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Reporting and Complaint Process
Filing a Complaint
A student who wants to make a complaint alleging that he or she has been the victim of sexual misconduct may contact the Dean of Students or his/her designee at 388-6116, Campus Safety at 388-6911, or the Title IX Coordinator or Deputy Coordinator. The individual who receives the complaint will review with the complainant the options available to address the incident.
More information is available at our Sexual Assault Resources website.
The College offers both informal and formal resolution options. Generally, the College seeks to follow the complainant's wishes as to which procedure to pursue. However, there may be a situation in which, due to the nature of the allegations, informal resolution is inappropriate. This decision will be based on factors such as the egregiousness of the allegations (e.g., complaints alleging a sexual assault), whether the accused student is a repeat offender, or whether there is otherwise reason to believe that the safety or interests of the campus community demand adjudication. In those instances, the College will apply the formal procedure only.
Interim Measures
In cases involving allegations of sexual harassment, sexual assault, sexual misconduct, or sexual exploitation, the Dean of Students (or designee), regardless of whether the complainant wishes to pursue a formal or informal resolution or no resolution, after making a reasonable effort to meet with the parties involved, if appropriate to do so, may issue a "no contact" directive. A "no contact" directive typically will include a directive that the parties refrain from having contact with one another, directly or through proxies, whether in person or via electronic means, pending the investigation and, if applicable, the hearing. The Dean of Students (or designee) shall make the "no contact" directive available to the parties as soon as it is issued. In the event the Dean of Students (or designee) is notified of a violation of the terms of a "no contact" directive, the party in alleged violation of the "no contact" directive shall be provided an opportunity to review the matter with the Dean of Students (or designee). If the Dean of Students (or designee), based upon the information available, decides that the "no contact" directive has been violated, the Dean of Students (or designee) may suspend the party temporary pending the resolution of the underlying complaint. The Dean of Students (or designee) may also take further protective action that he/she deems appropriate concerning the interaction of the parties pending the hearing, if any, including without limitation directing the Dean of Studies to alter the student's academic schedule and/or the Director of Campus Housing to alter the student's housing.
Sexual Misconduct Investigation
Investigation Overview
Notification of Incident or Charges
The Dean of Students or designee will inform the accused that he/she has been named in a sexual misconduct incident report and he/she is being investigated. If formal charges have been filed, the Dean of Students or designee will notify the accused that the incident is being formally investigated.
Cooperation with Investigator
Should the accused who has been notified of an investigation fail to cooperate with the investigator, the investigation may proceed, a finding may be reached, and a sanction may be imposed based on the information that is available.
Leniency Regarding Other Policy Violations
If prior to or during the investigation the College becomes aware that additional College policies may have been violated, additional charges may be added to, and resolved through, this investigation. While not condoning infractions of any kind, the College considers reporting incidents of sexual misconduct to be of paramount importance. Therefore, to encourage reporting, the College may, where appropriate, offer leniency with respect to other policy violations that may be revealed as a result of a report. The nature and scope of leniency will depend on the particular circumstances involved. The Dean of Students or designee will have sole discretion in determining the appropriate course of action. In the event that additional charges are added to the investigation, the Dean of Students or designee will notify the student of those charges promptly and in writing.
Investigation Termination
The College may choose to terminate the investigation at any time. The complainant may request that charges be withdrawn at any time. The College will attempt to honor the wishes of the complainant. However, to accommodate cases where compelling evidence suggests there is significant individual or community safety concerns, the decision to discontinue an investigation or dismiss charges is within the sole discretion of the College.
The Investigation
Investigator's Charge
The Dean of Student, or designee, in conjunction with the Director of Campus Safety will appoint an investigator. The investigation will be conducted as promptly and equitable as possible without compromising thoroughness. The investigator is expected to:
o Conduct the investigation in a thorough, impartial, and expeditious manner.
o Make all findings in a fair and objective manner.
o Submit a written investigation report to the Dean of Students or designee in a timely manner.
Investigator's Authority
The investigator is authorized to contact any and all individuals. The College recognizes, however, that individuals who are bound by legal privileges may not be able to disclose privileged information unless an exception applies. The investigator is authorized to access all relevant records except those legally protected as confidential or privileged and may involve local law enforcement to collect any additional evidence relevant to the charges.
Local Law Enforcement
Campus Safety will be prompted to notify local law enforcement if a violent felony is suspected to have occurred and/or when physical evidence of the sexual misconduct incident is available and/or offered; to the fullest extent permitted by law, the identity of the survivor/complainant will not be disclosed without his/her permission being given. Physical evidence must be properly documented and stored by local law enforcement to maintain the ability for it to be presented as evidence and used in a legal case if a complaint is filed by the survivor/complainant with local law enforcement.
Information regarding Campus Safety's Emergency Response Protocol can be found at:http://www.union.edu/offices/safety/
Evidence and Witnesses
The complainant and accused will be asked to identify all relevant evidence that they would like the investigator to review, as well as witnesses they would like the investigator to interview. Both parties may provide, if they wish, a list of questions they would like the investigator to ask of particular witnesses or of each other. The investigator is not required to consider the evidence submitted or interview any particular witness, even if identified by one of the parties, nor to ask questions provided by either party. However, in determining whether to interview witnesses or review evidence, the investigator will consider such factors as equity, fairness, thoroughness, and impartial treatment of both parties.
