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Winter 2003 Newsletter
News From Peace House
A Newsletter of Peace Education Resources and Opportunities
Restavec is a French word that means "staying with." It is the term given to over two hundred and fifty thousand children in Haiti who are slaves. It is also the title of the best selling book by Jean-Robert Cadet who was a restavec in Haiti until he came to the United States as a teenager, was freed and received an education. Cadet's story is moving.
Restavecs are poor children who are given to wealthy families under the pretense that the children will benefit from the new living arrangements. In reality the children are made to do the work that paid servants refuse to do. They are deprived of their humanity and of an education. They are made to stay up late and rise before the family to take care of the basic needs of the families.
Cadet's book is so unusual because he is one of the few restavecs able to educate himself and to speak and write about this cruel, unjust system. Cadet was a Westheimer Peace Symposium speaker this fall at Wilmington College.
Whether in book form or in person, it is difficult to learn about Cadet's journey and not feel compelled to do something about the situation In Haiti. One Wilmington College student felt compelled to help and wrote to Cadet to indicate his intentions. The result: the student was invited to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland to listen to Cadet testify about the situation.
Would you like to learn more about restavecs and Jean-Robert's story of hope? The audiotape of the talk is available from the PRC for five dollars. His book is available for $12.95. Visit http://us.ilo.org/ilokidsnew/index.html to learn more about the International Labor Organization Resolution 182 which would ban child slavery.
I encourage you to learn more about restavecs. Everyone is attendance at the Peace Symposium was touched by Cadet's story. One of the things which made Jean-Robert so engaging was that he mixed humor in with the grave details of his young life. Without his humorous insights, the story would have been too unbearable.
Jim Boland
The TRUE Report
Jean True
12th Annual Westheimer Peace Symposium
"Stolen Childhood: Restoring Hope" was the Social Justice theme for the 2002 Westheimer Peace Symposium held Wednesday, October 23, on the main campus of Wilmington College.
Lori Heninger, Quaker Representative to the United Nations opened the day's program with "Girls in Armed Camps." Children as young as 8 are abducted and forced into armies where they are sometimes used as fodder--the first "soldiers" sent in against enemy fire. Increasingly more of these 300,000 children are girls who cook, serve as "wives" to male soldiers, and many fight, die and participate in massacres. The United Nations is trying to find ways to ease these girls back into their societies though returning to their families is not always possible.
Jean-Robert Cadet spoke of his childhood lived in servitude. As a child he lived a life without a family, a name or a birthday. He labored from dusk to dawn in the home of a mistress who had received him as a gift from Cadet's real father. Cadet spent daytime hours cleaning and performing chores before settling into his bed late at night. His bed was under the kitchen table when he was allowed to stay inside the house. A twist of fate landed his mistress's family in New York and a birth certificate was purchased for Cadet on the black market. He is the author of Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle Class American.
Eileen Cooper Reed, Director, Children's Defense Fund-Ohio, really hit home with the audience when she provided statistics about children in Clinton County, OH. Reed stated about poor children in general, "Of all poor kids in 2000, three out of four live in working families. We under educate, we miseducate and we incarcerate these children at a higher rate than any other children."
Carl Upchurch closed the day's program with "How to Reach the Unreachable Child." Upchurch, born in a ghetto in Philadelphia, was convinced that he had been and always would be nothing. During his time in prison, Upchurch changed from prisoner to peacemaker. To talk to inmates clearly and plainly about their self-destructive behavior he came up with the term "niggerization." At the heart of this idea is a person's (black or white) conviction that he/she is less than others and it is characterized by "contempt for self, for my people, for everybody," said Upchurch. Self-destructive behavior is learned from others in a climate of violence, disrespect and degradation. His own childhood emotional development was accompanied, he said, "by insults from the lips of my mother to my 7-year-old spirit." Upchurch wrote his story in his book Convicted in the Womb: One Man's Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker.
The heart of the problem with the children discussed this year is the violence committed against them. However, we did want to show that there is hope and things are being done to try to help them.
Audiotape cassettes of any or all of these presentations can be purchased from the Peace Resource Center, ordering information is on the next page. One tape costs $6.50 ($5.00 for the tape and $1.50 postage). Two tapes are $12. ($10.00 plus $2.00 postage). Three tapes are $17.50 ($15.00 for tapes plus $2.50 postage. All four tapes can be purchased for $20.00 and will be sent to you in a plastic case. No postage will be charged for orders of four tapes
The books by Cadet and Upchurch have been the best sellers we have had in the Peace Resource Center. Restavec is priced at $12.95 and Convicted in the Womb is $13.95. If you wish to order either or both of these books, we will only charge $1.00 for postage for one book and an additional $ .50 for each additional book.
Please send your orders to Jean True and mention that you read about them in this newsletter. Thank you
Funds for Quaker Organizations
Two other Quaker organizations are in need of funds at this time. The Friends Committee on National Legislation is seeking funds to renovate its important office space in Washington D. C. Visit www.fcnl.org for more information. Quaker House, a four story brownstone just blocks from the United Nations in New York City is also in need of funds to free them of their financial burdens in their fiftieth year of operation. Please consider supporting these important organizations. For more information of Quaker House visit the Quaker UN Office at www.quno.org.
1 July through 31 December 2002
An amazing total of $ 13,510 has been donated to the Peace Resource Center during this six months period. This high level of support shown to the Center is very heartening - especially considering the economic downturn the country is experiencing. Please accept our sincere appreciation for your contributions so the Center may continue to provide peace materials, workshops, peer mediation training, research files, and book tables in local schools. In addition, donations are also essential in upgrading the PRC building and equipment. Our next equipment purchase will consist of fire proof file cabinets to house the original Hiroshima/Nagasaki Memorial Collection.
Irwin Abrams - David R. Bassett - Michael Birkel - Jean Boland -Foster J. Boyd - Arthur L. Buell - Catholic Charities - Mary Claybon - Jonathan H. Collett - Marie P. Condon - Don J. Cosgrove - Dayton Friends Meeting - C. Proctor Dean - Patricia A. Dienst - Mary Eagleson - Eclipse Consulting - Anne Ellis -Dorothy Fraembs - Esther Franklin - Larry Gara - Beth Ann Gehres - Bruce N. Glover - David Goguen - Margaret Guentert - David M. Hadley - David A. Harcum - Dale C. Hayes - Stephen R. Hein - Muriel Hiatt - Mary Katheryn Hilberg - Anthony Hinrichs -Christine D. Hodgson - Samuel C. Johnson - Marybeth Kantner -Jean Kerney - Wayne P. Lammers - Robin Lloyd - Robert Maher -Lowe-Marshall Trust - Margit Meissner - Thomas J. Menacher -Terry C. Miller - Ross Morgan - Darleen M. Myers - James A. Neyhouse - Michael Neyhouse - Ellen S. Novar - Timothy N. O'Connell - Sterling Olmsted - Kenneth T. Overman - Beth Parrish - Shirley Parsons - Verda Mae Peters - Kellye A. Pinkleton - Neal W. Redding - Religious Society of Friends - Margaret B. Rickard - Joan L. Skidmore - Hideko Tamura Snider - Gladys R. Spencer - Donna Mae Spring - Arthur Springsteen - Mary Elizabeth Stanfield - Frank A. Stone - Helen M. Sutton - Patricia Thomas -Jean Anne True - Mark A. Williams - Wilmington Yearly Meeting -Phyllis T. Wood - James N. Yamazaki - Mary Rose Zink
Peace Related Web Sites
http://www.campus-adr.org is a free, new resource available to colleges and universities. The resource is a website created by the Campus Conflict Resolution Resource Center. Conflict is widespread and inevitable in higher education, thus making the appropriate management of conflict vital. The goal of the website is to provide information to help people better manage conflict at colleges and universities.
