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WHEREAS, it is the duty and responsibility of Missouri State Government to make the public aware, understand and support the role of the Division of Corrections; and
WHEREAS, the Division of Corrections should be made aware of the views and attitudes of the public; and
WHEREAS, it is desirable to provide inmates of correctional institutions with an objective and impartial source for the resolution of grievances and concerns.
NOW THEREFORE, by virture of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the State, I, Christopher S. Bond, Governor of Missouri, do hereby establish the Citizens Advisory Committee on Corrections within the Department of Public Safety to oversee and make the public aware of the policies and practices of The Division of Corrections. It is further ordered that this Order shall supercede and be in lieu of all previous Executive Orders pertaining to the same subject:
|This committee shall be composed of nine citizens from all sectors of the state who are appointed by the Governor. These citizens shall represent a variety of disciplines. Each committee member shall serve for a period of three years and may be reappointed at the conclusion of his/her term. Appointments shall be made so that each year one-third of the membership of the committee shall terminate.
|The major purpose of the committee is to assist the State of Missouri in assuring that the public is made aware, understands, and supports the role of corrections and that the policies of Division of Corrections reflect the views and attitudes of the public. At all times this committee shall work with and through the Department of Public Safety. Additional duties and purposes are listed as follows:
|Meetings of the committee may be called by the chairperson of the committee, the Director of Corrections, or the Director of the Department of Public Safety. Regular meetings will be held at least bi-monthly. Minutes of the meetings shall be forwarded to all members and appropriate division and state personnel to be designated by the division director.
|Members of the committee shall be reimbursed for reasonable and necessary expenses regarding their performance of duties, according to the rules and regulations of travel issued by the Office of Administration. Members will be required to submit an expense account form in order to obtain reimbursement for expenses incurred.
|The committee will meet at each institution every eighteen months. The members will review institutional objectives, goals, and programs submitted to them by the institution head and make recommendations. They will also enhance community support for the institutions by providing information to the public sector.
|This committee shall recommend that the Department of Public Safety investigate prisoner grievances or institutional problems that have not been adequately resolved by the Division of Corrections.
|The Department of Public Safety shall initiate investigations of the Division of Corrections and/or institutions at the request of the committee or the Director of the Division of Corrections. The Department shall also conduct investigations of all sudden prisoner deaths and reports of serious crimes or violence.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Missouri, in the City of Jefferson, this 21st day of May, 1981.
[Christopher S. Bond's signature]
[James Kirkpatrick's signature]
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Supreme Court lets ruling stand that Arizona man can sue medical maker
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from medical device manufacturer Medtronic challenging an Arizona man's lawsuit that claimed the company's pain-medication pump left him paralyzed below the waist.
Medtronic argued that federal rules pre-empt Arizona law, which should have prevented Richard and Mary Lou Stengel from suing the company under state law. But the high court, without comment, declined to hear the case and let a lower court ruling against Medtronic stand.
Thomas Cotter, the Stengels' attorney, was not immediately available for comment. But Scott Nelson, an attorney with the Public Citizen Litigation Group, who helped prepare the Stengels' case to the Supreme Court, said he was pleased with Monday's decision and hopes other courts will now be willing to hear cases of injuries caused by medical devices.
Medtronic's attorneys declined to comment, but the company said in an emailed statement that it was disappointed with the denial. The company still maintains that exclusive Food and Drug Administration oversight is necessary to maintain safe and effective medical devices.
"Without pre-emption, there would be no central standard for device safety, effectiveness, testing, labeling and marketing," the statement said.
The case began in 2000, when Richard Stengel had a Medtronic medication pump surgically implanted, according to court records. In 2005, he began to suffer paralysis in his lower limbs caused by a granuloma, a type of inflammation that he said formed in his spine at the tip of the pump, according to court documents.
Doctors removed the pump, but Stengel eventually lost the use of his legs. He has since died.
The Stengels charged that Medtronic knew about the risks associated with the pump, but did not reveal that information until the FDA inspected its facilities in 2006 and 2007 and issued a warning letter to Medtronic. The company recalled the device in March 2008.
The Stengels sued in 2010, alleging strict liability, breach of warranty and negligence. They subsequently claimed the company had violated Arizona's negligence law by failing to warn the FDA about the pump's risks.
A district court found that federal law pre-empted the state-law claim, since the pump had met the FDA's pre-market approval. That ruling was upheld by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2012.
But the full circuit court unanimously reversed that decision in 2013, writing that Arizona law "parallels" federal laws and that Stengel deserved a chance to sue.
In its petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, Medtronic argued that the FDA regulations are exclusive to the federal government and cannot be enforced by states.
"Private enforcement � would jeopardize the public health by permitting lay juries to second-guess the FDA's expert regulatory judgment," the company said in its petition to the high court.
That was echoed in several briefs in support of Medtronic. The Defense Research Institute said the Supreme Court should weigh in to clarify the case's pre-emption issues and the extent of federal control over manufacturers.
Eric Magnuson, who co-wrote the institute's brief, said he was disappointed by the high court's denial, but would not speculate on what it means.
"It's kind of like reading tea leaves," he said. "When they say no, you can think of a hundred different ways they may justify that."

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NEW YORK—School bus drivers are excited to get back to work after beginning a strike about one month ago. Drivers will be back on the job on Wednesday.
"I can't wait. I can't wait to go back," said Evelyn Catalano, a Brooklyn bus driver. "We're all happy."
The strike was called off late Friday evening in a conference call after a letter sent by five Democratic candidates for mayor told the bus drivers union they will revisit the subject if any of them get elected in November.
Catalano said she agrees with the union head's decision to call off the strike.
"We all agree, because we know he's out looking for us, for our protection," she said. "It's not an easy job, it's a big responsibility, being a school bus driver. The parents put their whole trust in us for their children's lives. That makes you feel good."
Mike Allen, whose daughter Trinity attends Cooke Center Grammar School, was pleased to hear about the end of the strike."I think it's good, that it's over with, that they came to a decision," Allen said.
Trinity's bus still ran during the strike, but bus drivers and matrons, who help special education children on buses, changed a lot, said Allen. Also, her classmates were affected much more.
"It also affects the mood in the classroom," he said. "She has certain classmates that haven't been to school since the strike."
