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News about Veterans, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Chronology of Coverage
Dec. 26, 2014
Filings before federal administration board show top Veterans Affairs Department officials knew of problems with delays at Veterans Affairs hospital in Phoenix long before scandal erupted in spring 2014; questions remain as to why officials did not do more to address shortages of doctors and other hospital staff; documents are connected to case of Phoenix hospital director Sharon Helman, whose lawyers say was 'scapegoated' when she was fired. MORE
Dec. 24, 2014
Federal administrative Judge Stephen C Mish upholds dismissal of Sharon Helman as director of Veterans Affairs health care system in Phoenix for misconduct including accepting gifts; says department did not prove that she manipulated waiting lists, resulting in delays for veteran care. MORE
Nov. 25, 2014
Veterans Affairs Dept fires Sharon Helman, director of its Phoenix Center, six months after it was revealed that hospital employees had manipulated wait lists to hide long delays many veterans faced to see doctors; Helman had previously been placed on administrative leave, but was formally removed after pressure from Republicans in Congress. MORE
Nov. 12, 2014
Concert for Valor on the National Mall in Washington draws thousands of veterans and active-duty service members; free music event on Veteran's Day is attempt by organizers to bridge growing distance between civilians and 1 percent of Americans who serve in the military. MORE
Nov. 11, 2014
Veterans Affairs Dept announces plans for new customer service bureau to help train employees to focus on customer satisfaction and have facilities forge tighter bonds with local groups and lawmakers. MORE
Nov. 11, 2014
Op-Ed article by retired Army Lieutenant Gen Daniel P Bolger calls on Americans and veterans in particular to abandon false narratives surrounding the failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; calls for a nonpartisan assessment of both engagements, since that will provide much-needed sobriety as America contemplates an ill-advised ground offensive against the Islamic State in Iraq. MORE
Nov. 11, 2014
Joe Sharkey On the Road column observes some airport donations help provide care packages to troops overseas, military families and veterans, while United Airlines offers an airfare discount--for $60 annual fee. MORE
Nov. 10, 2014
Vilonia Journal; Museum of Veterans and Military History in Vilonia, Ark, is in midst of revival; museum was destroyed by powerful tornado in April, but volunteers and supporters have retrieved much of its collection and erected new building that should withstand future storms. MORE
Nov. 9, 2014
Veterans Affairs Dept, led by Robert A McDonald, has been recruiting doctors-in-training to fill staffing shortfalls that over time could jeopardize care for millions of veterans; push is part of effort to rectify personnel crisis that contributed to delays in care and scandal surrounding department's manipulated wait list. MORE
Nov. 7, 2014
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert A McDonald says changing culture of agency is key to improving health care system for veterans; points out wait times for patients at Phoenix veterans' hospital, center of scandal over delays in care, have dropped by 37 percent and notes wait times at veterans' hospitals across nation are going down as well. MORE
Nov. 7, 2014
Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund, organized by Marine Corps spouses, provides financial aid and lifetime support to ill, injured and wounded post 9/11 service members, offering rehabilitation through a variety of sports; the horsemanship program can be especially therapeutic as horses provide healing unconditional love. MORE
Nov. 6, 2014
New York City Investigation Dept report reveals so-called 'rent a vet' scheme among food vendors outside Metropolitan Museum of Art; some vendors were found to be exploiting 19th-century state law providing vendor licenses to disabled veterans; investigation revealed number of non-veteran food cart owners who paid disabled veterans to remain near cart and show specialized license if approached by law enforcement. MORE
Nov. 2, 2014
Maureen Dowd Op-Ed column highlights efforts on part of Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to help veterans; notes the profound disconnect between many Americans and members of American military. MORE
Oct. 31, 2014
Advertising column; Scripps Networks Interactive is preparing hourlong Veteran's Day special that will air on all six of its cable channels; program is centered on the celebration of Hawaiian homecoming for a wounded serviceman, and will solicit donations for the United Service Organizations. MORE
Oct. 30, 2014
Pentagon will offer medical examinations and long-term health monitoring to service members and veterans who were exposed to chemical warfare agents in Iraq as part of review of how the military handled encounters with thousands of abandoned chemical munitions during the American occupation; review was ordered by Defense Sec Chuck Hagel in response to New York Times investigation revealing that military kept hazardous exposures secret for years. MORE
Oct. 17, 2014
Susan Taylor and John Goldman, executives that had been selected for termination over cover-ups at the Department of Veterans Affairs, retire abruptly before they could be fired; new law makes it easier to terminate executives who were responsible for problems at VA hospitals. MORE
Oct. 14, 2014
On Nov. 10 a Wall Street Rocks concert will raise money for military veterans and first responders. MORE
Oct. 10, 2014
Pentagon is planning 50th anniversary commemoration of the Vietnam War; effort, which is expected to cost taxpayers nearly $15 million by the end of 2014 fiscal year, is intended to honor veterans; leading Vietnam historians complain, however, that website focuses on dozens of medal-winning soldiers while giving scant mention to mistakes by generals and years of violent protests and anguished debate at home. MORE
Sep. 21, 2014
National effort to eliminate homelessness among veterans has made significant strides, placing 51,000 veterans in housing; advocates say program gives veterans stability of housing before tackling underlying problems with drugs or mental health; 50,000 veterans remain homeless, however, and programs future is in jeopardy. MORE
Sep. 18, 2014
Acting Department of Veterans Affairs inspector general Richard J Griffin, in contentious hearing before Congress, acknowledges for first time that delays in care had contributed to deaths of patients at department's medical center in Phoenix. MORE
Sep. 10, 2014
Veterans Affairs Dept acting inspector general Richard J Griffin testifies at Senate hearing that administrators at 13 health care facilities run by the VA have lied to investigators looking into the extent of waiting-list manipulation and other improprieties; also says his office has found many instances of department administrators being involved in plots to hide delays in patient care. MORE