http://www.wcc-coe.org/dov is the new website launched by the World Council of Churches for the Decade to Overcome Violence (2001-2010). The new website provides an open space for exchanging ideas, stories, news of resources and events, and information on organizations, networks and initiatives related to overcoming violence and seeking reconciliation. The site is in English, French, German and Spanish.
http://www.dwcw.org/ is an email newsletter reporting recent contributions and developments on the Dialogue Webpage for Conflicts Worldwide (DWCW). The DWCW is a resource and service for all people interested in conflict and its prevention, which aims to contribute to the improvement of mutual understanding between opposing sides of conflict throughout the world. It is presented by the Japan Center for Conflict Prevention (JCCP)
http://www.cinciearth.org/News.html is the site to find upcoming events related to nature, spirituality and ecological happenings in the Cincinnati area.
http://www.moveon.org/technicaldifficulties MoveOn.org, is distributing this piece as a membership builder. With more than a million participants world-wide, MoveOn is showing how the Internet can be used to bring democracy back to politics. In the last couple years we've focused on Campaign Finance Reform, Environmental Protection, and more recently, opposing Unilateral, Pre-emptive war on Iraq. We've had an incredible impact on this debate through MoveOn, helping pull together a mainstream coalition of ordinary folks and prominent organizations, like the Sierra Club, NAACP, and National Council of Churches.
REFLECTIONS OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN PEACE LEADERS 1898-1960s: A Documentary History edited by Marvin J. Berlowitz, Eric R. Jackson, and Nathan A. Long is now available from The Edwin Mellen Press; Order Fulfillment Dept., PO Box 450, Lewiston, NY 14092-0450 customer service e-mail: email@example.com ISBN # 0-7734-6930-3 $99.95/£64.95 196pp. 2002. Individuals: Save 20% on the list price by using your Mastercard, Visa or American Express and ordering by phone: U.S./Canada: (716) 754-2778. www.mellenpress.com
The 2003 NCPCR/PeaceWeb Conference & Expo, "Weaving The Future of Peacemaking", will be held in College Park, GA at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel - Atlanta Airport. NCPCR/PeaceWeb 2003 offers 200 workshops and training sessions; theatre; art; film; concerts; receptions; celebrations; keynote speakers; and plenary sessions. The NCPCR/PeaceWeb Expo offers demonstrations, exhibitions, vendors, and the PeaceWeb Book Store. Concurrently, the Network of Youth Peacemakers (NYP) will hold its third gathering, "Peace 'N' It Together", April 3 - 7, 2003 featuring Co-motion youth activist training, diverse workshops, the Culture Jam, the Hip-Hop Peace Summit and Concert. Join peacemakers, conflict resolution practitioners, educators, youth, youth workers, social workers, activists, community organizers, experienced professionals, beginners, community based leaders. www.apeacemaker.net for more information.
Safe Schools - Safe Communities – Catch the Wave May 8 - 10, 2003. The Conference will take place at St. Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It is intended to deepen participants' understanding of ways of working together to promote and sustain safe schools and communities. The conference will appeal to a broad range of professionals and volunteers working with or for safer schools and communities including: educators, police, parents, researchers, academics, youth, community groups. Sessions will focus on prevention of violence, abuse, harassment, and intimidation. Conference Themes include: Media and Technology - Safety and Violence Issues, Building Character and Enhancing Pro-social Behavior, Understanding, Preventing, & Responding to Youth and Childhood, Aggression & Violence, Relationship and Family Violence, Integrated School-Community Programs, Bully Prevention Strategies. Reply to: firstname.lastname@example.com
The Ohio Commission on Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management and the Ohio Department of Education Host Spring School Conflict Management Award Ceremony and Conference May 8th, 2003. The award ceremony and keynote address will take place the morning of May 8th in the Statehouse Atrium in Columbus. The Conference will take place the afternoon on May 8th on the 31st floor of the Riffe Center in Columbus. The keynote speaker will be Linda Lantieri, an expert in school conflict management and social and emotional learning. She is founding director of the Resolving Conflicts Creatively Program and has over 30 years of experience in education. She is a co-author of Waging Peace in Our Schools. Linda will speak on the ties between social and emotional learning and conflict management. During the afternoon participants can choose from four concurrent breakout sessions on topics relevant to school-based conflict management. These sessions will include:
- Conflict Resolution Education and Social and Emotional Learning - Linda Lantieri.
Positive Discipline Strategies for the Classroom - Dr. Jim Boland of Wilmington College, Peace Resource Center.
- Best Practices in School Conflict Management - Dr. Tricia Jones, Editor of Does it Work, The Case for Conflict Resolution Education in Our Nation's Schools.
- Socially Abusive Relationships among Youth: More Pain than a Punch - Dr. Jo Lynn Carney of Youngstown State U. and Dr. Richard Hazler of Ohio University.
Registration forms available in late March through the Commission's Web site at www.state.oh.us/cdr or call (614) 752-9595. No charge to attend; but seats are limited.