Thousands of bus drivers began a strike on Jan. 16 over the new contracts being bid out; which don't include the Employee Protection Provision, which they say is key in protecting seniority.
The union and officials will continue negotiating while the drivers return to work.
"Our bus drivers and matrons look forward to getting back to work and doing the important job of safely transporting the students, who are like our own children, to and from school each day," said Michael Cordiello, president of Local 1181, the school bus driver's union, in a newsletter.
The end of the strike signals a defeat for the union, which had hoped to force Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration to re-write the contracts to include the same provisions as before.
Yet drivers interviewed on Monday sounded pleased to return to work, and hopeful that after Bloomberg leaves office, his successor will revisit the contracts and re-work them in the union's favor.
"As far as we know, these politicians that are running, they're going to do the right thing for us," said Joseph Pizzuti, who drives in all five boroughs. The five candidates who signed the letter are City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, former comptroller William Thompson, current comptroller John Liu, and former city councilman Sal Albanese, all Democrats.
"We pledge, if elected, to revisit the school bus transportation system and contracts and take effective action to insure that the important job security, wages and benefits of your members are protected within the bidding process, while at the same time are fiscally responsible for taxpayers," write the five in a letter to the union.
Pizzuti did say, however, that another strike is possible.
"Two weeks after we were on strike, they discontinued the medical plans," he said. "So it's tough for people with families, so they said 'look, we'll come back, but we're still under negotiation.' So either they will negotiate this, or we'll go back on strike, maybe September, again."
Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott, speaking on Monday at Tweed Courthouse near City Hall, told reporters that city officials are also pleased the strike is coming to an end.
"We're glad to see the strike over," he said, adding he felt relief more than anything else. With students missing time from school from Hurricane Sandy, and some from the prolonged strike, "We cannot afford to have students unnecessarily miss another day of school," Walcott said.
During the strike students and parents had to make alternative arrangements, some using MetroCards and others hailing taxis or riding buses. MetroCards doled out to students during the strike will expire on Feb. 20.
The city ultimately has spent $20 million reimbursing parents for alternative transportation, including $17 million from MetroCards. The $3 million for other methods will likely rise over the near future as more reimbursement forms come in, said Walcott. The city saved $80 million from not paying school bus drivers during the strike.
The new contracts have been released and the city received 67 bids last week, including 32 new submissions and 10 from companies who only do pre-K contracts—proof that the new contracts, which don't include the provisions, are working as they were intended to, said Walcott.
Along with shaking up a system that typically awarded contracts to the same companies without competition, the city could save over $100 million on the 1,100 routes being contracted out (overall cost: about $1 billion). New contracts for pre-K routes, for about 800 routes worth over $475 million, saved the city $95 million over five years, according to a Department of Education spokesperson.


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By MATTHEW STEVENS
Mississippi State picked up a baseball verbal commitment from one of the best high school prospects in the state of Louisiana.
High School prospect Nicholas Flair gave his pledge to MississippI State Monday to be a member of the 2012 recruiting class eligible to play next season.
"I always wanted to play in the SEC and I'm excited to have the opportunity to play at Mississippi State," Flair said while at the 2011 Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Arizona.
Flair said he hasn't done so yet but expects to officially sign with Mississippi State sometime this week.
Flair, the New Orleans Times-Picayune 2011 Metro Player of the Year selection, said he expects to compete for a starting position at third base during preseason practice in the fall.
"That's the position the coaching staff has told me they see me at and it's a position I feel comfortable at so I think it's a perfect fit," Flair said.
Flair, who hit ..619, with 12 home runs, 62 RBIs, 18 doubles and three triples while leading Belle Chasse (La.) High School to a District 8-4A championship and a 23-6 season ending a second-round 10-8 loss to West Ouachita in the playoffs.
Flair was honored as a Louisville Slugger All American selection by Collegiate Baseball News along with being tabbed tabbed as Third Team All Americans by Baseball America.
The only concern for the Mississippi State coaching staff has to be Flair still having the option of taking a professional contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates after the organization took him with a 26th round selection in the 2011 MLB First-Year Player Draft in June.
"I don't really have a dollar amount in my head that I'm thinking about," Flair said. "Right now I'm looking toward the college rout but haven't gotten an offer yet from Pittsburgh. If they offer me something I can't refuse then that would change things I guess."
Flair is one of 20 players the Pirates have taken in the first 30 rounds to not sign and according to MLB rules, the Pittsburgh front office has until Aug. 15 to come to terms with the player otherwise they lose the rights to the prospect.
Due to NCAA rules regarding recruiting, Mississippi State coaches were forced to decline comment on the status of a prospective student-athlete.
Flair will spend the next few days in Phoenix as a fan during professional baseball's All-Star Weekend before having to travel to Cincinnati to play on a summer traveling team.
The 6-foot-3, 215-pounder previously signed with junior college LSU-Eunice in February before receiving All-Metro and Class 4A All-State selections. Flair, who said he received little college interest during a junior season of high school where he hit .411 with four home runs and 28 RBIs, said Mississippi State was the first Southeastern Conference school that contacted him about a scholarship offer.
"I played with broken nose in a game over there that they were watching and I guess they liked what they saw," Flair said.


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Nothing is true, Everything is permitted!
November 28, 2006, 11:11:56 am »
Nothing is true, Everything is permitted!
Does this statement bother you? If so you probably dogmatically hold on to you beliefs, and reject absolute liberty. I find the statement liberating. For me the statement says, "don't hold on to your beliefs and we are all absolutely free.
Does this seem naive? I don't think the statement is naive, but I do think is worth meditating on the implications the statement holds.
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Re: Nothing is true, Everything is permitted!
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November 28, 2006, 07:19:52 pm »
The statement is equally dangerous to liberty
Nothing is true = you have no rights
Everything is permitted = go ahead, plunder, steal, rape, murder, it doesn't matter!
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Re: Nothing is true, Everything is permitted!
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December 04, 2006, 09:22:24 pm »
It's just an extention of the normal anarcho-capitalist perversion.
Anarchy equates to Chaos after all.
Mans nature, does not befit equality. It is the stagnation of thought and the fear of progression.
