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At Roberts Retirement Group, we work with families to help build, protect, and pass on their family wealth, values, and purpose. It is our mission to help assure each client's family legacy and assist them in achieving the goals and objectives that are most important to them by integrating all areas of planning: financial, insurance, tax, and legal strategies.
Located in the heart of the California Gold Country, we have been serving the residents of the Foothills since 1990, providing them with a strong, stable foundation where not only wealth, but also family values are protected, nurtured, and grown. Roberts Retirement Group offers wealth, value, and purpose for you, your children, and for generations to come.
Historically, you may have purchased financial or insurance products and then found out how they affected your retirement planning later. Surveys of affluent Americans consistently tell us that their major frustration is their financial advisors should be more proactive about future issues that might affect their financial well being.
It's what we don't know or what questions we don't ask or clarify that may be costing us severely. By finding out how you arrive at financial decisions, we can determine if that process is perhaps flawed. If you find out that there are flaws or missing information in your decision making process, you will quickly realize where money is falling through the cracks or where the problems are in your current planning, thus helping you make more informed financial decisions closely matched to your true needs and desires.
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Tuesday , April 15, 2014 - 1:10 PM
Utah has a real problem with heroin use. Utah's problem with heroin mirrors the rest of the nation.
Heroin use ruins lives. It can also be fatal, as we learn from the heavy news coverage of the occasional celebrity who overdoses on the illegal drug.
Look at these stats over the past generation: In 1993, the Utah Department of Human Services logged 346 treatment admissions, or 2 percent of all drug admissions. Last year, there were 2,606 heroin admissions, or 20 percent. And these numbers do not include those who paid for heroin treatment with private funds. Also, heroin abusers are getting younger. About 20 percent of those admitted into the Project Reality substance abuse center in Salt Lake City are under 23.
The key reason that heroin is gaining in popularity is it's cheap. Its resurgence over the past generation can be tied to the growth of persons abusing prescription pain medication. As pain medication addiction gets higher, the addicts discover they can't afford to buy OxyContin, or other drugs. They switch to heroin, which provides a similar high. Heroin is much, much cheaper than the pain pills.
This is chilling. Heroin sold on the street is not regulated, of course. These addicts are dancing with disease and death as they deal with heroin. It's literally a fall to the gutter.
We have to reduce heroin use. But to do that, we also have to reduce dependency on pain pills. They are connected in the battle against drug abuse.
Gov. Gary Herbert has signed laws that will help. One grants immunity from drugs-related prosecution to someone who reports an overdose. The other provides immunity from those who try to treat a heroin overdose by providing naloxone, an FDA-approved antidote, to a victim.
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Grammar school teacher who was awarded the MBE is banned from classrooms after streaking naked with pupils
- David Bradley, 55, admits he acted 'inappropriately' by stripping
- He also undressed in an area where children, aged 12 and 13, were naked
- Mr Bradley was found guilty of misconduct by the Teaching Agency
- They banned him today for at least two years
Banned: David Bradley, 55, cannot teach for at least two years after he
admitted streaking across a field with a group of year 8 pupils (file picture)
A grammar school teacher who streaked naked in front of his pupils has been banned from Britain's classrooms for at least two years.
Education Secretary Michael Gove imposed the sanction on David Bradley, 59, after a disciplinary panel found him guilty of 'unacceptable professional conduct' while working at North Cestrian Grammar School, in Altrincham, Cheshire.
Bradley, who received an MBE four years ago for his work with children on the Duke of Edinburgh scheme, quit his job last month after admitting it had been 'inappropriate' to streak.
He had been camping with the group of 12-and 13-year-olds on a field trip when he agreed to run naked across a garden.
The married teacher told a disciplinary panel: 'The lads had streaked for a joke and they were saying, "Come on sir, you have a go."
'At that point, for whatever reason, I got up, ran down the garden and ran back in. Even when I did it I thought, "What am I doing?"'
The Teaching Agency, who announced the ban today said: 'We are satisfied on the evidence that he took the conscious decision to agree to streak, then moved out of his sleeping bag, removed his boxer shorts and then ran with pupils in the garden.
Bradley said that he could not explain why he had behaved in that way, but claimed that in November 2011 he was close to a breakdown due to stress and the pressure of work.
Their report went on: 'Mr Bradley confirmed that there were no complaints raised by any children, and the children had found it hilarious.'
Recommending he should be struck off the disciplinary panel said: 'Teachers are expected to behave in a manner which ensures the maintenance of appropriate professional boundaries.
'We believe that your actions in engaging in the streak failed to maintain the clear boundaries and appropriate delineation of behaviour which should exist between pupils and teachers. Your behaviour failed to ensure the maintenance of appropriate boundaries which are essential in order to ensure that a teacher's position of trust, responsibility and authority are upheld.'