Expectations about Information and Statements
All participants in an investigation are expected to cooperate fully by providing complete, accurate, and truthful information. They may also be expected to sign statements or other documents memorializing the information they provide and may be asked to keep the substance of the interview confidential. Failure to cooperate fully with the investigator may subject the student to a full range of disciplinary actions, as applicable.
Rulings on Evidence and Procedures
Formal rules of evidence do not apply in College disciplinary proceedings. The Chair of the Judicial Board will make rulings on evidentiary or procedural questions related to the adjudication process.
Response by Parties to Investigation
At the conclusion of the investigation, the Dean of Students (or designee) and the investigator will share the witness statements and other relevant materials with the complainant and the accused. Both will have an opportunity to respond to this information in writing within seven (7) days.
New Relevant Evidence
If at any stage following the submission of these responses new relevant evidence is gathered, it will be shared with the complainant and accused who will then have an opportunity to submit a written response within a time frame to be determined by the Dean of Students or designee.
Final Responses
When the final responses, if any, from the complainant and accused have been received, the Dean of Students or designee will share each student's response with the other student.
Final Report
The investigator will submit a final report to the Dean of Students or designee. The final report will include all investigation materials, all written evidence (e.g., notes, emails, and/or text messages), the complainant's and accused's responses, both parties' character references*, and the investigator's interview notes reflecting judgments about witnesses and the factual findings.
*NOTE: In accordance with Student Conduct Code procedures, only one (1) character witness per party may present testimony at a hearing.
Informal Resolution
Informal resolution is designed to assist the parties in reaching a mutually agreeable resolution. An individual wishing to employ an informal resolution of a complaint will meet with the Dean of Students or designee who will explain the process and options available to the student.
Contractual Agreement
In certain situations, a formal understanding is reached between the parties. This agreement is formalized in writing and is subject to approval by the Dean of Students or designee. The terms may include a pledge that the parties will have no further contact with each other, known as a "No Contact Agreement." Once a student has signed a contractual agreement, it may not be revoked, and the terms may not be appealed. A student's failure to adhere to any term of the agreement may result in referral to the Dean of Students Office for an Administrative Review or Conduct Code Hearing.
Mutually Agreed Upon Sanction
If the accused student elects to acknowledge his/her actions and take responsibility for the alleged sexual misconduct, the Dean of Students will propose a resolution to the complaint and a sanction. If both parties agree in writing to such proposed sanction, the complaint is resolved without a hearing and without any further right of appeal by either party
Mediation (not to be used for complaints of sexual misconduct)
Mediation sessions will be held only if the complainant and the accused both agree to mediate and if the Dean of Students or designee determines that mediation is appropriate under the circumstances. The Dean of Students or designee will act as mediator or will designate another person to act as mediator. The goal of mediation is to facilitate the parties' discussions with each other such that a mutually acceptable resolution can be reached. At any point in the process, or if no mutual resolution is reached, the complaining party may move the complaint to the formal adjudication process described above.
Formal Adjudication Procedure
Formal procedures are designed to determine the merits of the allegations through adjudication in accordance with the Student Conduct Code and, where appropriate, to determine a disciplinary consequence for the accused student.
Formal Statement
An individual wishing to have a complaint formally adjudicated will be asked to submit a written statement of complaint to the Dean of Students or his/her designee, who will forward the statement to a Campus Safety officer. The Dean of Students or his/her designee will meet with the complaining student and explain the process.
- The Campus Safety officer will meet with the parties separately and provide each party with the opportunity to be heard and to offer evidence. The Campus Safety officer may also speak to witnesses or others with relevant information. The investigation shall be concluded within fourteen (14) days or within a reasonable amount of time required to complete the investigation. The College shall strive to keep the parties apprised of the progress of the investigation.
- The College may proceed with an investigation and/or formal adjudication whenever the Dean of Students or his/her designee determines this to be appropriate. This includes situations in which the complainant has not filed a written statement of complaint but the Dean of Students or his/her designee nevertheless has notice of the incident (for example, through the on-line report process) and determines that investigation and/or adjudication is warranted.
- A hearing will be scheduled within fourteen (14) days of the conclusion of the investigation outlined above.
- The hearing will be held in accordance with the College's hearing procedures, which are outlined in the Student Conduct Code with the exceptions noted above under "The Rights of Both the Complainant and Accused" and the following condition: evidence of a victim's sexual conduct shall not normally be admissible at a Hearing unless fairness to the accused student requires consideration of such evidence.
- All sanctions defined in the College's Student Conduct Code are available. In the most serious cases, if the accused is found to be responsible, the usual sanction is suspension or expulsion.
- At the conclusion of the hearing process, the College will provide written notification to the complainant and accused of the outcome and resolution of the hearing within ten (10) calendar days.