Sep. 9, 2014
Robert A McDonald, new secretary of Veterans Affairs, says hiring spree is needed to meet patient demands at department's hospitals and clinics; pledges also to flatten department's hierarchical structure, eliminate benchmarks that created unintended incentives to manipulate waiting-time data, transform management culture and make it easier for veterans to receive care. MORE
Sep. 4, 2014
Defense Dept releases new rules that could grant upgrades to thousands of Vietnam-era veterans who have been barred from receiving benefits due to less-than-honorable discharges; rules offer first guidance to military discharge review boards on how to address post-traumatic stress disorder. MORE
Aug. 27, 2014
Pres Obama, speaking at American Legion's national convention, promises several thousand military veterans that he will overhaul dysfunctional health care system; speech comes as inspector general at Veterans Affairs Dept releases report on long delays and falsified waiting lists at veterans medical center in Phoenix, where whistle-blowers allege 40 veterans died because of delays in care. MORE
Aug. 26, 2014
Federal investigation is unable to substantiate allegations that 40 veterans may have died due to delays in care at veterans medical center in Phoenix; Veterans Affairs Sec Sloan D Gibson cautions that even though report does not confirm allegations, agency remains culpable for covering up long waiting times in Phoenix and other medical centers. MORE
Aug. 23, 2014
American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial will open in October 2014 in Washington, DC, first memorial to honor living as well as the dead; it is only monument in Washington dedicated solely to those who have been disabled in nation's wars. MORE
Aug. 10, 2014
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert A McDonald, in his first public address since taking the helm of embattled agency, vows to restore trust in the agency; says he will initiate independent audit of its scheduling practices and hold poorly performing officials accountable. MORE
Aug. 8, 2014
Pres Obama signs bill that will expand access to health care for veterans and strengthen power of Veteran Affairs Dept leader to clean up abuses in its troubled network of hospitals. MORE
Aug. 8, 2014
Study to be presented at American Psychological Assn finds that most veterans who had persistent post-traumatic stress a decade or more after serving in Vietnam War have shown surprisingly little improvement since then; analysis is part of first effort to track large, nationally representative sample of service members through their adult lives. MORE
Aug. 1, 2014
First Lady Michelle Obama details progress of administration's effort to end homelessness among military veterans by end of 2015, saying Phoenix and Salt Lake City have already eliminated chronic homelessness among their veterans, and New Orleans is expected to do the same within six months; more than 180 mayors, governors and other leaders have joined effort. MORE
Aug. 1, 2014
Senate approves legislation to expand veterans' access to health care and replenish the federal Highway Trust Fund. MORE
Jul. 29, 2014
House and Senate negotiators announce agreement on legislation that allocates about $17 billion to overhaul Veterans Affairs Dept's sprawling and beleaguered health care system; some details still need to be worked out, but, if approved, legislation would end standoff over how much to spend to begin to fix the department, and it would help ensure that veterans who face long waits to see doctors at the department's facilities could get appointments more quickly with private physicians. MORE
Jul. 17, 2014
Sloan D Gibson, acting secretary for Veterans Affairs Dept, tells Senate committee that fixing problems that led to medical appointment waiting-list scandal at VA will cost $17.6 billion over next three years, requiring the hiring 1,500 doctors and 8,500 nurses and other clinicians at VA hospitals. MORE
Jul. 9, 2014
Independent Office of Special Counsel, a federal agency, is investigating claims from 67 employees at Veterans Affairs Dept that they were subjected to retaliation by supervisors after filing whistle-blower complains about long patient waits and falsified records. MORE
Jul. 1, 2014
Dr Jonathan Woodson, Pentagon's senior health-affairs official, issues statement delivered by email to all medical personnel, calling for greater attention to patient safety and more openness about problems in treatment. MORE
Jun. 29, 2014
Examination of nation's military hospitals by New York Times finds persistent lapses in patient protection, revealing system in which scrutiny is sporadic and avoidable errors are chronic; report shows that only 100 inquiries were initiated amid 239 unexpected deaths between 2011 and 2013, and that cases involving permanent harm often remained unexamined as well; discovers particularly high rate lapses and complications in maternity care and surgery. MORE
Jun. 28, 2014
Review of Veterans Health Administration, part of Department of Veterans Affairs, says agency has corrosive culture that has led to poor management, retaliation toward employees and shortage of doctors, nurses and physical space to treat its patients; warns VHA's hospital system is facing a coming surge of new patients from Afghanistan and Iraq that demands an overhaul of entire system. MORE
Jun. 28, 2014
Samuel G Freedman On Religion column; Tassajara Zen Buddhist monastery in Northern California offers female military veterans, who suffer from PTSD and other issues, a workshop retreat using principles of Zen Buddhism. MORE
Jun. 26, 2014
Veterans Affairs Dept official Dr Robert L Jesse and general counsel Will A Gunn will leave their posts; changes come as acting Sec Sloan D Gibson seeks to remake agency and rebuild trust amid scandal over falsified waiting lists that were used to hide delays faced by veterans. MORE
Jun. 21, 2014
Report from an expert panel assembled by Institute of Medicine says Defense Dept and Veterans Affairs Dept should track their efforts to treat post-traumatic stress more carefully, to see how effective those efforts are. MORE
Jun. 20, 2014
Paul Krugman Op-Ed column warns that scandal at Veterans Affairs Dept should not distract nation from the inefficiency and injustice of the American health care system as a whole; contends Republicans have seized upon scandal at Veterans Affairs because system run by the department is an island of socialized medicine in a privatized sea; warns that Republicans hope to use veterans' care scandal to derail health reform. MORE
Jun. 16, 2014