THE BEST STRATEGIES OF COMMUNITY VIOLENCE PREVENTION Thursday, April 24, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. The Community Violence workshop is designed for police personnel, school administrators, counselors and teachers, social workers, juvenile and adult corrections administrators and staff, other community groups and agencies, and concerned citizens who are interested in adolescent violence prevention. This workshop will offer the best practical strategies of violence prevention in multiple social contexts. The morning of the workshop, presenters will share ideas with the audience and engage in a question-and-answer session. In the afternoon, presenters will be available to audience members in breakout rooms. Presenters: Dr. Scott Decker, Dr. Finn-Aage Esbensen, Dr. Frank van Gemert, Dr. Mark Singer, Mr. Michael Walker, Dr. Neil Weiner. Keynote: William D. Mason, Prosecuting Attorney, Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Prosecutor's Office. 6 hours (CEUs) can be obtained for $10.00 Location: Inter-Continental Hotel and Conference Center, Cleveland OH. For additional information, contact Dr. Mark S. Fleisher 216-368-2329 or the Begun Center Website http://msass.cwru.edu/begun
Other News of Note
Pax Educare The Connecticut Center for Peace Education has been established by Mary Lee Morrison, L.C.S.W., Ph.D. Pax Educare links educational and community practitioners (pre-K through higher education, scholars, activists, religious and community groups) and institutions to materials, curricula research and training in peace and conflict studies, including nonviolence; mediation; cultural, gender and other issues around diversity; human rights, ecology and the environment. Located at 129 Penn Drive, West Hartford, CT 06119 (relocating to Hartford Fall/Winter 2002). (860) 930-3182 or 232-2966 Fax (860) 232-2688, email: email@example.com
Whatcom Peace & Justice Center has opened in Bellingham, Washington Its purpose is to serve as a proactive community voice for peace and social justice in Whatcom County. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Peace SEEDS (Groups that Support, Educate, Engage, Disseminate) The idea of Peace SEEDS is to build a nation-wide network of small groups of people meeting regularly, supporting each other, and engaging in letter writing, lobbying and other actions. These groups can create an environment for education, sharing of ideas, and creativity for the actions undertaken by individuals or the group. Also they can reach out to others to open up dialogue, and creating better understanding. If you are interested in starting such a group, contact Scilla Wahrhaftig at (412) 371 3607 email@example.com


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Patient Assistance and Co-Pay Programs for HIV and Viral Hepatitis Drugs
Updated: December 2014
Over the past several years, the Fair Pricing Coalition (FPC) has addressed patient health insurance co-payment (co-pay) programs and patient drug assistance programs (PAPs) for people living with HIV and/or viral hepatitis. The FPC has negotiated co-pay programs with virtually every major HIV drug manufacturer. The FPC is also working on expanding PAPs and making it easier for people to access them, especially for people who have been put on waiting lists for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs). Following is a list of co-pay and patient assistance programs for HIV and hepatitis B and C, and contact information for these programs. This is a living document that will be updated as program changes are implemented.
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Mad Money (2008)
Movie Info
A woman who was used to the finer things in life is suddenly thrust back into the work force after her husband gets downsized in writer/director Callie Khouri's (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood) American adaptation of the hit British comedy Hot Money. Faced with the prospect of losing her home as her debt begins to mount, posh housewife Bridget (Diane Keaton) accepts a job on the midnight cleaning crew at a local branch of the Federal Reserve Bank. When the growing temptation of the cash that surrounds her night after night ultimately proves too powerful to resist, Bridget teams with two of the other cleaners for a criminal exercise in creative moneymaking. Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes co-star in a crime comedy inspired by actual events. … More
- Rating:
- PG-13 (for sexual material and language, and brief drug references)
- Genre:
- Drama , Comedy
- Directed By:
- Callie Khouri
- Written By:
- Glenn Gers
- In Theaters:
- Jan 18, 2008 Wide
- On DVD:
- May 13, 2008
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Diane Keaton
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Queen Latifah
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Katie Holmes
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Adam Rothenberg
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Stephen Root
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There's an old saying: 'I wrote you a long letter because I didn't have time to write a short one.' In the case of Mad Money, I'll write a short review because the movie won't sustain a long one. (It barely sustains itself.)
It's better than I expected it to be.
This movie is designed to be fun, and its intentions are signaled to us over and over again, as when the women jump around on a bed, giggling and flinging old, dirty money around in a wanton display of pure idiocy.
Speaking of recycling, this script by Glenn Gers reeks of it and not in a healthy, eco-minded way.
A madcap heist movie with a delectable cast who realise that while money can't buy happiness, it sure as hell can buy everything else.
Keaton, Latifah and Holmes have appealing chemistry, although it's not enough to sustain a too-long 104 minute running time.
If you're thinking that there's not much point in rooting for these ballsy babes all the way because in the end crime doesn't pay, think again, sorta. Because even after they're caught, the fun is really just beginning.
Provided you can get past its improbable premise, this madcap crime caper's trio of talented leading ladies manage to provide enough moments of mirth to make the rest of this raucous romp worthwhile.
[T]he gap between [Thelma & Louise] and Mad Money resembles the abyss that Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis drove into in Khouri's earlier hit.
Khouri parece ter deixado no passado qualquer interesse em criar personagens tridimensionais ou minimamente interessantes.
Comedy is difficult, but it seems like Mad Money didn't even try. It's very hard to find the jokes.
Keaton and Latifah lend enough intelligence, wit, and charm to their characters that Mad Money often feels like an ovarian Ocean's Eleven.
den einai toso kaki oso tha se boleye gia na glitoseis ti moyrmoyra an brethei omofyli ton protagonistrion na se faei na to deite (prosferetai gia ypohoriseis diladi)
A few badly conceived scenes and misused actors cannot completely negate the positive message of this situation comedy. Diane Keaton deserves better, but lives to laugh another day.
Just when I thought there was no way a movie like this could possibly show me anything new, Money goes and makes Ivan Boesky out of Annie Hall, paints redemption green, and paves the road to heaven with gold. Color me surprised.
"Ocean's Eleven" if it were geared to the drones at the Oprah Winfrey book club...
The latest vibrato performance of Diane Keaton's late career shame has her playing once-wealthy housewife Bridget Cardigan, whose twee name and dithering hysteria are equally insufferable.
While being a serviceable, somewhat female-empowering bank-heist comedy, Mad Money doesn't do much else to distinguish itself.
[W]orks... as bright, cheery, satisfying fantasy, if a mere trifle of a passing fancy. And it works, too, as a celebration of female don't-ignore-us indignation...
Audience Reviews for Mad Money
It's very engaging (if you know what I mean). I couldn't take my attention off (you know those tiny breaks you take during movie). Nice.More
Super Reviewer
Pretty good and smart.
The film begins close to the end of the story, when the suspects get caught and are interrogated. Then it flashes back to three years earlier and the film proceeds forward from there interspersed with occasional bits from the interrogation.
Three years before getting caught, Bridget (Diane Keaton) lived a comfortable upper class life until her husband Don (Ted Danson) was fired from his position and sunk into debt. The paycheck for Selina, the cleaning lady, bounces again. Selina confronts Bridget and suggests she take a job as a janitor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
On her first day on the job, Bridget hatches a scheme to steal damaged dollar bills slated for destruction. For her team she chooses Nina (Queen Latifah), who works the dollar bill shredder, and Jackie (Katie Holmes), who takes bill carts from the Secret Service room to the shredding room. It takes some work to convince Nina to join, but Jackie joins them quickly.
The plan is that in the Secret Service room Bridget will switch a cart's official Master-brand lock with a near identical lock she purchased at Home Depot. Bridget will tell Jackie the cart number and give Nina the official lock. When Jackie gets the chosen cart, she dumps some bills from the cart into a trash can before taking the cart to Nina, who then uses Bridget's key to open it and restores the official lock, and then proceeds to shred the remaining bills. Meanwhile, Bridget, in the course of her janitorial duties, retrieves the dumped bills from the trash and splits them among Nina and Jackie in the women's restroom.
