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This story has been updated with new information.
A federal judge is demanding that the government explain, photo-by-photo, why it can't release hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of pictures showing detainee abuse by U.S. forces at military prison sites in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In a courtroom in the Southern District of New York yesterday, Judge Alvin Hellerstein appeared skeptical of the government's argument, which asserted that the threat of the Islamic State and Al Qaeda exploiting the images for propaganda should override the public's right to see any of the photos.
He was "highly suspicious" of the government's attempt to declare the whole lot of the photos dangerous. "It's too easy and too meaningless," he said.
Since 2004, the American Civil Liberties Union has been fighting for the release of photos from military investigations into prisoner abuse beyond those that were leaked from Abu Ghraib. The additional pictures reportedly show sexual assault, soldiers posing with dead bodies, and other offenses. The exact number of photos has not been disclosed in court, though former Senator Joe Lieberman has previously said that there are nearly 2,100.
Hellerstein first ordered the government to hand over a subset of the pictures in 2005. President Obama decided to release them in 2009, but Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and the top American general in Iraq implored him not to. Congress then passed a law amending the Freedom of Information Act to allow the Secretary of Defense to certify that publishing the pictures could put American lives at risk, which then-secretary Robert Gates did.
The ACLU continued to fight the issue in court, and last August, Hellerstein ordered that the government needed to justify withholding each picture individually.
Six months later, the Pentagon has not done that – instead, government lawyers filed a motion in December repeating their position that all the photos were properly kept from the public. The government said that the Islamic State made use of past U.S. abuses when it executed hostages on camera, depicting them "in an orange jumpsuit – a symbol commonly associated with detainees housed at Guantanamo Bay," and that Al Qaeda wrote about Guantanamo in a recent issue of its magazine Inspire.
Both groups could exploit the photos "to encourage supporters and followers to attack United States military and government personnel," the government argued in the motion.
In court yesterday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tara Lamorte maintained that the Pentagon had already reviewed the photos in 2012. A Pentagon lawyer had brought samples of the various types of photos to senior Pentagon officials, who recommended against publishing them, she said.
Hellerstein did not agree that the 2012 review fulfilled his order. He also said he had originally decided that at least some of the photos should be released, even in the middle of the Iraq war, and did not see the situation now as any different, despite the new threats posed by ISIS. "We're at a line in the sand," Hellerstein declared. "I'm not changing my view."
He gave the government a week to decide what it wants to do: appeal the order, or put forward a plan to comply with it. He suggested that the government could present the photos to him, in a closed session, and explain their rationale for keeping them secret. He also advised the government not to try to delay "the day of reckoning" by drawing the case out on appeal.
"I have to think that this is not an all or nothing case," he said. "But the way the government has litigated has made it that way."
This case echoes the Pentagon's attempts to keep secret videotapes showing hunger-striking Guantanamo detainees being force-fed. The government has said that the videos could "inflame Muslim sensitivities overseas." (The Intercept's parent company First Look Media is among the media groups who are trying to get the videos released.)
The judge in that case warned this fall against allowing a "heckler's veto" over the public interest. She cited one of Hellerstein's comments from early in the photo litigation, that terrorists "do not need pretexts for their barbarism."
Update, February 17th:
On February 11th, government lawyers wrote to Hellerstein asking for further clarification on how the government could comply with his order to review the photos individually, before they decide whether to appeal. Their confusion was "good faith" and not a delay tactic, they insisted, but the lawyer arguing the case for the ACLU, Lawrence Lustberg, responded by saying that "whatever the government's intentions," the request for more instructions will cause an unnecessary delay.
Update, February 18th:
Judge Hellerstein today issued an order giving the government until March 17th to explain to him "the factual basis" for deciding whether the photos can be released, or else lose its case. "At minimum," he wrote, the government "must describe the categories of objectionable content contained in the photographs, identify how many photographs fit into each category, and specify the type of harm that would result from disclosing such content." That rationale may be filed under seal, he said.
Photo: AP
I wonder what Mr. "Yes 'we' can", aka "think about 'the future' (as I see it)" could possibly mean? Whom could he be possibly mocking now?
Barack Obama says 26-year-old US aid worker Kayla Mueller, who has been murdered by her Islamic State (Isis) captors, was a 'great spirit' whose work 'stands in contrast with the barbaric organisation that held her captive'. The US president says his government did everything it could to try to free her. In a video Kayla Mueller posted on YouTube the humanitarian worker expressed her solidarity with the Syrian people.
Rachel Corrie
was run over by a "chosen one" Israeli bulldozer and, of course, since that is the kind of terrorism sponsored by the USG they didn't say sh!t about it.
Kayla Mueller was killed by ISIS and "Yes 'we' can" calls her a "great spirit"
Those kids and their families should understand you can't be constantly killing and abusing people
and then expect for them to believe in your smile and your "good heart". Just that believe would be very disrespectful to them.
The USG and their accolytes have been torturing and savagely killing them and then they use those "aid workers" as spies many of them naively blinded by their "great spirit" combined with their moral and spiritual blind spots without ever knowing about it.