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December 27, 2006, 04:02:52 pm »
Quote from: Drew23 on November 28, 2006, 11:11:56 am
Nothing is true, Everything is permitted!
Does this statement bother you? If so you probably dogmatically hold on to you beliefs, and reject absolute liberty. I find the statement liberating. For me the statement says, "don't hold on to your beliefs and we are all absolutely free.
Does this seem naive? I don't think the statement is naive, but I do think is worth meditating on the implications the statement holds.
The saying is self-contradictory. If nothing is true, then how can the statement that nothing is true be true? It's impossible to say nothing is true. It's like saying you want to play with your square ball -- no, you want to play with your cube, because "square ball" is self-contradictory.
I certainly appreciate the sentiment, and I agree that people use "morality" to argue stupid points. Growing up, we were all beaten over the head with the argument from morality from teachers, parents, clergymen, and politicians. But, I don't think the solution is total moral relativism.
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December 30, 2006, 06:04:54 pm »
Please....no more of this stupid new age garbage. Does an objective morality exist? I dont know. Although I dont think Christians or anyone else has a monolply on morality, it also doesnt mean that "everything is true, nothing is wrong!" type garbage.
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January 17, 2007, 08:18:45 pm »
"Nothing is true, Everything is permitted!"
This is when, in real life, I'd give you a kick in the shin. You'd protest, and I'd say it isn't really true that I kicked you because nothing is really true, and that anyway, who are you to judge my kicking you, since everything is permitted.
At that point, you'd either say something snide and walk off (if you were smaller than me or had a cool temperament) or punch me in the face (if you were bigger than me or had a hot temperament).
Where as, had we both believed in an reality such that it is either true that I kicked your or isn't true, and believed that evidence can help us tell the difference (evidence like your red shin, my remembering kicking you), and had we both believed that going around kicking people without reason other than powerlust is bad, we'd probably have been able to use our time more productively than by engaging in violence and exchanging snide remarks.
In other words, maybe it isn't possible to know everything in the universe with absolute certainty, and maybe there isn't anyone who'll roast me in hell for ignoring certain absolute prohibitions, but that doesn't mean reality and ethics fly out the window.
See also: iterated prisoner's dilemma.
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July 29, 2009, 01:42:33 pm »
The term "nothing is true, everything is permitted" is purposefully deceptive. It is not referring to some political statement, but rather to the state of the universe. The past exists as a probability. It's existence is only solidified by those observing it, or those believing in the chain of events that led to the present. It is no more solid or real than the future. The future is manipulated by changing the present, by creating a course of actions that will potentially lead to a desired outcome. The present may be manipulated by "changing" the past. By changing one's perspective of the past, you actually change it. The outcome of course depends on a lot of things including the probability of an event having occurred and also the number of observers. Quantum physics recognize now what mystics have known for millenia. The present exists as absolute zero. Therefore it has no value, it cannot be measured. Blah blah blah. nothing
true, everything is permitted. The present state of the universe is the only one that exists and therefore it is the only thing that is true. The present cannot be measured or represented, it is an absolute that can only be represented by one thing. NOTHING. As above so below. You cannot change the microcosm without changing the macrocosm.
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August 03, 2009, 05:06:18 pm »
I have a better idea. How about: "Everything
that isn't anyone else's business
is permitted". Like if I wanna smoke some dank herbs when I get home from work then that's my choice, but if I try to steal your stereo, you can shoot me in the face. Deal?
lol I have a very simple ethical philosophy.
And I agree with the guy talking about the implications of quantum theory, but I would hesitate to make all those statements without really understanding quantum theory from a physicists perspective. (Not that I do either, but I'm working on it lol). But personally, I think it's one thing to say that the Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle ensures an inherent randomness based on various waves of probabilities of tendencies for packets of energy to exist within regions of space-time at the quantum level of observation, and a whole other thing to say that "Nothing is true". I mean its kind of true, but I kind of lean towards the Copenhagen idea that there isn't really a deep reality to be dealt with. Quantum theory is inherently limited by our minds ability to comprehend the nature of reality. Although, I do have some
(as opposed to beliefs), that conciousness is the underlying binding factor in the space-time continuum and that our thoughts influence entropy and extropy based on their negativity or positivity, which permeates different layers of reality, VIA the Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle. So in that case, I do agree with all those conclusions, but also that certain states of mind cause certain things (whether or not through some seemingly magical manipulation of matter with mind, at least through our actions and words), and therefore we have a very basic personal moral responsibility to cultivate loving and peaceful mind states rather than hatred and oppression.
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November 18, 2009, 10:44:59 am »
Why don't you think about it like that: Supposing EVERY statement after the "nothing is true" clause is really NOT true, then the "everything is permitted" clause is NOT true as well... That makes it a "Nothing is permitted" clause!! (Well you don't really know, since "nothing is true" could be "not true" itself..!)
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November 18, 2009, 12:11:52 pm »
If nothing is true, and everything is permitted, on what grounds could you say:
"Forcible sex with a 5 year old is wrong?"
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December 02, 2009, 04:54:40 am »
I think by true, the quote doesn't mean real, but pure. As in true gold for example. Nothing is absolute, pure, solid, there is not black and white, there's just shades of grey. I would change the quote to nothing is absolute, everything is permitted.. but then again I'm not the one who said it so I don't have that power.
I personally find it an escape for something I realised a long time ago. Allot of people live their lives inside the confines of their reality. Somehow thinking that stepping out of it will result in eternal damnation or arrest, or being frowned upon. But only by getting past that can we reach our full potential. A couple of examples: Christopher McCandless! Graduated high school top of his class, two very successfull parents, sister... one day gave away his $25,000, burnt all the money in his wallet and dissapeared. Hiked all up and down the country for two years before, unfotuanately, dying in Alaska.
Hitler... well we all know that story... but look at Germany now and then, even though the cost was great, it's a much better place because of it! Possibly the world's a better place because of it! Maybe not the best of examples, but the fact is they're remembered! They have had amazing, completely unique experiences! Fact is, unless you step out of the "truth" IE: wealth, family, status, reputation, religion, inhibitions, fears and on and on... you will NOT be remembered! and 50 years after you're lain to rest, no one will visit your grave, and no one will remember those realy nice pies you used to make................