Their first robbery is a success though the take is not as big as they had hoped. However, they're emboldened to do it again and again. Once Don and Bridget pay off their debt, Don suggests they stop before they get caught. Bridget rejects this idea and convinces Nina and Jackie to keep going. They almost get caught but they fold in one of the cops.
A Federal Bank Examiner shows up at a party at Bridget's house, and the next day Bridget sees him at work. The Examiner confronts Glover (Stephen Root), who is unwilling to admit anyone has stolen a single bill out of his bank as a matter of professional pride. Tipped off, that night Bridget and her accomplices begin trying to get rid of all the loot stashed in their houses, but the cops move in before all the evidence is destroyed. Bridget escapes but the others get caught.
Bridget hires a tax attorney to defend them. The lawyer gets Bridget and all her accomplices off the hook for their crimes. However, the IRS demands they pay their taxes, which turn out to be equal in amount to the money that remains. They walk away free but penniless.
Eight months later, Bridget reveals to Nina and Jackie that she had stashed away a lot of the stolen money in the basement of a friend's bar.
Super Reviewer
I thought it was cute. Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, and Katie Holmes were absolutely adorable together and had great chemistry. They made the story an Ocean's Eleven for the girls, sounds like such a chick flick, but I think this is one that most could actually enjoy.More
Super Reviewer
I was surprised I could actually sit through this one, it looked so bad! Actually, it was a decent enough movie. I don't think I'd watch it again, but I enjoyed watching it once. All three of the actresses in this manage to lift it above what it actually is.More
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RUNNING TIME ? Approximately 70 minutes plus about 30 bonus minutes, including a grab tutorial with Jason Slezak
WORDS ? Jim Gaunt
If you've just nailed upwind riding, then grab a beer, sit back and treat yourself to a smug grin. Then reach for the third in Real Kiteboarding's DVD series, Joyride, and get ready for your kiting world to open up. This DVD is all about polishing your riding, handling more power, how to ride in a crowd, riding with style, jumping and learning some early tricks. It's also about looking at continuing your kiteboarding development and understanding of different kit design and styles.
Based in Cape Hatteras, the Real team of instructors get to kite and teach every day. Their delivery of information and understanding is honed, easy to understand, and they really know how best to take you through some of the more intricate elements in kiteboarding, instilling a lot of confidence along the way.
Use of multi-angles and freeze-frame analysis accompanying the commentary is really helpful for grasping the physics of what actually happens to a kite when, for example, you go for a jump.
There's lots of useful information imparted in a rapid and entertaining way throughout. The 'riding' section is all about launching and landing, stance review, riding faster and riding in a crowd. Even boat launches and landings are included... well, they did find themselves having to do it pretty often, I guess, as they were filming from a fleet of yachts in the British Virgin Islands. I've always wondered what boat launching and landings would be like; I also wonder if I'll ever get the chance to find out. Here's to hoping. Lots more useful techniques covered in this section too, such as riding faster, powerful turns and down loop turns.
'The best thing about kiteboarding is airing it out!' enthuses video instructor Matt Nuzzo in the jumping section. 'If you're intimidated by getting high and not knowing how to get down, we're here to sort that out!'
The TV show format DVD, complete with intros, rider interviews and kit education sections also incorporates a trick section, covering boosting grabs, load and pop grabs, back rolls, front rolls with a stable kite, spins with boost, 360 back spin and an introduction to unhooked tricks.
Joyride is well paced and crammed with information; I wish I'd had a DVD like this to watch when I was trying to figure out my basic riding skills. Would have saved a lot of time. Alongside the spotless skills of Sam Bell and Jason Slezak were what looked like riders who had only just cracked the tricks they were demonstrating. While this may be encouraging, one of my only criticisms would be that more footage of people performing the trick perfectly can only lead to a deeper understanding of what we're actually all trying to achieve while we're swinging from the strings.
But my only gripe is soon forgiven as I have a new set of phrases to dish out:
Apparently 'no edge = yard sale!', and 'cock blocking' is something no one should be caught doing, ever. You just gotta love the old American phrase book sometimes!
Real Joyride was featured in Issue #23.
Click here to watch a clip of this DVD
SURF ? Covering all elements of riding in the surf, from rank beginner to the most aggressive advanced-level techniques.
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Due to the large usage of utilities and because of significant rate increases in recent years, energy conservation has become a vital concern. Energy management is the most effective method available to minimize the continually rising cost of energy consumed in buildings. By applying effective energy management practices, energy waste can be eliminated.
Energy management measures are as follows:
- Building indoor temperatures will be maintained between 72 and 78.
- All exterior doors and windows should remain closed to prevent the infiltration of outside air.
- Closing blinds or curtains will help maintain comfortable conditions by forming barriers against the outside environment.
- Turn off computers or monitor, lights, and other energy consuming equipment when you leave or when equipment is no longer in use.
- No personal fans or electric heaters are permitted.
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Temperature control and scheduling systems are set to provide properly conditioned air from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday in all academic and office buildings on campus. Requirements for conditioned rooms/buildings, after normal duty hours should be requested through the use of a "Service Request" form. The request should state the exact location of the need and the hours requested. Faculty and Staff may call x9265 to request up to 3 hours of additional air conditioning or heating if not scheduled in advance.
Control Center
The Control Center is located next to the Student Development Center on Vanderbilt Street. The Control Center provides 24 hour utility and emergency service to the campus community. The procurement and administration for electricity, natural gas, water and heating fuel is managed through this office. All energy management records, statistics, reports and administrative functions are conducted through this office.


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Sports Archived
3 softball girls All-State
Three Azle High softball players were named Academic All-State.
Seniors Katelyn Carpenter, Kayleen Corn, and Whitney Judd all maintained a GPA of 94 or above, were in good standing, and of good moral character.
The trio was honored by the Texas Girls Coaches Association.… Read the rest
Camps break until July
The camp season takes a break for about a month before volleyball, girls basketball, and youth football set up.
July 22-24 – Volleyball: Session I, grades 3-6, 9-11 a.m., $60. Session II, grades 7-8, noon-3 p.m., $65. Session III, grade 9, 2-5 p.m. $70.
July 29-Aug. 1 – Girls basketball: Session I for grades 1-4, 8-9 a.m., $20. Session II for grade 5-7, 9:30-noon, $60. Session III for grades 8-9, 1-4 p.m., $65. $5 increase after July 1.… Read the rest
Karate kids take titles
A slew of Azle Karate for Kids athletes were state and district champs.
Madison Schultz took the state title in combat weapons.
Bailey Baker was crowned the best in Texas in creative weapons and Xtreme weapons.
Mykayla Sardina won state in creative weapons and creative forms.
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District champs included:
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Soccer camps are next for local athletes, to be conducted on the Azle High School pitch on the north side of the campus.
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Session III, grades, 7-9, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. $50. Late fee of $10 after June 17.