Bradley had undressed in an area where children were showering during the school camping trip to the Solwaybank centre in Dumfries and Galloway in November 2011.
The veteran teacher, from Hale Barns in Greater Manchester, was also accused of inappropriately hugging a female pupil from North Cestrian Grammar School in Altrincham, Cheshire, where he taught.
However, the Teaching Agency hearing in Coventry ruled that undressing in front of boys while they showered and hugging the girl, who Bradley said was hypothermic, did not amount to misconduct.
Respected: Four years ago Mr Bradley was handed an MBE but has now left North Cestrian Grammar School in Altrincham in disgrace after the school trip
The English master was awarded an MBE in 2008 for services to young people after running schemes for the Duke of Edinburgh's Award for 30 years.
He said at the time that organising trips was 'normally just an excuse to have fun and enjoy the animal vitality the young exude'.
Bradley, who has taught for 37 years, said he realised while streaking that what he was doing was unprofessional.
However, referring to the accusations about hugging the girl, Bradley said he was 'aghast' that what used to be considered normal behaviour for teachers could now cause complaints.
'The thing that comes out of this is how out of date I am,' he said.
'What is viewed as normal today seems to have gone to a frightening situation where an adult can't be near to a child without being accused of something. I'm aghast.'
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Is Justin Bieber an aspiring boxer? This weekend he made a shocking appearance as he joined Floyd Mayweather's entourage into the boxing ring - even holding his belt along with rapper 50 cent.
And now there are reports that he has been punching other band-mates around. Bieber reportedly punched The Wanted's member Siva Kaneswaran in the groin twice. The incident apparently occurred backstage at "The Voice" in Los Angeles, when the band performed their new single "Chasing the Sun". Bieber also made an appearance on the show.
The Wanted's Jay McGuiness told British publication The Mirror : "Justin Bieber is a prankster.
"He pranks people all day. Although I'm not actually sure that what he did to Siva was a prank...We'd done the show and Justin basically just came up and punched Siva hard in the balls. And then did it again. Siva wanted to hit him back, but you can't go around smacking kids... he's only little."
Tom Parker, another member of The Wanted, added: "Siva limped into the dressing room and asked 'Why's he picking on me?' It was funny."
Kaneswaran appeared on UK's Daybreak and confirmed the fact that Justin punched him in the privates. "He came up to me during a conversation and smacked me in the privates," he said. It was a game, a very aggressive game, which was very painful!" The poor guy joked that he will take revenge on Bieber, saying: "Who'd win in a fight, me or Bieber? Exactly. But you cannot go around hitting children. And anyway, he's got million-dollar sperm... I couldn't possibly go there. But I'll get him back..."
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Patch 1078151 from Felipe Contreras to fix some more MSN bugs:
"User Dislpay messages, and other less used, did not set
an slpcall, so the callback that should not be called,
was called (in some very special cases)."
"Here it goes the real real one, as far as I can tell.
Cleaning + organizing + documentation + hard bug fix = big
patch." -- Felipe Contreras
I also fixed drag-and-drop to conversation window file transfers (which
I had broken when I fixed some other dnd thing), made the debug output
of the autoreconnect plugin more useful, and stopped the message
notification plugin notifying you for messages sent by ignored users.
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version 1.1.1:
* Allow SILC authentication via public key if your key is password
protected (Michele Baldessari)
+ * More MSN bug fixes (Felipe Contreras)
+ * Drag-and-drop to conversation window file transfers work again
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* Fix some leaks (Miah Gregory, Felipe Contreras)
* Fix crashes when removing buddies in certain situations (Andrew Hart)
* Eliminate MSN switchboard errors (Felipe Contreras)
- * Fix MSN buddy icon syncronization (Felipe Contreras)
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For the first time in the history of Brazil, the federal government is investigating the deaths and abuses suffered by Indigenous peoples during military dictatorship (1964-1985). The death toll may be twenty times more than previously known.
The Obama administration has prevailed in the first court challenge to its controversial force-feedings of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, even as the judge ruling in the government's favor criticized its lack of "common sense and compassion".
Gladys Kessler, a federal judge in Washington DC, denied Abu Wa'el Dhiab's request to significantly change the manner in which the US military transfers, restrains and forcibly feeds detainees on hunger strike to protest their confinement. Kessler's ruling, siding with the government in nearly every particular, is the denouement of a courtroom drama that in May saw a civilian judge ordering the military to briefly halt Dhiab's forced feeding.