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Why give this a minutes thought?
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The thing about this is it doesn't mean you are free do do as you please, simply, do not take things as they appear, the world can be a very tricky place, smoke and mirrors, be wise, not free to do whatever you want. Everything is permitted, whatever you need to do to keep yourself safe and in that time, protect the brotherhood, you would do. Because in the end you went to God. Don't believe it means you can rape and murder, accept it as a way to be free of any sort of boundary of yourself. If you want to run, run, if you want to free-run, free-run, if you want to wrestle, wrestle. Etc.
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two very successful parents
How do you define success?
The reason for this person's wanderlust WAS his parents...
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Quote from: Drew23 on November 28, 2006, 11:11:56 am
Nothing is true, Everything is permitted!
Is that true?
Is it true that nothing is true?
Is it the true that everything is permitted? I think people who are in jail would disagree with that. And the people who are entirely sure that they can develop "free electricity machines" but never do.
What I'm getting at is the only possible way of proving that statement to be true is to prove it false, since its a self-contradiction. Therefore, the statement "nothing is true" is false.
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"I know a man, born in 1806, who comes from Ampton, Suffolk, England. He always had a dream, which was becoming a captain and living with the great sea. At the age of 12, he entered the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth and in the following year he entered the Royal Navy. When he was 14, he embarked as an apprendice aboard a ship sailing to South America. It was the middle of the year 1820 and they didn't return until 1822. He was promoted to midshipman while on the vessel." The Captain was narrating the story when I cut in.
"So he is lucky, because he is smart and able. He has made an achievement in such an early age. But what does this have to do with me? Is he blind also?" I was curious.
"The approach to success is full of thorns. You'll never know what difficulty is waiting for you in front. Anyway you have to hope, and keep going." He continued, "When he finished his second voyage, he was promoted to lieutenant. In 1828, he embarked on the Beagle. Halfway through the voyage, he was made temporary Captain of the Beagle." He stopped for a while, as if he was recalling something, or giving me some time to digest the story.
"I think his way to success was smooth. It seems he didn't suffer any adversity before he becomes a captain, yes?" I asked the captain.
"That's just a brief introduction to his achievements; I haven't started to tell you his difficulties."
"Oh? I am curious what pains he suffered."
"What are the most important characteristics do you think a captain should possess?" He suddenly threw at me such a strange question.
I thought about it for a moment, and then I gave him my answer. "Hmm, he must love the sea, and he must have perfect navigational skills."
"Those are certainly prerequisites, not the most important. The most important thing for a captain is to make a decision decisively and promise the safety."
"I think so. I am interested in his story. Let's go on, captain."
"This man I am telling you about, his father has a good friend who once was a
"Jeez! What happened?" I was high-strung.
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I was frightened as well, and I kept shivering.
"C told the boy 'One of the main determinants of success in life is our attitude towards adversity. When you face a difficulty, making a fast and apt decision is the way. Access the situation and do what needs to be done.' Then the boy stopped crying and helped him bind up his arm."
I began to comprehend something.
"Later when the boy became the temporary Captain of the Beagle, during the survey, some of his men were camping onshore when a group of Fuegian natives made off with their boat. Alerted to the problem, the crew remaining onboard the ship gave chase and followed the thieves to shore where, after a scuffle, the ship's crew captured some of the culprits' families and brought them on board as hostages. The man then made a decision."
"What decision?" I asked him in a hurry.
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"Kept calm and hopeful, analyzed the situation and made a decision."
Now I sort of understood what the captain wanted to tell me. I knew I had to make my own decision. To keep hope or quit and sabotage myself, I had to think it over.
"Kid, I bet you might have heard a proverb, 'Where there is life, there is hope.' I hope you make a right life choice."
"Thank you, dear Captain. I will consider it." I smiled.
"All right, I'll go back to my post, now you need rest," he said and was about to leave, "and time to digest what I have told you."
"Wait a minute, Captain. I want to meet that clever boy. Can you introduce him to me?"
"You have already talked to him, just now!" He patted my shoulder, "That boy is me! I am sure you can make it, girl!"
Oh, I didn't know the captain was so great and so young. since the first time I met him, I thought he was a middle-aged man. Now I admired him deeper than before, he had not only a nice beard, but also a brilliant brain and abundant experiences. What's more, he was so kind and supportive!
After the captain left my room, I kept repeating that proverb silently in my heart "where there is life, there is hope" and fell into a deep meditation until brother came to feed me in the evening.
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Hahaha. Sis Sima, I appreciate your eyesight for picking a man!
Captain is also a young promising man, he is just 3 years older than brother! giggling~
You are so funny! =)
hehehe ...I was the first person here who fell in love in your story dont you remember but with kid's brother ,,,, he is very thoughtful and tactful person i prefer to fell in love with such as guys ..i hope kid can find a guy like his brother ,,,,but captain Oh my Goodness my grandma fell in love with him didnt i told you ??? she is widow who can make lots of Delicious food hmmm ( I love them :P) blink,,,,,blink ;)"
hehehe. Sis Sima, I am curious why you girls dont have a fancy for the handsome wise and young captain! Giggling~
Dear Mickey ...very nice chapter ,i really enjoy it ..and she has to be very lucky to havethe same man as friend beside herself,, i can see that Bala have the same emotional like me ... i was about write that sentence of the story that see Bala did it already LOL:)"
Heyyyy, Dat's devoted fan——Miss Bala, be patient! He will come out~ hehehe
Nice Lines.....
'One of the main determinants of success in life is our attitude towards adversity. When you face a difficulty, making a fast and apt decision is the way. Access the situation and do what needs to be done.'
More Messages in this chapter... To strengthen self confidence and to get away from Depression, i think we can suggest this blog....
But still.... without Dats...the mood is sombre...