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Seven Azle baseball players were selected to the elite District 5-4A All-District list.
In addition, one – first baseman Slayton Vaughan – was picked for the 4A All-State Second Team by the Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association. In 5-4A, Vaughan was a First Team selection.
The Hornet will become the first Azle player to compete in the Class 5A-4A All-Star Game in Round Rock's Dell Diamond; he will play for the North squad June 15.… Read the rest
Camps, PAC 3 arrive
Summer camps continue with wrestling. Also arriving is the third and final part of the Performance Course.
Session III for boys grades 6-8 has a $215 fee and runs from 10:30 a.m.-noon June 17-Aug. 1.
The remaining camps:
June 17-20 – Wrestling: Session I, grades 1-5, 8-10 a.m. Session II, grades 6-8, 10-noon. $40.
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Session II, grades 3-6, 9:30-11. $40.
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Police say a suspect who led Rio Rancho and Albuquerque officers on a chase Thursday afternoon has a violent past.
33-year-old Jeremy Robertson led police on a chase from Albuquerque to Rio Rancho.
APD Repeat Offender Project detectives were following him since he had three outstanding warrants.
They saw him heading into Rio Rancho and asked for help from a marked car here to pull him over.
Instead he led both ABQ and Rio Rancho police on a car chase and then a foot chase and got back into his car.
Police say it was a high risk, high priority mission to apprehend him.
Apparently he was known to APD ROP detectives and he did have a violent past so they had that information already, having two felony warrants.
An APD officer shot out his tire but Robertson kept driving about six blocks before he crashed.
He was okay and police booked him.
His most recent warrant is for transporting a stolen vehicle and assault on a police officer.
Police say in the past he's been charged with burglary, auto burglary, forgery, drug possession and breaking and entering.
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Happy President's Day! Katie and DH are home, but Dave and Claire have school. It seems pretty weird!
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Not the resort in the Bahamas, but the rest of my party is staying at FL resorts the rest of the week. The places are really nice, but I'm going to hop on a plane and get back since Dave will be tracked out. That way DH will only have to take 2 days off from work - not too bad!
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I'm not a bit tired, loving your countdown!!
I check the mailbox on postal holidays too just in case, lol.
We're still going crusing despite the Carnival Poop Cruise. Here's the link. How scared should I be since it's only 3 days/2 nights?
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Happy Monday.....5 days to our vacation...Are you tired of hearing me say that? Sorry! Just really excited!
Our boys have school today, no mail delivery, but I'll still check the mailbox when I get home.
Riley has a dentist appt tomorrow too, other than that...no appts....just the usual homework and the typical stuff. We are suppose to get some snow tonight and again Thursday into Friday....I'll tell ya, I'm really getting tired of this winter. It better not be that much as we have to go to Milwaukee Friday evening. We are staying over night and leaving our car there for the duration of our trip. The flight leaves at 6:30 Saturday morning. That's early.....but hopefully we will be on the beach with a drink in our hands by noon!
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"So much for the laws of physics!"The counterpoint to the Real Robot Genre (or rather, Real Robot is the counterpoint to this), the Super Robot Genre is a genre of science fiction — mostly Anime and Manga, but found in other mediums as well — focusing on a fantastic, Superheroic form of Humongous Mecha. In contrast to Real Robots, Super Robots are often (but not always) the creations of eccentric Mad Scientists who work alone in their secluded laboratories; exactly where they get the parts, funding, and equipment, or how they manage to keep anyone else (except the select few needed to drive the plot) from finding out about their activities is usually left as a exercise for the viewer. The pilot tends to be an average-across-the-board Audience Surrogate, sometimes even an Ordinary High-School Student, who falls into the cockpit and discovers they have a natural aptitude for piloting a giant robot. Instead of using an elaborate system of controls like those found in an airplane cockpit, the pilot controls a Super Robot using a mere handful of buttons (and maybe a joystick), motion capture or even a mind-reading system, and the motion of the mecha itself is often implausibly humanlike. Overall, the science behind a Super Robot is usually on the soft side of the scale, with the Rule of Cool and the burning passion of The Hero and his friends and lovers having more effect on the machine's capabilities than a list of well-defined specifications. In contrast to a Real Robot, where the mecha is just one more piece of equipment in the overall arsenal (even if it is the cornerstone), a Super Robot is an enabling device for its pilot to pull off Badass heroics. Super Robot shows are typically personified by "Love/Courage/Compassion/Friendship/Righteous-Anger/Insert-Positive-Emotion-Here Conquers All", and almost always have at least one character that is Hot-Blooded, though there are certain notable exceptions... mostly those directed by Yoshiyuki "Kill 'em All" Tomino, to whom anyone can die is less a possibility than a life philosophy (...or at least it used to be). They also typically follow the Monster of the Week format, especially in older shows, though as always there are exceptions. Super Robots tend towards idealism on the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism and romanticism on the Romanticism Versus Enlightenment scale.
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It's weird to hear that his voice sounds the same without the music.
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Well, this isn't actually filmed footage. This is the singing track of the song mixed with stock sounds. It's really well made, but somebody out there has waayyy too many stock sounds. If you look at the behind the scenes videos, they actually play the song on speakers while filming, so everything is on-beat.


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The Presumption of Innocence is the fundamental right, at the foundation of all personal freedoms in America which embodies the concept "it is better to free ten guilty men than to convict one who is innocent."
For the last 30 years, the government has been using various techniques to replace basic, God-given Constitutional rights, such as the Presumption-of-Innocence, with various legal devices, such as the "Presumption of Governmental Regularity and Correctness.
An example of how this device is used is that judges proclaim they will "always believe the government witness over the accused" (in situations where all other factors are equal). Judges who follow the Presumption of Government Regularity and Correctness consider only the government's witness to be an accurate reporter of events and consider the citizen not believable; hence, the evisceration of the Presumption of Innocence.
There are case law rulings creating this abomination of justice, which is contrary to the U.S. Constitution. What should happen under our Constitution is, when only the word of a citizen is pitted against the testimony of a government witness, without corroborating evidence, the Presumption of Innocence REQUIRES that judges accept the statements of the accused as true. But this new device allows the judge to base his decision on something other than fundamental constitutional principles and arbitrarily to conclude that the government is right and the citizen wrong.
The Presumption of Governmental Regularity and Correctness is a malicious tool, created as an alternative to Constitutional law, fashioned by the New World Order (NWO) movement, to defeat the Constitutional rights of the individual in America. It's the chief technique used to allow governments to collaborate with foreign private interests to transform this country into a police state.
Another technique used in transforming this nation from a free state into a police state, is the attack on the innocent; those "politically incorrect" people willing to speak out against tyranny and corruption. Against them the government uses false charges, manufactured by rogue government agents on behalf of the elite who deem themselves to be "politically correct;" i.e., the NWO movement.
"They," these rogue agents and the prosecutors and judges who support them, deliberately attack innocent individuals who criticize the NWO movement simply because of differing views of how governmental authority should be administered, managed and applied.