Appeal Process
- Once written notification of the resolution of the hearing has been received, the parties involved have the opportunity to appeal in accordance with the appeal procedures set forth in the Student Conduct Code procedures.
- The appeal process is the same as that for a Student Conduct Code Hearing and is described in the Student Conduct Code.
Concerns about the Implementation of this Policy
The College has appointed a Title IX Coordinator, the Chief Diversity Officer at Union College, to oversee all aspects of the College's Title IX compliance efforts. An individual who believes that any aspect of this policy has not been properly followed should contact the Title IX Coordinator at x8327 (518-388-8327) or pursue a complaint by contacting the Title IX Coordinator in accordance with the College's Discrimination Grievance Procedures contained in the Student Handbook. Retaliation against any person who files a complaint of alleged discrimination is prohibited.
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Centenary Ambassadors
There are more than 140 Centenary Ambassadors around the world, working hard to shape the centenary celebrations for their associations and for WAGGGS. If you have a question for your centenary ambassador please email email@example.com and don't forget to state the name of your National Association.
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Mpanazava eto MadagasikaraWhat has been the highlight for you as a Centenary Ambassador? One of the highlights has been getting to know many other Centenary Ambassadors and sharing our view on making the world better and how could all the Guides bring their potentials to make a difference to this world. What have you achieved in your Association/country so far? Our Member Organization planted trees on a site and then we organized a big event on 10 April 2010. We showed through an exhibition how Malagasy Girl Guides have tried their best to change the lives around and make them a little better. It was also a time for meeting all the Girl Guides in Madagascar and we could exchange views about the celebration. How do you think you can grow Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting in your community? I think Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting is a way of life, a state of mind, which is planted in every Guide through the activities that we are doing, like volunteering, working along people around them but not working on their own… The best way to make Girl Guiding grow is by showing the values and the good deeds that Girl Guides are doing and we may influence and make people reflect upon how being a girl guide can be more valuable than they think. How will you personally celebrate 10 April 2011? I will share 100 smiles to all the Guides and people around me. I will also try to share the seeds of trees that I have planted in our garden so that they can grow it in themselves. Are you planning to start a centenary project to benefit your community? If so, please give details. |
Diane DixonChair of the Centenary Committee, Irish Girl GuidesWhat has been the highlight for you as a centenary ambassador? So far, it has been the build-up excitement in relation to the centenary programme which began on Saturday 8 January. There is now a great buzz in IGG and our members are looking forward to all the plans for 2011. It has also been working with a great committee of people and developing the programme, the merchandise, the PR material etc. What have you achieved in your association/country so far? We held a very successful WAGGGS day on 10th April with the theme of PLANT as the first of our centenary activities. At the same time we introduced a new uniform for Guides, Senior Branch and leaders and changed our logo. In September our history book "A Hundred Years A-Growing" was launched at the IGG national conference along with an internal launch of the centenary. How do you think you can grow Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting in your community? Irish Girl Guides are constantly working on this and are currently working on a membership drive and have a programme called "Ask One! Plus One! in place which is focusing on gaining more leaders. By highlighting the work IGG does in the community through various events like Taster Days, our Outreach programme and local profiling we continually aim to grow our membership. We also hope that our centenary year and our activities throughout 2011 will help to highlight IGG and all our activities. Are you planning to start a centenary project to benefit your community? If so, please give details. IGG is supporting two charities throughout 2011 and will fundraise for Barnardos and the Global Girls Fund. These will have a benefit to the community in Ireland and to the girls worldwide. During the year there will be various special events at which fundraising will take place and units can also raise funds through the centenary challenge for these two charities |
Nedgly Johamny Salaban EscalonaBrownie Leader, Guider-in-charge of the Youth Committee, Girl Guides Association of VenezuelaWhat has been the highlight for you as a centenary ambassador? To work on behalf of so many girls and young women and help them to change their lives. Little by little we are achieving this. What have you achieved in your association/country so far? I've managed to gather many Girl Guides whom haven't seen each other in years and many more who didn't know each other but now maintain a beautiful friendship. How do you think you can grow Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting in your community? Showing the activities we do in Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting for our planet and for our community. This year we have participated in sponsored walks to support animals, a healthy heart, fight against breast cancer, etc. We've made ourselves known to people who didn't know about Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting and didn't know what activities we were doing and the aims that underpin them. How will you personally celebrate 10 April 2011? We will celebrate my personal growth as I will graduate as an Engineer on this day. |
