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Archmages, also known as Seekers or Archmasters, are mages that have chosen to leave the Path as defined by their Watchtower and constructed their own way to the Realms Supernal, referred to as the Golden Road. Archmages are the only beings capable of performing Imperial Rites, feats of magic so immense that they can change the entirety of the Fallen World. Many of them strive to achieve Ascension.
The Initiation of an Archmage is called the Second Awakening or the Threshold Seeking by some. Through mastery of his soul via command over the Arcana or his dedication to the Mysteries, an Archmage has achieved such a degree of insight into the hidden truths that he has glimpsed the first steps of Imperial magic. The aspirant searches for the Quintessence that represents his understanding of magic and that will aid him to cross the Abyss. The search for this Quintessence often mirrors a Mystery Play during an Awakening and is indeed the catalyst that enables the aspirant to leave the Fallen World. Once this is achieved, the aspirant finds himself on his Road within the Abyss, reenacting every single Paradox and being revisited by every Abyssal creature he ever dealt with. Mages that fail during this stage let the lies of the Abyss crawl into them, thus becoming a Qliphoth.
Should the aspirant manage to cross the Abyss, he finds himself in a confusing landscape of symbols of pure Truth. Some of these mages end up absorbed by the Supernal Symbols, never returning to the Fallen World, the Truth of their existence vanishing into greater symbols. Only by focusing on specific symbols encountered during his initial Threshold Seeking can the mage filter the raw Truths into something that a human soul can withstand. He forms a Lustrum, where he is confronted by the natives of the Realms Supernal. Should any Archmages wish to interfere with his attempt, they may act now. After resolving any interference from natives or fellow mages, the aspirant is confronted by a Supernal native representing the separation of that realm from the Fallen World. Only by defeating the guardian can he prove himself worthy and claim the symbols in the Lustrum as his own. They form a Cintamani, the symbol of his archmastery, which acts similarly to a Watchtower but is only accessible to the new Archmage and his Archmaster brethren. The Cintamani is connected with the Fallen World through the Golden Road, through which the Archmage can now return. In most cases, other Archmages then reveal themselves, courting the newcomer and explaining exactly what has happened to him.
Interaction with the PhenomenalEdit
Archmages that return find that the world around them has changed. Their arrival in the world of pure Truth has altered the Truth that is expressed in the Fallen World: Persons are slightly different from how they remember them; in some cases, entire cabals have vanished. This is referred to as Aponeia, and will continue every time an Imperial Spell is cast. Some mages postulate that the Aponeia transport the Archmage into a parallel world where the changes they made to reality have always been present.
Archmages no longer have a physical body in the sense most mages have them: their understanding transcends physicality, allowing them to enter the Golden Road with a single thought, regardless of the circumstances. From their Road, the Archmage can create Irises and Chantries, connections with the realms of the Phenomenal and personal worlds within their own soul.
Archmages organize themselves into five Ententes, cliques of like-minded individuals whose view of Ascension is relatively similar. These groups vie to define the Phenomenal in a struggle known as the Ascension War. Contrary to the name, participants do not engage in open warfare - such would rend the Fallen World apart- but seek to shape and nudge the Tellurian towards the form they desire using Imperial Rites.
The involved factions include:
- The Alienated, priests to the Old Gods cast out by the Exarchs who seek to reinstate them as rulers of the Supernal
- The Aswadim, seekers of the Abyss, who strive to sever themselves from the restrictions of the Supernal to claim one of the half-real worlds within the void to rule
- The Bodhisattvas, advocates of Ascension who seek to lift up all of Mankind to reach the Supernal Realms, aiding Sleepers to Awaken and mages to reach the Threshold
- The Exemplars, paragons of the Atlantean Orders who seek to advance the teachings of their Order and strengthen their Supernal symbolism
- The Siddhas, students of the Arcana who strive for mastery over the ten Arcana and to strengthen magic as a whole
- The Tetrarchs, servants of the Exarchs who have ascended to their masters' right hands; they seek to reinforce their status, hoping to someday either merge with or supplant their Exarch.


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We are back in the office following a successful Central States convention in Schaumburg, Illinois. Wholesale activity was very strong; in fact we bought so many coins we're still digging out! The only negative worth mentioning was a noticeable lack of collector attendance. It seems to be a growing trend – but the demand for truly high-end rare coins is still as strong as ever. Technology advances have made online bidding in auctions seamless. And, most serious collectors have dealers who represent them both in the auction and on the bourse floor so they can focus on their own careers. It's just become less necessary for collectors to travel as much.
Matching great coins with clients is one of the most rewarding parts of my job. We brought home gem proof gold for a type set, some beautiful silver type for a good friend and client, and were able to acquire some amazing Barber Halves from the estate of our longtime client and friend, the late John Hugon.
In terms of both value and demand, there is a widening spread between "stuff" and legitimate high-quality coins. Prices for dull or 'stale' material are lagging far behind prices for choice material; and this is evident across all price ranges, whether a coin is worth $500 or $500,000. Serious collectors understand that they are going to have to step up in order to acquire coins that have both technical quality and eye appeal. This can be seen in the prices realized at auction and it is also true on the bourse floor, as it is becoming exceedingly difficult to locate pieces we want to place with our clients. It seems that many of the best coins are in strong hands for now, as collectors and investors continue to prefer hard assets over many traditional investments. But we're always on the lookout and have managed to add some great coins to our inventory!

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Tuesday, 21st August 2001 - Day 5
I have managed to reach 5 whole days old today and it has been quite an eventful day in my little room in the hospital. I had a comfortable night with very little going on and the doctors plan to get me off of the last drug that is keeping my blood pressure up. It comes down to me then to try and manage it myself, no problem for such a great little girl like me. The last time I had some of the drug was around midday and I have managed to keep the blood pressure up OK so far. Lets keep those nice long toes and fingers crossed that I can keep it going. I had all my sensors replaced this morning as I seemed to make all the alarms go off at once. The TV said my heart was beating at 300+ beats per minute and I was not breathing! They replaced them all and everything was fine again. These are very sticky and hurt my skin when pulled off.
This afternoon I opened one of my little eyes and saw Mummy for the first time. Very scary as she had her face pressed up against the side of my room at the time. She looks nice though as I have not seen her before, from the outside anyway. I showed Mummy and Daddy my hiccuping ability as well today as they have not seen my tummy jump up and down before. I have managed to pull out my stomach line again today, that will teach them to go away and ignore me. They did help however when I had a blocked throat and my Oxygen levels dropped. They sucked out all the mucous and I was fine again. It gave Mummy and Daddy a bit of a shock though as they had not seen or heard this happen before.
Professor Whitelaw said I was doing well again today so I must really try and keep up to his expectations. He seems nice and explains loads about what is happening to me to Mummy and Daddy, which pleases them. I have still not seen any sign of the milk I saw Mummy give the nurse yet, maybe when they take out the pipes into my belly button I will be able to have some.
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The Club Moorings are provided for the non-exclusive use of all members of the three Clubs and represent a major investment that is paid for by your annual subscription. The following Rules and Protocols are to be adhered to by all users. Failure to adhere to these could place future access to the moorings by the Clubs in jeopardy or could result in your use rights and/or Club Membership being revoked.
Permitted Users
Only currently fully paid-up members of the Waikawa Boating Club, Pelorus Boating Club or Mana Cruising Club may use the moorings, unless otherwise noted on the mooring map or Club yearbook. Note that some moorings (see Moorings List) are held under joint arrangements with other parties and they have the same use rights as Club Members.
No Reciprocal Rights
No member of any Club other than Waikawa, Pelorus or Mana may claim reciprocal rights to use the Club moorings.