The tie-that-binds these entities is a form of peer pressure mixed with legalized bribery that encourages government employees to stick together, causing judges, prosecutors and government agents to feel obligated to support each other, even if their conscience tells them that they are prosecuting an innocent person on false charges.
Legalized bribery comes in the form of "cash awards" for government employees from $10,000 to $25,000 per conviction to "recognize and reward" each official under 5 USC §§ 4502, 4503 & 4504 and 5 USC §4302 to enhance their "performance" or for so-called "superior accomplishment" or "a special act or service" or if the act "achieves a significant reduction in paperwork." The criteria is so loose, any employee can be given a cash award for almost anything; consider the power this law gives the head of each agency to manipulate employees. In addition, the government employee can also receive "time off from duty without loss of pay" as a part of the reward for bringing down a politically incorrect person.
A politically incorrect person not only believes in the U.S. Constitution as the Supreme Law of the Land but uses his freedom of speech to point out law violations by the government. Such was the case for David Hinkson who developed ionized minerals as a dietary supplement and started a business that went from zero to $4.0 million in sales in four years. Then he came under the scrutiny of Rogue agents at the IRS, FDA and FBI who were helped by cooperating private individuals all of whom wanted to put him in prison so they could steal his business.
Because of something called the "Crony System," a member of the government invariably refuses to challenge another government employee who is attacking a politically incorrect person; this part of the Crony System operates like a conspiracy of silence.
Also, rogue agents are given wide latitude to pursue vindictively their own personal agenda, such as when an agent feels insulted by someone who challenges their authority, as happened in David Hinkson's case. The rogue agents are allowed to pursue their own agenda because they are supposed to be the protectors of the judges and prosecutors who supervise them. These agents create a "bunker" mentality among the judges and prosecutors in a paranoid atmosphere with a pretense of constant danger. These rogue agents are in a symbiotic relationship with both judges and prosecutors that leaves the ordinary citizen "out of the loop" and creates conditions ripe for victimizing the innocent politically incorrect person.
The attacks by rogue agents are not limited to dissenters who make "politically incorrect" statements. Sometimes such agents are directed by NWO leaders to attack creative individuals, such as inventors who develop products that might compete with the private interests of "big-pharma" or the oil and gas industry or other industries that provide profit to the NWO bankers.
Once falsely charged with a crime, the innocent person's prosecution will be supported by members of the Crony System, which ultimately relies upon the Presumption of Governmental Regularity and Correctness in order to bind these different techniques together to ensure a conviction. Convicting as many dissidents as possible not only silences the opposition, it provides funding to the American Prison Industry (API), another creation of the NWO bankers. The API depends upon revenue bonds for funding. They are sold in regional and world markets and must be repaid by taxes that support prisoners; the more prisoners, the more tax dollars to repay revenue bonds. In order to obtain a conviction, not only is the Presumption of Innocence defeated, but evidence of other defenses a politically incorrect individual might have, such as alibi or self defense, are simply excluded by a cooperating activist judge, who is receiving some form of payoff.
In some cases, such as in the Hinkson case, the judge would not allow the jury to hear evidence crucial to his alibi defense which could have resulted in his acquittal. For example, when the government failed to produce David's U.S. Passport, the judge also refused to order it produced which would have proved that David was in Ukraine and Russia when he supposedly was soliciting Elvin Joe Swisher to murder federal officials.
Also, the judge excluded from the jury's consideration Swisher's official military file which absolutely proved that Swisher was a liar. He had not received military awards or decorations, had not killed anyone in combat and had not served in Korea; in fact, Swisher was court-martialed for misconduct and busted from a Corporal to a PFC without ever having traveled to Korea or served in a conflict.
Failure to produce David's Passport by the government and exclusion of Swisher's military file by the trial judge, who lied from the bench when he ruled that the file contained information that supported Swisher's service in Korea is nothing less than prosecutorial and judicial misconduct – however, there is no one to prosecute them.
When there is no physical evidence that a crime occurred, such as the accusation that David Hinkson tried to hire Swisher to murder federal officials, then the only evidence is "hearsay" from the lying mouth of a government witness such as Swisher upon which to base the conviction. When Swisher made the claim that the accused said he wanted to hire him to murder federal officials, other than a flat denial, which he did, there was no other way to rebut such testimony than to show that the informant was lying about his other in-court statements, i.e., about faked military heroism and awards.
When Swisher bragged to the jury about his fake status as a decorated Korean combat veteran, he clothed himself with unassailable credibility because everybody loves and believes a war hero! He said that David wanted to hire him as a hit man because Swisher had killed "many" in combat. If the jury had learned that Swisher was lying about being a war hero, in combat and serving in Korea and never received any decorations, awards or medals, his credibility would have been stripped from him. Thus, the government was able to use two fraudulent stories to convict David of crimes he did not commit–crimes which never happened. The first story was that Swisher was credible because he was the equivalent of a super-hero injured war veteran and the second was that David Hinkson tried to solicit him to murder federal officials. Take out the first lie with the military record and the second lie fails.
The failure of the judge to allow David to show that Swisher was lying about his military record, which the government went to great pains to make the center piece of its case, denied David the chance to prove that he was not guilty, or at least prove there was reasonable doubt as to his guilt.
The judge applied the Presumption of Government Regularity and Correctness when he excluded Swisher's military file from the evidence that could be considered by the jury by saying that if admitted, it would only "confuse" the jury. Applying that precedent to future cases, one can see that the government will convict every innocent person who is falsely accused until the Presumption of Governmental Regularity and Correctness has been overturned.
Bearing false witness was prohibited under Biblical law. In addition, the eternal Law of Witnesses requires that at least two witnesses must testify as to the same set of facts if the accused is charged with a hearsay crime. Remember that in the trial of Christ, the Sanhedrin went looking for two witnesses who would testify to the same false charge and couldn't find any liars to tell the same story; so finally, the Savior Himself had to supply the "crime" by stating that He was divine, which supposedly was blasphemy). Congress must pass a law to require at least two witnesses in the case of hearsay crimes.
Consider, if someone testifies: "You did it," that there is no way to overcome such a statement because a mere denial, such as "No, I didn't," is merely what we commonly call "he said/she said." Under the pre-1980 system the accused would win if it was just his word against the government witness, but under the present system, the government wins every time because the Presumption of Governmental Regularity and Correctness. In such a situation, the only choice for the accused is to prove that, for a variety of reasons, circumstances show that he didn't do it. At that point, it is up to a third party, such as a judge or a jury, to "weigh" the evidence and decide who is believable and whether there is reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the defendant. That is why the Presumption of Government Regularity and Correctness damages the rights of the individual, because it virtually insures a conviction in every case by mandating acceptance of the government's version.