I like that sentence, "you can't reach glory till taste patience"! Thanks, Teko! ;-)
Really, one of the most interesting proverbs is that one "where there is a life there is a hope" all what we need is patiance and willpower and i remember line of poetry which says "you can't reach glory till taste patience"
giggling, my pleasure, dear Noor!
sis pls, we haven't met a miracle~ ~~~~(>_<)~~~~
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The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne/Burned on the water (from the hijra fantasy series)
I started this body of work thinking about queer lives in the Indian context. For the last two years I have been working with the hijra (MTF transsexual) community from Bombay and Bangalore. In some sense, for many of us (LGBTQ people), our desires are lived in the realm of fantasy or hidden from the public eye. I wanted to breathe life into some of these fantasies. I started to speak with individuals, with whom i had developed a close relationship, about their desires and how they saw themselves in a fantastic world. What would they be if they had the choice to be whatever they wished to be? This is a photograph of Laxmi, a very well known hijra, human rights activist based in Bombay. Laxmi is obsessed with Cleopatra and expressed the wish to become her. Extended conversations and research preceded the conceiving of this image. I have tired to retain as much of Laxmi's personality in this contemporary, queer and Indian version of Cleopatra.
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A blog about teaching and learning in a maths classroom.
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I need to learn to use GeoGebra because it looks like a fantastic app, it's free and shortly our students will have their own netbooks, itching to use them. I find the best way to learn new software is to do something with it that you need.
With Year 8, we'll soon look at the Circle, starting with parts of the circle. I would normally do a matching activity – given names and definitions, students match those to a diagram. I will still do that, but want to also show them these parts and how they are different to each other – hence GeoGebra.
I've put together an interactive GeoGebra widget, Parts of a Circle. To use it, just turn on/off the various parts. Also make sure you move some of the points to see how a part changes, e.g. sectors can be big or small or a quadrant always has an angle of 90°.
If you want to use this in class, as is, this version has the widget on a black background with nothing else. Or, you might want to modify the GeoGebra file and make your own version.
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I sent this to my roommate, "in case you want to learn GeoGebra for next year." Then looked at the page, "I want to learn GeoGebra." Thanks for sharing and pushing me a little bit more in that direction.
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In case you thought the Hamas endorsement of Barack Obama had escaped notice by John McCain, think again. John McCain's team sent out a fundraising appeal with this:
Wednesday's Democratic debate provided insight into Barack Obama's positions on key foreign policy issues. As president he says he would immediately withdraw our troops from Iraq- even if he were strongly advised against this by our nation's top military commanders. He would also hold direct talks with the Iranian regime- a regime that does not recognize Israel and is the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world. Iran's president has even called for Israel to be "wiped off the map." During the debate, Barack Obama once again refused to condemn former President Jimmy Carter- who publicly supports Obama- for holding talks with the Hamas terrorist group, a group supported financially, politically and military by Iran. Barack Obama's foreign policy plans have even won him praise from Hamas leaders. Ahmed Yousef, chief political adviser to the Hamas Prime Minister said, "We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election. He has a vision to change America." We need change in America, but not the kind of change that wins kind words from Hamas, surrenders in Iraq and will hold unconditional talks with Iranian President Ahmadinejad.
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The 2013 National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Sports and Cultural Festival kicks off on Monday (today) in Abuja with the first football match between Delta State and Kaduna State at the Old Parade Ground.
The event was declared open by the Minister of Youth Development, Inuwa Abdulkadir.
The Four-day tournament which will come to an end on 7th of February will see all the eight zonal qualified states compete in football, Volleyball and athletes as well as cultural competitions.
The Delta State football team defeated their Kaduna State counterparts 4:2 in an entertaining opening match.
The Senior National Football team coach, Stephen Keshi invited one of the outstanding players of the last edition of the competition, Stephen Morah to the Eagles Camp in preparation for AFCON qualifiers last year.
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Declaring the event open, the Minister of Youth Development said the government needed the youths to show strong positive character and leadership attributes as future leaders.
'"I urge the youths to partner with the governments at all levels for the benefits to reach all youths across the country.
"This informs the introduction of modules on leadership skills, value orientation and other life skills in the orientation programme directed at equipping the youth for future challenges," Abdulkadir said.
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Abdulkadir added that the government was not unaware of the challenges faced by the youths, but it is capitalizing on using sports and culture as strategies to empower the youths and create jobs.
"The government is not unaware of the challenges confronting the youths, but the vehicles of sports and culture remain complementary strategies to other functional and economic based programmes.
"The interventions are meant to create jobs and reduce poverty which will ultimately reduce the socio-economic pressure on the nation's army of unemployed young men and women.
"The You-win Entrepreneural Scheme, the SURE-P initiative, Youths in Agriculture programme, MDG based interventions and other different skill acquisition training projects in other sectors like ICT, trade and investment and education are few of the mechanisms put in place to reduce youth unemployment," he said.
Abdulkadir added that the theme of the NYSC 'Sports and Culture festival; 'Tools for National Integration and Development' shows the crucial role sports and culture could play in mobilizing the citizenry.
Sports and culture can play a crucial role in mobilizing the citizenry and it is the most potent force for national integration and development."


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July 10, 2009, Washington Post
School-age children will be a key target= population for a pandemic flu vaccine in the fall, and they may be vaccinated at school in a mass campaign not seen since the polio epidemics of the 1950s.…Continue reading
By Gareth Porter
July 8, 2009
Official government documents reveal new side of defense secretary's legacy
Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1967, took many secrets with him when he died Monday at 93. But probably no secret was more sensitive politically than the one that would have changed fundamentally the public perception of his role in Vietnam policy had it been become widely known.
The secret was his deliberate deceit of President Lyndon B. Johnson on Aug. 4, 1964 regarding the alleged attack on US warships in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Documents which have been available for decades in the LBJ Library show clearly that McNamara failed to inform Johnson that the U.S. naval task group commander in the Tonkin Gulf, Captain John J. Herrick, had changed his mind about the alleged North Vietnamese torpedo attack on U.S. warships he had reported earlier that day.
By early afternoon Washington time, Herrick had reported to the Commander in Chief Pacific in Honolulu that "freak weather effects" on the ship's radar had made such an attack questionable. In fact, Herrick was now saying, in a message sent at 1:27 pm Washington time, that no North Vietnamese patrol boats had actually been sighted. Herrick now proposed a "complete evaluation before any further action taken."
These documents were reviewed by this reporter in researching my book, Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam.
McNamara later testified that he had read the message… Continue reading
May 26, 2009
Posted by Reprehensor at 911blogger.com
Intro: This story originally appeared in the Spanish Publico on May 9, 2009. Predictably, the U.S. press ignored it. Below find an English translation, and note that the translation is cross-posted at the Daily Kos, and DemocraticUnderground.com.