Euro zone manufacturing is in decline. US manufacturing declined. GM is channel stuffing once again to boost sales. US construction is down, showing housing is imploding on itself. First time home buyers collapsed to a 27 year low. Spain wants to impose a Google tax. Those who purchased a policy last year from Obamacare do not want to signup again because of the higher premiums. Canada is banning visas from West Africa. FEMA drill scheduled for Nov for Ebola. Morocco on high alert over terrorist attacks from al-Qaeda. Central bankers pushing Ukraine back into war with the South Eastern people. The Islamic State flowing into Lebanon which allows the US to bomb in this region.
The 9/11 attacks on the United States undoubtedly benefited a number of actors, including the American military-intelligence complex, Israel, and most definitely, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Cold War-era, the area of responsibility for which had long been confined to Europe and North America, used the provisions of Article 5 of the NATO Charter – which states that an attack on one member is an attack on all – to extend NATO's power deep into Eurasia, particularly in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kyrgyzstan.
After engaging in out-of-area invasions and occupations of Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, and Syria and, again in Iraq, against the «Islamic State,» the «North Atlantic» military bloc has transformed itself from a Cold War defensive alliance into a global offensive axis of nations that acts with or without United Nations authorization.
A Libyan exile, who was allegedly tortured with the complicity of the British intelligence services, has won the right to have his case heard in open court, despite government attempts to prevent the case being heard in public.
Abdel Hakim Belhaj, and his wife Fatima Bouchar, accuse the British government of allowing the regime of former Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi to torture them in 2004, with MI6 and former Labour Foreign Secretary Jack Straw complicit in US-led rendition programs.
On the evening of October 29, 1956 Israeli troops shot and killed 49 unarmed Palestinian civilians in the village of Kafr Qasem, 20 km east of Tel Aviv near the green line.
Now the village has a population of 18,100 Palestinians, some of whom marched today alongside neighboring Arab villages to commemorate those killed 1956. People marched from the village center to the memorial site and placed candles for those killed; village leaders made speeches in commemoration.
The Central Intelligence Agency is firing back at allegations that it is responsible for delaying the release of the Senate report on the controversial post-9/11 interrogation program, insisting that lawmakers themselves are to blame.
Twelve Nobel Peace Prize winners penned an open letter to President Barack Obama urging his administration to release a U.S. Senate report on the CIA's use of torture.
In the letter, released Sunday night on TheCommunity.com, the laureates asked for "full disclosure to the American people of the extent and use of torture and rendition by American soldiers, operatives, and contractors, as well as the authorization of torture and rendition by American officials." The letter also pushed for a clear plan for the closing of Guantanamo Bay and other international sites where the U.S. has engaged in torture.
The letter was signed by José Ramos-Horta, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, F.W. De Klerk, Leymah Gbowee, Muhammad Yunus, John Hume, Bishop Carlos X. Belo, Betty Williams, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Jody Williams, Oscar Arias Sanchez and Mohammad ElBaradei.
The laureates spoke out sharply against any use of torture, but said that the U.S.' tactics were particularly troubling.
A short memo to those who signed this petition: what you are asking for will only happen when pigs fly.
At the end of the day, the US President Obama is no less a complete tool of the banks and the corporations which put him into office than was his Republican predecessor.
Banks and corporations love war, because war is profitable. And if it takes torture elicit confessions with which to justify wars, US leadership is certainly not morally opposed to torturing.
We have known, since the time of the Catholic Inquisition, that torture simply gets the tortured person to say what the torturer wants them to say in order to get the torture to stop; it rarely produces actionable intelligence, if at all.
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Obama administration are attempting to censor key facts from a long-delayed Senate report on the agency's illegal torture program. Secret negotiations between the Senate Intelligence Committee and the CIA regarding the censorship of the report, which has remained unpublished for nearly two years, continue to delay its release with no end in sight.
Every so often some smug liberal will ask the annoying question, Where is the Palestinian Gandhi? Why do the Palestinians not try non-violent resistance to Israeli occupation? And so on, in monotonous fashion.
Those same smug liberals do not bother to inform themselves about the basic realities of Israel's West Bank imprisonment regime.
Palestinian activists, human rights defenders, journalists and academics are frequently picked up off the streets, out of their homes in the middle of the night, in front of their families – Israel's thug soldiers take them off to jail and intern them without trial, often in conditions of torture and isolation.
Military courts then rubber-stamp the actions of Israel's military and spy agencies.
A US senator has criticized the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for censoring an upcoming Senate report on the spy agency's torture techniques.
According to sources familiar with the CIA inspector general report that details the alleged abuses by agency officials, CIA agents impersonated Senate staffers in order to gain access to Senate communications and drafts of the Intelligence Committee investigation. These sources requested anonymity because the details of the agency's inspector general report remain classified.
"If people knew the details of what they actually did to hack into the Senate computers to go search for the torture document, jaws would drop. It's straight out of a movie," said one Senate source familiar with the document.