Yuko SagawaLeader, Girl Scouts of JapanWhat has been the highlight for you as a centenary ambassador? The highlight for me was meeting with members of the AP committee. It was a precious opportunity to talk with the person who works for WAGGGS because I felt that I am a member of WAGGGS and I am chosen to be ambassador. How do you think you can grow Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting in your community? In Japan, many young girls don't have self esteem. But Girl scouting can help the issue through activities. For example, girls felt more self-confidence after they went camping than before. So I think using this effect, we can grow Girl Scouting in my community. How will you personally celebrate 10 April 2011? I am planning to celebrate by doing some of activities in activity pack 2011. I am exited about it! |
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lesotho will celebrate this year's centenary on the 27th to 29th April. the country is on a buzz on the celebration
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text: | Do you believe the Earth is undergoing a climate change?MajoritarianHow about all the human flatus? I mean Americans are majoring in the caboose sizes these days. Im just saying. 0 Agrees | 0 Disagrees | Report Abuse » HarleyIt has been fun reading all the posted comments. My dad ran over a toad last summer, and life went on, so I know these guys are right on the money with their comments. However, no one mentioned cows, or more specifically how much cow flatulence adds to the "global warming" condition. But, I ate a hamburger and life went on. My thought is that over population and the shortage of water is a large pothole in the same road where the toad died. 0 Agrees | 0 Disagrees | Report Abuse » MajoritarianMini Ice Age...case dismissed! The left is using the doom and gloom and bogus exaggerated conjecture to excuse more fundraising and grants. Nothing more. Meanwhile Polar Bears live and die, trees fall and new ones are born, and occasionally a toad gets run over in the road. Life goes on. Always has and always will. Judges cant stop that from happening either. 0 Agrees | 1 Disagrees | Report Abuse » RangeroverAnd these scientist leave out the good part of global warming, you and I wouldn't be here if the earth was still covered with ice like it was before it started to warm up during the glacial period. So I guess it was only supposed to warm up to a certain point and then stay stagnate, no, life doesn't tarry or stand still. All forms of life are in changing states, even the planet we live on. Yup sure is scary when it's warmed up 2 degrees since the eighteenth century. Maybe Al Gore will get his what is it now, "carbon footprint tax" dollars, that'll stop the warming alright. The liberal view throw money at it and it will go away, this farce that the alarmist's would like us "all" to believe. Funny some of us see a different future, this is not the promised land, that one awaits us in the next life, those of us who believe and 100's of millions of people have for over 2,000 years and still do to this day. No God, No Peace. Know God, Know Peace. Hey no tax on that one! 1 Agrees | 0 Disagrees | Report Abuse » Rangeroverearly in the wee hours, you guessed it, The Lord did visit me there. I asked Him to forgive me and just give me a chance to make amends to my family, who des***** me for the way I was. I deceived them and friends my whole life through. Wound up in a rehab out of state and got sober, "But For The Grace of God", just like it says in that old Gospel song of Amazing Grace, yea I once was God fearing, then His Grace took the fear away. I was reborn 37 years ago. I have lived 2 lives in one lifetime, one in darkness, one in light. Maybe someday on your death bed he may visit you too, or maybe just some fine day he may come knocking on your door, welcome Him when He does. I would no longer go without daily prayer today than I would the air we breathe or the water we drink. It is very real, this Great Spirit, that some of us have met in our lives, His name is Jesus Christ, but He is still much alive and gives us that believe life and we see things differently after we have met Him. 1 Agrees | 0 Disagrees | Report Abuse » RangeroverWow realamerican, just wow! Yea I felt like you and even worse raised Catholic hated going to church in my youth and telling them priests every Saturday night my "confessions" as a small child until I got to be around 14, then I kicked God out of my life, figured I was going to*****anyway for all those sins I was committing as a young boy back in the 50's so I was told by the elders. I owed God about a million years by that age. I even asked why he would send me to hell, the reply was "because He loves you". Well everything bad happened I blamed it on God from then on, getting even with me. Even losing a game of pool, yup god put another hurting on me. Cursed him with 4 letter words you wouldn't use on a dog at times. Wound up on my death bed at 33 years old, given last rights and no hope of recovery, looked like I was 6 months pregnant with cirrhosis of the liver. Did it to myself through the use and abuse of alcohol, the likes of Jim Beam and Wild Turkey. Had a 1 Agrees | 0 Disagrees | Report Abuse » TruthSeekerRealamerican...yeah, I understand completely how you might not believe in God; it IS hard to imagine how he could have made so many stupid people like the liberals. But he did state that WISDOM and KNOWLEDGE comes from God. So I guess that explains that. Since fools don't believe in God; he doesn't give you any wisdom or knowledge; village idiots I guess. Your rants are funny by the way. I read these daily for my laugh for the day. Gets me really going in the mornings; better than caffeine. LOLOLOLOLOL. 2 Agrees | 0 Disagrees | Report Abuse » MajoritarianYeh yeh yeh,, another liberal who cant stand that God doesnt march to THEIR demands. I get it. 2 Agrees | 1 Disagrees | Report Abuse » realamericanI guarantee it wont stop happening because even if there is a "God", he could care less about the day to day lives of us lowly humans. not once in the history of man has there ever been one tiny iota of proof of God. and that wont even change because he's just not there. It's just us, sorry. 