U.S. Lawyers point to Bush for the tortures
The lawyer of Martin Luther King's family contributes a thorough report to the Spanish lawsuit to reinforce the charge — The American Civil Liberties Union offers their collaboration
Pere Rusiñol in Madrid (Público)
Translation: Lynn Strother
A group of lawyers in the United States, led by William F. Pepper, the veteran human rights lawyer linked to Martin Luther King's family, have joined the Spanish lawsuit about Guantánamo and the tortures of the Bush administration. Pepper has contributed a 121 page document to the prosecution, in which he defends Spain's right to investigate, and suggests that the proceedings be widened to charge former president George W. Bush directly.
The U.S. lawyers also contribute 45 documents to the lawsuit — some, declassified recently; others, of public knowledge for years — that permit the "tracking of the process of decision making" that led to the application of methods equivalent to torture with the detainees of the "war against terrorism".
All of these documents are now part of the lawsuit that the judge Eloy Velasco is preparing in the National High Court against six lawyers who built the "legal scaffolding" which led to Guantánamo. They will also be… Continue reading
By Matt Corley
In an interview on NPR's Fresh Air yesterday, host Terry Gross asked investigative journalist Seymour Hersh if, as he continues to investigate the Bush administration, "more people" were "coming forward" to talk to him now that "the president and vice president are no longer in power." Hersh replied that though "a lot of people that had told me in the last year of Bush, 'call me next, next February,' not many people had talked to him. He implied that they were still scared of Cheney.
"Are you saying that you think Vice President Cheney is still having a chilling effect on people who might otherwise be coming forward," asked Gross. "I'll make it worse," answered Hersh, adding that he believes Cheney "put people back" in government to "stay behind" in order to "tell him what's going on" and perhaps even "do sabotage":
HERSH: I'll make it worse. I think he's put people left. He's put people back. They call it a stay behind. It's sort of an intelligence term of art. When you leave a country and, you know, you've driven out the, you know, you've lost the war. You leave people behind. It's a stay behind… Continue reading
An Open Letter to the Peace/Anti-War Movement from Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, and Veterans For Peace
After six years of war and the historic election of a new President, we as
veterans, military and Gold Star families felt an urgent need to reach out to
the larger peace/anti-war movements to make our position on Iraq clear during
this time of political and economic uncertainty. Iraq Veterans Against the War,
Military Families Speak Out and Veterans For Peace continue to stand together
in our demand to Bring the Troops Home Now! We ask all those who have stood
with us in the past to stay faithful to the cause.
President Obama has announced a plan to gradually reduce troop levels in Iraq.
Many in the peace/anti-war movements are breathing a sigh of relief, and suggesting
that it is time for us to scale back our efforts to bring an end to the occupation
of Iraq. But for our troops on the ground, their families and the Iraqi people,
the nightmare continues. They need all of us to stay in the struggle. IVAW,
MFSO and VFP have been long united in our call for an immediate and complete
end to the occupation of Iraq and will not shift our stance under any circumstances.
President Obama's plan will result in more casualties and suffering for U.S.
troops, their families and Iraqis. To the American public facing hard times
here at home, two and a half more years of… Continue reading
by Eric Black
March 11 2009
At a "Great Conversations" event at the University of Minnesota last night, legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh may have made a little more news than he intended by talking about new alleged instances of domestic spying by the CIA, and about an ongoing covert military operation that he called an "executive assassination ring."
Hersh spoke with great confidence about these findings from his current reporting, which he hasn't written about yet.
In an email exchange afterward, Hersh said that his statements were "an honest response to a question" from the event's moderator, U of M Political Scientist Larry Jacobs and "not something I wanted to dwell about in public."
Hersh didn't take back the statements, which he said arise from reporting he is doing for a book, but that it might be a year or two before he has what he needs on the topic to be "effective…that is, empirical, for even the most skeptical."
The evening of great conversation, featuring Walter Mondale and Hersh, moderated by Jacobs and titled "America's Constitutional Crisis," looked to be a mostly historical review of events that have tested our Constitution, by a journalist and a high government officials who had experience with many of the crises.
And it was mostly historical, and a great conversation, in which Hersh and Mondale talked about the patterns by which presidents seem to… Continue reading
by Mickey S. Huff and Paul W. Rea
They say goldfish have no memory
I guess their lives are much like mine
and the little plastic castle
is a surprise every time
and it's hard to say if they're happy
but they don't seem much to mind.
–Ani DiFranco, Little Plastic Castles
For the past eight years, American culture has seen an outburst of media-driven mythmaking. Corporate mainstream media organizations, the pundits they sponsor, and politicians from both major parties have formed a new contextual chorus singing the same refrain: "On September 11th, 2001, everything changed." From cable TV to AM radio, from the blogosphere to the town-hall meeting, Americans repeatedly hear that "this is a post-9/11 world."
Although there is some truth to this platitude of pivotal change, independently minded citizens may also wonder whether such mass media messages have become self-fulfilling prophecies. This provides an interesting point of debate about what has or has not changed in America since 9/11.
This chapter concerns itself with the ongoing phenomena of media mythmaking and how, like many Americans surmised just after 9/11, everything has not changed. 1 Corporate mainstream media have resurrected powerful myths from America's past to shape public perception in the present. Through the prism of 9/11, one can see how the corporate mass media are in fact doing more mythmaking than news reporting. Here, the authors will examine central historic American myths the corporate media and even much of the alternative independent media have extended into the… Continue reading
VIDEO: "An Unholy Alliance" – Documentary examines CIA and other intelligence agency links to the global drug trade.
by Reprehensor
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In 1996, directors Chris Hilton and David Roberts released "An Unholy Alliance" as the second part of a trilogy of documentaries dealing with the global drug trade; with a focus on heroin and opium. The documentary offers a valuable history of the drug trade, with much rare footage, including footage of CIA favorite, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Since Hekmatyar is back in the news, now is an important time to remind people of Hekmatyar's dubious past, and his links to the heroin industry in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The CIA and the Afghan Arabs
An Unholy Alliance starts off in Peshawar, which was a major hub of activity for the CIA and the ISI, as they deployed the Afghan Mujahadin in a proxy war against the Soviet Union, beginning in 1979. Since the 1980s, CIA apologists like Peter Bergen, and former CIA station chief Milton Bearden have claimed that the CIA never directly trained the Mujahidin and the associated Arabic recruits;
Peter Bergen: "While the charges that the CIA was responsible for the rise of the Afghan Arabs might make good copy, they don't make good history. The truth is more complicated, tinged with varying shades of gray. The… Continue reading
by Michael Hasty Sunday
Although I was as happy as most Americans that Barack Obama took the oath of office last week, rather than his Republican alternative, there is a major reason that he did not get my vote in November, which went instead to Cynthia McKinney: Obama is unlikely to re-open an investigation into what really happened on September 11, 2001–an investigation that needs to happen.
