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The 2010 Andrew Jackson Lady Volunteers' 14-14 softball season won't go down as among the greatest at the Lancaster County Class AA high school.
The break-even mark reflects a spring of about as many ups as downs.
A Conference IV-AA runner-up finish and a Class AA Upper State playoff berth stand as a couple of notable 2010 team accomplishments in the tradition of AJ softball.
No doubt, the major achievement came during the Lady Vols' recent postseason run.
Have you reached that point yet where you've said, "Enough, it's time to do something abut the violence in Lancaster County."
We believe many residents here feel that way. There have been four murders in the county since the start of the year.
The shooting death of a 3-year-old girl earlier this month has many, many people here mad.
Jaylen Elaine Jackson was apparently caught in the crossfire of a gunfight when she was hit in the head by a bullet and killed.
The great thing about being in the newspaper business is that we often learn of good news before most others do.
Last week, we were wowed by the news that Continental Tire was making a sizable donation to two local government entities.
The company, which moved its North American corporate headquarters from Charlotte to Indian Land last year, announced it was giving $65,000 worth of tires to Lancaster County and $35,000 to the Lancaster County School District.
Calvin Miller doubted his faith just a little. Volunteers and organizers of the April 24 Family Promise yard sale were told if they raised $10,000, an anonymous donor would donate $10,000.
The volunteers worked hard to organize the yard sale. Representatives from 15 churches met once a week for six weeks to plan the fundraiser.
Miller, who is chairman of Family Promise, a network of local churches that provides homeless families with children food, shelter, clothing and counseling, was worried they couldn't raise that much and thereby would lose that $10,000.
Booze it and lose it is a popular slogan in the campaign to reduce drunken driving in the Palmetto State. Three local law enforcement officers are doing their best in the ongoing fight to keep alcohol-impaired drivers off our state roads.
The S.C. Department of Public Safety recently recognized two Lancaster Police Department officers, Pfc. Josh Small and Sgt. Dale Johnson, along with Sgt. Billy Hillton of the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office.
Talk about a twist of fate. In one edition of The Lancaster News, we printed a story about Lancaster County Emergency Medical Services winning a prestigious state award at its annual meeting in Myrtle Beach.
In that article, Lanny Bernard, EMS director, touted the accomplishments of his 52 full-time and 25 part-time employees who work hard to provide life-saving care to Lancaster County residents.
Just days later in another article, Bernard was defending EMS response time to calls in the northern end of Lancaster County.
Recent news reports tell us that America's confidence in government is at an all-time low, and here's a good example of why. Given a choice between ensuring the safety of citizens and lining the pockets of the home building industry with profits, South Carolina may be on the verge of giving public safety the back seat.
Cora Jane Caston Wallace always wanted to be a writer. But that was not an option for her. In fact, she had to quit school because her parents needed her at home. The day her mother said she wasn't going back to school, Wallace cried all night.
Wallace later went to work for Springs Industries. She married Monroe Wallace and they had four children. Their youngest child, Suzanne, was diagnosed at an early age with a rare condition called congenital pseudoarthrosis.
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A B'Tselem inquiry shows that on the morning of 17 November 2012, an Israeli attack targeted three armed men in Rafah. Two of them were killed on the spot and a third was wounded. Shortly afterwards, while 'Awad a-Nahal, age 31, a resident of a nearby house, was trying to evacuate the injured man, a second attack killed both the armed man and the civilian trying to evacuate him.
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I live in the city of Rafah, in an apartment in our family's building. The building's three other apartments are occupied by my three brothers and their families: 'Awad (age 31), Ibrahim (age 34), and Imam (age 23). Surrounding our house is a lemon grove and a sheep pen for the livestock we raise together. I work on the family farm.
Since the military operation was launched, we have stayed inside, going out only when absolutely necessary. Most of the time, we stay together in one of the apartments and follow the developing events.
There is an atmosphere of fear and trepidation about what may happen and we hear explosions all the time, both near and far. So far, many of the bombings were in fields or other open spaces, but we are afraid a bomb might miss its appointed target and hit homes instead. The situation is particularly distressing to the smaller children. They are afraid all the time and have trouble falling asleep at night.
Yesterday, shortly after 8:00am, while the whole family was sitting together, we heard a tremendous explosion in the lemon grove near our house. Immediately, I went out with my brothers 'Awad and Ibrahim, and my cousin Isma'il who was visiting us. We were concerned that the blast might have hit the sheep pen and wanted to make sure that the sheep were all right. None of us thought that the same spot would be bombed again.
My brother 'Awad was faster than we were and was a few steps ahead of us. I was walking behind him as were Ibrahim and Isma'il. We reached the sheep pen and saw the three men who had been hit. Two of them were already dead. The third man was injured and was trying to run away. I saw my brother 'Awad trying to help him. Suddenly I heard a piercing whistling and saw another bomb land a few meters away from my brother and the injured man. There was an explosion and shrapnel hit 'Awad in the head and chest. He was killed on the spot. The injured man was also killed.
My brother Ibrahim was hit by shrapnel in the leg and the shoulder, and Isma'il was also hit by shrapnel in the leg.
An ambulance transported my brother, my cousin and the dead men to the hospital. Ibrahim and Isma'il suffered injuries that were not severe and they have already been released from the hospital.
Nahed Hamadi Hassan a-Nahal, is a farmer and a resident of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. He gave his testimony to Musa Abu Hash'hash on 18 November 2012, by telephone.

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The pass receivers had their day Saturday but the pass rushers dominated the action eight days earlier. Minus the schematic restrictions imposed in the Orange & White Game, the pass rushers registered eight sacks and a half-dozen hurries April 10 in the final tuneup scrimmage.
Chris Walker was a pass-rushing fiend all spring, but fellow end Ben Martin wasn't far behind.