1 Agrees | 2 Disagrees | Report Abuse » realamericanif you cant see that organized religion was designed to keep you sheeple in line through fear of what will happen to your "soul" when you die and keep you from running amuck and killing each other for your stuff, then you are not as smart as you think you are. there is 6 billion years worth of evidence that the Earth was formed from accretion of matter orbiting our parent star, the sun, and all life on it was the result of evolving organisms and genetic mutations that had to navigate an endless amount of chance happenings and environmental circumstances. I suggest you watch "the history of the world in two hours" on the history channel, and it will give you at least some idea what has happened on this rock in space. as far as all you who don't believe that global warming is taking place, I just have to say, just sit back and watch, or better yet, PRAY! LOL, I cant wait to see how your prayers are answered. I pray for an end to childhood cancer on a daily basis but 1 Agrees | 2 Disagrees | Report Abuse » realamericanyou heard it here folks, straight from the mouth of "Truthseeker" he said anyone who believes in things without proof are, and I quote "UNPROVEN bimbos" sounds like he's talking to all you religious fools out there who believe that the Earth is only 5000 years old and believe there is a magic man who created the entire universe out of sheer will and made the Earth in six days! there is no doubt that global warming is taking place and very little doubt that industrial activity is contributing to it by pumping billions of tons of CO2 into a closed system that has to do something with the heat, which is why the weather is going haywire, the hottest years in history of mankind have occurred in the last decade, coincidence? I think not, but what do I know? I only have all the science on the planet to go by. BTW, I predict this years tornado season will be a doozy. hide and watch. and stop being idiots and believing in books written and edited by MAN over 2000 years ago. 1 Agrees | 2 Disagrees | Report Abuse » TruthSeekerExpect to be seeing a lot more articles 'promoting' climate engineering (oops...they hate the term 'engineering')....'change' lolol. Letters being written and emailed this week to ALL major networks (pretty sure newspapers too) by liberal 'sky is falling' democrat globalists to start talking MORE about it; promoting it more. They don't like how media's not been talking; propagandizing global climate engineering 24x7! Awwww****... Like Obamacare, bailouts, transparency empty promises of the left...they need media to help spread the lies so the dumb will start believing this one like they did the other empty promises made by the left 5 years ago. Yeah, if you want your insurance...you can keep your insurance....if you want to keep your dr. you can keep your dr. So...now if you want to keep your money...too bad; global tax to make wealthy elites more powerful and wealthy! 2 Agrees | 2 Disagrees | Report Abuse » TruthSeekerBwahaha....John Kerry calls 'climate change "engineering"'the worst 'weapon of mass destruction.' LOL. See how "desperate" they are getting folks? Even more scientists are logically skeptical about this made up scam on the global world to increase the largest tax on the peoples of the world. And fact that the COLD temps all over is staying longer doesn't help their little scam. Alaska experienced a record low temp last weekend at Howard's Pass; a bitterly frigid -97 degrees! Poor WEALTHY Rothchilds and Rockefeller elitists having a difficult time with this scam eh??? 2 Agrees | 2 Disagrees | Report Abuse » MajoritarianWord. But we are on to them. If only we could spread the word even further. And add the laugh element like the left have been doing for years. We on the move now. Cheers 2 Agrees | 2 Disagrees | Report Abuse » TruthSeekerClimate change is climate engineering or search geoengineering. And David Rockefeller and Rothchilds. Yep!! 2 Agrees | 1 Disagrees | Report Abuse » MajoritarianWell said, my friend. I am the right wing version of Woodward and Bearenstein. I exposed the Eco Jihadists fundraising efforts and Cool won the day. But theyll be back. Me, well, ask Ambrg. I stand looking off into the distance like the painting of Caspar Freidrichs 'Wanderer above the Sea of Fog'. I am...Cool Man. Word up! 1 Agrees | 3 Disagrees | Report Abuse » RangeroverI read a few posts from posters that are still on their soap boxes about all this "green energy" and how it's going to save the earth. Well where is all that new development. Our Government, this administration has lost 100's of billions of our tax dollars, never to be recovered on gambling on this issue. Yup gave them billions, dozens of company's all gladly accepting the big check only to line the pockets of top execs and file bankruptcy and produce nothing. And what of our windmills on our mountains surrounding Elkin's where is the benefit, I challenge any poster to tell me what have we benefited from this venture. I did remember I personally thanked the then mayor "Duke" for turning on those fans on the mountain to keep us in Elkins cool for the first summer, what have we saved or gained. Losing a lot of jobs in the coal and rail industry and many more to come, that's what's certain and it won't put a dent in saving the earth. Believe that! 3 Agrees | 1 Disagrees | Report Abuse » MajoritarianLiberals exist in fantasyland. ANd there they should remain. Cheers 2 Agrees | 2 Disagrees | Report Abuse » TruthSeeker"The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift Global Consciousness to a higher level." - Al Gore, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize - LOL. What would Al Gore know about morality? He starts out lying to everyone about a fake made-up global warming! 2 Agrees | 1 Disagrees | Report Abuse » TruthSeekerQuotes about the global warming farce. "No matter if the science of global warming is all phony, climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world." -Christine Stewart, fmr Canadian Minister of the Environment - "The climate crisis is not a political issue, it is a moral and spiritual challenge to all of humanity. It is also our greatest opportunity to lift Global Consciousness to a higher level." - Al Gore, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize - "The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe." - emeritus professor Daniel Botkin - "We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis." - David Rockefeller, Club of Rome executive manager - There now! Straight from the "phony scammers" mouths! Scam to tax the world to make the wealthy elitists more wealthy and more powerful over the workers in all nations. Not working out very well f 2 Agrees | 1 Disagrees | Report Abuse » TruthSeekerFace it; global warming is nothing but a big tax scheme on the global world like Obamacare was a big tax scheme on Americans. 