In respect of all Club moorings, all members acknowledge that they use the moorings at their own risk in all respects. Neither the Club(s) nor any officer of the Club(s) is liable on any grounds whatsoever for any loss, damage, cost or expense arising from, or incidental to, any use of such mooring.
Discharge of Sewage
Under the Resource Management (Marine Pollution) Regulations 1998, the discharge of untreated human sewage is prohibited within 500 meters of shore. Heavy fines can be imposed. Holding tanks or treatment systems must be used to avoid unlawful discharge, to protect the environment and to adhere to the Maori tikanga (customs and ways) of the tangata whenua.
1) There must be a Senior Club Member on board overnight.
2) You must fly your Club Pennant and the Mooring Burgee for the current financial year at all times while occupying a Club mooring.
3) You may not occupy a Club mooring for more than three (3) consecutive nights unless you have vacated the mooring for at least three (3) hours during the day.
4) No vessel may claim exclusive right to any mooring at any time unless those moorings are specified as being only suitable for one boat at a time.
5) No more than five (5) boats shall raft up to a mooring unless otherwise specified in your Club handbook or on the mooring itself.
6) The maximum combined weight of all boats rafted up on any mooring (where rafting up is allowed) is 35 tonnes unless otherwise specified in your Club handbook or on the mooring itself.
Please Note: Members have been known to alternate between two or more adjacent Club moorings over longer periods of time to get around the Condition of Use of three nights at a time. This has been done for various reasons including avoiding paying berthage fees at marinas. It is not intended that members use moorings in an area for such long term stays. If such practices come to the Clubs' attention the member will be requested to desist.
1) If you are on a mooring and another boat approaches to use the mooring you are required to offer the other boat to raft up with you on the mooring providing weather conditions are not adverse and the total tonnage (35 tonne) and number of boats (5) is not exceeded.
2) Raft ups should be arranged so that the largest or heaviest vessel is placed in the centre and takes the mooring with the smaller vessel(s) rafted on each side.
3) Drop your fenders on the side you wish the other boat to come alongside.
4) When rafted up with other boats, be considerate when crossing over boats to reach another. It is normal practice to request permission before stepping aboard to cross a boat.
5) When rafting up, use bow and stern lines and 2 spring lines (fore to aft) and suitable sized fenders (many boats' fenders appear inadequate to the task).
6) Ensure that the mooring rope is not in contact with any sharp edges at the fairlead or deck cleat and is not able to be damaged by chaffing.
7) Sound carries a long way over water at night. Be considerate to others and keep the noise down late at night.
8) When vacating a mooring, take care to feed the mooring rope down through the buoy tube to ensure that the loop is left clear of the water and stays dry.
9) Back off after letting go of a mooring – do not drive forward over the mooring.
10) In many parts of the Marlborough Sounds, private land extends to the high tide mark. Do not go ashore and walk across private land without first calling the landowner and asking for permission. Refer to the Moorings List for land owners phone numbers – most are happy to allow access provided you ask first.
11) In some parts of the Marlborough Sounds taking dogs ashore or landing at all is prohibited (reserves and some private land). Ensure that you are aware of these areas and observe the restrictions.
12) If you have a dog on board and must toilet them onshore choose areas away from beaches. Ensure that you bury or collect their faeces. This is the biggest cause of complaints to the Clubs from landowners.
13) Don't leave litter on beaches or throw solid wastes into the sea. Take all your rubbish home to dispose of it.
14) Any defects relating to moorings should be reported to your Club Manager as soon as practical.


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Saxophone Day November 6th History and Photo #SaxophoneDay – Happy Saxophone Day Images and Download free Pictures. Saxophone Day is today. The Saxophone is a classical woodwind instrument. It is an essential instrument in jazz bands, symphonic bands, marching bands and more. It's only fitting that this great instrument has a day of recognition all to its own.
The Saxophone was invented around 1840. It was created by Adolphe Sax, a Belgian musical instrument maker. The sax is made of brass.
Adophe Sax invented 8 types of saxophones: Sopranino, Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritone, Bass, Contrabass, and Subcontrabass. The first Saxophone ever created was the Bass Saxophone. A 9th type of Saxophone, the Soprillo Saxophone, was invented in 2004. It is the smallest Saxophone.
Some famous Saxophone Players (Alphabetical order):
– John Coltrane
– Stan Getz
– Coleman Randolph Hawkins "Hawk"
– James Moody
– Charlie "The Bird" Parker
– Lester Prez Young
Happy Saxophone Day!!!
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In The Dilbert Principle and current bestseller Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook, Scott Adams skewers the absurdities of today's corporate world. Now he takes the next step, turning his keen analytical focus on how human greed, stupidity and horniness will shape the future.
With this book, Adams follows in the footsteps of other great futurists, i.e., sitting at home making stuff up that can't be proven wrong for many years. Featuring the same mix of essays and cartoons that made The Dilbert Principle so uniquely entertaining, The Dilbert Future offers predictions on business, technology, society and government. Nobody is spared this time. Some predictions:
Children: They are our future, so we're pretty much hosed. Tip: Grab what you can while they're still too little to stop us.
Human Potential: We'll finally learn to use the 90 percent of the brain we don't use today, and find out that there wasn't anything in that part.
Longevity: We'll all live to 140. The Olympics will expand to include new events such as Complaining and Slow Driving.
Computers: Technology and homeliness will combine to form a powerful type of birth control.
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Alastair Seeley and David Allingham will lead the EHA Racing charge this incoming weekend, as the British Supersport Championship takes in the iconic Cathedral of Motorcycling at Assen in the Netherlands – where the penultimate round of this year's British championship, for the leading classes will take place.
Seeley has won two of his four outings on the CF Motorsport prepared EHA Racing YZF-R6 Yamaha, as a team wildcard, with third place last time out at Oulton in the feature race, making him a worthy addition to the British championship class.
The Ulsterman has fond memories of Assen, winning on his last visit in the Supersport class back in 2014, so it goes without saying, the former double British champion and 24-time NW200 record holder, will be looking for something similar this time around.
"Assen is a great circuit and somewhere I'm delighted to be going back to race at, as it's one of the world's most iconic venues," said Seeley.
"I've really enjoyed my time on the EHA Racing Yamaha this season, which was initially a North West 200 only deal. So to have been able to jump back on it at Silverstone and Oulton and now to have secured a deal to finish the season at Assen and Brands – that's just perfect for me.
"I think we've added a bit of much needed spice to the Supersport class, and while I respect the front guys like Jack and Ben, and we know they are fighting for a championship, my job is to win races for EHA Racing – and that's the goal at Assen again this weekend," he added.
David Allingham will also be back in Supersport action also this weekend, and whilst it hasn't been the most memorable season for the young Irishman, he is well capable of pushing the number 95 machine up beside Seeley on his re-branded #9 machine, at the front of the class.
"I was second at Assen in 2016, which was a great feeling," said Allingham. "This season hasn't quite gone to plan, but we showed at Brands what we are capable of with the win. The plan at Assen is to start the weekend strong in the opening free practice sessions and build on that. I'm confident we can turn it around and leave the Netherlands in a good place."
Gail Allingham, Team Manager, said: "Assen has been a pretty successful circuit for us during the short time we've been involved in British championship: Marshall Neill was a Supersport EVO class winner in 2015 and also had a third place that same weekend; then David was on the podium in 2016. It's a trip that everyone at EHA Racing really enjoys, so we are again looking forward to it with Alastair and David. I'm sure both will give us a fighting chance of some silverware again this year."
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Air conditioning CFD simulation of the surgery room using the ANSYS Fluent software
One of the most important hazards in the surgery room environment is the exposure of contaminants and particulates to the patient's body and the entering of intelligence gases into the outside of the surgical environment, which can be minimized due to the creation of a suitable ventilation system. The ventilation system of a laminar flow, with air curtains, is one of the most commonly used air conditioner models for health centers, especially the surgery rooms.