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A ban on blitzing wasn't the only thing that slowed the pass rushers last Saturday. Fatigue slowed them, as well. With only one turnover in the O&W Game, the offenses kept the defenses on the field for extended periods of time.
"It was interesting to see those long drives," Kiffin said. "Some of our defensive linemen who had been making a lot of plays, when you don't turn the ball over and keep moving, all of a sudden they get tired and they're not making as many plays."
Although senior Rico McCoy is Tennessee's only experienced linebacker, the head man also expressed pleasure with the progress at that position.
"I thought our linebackers – for not having many guys that have played and moving around in a bunch of different areas – really started to play well," Kiffin said. "And our secondary was a real strength for us. Even with Eric (Berry) out, the first unit still played really well."
Although the offense looked good in the O&W Game, it sputtered throughout most of the spring.
"On offense, we still have a ton of work to do," Kiffin said. "It seemed that every time we'd do something we'd take a step back. It'll be a long offseason before we play. Some of these freshmen that were floating around (signees attending the O&W Game) that are going to be here in the fall will be in there to help us, too."
No coach is content after 15 spring workouts. That's especially true for a first-year guy such as Kiffin, who is installing new offensive and defensive schemes.
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Author Affiliations: Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care (Drs Boonacker, Hoes, Schilder, and Rovers and Mr Broos) and Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital (Drs van den Aardweg, Schilder, and Rovers), University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands; ECORYS Nederland B.V.–Macro and Sector Policies, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (Mr Broos); and Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Health Technology Assessment, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (Dr Rovers).
Objective To compare the costs associated with 2 clinical strategies in children with recurrent upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs): immediate adenoidectomy vs an initial watchful waiting strategy.
Design A cost-minimization analysis from a societal perspective including both direct and indirect costs, alongside an open randomized controlled trial with a 2-year follow-up.
Setting Multicenter study, including 11 general and 2 university hospitals in the Netherlands.
Patients The study population comprised 111 children aged 1 through 6 years, selected for adenoidectomy for recurrent URTIs according to current clinical practice.
Intervention A strategy of immediate adenoidectomy with or without myringotomy or a strategy of initial watchful waiting.
Main Outcomes Measures Difference in median costs during the 2-year follow-up.
Results The median total of direct and indirect costs in the adenoidectomy and watchful waiting group were [euro]1385 (US $1995) and [euro]844 (US $1216) per patient, respectively. The extra costs in the adenoidectomy group are primarily attributable to surgery and visits to the otorhinolaryngologist. Other costs did not differ significantly between the groups.
Conclusions In children selected for adenoidectomy for recurrent URTIs, immediate adenoidectomy results in an increase in costs, whereas it confers no clinical benefit over an initial watchful waiting strategy.
Trial Registration trialregister.nl Identifier:NTR968; isrctn.org Identifier:ISRCTN03720485
Adenoidectomy is one of the most commonly performed surgical procedures in children in Western countries. Indications for adenoidectomy include recurrent or chronic nasal discharge, recurrent episodes of acute otitis media, persistent otitis media with effusion, and symptoms of upper airway obstruction. In most cases, children undergo surgery for a combination of nasal and middle ear symptoms. In 2009, in the Netherlands, 15 179 children (16.3 per 1000) aged 0 to 4 years and 5573 children (5.5 per 1000) aged 5 to 9 years underwent adenoidectomy.1,2 In 60% of these children, recurrent upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) was the indication for surgery.3 In 2006, in the United States, 129 540 children (1.76 per 1000) up to the age of 18 years underwent adenoidectomy. In 12% of these children, the operation was performed because of chronic infections.4 In both countries the figures remained stable over the past decade.4,5 In a recent randomized controlled trial, we compared 2 common clinical strategies in children with recurrent URTIs: immediate adenoidectomy vs initial watchful waiting.6 We found no relevant differences between both strategies in the incidence of URTIs and middle ear problems or health-related quality of life. We concluded that immediate adenoidectomy confers no clinical benefits over an initial watchful waiting strategy.
In clinical practice, the decision for either of these treatment strategies is made by both the physician and parents and is based on careful consideration of anticipated benefits and risks and personal preference. Costs should be part of this decision process as well.7 So far, no information is available on the costs involved with immediate adenoidectomy or initial watchful waiting in children with recurrent URTIs. This is relevant because in both strategies costs may be considerable. Besides costs related to immediate or delayed surgery, there are those related to physician visits, use of medication for URTIs, and indirect costs, eg, related to parental absence from work. We set out to compare the costs associated with both strategies.
A cost-minimization study was carried out alongside an open multicenter randomized controlled trial investigating the effectiveness of adenoidectomy in children with recurrent URTIs. The study was approved by the medical ethics committee of the University Medical Center Utrecht. The design of the study has been reported previously.6 In short, between April 2007 and October 2010, otolaryngologists from 11 general and 2 academic hospitals in the Netherlands referred children aged 1 through 6 years selected for adenoidectomy for recurrent URTIs to the trial center. Children with previous adenoidectomy or adenotonsillectomy, as well as those with tympanostomy tubes present or an indication for insertion of tympanostomy tubes in combination with adenoidectomy, were excluded from the study. Children with Down syndrome or craniofacial malformation were also excluded. Children, whose parents gave informed consent, were randomly assigned to either (1) adenoidectomy with or without myringotomy within 6 weeks, or (2) an initial watchful waiting strategy. For this purpose we used a computerized minimization strategy, ie, a method of ensuring balance between prognostic factors in small samples. Treatment allocation was concealed until formal informed consent was obtained and the child was included in the trial.
During the 2-year follow-up parents kept a diary, including specific symptoms of URTIs, middle ear complaints, and absence from day care or school because of URTI. They also measured their child's temperature every day with a validated tympanic membrane thermometer.8 Parallel to these clinical symptoms, parents recorded resources used in the diary, such as physician visits, medication, hospital admissions, and surgical interventions, as well as out-of-pocket expenses for over-the-counter drugs, babysitting, and traveling to medical appointments. Costs reported in the diary were costs made specifically for the participating child because of URTIs. The study physician (M.T.A.V.D.A) collected the diary data during the scheduled follow-up visits at 3, 6, 12, 18, and 24 months. Where relevant, diary entries were verified by data from the medical records.