The Ukraine Army, backed by both the U.S. and NATO throughout its military campaign against rebel factions in eastern regions of the country over recent months, appears to have fired cluster munitions on the city of Donetsk earlier this month, according to a Human Rights Watch investigation and independent reporting by the New York Times.
Citing the HRW report, physical evidence and its own interviews with both witnesses and victims, the Times reports:
Sites where rockets fell in the city on Oct. 2 and Oct. 5 showed clear signs that cluster munitions had been fired from the direction of army-held territory, where misfired artillery rockets still containing cluster bomblets were found by villagers in farm fields.
The two attacks wounded at least six people and killed a Swiss employee of the International Red Cross based in Donetsk.
UPDATE: As I read this notice from ClinicalTrials.gov, a service of the US National Institutes of Health, the US Government and Pharmaceutical corporations have been conducting ebola tests on humans. http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02041715
This is official confirmation of Dr. Boyle and Dr. Broderick's reports that the US government has conducted ebola experiments. Perhaps the vaccine was not effective, and those on whom the experiment was conducted came down with ebola and perhaps also employees in the US bio-warfare laboratories located in Africa where the experiment was conducted.
It appears that the test consists of giving an ebola vaccine and then exposing the unaware person to ebola, apparently an engineered version for bio-warfare. Whatever the tests are, it is clear that Boyle and Broderick in their articles below are correct that experimentation with ebola by the US government is underway.
In Sunday's report, Savage wrote that Obama, then a US senator, spoke out adamantly against Pres. Bush when it was revealed in 2005 that his administration had been interpreting the UN treaty in a manner that they argued made it acceptable for CIA and Pentagon officials to disregard the prohibitions against torture if they weren't on American soil.
Obama the president later condemned that reasoning with an executive order "ensuring lawful interrogations," Savage added, although next month's meeting may change that.
The government is holding back as many as 2,100 never-released images from Abu Ghraib and other detention centers overseas. The ACLU first sued for their release 10 years ago, and in August, District Court Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled that the government must publish the photos unless it can defend withholding them on an individualized basis.
Tomorrow the government will appear in court and tell Judge Hellerstein and the ACLU what it plans to do.
"The photos were being stored on Lois Lerner's hard drive. Honest!" -- Official White Horse Souse
Last week the U.S. government submitted to the District Court in Washington, D.C., the most recent standard operating procedures (SOPs) for force-feeding in the Guantánamo Bay detention facility. What remains of the documents, after redactions, is a shameful exercise in doublespeak that attempts to disguise what is really happening in the prison.
The SOPs were submitted in a case brought by Abu Wa'el Dhiab, an inmate represented by Reprieve, the international human rights organization that I head. Dhiab is a 43-year-old Syrian and father of four who has been held without trial or charge in Guantánamo for 12 years. The U.S. government told Dhiab four years ago that he was cleared for release, and yet to this day he remains behind bars. In a last resort to get back to his wife and children, he, along with many others, embarked on a hunger strike. His case concerns the manner in which that entirely legitimate hunger strike has been brutally opposed by the prison authorities.
That this is being done to prisoners of war cleared for release, but have not been released, as they are protesting their status through hunger strikes, is horrifically inhumane.
I will tell you the reason many of these men, cleared for release, have not been released, and will not be released: there have been far worse things done to them than waterboarding. As reported at thinkprogress.org, on 9 February, 2009:
Last week, two British High Court judges ruled against releasing documents describing the treatment of Binyam Mohamed, a British resident who is currently being held at Guantanamo Bay. The judges said the Bush administration "had threatened to withhold intelligence cooperation with Britain if the information were made public." But The Daily Telegraph reported over the weekend that the documents actually "contained details of how British intelligence officers supplied information to [Mohamed's] captors and contributed questions while he was brutally tortured." In fact, it was British officials, not the Americans, who pressured Foreign Secretary David Miliband "to do nothing that would leave serving MI6 officers open to prosecution." According to the Telegraph's sources, the documents describe particularly gruesome interrogation tactics: The 25 lines edited out of the court papers contained details of how Mr Mohamed's genitals were sliced with a scalpel and other torture methods so extreme that waterboarding, the controversial technique of simulated drowning, "is very far down the list of things they did," the official said. Another source familiar with the case said: "British intelligence officers knew about the torture and didn't do anything about it."
Your tax dollars at work, folks: doesn't it make you feel PROUD?!?!?
A soon-to-be released Senate report on the CIA doesn't assess the responsibility of former President George W. Bush or his top aides for any of the abuses of the agency's detention and interrogation program, avoiding a full public accounting of one of the darkest chapters of the war on terror.