2 Agrees | 1 Disagrees | Report Abuse » RangeroverOne more thing, I was born and raised in Northern NJ, transplanted to WV going on 8 years, I am 70 years old. I have seen a productive city in North Jersey be raped of all their industry, Paterson NJ. It used to be call "Silk City" years ago with the garment industry with all the weaving factories and dye houses all gone, even Colt's gun factory used to be there below the Passaic River Falls, I do believe it's still there but of course Colt moved out many years ago. Paterson NJ today is more of a drug industrial city and not of the legal kind, shame but so true. Even the chrome factories where you could take your rusted bumper off your 40 Ford Coupe and have it rechromed is gone too forever. The old rubber and paper, and plastic factories long ago moved south of the border or closed up due to EPA regulations. We are destroying our country right from within, believe that. Almost 18 trillion dollars worth. 2 Agrees | 1 Disagrees | Report Abuse » RangeroverWhen these "global warming scientist's" figure out how to stop a tornado, redirect a hurricane, make it rain, make it stop raining, then I'll believe there really is no God, that man himself is the superior being, until then though, no. The course of the planet Earth has other idea's I'm afraid, man made or not, you, me, or the whole world ain't a gonna stop it. These scientist verge on being, excuse me, but nothing more than alarmist's, I didn't say terrorist's. But our tax dollars sure do fill their pockets, throwing and wasting money on this won't drop our temperatures one degree. Greed and making people afraid of what might happen also gets politician's elected. Hang on Manhattan, according to Al Gore you should be under water in the year 2016 as well as all those low lying resort area's like the Florida Key's and of course let's not forget New Orleans will be part of the Gulf of Mexico, but I guess nobody's taking that any too serious these day's eh. 2 Agrees | 1 Disagrees | Report Abuse » RangeroverHugh is the earth warming up, been warming up for over 2 billion years. It was covered with ice during the glacial period, I guess nobody studied geology while in HS. By this definition, we are still in the ice age that began 2.6 million years ago at the start of the Pleistocene epoch, because the Greenland, Arctic, and Antarctic ice sheets still exist.[2] EPA chased all the manufacturing industry out of the country and you ain't gonna see those in this country ever again. Be happy with what we got left, auto industry, put the pollutant parts are made in other countries. 2 Agrees | 1 Disagrees | Report Abuse » Showing 25 of 62 comments Show More Comments Post a Comment | |


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First, whenever civilians are killed -by the military or otherwise- I always believe that the responsible parties should be tried before the law. No exceptions, whether in war time or peace. Einstein had a quotation on that that I find undebatable ("killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.")
Numerous discussions can be had on where such a trial should take place, and before whose law (in which I am not terribly interested), but I believe that the point above should enjoy the consensus of everybody (with the understandable, despicable and negligible exception of a few staunch Republican proponents of some flavour of ad-hoc American exceptionalism).
You caused the death of unarmed civilians: you get a fair trial, and you face the verdict.
Italians should know better (and they do), at the very least because the wounds caused by the Cermis tragedy are still burning (U.S. Marines flying recklessly close to a cable car causing its fall, 20 dead, and the responsible servicemen silently and swiftly subtracted from Italian judiciary).
In fact Italians do know better, and many of them (especially the ones that are not exclusively informed via TV news, that are heavily politicized and biased) dissent strongly with the decision not to return the two marines.
Certainly I do.
In addition to that, as an Italian national living abroad, I find the inexcusable, shameful behavior of my government to be a stain to the international reputation of the Italian people. It is a decision that I strongly disagree upon, and a policy funded by my tax-euros that, as an employer, I feel entitled to disavow.
I strongly suspect that even within the political echelon that generated the decision, consensus was very mixed and weak. It would not surprise me in the least, given the SNAFU state of affairs that Italian politics enjoys, constantly and pervasively.
I feel that even those Italians that contend, in principle, that a fair trial to the two marines can only happen outside of India, agree that breaking a promise was not an acceptable means of attaining that goal.
Shame on the Italian government for showing such a blatantly coward and disrespectful conduct. Shame on us, the Italian people for voting such representatives and for not voicing our dissent more loudly.


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Located in the heart of Verona, this townhouse accommodation is within walking distance of Piazza Bra, Arena di Verona, and Juliet's House. Also nearby are Piazza delle Erbe and Piazza dei Signori.
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A complimentary continental breakfast is available. Escalus Luxury Suites Verona also features complimentary wireless Internet access, complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access, and dry cleaning/laundry services.
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Flat-screen televisions in guestrooms come with satellite channels. Bathrooms feature rainfall showerheads, makeup/shaving mirrors, and designer toiletries.
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A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wired and wireless Internet access. This Verona townhouse accommodation also offers tour/ticket assistance, multilingual staff, and concierge services. Onsite parking is available (surcharge).