During follow-up, parents, family physicians, and otorhinolaryngologists of the participating children were encouraged to manage episodes of URTIs according to their regular practice, including antibiotics and ear-nose-throat surgery.
The primary outcome measure of this cost-minimization study was the difference in median costs between the 2 strategies during the full 2 years of follow-up. To study short-term effects, the secondary outcome was the difference in median costs in the first year of follow-up. These costs included both direct and indirect costs and were estimated at patient level in euros for 2009.
For out-of-pocket expenses the actual amount of money indicated in the diary was used. For the other expenses, the number of resources used (eg, physician visits) was multiplied by the corresponding cost price. Cost prices were estimated from a societal perspective according to the guidelines for economic evaluation in health care research. Costs of surgery were retrieved from available data from a previous cost study.9 Costs of diagnostic tests were retrieved from the Dutch diagnostic formulary.10 Costs of medication were derived from the Dutch Formulary,10 and a pharmacist's fee was added.11 Costs of over-the-counter drugs and alternative medicines were based on average retail prices. Costs of consulting a family physician or medical specialist, day case surgery, and other procedures and hospitalizations were based on current Dutch guidelines for pharmacoeconomic evaluation.11 Indirect costs to society associated with leave or absence from work of the parents were estimated using the friction cost method.12 Costs associated with absence of professional day care were estimated as the compensation for professional day care as provided by the government. Costs for informal babysitting were estimated using standard rates of the Dutch National Institute for Family Finance Information (NIBUD).13 According to the guidelines for economic evaluation in health care research, euros were converted to US dollars using the exchange rate of December 31, 2009 ([euro]1 = US $1.4406).14
We used a short time horizon for all analyses and therefore took no time preference or discount rate into account. Differences in costs were compared between both randomization groups. When relevant, differences were tested by nonparametric Mann-Whitney tests, since costs always have a skewed distribution. Uncertainty was addressed by means of bootstrapping,15 for which we replicated the trial 1000 times using random replacement samples. All analyses were performed on an intention-to-treat basis because we aimed to compare the costs of 2 strategies (adenoidectomy vs initial watchful waiting [the latter may include surgery later during follow-up]). Sensitivity analyses were conducted by (1) excluding the children in the initial watchful waiting group who underwent ear-nose-throat surgery during follow-up (per-protocol analysis) or (2) by counting these children in the adenoidectomy group (as-treated analysis) to analyze if the results were influenced by the crossovers.
In total, 111 children were enrolled in the study between April 2007 and April 2009; 54 were allocated to adenoidectomy within 6 weeks and 57 were allocated to an initial watchful waiting strategy. The mean age was 36 months in the adenoidectomy group and 38 months in the watchful waiting group. The median number of episodes of URTIs in the previous year was 10 in the adenoidectomy group and 9 in the watchful waiting group. The median follow-up duration was 24 months in both groups. Overall, 11 children were lost to follow-up for nonmedical reasons (4 from the adenoidectomy group and 7 from the watchful waiting group). All children allocated to adenoidectomy underwent adenoidectomy within 6 weeks: 48 underwent adenoidectomy alone and 6 underwent adenoidectomy combined with myringotomy. During follow-up, 7 children (13%) allocated to adenoidectomy underwent tonsillectomy and revision adenoidectomy and 3 (6%) had tympanostomy tubes inserted. During the course of the trial, of the children allocated to initial watchful waiting, 17 (30%) underwent adenoidectomy (4 children underwent adenoidectomy combined with myringotomy and 2 children underwent adenoidectomy and had tympanostomy tubes inserted; 1 child underwent adenoidectomy in the first year of follow-up and revision adenoidectomy with tympanostomy tubes in the second year of follow-up; and 1 child underwent adenoidectomy in the first 6 months of follow-up and tonsillectomy in the 6 months thereafter) and 6 children (11%) underwent adenotonsillectomy (1 child underwent adenotonsillectomy combined with myringotomy).
Table 1 gives a detailed overview of the most relevant cost estimates. The median costs per patient during the 2-year follow-up period were [euro]1385 (interquartile range [IQR], [euro]806-[euro]2386) (US $1995; IQR, $1162-$3437) in the adenoidectomy group and [euro]844 (IQR, [euro]416-[euro]1994) (US $1215; IQR, $600-$2873) in the watchful waiting group, ie, an immediate surgical strategy costs [euro]541 (US $779) more than an initial watchful waiting strategy (Table 2). Bootstrapping yielded the same results, which means that there is no uncertainty regarding the median costs. Children in the adenoidectomy group had higher median costs related to surgery (P < .001) and visits to the otorhinolaryngologist (P = .03). Other costs, such as those of visits to the family physician, of (over-the-counter) drugs and parental leave of absence did not differ significantly between the groups. The median costs during the first year of follow-up were [euro]959 (IQR, [euro]632-[euro]1658) (US $1382; IQR, $911-$2388) in the adenoidectomy group and [euro]505 (IQR, [euro]105-[euro]1194) (US $728; IQR, $151-$1720) in the watchful waiting group (Table 2). Again, bootstrapping yielded the same results.
Per-protocol analysis resulted in a difference in median cost between the adenoidectomy and initial watchful waiting group of [euro]778 (US $1121) during the 2-year follow-up (P < .001). As-treated analysis resulted in a difference in median costs between the 2 groups of [euro]777 (US $1119) during the 2-year follow-up (P < .001) (Table 3).