According to polls, about four in ten Americans are suspicious that the Bush administration was complicit in the 9/11 attacks–either by deliberately ignoring intelligence that warned an attack was coming and allowing the terrorists to strike, to gain public support for the neoconservative foreign policy agenda of increasing American military power in the Middle East; or by actively coordinating the attacks themselves, for the same reason. As Time magazine, in a rare acknowledgement of the 9/11 truth movement, said: "This is not a fringe phenomenon. It is a mainstream political reality."
It's easy to understand, however, why a majority of Americans have such a hard time getting their minds around the idea that their government may have some involvement in such a horrendous crime. Americans are conditioned from an early age to think of themselves as "the good guys," living in a "democracy"–which, however imperfect, has always been primarily motivated by the desire to advance the core national principle of "freedom," both at home and abroad. And the actions of the government are closely monitored by a diligent "free press."
It's a… Continue reading
Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel
Machiavelli wrote, "There are many who think a wise prince ought, when he has the chance, to foment astutely some enmity, so that by suppressing it he will augment his greatness."
This tactic has often been used or considered. Germany was blamed during World War I for an unprovoked attack on the "Lusitania," which was carrying arms to the British, and the Vietnam War was expanded based on a false report on Aug. 4, 1964, of an attack in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Operation Northwoods, a 1962 military plan to fake a Cuban attack on the U.S., proposed shooting down a civilian plane with Americans onboard.
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, representing more than 560 professionals, has released a report stating that the collapse of the World Trade Center towers and World Trade Center Building 7 showed the signs of controlled demolition, including a rapid and symmetrical fall, clouds of pyroclastic (heated) smoke and debris, and residue of the incendiary agent thermate in dust samples taken from the site. Building 7 had no collisions or fuel fires, yet fell in free-fall speed into its own footprint. In similar buildings, fire has produced only softening in the steel, never total collapse.
In a Dec. 28 letter, FBI Assistant Director for Counterterrorism Michael Heimbach wrote that the group "presents an interesting theory, backed by thorough research and analysis." Would a full investigation prove that Machiavelli's statement… Continue reading
by Peter Dale Scott
January 7, 2009
Paulson's Financial Bailout
It is becoming clear that the bailout measures of late 2008 may have consequences at least as grave for an open society as the response to 9/11 in 2001. Many members of Congress felt coerced into voting against their inclinations, and the normal procedures for orderly consideration of a bill were dispensed with.
The excuse for bypassing normal legislative procedures was the existence of an emergency. But one of the most reprehensible features of the legislation, that it allowed Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to permit bailed-out institutions to use public money for exorbitant salaries and bonuses, was inserted by Paulson after the immediate crisis had passed.
According to Congressman Peter Welch (D-Vermont) the bailout bill originally called for a cap on executive salaries, but Paulson changed the requirement at the last minute. Welch and other members of Congress were enraged by "news that banks getting taxpayer-funded bailouts are still paying exorbitant salaries, bonuses, and other benefits."1 In addition, as AP reported in October, "Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. questioned allowing banks that accept bailout bucks to continue paying dividends on their common stock. `There are far better uses of taxpayer dollars than continuing dividend payments to shareholders," he said."2
Even more reprehensible is the fact that since the bailouts, Paulson and the Treasury Department have refused to provide details of the Troubled Assets Relief Program spending of hundreds of billions of dollars, while the New York Federal Reserve has… Continue reading
Elizabeth Woodworth
In a companion essay (reprinted below), I discussed the response of some articles in the mainstream press to the claim, made by some defenders of Israel, that Professor Richard Falk should be removed from his current position of UN rapporteur on human rights abuses in the Palestinian Territories — a claim that was reflected in the refusal of Israel on December 14, 2008, to allow him to enter the country. I included in this essay a discussion of an article by reporter Joel Brinkley because, although it was published before Israel's action against Falk 1 , it could be read as a defense of that action. Brinkley, who had previously worked for the New York Times , argued that Falk did not have the right "frame of mind" for his UN position. In the present essay, I will focus on Brinkley's argument for this charge, suggesting that it shows that he does not have the right frame of mind for his own current position as visiting professor of journalism at Stanford University.
Brinkley's Discussion of 9/11
Brinkley's charge that Falk is unfit for his UN role is quite remarkable, given Falk's stature. He is Professor Emeritus of International Law and Practice at Princeton University and currently Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He has had published (as author or editor) over 60 books by academic and other mainstream presses. He is also widely respected and sought after as a speaker and conference participant.… Continue reading
Interview: Monday, Dec 29, 2008 from 4 – 6 pm Pacific Time
Activist singer-songwriter Vic Sadot has a new CD out, 9/11 Truth & Justice
Songs. Vic will be interviewed by Che X on the popular San Francisco station
known as Pirate Cat Radio.
The interview is scheduled for Monday, Dec 29, 2008 from 4 – 6 pm Pacific
Time on the "Notes from the Underground" show hosted by Che X every
That would be 7 – 9 pm Eastern Time, 6 – 8 pm Central Time, and
5 – 7 pm Mountain Time. Pirate Cat Radio is at 87.9 FM. It is also broadcast
out of Los Angeles and Berlin.
Learn more about Pirate Cat Radio & Listen on line at: http://www.piratecatradio.com
Che X will be the first radio person to interview Vic Sadot since he arrived
in the Bay Area. Vic will play songs live and talk with Che X about the songs
on the new CD. Upon arriving from Delaware in the Bay Area Vic performed for
the Marin County Green Party reception with Otis Scarcroe for Presidential candidate
Cynthia McKinney.