Interviews and internal documents reveal that staff members at dozens of Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals across country were disciplined or even fired after raising concerns over improper practices; growing scandal over long patient wait times and fake scheduling books has emboldened hundreds of employees to go to federal watchdogs, unions and outside whistle-blower groups to report continuing problems and culture of reprisals, silence and intimidation. MORE
Jun. 16, 2014
Op-Ed article by Cato Institute scholars Michael F Cannon and Christopher Preble contends Department of Veteran Affairs helps inflict great harm on veterans, active-duty military personnel and civilians due to the way it is funded; notes veterans' benefits are typically funded 40 or 50 years after military conflicts end, and suggests this makes it too easy to go to war; proposes system of veterans' benefits to be funded by Congress in advance. MORE
Jun. 14, 2014
News of advance of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria militants has left many United States veterans struggling to reconcile their sacrifices in Iraq with speed and magnitude with which northern part of the country is falling to insurgents; among comrades of troops who died or were wounded in those territories, there is a clear sense that capture of so many northern cities has imperiled everything American military once thought it might have accomplished. MORE
Jun. 14, 2014
Pres Obama, making his first visit to an American Indian reservation as president, tells raucous of 1,800 people at Standing Rock Sioux Reservation that he has delivered on a campaign promise to improve relations between the government and the nation's tribes; powwow honors American Indians who have served in America's foreign wars. MORE
Jun. 12, 2014
Federal Bureau of Investigation opens criminal probe into accusations that Veterans Affairs Dept officials manipulated medical waiting lists and delayed care for thousands of veterans. MORE
Jun. 10, 2014
Audit of the 731 facilities run by the Veterans Affairs Dept concludes that in 76 percent of the department's hospitals and clinics, there has been at least one instance of manipulated data on patient wait times, in many cases to hide delays in providing care; underscores extreme pressures on staff members at some facilities to falsify data and highlights the lack of doctors and nurse practitioners to deal with sharply rising demand for medical services at many of the department's hospitals and clinics. MORE
Jun. 7, 2014
Department of Veterans Affairs completes purchase of 132 acres of undeveloped farmland in Upstate New York as final resting place for World War II veterans; plan is to create the last national cemetery for veterans to be built for the next 40 years. MORE
Jun. 6, 2014
Sens Bernard Sanders and John McCain reach bipartisan accord to give authority to acting Veterans Affairs secretary to fire senior officials and to expand health care access for veterans who do not live near medical facilities or have experienced long waits. MORE
Jun. 6, 2014
Julian Oleaga, Ben Gebbia and Michael Settanni, New Yorkers who are all veterans of World War II and live in Long Island State Veterans Home at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, reflect on participating in the Allied invasion of Normandy on its 70th anniversary. MORE
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Some Top Officials Knew of V.A. Woes, Before the Scandal
Long before revelations that the Veterans Affairs hospital in Phoenix had hidden that veterans were facing long delays, senior department officials had been made aware of problems at the hospital.
December 26, 2014, Friday
MORE ON VETERANS AND: Veterans , Veterans Affairs Department , Hospitals , Phoenix (Ariz) , Helman, Sharon , Shinseki, Eric K
Overdose Cited in Death of Man Who Killed 6 in Pennsylvania
Officials initially believed that Bradley Stone, who they say killed his wife and five members of her family, had died of self-inflicted stab wounds.
December 25, 2014, Thursday
Firing of V.A. Clinic Chief Is Upheld Over Gifts, Not Wait Lists
An administrative judge has upheld the dismissal of Sharon Helman, the Phoenix director, finding misconduct to support her ouster but saying the department did not prove that she was responsible for delays in care.
December 24, 2014, Wednesday
MORE ON VETERANS AND: Veterans , Health Insurance and Managed Care , Veterans Affairs Department , Helman, Sharon , Phoenix (Ariz) , Hospitals , Shinseki, Eric K , Gifts to Public Officials
Massachusetts: St. Patrick's Day Parade to Admit First Gay Group
For the first time in its history, Boston's St. Patrick's Day parade will allow a group representing gays to participate.
December 17, 2014, Wednesday
MORE ON VETERANS AND: St Patrick's Day , Parades , Veterans , Walsh, Martin J , Boston (Mass)
Reading the Fine Print on Pension Advance Agreements
Companies that offer the nonbank contracts, which offer a way to obtain cash to pay off credit card debt or medical bills, have drawn scrutiny.
December 13, 2014, Saturday
Merrill Newman, U.S. Veteran Who Was Held in North Korea, Tells His Story
A year after his release, Mr. Newman, who ran afoul of the North Korean authorities on a trip last year, described his detention in a new e-book.
December 12, 2014, Friday
MORE ON VETERANS AND: Korean War , Veterans , United States Army , Newman, Merrill E , North Korea
I Can't Be Forgiven for Abu Ghraib
As a former interrogator in Iraq, I was not surprised by the torture report.
December 10, 2014, Wednesday
MORE ON VETERANS AND: Torture , Abu Ghraib (Iraq) , Iraq War (2003-11) , Detainees , Central Intelligence Agency , Senate , Interrogations , Veterans
Health Care Delays Lead to Ouster of Veterans Hospital Director in Phoenix
The Department of Veterans Affairs fired the director of its Phoenix medical center, Sharon Helman, months after it was revealed that wait lists were manipulated to cloak long delays.
November 25, 2014, Tuesday
V.F.W. Goes Gender-Neutral, Recognizing Female Veterans
The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States has won congressional approval to alter the wording of its charter to recognize female veterans.
November 22, 2014, Saturday
MORE ON VETERANS AND: Veterans of Foreign Wars , Veterans , Women and Girls , Gender , Women's Army Corps , United States Defense and Military Forces , Veterans Affairs Department
After Military Service, Taking Advantage of Educational Benefits
More than 1.4 million people have used benefits available under the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill, but there are a host of other options as well.
November 15, 2014, Saturday
MORE ON VETERANS AND: Veterans , Colleges and Universities , Personal Finances
Purple Hearts
Images of returning Iraq war veterans by the photographer Nina Berman from an exhibit at the Jen Bekman gallery.
New York City's Week in Pictures: Nov. 13
Photographs from the past week in New York City and the region include images from Veterans Day and a visit with a rat starring on Broadway.