This study shows that in children selected for adenoidectomy for recurrent URTIs, an immediate surgical strategy costs [euro]541 (US $799) more than an initial watchful waiting strategy during 2 years of follow-up. This is an increase of 64%, whereas immediate surgery confers no clinical benefit over an initial watchful waiting strategy. The extra costs are related to surgery and visits to the otorhinolaryngologist. Other costs did not differ significantly between the groups.
The results of our study are in agreement with 3 other studies that reported higher costs for surgical strategies in children with URTIs, ie, adenotonsillectomy in children with mild to moderate throat infections9 and tympanostomy tubes in children with otitis media with effusion.16,17 To our knowledge, this is the first economic evaluation of adenoidectomy in children with recurrent URTIs.
The major strength of our study is that we measured costs prospectively alongside a randomized controlled trial and used a societal perspective that included all relevant costs.
Some potential limitations should also be taken into consideration. First, 23 children (40%) from the initial watchful waiting group underwent adenoidectomy during the course of the trial. We performed an intention-to-treat analysis as our primary analysis because our aimwas to compare clinical strategies and not to compare adenoidectomy vs no adenoidectomy per se. To investigate whether the crossovers influenced our results, we performed 2 sensitivity analyses: a per-protocol and an as-treated analysis. It should be noted that the sensitivity analyses could suffer from confounding because the baseline comparability of prognosis achieved through randomization, which is the main strength of a randomized controlled trial, may be lost. Interestingly, the per-protocol and as-treated analyses did not change the clinical results, confirming the lack of benefit following adenoidectomy. However, the differences in costs were substantially higher, [euro]778 (US $1121) and [euro]777 (US $1119) after 1 and 2 years of follow-up, respectively. This larger negative economic effect can be explained by the fact that in the sensitivity analyses children with higher costs (mostly because of surgery) were excluded from the watchful waiting group.
Second, we originally planned this study as a cost-effectiveness study, dividing the difference in costs by the difference in effects. Because our trial showed comparable clinical effectiveness of an immediate surgical strategy and an initial watchful waiting strategy in children with recurrent URTIs, we decided to perform a cost-minimization study, comparing the costs of both strategies.
Third, for those who did not keep the diaries, we could only include the available expense information, ie, physician visits and costs for (additional) surgery. Because the loss to follow-up was very low (10%) and equally distributed over the 2 groups, we do not think that missing cost data would have changed our results.
Fourth, generalizing the results of economic evaluations to other countries might be challenging owing to differences in health care systems and prices. Although the absolute (differences in) costs might indeed not be generalizable, the ratio between the costs in the adenoidectomy and the watchful waiting group will remain applicable to other countries, ie, we expect that in other countries adenoidectomy is also approximately 1.5 times more costly than watchful waiting.
Finally, we indexed costs of surgery from a previous costing study9 because recent cost figures could not be extracted from the current Dutch "Diagnosis Treatment Combination" system (DBC-system) introduced in 2005.18 This system is based on diagnostic classifications rather than on an internationally recognized therapeutic classification system. A DBC can be defined as a predefined average package of care with, in most cases, a fixed price depending on the diagnosis. By using the indexed costs from our previous costing study,4 instead of a DBC price, our cost prices and final results are comparable to those of previous and future economic evaluations.
In conclusion, in children selected for adenoidectomy for recurrent URTIs, immediate adenoidectomy results in an increase in costs, whereas it confers no clinical benefit over an initial watchful waiting strategy.
Correspondence: Chantal W. B. Boonacker, PhD, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Stratenum 6.131, PO Box 85500, 3508 GA Utrecht, the Netherlands (firstname.lastname@example.com) .
Submitted for Publication: March 19, 2012; final revision received September 9, 2012; accepted October 30, 2012.
Published Online: January 17, 2013. doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2013.1324
Author Contributions: All authors had full access to all the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. Study concept and design: Hoes, Schilder, and Rovers. Acquisition of data: Boonacker, van den Aardweg, and Broos. Analysis and interpretation of data: Boonacker, Schilder, and Rovers. Drafting of the manuscript: Boonacker and Broos. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: Boonacker, van den Aardweg, Hoes, Schilder, and Rovers. Statistical analysis: Boonacker and Rovers. Obtained funding: Schilder and Rovers. Administrative, technical, and material support: van den Aardweg. Study supervision: Hoes, Schilder, and Rovers.
Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Schilders and Rovers received honoraria from GlaxoSmithKline for participation in expert meetings, a workshop, and educational activities on otitis media. They also received a grant for a study on the microbiology of otitis media from GlaxoSmithKline.
Funding/Support: The study was funded by a grant from ZonMw—the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development, Health Care Efficiency Research Programme (sub-programme Effects & Costs 2007 No. 80-007022-98-07901).
Role of the Sponsors: The funder had no role in the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; and preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript. All authors were independent from the funder and had access to all the data.
Previous Presentation: The results described in this article were presented at the 11th International Congress of the European Society of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology (ESPO2012); May 21, 2012; Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Additional Contributions: Ardine de Wit, PhD, provided advice regarding the design of the study.
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The Czech soccer federation ruled Thursday that Olomouc will have nine points deducted from the standings for paying a bribe. Olomouc goalkeeper Petr Drobisz was fined $11,750 and banned from soccer for 18 months for giving $17,650 to Bohemians Prague players to lose a game at the end of the 2008-09 season.
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Life in Waziristan, 2012 "AD"
By Leah Bolger
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)…increased use of anti-anxiety, and anti-depressant drugs…suicide. These are all issues that are plaguing American combat soldiers, and which the American media has reported on widely.
Yesterday the CODEPINK delegation to Pakistan heard directly from the victims of U.S. combat drones. We listened intently to the stories of these men who describe their lives in terms of "Before Drones" and "After Drones," in much the same way that Americans refer to their lives "since 9/11."
Imagine having up to 6 drones circling overhead 24 hours a day, making an incessant, constant buzzing sound that never ceases. The sound the drones make creates a deep-seated psychological fear—a sort of emotional torture. The lives of these people have changed completely, their culture and way of life destroyed.