With the advancement of computational fluid dynamics, the use of these methods has been grown for modeling and testing the efficiency of these air conditioning systems. In this analysis, three-dimensional simulation of the operating room was performed. In this simulation, the air enters the room at a specified speed and temperature, and prevents concentrations of contamination from the surgery room by creating airflow from the ceiling to the floor and creating a positive pressure that meets the requirements of a ventilation system.
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Winning a James Beard Award is, in many ways, the highlight of a chef or restaurateur's career. It's validation of a life's work by a large group of his or her peers.
Winning a Beard can also mean financial success in many ways. From an uptick in reservations to a much-needed bank loan easier to get, a Beard can mean a chef is on the road to a bright future. A Beard-winning restaurant can also help a city by placing it on the country's radar as a culinary destination.
Over the past several years, Miami's dining scene has gotten more exciting, yet the Beard has been elusive.
Last year, former Miamian Nina Compton ousted Alter's Brad Kilgore in the Best Chef: South category and the Miami Herald's Carlos Frias won a journalism Beard in the Local Impact category in a separate ceremony held in New York City. José Andrés, who owns the Bazaar by José Andrés and Bazaar Mar, was the recipient of the 2018 Humanitarian of the Year Award.
Though Kilgore's gotten close for the past three years, he hasn't had his moment in the sun. Kilgore, along with a cadre of other Miami chefs, restaurateurs, and bar professionals are deserving of a Beard. Some chefs doing Beard-level work include Niven Patel (Ghee), Jeremy Ford (Stubborn Seed), and Bar Lab's Gabriel Orta and Elad Zvi for their cocktail program at Broken Shaker.
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From there, foundation representatives total the entries and judging begins. Different judging committees meet after the deadlines close to review the entries, confirm eligibility, and make the first cuts.
Semifinalists for the restaurant and chef awards are announced February 2019. All award nominees are announced March 2019, and the winners are announced at the media awards dinner on April 26, 2019, at Pier 60 in New York City. The James Beard Awards are announced at the annual awards gala on May 6, 2019, in Chicago.
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A sophisticated and compelling analysis of video and other evidence has pinpointed the Israeli occupation soldier who shot and killed seventeen-year-old Nadim Siam Nuwara six months ago.
A High Court judge has said that a victim of UK rendition and torture can proceed with his claims against the British Government.
In a judgment handed down today, Mr Justice Leggatt found that the court would be "failing in its duty" if it did not deal with the claims of Yunus Rahmatullah, from Pakistan. Mr Rahmatullah was seized by UK forces in Iraq in 2004 and tortured before being handed over to the US and rendered to Bagram prison in Afghanistan, via the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. He suffered a further decade of secret US detention before he was finally released in June this year.
The UK long denied any involvement in rendition, before being forced to correct the record in Parliament in 2008, when then-Defence Secretary John Hutton publically admitted that the rendition of Mr Rahmatullah and another man, Amanatullah Ali, had taken place.
A Special Report by the Chicago Tribune details declassified cables, from the Israeli State Archive, which add further evidence that Israel knew it was attacking an American ship as it attacked the USS Liberty.
The cables obtained by the Tribune are were published in a 2007 special report, and detail exchanges between the Israeli ambassador in Washington and the Israeli foreign minister in Tel Aviv. Five days after the attack, Israeli Ambassador Avraham Harman worried that the deliberate nature of the attack had been uncovered, and cabled Foreign Minister Abba Eban that a source code-named "Hamlet" had told him that the Americans had:"clear proof that from a certain stage the pilot discovered the identity of the ship and continued the attack anyway."
Don;t you hate a government that will allow Americans to be killed to placate a foreign nation?
Here's a typical example of what's being blacked-out:
This is a photo of a Ukrainian soldier guiding a truck-full of prisoners toward a ditch, to which the prisoners are then dragged one-by-one, and thrown in, and shot — then covered over with dirt after all the corpses (and perhaps some living bleeding survivors) are piled in it.
America, the Obama administration says, takes its history of torture seriously. President Barack Obama outlawed the harsh practices of the Bush era days after taking office. The government has released documents, attempting to demonstrate accountability. There's a 6,300-page Senate report that has been given to the White House and even a Justice Department investigation into abuses of the Bush years.
The United Nations doesn't buy it.
"We are not fully satisfied with that answer," said torture committee Chairman George Tugushi. "In our view, any investigation into possible ill treatment by public officials must comply with the criteria of thoroughness. And actually to be considered credible, it must be capable of leading to a determination of whether force or other methods used were or were not justified under the circumstances, and to the identification of the appropriate punishment of those concerned."
This was simply sound and fury, signifying nothing; a "good show", but nothing more.
And the most morally troubling part of the entire issue is, that the US government and military are still torturing.
As reported at theguardian.com on 25 January, 2014:
he United States Army Field Manual (AFM) on interrogation (pdf) has been sold to the American public and the world as a replacement for the brutal torture tactics used by the CIA and the Department of Defense during the Bush/Cheney administration. On 22 January 2009, President Obama released an executive order stating that any individual held by any US government agency "shall not be subjected to any interrogation technique or approach, or any treatment related to interrogation, that is not authorized by and listed in Army Field Manual 2 22.3." But a close reading of Department of Defense documents and investigations by numerous human rights agencies have shown that the current Army Field Manual itself uses techniques that are abusive and can even amount to torture. Disturbingly, the latest version of the AFM mimicked the Bush administration in separating out "war on terror" prisoners as not subject to the same protections and rights as regular prisoners of war. Military authorities then added an appendix to the AFM that included techniques that could only be used on such "detainees", ie, prisoners without POW status. Labeled Appendix M, and propounding an additional, special "technique" called "Separation", human rights and legal group have recognized that Appendix M includes numerous abusive techniques, including use of solitary confinement, sleep deprivation and sensory deprivation.
And force-feeding Gitmo inmates through naso-gastric tubes on a hunger strike because even if some of them have been cleared for release or have no charges brought against them, to punish them for their hunger strike?!?
Inhumane, and immoral.
And why will some of these guys never get released?!/
Because water boarding was not the worst torture done to them, in order to get them to "confess."
In its presentation Wednesday, the Obama administration stopped short of saying that the treaty also barred cruelty in overseas prisons where the United States had a detainee in its effective control but was not a governing authority. Such places appeared to include former secret prisons where the Central Intelligence Agency tortured suspects during the Bush administration and detention centers in Iraq and Afghanistan during wars there.
Still, the American officials stressed that domestic statutes and an executive order issued by Mr. Obama filled any gaps. Ms. McLeod and Mr. Malinowski said that there was no place the United States considered itself free to use torture or cruelty.
So, force feeding hunger strikers, many of whom either have not been charged with a crime, or have been cleared to go, but have not yet been released...is somehow NOT torture?!?!?
To anyone who has had this done, even by the most sympathetic and skilled medical practitioner, you know it is uncomfortable at best; but to have it done as punishment for a hunger strike?!?
Immoral in the extreme.
And I will tell you why these people will never be released, which is the source of their overwhelming frustration to begin with; and that is because waterboarding was not the worst atrocity which was done to them.
Jerusalem refuses to cooperate with members of the Schabas Commission, appointed to investigate conduct of Israel, Hamas during Operation Protective Edge.
A U.S. delegation will be asked by a United Nations panel on Wednesday if it believes the international Convention Against Torture applies to actions conducted by U.S. personnel outside of the nation's borders.
And nobody knows what the U.S. delegation is going to say.