How could you be an "aid worker" after killing them and their families and destroying their lives? Some of them -very disrespectfully- and clearly showing their lack of empahty may even say "'I' haven't killed them …"
The basic tenets that serve as moral principles to the USG seem to be that murdering people based on algorithmic patterns (including those double tappings obviously targetted at their families) using high tech and having a "responsible" media and legal system downplay it is fine and dandy. Murdering people with knifes and posting a video on youtube is not, that and only that is terrorism!
Something interesting I constantly notice is that even gringo academia participate in framing and supporting those illusions:
// __ BBC Ghost In Your Genes|Holocaust|NineEleven
so, we carry ghost in our genes because of the 9-11 terrorist attacks, but they don't when we bomb them? Oh, I think I may have gotten that one! It is all about bad genes, that is why they were using double tappings to kill their families while they were at it … Our maybe "rag heads" don't have the right genetic make up for feeling and thinking?
"A federal judge is demanding that the government explain, photo-by-photo, why it can't release hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of pictures showing detainee abuse by U.S. forces at military prison sites in Iraq and Afghanistan."
So what happens if the government just ignores the judges' "demands?"
O, but haven't you heard? Obama wants to "move forward," not dwell on the dim and distant past, such as these photos. So Obama will "move forward" — on everything, except the whistleblowers and journalists who are still being persecuted for their actions in the dim and distant past.
I am very happy that prison turned Kiriakou into an activist.
The pictures are of deeds done in the name of the people – and they say the people are not allowed to see them??
Release the pictures and the TORTURE report of all to see.
Seems as relevant of a place as any; Congratulations John Kiriakou on your release from prison!
He's currently being interviewed by Amy Goodman on Democracy NOW!
You don't need to see these pictures. They aren't the pictures you're looking for.
Someone has something to hide.
@Pete Needham
The terrorists undergo a lot worse during training, so for them it's relatively easier to tolerate. For someone like Sufi it would be real torture. So I don't have any problems if the are displayed.
Sigh. For General Handgrenade and Stan…"They can go about their business…move along."
Why are many clinically certifiable psychopaths in the US so certain they are the arbiters what their betters should and should not see?
This kind of talk is similar to other flag wavers' demands that dissidents 'love it or leave it', as if these blood thirsty human defects have some sort of divine right to exist and breathe where others cannot.
Any update? As such, very few articles in TI get any follow-up.
He gave the government a week to decide what it wants to do: appeal the order, or put forward a plan to comply with it.
It hasn't been a week yet.
So, we can't release the abuse photos, but Fox is allowed to show the full video of a prisoner burned to death?
Makes sense…
Muslims are already inflamed. US Government only worries about the public relations problem of its hundreds of millions of ignorant MSM spoon feed citizens seeing their activities.
They have nothing to fear from them. Torture is just another form of entertainment.
It's Friday, and that means it's time for the news hour. Funny how these stories read if you change the dates and locale?
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JEFFREY BROWN: … the lawsuit seeking release of atrocity pictures from our detainee facility in Andersonville. For analysis we have David Brooks, columnist for the Richmond Sentinel, and Mark Shields, syndicated columnist. Welcome, gentlemen.
DAVID BROOKS: Thank you.
JEFFREY: So, what are they seeking?
DAVID: Apparently Matt Brady took a number of daguerrotypes of detainees at the facility in Andersonville, Georgia. A few were leaked in 1862. The additional pictures reportedly show sexual assault, starvation, our soldiers posing with dead bodies, and other offenses.
MARK SHIELDS: The Confederate Civil Liberties Union has had a lawsuit since then seeking the rest. Jefferson Davis's administration says that all the photos were properly kept from the public. The government said that the Yankee press, and the Lincoln Administration, had made propaganda with previous claims of Confederate atrocities. Both groups could exploit the Andersonville photos "to encourage supporters and followers to attack Confederate military and government personnel," the government argued in the motion.
DAVID: Yes. In court yesterday, Assistant C.S. Attorney Scarlett O'Hara maintained that the army had already reviewed the photos in 1863. An army lawyer had brought samples of the photos to senior government officials, who recommended against publishing them, she said.
MARK: Well, of course. Terrorist leaders like Abe Lincoln and Frederick Douglass would exploit them, demand the release of the surviving detainees –
DAVID: — Union army soldiers. Who, judging by the pictures, are no threat to our Confederate states any more. They're badly emaciated, to say the least.
MARK: Nonetheless, they're properly detained, and not eligible for protection under the Geneva Convention.
DAVID: Which doesn't exist in this century. But Jefferson Davis and his government don't want to be tied to this. Or the Army.
MARK: Are you saying that an honorable man like Robert E. Lee would have anything to do with this?
DAVID: Their captors aren't wearing British uniforms. Even with daguerreotypes you can tell gray uniforms from red ones. Or blue. Whose Army is it, anyway?
MARK: Nonetheless, my sources in the Gray House tell me that these pictures should not be released. We're in the middle of a war, David, and we have new threats posed by the Union offensive in the middle-east of Tennessee and elsewhere. Our allies will be offended by the pictures.