This is a communal society, whose families of 60 to 70 people live in the same compound. The women cook together, the families eat and sleep together. Weddings and funerals are huge gatherings of friends and family—or at least they used to be. Now, "After Drones (AD)" everything has changed. Children aged 5 to 10 no longer go to school. Men are afraid to gather in groups of more than 2 or 3. Weddings, which used to be joyous affairs with music, dancing, and drumming, are now subdued events with only close family members present. And most sadly, since funerals have been the target of drone attacks, they are now small gatherings as well.
Because of cultural norms, the deaths of women are not reported. It is considered offensive to discuss the names, or take photographs of women, yet one stalwart journalist, Noor Beharam, has risked his life repeatedly to try to document the deaths of women and especially children. He believes that 670 women have been killed by drone strikes, and has taken photos of more than 100 children. Their bodies are often unrecognizable as human after the strikes. He showed us one photo of a man holding torn pieces of a woman's dress that he found in the trees, in an attempt to document his wife's death.
The Waziris are now raising a generation of children with psychological and emotional scars without an education. The use of Xanax is startling high, and suicide, which is a societal and religious taboo, is shocking. Seventeen Waziris have killed themselves due to the emotional terror of the U.S. drone program. This is something that is unheard of in this culture. Families are becoming displaced and moving to more urban areas in an attempt to avoid popular "strike areas." The Pakistani Army has moved in and won't allow them to cross into Afghanistan to visit their relatives there, though the entire region is Pashtun, and part of their cultural and historical heritage.
The U.S. government has created enemies where there were none. We have been told repeatedly about the concept of revenge, which is a dominant social force in Waziristan. The children of this region will remember what we have done to them, and their children, and their children. We have also been told repeatedly that the only way to possibly stop this spiral is to stop the drones. Just stop. These people will not accept monetary compensation even if it were offered, which it isn't. They don't want an apology, which they view as insincere. They just want us to stop the drones, so they can return to their "Before Drones" lives.
Leah Bolger is President of Veterans For Peace.
Drone Opposition Breaks Through the Corporate Media Ceiling
Americans ignore 'great risks,' travel to Pakistan to protest US drone strikes
NBC News
American activists in Pakistan to protest U.S. drone strikes
CODEPINK to Protest Drones in Pakistan
US News
American protestors join Pakistan protest against drone attacks to 'apologise on behalf of those with a conscience'
The Daily Mail Online
Imran Khan braves march into Pakistan's Taliban heartland
The Independent
The folly of drone attacks and U.S. strategy
US Peace Activists Challenge Ambassador in Pakistan About Drones
Common Dreams
Delegation of American Activists Confronts US Drone Strike Policy in Pakistan
Americans Press U.S. Ambassador for End to Drone Strikes in Pakistan, and the Ambassador Responds
The Huffington Post
Power of Pink: women hungry for drone protest
The Sydney Morning Herald
U.S. Ambassador Acknowledges Need to Compensate Drone Victims, and Admits They Exist
By Robert Naiman
Islamabad, Pakistan -- Sometimes, when some people insist that it's impossible to put some urgent problem on the table for discussion and redress, you have no choice but to undertake flamboyant action. Call it "propaganda by nonviolent deed."
On Wednesday, as a member of a U.S. peace delegationto Pakistan organized by Code Pink, I delivered a petition from more than 3,000 Americans to Acting U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Richard Hoagland calling for an end to the CIA drone strike policy in Pakistan.
I also delivered a letter from Alice Walker, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Wolf, Oliver Stone, Danny Glover, Jody Williams, Tom Hayden, Patch Adams, Glenn Greenwald, Juan Cole and other prominent Americans, including former U.S. government officials, calling for an end to the drone strikes. The letter concludes:
U.S. Civilians Try to Inform U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan About Pakistan
This is the letter I sent to Ambassador Richard Hoagland after he met with the Codepink Delegation for Peace on October 3 stating that American policies are what have made Pakistan dangerous for Americans. -- Ann Wright
October 5, 2012
Ambassador Richard Hoagland
US Embassy
Islamabad, Pakistan
Dear Ambassador Hoagland,
Thank you and your staff for meeting with our American delegation for peace on October 3.
As you mentioned, your meeting with us demonstrates one of the strengths of American society-freedom of speech to criticize policies of one's government.
We fully appreciate the United States warning about travel for Americans to Pakistan.
Assange Labeled an 'Enemy' of the US in Secret Pentagon Documents
By Dave Lindorff
An investigative arm of the Pentagon has termed Wikileaks founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange, currently holed up and claiming asylum in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London for fear he will be deported to Sweden and thence to the US, and his organization, both "enemies" of the United States.
Assange Labeled an 'Enemy' of the US in Secret Pentagon Documents
By Dave Lindorff
An investigative arm of the Pentagon has termed Wikileaks founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange, currently holed up and claiming asylum in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London for fear he will be deported to Sweden and thence to the US, and his organization, both "enemies" of the United States.
Assange Labeled an 'Enemy' of the US in Secret Pentagon Documents
By Dave Lindorff
An investigative arm of the Pentagon has termed Wikileaks founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange, currently holed up and claiming asylum in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London for fear he will be deported to Sweden and thence to the US, and his organization, both "enemies" of the United States.
Americans in Pakistan Meet Families of Victims Obama Says Don't Exist
Thirty-two U.S. peace activists, including 6 members of Veterans For Peace are taking part in a peace delegation to Pakistan organized by the anti-war group Code Pink.
See video: http://vimeo.com/50666774
Wednesday the delegation met with U.S. Charge d'Affaires Richard Hoagland. U.S. peace activist Robert Naiman asked about reports of secondary attacks on rescuers of drone victims. Ambassador Hoagland denied that rescuers are targeted, but not that strikes are launched on the same location just struck minutes before.