"This report is not about the White House. It's not about the president. It's not about criminal liability. It's about the CIA's actions or inactions," said a person familiar with the document, who asked not to be further identified because the executive summary – the only part to that will be made public – still is in the final stages of declassification.
"The position of the American Psychological Association is clear and unequivocal: For more than 25 years, the association has absolutely condemned any psychologist participation in torture."
– Statement by the APA, November 2013
"The American Psychological Association, the largest professional organization for psychologists, worked assiduously to protect the psychologists who did get involved in the torture program."
–James Risen, Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War, October 2014
Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) on Friday vowed to block all legislation in the Senate with a prolonged filibuster if President Obama tries to transfer detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the United States.
A day after Tea Party hero Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) campaigned with him in Wichita, Roberts threatened to wage a marathon talk session similar to the one Cruz held last year to protest the implementation of ObamaCare.
"I stopped him once from trying to send a Gitmo terrorist to Leavenworth. I shall do it again, I shall do it again and if he tries it again I will shut down the Senate," Roberts said, referring to the military prison located sixty miles east of his campaign headquarters in Topeka where he spoke to campaign volunteers.
Here's the deal.
As reported at defenseone.com in June of this year:
Here are the facts about the status of the detainees at Gitmo. The administration has already cleared 78 of the 149 remaining prisoners for transfer. Having never been charged with a crime, these detainees have since been deemed to pose no national security threat by defense and intelligence officials and could be set for departure at any time.
So over what precisely does Senator Roberts have his knickers in a twist about?!?
IS it perhaps that water-boarding is not the worst thing that was done to them to get them to confess, in the very midieval US-created, or sponsored torture?!?
Is it perhaps that moral questions would be asked, about why the Bush administration encouraged torture, when it has been known, since the Catholic Inquisition, that torture only gets the tortured person to say just what his torturer wants to hear to get the torture to stop?!?
In a report from thinkprogress.org,dated 9 February, 2009, the following was reported to have been done to Binyam Mohamed, a British resident:
Source: Think Progress Gitmo Detainee's 'Genitals Were Sliced With A Scalpel,' Waterboarding 'Far Down The List Of Things They Did' Last week, two British High Court judges ruled against releasing documents describing the treatment of Binyam Mohamed, a British resident who is currently being held at Guantanamo Bay. The judges said the Bush administration "had threatened to withhold intelligence cooperation with Britain if the information were made public." But The Daily Telegraph reported over the weekend that the documents actually "contained details of how British intelligence officers supplied information to (Mohamed's) captors and contributed questions while he was brutally tortured." In fact, it was British officials, not the Americans, who pressured Foreign Secretary David Miliband "to do nothing that would leave serving MI6 officers open to prosecution." According to the Telegraph's sources, the documents describe particularly gruesome interrogation tactics: The 25 lines edited out of the court papers contained details of how Mr Mohamed's genitals were sliced with a scalpel and other torture methods so extreme that waterboarding, the controversial technique of simulated drowning, "is very far down the list of things they did," the official said. Another source familiar with the case said: "British intelligence officers knew about the torture and didn't do anything about it."
I would really like to press Senator Roberts about how justified he beleived this treatment was of this man, and if he would be willing to undergo such a procedure to see for himself just how it feels.
The use of torture by the US government (or outsourced to another government) does two things.
First, it lets the world know that those values US politicians love to publicly embrace, like justice, human rights, and democracy, are not observed here in the slightest, when it comes to prisoners of war.
Secondly, it gives carte blanch to those countries which do not very much like the US to torture both US civilians and our millitary.
Those with family and friends in the military, please chew on that last one for awhile.
It's a report that's been the talk of Washington's intelligence community for months, yet lawyers for the nation's premier intelligence agency — the CIA — improbably maintained it didn't have a copy.
That claim evaporated Tuesday as a Justice Department lawyer said the government was wrong when it told a federal judge that the Central Intelligence Agency did not have a copy of the unabridged version of a Senate committee report on treatment of detainees. In fact, the CIA does have a copy of the 6,300-page report, DOJ attorney Vesper Mei said.
"There was a miscommunication over at the agency as to what we were looking for," Mei told U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg at a court session Tuesday. "They didn't realize that they had it."
The CIA doesn't want the taxpaying American public to know how horrifically they tortured - or outsourced torture - on American held prisoners of war.
And this is precisely the reason we should know.
Though cleared for release, prisoner says he should not be brutalized by U.S. for protesting indefinite detention
A specialized community active in treating cancer patients in the Gaza Strip strongly criticized Israel for impeding treatment of Palestinian cancer patients, and said the Zionists' wars on Gazans have caused a sudden growth in the spread of cancerous patients in the besieged population.