Wednesday will mark the first U.S. appearance before the Committee Against Torture since the Obama Administration took office in 2008 and swore to put the abuses of the Bush White House's post-9/11 torture program behind it. Despite its firm stance against the operation, though, lawmakers and advocates are concerned that Wednesday could see the Obama White House nudge open the door for such a program to happen again.
I frankly wouldn't bet against the US delegates refusing to take a stand on this, one way or the other, because under the current administration, the US government is still torturing prisoners of war.
As reported in the guardian.com on 24 January, 2014:
The United States Army Field Manual (AFM) on interrogation (pdf) has been sold to the American public and the world as a replacement for the brutal torture tactics used by the CIA and the Department of Defense during the Bush/Cheney administration. On 22 January 2009, President Obama released an executive order stating that any individual held by any US government agency "shall not be subjected to any interrogation technique or approach, or any treatment related to interrogation, that is not authorized by and listed in Army Field Manual 2 22.3." But a close reading of Department of Defense documents and investigations by numerous human rights agencies have shown that the current Army Field Manual itself uses techniques that are abusive and can even amount to torture. Disturbingly, the latest version of the AFM mimicked the Bush administration in separating out "war on terror" prisoners as not subject to the same protections and rights as regular prisoners of war. Military authorities then added an appendix to the AFM that included techniques that could only be used on such "detainees", ie, prisoners without POW status. Labeled Appendix M, and propounding an additional, special "technique" called "Separation", human rights and legal group have recognized that Appendix M includes numerous abusive techniques, including use of solitary confinement, sleep deprivation and sensory deprivation. According to Appendix M, sleep can be limited to four hours per day for up to 30 days, and even more with approval. The same is true for use of isolation. Theoretically, sleep deprivation and solitary confinement could be extended indefinitely.
And what about the force feeding of hunger-striking prisoners of war at Gitmo, particularly if they have been cleared for release, or have not been charged, but will never see the light of day in their home country?!?
Any of you out there who have experienced being fed through a nasal gastric tube know that at best, it is a thoroughly uncomfortable procedure. At worst, it can cause serious pain and horrific side effects.
And to use it as punishment against those on a hunger strike, as the US military is doing at Gitmo?!?
Immoral and unconscionable in the extreme, in my view.
For the first time in the history of Brazil, the federal government is investigating the deaths and abuses suffered by Indigenous peoples during military dictatorship (1964-1985). The death toll may be twenty times more than previously known.
The Obama administration has prevailed in the first court challenge to its controversial force-feedings of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, even as the judge ruling in the government's favor criticized its lack of "common sense and compassion".
Gladys Kessler, a federal judge in Washington DC, denied Abu Wa'el Dhiab's request to significantly change the manner in which the US military transfers, restrains and forcibly feeds detainees on hunger strike to protest their confinement. Kessler's ruling, siding with the government in nearly every particular, is the denouement of a courtroom drama that in May saw a civilian judge ordering the military to briefly halt Dhiab's forced feeding.
Euro zone manufacturing is in decline. US manufacturing declined. GM is channel stuffing once again to boost sales. US construction is down, showing housing is imploding on itself. First time home buyers collapsed to a 27 year low. Spain wants to impose a Google tax. Those who purchased a policy last year from Obamacare do not want to signup again because of the higher premiums. Canada is banning visas from West Africa. FEMA drill scheduled for Nov for Ebola. Morocco on high alert over terrorist attacks from al-Qaeda. Central bankers pushing Ukraine back into war with the South Eastern people. The Islamic State flowing into Lebanon which allows the US to bomb in this region.
The 9/11 attacks on the United States undoubtedly benefited a number of actors, including the American military-intelligence complex, Israel, and most definitely, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Cold War-era, the area of responsibility for which had long been confined to Europe and North America, used the provisions of Article 5 of the NATO Charter – which states that an attack on one member is an attack on all – to extend NATO's power deep into Eurasia, particularly in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kyrgyzstan.
After engaging in out-of-area invasions and occupations of Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, and Syria and, again in Iraq, against the «Islamic State,» the «North Atlantic» military bloc has transformed itself from a Cold War defensive alliance into a global offensive axis of nations that acts with or without United Nations authorization.
A Libyan exile, who was allegedly tortured with the complicity of the British intelligence services, has won the right to have his case heard in open court, despite government attempts to prevent the case being heard in public.
Abdel Hakim Belhaj, and his wife Fatima Bouchar, accuse the British government of allowing the regime of former Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi to torture them in 2004, with MI6 and former Labour Foreign Secretary Jack Straw complicit in US-led rendition programs.
On the evening of October 29, 1956 Israeli troops shot and killed 49 unarmed Palestinian civilians in the village of Kafr Qasem, 20 km east of Tel Aviv near the green line.
Now the village has a population of 18,100 Palestinians, some of whom marched today alongside neighboring Arab villages to commemorate those killed 1956. People marched from the village center to the memorial site and placed candles for those killed; village leaders made speeches in commemoration.
The Central Intelligence Agency is firing back at allegations that it is responsible for delaying the release of the Senate report on the controversial post-9/11 interrogation program, insisting that lawmakers themselves are to blame.
Twelve Nobel Peace Prize winners penned an open letter to President Barack Obama urging his administration to release a U.S. Senate report on the CIA's use of torture.
In the letter, released Sunday night on TheCommunity.com, the laureates asked for "full disclosure to the American people of the extent and use of torture and rendition by American soldiers, operatives, and contractors, as well as the authorization of torture and rendition by American officials." The letter also pushed for a clear plan for the closing of Guantanamo Bay and other international sites where the U.S. has engaged in torture.
The letter was signed by José Ramos-Horta, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, F.W. De Klerk, Leymah Gbowee, Muhammad Yunus, John Hume, Bishop Carlos X. Belo, Betty Williams, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Jody Williams, Oscar Arias Sanchez and Mohammad ElBaradei.
The laureates spoke out sharply against any use of torture, but said that the U.S.' tactics were particularly troubling.
A short memo to those who signed this petition: what you are asking for will only happen when pigs fly.
At the end of the day, the US President Obama is no less a complete tool of the banks and the corporations which put him into office than was his Republican predecessor.
Banks and corporations love war, because war is profitable. And if it takes torture elicit confessions with which to justify wars, US leadership is certainly not morally opposed to torturing.
We have known, since the time of the Catholic Inquisition, that torture simply gets the tortured person to say what the torturer wants them to say in order to get the torture to stop; it rarely produces actionable intelligence, if at all.
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Obama administration are attempting to censor key facts from a long-delayed Senate report on the agency's illegal torture program. Secret negotiations between the Senate Intelligence Committee and the CIA regarding the censorship of the report, which has remained unpublished for nearly two years, continue to delay its release with no end in sight.
Every so often some smug liberal will ask the annoying question, Where is the Palestinian Gandhi? Why do the Palestinians not try non-violent resistance to Israeli occupation? And so on, in monotonous fashion.
Those same smug liberals do not bother to inform themselves about the basic realities of Israel's West Bank imprisonment regime.
Palestinian activists, human rights defenders, journalists and academics are frequently picked up off the streets, out of their homes in the middle of the night, in front of their families – Israel's thug soldiers take them off to jail and intern them without trial, often in conditions of torture and isolation.
Military courts then rubber-stamp the actions of Israel's military and spy agencies.
A US senator has criticized the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for censoring an upcoming Senate report on the spy agency's torture techniques.
According to sources familiar with the CIA inspector general report that details the alleged abuses by agency officials, CIA agents impersonated Senate staffers in order to gain access to Senate communications and drafts of the Intelligence Committee investigation. These sources requested anonymity because the details of the agency's inspector general report remain classified.
"If people knew the details of what they actually did to hack into the Senate computers to go search for the torture document, jaws would drop. It's straight out of a movie," said one Senate source familiar with the document.