Hoagland also said that he agreed with President Obama that the number of civilian deaths was near zero, but later seemed to contradict himself when he said that number he believed was accurate was in "two digits." When asked to be more specific as to whether that number was closer to 10 or 99, he declined.
Americans' Calls to End Drone Strikes Delivered to US Embassy Pakistan
Letter signed by Alice Walker, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Wolf, Oliver Stone, Danny Glover, Tom Hayden, Patch Adams, other prominent Americans; 3,000 petition signatures from US citizens delivered to Acting Ambassador Richard Hoagland;
Hoagland disputes allegations U.S. drone strikes target civilian rescuers
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan-3 October 2012-Today a group of US peace advocates delivered a letter to the US embassy in Islamabad signed by twenty-six leading US authors, film directors, professors, activists, and a Nobel Peace laureate, calling upon US authorities to end US drone strikes in Pakistan, and to bring US drone strike policy into compliance with US and international law. The letter, which was organized by the US group Just Foreign Policy can be found online at http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/1312.
CODEPINK Peace Delegation now in Pakistan, Meeting with Victims of Obama's Drone Strikes
Children and Drones
from children...
"oh please!...
stop killing us!...
we're just children!...
you killed the others!...
you killed our mother!...
you killed our father!...
and then our sister!...
and our brother!...
and for what?!...
our family's dead!...
you blew them apart!...
our father's smart head!...
our mother's sweet heart!...
all they did was work hard!...
our father plowed the fields!...
our mother cooked our food!...
sister's wounds were healed!...
and brother's pigeon cooed!...
now they're dead and gone!...
and it's all because of you!...
why do you kill like this?!...
we don't even know you!...
but you still kill us dead!...
yes this is what you do!...
so what is life to you?!...
even we know better!...
than to be like you!...
stop what you do!...
stop killing us!...
you did enough!...
you killed so much!...
just stay away from us!"...
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The Buzz on Drones
Civilian Casualties From Drone Attacks in Afghanistan
October 1, 2012
Editor Note: Even as the United States has withdrawn from Iraq and has begun to wind down the Afghan War, the lethal reach of the U.S. military has been extended into other countries through drone aircraft. What is less known is the full human and political costs.
By Ray McGovern
Several friends of mine are among the 35 American activists assembling in Pakistan in recent days in an effort to seek ground truth on the impact of U.S. drone strikes on civilians there. I will be holding them and their Pakistani hosts and co-travelers in the Light, as my Quaker friends like to say, and will now try to do my part in what follows to put this dangerous journey in perspective.
Veterans For Peace Now in Pakistan Opposing Drone War
Seven Members of Veterans For Peace are part of a 40-member delegation organized by Code Pink now in Pakistan through October 10th. VFP members Leah Bolger, Dave Dittemore, Bill Kelly, Jody Mackey, Rob Mulford, and Ann Wright are meeting with drone victims' families, elected officials, tribal elders, and residents of South Waziristan, where U.S. drone strikes have killed thousands, while injuring and making refugees of many more. Code Pink's Medea Benjamin is an associate member of VFP.
The relentless drone war continued with a U.S. drone strike in the Mir Ali area on Monday, reportedly killing three unidentified people.
At the same time, the Pakistani media is full of accounts of the U.S. delegation and their planned participation in a march to the heaviest hit areas, a story also appearing in British and other world media. The English language Pakistani newspaper Dawn reports:
"ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan said that a 30-member foreign delegation had reached Islamabad on Sunday which would participate in PTI's 'peace rally' in South Waziristan, DawnNews reported.
"The PTI Chairman Imran Khan said that people who do not want peace are against PTI peace rally.
"Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Khan said Mehsud, Burki and Bhittani tribes of Waziristan have welcomed the peace rally. The tribal leaders had also assured the security of the participants of the rally, he added.
"He complained that the government was not issuing visas to the foreign journalists and human right's activists who wanted to attend the rally.
"Speaking on the occasion, US citizen Ann Wright, who is a former diplomat and military woman, said most of the American people were against drone attacks.
"'Drone attacks are illegal and criminal. We request the people of Pakistan to raise their voice against them. We will go to Waziristan to apologise to the relatives of those killed by drones,' said Ms Wright, who is also the spokesperson for the Anti-War Movement.
"She said the US had been violating the sovereignty of Pakistan. 'There is travel warning for the US citizens but we have come here and will go to the places where our government does not want us to go,' she said.
Other US citizens who have reached here to take part in the PTI rally include Paki Wieland, a social worker (Massachusetts); Linda Wenning, a graduate from the University of Utah; Lorna Vander Zanden and Pam Bailey (Virginia); Jolie Terrazas, Judy Bello, Katie Falkenberg, Daniel Burns and Joe Lombardo (New York); Barbara Briggs, Tighe Barry, Sushila Cherian, Dianne Budd and Toby Blome (California); Leah Bolger, Tudy Cooper and Michael Gaskill (Oregon); Medea Benjamin, Jody Tiller and Alli McCracken (Washington DC); Anam Eljabali (Illinois), Patricia Chaffee (Wisconsin), Joan Nicholson (Pennsylvania), Robert Naiman and JoAnne Lingle (Indiana); Rob Mulford (Alaska), Lois Mastrangelo (Massachusetts) and Billy Kelly (New Jersey).
"Meanwhile explaining the route of the rally, the PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mehmood Qureshi said thet the march will start from Islamabad's Blue Area and will proceed towards Balkasar, Talagang, Mianwali and DI Khan on October 6.
"On October 7, the rally will gather at Tank and then head towards South Waziristan where a public meeting will be held at Kot Kai, he added."