Vic has sung solo at autumn open mikes at Country Joe McDonald's Monthly
at Café de la Paz and the Starry Plough in Berkeley, and at Revoluti
on Café in Oakland. He also attended a song swap circle at the venerable Faith Petric's house for a gathering of the Freedom Song Network.
Vic Sadot has been an activist since his college days when campus activists… Continue reading
December 13, 2008
by Cindy Sheehan
"An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot."
Thomas Paine (Revolutionary)
I was recently in Cuba to attend a Human Right's conference. Cuba is a lovely
country (with many problems still) that will be celebrating 50 years of Revolution
on January 1st of 2009.
Cuba is struggling economically because there are limits to what a tiny island
nation can do, especially when the mightiest nation on this planet sits menacingly
to the north and has maintained a blockade against trade and travel for many
decades. The nation of Cuba is struggling economically, but since they have
been able to survive (not quite thrive) after all this time gives the citizens
of Cuba a rightful pride and sense of unity that is not so apparent in The Empire
that has tried to crush them.
The Revolution led by the Castro brothers, Che Guevara and many other Cuban
heroes overthrew the US puppet government in Havana led by US proxy General
Fulgencio… Continue reading
By Ray McGovern
Without integrity and courage, all virtue is specious, and no amount of structural or organizational reform will make any difference.
Though a 2004 law gave most of the DCI's intelligence community-wide authority to the new position of Director of National Intelligence — after the failure to prevent the 9/11 attacks and after the false intelligence analysis on Iraq's WMDs — the same principles regarding integrity and courage apply to the DNI.
Instructive lessons can be drawn from the performance of George Tenet, the sixteenth CIA director since the establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1947, and from his predecessors regarding what attributes a director needs to discharge the duties of the office as the National Security Act of 1947 intended.
Consortiumnews.com Editor's Note:
An underlying factor in the national security crises confronting the United States has been the corruption of the U.S. intelligence process, with analyses tailored to fit the desires of the policymakers and with laws bent to permit torture and other abuses.In this guest essay, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern reflects on what went wrong and what now needs to go right.
911truth.org Editor's Note:
Ray McGovern is now a regular guest on "Tell Somebody," hosted by Tom Klammer, broadcasting Tuesday evenings from 6-7pm CENTRAL time.… Continue reading
By Jeremy Scahill
November 20, 2008
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U.S. policy is not about one individual, and no matter how much faith people place in President-elect Barack Obama, the policies he enacts will be fruit of a tree with many roots. Among them: his personal politics and views, the disastrous realities his administration will inherit, and, of course, unpredictable future crises. But the best immediate indicator of what an Obama administration might look like can be found in the people he surrounds himself with and who he appoints to his Cabinet. And, frankly, when it comes to foreign policy, it is not looking good.
Obama has a momentous opportunity to do what he repeatedly promised over the course of his campaign: bring actual change. But the more we learn about who Obama is considering for top positions in his administration, the more his inner circle resembles a staff reunion of President Bill Clinton's White House. Although Obama brought some progressives on board early in his campaign, his foreign policy team is now dominated by the hawkish, old-guard Democrats of the 1990s. This has been particularly true since Hillary Clinton conceded defeat in the Democratic primary, freeing many of her top advisors to join Obama's team.
"What happened to all this talk about change?" a member of the Clinton foreign policy team recently asked the Washington Post. "This isn't lightly flavored with Clintons. This is all Clintons, all the time."
Amid the… Continue reading
Andrew J. Bacevich
As campaign ads urge voters to consider who will be a better "Commander in Chief," Andrew J. Bacevich — Professor of International Relations at Boston University, retired Army colonel, and West Point graduate — joins Bill Moyers on the JOURNAL to encourage viewers to take a step back and connect the dots between U.S. foreign policy, consumerism, politics, and militarism.
Bacevich begins his new book, THE LIMITS OF POWER: THE END OF AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM, with an epigraph taken from the Bible: "Put thine house in order." Bacevich explained his choice to Bill Moyers:
I've been troubled by the course of U.S. foreign policy for a long, long time. And I wrote the book in order to sort out my own thinking about where our basic problems lay. And I really reached the conclusion that our biggest problems are within.
I think there's a tendency in the part of policy makers — and probably a tendency in the part of many Americans — to think that the problems we face are problems that are out there somewhere beyond our borders, and that if we can fix those problems, then we'll be able to continue the American way of life as it has long existed. I think it's fundamentally wrong. Our major problems are here at home.
Bacevich sees three crises looming in the United States today, as he explains in the introduction to THE LIMITS OF POWER.
… Continue reading
The United States today finds itself threatened by three interlocking crises. The first of these crises is economic and cultural, the second political, and the third military.
September 24, 2008
At 7:30 a.m. this morning, they climbed a nine-foot fence to occupy a 35-foot-high
ledge at the National Archives.
And five members of the Veterans for Peace organization have been there ever
since. They say they're veterans of Vietnam and Iraq, anti-war activists, and
soldiers for a cause who plan to fast for 24 hours in protest of the Bush administration.
Seeking the criminal prosecution of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, the organization
distributed "Citizens' Arrest Warrants" to tourists waiting in line
to enter the archives, which houses the key documents of U.S. history: the Declaration
of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
In a press release, the group described the reasons for its protest:
Bush and Cheney's serial abuse of the law of the land clearly marks
them as domestic enemies of the Constitution. They have illegally invaded
and occupied Iraq, deliberately destroyed civilian infrastructure, authorized
torture, and unlawfully detained prisoners. These actions clearly mark them
as war criminals. Accountability extends beyond impeachment to prosecution
for war crimes even after their terms of office expire….
We are not conducting ourselves in a disorderly manner; our action is well-ordered
and well-considered. We are not trespassing; we have come to the home of our
Constitution to honor our oath to defend it.
So far, authorities have not interfered with the peaceful protest or the sign.
Yes, there's a sign. A 22-foot-by-x8-foot banner draped across the Constitution
Avenue side of the archives says, "DEFEND… Continue reading