On Veterans Day, Tales of Heroism and Loss
Descendants of veterans of World War I share their families' stories, and describe their efforts, 100 years after the start of the Great War, to verify tales of bravery and tragedy.
On Fifth Avenue, With Flags and Pride on Veterans Day
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Re-enacting the Vietnam War
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Exchange Between Hagel and Congress on Chemical Weapons Exposure in Iraq
Letters between Representative Jeff Miller, who is the chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, about the secret casualties of Iraq's abandoned chemical weapons program.
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For someone who self-selected himself for a pre-holiday season sabbatical from the IC private sector work force grind, I have not had much time to get to my monthly discourse with you. Actually I have started the December version of MazzInt several times but events have been occurring faster than I could assimilate them and certainly more swiftly than I could put them cogently into some broader context so I would just not be recounting media reports to you.
First there was the apparent sabotage at an Iranian Missile Base in mid November. According to Washington Post reporting the explosion on the Shahid Modarres base near the city of Malard was so powerful that it shook the capital, Tehran, about 30 miles to the east. Official denials of foreign involvement withstanding, suspicions have been raised in Iran and elsewhere of "foreign involvement" in what is a fivefold increase in explosions inside of Iran since 2010.
Then there is the 26 November hours long fire fight between US forces and Pakistani military outposts on the Afghan-Pakistan border that found 24 Pak soldiers killed in action as a result. This border incident pulled the scab off the festering relationship between the Washington and Islamabad over US unilateral actions to hunt and kill Al Qaeda members operating from or seeking safe haven in Pakistan. Since this fire fight Pakistan has halted the overland resupply through its territory of NATO International Security Assistant Forces (ISAF) conducting counterinsurgent operations in Afghanistan. Pakistan also forced the CIA to close down a UAV base in Pakistan and CIA drone attacks in Pakistan have been suspended. Afghanistan became bin Laden's base of operations for planning the USS Cole and 9/11 attacks because Pakistan's Military Government at the time wanted to isolate radical jihadist there. After 10 years of war it seems little has changed strategically: Afghanistan is still a failing state where Pakistan remains the protector of Muslim terrorists and warlords operating there in order to protect itself from these elements.
For me at least there was a circumstantial connection between the missile base bombing and the loss of a CIA stealth RQ-170 Sentinel UAV flying well inside of Iran circa December 6 purportedly conducting ISR against Iran's nuclear capabilities. While it remains unclear whether the "Beast of Khandahar "crash landed because of an on board technical malfunction or was spoofed by Russian provided Electronic Warfare (EW) capabilities allowing the Iranians to take control of the vehicle, what is very clear is the US' willingness to run ISR missions in Iranian Airspace. As with the 1959 shoot down of a U-2 deep in Soviet territory, RQ-170 penetration missions of Iran will now be indefinitely canceled which I suspect will severely hamper the Intelligence Community's ability to assess the status and progress of Iran's nuclear program, though the missile base explosions do suggest there may be active HUMINT assets inside of Iran.
As I was contemplating the comparison here with the impacts of the Soviets downing a state of the art ISR platform in 1959 along with the larger lesson that UAV's no matter how stealthy will not be able operate at will over denied airspace, the world learned on a 48 hour time delay that North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il died while traveling on his personal train.
The New York Times immediately branded the delay in discerning the "Dear Leader's" demise an intelligence failure without considering that US intelligence might have had indications of Kim's death that it did not want to make public until after some kind of confirmation from Pyongyang. I would have expected the editors of the Times to possess a better understanding of how challenging it is to gather reports let alone confirm them when access is so limited. Hopefully this unfounded assertion of an "intelligence failure" will stimulate some critical thinking about the difference between clairvoyance and intelligence. The IC's limits on it abilities to track high profile individuals such as Kim Jong Il should also be instructive for policy makers and the American public regarding why ferreting out individual radical Taliban in Afghanistan is so difficult.
The controversy over whether the IC should have known sooner about Kim Jong Il departing the Hermit Kingdom for another worldly worker's paradise will quickly fade though as IC collectors and analyst get down to the difficult work of looking for indications of political unrest or regime instability as Kim Jong Un, his aunt and uncle along with the military "big hats," try to develop a stable power sharing arrangement for ruling North Korea. Given that leadership changes in communist regime are always unpredictable, it is not clear if Kim Jong Un will traverse successfully from being North Korea's Brilliant Comrade" to its "Great Successor?" Certainly he and his backers will be looking to create the circumstances where Un can show "he is in charge." Let's hope the choice is not demonstrating that he is like his grandfather Kim il Sung by shooting down a manned American ISR aircraft. While the United States would surely like to see Un and North Korea benignly wither away along with its nuclear weapons, there will be plenty of pressure from China and Japan to avoid a unified Korea. The IC will do a good job of assessing what vectors will be impacting on North Korea as it goes through only its third leadership change since 1948 but expecting the IC to predict with precision what outcomes these vectors will lead to gets us back to the IC being clairvoyant!
So as 2012 approaches the IC must concurrently deal with three dangerously volatile nation state problems: Iran, Pakistan, and North Korea, where the later two have nuclear weapons and the former is a nuclear "wantabe." While being able to provide strategic warning for two out of three "ain't bad" this is not a Meatloaf lyric, which means the IC is going to have be ready, organized, focused, and mutually supporting (integrated?!?!) to provide strategic situational awareness and warning for "three out of three."
That's what I think; I hope as you enjoy the holiday season you will take some time to share with me what you think.
I really appreciate the context. Thanks. I especially appreciated the important reminder that people who want to enter into the strategic dialog should understand the difference between clairvoyance and intelligence.