The Ukraine Army, backed by both the U.S. and NATO throughout its military campaign against rebel factions in eastern regions of the country over recent months, appears to have fired cluster munitions on the city of Donetsk earlier this month, according to a Human Rights Watch investigation and independent reporting by the New York Times.
Citing the HRW report, physical evidence and its own interviews with both witnesses and victims, the Times reports:
Sites where rockets fell in the city on Oct. 2 and Oct. 5 showed clear signs that cluster munitions had been fired from the direction of army-held territory, where misfired artillery rockets still containing cluster bomblets were found by villagers in farm fields.
The two attacks wounded at least six people and killed a Swiss employee of the International Red Cross based in Donetsk.
UPDATE: As I read this notice from ClinicalTrials.gov, a service of the US National Institutes of Health, the US Government and Pharmaceutical corporations have been conducting ebola tests on humans. http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02041715
This is official confirmation of Dr. Boyle and Dr. Broderick's reports that the US government has conducted ebola experiments. Perhaps the vaccine was not effective, and those on whom the experiment was conducted came down with ebola and perhaps also employees in the US bio-warfare laboratories located in Africa where the experiment was conducted.
It appears that the test consists of giving an ebola vaccine and then exposing the unaware person to ebola, apparently an engineered version for bio-warfare. Whatever the tests are, it is clear that Boyle and Broderick in their articles below are correct that experimentation with ebola by the US government is underway.
In Sunday's report, Savage wrote that Obama, then a US senator, spoke out adamantly against Pres. Bush when it was revealed in 2005 that his administration had been interpreting the UN treaty in a manner that they argued made it acceptable for CIA and Pentagon officials to disregard the prohibitions against torture if they weren't on American soil.
Obama the president later condemned that reasoning with an executive order "ensuring lawful interrogations," Savage added, although next month's meeting may change that.
The government is holding back as many as 2,100 never-released images from Abu Ghraib and other detention centers overseas. The ACLU first sued for their release 10 years ago, and in August, District Court Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled that the government must publish the photos unless it can defend withholding them on an individualized basis.
Tomorrow the government will appear in court and tell Judge Hellerstein and the ACLU what it plans to do.
"The photos were being stored on Lois Lerner's hard drive. Honest!" -- Official White Horse Souse
Last week the U.S. government submitted to the District Court in Washington, D.C., the most recent standard operating procedures (SOPs) for force-feeding in the Guantánamo Bay detention facility. What remains of the documents, after redactions, is a shameful exercise in doublespeak that attempts to disguise what is really happening in the prison.
The SOPs were submitted in a case brought by Abu Wa'el Dhiab, an inmate represented by Reprieve, the international human rights organization that I head. Dhiab is a 43-year-old Syrian and father of four who has been held without trial or charge in Guantánamo for 12 years. The U.S. government told Dhiab four years ago that he was cleared for release, and yet to this day he remains behind bars. In a last resort to get back to his wife and children, he, along with many others, embarked on a hunger strike. His case concerns the manner in which that entirely legitimate hunger strike has been brutally opposed by the prison authorities.
That this is being done to prisoners of war cleared for release, but have not been released, as they are protesting their status through hunger strikes, is horrifically inhumane.
I will tell you the reason many of these men, cleared for release, have not been released, and will not be released: there have been far worse things done to them than waterboarding. As reported at thinkprogress.org, on 9 February, 2009:
Last week, two British High Court judges ruled against releasing documents describing the treatment of Binyam Mohamed, a British resident who is currently being held at Guantanamo Bay. The judges said the Bush administration "had threatened to withhold intelligence cooperation with Britain if the information were made public." But The Daily Telegraph reported over the weekend that the documents actually "contained details of how British intelligence officers supplied information to [Mohamed's] captors and contributed questions while he was brutally tortured." In fact, it was British officials, not the Americans, who pressured Foreign Secretary David Miliband "to do nothing that would leave serving MI6 officers open to prosecution." According to the Telegraph's sources, the documents describe particularly gruesome interrogation tactics: The 25 lines edited out of the court papers contained details of how Mr Mohamed's genitals were sliced with a scalpel and other torture methods so extreme that waterboarding, the controversial technique of simulated drowning, "is very far down the list of things they did," the official said. Another source familiar with the case said: "British intelligence officers knew about the torture and didn't do anything about it."
Your tax dollars at work, folks: doesn't it make you feel PROUD?!?!?
A soon-to-be released Senate report on the CIA doesn't assess the responsibility of former President George W. Bush or his top aides for any of the abuses of the agency's detention and interrogation program, avoiding a full public accounting of one of the darkest chapters of the war on terror.
"This report is not about the White House. It's not about the president. It's not about criminal liability. It's about the CIA's actions or inactions," said a person familiar with the document, who asked not to be further identified because the executive summary – the only part to that will be made public – still is in the final stages of declassification.
"The position of the American Psychological Association is clear and unequivocal: For more than 25 years, the association has absolutely condemned any psychologist participation in torture."
– Statement by the APA, November 2013
"The American Psychological Association, the largest professional organization for psychologists, worked assiduously to protect the psychologists who did get involved in the torture program."
–James Risen, Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War, October 2014
Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) on Friday vowed to block all legislation in the Senate with a prolonged filibuster if President Obama tries to transfer detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the United States.
A day after Tea Party hero Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) campaigned with him in Wichita, Roberts threatened to wage a marathon talk session similar to the one Cruz held last year to protest the implementation of ObamaCare.
"I stopped him once from trying to send a Gitmo terrorist to Leavenworth. I shall do it again, I shall do it again and if he tries it again I will shut down the Senate," Roberts said, referring to the military prison located sixty miles east of his campaign headquarters in Topeka where he spoke to campaign volunteers.
Here's the deal.
As reported at defenseone.com in June of this year:
Here are the facts about the status of the detainees at Gitmo. The administration has already cleared 78 of the 149 remaining prisoners for transfer. Having never been charged with a crime, these detainees have since been deemed to pose no national security threat by defense and intelligence officials and could be set for departure at any time.
So over what precisely does Senator Roberts have his knickers in a twist about?!?
IS it perhaps that water-boarding is not the worst thing that was done to them to get them to confess, in the very midieval US-created, or sponsored torture?!?
Is it perhaps that moral questions would be asked, about why the Bush administration encouraged torture, when it has been known, since the Catholic Inquisition, that torture only gets the tortured person to say just what his torturer wants to hear to get the torture to stop?!?
In a report from thinkprogress.org,dated 9 February, 2009, the following was reported to have been done to Binyam Mohamed, a British resident:
Source: Think Progress Gitmo Detainee's 'Genitals Were Sliced With A Scalpel,' Waterboarding 'Far Down The List Of Things They Did' Last week, two British High Court judges ruled against releasing documents describing the treatment of Binyam Mohamed, a British resident who is currently being held at Guantanamo Bay. The judges said the Bush administration "had threatened to withhold intelligence cooperation with Britain if the information were made public." But The Daily Telegraph reported over the weekend that the documents actually "contained details of how British intelligence officers supplied information to (Mohamed's) captors and contributed questions while he was brutally tortured." In fact, it was British officials, not the Americans, who pressured Foreign Secretary David Miliband "to do nothing that would leave serving MI6 officers open to prosecution." According to the Telegraph's sources, the documents describe particularly gruesome interrogation tactics: The 25 lines edited out of the court papers contained details of how Mr Mohamed's genitals were sliced with a scalpel and other torture methods so extreme that waterboarding, the controversial technique of simulated drowning, "is very far down the list of things they did," the official said. Another source familiar with the case said: "British intelligence officers knew about the torture and didn't do anything about it."
I would really like to press Senator Roberts about how justified he beleived this treatment was of this man, and if he would be willing to undergo such a procedure to see for himself just how it feels.