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- Total number of rooms - 10
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[JURIST] The French National Assembly [official website, in French] on Tuesday approved an amended version of a controversial internet piracy bill [materials, in French] that would cut off internet access for those who repeatedly illegally download copyrighted material by a vote of 296 to 233. The bill, which was defeated last month when only a few lawmakers were present to vote after it won preliminary parliamentary approval [JURIST reports], is supported by French President Nicholas Sarkozy [official website, in French]. The bill proposes a "three strikes" plan in which any internet user tagged by an ISP as downloading the material would initially receive two warnings, followed by up to a one-year ban for the third offense. Users would be responsible for controlling the use of their own connections, and the High Authority for the Distribution of Works and the Protection of Rights on the Internet [materials, in French], referred to as "Hadopi" by local media, would use discretion in determining whether to ban offending users. The bill will go before the Senate [official website, in French] on Wednesday, where it is expected to be approved [AP report].The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry [organization website], representing the worldwide recording industry, has welcomed the legislation [press release], while French consumer interest group UFC-Que Choisir [advocacy website, in French] has denounced it [press release, in French] as ineffective. The assembly began considering the bill [JURIST report] in March after it passed through the French senate in October 2008.
[JURIST] The US was elected [press release] to a seat on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [official website] for the first time Tuesday. The US received 90 percent of the votes from the UN General Assembly [official website]. In total, 18 countries were elected to the 47-member council responsible for the global promotion of human rights. Countries with questionable human rights records such as China, Cuba, Russia, and Saudi Arabia [JURIST news archives] were re-elected under criticism [AP report] from human rights groups. Former Czech president Vaclav Havel on Sunday called the elections a "farce" [NYT op-ed], saying the lack of competition - only 20 countries running for 18 seats - "ensur[es] there is no opportunity to choose the best proponents of human rights each region has to offer."In April, the US State Department [official website] released [press release; JURIST report] its commitments and pledges [text; PDF] to human rights in anticipation of Tuesday's election. The US announced its intent to seek a seat on the council [JURIST report] in early April, hoping to affect more change by working from inside the council than by boycotting the effort. The UNHRC was created [JURIST report] in 2006, at which time the Bush administration declined to seek a Council seat or participate in its proceedings due to a perceived anti-Israeli sentiment by the UNHRC.
[JURIST] Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin [official website; JURIST news archive] said Tuesday that President Dmitry Medvedev and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso [official websites] will discuss a possible peace treaty between the two nations at a G8 summit in Italy in July. Putin spoke at a news conference [Interfax report] following talks with Japanese officials during his visit to Japan [materials]. A dispute over the control of an island chain, known as the Kurils Islands in Russia and the Northern Territories [Japan MOFA materials] in Japan, has led to the absence of a formal peace treaty [JURIST report] ending World War II hostilities between Japan and Russia. Putin said that Russia and Japan would explore every option [Kyodo News report] for resolving the dispute. Putin also said Tuesday that he hopes to resolve the dispute by strengthening economic ties [RIA Novosti report] between the two countries.In 2007, then-Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe said that no formal peace treaty would be concluded [JURIST report] between Japan and Russia until Russia relinquishes control of the islands it has occupied since the end of World War II. Possession of the island chain was first transferred from Russia to Japan in 1855 under a friendship treaty. It remained under Japanese control until Russian troops seized the islands during the last days of World War II, an act in violation of the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact [text], signed by both nations on April 13, 1941. Abe and Putin discussed the return of the islands [Kyodo News report] during an economic summit in 2005, but no agreement was reached.
[JURIST] US Nuremberg trials [Yale trial materials] prosecutor Henry King Jr. [academic profile] died [NYT obituary; CWRU press release] Saturday from cancer at the age of 89. King, a professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law [university website] and a JURIST Forum [website] commentator on war crimes issues, was one of the last three surviving Nuremberg prosecutors, and at 29 was the youngest US prosecutor at Nuremberg at the time of the trials. King was later instrumental in the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) [official website], the new international tribunal that now prosecutes suspected war criminals.Writing in JURIST in 2006, King denounced [JURIST op-ed] the US military commissions at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archives] as a departure from principles of fair adjudication developed at Nuremberg under the guidance of American chief prosecutor (and later Supreme Court justice) Robert Jackson:
The Military Commissions Act...contains questionable provisions that violate our constitutional arrangements of separation of powers and, arguably, violations of the laws and customs of armed conflict. The stepping away of these legal principles and the loss of our moral high ground is the ultimate challenge to the legacy of Nuremberg so carefully laid down by the principled leadership of Justice Jackson.With this loss of moral leadership the hard work of a decade of modern international jurisprudence is threatened by politics and a questionable unilateral withdrawal of the worlds only superpower from the norms of international law. With the echo of the rules have changed ringing in our ears, America enters the 21st Century under a dark and ominous cloud. The law has been twisted to ensure a type of amnesty for past war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Americans in the war on terror, as well as ones that might be committed in the future. Additionally, the role of our courts, a co-equal branch of government, has been carved out of most of the process. Regardless of its constitutionality, the appearance of unfairness is there for the whole world to see.It would sadden Justice Jackson, and others who were at Nuremberg, to see their government pressing so hard for torture, loss of habeas corpus relief, secret and long term unaccounted for detention, and no judicial involvement in a very questionable legal process. Their hard earned legacy was to try those who committed such acts above.