A federal judge on Friday ordered the public release of 28 videotapes of a hunger-striking Guantanamo Bay prisoner strike being forcibly removed from his cell and force-fed.
Lawyers for the prisoner, Abu Wa'el Dhiab, have challenged his treatment as abusive.
Numerous news media outlets, including The Associated Press, had asked the court on June 20 to unseal the videotapes, which are classified "secret."
President Obama has turned out to be another failed big government president, who put America into a new war, spied on its own citizens, and made a disastrous health care reform, Executive Director of the Libertarian Party Carla Howell told RT.
RT: The US strikes on ISIS have already cost it around $780-930 million, which is not pleasant news for the American taxpayers but makes a profit for the industries involved. Does President Obama even know about discontent among his citizens?
Carla Howell: I'm sure he is fully informed; he has got an enormous staff to keep him informed of what is going on. Clearly, what he is trying to do is take credit for ending the war in Iraq, and yet at the same time he is beholden to the military industrial complex in America, their special interests, that want more military funding regardless of whether our Generals even want it or not. So he is trying to walk that line.
This President has been an epic fail on everything in which he has intervened.
On immigration; wars in the Middle East; Obamacare; Ebolagate; IRSgate, APgate, and NSAgate, he continues to to undercut working Americans, and makes life worse for most American people.
But you have to understand that such behaviour is completely predictable for a man beholden to the large corporations (including the banks) which have funded the election cycles in which he was (allegedly) elected and re-elected.
Large corporations love illegal immigration, because it cuts the cost of doing business; large corporations love wars, because wars mean profit, for so many companies; and large pharmaceutical corporations love illness, because treatments - rather than cures - are far more profitable.
His faux populism is just an act, and not a terribly convincing act at that; no more, no less.
At the end of the day, this man is a slave to all those who put him in power for one reason, and one reason only; profit.
And he has, and continues, to deliver that for them.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got into a heated argument with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday night, according to Israeli officials, over the planned UN investigation into Israel attacking UN sites in the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu had demanded Ban postpone the probe into the attacks indefinitely, pending Israel releasing its own inquiry results. He also accused Ban of "discriminating" against Israel by wanting to probe the attacks on UN sites full of civilians at all.
A memo to Ban Ki-Moon: don't listen to this bully.
Do these investigations, and do them NOW.
The shelling of schools and hospitals,and the murder of innocent women and children, where GPS coordinates were given to the IDF to protect those sheltering there from harm, is a war crime, period, end of discussion, and the IDF and the Israeli government should be held legally responsible.
A federal judge signaled on Wednesday he may order the U.S. government to release as many as 2,000 photographs depicting the alleged harsh treatment of detainees in U.S. custody at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and other sites.
U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein in New York ruled the U.S. Department of Defense had failed to show why releasing the photographs would endanger the lives of American soldiers and workers abroad.
Attorneys for the United States government say that an upcoming court hearing concerning the force-feeding practices used on a Guantanamo Bay detainee should be held almost entirely behind closed doors.
The motion, filed by US attorneys on Friday in District Court for the District of Columbia, asks that the preliminary injunction hearing for Gitmo detainee Abu Wa'el Dhiab scheduled for early next month be conducted largely in secret over supposed national security concerns.
"As an initial matter, the hearing should be closed in order to prevent any unauthorized disclosure of classified or protected information," the motion reads in part. "Furthermore, the hearing should be closed because, although portions of the materials in the record in this case are unclassified, conducting an open hearing in this case would impose significant burdens on the parties and the Court."
There are NO valid "national security concerns" only "deep embarrassment concerns."
Anyone whose doctor has prescribed this process in their convalescence from an illness understands that even in the most competent and compassionate hands, it is still uncomfortable as hell.
To use this as a punishment for a hunger strike (as it has been primarily practiced at Gitmo, in a restraint chair) is both immoral and inhumane.
I would very strongly suggest that this is being done to prevent these hunger strikers from dying to prevent autopsies being leaked, which may well show the extent to which these men had been tortured in order to get them to confess to whatever their torturers wanted to hear.
Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Donetsk Alexander Zakharchenko told the Russian News Service that there were three burials of civilians found - about 40 dead bodies of civilians, prisoners of war and Ukrainian militia soldiers.
According to Zakharchenko, an examination of the bodies showed that the victims lacked internal organs. However, he noted, it remains unclear whether the organs had been harvested at the time when the victims were alive or dead.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement on Friday that Mahmud Abbas' speech, in which he said Israel conducted a "war of genocide" in Gaza, was "offensive".
Israel unleashed aerial attacks on Gaza in early July and later expanded its military campaign with a ground invasion into the Palestinian territory. Over 2,130 Palestinians lost their lives and some 11,000 were injured.