Another technique used by the U.S. Department of Justice is to provide news releases, at the outset of the case, filled with false accusations in order to demonize the accused by mounting community disdain against him. This is a form of jury-tampering based on attempts by the government to mold the minds of prospective jurors against the accused. There is no mechanism to prevent the government from leaking false information to the media damaging to the reputation of the accused because there is no one to prosecute the prosecutors–unless Congress makes such conduct illegal.
Another technique is to hold the accused in jail, so that he cannot participate in his own defense. By presenting false accusations of additional criminal activity that never existed, which activity has been fabricated specifically for the detention hearing, the accused is denied a bond. Thus, he cannot get out of jail before trial. Typically, in order to be in a position to have the court deny bond in a murder for hire case, the government will falsely claim that the accused has a "list" of persons he is planning to kill. This makes the defendant appear to be very dangerous and thus, justifies holding him in pre-trial detention.
Note: There is no mechanism for holding the government accountable or responsible for bringing false allegations against the accused at a bond hearing, so those false allegations which held the person in jail before trial are quickly forgotten; nonetheless, they served the purpose of holding the accused in detention and denying him the opportunity to participate in his own defense. Thus, by these techniques, the innocent politically incorrect individual becomes a political prisoner of the U.S. Government.
The techniques described above are only a few of those used by the government against the politically incorrect; but all such techniques appear to have come from a KGB-style play book on how to destroy political dissenters. Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Ronald Regan and Stephen F. Downs, who lectures at New York University Law School both have isolated a problem with the prosecution for "fake" terrorist related crimes of almost a thousand innocent persons by the U.S. Government. Professor Downs refers these acts as "Preemptive Prosecutions." They base them on a government assessment that the accused is likely to commit a crime in the future (or are just a general nuisance to the current administration). Therefore, he/she is indicted, tried, convicted and imprisoned by a modern Kangaroo Court (by a Soviet style purge, but in the name of public safety). The government's motivation to prosecute fabricated cases is
multi-fold, but includes: 1. Justification of agency budgets (e.g., FBI $8.3 Billion); 2. Advancement of the police state in Amerika (e.g., Patriot Act approved snooping — Military Commissions Act eliminated Habeas Corpus, etc.); 3. Profits from goods and services that supposedly promote public safety (e.g., sales and proliferation of total body scanners); and 4. Pretense-justification of U.S. aggression in countries that support terrorism (e.g. It is okay to murder civilians in Somalia because that nation has supporters in the USA who have or might commit acts of terrorism).
The bottom line is that the War on Terrorism is big business and the ultimate winners are the Bilderbergers (see below) who finance and profit from all industries that feed on the management of the purported threat of terrorism, which needs to publicly prosecute the politically incorrect who challenge the underlying assumptions of the government and this all consuming mantra.
Once convicted, a politically incorrect person likely will serve a lengthy sentence and be forgotten in the Gulag of the American Prison Industry. He will probably will die in prison for crimes he did not commit; crimes which never occurred in the first place. Such is case with David Hinkson; although there are thousands of examples of others who were innocent or severely overcharged in order to give them lengthy sentences that exceed their life span.
Over the years, laws identifying so-called "hearsay crimes" have foolishly been enacted by Congress with assurances from the Department of Justice that these laws would "never be used" to target innocent individuals. For instance, see minutes of Congressional Hearings where members of the Congressional Committee were concerned that the new structuring law they were approving might be applied to them when they withdrew or deposited more than $10,000 in cash in two or more transactions on more than one day. In fact, these laws have become the primary weapons used by the DOJ to prosecute the politically incorrect.
Hearsay crimes, such as murder-for-hire, are enhanced by the government's ability to make phony tapes and videos that imitate the voice of the accused appearing to threaten some ghastly deed; as in the case of Edgar J. Steele, a First Amendment lawyer who stood up for the rights of the politically incorrect. Steele also is from North Idaho and the fraudulent attacks on him emanate from the same office of the FBI as the David Hinkson case. This Idaho office is known to use liberally the false testimony of government informants as the basis for prosecutions.
It is important to remember that government informants always have something very significant to gain by acting as a cooperating witness. In years past, government informants were paid for their testimony, which made juries suspicious. When the paid witness was not believed because he has little or no credibility, the government would lose cases. Today, however, informants are allowed to keep the "booty" stolen from the politically incorrect. It becomes their fee for testifying for the government in lieu of direct payment, as happened in both the Hinkson and Steele cases (Hinkson had $6,600 in cash stolen by government informant Marianna Raff and Steele had $45,000 in silver coins stolen by government informant Larry Fairfax).
Significant to both cases is that the federal government did not prosecute either of these informants for theft and discouraged the state of Idaho from doing so. In fact, the federal government wields great influence with its state law enforcement counterparts and easily can get them not to prosecute a government informant (see the case of John Connelly, former Boston Mass. FBI chief, about whom it is said, "he tarnished the badge"). Thus, these informants who stole from the accused got off "scot-free" for the theft, which turns out to be the payment for cooperation. The FBI insisted that Raff, who was a felony habitual offender, be set free from county jail to testify for the government even though she had committed multiple serious offences and Fairfax, will likely spend about a year in prison and never have to be accountable for the theft of Edgar Steele's silver savings.
It is interesting to note that in David Hinkson's case, the government's informant, Swisher, was convicted of felonies including forgery, perjury and theft of approximately $200,000 of government property arising out of earlier fraudulent representations that he had made to the Veterans Administration. His false presentation to the VA in June 2004 allowed him to obtain fraudulently disability and medical benefits by presenting false testimony of heroism with medals and forged military documents. Swisher used the exact same fraudulent statements about heroism, etc. six months later, in January 2005, to gain credibility with the jury when he presented fictitious allegations in the murder-for-hire prosecution of David.
The corrupt Idaho Office of the U.S. Attorney shielded Swisher from prosecution for his fraud on the VA until an honest prosecutor from Montana was assigned to the case by the U.S. Inspector General's Office; otherwise, he never would have been prosecuted. It took over two years to indict, prosecute and sentence Swisher to prison. Although David was innocent, he was sentenced to 43 years in prison (which means that David will be almost age 90 when he is eligible for parole, or he will die in prison). Swisher for all his lies and fraud received less than a year in a "country club" prison.
In subsequent appellate proceedings, attorneys representing the government have admitted that Swisher lied to the Court and the jury in the Hinkson case, but the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
would not reverse David's conviction because that would have embarrassed one of their colleagues who acted as David's trial judge. It was more important to the Ninth Circuit to protect a colleague under the Crony System than to allow an innocent man to go free. David's case now awaits Certiorari before the U.S. Supreme Court.
There are many political prisoners in America today because people are beginning to resist the grand socialist scheme developed by NWO groups. The chief power brokers of the world are in a NWO group of bankers known as the Bilderberg Group, a non- government organization (NGO) manipulating various government agencies to achieve their devious purpose, which is to form a "One World Order" with their own puppet as the dictator. Part of their agenda is to silence all opposition, especially those politically incorrect Americans who have the unmitigated temerity to criticize the NWO or say anything they feel any time they want.