[JURIST] Alabama's Jefferson County Circuit Court [official website] on Monday began hearing a $2.6 billion derivative lawsuit brought by HealthSouth [corporate website] shareholders against company founder and former CEO Richard Scrushy [defense website; JURIST news archive] for his alleged role in an accounting fraud scheme at the company. The shareholders claim that Scrushy encouraged others to purposefully inflate company profits [Birmingham News report] in order to qualify himself and other executives for bonuses, directed company contracts towards other companies he owned, traded the company's stock based on insider information, and misused other company resources for his own benefit. Lawyers for Scrushy argue that he did not know [Birmingham News report] that profits were being inflated by other executives and denied other allegations of wrongdoing. In 2006, shareholders won an unjust enrichment lawsuit [opinion, PDF] against Scrushy, recovering some of the bonuses paid to him and others based on the erroneous earnings reports.In 2007, the US Securities and Exchange Commission settled its accounting fraud claims [press release; JURIST report] against Scrushy for $81 million. In 2005 Scrushy was acquitted [JURIST report] of criminal charges of wire and mail fraud, money laundering, conspiracy, and violations of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in relation to scheme. Scrunchy was, however, convicted in 2006 [JURIST report] of unrelated federal bribery and fraud charges for paying campaign debts of former Alabama governor Don Siegelman [official profile] in exchange for a seat on a state-operated review board that regulates Alabama hospitals. In March, a three judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit [official website] upheld [opinion, PDF; JURIST report] that conviction.
[JURIST] Accused Nazi prison guard John Demjanjuk [NNDB profile; JURIST news archive] arrived in Germany Tuesday to face accessory to murder charges [JURIST report] for his alleged involvement at the Sobibor [Death Camps backgrounder] concentration camp after being deported [DOJ press release] by the US. Demjanjuk was deported after exhausting his appeals when US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] Justice John Paul Stevens denied [JURIST report] an application for stay of deportation [text, PDF] last week. Also, on Monday a German court rejected an appeal of a ruling [JURIST report] by a Berlin court that denied a request to block his deportation. Assistant US Attorney General Lanny Breuer said:
The removal to Germany of John Demjanjuk is an historic moment in the federal governments efforts to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. ... Mr. Demjanjuk, a confirmed former Nazi death camp guard, denied to thousands the very freedoms he enjoyed for far too long in the United States. Now, finally, Mr. Demjanjuk has been held accountable in one small way for his part in one of the most horrific chapters in history.
[JURIST] US District Judge Samuel Kent [official profile] was sentenced Tuesday to 33 months in prison for obstruction of justice [18 USC § 1512(c)(2) text] for lying to a judicial panel [Fifth Circuit materials] investigating sexual harassment allegations against him. Kent was also ordered to pay a $1,000 fine and $6,550 in restitution as part of a plea agreement [text, PDF; JURIST report] in which prosecutors dropped additional charges against Kent and limited the amount of jail time he could have faced. Despite the sentence, Kent technically retains a pension for his judgeship, though US House Judiciary Committee members John Conyers (D-MI) and Lamar Smith (R-TX) [official websites] have said they will seek his impeachment [Houston Chronicle report] if he does not resign and forfeit the pension.Kent's plea prevented him from becoming the first federal judge to go on trial for sexual harassment. He was indicted [text, PDF] last August, and was initially charged with the sexual harassment of his former case manager. Charges related to the alleged sexual abuse of his secretary were added [ABA Journal report] in January. In 2007, the American Bar Association (ABA) [professional association] adopted new policies reforming the Model Code of Judicial Conduct [JURIST report], which for the first time included prohibitions against sexual harassment, although some advocacy groups believe these changes do not go far enough [AP report].
[JURIST] New York lawyer Mark Dreier pleaded guilty Monday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website] to fraud charges for perpetrating a scheme that cost investors more than $400 million. Appearing before Judge Jed Rakoff, Dreier pleaded guilty [WSJ report] to charges of conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud, securities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering, admitting that he knew that what he was doing was illegal. Rakoff said that Dreier was a disgrace to the legal profession [AP report]. Despite arguments from the prosecution that Dreier should be immediately incarcerated, Rakoff allowed Dreier to remain under house arrest at his Manhattan apartment until sentencing in two months. The guilty plea was not pursuant to any plea agreement, and Dreier faces up to life in prison.Dreier, the founder and managing partner of New York-based law firm Dreier LLP, was arrested [DOJ press release] in New York in December after being arrested and then released in Canada. He was charged with one count of securities fraud and one count of wire fraud. A superseding indictment [DOJ press release] filed in March charged him with one count of conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud, one count of securities fraud, five counts of wire fraud, and one count of money laundering. Dreier's arrest came shortly before the arrest of financier Bernard Madoff [JURIST report], who was accused of perpetrating a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme. Madoff pleaded guilty to securities fraud charges [JURIST report] in March.
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