Well crafted and spot on with your MazzInt. I would only offer that Syria should be included in the listing of volatile nation states and therefore up the anti of four-for-four for the IC in 2012. Happy Holidays to you Shipmate and V/R, Darren
If U.S. and Israeli intel want to "prime" the international opinion pump with reasons and revelations of what they know of Iranian nuclear intentions, and to set the logic in motion for responding to Iranian war mongering that further sanctions will cause them to close the Strait of Hormuz, US intel needed to disclose credible sources for their posture. Much like molding and casting the diplomatic preamble to Libyan intervention, and getting Arab states to join in that intervention, a carefully crafted "mistake" and loss of a supposedly highly secret UAV was needed to set world opinion in favor of a preemptive attack on Iran nuclear facilities. The RQ-170 would be "lost" due to a malfunction and deliberately set down in Iran nearly intact. This sets the stage for Iran to boast about the capture and thereby confirm they know they are being watched very carefully. The ruse has been in the making for sometime with peekaboo photos and teaser press releases. Without showing the world the photos and surveillance data proof, the U.S. has craftily put Iran in a "can't deny it" role on the world stage without our revealing to Iran all the nuclear facilities we know about. For credibility some old UAV technology and the GPS coordinates of some nuclear sites were likely incorporated in the ruse.
The timing of the ruse points toward the Iranians completing their nuclear non-peaceful intentions in the near future. A Predator C Avenger attack would be the platform of choice. Disclosure of one (1) Avenger going to Afghanistan would hide the presence of dozens of Avengers massing for an attack. Look for three carrier battle groups coming into the western Indian Ocean where they can protect allies and assets. Whiteman AFB (home of the B2) will spin-up and pre-position tankers along the flight path. Manned flights will be the "reserves" for the armed UAVs. SecDef wasn't joking when he said no option was off the table in stopping Iran's ambitions for nuclear weapons. Israeli forces would have struck sooner were they NOT confident the US had the intel and the means of stopping the Iranians. Stuxnet was slow-pitch softball. Fast-pitch hardball is next. I'm thinking the US and Israel know they have to stop Iran much sooner, therefore the RQ-170 ruse to build a scenario of proof we know exactly what and where they are doing nuclear weapons development. SecDef blatantly stated that US drone monitoring would continue uninterrupted over Iran. Hardly the posture of someone afraid that the technology had been compromised to the point that he needed a different set of arrows in his quiver. Obama asking Iran to return the Sentinel was part and parcel of the wringing of hands to lend credibility to the ruse. He needed to do so, so that the Iranians would tell the world they would reverse-engineer the "captured" drone. I wonder just how many "blind alleys" and "dead-ends" could be sown in Russia and China R&D labs with just one carefully designed decoy? A "Honey-pot" opportunity to baffle the scientists and engineers for years. You have got to believe the CIA is laughing all the way home. They took the bait and likely will scrap other more promising avenues of exploration. Stir the pot with the real thing and decoys, and separating them becomes a needle-in-the-haystack time-consuming effort. If all that is fielded is real, what a waste of opportunity! Plastic molded drones are comparatively cheap to fabricate with the sensors molded right into the plastic. Manned aircraft have to have the real technology onboard, but unmanned drones mean it ain't necessarily so.
Wonderful, JoeMazz.you're a lotta fun to read. You might think of taking a week-or-two off each month; it seems to make you an even keener and concise observer and scribe (that's a compliment, Joe). So tell me. Whaddoo we do about all this worldly woe?
Bob, always appreciate your feedback and support. You know the problem with clairvoyance is people still want to know the basis your forecast or prediction is based on! joemaz
Darren, Syria certainly deserves an "honorable" mention. I didn't include Syria for two editorial vice analytical reasons. First is space as I try to keep this to no more 1500 words and second I just didn't want to give up the Meatloaf 2 out of 3 metaphor. Thanks for your thoughtful feedback and support joemaz
67W an astuet observation that I hope is correct. That said any one approving this type of plan would have to ask "so how successful as the CIA been at forecasting Iran's intentions let alone manipulating its activities." Regardless of whether the loss of the RQ170 was purpuseful or not the bigger message is that the US is not concerned about penetrating Iranian air space for ISR purposes. This will certainly reminded the Iranians of the aborted rescue of American hostages in April 79 when things went terribly wrong at Desert 1 in the middle of Iran.
Appreciate you adding to the conversation here with an idea that should be considered as things develop in the Persian Gulf. Thanks! joemaz
Hey Murray imagine what I could do if took whole months off consecutively?!?! I might learn to play golf!
As for what to do in the short run I see little the US can or should do in all three cases. It's because I see the US having to take a reactive posture to these three nation states that strategic I & W is so important so that the national command authority has time to develop and employ effective reactions that will keep Iran, Pakistan, and North Korea in a box.
In the longer run we need a much better understanding of what US national interests each of these problem states impacts before I could begin to suggest what we should do. Non-proliferation of nuclear weapons has been a long standing US policy, but who have we stopped from going nuclear: certainly not China, India, Pakistan, Israel, or North Korea.
Wish I had better answer old chum, but I am just an unemployed Navy Pensioner, at least for another week or so joemaz
While you are on sabbatical, please don't stop writing your blog or giving you opinion. I hope we one day have the IC you speak of and believe we can get there.
Mazz...one very big difference between the U2 shoot down and the loss of the RQ...no pilot held by anyone. There is not reason to think that the flights will be cancelled...it remains an economic decision (value of airframe and collection capability) vice a political policy issue. Who cares if Iran knows we are looking...as long as no real people get caught or hurt. In fact, maybe its a good thing they (and the world) know we can look.
Denied area is no longer a real factor...but you might want to rethink the premise of covert and clandestin in the context of title 10 and 50...now theres a subject for fun...
Be well sir...
Enjoyable read. But let's keep in mind the difference between strategic warning, and no-latency notice of the passing of a foreign leader. How important is the latter? What's it worth to know? What's the cost of not knowing instantaneous, or being predictive--getting left of flatline?
How long did we play this game with Kim Il Sung? How long did Saturday Night Live play it with Francisco Franco?
And if Kim Chong Il succumbed to a heart attack, was that truly predictable?
