital media — Bucky, I think, would be delighted by these ways of making invisible connections, visible.
Synergy is just one reason I've fallen head over heals for Bucky, that stocky, gentle genius with the owl eyes and coke-bottle glasses. Read my book about him (when it comes out) and you'll have fun discovering the other 9 reasons why Bucky is truly a troubadour for our times.


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Yes, I read your article on my computer. I also helped pay for your authorship. Because of the pop-up banners that Deseret News has, I learned about a neat service called "Kids-in-Mind", which rates movies in a fashion I find appealing. I have subscribed to "Kids-in-Mind", one of your sponsors. Part of my subscription fee (a small part, admittedly) showed up in one of your paychecks, as Kids-in-Mind paid Deseret news for their on-line ad.
Regarding intellectual property rights (which I understand applies to artistic forms like music); when you bought your vinyl record, you bought the right to listen to those songs, regardless of the delivery device (vinyl, magnetic tape, or 0's & 1's on a solid state memory device).
Right now I am listening to Blackmore's Night on Spotify - legally. Three cents is paid to the artist, by the sponsors whose ads I hear (just heard another one...) for every song I hear. Ths sponsors willingly do that just like Kids-in-Mind. If I subscribe to Spotify, they knock out the ads, and the artists get seven cents per "listen".
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DRM--The evil continues. The studios say: You aren't responsible enough to own DRM-free content!" Music, thankfully, has finally found freedom. Now how 'bout the rest like books and movies get some freedom too? Why can't the studio's figure out that I'm not going to re-purchase a DVD, or Blu-ray, or a DRM'd itunes movie? If I own a movie on VHS, or my dvd is scratched/unplayable, i'm torrenting the movie. Simple as that. I will not re-purchase it. If you want money, create new content, release directors' cuts, liscense to tv and netflix. But if I bought the movie, I own the rights to it FOR LIFE.
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The tangible things what once was legal is illegal when it's intangible. What kind of sense does that make.
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