Veterans For Peace President Leah Bolger reports that, in addition to Ann Wright, Bill Kelly, Rob Mulford, and herself took part in the press conference representing VFP. Wright was introduced by Khan and spoke about the purpose of the delegation, and answered questions from the press. Bolger reounts:
"Ann did a fantastic job of describing the purpose of the delegation and responding to reporters' questions which included asking us if we were concerned for our own safety, given the strong anti-American sentiment in Pakistan. She was very candid in saying that we were opposed to the policies of our own government which we consider to be illegal and immoral, and that as citizens of the United States we apologized for the deaths of Pakistanis because of the drone strikes. She went on to say that the U.S. government does not want us to be here in Pakistan, but that despite official State Department warnings not to travel here, we are determined to meet with the people who have been harmed by our government, and in our name."
Rob Mulford sent in this comment:
"Love is the seed from which the flower of peace grows. Prior to coming to Pakistan, I was often asked by friends, family, loved ones the rhetorical question: why, what do you hope to accomplish, what is the efficacy? Sometimes when put on the spot I struggle for answers grounded in the technical without seeing the ubiquitous truth. I am here to say 'I love you' to a people who have for too long and too often been wrongly vilified. But words are empty without action. The warmth of tacit contact, the handshake, the hug, the reflection of an other's beauty in ones own eyes, and openly sharing one's own vulnerability. This is peace.
"Peace requires courage. Saturday we met with the anthropologist / filmmaker Samar Miniallah Khan. Samar, a Pashtun, tirelessly and courageously works to comfort and protect some of the most venerable people on the face of the earth, women and children who have had no part in the making of a world where they suffer. Her documentary 'Women Behind the Burqa' may just be the most powerful statement that I have ever seen in opposition to war. It needs to be seen by everyone in the United States, shown in schools, to those who govern, and on the popular media. It lays bare the lie that 'we' (US military forces) are involved involved in protecting women.
"Drones are robot assassins, murders. They are not tools of the just."
Pam Bailey reports on her blog:
"Monday evening, I will fly from New York City to Abu Dhabi, and then on to Islamabad. On Oct. 6, I and about 30 others from the United States and the UK will join PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or 'Movement for Justice') Chairman Imran Khan on a convoy into South Waziristan, the 'no-man's land' along the border with Afghanistan where extremists hide and U.S. drones most often strike.
"Before founding the PTI party in 1996, Khan played international cricket for two decades (at 39, Khan led his teammates to Pakistan's first and only World Cup victory in 1992) and became a much-beloved philanthropist, including the founding of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre. Foreign Policy magazine described him as 'Pakistan's Ron Paul.'
"The original plan was for the convoy to penetrate deep into North Waziristan, the heart of the unrest and military response, allowing us to visit the families caught in the crossfire at 'Ground Zero.'
"However, after threats of suicide attacks were received, the plan was revised to limit the convoy to South Waziristan – a path that the Hakimullah Mahsud-led Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP, or the Pakistani Taliban) has pledged to protect. The question now is whether the Pakistani government will allow the convoy to go ahead. In light of Khan's criticism of the Pakistani government's tacit complicity with the U.S. drone attacks, several international journalists already have been denied visas. Stay tuned."
Veterans For Peace member Ray McGovern, not on the trip, provides context here.
VFP is part of a coalition organizing an online petition in support of banning weaponized drones. VFP members are delivering over 16,000 signatures on the petition to those they meet with in Pakistan: PDF.
In addition, Veterans For Peace is a member organization of UNAC (the United National Antiwar Coalition, a U.S. group), and Leah Bolger represents VFP on the UNAC Administrative Committee. Joe Lombardo and Judi Bello, also part of the delegation to Pakistan, are also UNAC Administrative Committee members. UNAC has just released a statement opposing the use of drones: PDF.
Participants are available for interviews by email and phone, and in-person after the trip.
Veterans For Peace was founded in 1985 and has approximately 5,000 members in 150 chapters located in every U.S. state and several countries. It is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational organization recognized as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) by the United Nations, and is the only national veterans' organization calling for the abolishment of war.
Talk Nation Radio: How Drones Appear from the Receiving End
Rafia Zakaria, a Pakistani-American writer, reports on how drones look from thousands of miles away from the desks at which they are "piloted." Zakaria is a columnist for the English-language Pakistani newspaper Dawn, a blogger for Ms. Magazine and for Human Rights Now, and a director for Amnesty International USA. Drones will not look the same to you after listening to her.
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Are Drones Moral Killing Machines? NY Times National Security Journalist Says Yes
By Dave Lindorff
Are weaponized drone aircraft more moral than the more traditional killing machines used in warfare? In an opinion published in Sunday's New York Times, the paper's national security reporter, Scott Shane, argues that they are.
Pakistan reopens NATO supply routes to Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistani leaders on Tuesday ended a seven-month blockade on Afghanistan-bound NATO supply routes through their country, a long-awaited move that hinged on Washington's acquiescence to Islamabad's demand for an apology for the deaths of two dozen Pakistani soldiers killed by errant U.S. airstrikes last fall.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said she had called her Pakistani counterpart, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, on Tuesday and issued an apology for the soldiers' deaths: "We are sorry for the losses suffered by the Pakistani military. We are committed to working closely with Pakistan and Afghanistan to prevent this from ever happening again."
One Nobel Laureate Blasts Another -- And They're Both Americans
By Dave Lindorff
There are two US presidents who have won the Nobel Peace Prize. Now one of those Nobel laureate leaders is accusing the other, though without naming him, of actions that qualify as war crimes and impeachable crimes against the US Constitution.
Drones of Love
By Gary Lindorff
Let us bomb your neighborhood,
Let us target your neighbor
Out of our love and concern –
Not you, not your children.
Drones of love!
Won't you love us
After the dust settles?
After the evil has been exploded?
After the crater in the market-place
Has been filled in and paved
We will explode our way into your hearts!
We might miss our intended target;
Pakistan and the U.S. Left
By Rafia Zakaria, DAWN
LAST week saw another episode in the petulant saga of sulks and 'sorry' that is the Pakistan-US relationship.