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RES, thank you! You have outed me! I am an idealist and an optimist about the IC Thanks joemaz
Jim I take your point about manned vs unmanned, but I believe there is considerable policital similarity between both the U2 and RQ downings. Both say to internal audience that the regime is capable of protecting the homeland (whether they actually can or not). Then there is implied suspicions that the Iranians efforted bringing down the RQ in response to the episodes of foreign espinoage against Iran. Interestingly both the U2flown by Powers and the RQ were flown by CIA pilots presumably under Title 50 authorities. Thanks for the feedback Shipmate joemaz


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The attractive Cassin's finch of the montane west is slightly larger and longer winged than the similar purple finch, which it occasionally overlaps with during winter. It is often seen in small flocks, mainly in pine forest, but it is known to occasionally invade into lowland deciduous areas during the winter. It occasionally joins the more common house finch at seed feeders in winter. Polytypic. Length 6.3" (16 cm).
Identification Highly sexually dimorphic with males pink and females brown. Generally lighter pink than other Carpodacus finches, with distinctive fine streaking on the undertail coverts. Male: a bright pinkish-red crown contrasts sharply with a brown streaked nape. The back is heavily streaked and washed pink. The fairly wide eyebrow and submoustachial stripe are both pale pink. The light pink throat and breast blends into the white on the lower belly. Varying amounts of fine black streaking cover the flanks and undertail coverts. The bill is longer and more pointed than other Carpodacus finches. Female: the upperparts are brown and streaked, while the underparts are white with fine, crisp streaking, which is heaviest on the breast and flanks. The undertail coverts are also finely streaked. The rather diffuse face pattern has a noticeably pale eyebrow and submoustachial stripe.
Geographic Variation Two described subspecies show subtle plumage and size differences, with birds of the Sierra Nevada and Cascades slightly darker and with longer bills than those of the Rocky Mountains.
Similar Species The male is most similar to the male purple finch, but there is only limited overlap in range during the breeding season. The Cassin's eyebrow and streaking on back tend to be wider and frostier; it usually has fine streaking on the flanks and undertail coverts as well. The primary projection is noticeably longer in the Cassin's, as is the bill. Note the different flight calls between the 2. Distinguishing a female Cassin's from a female purple can be more of a challenge. The Cassin's and house overlap more, with the Cassin's typically found in coniferous forest and the House in the lowlands, but they might overlap in winter when Cassin's populations irrupt to the lowlands. Note the Cassin's pink eyebrow, finer black streaking on the flanks, frostier upperparts, longer primary projection, and longer bill with a straight culmen.
Voice Call: in flight gives a dry kee-up or tee-dee-yip. Song: a lively, varying warble, longer and more complex than the Purple or House Finches'.
Status and Distribution Fairly common in montane coniferous forests. Breeding: Found throughout much of the Rocky Mountains, west into the Cascades in Washington and Oregon, and the Sierra Nevada and southern mountain ranges in California. Winter: unpredictable. Often stays in breeding range, but periodically drops to lower elevations. Winters as far south as the mountains of central Mexico. More common in the lowlands of the interior west than is purple finch. Vagrant: casual to eastern Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas; northern Texas; Alaska; and California coast.
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Today it's our pleasure to enjoy some more wonderful artwork painted by artist Peter Moehrle. He sent them to me to share with you. How cool is it that the artist shared his own production art with us??!!!
These come from an animated film on which Peter worked: "The Nutcracker Prince" (1990).
It was made in Ottawa and Peter did visual development, layouts and backgrounds. Mediums used were watercolor inks on paper, and gouache.
He very modestly wrote: "if you feel they are good enough to post on your site you can."
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Seeing these little masterpieces gives us another blessing to count. Thanks again for sharing, Peter. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
14 comments:
- croquisman said...
Ah excellent!
- November 24, 2009 at 11:53 PM
- Owen Williams said...
Incredible work, thanks for sharing
- November 25, 2009 at 2:10 AM
- The Snake's Mommy said...
Gorgeous! I grabbed a couple of wallpapers for my desktop. Blockbuster online rental has the DVD also. I'm going to take a look before I buy a copy. Thanks for the Amazon link!
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- Patrik Spacek said...
My favorite is the winter forest with bird's booth. I really feel the cold coming from the forest. It reminds me hiking in the Czech republic. ;o) Great work.
- November 25, 2009 at 8:28 AM
- Bill said...
Beautiful B.G.s
- November 25, 2009 at 3:27 PM
- Lohen said...
Beautiful! Thanks for share it with us!
- November 26, 2009 at 1:00 AM
- Corey Lansdell said...
These are really pretty! As you say, lovely textures beautiful lights and darks and a tremendous creation of atmosphere and mood. I particularly enjoy the street scenes. All magic!!
Thanks Peter for sharing these!
- November 27, 2009 at 12:07 PM
- A DON said...
thank you for such a fantastic blog.
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- Stephanie Olivieri said...
Those are gorgeous! Thanks for sharing!
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We have an exciting array of exhibitions coming up this year. Find out more about our future programme of exhibitions, including Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album, Anselm Kiefer and Allen Jones RA here.
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2015 Annual Press launch
Today we launched our 2015 exhibition programme. From Rubens to Ai Weiwei, we have an exciting year ahead.
Giovanni Battista Moroni
The Sackler Wing of Galleries
25 October 2014 – 25 January 2015
This exhibition of outstanding works by Giovanni Battista Moroni (c.1520-1579), widely regarded as one of the greatest painters of the sixteenth century, will be the first comprehensive survey of his oeuvre to be held in the UK. In the autumn of 2014, the Royal Academy of Arts will gather a selection of over 40 works to present Moroni not only as a distinctive portraitist but also as a fine religious painter, a role for which he is lesser known.
Anselm Kiefer
Main Galleries
27 September – 14 December 2014
In September 2014, the Royal Academy of Arts will present the first major retrospective of Anselm Kiefer's work to be held in the UK. Considered to be one of the most important artists of his generation, the exhibition will span over forty years from Kiefer's early career to the present time, bringing together artwork from international private and public collections.