"Abbas' speech today included offensive characterizations that were deeply disappointing and which we reject," read the statement.
Yeah, and Mussolini rejected accusations that the Nazis were committing atrocities, too! Didn't change the reality, did it?
According to a report by Al-Jazeera, which is aligned with Qatar, a vehement supporter of the U.S. military campaign against ISIS, missiles targeting the town of Kafr Diryan destroyed two residential areas, killing 27 people, most of whom were civilians.
"The locals say that this is the first time that they were attacked by missiles since the outbreak of Syrian revolution. The paradox, they say, is they were bombed not by the Syrian regime, but by an international coalition which killed and wounded many of them under the pretext of fighting terrorism," states the report.
One of the locals interviewed for the report asserted that no ISIS militants were even active in the area.
One of the most bizarre DEA stings to date and one which may have links to government protected overseas drug-running operations.
A top adviser to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned the Bush administration that its use of "cruel, inhuman or degrading" interrogation techniques like waterboarding were "a felony war crime."
What's more, newly obtained documents reveal that State Department counselor Philip Zelikow told the Bush team in 2006 that using the controversial interrogation techniques were "prohibited" under U.S. law — "even if there is a compelling state interest asserted to justify them."
The US Federal Government will never have to demonstrate one shred of moral conscience again in its existence, thanks for the "unholy trinity" of Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld who defiled some the highest offices in this country with their justification of the use of torture, and their worship at the altar of corporate gain above all else.
And of course, President Obama, who is cut from precisely the same sociopathic cloth as are these men, declared that we, as a nation, had to look "forward, not backward" and away from the ruinous damage they had inflicted, not only to countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, but also, to the moral fiber of this country.
After his inauguration, Obama became not only the country's Commander in Chief, but also assumed the position of a new kind of commander, the "Enabler in Chief", soothingly assuring US citizens that "everything was quite all right, and there was nothing to really worry about" concerning the crimes perpetrated under Bush's watch.
Unfortunately, on this issue, President Obama has been utterly, shamefully, and deeply morally wrong.
The reality that there have been no prosecutions of any of the members of the Bush administration for torture and crimes against humanity, demonstrates, clearly, that we are no longer a nation of laws, but a nation of "national postures" to be justified and rationalized, whenever convenient, no matter the cost to our deeply-enshrined and respectful understanding of American justice and due process.
So welcome, my friends, to a Post-Constitutional Republic; where those freedoms and guarantees which used to be secured by the Constitution and Bill of Rights no longer exist; where indefinite detention without due process, and extrajudicial assassinations of American citizens, and yes - even torture - have been institutionalized and "sanitized" - for our alleged protection.
There now: doesn't that make you feel more safe already?!?
Contrary to the image of a dangerous gun nut put out in the media in an effort to justify the burning of the church, official BATF records prove that David Koresch was rather harmless, so much so that the BATF agents invited him to go shooting with them just 9 days before they raided the church. Koresch supplied the ammunition. The BATF agents allowed Koresch to try out their weapons.
The US Government justifies interventions in countries like Syria with the claim "They are murdering innocent people." Yet the US Government does not have a blemish-free history, having tried to stage a publicity-seeking raid then when that turned into a PR disaster, gassing a church full of innocent women and children to death with a poison gas that is illegal to use on enemy troops, then tried to cover it up by claiming mass suicide, then bulldozing the remains and burying the remains in a secret location. Thus, the US Government lacks the moral right to point fingers at anyone.
The best and cheapest way of protecting our national security is simply to eject the madmen from the Foreign Office and stop pimping for the US and its mad-dog protegé.
Let's see how quickly the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), with Mr Bellingham's help, can get their skates on and straighten out the simple matter of Palestine's status so that Israel's strutting psychopaths can finally be brought to book.
Five men accused of planning and executing the 9/11 terrorist attacks face the death penalty in a Guantanamo war crimes tribunal.
It was reported on BBC News tonight that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others will be charged with orchestrating the September 11 attacks.
What the report omitted to say was that many sources, including the New York Times (could any institution be less anti-establishment?), reported in April 2009 that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had been waterboarded 183 times in Guantanano Bay.
The BBC report went on to say, rather comically in the circumstances, was that "Khalid Sheikh Mohammed admits everything relating to the 9/11 attacks from A to Z."
I like to think that this blog specialises in stating the obvious but here is something SO obvious that it does not need stating.
How long will we and our useless, zombified representatives continue to put up with this stuff?
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information." -- US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11.
Neve Gordon explains why Israel's plans to move entire communities of its own Bedouin citizens from their ancestral lands in the Negev and put them in townships will deprive them of their livelihood and land rights.