The use of torture by the US government (or outsourced to another government) does two things.
First, it lets the world know that those values US politicians love to publicly embrace, like justice, human rights, and democracy, are not observed here in the slightest, when it comes to prisoners of war.
Secondly, it gives carte blanch to those countries which do not very much like the US to torture both US civilians and our millitary.
Those with family and friends in the military, please chew on that last one for awhile.
It's a report that's been the talk of Washington's intelligence community for months, yet lawyers for the nation's premier intelligence agency — the CIA — improbably maintained it didn't have a copy.
That claim evaporated Tuesday as a Justice Department lawyer said the government was wrong when it told a federal judge that the Central Intelligence Agency did not have a copy of the unabridged version of a Senate committee report on treatment of detainees. In fact, the CIA does have a copy of the 6,300-page report, DOJ attorney Vesper Mei said.
"There was a miscommunication over at the agency as to what we were looking for," Mei told U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg at a court session Tuesday. "They didn't realize that they had it."
The CIA doesn't want the taxpaying American public to know how horrifically they tortured - or outsourced torture - on American held prisoners of war.
And this is precisely the reason we should know.
Though cleared for release, prisoner says he should not be brutalized by U.S. for protesting indefinite detention
A specialized community active in treating cancer patients in the Gaza Strip strongly criticized Israel for impeding treatment of Palestinian cancer patients, and said the Zionists' wars on Gazans have caused a sudden growth in the spread of cancerous patients in the besieged population.
A federal judge on Friday ordered the public release of 28 videotapes of a hunger-striking Guantanamo Bay prisoner strike being forcibly removed from his cell and force-fed.
Lawyers for the prisoner, Abu Wa'el Dhiab, have challenged his treatment as abusive.
Numerous news media outlets, including The Associated Press, had asked the court on June 20 to unseal the videotapes, which are classified "secret."
President Obama has turned out to be another failed big government president, who put America into a new war, spied on its own citizens, and made a disastrous health care reform, Executive Director of the Libertarian Party Carla Howell told RT.
RT: The US strikes on ISIS have already cost it around $780-930 million, which is not pleasant news for the American taxpayers but makes a profit for the industries involved. Does President Obama even know about discontent among his citizens?
Carla Howell: I'm sure he is fully informed; he has got an enormous staff to keep him informed of what is going on. Clearly, what he is trying to do is take credit for ending the war in Iraq, and yet at the same time he is beholden to the military industrial complex in America, their special interests, that want more military funding regardless of whether our Generals even want it or not. So he is trying to walk that line.
This President has been an epic fail on everything in which he has intervened.
On immigration; wars in the Middle East; Obamacare; Ebolagate; IRSgate, APgate, and NSAgate, he continues to to undercut working Americans, and makes life worse for most American people.
But you have to understand that such behaviour is completely predictable for a man beholden to the large corporations (including the banks) which have funded the election cycles in which he was (allegedly) elected and re-elected.
Large corporations love illegal immigration, because it cuts the cost of doing business; large corporations love wars, because wars mean profit, for so many companies; and large pharmaceutical corporations love illness, because treatments - rather than cures - are far more profitable.
His faux populism is just an act, and not a terribly convincing act at that; no more, no less.
At the end of the day, this man is a slave to all those who put him in power for one reason, and one reason only; profit.
And he has, and continues, to deliver that for them.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got into a heated argument with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday night, according to Israeli officials, over the planned UN investigation into Israel attacking UN sites in the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu had demanded Ban postpone the probe into the attacks indefinitely, pending Israel releasing its own inquiry results. He also accused Ban of "discriminating" against Israel by wanting to probe the attacks on UN sites full of civilians at all.
A memo to Ban Ki-Moon: don't listen to this bully.
Do these investigations, and do them NOW.
The shelling of schools and hospitals,and the murder of innocent women and children, where GPS coordinates were given to the IDF to protect those sheltering there from harm, is a war crime, period, end of discussion, and the IDF and the Israeli government should be held legally responsible.
A federal judge signaled on Wednesday he may order the U.S. government to release as many as 2,000 photographs depicting the alleged harsh treatment of detainees in U.S. custody at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and other sites.
U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein in New York ruled the U.S. Department of Defense had failed to show why releasing the photographs would endanger the lives of American soldiers and workers abroad.
Attorneys for the United States government say that an upcoming court hearing concerning the force-feeding practices used on a Guantanamo Bay detainee should be held almost entirely behind closed doors.
The motion, filed by US attorneys on Friday in District Court for the District of Columbia, asks that the preliminary injunction hearing for Gitmo detainee Abu Wa'el Dhiab scheduled for early next month be conducted largely in secret over supposed national security concerns.
"As an initial matter, the hearing should be closed in order to prevent any unauthorized disclosure of classified or protected information," the motion reads in part. "Furthermore, the hearing should be closed because, although portions of the materials in the record in this case are unclassified, conducting an open hearing in this case would impose significant burdens on the parties and the Court."
There are NO valid "national security concerns" only "deep embarrassment concerns."
Anyone whose doctor has prescribed this process in their convalescence from an illness understands that even in the most competent and compassionate hands, it is still uncomfortable as hell.
To use this as a punishment for a hunger strike (as it has been primarily practiced at Gitmo, in a restraint chair) is both immoral and inhumane.
I would very strongly suggest that this is being done to prevent these hunger strikers from dying to prevent autopsies being leaked, which may well show the extent to which these men had been tortured in order to get them to confess to whatever their torturers wanted to hear.
Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Donetsk Alexander Zakharchenko told the Russian News Service that there were three burials of civilians found - about 40 dead bodies of civilians, prisoners of war and Ukrainian militia soldiers.
According to Zakharchenko, an examination of the bodies showed that the victims lacked internal organs. However, he noted, it remains unclear whether the organs had been harvested at the time when the victims were alive or dead.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement on Friday that Mahmud Abbas' speech, in which he said Israel conducted a "war of genocide" in Gaza, was "offensive".
Israel unleashed aerial attacks on Gaza in early July and later expanded its military campaign with a ground invasion into the Palestinian territory. Over 2,130 Palestinians lost their lives and some 11,000 were injured.
"Abbas' speech today included offensive characterizations that were deeply disappointing and which we reject," read the statement.
Yeah, and Mussolini rejected accusations that the Nazis were committing atrocities, too! Didn't change the reality, did it?
According to a report by Al-Jazeera, which is aligned with Qatar, a vehement supporter of the U.S. military campaign against ISIS, missiles targeting the town of Kafr Diryan destroyed two residential areas, killing 27 people, most of whom were civilians.
"The locals say that this is the first time that they were attacked by missiles since the outbreak of Syrian revolution. The paradox, they say, is they were bombed not by the Syrian regime, but by an international coalition which killed and wounded many of them under the pretext of fighting terrorism," states the report.
One of the locals interviewed for the report asserted that no ISIS militants were even active in the area.
One of the most bizarre DEA stings to date and one which may have links to government protected overseas drug-running operations.
A top adviser to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned the Bush administration that its use of "cruel, inhuman or degrading" interrogation techniques like waterboarding were "a felony war crime."
What's more, newly obtained documents reveal that State Department counselor Philip Zelikow told the Bush team in 2006 that using the controversial interrogation techniques were "prohibited" under U.S. law — "even if there is a compelling state interest asserted to justify them."
The US Federal Government will never have to demonstrate one shred of moral conscience again in its existence, thanks for the "unholy trinity" of Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld who defiled some the highest offices in this country with their justification of the use of torture, and their worship at the altar of corporate gain above all else.
And of course, President Obama, who is cut from precisely the same sociopathic cloth as are these men, declared that we, as a nation, had to look "forward, not backward" and away from the ruinous damage they had inflicted, not only to countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, but also, to the moral fiber of this country.