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Allen Jones RA
Burlington Gardens
13 November - 25 January 2015
This autumn the Royal Academy of Arts will present the first major exhibition of Allen Jones' work in the UK since 1995. Allen Jones RA will span the artist's entire career from the 1960s to the present. Comprising over 80 works, the exhibition will feature examples of Jones' paintings and sculpture, including the iconic furniture works from the late 60s, and new works created especially for this exhibition. The exhibition will also seek to demonstrate the enduring place of drawing in Jones' creative process.
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Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album
Burlington Gardens
26 June – 19 October 2014
Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album at the Royal Academy of Arts will present more than four hundred original photographs taken between 1961 and 1967 by Dennis Hopper, the American actor, film director and artist. The photographs were personally selected and edited by Hopper for his first major exhibition at the Fort Worth Art Center in Texas in 1970, and the vintage prints were only re-discovered after his death in 2010.
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RA awarded £1 million grant for Clore Learning Centre
The Royal Academy of Arts has been awarded a grant of £1 million from the Clore Duffield Foundation for the new Clore Learning Centre, which forms part of the major redevelopment to transform Burlington Gardens and enable the RA to share and interpret its heritage for a broad 21st century audience.
RA to participate in Lord Mayor's Parade
The Royal Academy of Arts is proud to be involved for the first time this year in the historic Lord Mayor's Show. Participants from the Royal Academy's Learning programme will join RA staff and volunteers to take part in the magnificent Lord Mayor's procession as it makes its way through London on Saturday 8 November. The float incorporates the artwork (pictured above) of Tony Allan, a learning disabled artist.
RA announces free access to exhibitions for under 16s
The Royal Academy of Arts today announced the introduction of a new policy offering free access to all exhibitions for young people under the age of 16. As part of the Royal Academy's commitment to nurturing young artists of the future, the RA is extending its current offer of free exhibition entry for children under 12 to include young adults under 16 years old.
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This summer, the Royal Academy of Arts is collaborating with BBC Arts in a major partnership to celebrate the Summer Exhibition 2014. This will comprise coverage on BBC Arts Online, a BBC Two programme and an exhibition of works by the finalists from The One Show Summer Art Competition 2014.
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For the first time the Royal Academy of Arts will feature work by artists from RA Editions at the British Designers' Collective at Bicester Village from 21 May – 17 August 2014. Now in its fifth year, the Collective teams up with the British Fashion Council to showcase rising design talent in a dedicated pop-up boutique.
The RA announces an artists exchange programme between the RA Schools, The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing and practising artists in Hong Kong
The Royal Academy of Arts announced today the establishment of a three-year artist-in-residence exchange programme between Hong Kong, Beijing and London. The programme has been developed by Arts in Heritage Research Limited, Hong Kong (AHR), the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (CAFA) and the Royal Academy of Arts, London (RA).
Stephen Chambers: The Big Country and Other Stories at Pera Museum, Istanbul
In May 2014 the Pera Museum, Istanbul, will exhibit The Big Country and Other Stories by the Royal Academician Stephen Chambers. This is the first time that the Royal Academy of Arts, London, has collaborated with the Pera Museum to curate an exhibition of work by a Royal Academician.
The RA exhibits courtyard installation of sculpture by Lynn Chadwick RA
The Royal Academy of Arts, in collaboration with Blain Southern gallery, London, presents a major installation in the RA Courtyard of four large-scale sculptures by Lynn Chadwick RA (1914 - 2003) to celebrate the centenary of his birth.
RA elects new Members and Fellows
The Royal Academy of Arts elects the architect Louisa Hutton and sculptor Rebecca Warren as new Royal Academicians; the artist El Anatsui and architect Peter Zumthor as Honorary Academicians; the theatre director Nicholas Hytner and author Svetlana Alpers as Honorary Fellows; and the artist Michael Landy RA as the new Eranda Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy Schools.
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Lentils and Justice for All
Memphis, Tennessee, 1892: An African American-owned neighborhood grocery store was invaded by a mob of white men vowing to "eliminate" competition posed by black businessmen who were becoming "too independent." The three entrepreneurs— Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Henry Stewart—fought back and even shot an attacker, but were eventually overwhelmed. They were arrested, charged with conspiracy and provoking a riot, and subsequently jailed. Meanwhile, their business was looted and burned down.
Inflamed by sensational headlines that branded the three owners as "Negro desperadoes" harboring criminals in their store, a second white mob stormed the jail, captured the prisoners, and lynched them outside of the city.
In an era of escalating racial tension, the three murdered men were guilty of prospering financially, competing with white businesses, and establishing a gathering space in which the black community could create wealth and independence. It was called the People's Grocery Company.
More than a hundred years later, on the other side of the country, Brahm Ahmadi and other activists were piecing together the connections between environmental justice, racial inequality, economic dependence, unemployment, and disease in their community of West Oakland, Calif. They traced long-term health problems to structural roadblocks encountered by impoverished inner-city neighborhoods nationwide: the inability to grow local businesses, the funneling of community wealth to other areas, and the resulting lack of jobs and access to healthy, affordable food.
Ahmadi found that West Oakland residents were spending as much as 20 percent of their food budgets on transportation alone, trying to get to a grocery store. The other option was to shop at local liquor or convenience stores. Ahmadi helped found People's Grocery in 2002, in honor of Memphis' original company, to change this and restore to the "food desert" the ideal of a healthy, responsible, community-owned grocery.
Eight-hundred miles north in Seattle, Reverend Robert Jeffrey, a longtime community activist and Civil Rights veteran, needed to hear just one sentence about how People's Grocery was solving the problem of food distribution in the inner city in order to conceive his own project, Clean Greens. Inspired by Ahmadi's work, Clean Greens now has its own farm and operates a CSA and affordable vegetable stands throughout the Central District, home to some of Seattle's poorest residents.