"I asked Abu Afash what he thinks will happen if they do not reach an agreement with the government. He paused for a moment and then replied that … 'they will not put us on buses and move us, they will simply shut down the schools and wait. When we see we cannot send our children to school we will "willingly" move'.
"This is how forced relocation becomes voluntary and how Israel will likely represent it to the world." (Neve Gordon)
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Sandra Fowler
A Smoke Picture
Hands dream to trace the sculptures of old trees
That stand like dark wainscoting to the light.
Thickets of wordless poems capture thoughts,
Paint lowering moods upon gray window glass.
You spoke Autumn in seven languages,
but only thought in Hebrew, so you said.
It pleases me immeasurably to know
My appalachian accent was approved.
Tonight my mind paints you a smoke picture,
Although frail moods are sometimes blown away.
It does not matter what a poem costs.
The pen and ink is worth the jourrney, Friend.
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Nivedita Bagchi SPC UK (4/16/2010 2:28:00 AM)
'…Thickets of wordless poems capture thoughts, …'
Wow! Wow! ! Wow! ! ! ...
Carried forward in gusto of limbo…Thanks Ma'am
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Sally Plumb Plumb (9/3/2009 2:07:00 PM)
Yelena M. (8/11/2009 1:17:00 PM)
Your poem is pure Autumn, Nostalgia, Tenderness.. I have noticed many readers are just left with no words enough to express the feeling they have reading your poetry..But it is surely an Emotion in the perfect sense of this word. And what is Emotion, is Truth. Thanks for sharing, Sandra.
Amary, always your friend. (Report) Reply
Sandra Martyres (8/11/2009 8:05:00 AM)
Stunning imagery Sandra in this beautiful and perfect piece - a very touching poem (Report) Reply
Vandavasu Vittal (8/11/2009 5:16:00 AM)
Fine poetry definitely maybe emotions on parchment so scenic as the darkness in nothingness. (Report) Reply
Obinna Eruchie (8/8/2009 6:31:00 AM)
You have come up with an imaginative piece, Sandra. Thanks. (Report) Reply
Alison Cassidy (8/8/2009 3:21:00 AM)
Softly eloquent and full of surprises this poem is one of your best. It is rich with nostalgia, charcoal images and a reminder of the importance of friendship. Your use of perfect iambic pentameter expresses tenderness without ever resorting to sentimentality.
'You spoke Autumn in seven languages,
but only thought in Hebrew, so you said.' touched particularly deeply. Thank you. Love, Alison ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ (Report) Reply
Yoonoos Peerbocus (8/6/2009 10:55:00 PM)
here i feel you soul goes beyond the visible phenomena...the very silence whence sounds comes.... (Report) Reply
Shashendra Amalshan (8/6/2009 9:59:00 AM)
Very beautiful words indeed, very flowery indeed..
nice to read.. yaeh Mr. Martin did say it all.. this one did touch me..
nice beautiful poems can always make the mind at ease..
with love
shan (Report) Reply
Patrick A. Martin (8/3/2009 9:58:00 PM)
How remarkable this poem is. I am left looking for words - not for THE RIGHT WORDS just for Words to describe how this has touched me. A poem written to a poet I loved it (Report) Reply
Surayya Abbas (8/3/2009 1:58:00 PM)
After mine long absence from Poem hunter its pleasure to read your great poem.
Thanks. (Report) Reply
john tiong chunghoo (8/3/2009 11:16:00 AM)
Ken E Hall (8/3/2009 4:32:00 AM)
You plant seeds of poemism in our brain and they grow into beautiful words in seconds...magic +++++++10
regards (Report) Reply
nomad omnia (8/2/2009 6:48:00 PM)
So beautifully expressed, Sandra. A smoke picture that can be tasted, breathed. Keep writing - it's good for all our souls. N (Report) Reply
****tamara Hanaring.****** , A Thought Mate, (8/2/2009 4:41:00 PM)
beautiful poem with wonderful images and thougts.. (Report) Reply
****tamara Hanaring.****** , A Thought Mate, (8/2/2009 4:41:00 PM)
beautiful poem with wonderful images and thougts.. (Report) Reply
Sulaiman Mohd Yusof (8/2/2009 7:38:00 AM)
Your words flow deeply into my hungry veins, wanting for more.Good job Sandra dear. (Report) Reply
Smiley Hooker (8/1/2009 10:03:00 PM)
Yes, I so love this poem from start to finish. Your poetic prowess makes it worth the read and praise! Very creative and brilliant! :) (Report) Reply
Will Barber (8/1/2009 4:26:00 PM)
A nostalgic tribute to a Patron Spirit. Gray images drive memory, dreams and reflections. Old friends do not disappear, but dwell with us for all time, even beyond physical separation. The image of hands and trees is very moving.
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