After his inauguration, Obama became not only the country's Commander in Chief, but also assumed the position of a new kind of commander, the "Enabler in Chief", soothingly assuring US citizens that "everything was quite all right, and there was nothing to really worry about" concerning the crimes perpetrated under Bush's watch.
Unfortunately, on this issue, President Obama has been utterly, shamefully, and deeply morally wrong.
The reality that there have been no prosecutions of any of the members of the Bush administration for torture and crimes against humanity, demonstrates, clearly, that we are no longer a nation of laws, but a nation of "national postures" to be justified and rationalized, whenever convenient, no matter the cost to our deeply-enshrined and respectful understanding of American justice and due process.
So welcome, my friends, to a Post-Constitutional Republic; where those freedoms and guarantees which used to be secured by the Constitution and Bill of Rights no longer exist; where indefinite detention without due process, and extrajudicial assassinations of American citizens, and yes - even torture - have been institutionalized and "sanitized" - for our alleged protection.
There now: doesn't that make you feel more safe already?!?
Contrary to the image of a dangerous gun nut put out in the media in an effort to justify the burning of the church, official BATF records prove that David Koresch was rather harmless, so much so that the BATF agents invited him to go shooting with them just 9 days before they raided the church. Koresch supplied the ammunition. The BATF agents allowed Koresch to try out their weapons.
The US Government justifies interventions in countries like Syria with the claim "They are murdering innocent people." Yet the US Government does not have a blemish-free history, having tried to stage a publicity-seeking raid then when that turned into a PR disaster, gassing a church full of innocent women and children to death with a poison gas that is illegal to use on enemy troops, then tried to cover it up by claiming mass suicide, then bulldozing the remains and burying the remains in a secret location. Thus, the US Government lacks the moral right to point fingers at anyone.
The best and cheapest way of protecting our national security is simply to eject the madmen from the Foreign Office and stop pimping for the US and its mad-dog protegé.
Let's see how quickly the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), with Mr Bellingham's help, can get their skates on and straighten out the simple matter of Palestine's status so that Israel's strutting psychopaths can finally be brought to book.
Five men accused of planning and executing the 9/11 terrorist attacks face the death penalty in a Guantanamo war crimes tribunal.
It was reported on BBC News tonight that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others will be charged with orchestrating the September 11 attacks.
What the report omitted to say was that many sources, including the New York Times (could any institution be less anti-establishment?), reported in April 2009 that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had been waterboarded 183 times in Guantanano Bay.
The BBC report went on to say, rather comically in the circumstances, was that "Khalid Sheikh Mohammed admits everything relating to the 9/11 attacks from A to Z."
I like to think that this blog specialises in stating the obvious but here is something SO obvious that it does not need stating.
How long will we and our useless, zombified representatives continue to put up with this stuff?
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information." -- US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11.
Neve Gordon explains why Israel's plans to move entire communities of its own Bedouin citizens from their ancestral lands in the Negev and put them in townships will deprive them of their livelihood and land rights.
"I asked Abu Afash what he thinks will happen if they do not reach an agreement with the government. He paused for a moment and then replied that … 'they will not put us on buses and move us, they will simply shut down the schools and wait. When we see we cannot send our children to school we will "willingly" move'.
"This is how forced relocation becomes voluntary and how Israel will likely represent it to the world." (Neve Gordon)
"I asked Abu Afash what he thinks will happen if they do not reach an agreement with the government. He paused for a moment and then replied that … 'they will not put us on buses and move us, they will simply shut down the schools and wait. When we see we cannot send our children to school we will "willingly" move'.
"This is how forced relocation becomes voluntary and how Israel will likely represent it to the world." (Neve Gordon)
"In small clumsy letters he wrote: April 4th, 1984."
"His pen had slid voluptuously over the smooth paper, printing in large neat capitals -
over and over again, filling half a page." ~ 1984
A former Al Jazeera correspondent reveals the news outlet smuggled Satellite internet and phone communication tools to the Syria rebels through Lebanon.
Leaked emails show that US Mercenaries are working with armed terrorists in Syria to overthrow Assad at the request of and under air cover of US officials.
The timeline of how we went from a nation of liberty to one of forced false confessions revealed in release of the key document the US used to justify torture.
Air Force Col. Steven Kleinman, a career military intelligence officer recognized as one of the DOD's most effective interrogators as well a former SERE instructor and director of intelligence for JPRA's teaching academy, said he immediately knew the true value of the PREAL manual if employed as part of an interrogation program.
"This is the guidebook to getting false confessions, a system drawn specifically from the communist interrogation model that was used to generate propaganda rather than intelligence," Kleinman said in an interview. "If your goal is to obtain useful and reliable information this is not the source book you should be using."
So, let me wrap my head around this: US agencies signed off on torture methods in order to gain false confessions which were of absolutely no use to them in discerning where clear and present danger existed, to create confessions to adhere to a pre-determined outcome?!?
The reason many of our prisoners of war( forgive me, the terminology almost slipped my mind; "enemy combatants", currently warehoused at Guantanamo without due process)will never be released is that water-boarding wasn't the worst thing done to them in order to extract these false confessions.
A memo about harsh interrogation techniques shows that a former US state department official strongly dissented from the Bush administration's secret legal view in 2005 that an international treaty against torture did not apply to CIA interrogations in foreign countries.
Until now, the February 2006 analysis by Philip Zelikow has been a high-level, classified internal critique of the Bush administration's controversial interrogation policies. At the time he wrote his criticism, Zelikow was secretary of state Condoleezza Rice's representative on terrorism issues to the national security council's deputies committee.
"We agree that torture is bad ... unless we decide otherwise!" -- Official White Horse Souse
Point of no return: The US government broadens the NDAA definition of people and organizations that support terrorism to include Bradley Manning and Wikileaks
Even though Obama has declared it illegal and the US has even prosecuted it as a war crime, the CIA argues that waterboarding is a classified intelligence gathering method not subject to FOIA
Invisible Children disables comments on viral propaganda video + meet the real Joseph Kony.
Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer
Activist Post
As the US State Department, USAID-centric Invisible Children psy-op KONY 2012 collapses, Invisible Children has disabled comments on their viral YouTube video.
When last checked, negative comments were voted to the top and a cascading effect of skepticism as well as damning facts began drowning out the initial confusion, sympathy, and emotional knee-jerk support the propaganda video purposefully created and preyed upon...
LATEST UPDATE: Chip's tortured body was reported to have washed up on a beach in Panama in early 2007.
Americans often proclaim our nation as a symbol of freedom to the world while dismissing nations such as Cuba and China as categorically unfree. Yet, objectively, we may be only half right. Those countries do lack basic individual rights such as due process, placing them outside any reasonable definition of "free," but the United States now has much more in common with such regimes than anyone may like to admit.
These countries also have constitutions that purport to guarantee freedoms and rights. But their governments have broad discretion in denying those rights and few real avenues for challenges by citizens — precisely the problem with the new laws in this country.
The list of powers acquired by the U.S. government since 9/11 puts us in rather troubling company.
Dana Loesch, a CNN contributor, made a statement on her radio show that she would "drop trou and do it too." The act she was talking about was joining US Marines to urinate on dead Afghans. Earlier this week a video of US Marines urinating on dead Afghans went viral and caused pandemonium. Most people condemn the actions of the Marines while others applaud their brutal actions. Rick Sanchez, journalist, author and former CNN host, joins us for more.
TEHRAN, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Iran's currency has slid 20 percent against the dollar in the last week despite central bank intervention, and Iranians concerned about the economy said on Tuesday attempts to send text messages using the word "dollar" appeared to be blocked.