The former U. S. Secretary of Agriculture under Dwight Eisenhower, Ezra Taft Benson, a man revered by many as a true prophet in our day, warned that such power groups would infiltrate our agencies (e.g., the CIA, FBI, FDA, IRS, DOJ and the Courts) with the intent to take away personal freedoms. In 1988, he testified of a secret combination that "seeks to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries [that] is increasing its evil influence and control over America and the entire world."
This book, A Cesspool of Judicial Corruption-The David Hinkson Story, provides an anatomy of the government's investigation, indictment, trials, sentencing and appeal in the David Hinkson case and shows the connection between the malicious prosecution of David and the Bilderberg-NWO agenda. It gives the reader a blow-by-blow account of the secret combinations at work and the pragmatics of how it is possible, in a free society, for police state tactics to operate in tandem with what has been termed: the greatest experiment in personal liberty in the history of mankind, i.e., The United States of America under The U.S. Constitution.
This book is a classic example of Preemptive Prosecution. Below is a list of how these secret New World Order forces have been and will continue to obliterate the U.S. Constitution unless they are stopped: First, they influence Congress and state legislatures to adopt new laws which subvert personal freedom in the name of enhanced security; second, they manipulate government workers to implement the new progressive socialism and blind them to the fact that it will be the same kind of tyranny like Hitler's Nazi Germany and Stalin's Communist Russia; and third, the very ones who should be protecting and enforcing individual liberties, the judges have sold out to the NWO, and these are the ones who interpret and apply the new laws used to override the Constitutional rights of the individual. The judges then pretend that they cannot see the injustice and therefore claim they are simply enforcing these new rigid, wooden and inflexible rules as if it is the will of the people–all of which defies both common sense and our Constitutional rights. But the net effect is that it silences the politically incorrect.
Prior to becoming involved in the movement to "take America back" before it becomes "Amerika," the question that each of us should answer is: "Is it worth becoming involved when my expression of opinion may be considered politically incorrect and I may become the target of false accusations?"
My hope for all who read this work is that they will protect themselves by banning together with like-minded individuals as a force for good to overcome government corruption. May we ban together with people who believe in the U.S. Constitution and who desire to expose those who enforce this twisted revision of our precious God-given form of government that our Founding Fathers shaped for us. Remember, "Exposure is the first step in the cure for corruption."
It is also my hope that those with good intentions will speak up and demand, en masse, the repeal of laws that defile our freedoms; demand the elimination of false prosecutions; and demand the release of all political prisoners, such as David R. Hinkson and Edgar Steele. Otherwise, the evils of bearing false witness against those who exercise Freedom of Speech will be at our doors with machineguns at-the-ready just as they were at David Hinkson's door on November 21, 2002, but with no one left to stop it.
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Several senators have urged the suspension of military and other funds for Egypt because of a U.S. law prohibiting foreign assistance after coups. But the Obama administration has defended the money as vital to U.S. national security interests.
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of this year's graduation ceremony…and I don't mean just showing up
because it's a university event. No, thanks to Dr. Steven Vibbert, this
year's selected faculty speaker, I was actually an integral part of the
Dr. Vibbert is a professor in the Eugene Pulliam School
of Journalism and specifically teaches undergraduate courses related to
public relations. You may remember his name from my blog as Dr. Vibbert
is the only professor that invites me to pay a visit to each one of his
classes, every semester.
He's also my dad's favorite professor
from his undergraduate days and it's easy to see why, especially after
I had the pleasure of hearing him "profess" to the graduating class of
2008 on Saturday.
Dr. Vibbert started his speech off with a very
valid point. He said to the graduates, "Look around you right now and
soak in the feeling that fills this field house. You know what that
feeling is? It's accomplishment. And now look at those around you—at
your friends and family and at this proud faculty in their own very
spiffy hats behind me, look at all the people who supported you—and who
share your sense of accomplishment. Here's the good part about
accomplishment. It is a renewable resource. You've earned the good
feeling—I'd say the good vibe—of this accomplishment, but you know that
having done it once, you can do it again and again. You can achieve
this feeling over and over, by doing things as you've done here at
Butler—the Butler Way–and by sharing in the accomplishments of others
as parents and friends in future years."
I found that to be some
great perspective, even from my point-of-view, which is affixed on four
legs and about a foot and a half off the ground. However, the crux of
his message was based on an acronym…an old trick he uses a lot in his
He told the graduates to use the acronym BLUE to guide
them. B for "be flexible," because "change is going to happen to you";
L for "let someone know they made a difference to you; U for "use the
front-page test – if you're doing something you wouldn't want everyone
to read about on the front page of your hometown newspaper, then don't
do it"; and E for "enthusiasm," which they'll need to succeed.
ended it with, "As I look back on the four points I've written: Be
flexible; Let someone know they made a difference; Use the front page
test; Enthusiasm matters…B.L.U.E. I see that they spell BLUE. I want
you to remember BLUE, Butler Blue, to do things the right way—what is
sometimes called the Butler Way.
Are these four points really
part of what it means to be Butler Blue? Can they in some way connect
you all, today and in the future? Are they worth remembering, as I
think they are? How could I prove such a statement? How could I make
your last class at Butler stay with you?
I have an idea—a friend of yours and mine whom I've asked to come to commencement just to make this call."
is the part where I made my grand entrance and found my spot on stage
next to Dr. Vibbert and the podium, amid the cheers, laughter and
clapping. It was quite fun.
Really, I was probably on display
for a minute, but like Dr. Vibbert, I think it drove home the point and
maybe made that one of the most memorable speeches in all of Butler's
152 commencement exercises.
In all, the University conferred
degrees on 877 students – 275 from the College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences, 196 from the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, 185
from the College of Business Administration, 120 from the Jordan
College of Fine Arts and 101 from the College of Education.
Susan Solomon, a senior scientist with the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, was the keynote speaker. She was part of
the group that won the 2007 Nobel Prize for their efforts "to build up
and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to
lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such
I don't really know anything about that, nor will I
pretend to. When it comes to climates, I just know that I'm the sort of
breed that pretty much has to live in a temperature controlled
environment, thus, I need a very mild climate…i.e. indoors.
Dr. Solomon got an Honorary Degree during the ceremony. I did not,
however get an Honorary Degree. That's okay, I'm probably only
deserving of an "Ornery Degree." I know…bad joke.
In other news, fellow Butler Bulldog and IndyCar Series driver, Ed Carpenter, did make the field for the Indianapolis 500 on the first day of qualifying this past Saturday. He will start the 92nd running from the 10th position. Go Ed!
Before I sign off on this post, I want to wish my good friend Kirby the
best of luck in Minnesota. His mom graduated on Saturday so I have to
bid farewell to my good friend. Thanks for leaving me your purple
wading pool too, Kirby! I'll put it to good use like I did my blue one
last year.
Bye Kirby…I'll never forget the great times we had together!
Blue II