Today, the number of people in poverty is the highest it's been in 15 years. The 2010 census revealed that 44 million Americans now struggle below the poverty line. That's one in seven people, of whom the worst-affected groups are children and African Americans. Some of the most destructive symptoms of poverty are food-related health problems.
Food justice is about ensuring access to healthy, quality food for all people, no matter their economic position. Ahmadi and Reverend Jeffrey sat down with YES! to explain how a total reorientation of the food system can support community health and wealth—planting local businesses, creating jobs, and growing a public understanding about why our current paradigm fails us all, especially those in the most need.
Christa Hillstrom: Brahm, you were already living in West Oakland when you were inspired to
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start People's Grocery. As an environmental justice activist, you had been looking around the neighborhood at what was happening for a long time. What did you see?
Brahm Ahmadi: We were seeing tremendous health issues that stem from exposure to toxins, which are disproportionately located in these areas. We started to connect the dots to malnutrition.
West Oakland has the highest rate of child asthma in the Bay Area. This is obviously connected to the fact that these children have much lower levels of nutrition. In one sense food justice is only one pillar in the strategy of how to build healthy, resilient communities. I don't think food is the panacea to all our social problems, but I think it's a window.
Reverend Robert Jeffrey: I believe that food is the way to bring people into environmental understanding. You're not only going to learn about food, but you're going to learn who puts growth hormones in food and why, and what the chemical companies do to other things. It brings up the conversation, and you begin most conversations around the table: around the dinner table, around food. That's the way to begin to bring excluded people into the conversation as well as to help them begin to grow their own basis of self-sufficiency.
Hillstrom: Food justice contains a spectrum of so many issues within it. What's so powerful about food? Why does it provide such fertile common ground on which all of these movements can meet?
Ahmadi: It's incredibly personal. What's more personal than what you put into your mouth?
Reverend Jeffrey: In the African-American community, food has become a liability because that's what is killing people: High blood pressure and cholesterol, hypertension—these things are just norms in the inner-city communities and people are dying. I grew up in a church where 80 percent of people had diabetes, high blood pressure, or some form of heart disease. And that was back then. They would talk about it like it's a common cold.
Ahmadi: That public health crisis is becoming an awakening. It's a catalyst because more and more families are connecting the dots between their food choices and the health problems in their families. In West Oakland, there's really not a single family that is not impacted by chronic disease, especially diabetes. A recent CDC study said, based on the conditions in our entire society, we are on track for 50 percent of Americans to have diabetes by 2020. When you zoom in to communities of color, that's ground zero for this stuff.
Hillstrom: There seems to be a fundamental problem of perception here when people look in from the outside. Many might assume that "poor people" choose to eat unhealthy food. It might surprise people to think of this as a justice issue.
Ahmadi: It's the number one question I get everywhere I go: Do low-income people want healthy food? Don't underestimate the power of a store that sells convenient food and the challenges faced by people working two jobs and not having time to cook.
Reverend Jeffrey: It's a proximity issue. You choose to eat what is available to you. If that means corner stores that sell fried chicken and corn syrup, then that's what you eat.
People want the best for their children and their grandchildren, but they're not given the options. It's the same question for everybody: not just, do African Americans want to eat healthy food? But, do they have opportunities to?
Voices in the (Food) Desert
Hillstrom: Inner cities are incredibly dense in population—much more so than suburbs. Don't they have considerable purchasing power?
Ahmadi: The extraordinary thing is that the community wealth in the inner cities is as significant as in other communities. A lot of middle-class neighborhoods have 2-3 times the household income, but their populations are a third to a half. The math is simple.
In West Oakland, we assessed a $60 million market. There's a very affluent neighborhood nearby with a $60 million market. It's the same aggregate spending power! The problem is that the business model that can serve that less dense place cannot serve a higher density place. You actually have parallel markets. They just look different.
Hillstrom: So if there's a market, why the food desert?
Ahmadi: It goes back to the patterns of policy and urban planning that began to play out at the end of WWII, that segregated communities—relegated African Americans to designated zones with housing covenants that prevented them from buying certain homes, and blocked them from getting loans. And then you have the rise of the suburbs. New families coming home from the war wanted the new American dream. So there was a massive divestment and depopulation of middle-class families from inner-city areas. Then you had a sudden concentration of impoverishment. The grocery stores followed the money.
Reverend Jeffrey: I come from Tulsa, where in the early 1900s there was a thriving business center which was eventually burnt to the ground by white lynch mobs. We called it Black Wall Street, but that whole market system was destroyed: stores, churches, everything.
Those kinds of business infrastructures existed in every city prior to the middle 60s, and now they don't. In the early 60s, there were a lot of African American-owned stores in the inner cities. But with the coming of integration, that dissolved. These stores were not able to keep up with the bigger ones. You had lawyers, doctors, pharmacies, everything—and it's all gone. It's all gone.
Ahmadi: With the rise of the suburbs came this idea that you could build massive supermarkets. Suburbs offered cheap land for big stores and parking lots. Retailers no longer wanted to be small, and dense urban areas can't facilitate big stores. So they followed the trend in the industry to get bigger. The only place we can do that is in suburbs.
Hillstrom: But there is such a thing as an urban supermarket. Not all city residents suffer from this lack of access. So why do inner cities?
Ahmadi: Larger food companies are not coming into these areas unless subsidized, and the reason for that is a misperception about the market potential and the nature of demand—what it is people want and what they're willing to support and participate in. Publicly held corporations are driven by that primary mandate to maximize wealth for shareholders. That is the basis that they have to decide on when they're looking at where to go next and what to invest in, and low-income neighborhoods have certain factors that cost more. You can't build as big, so your operating costs per square foot will be higher. You do have problems with employee turnover. We have whole generations who have not had a chance to build their efficacy in the work force. If you hire them at a low-wage, menial job at a grocery store, they're probably not going to last. You have challenges around theft and higher development costs—if you want to build a bigger store, you have to aggregate different parcels, which gets expensive.
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