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Administration officials and Washington lawmakers indicated the United States is not willing to urge Israel to lift its blockade of Gaza, even as activists seek to highlight the issue after civilian deaths during Israel's interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla.
With the recent release of the United Nations Human Rights Council report condemning the brutal Israeli attack on the flotilla and declaring the blockade of Gaza a violation of international law, every single member of the United States Government who supports that blockade is an accessory after-the-fact in a violation of international law. How much longer will we live in a nation run by criminals willing to subvert the laws for Israel's gains?
Back in 1948 and 1949, the USSR imposed a blockade on West Berlin to starve that nation into abandoning their elected leaders and accepting Soviet rule. This is identical to the situation in Gaza where Israel is trying to starve the Palestinians into abandoning their elected leaders and accepting Israeli rule.
But back in 19648, we had a far more moral and principled government that had the spine to stand up for what is right, and the US and its allies launched the Berlin Airlift, flying 200,000 flights into Berlin, delivering 13,000 tons of goods per day for a year until the blockade collapsed.
Oh to have real leaders like that again!
"On the radio talk shows and T.V.You hear one thing again and againHow the U.S.A. stands for freedomAnd we come to the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we call our friendsThese governments killing their own?Or the people who finally can't take anymoreSo they pick up a gun, or a brick, or a stone
And there are lives in the balanceThere are people under fireThere are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire..." -- Jackson Browne "Lives in the Balance"
But who are the ones that we call our friendsThese governments killing their own?Or the people who finally can't take anymoreSo they pick up a gun, or a brick, or a stone
And there are lives in the balanceThere are people under fireThere are children at the cannons
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With nearly one in three young adults considered too overweight to enter into military service, would-be recruits are taking drastic measures to lose weight and join the military. They will find that the Army height and weight recruitment standards are actually far more lenient than standards for active duty service members.
A comparison of maximum allowable height, weight and percent body fat for new recruits as compared to the standards for active duty Soldiers shows the difference in standards. Male recruits, age group 17-20, may have up to 6% higher body fat and can weigh an average of 9 ½ pounds more than their active duty counterparts. Female recruits, age group 17-20, may have 2% more body fat and weigh an average of 4½ pounds more than active duty female Soldiers.
New recruits are given 180 days from the time they enter military service to achieve the standards expected for the active duty population. If they fail to do so, they are flagged and enrolled in the Army Body Composition Program where they may be chaptered out of the Army.
Working as an Army dietitian, I am familiar with the struggle for Soldiers to lose weight and maintain weight loss. It is not uncommon for Soldiers to report weight loss of 50 or more pounds to meet the initial recruitment standards for height, weight and body fat.
Soldiers have shared the drastic, unhealthy measures they take to lose weight, including starvation diets and/or excessive exercise. The expectation that they must lose an additional amount of weight and/or body fat to satisfy active duty standards is, to put it plainly, unrealistic.
Weight loss and even weight maintenance is tough for anyone and Soldiers are no exception. Over time, Soldiers regain rather than lose weight, increasing their risk of injury and disease. Indeed, the negative repercussions of unhealthy weight loss strategies are most notable in the long run.
Highly restrictive diets are known to slow metabolism, increase muscle loss, and propagate binge eating behaviors. Once in the active military, Soldiers are faced with overcoming these challenges, while having to lose additional weight and maintaining the weight they have lost.
Staggering healthcare costs associated with weight related injuries and diseases supports a reexamination of current recruitment height/weight and body fat standards. One proposal is to implement a screening program for recruits who report weight loss of 20 or more pounds prior to entry into service.
Identifying these individuals as "at risk" for weight regain early on can assist military health professionals to start early interventions before an injury, disease state or weight regain occurs.
Finally, height, weight and body fat standards should be consistent from entry to military service through active duty military service. If recruits are accepted into service under one standard, is it reasonable to hold them accountable to a more stringent standard once they have already signed on the dotted line?
— Capt. Kira P. Heartwick is an Army dietitian with the Army's Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F) pilot program.


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Editorial: Can government truly be run like a business?
Jay Albrecht
Wednesday, Sep 5, 2012
The real question is…just how likely and possible is that to pull off? Given pressure from constituents of all varieties and the "normal" messed up way the political system tends to work, especially at the federal level, can our legislators ever get past all the hurdles to actually put good business sense to work?
It seems even good business people, those who have built or been a significant part of strong companies, often lose their way after achieving an election victory. There must be something to the incredible intimidation and overwhelming amount of information that comes from being a senator, representative or other elected official at virtually any level of government.
This is just some of what I was thinking as I listened to Tennessee's U.S. Senator Bob Corker (Rep.) speak to a public forum in mid-August. I'll make no bones about the fact that I like Senator Corker and what he stands for as he represents Tennessee the best way he knows how. I really like the fact that he comes from a business background and seems to try hard to apply those same business principles to our federal government.
However, as I listened to him speak about issues facing America, his frustration level was obvious. Most of that angst centered around the fact that our country's financial and overall economic situation was not good – and certain parts of it (medicare, social security) were facing possible bankruptcy years down the road if nothing is done now to fix it. Of course, Corker has his own ideas about what should be done, as does pretty much every member of Congress. But the real issue is the fact that Congress as a whole spends too much time playing politics and not enough time facing the real challenges of the day.
Any business that attempted to operate on such a deficit for the period of time this country has, and continually chooses to not put measures in place that fix the problem, would eventually go under. Any business that couldn't control spending any better than America does would certainly be in financial crisis. Any business that has such poor leadership (far too much of Congress) would suffer greatly. Any business that doesn't create and work from a timely budget that ensures more income than expenditures will fail.
While our nation's president is effectively our CEO, and the one who largely sets the tenor for how our national business is operated, the fault also lies with Congress at the federal level and other elected officials at local levels who don't see the big picture. Understanding it's easier said than done to put quality business practices to use in government, it can be done with the right people making it happen. To me, it's only logical that good business practices also equal good government largely across the board.
We need more business-thinking people like Senator Corker in Congress and at all levels of government, including at the top. This is a key election year, as is every election, for this very reason. No matter your party of choice, it is critical that you vote – and even more vital that you consider what's really important to you when making the decision about who to put that checkmark beside when casting your ballot.
It's time we bring good business back to government, in every way, and put "politics" aside. Our country and our businesses depend on it!
Jay Albrecht is the publisher of the Upper Cumberland Business Journal. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or (931) 528-8852.
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Fine Motor Work Station or Centre Activity
Creating patterns, swirls, squiggles and zig-zags with buttons, children will have so much fun playing with this fine motor work station or learning centre activity.
Children enjoy hands-on activities and the bright colours and buttons are so engaging and motivating for children.
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This activity can be utilised as a simple work station. It also promotes fine motor and coordination skills as children are picking up and placing glass gems onto the paper using the pincer grip action.
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Family Ties Fishing and Outdoor Adventures is located on the famous Yentna River of Lake Creek Alaska. The peaceful yet swift river in South Central Alaska is known for its superior salmon species as well as Rainbow Trout, Northern Pike and Arctic Grayling. The crystal clear water set with mountain terrains and bordered by lush trees is a sight to see. Accessible by Bush Flight only. Come stay a day or a week away in the rustic scenery at Family Ties!
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Daiya may very well have perfected the vegan cheesecake. Let's just say we've fallen head over heels for its line of creamy, tapioca-based cheese nestled in a crumbly graham cracker crust. We topped the Original with a handful of fresh berries, and dragged our forks through the luscious, sweet and tangy dessert until nothing but crumbs remained. Daiya's line includes a pleasant Tart Lime Cheesecake, a bright and fruity Strawberry Cheesecake, and a Chocolate Cheesecake with a chocolate crumble crust. Warning: bringing any one of these cakes to a dinner party may outshine the entrée.
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