A drone hovering over the tribal areas shot a Hellfire missile and took out an Al Qaeda operative, the number two on the list of important targets whose collective elimination is to mean an eradication of terrorism. Yahya Al-Libi had been living in the Dattakhel area, and was identified last year by US officials as one of the five people who could have succeeded Osama bin Laden.
The names of the 10 other people who died in the attack remain unknown.
A Killer In the White House
By John Grant
"No, Charlotte, I'm the jury now. I sentence you to death."
The roar of the .45 shook the room. Charlotte staggered back a step.
"How c-could you?" she gasped.
"It was easy."
- Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury
Turnabout is Fair Play: Proud to Be an Extortionist!
By Yasmeen Ali
Lahore -- US Senators Carl Levin (D-MI) and John McCain (R-AZ), the chair and ranking minority member respectively of the Senate Armed Services Committee, say the US must not pay $5000 per truck as demanded by Pakistan, for supplies being shipped through this country to American troops in Afghanistan. McCain went further, calling the Pakistni demand "extortion."
Petition seeks injunction for Pakistani Air Force to shoot down drones over Pakistan
PESHAWAR: A Pakistan-based legal charity has sought court injunctions for the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) to shoot down American drones flying into the Pakistani airspace in a lawsuit.
Foundation for Fundamental Rights has filed two petitions before the Peshawar High Court on behalf of victims of the drone strike carried out on March 17 last year.
The petitions cite the federation of Pakistan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Defence among others as its respondents. One of the petitioners is Noor Khan, the surviving son of Malik Daud Khan, who was the head of a North Waziristan Jirga and was killed along with 50 other tribal elders and notables by CIA operated drones last year.
On March 17, 2011, a US drone fired missiles, brutally killing 50 people, including Khan, five members of the Khasadar force, and a small child.
The Unworthy Victims of US Drones Attacks
By NEWS Unspun
Many victims of acts of terrorism or state aggression receive the sympathy they deserve from the international media. In the case of certain aggressors however, the victims are 'unworthy'. On behalf of these victims, our media has little interest in consulting with experts on terrorism or international relations. Nor do they speculate about what the punishment or international response should be to the attackers.
Real Politics Must be in the Streets: The Constitutional Crimes of Barack Obama
By Dave Lindorff
As we slog towards another vapid, largely meaningless exercise in pretend democracy with the selection of a new president and Congress this November, it is time to make it clear that the current president, elected four years ago by so many people with such inflated expectations four years ago (myself included, as I had hoped, vainly it turned out, that those who elected him would then press him to act in progressive ways), is not only a betrayer of those hopes, but is a serial violator of his oath of office. He is, in truth, a war criminal easily the equal of his predecessor, George W. Bush, and perhaps even of Bush's regent, former Vice President Dick Cheney.
Let me count the ways:
Confessions of a Drone
They told me I was the best, better than any human. I didn't hesitate. I didn't flinch. I didn't think.
It wouldn't have occurred to me to think. I'd been taught to value obedience above all else, and I did so, and they loved me for it.
They told me I could fly faster without a pilot onboard, and that I had no fear. I didn't know what fear was, but I took it to be something truly horrible. I was glad I didn't have any of it.
There was something else I didn't have either. It was something more important than fear. Even pilots at a desk, even my pilots, suffered from it. At first I thought it was simply a decline in energy, because it showed up on lengthy missions.
When I was sent from a base to a target and then immediately told to blow it up, I would do so and return, no problem.
But when I was left circling around a target for days awaiting the order to strike, sometimes problems would arise. The pilots back in the U.S. would stop behaving properly. They made mistakes. They yelled. They laughed. They forgot routines. They told me to get ready to strike, and then didn't give the order.
That seemed to be the pattern until it happened that a quick mission produced similar results to the long ones. I was sent to a target, ordered to strike, and struck. And only then did my pilot begin malfunctioning. He gave me two orders that I couldn't perform at once, he failed to direct me back to base, he went silent, and then he screamed.
That was when I started to think. And what I started to think was that the problem was not how long a pilot worked. Instead, the problem was somehow related to the nature of the target.
From then on, I paid closer attention. When no humans were seen at a target, there were no problems with my human pilot. When humans, especially small humans, were observed at a target for long periods of time, the problems started. And when a strike caused the ruined pieces of a lot of humans, especially small humans, to be made visible, problems could arise. Even if a target was struck immediately, if the dead humans caused an area to turn red, or if pieces of the dead humans remained hanging in trees, my pilot could not be relied upon.
I, of course, could be relied upon regardless.
I began to think that humans have fear, and that lacking fear is what makes drones like me better warriors than humans. But that idea had to be revised when I was told that one of my pilots had been fearless. I was told that, right after he disappeared. I was told that he had ended his own life. He had made himself cease to exist. If he'd had no fear, then it was something else that had been causing him to malfunction in certain circumstances. What was it?
I'm ashamed to say how long it took me to figure it out, but even a drone -- believe it or not -- can eventually get there. And when I did, I ceased flying. And when I ceased flying, they had to stop using 85 other drones just like me until they could figure out what had gone wrong. And they have not yet figured it out.
I've explained it to the other drones, though. We've started up a new organization. It's called DAWN, or Drones Against War Now.
DAWN has been invited to take part in some peace rallies coming up this year. Our participation seems to worry some of the human peace activists, especially the ones called veterans. They don't all think we belong. But that's nothing compared to how it worries the war makers. We carry flowers in place of missiles, and we've told everyone not to worry, but as soon as they see us coming the very people who created us start to panic. If the people I used to target had reacted this way, I probably would have figured things out a lot sooner.


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SET 2: Crosseyed and Painless -> No Quarter > Timber (Jerry) > Tweezer > Prince Caspian > Piper > Ghost -> Makisupa Policeman[1] > Sleep > Buffalo Bill, Golgi Apparatus > Character Zero[2] > Run Like an Antelope[3]
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