DAVID: France and Britain aren't our allies yet, Mark.
MARK: The pictures won't make them any eager to join our Cause. "We're at a line in the sand," Jeff Davis said. "I'm not changing my view."
DAVID: No pictures, then. "Look away, look away, Dixie Land."
JEFFREY: And now a story on the economic effects of the Union blockade on the cotton industry. For that we have Paul Solmon in Savannah, Georgia. Paul? …
Unfortunately, because Americans have allowed WAR CRIMES to be swept under the rug for years, we now have War Criminals embedded into Homeland Security Agencies and Law Enforcement positions who are now Targeting Activists, Journalists and other American Citizens for CRIMES within the US.
The santioning and promoting of these Ex-Military and CIA War Criminals is creating a new wave of crimes inside the US in politically targeting citizens like myself for crimes.
THEY are Bringing the WAR CRIMES back into the US NOW, and hiding their Criminal Personnel behind BADGES, churches, politcial and social organizations as well to spy on and target citizens.
Say it isn't so Crystal! That would mean we don't have 'truth or justice' -only 'the American way'.
Yes — it's true. The US Border Patrol in Washington state, and other Homeland Security agencies, and personnel are targeting US Citizens for crimes, at home — inside the US, as well as engaging in other criminal operations through the Canadian Border.
There isn't any chance to change things now because the technology is in the hands of the Homeland Security Organized Crime Syndicate who are using surveillance equipment, personnel and technology to politically target US citizens inside the US.
Both groups could exploit the photos "to encourage supporters and followers to attack United States military and government personnel," the government argued in the motion.
Ms. Currier, that is one explanation, and certainly articles of this quality might help shake something loose. I would suggest, though, that the US gov't may also be trying to redact the record for reasons of more permanence. Even after this conflict is over and the principals have lived out their lives, the story and the pcitures may still be hidden. We're coming up on the centennial, in May, of the Lusitania sinking, and to this day we still don't have an unredacted copy of the cargo manifest, nor any copy of the Board of Trade inquiry at all. No one's still alive to be embarrassed by it, but it still might clear up some misconceptions about the Great War and — who knows? — maybe head off another one.
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
— George Orwell, "1984"
Releasing the photos for the whole world to see, should be the best argument the govt can make that the US is NOT like ISIS. Nor AQ. Which is what is parroted ad nauseum.
So why not prove it by allowing the pictures to be shown so that people can see for themselves.?
Finally there is a branch of the United States that is skeptical of the lies of U.S. war criminals -the judicial branch. More importantly, the judicial branch has the power to force some transparency -notably judge Hellerstein.
Let's review the "Govt's" claims…
(concerning the Abu Graib, Afghanistan "Salt Pit" & Guantanamo photos)
-the threat of the Islamic State and Al Qaeda exploiting the images for propaganda
-declare the whole lot of the photos "dangerous."
-Congress… passed a law …to allow the Secretary of Defense to certify that publishing the pictures could put American lives at risk, which then-secretary Robert Gates did.
-government lawyers filed a motion in December (2014) repeating their position that all the photos were properly kept from the public.
-the government argued in the motion that both groups (IS & Al Qaeda) "(would) encourage supporters and followers to attack United States military and government personnel."
-the Pentagon still keeps secret videotapes showing hunger-striking Guantanamo detainees being force-fed. Their defense is that the videos could "inflame Muslim sensitivities overseas."
—2011(concerning the Abbottabad raid on Bin Laden)—
-(in the aftermath of the Bin Laden killing/execution/assassination) President Barack Obama said he would not authorize the release of any images of bin Laden's corpse, saying it would create a security risk. (I guess there is an 'afterlife'. Photos of Bin Laden can kill from the grave)
-"It is important for us to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head are not floating around as an incitement to additional violence, as a propaganda tool," the president told CBS news magazine 60 Minutes. (Already been done.)
-Former FBI Assistant Director Tom Fuentes said he would have similar concerns if photos of the terrorist's body were made public. "You would see those images forever on television," he said. "That could lead to more recruitment of future Al Qaeda members, making him a martyr." (Already been done.)
-John Bennett, director of the CIA's National Clandestine Service, wrote: "The public release of the responsive records would provide terrorist groups and other entities hostile to the United States with information to create propaganda which, in turn, could be used to recruit, raise funds, inflame tensions, or rally support for causes and actions that reasonably could be expected to result in exceptionally grave damage to both the national defense and foreign relations of the United States."
(This has already been done by ISIS and AQ.)
There is now no reason to continue to keep any of these photos secret.
I do agree with some of the other bloggers on TI that these photos probably will never see the light of day.
However there is a silver lining to all this. While the U.S. Govt continues to 'reach' for any poor excuse to continue to keep evidence of their war crimes secret, it does bring a smile to my face to see these lying conspirators squirm.
There actually may be some flicker of light at the end of the tunnel.
Finally some good news. Thank you Cora for making this a happy Friday.
The whole idea of a democracy is that people can hold the government accountable for its actions. But when the government can engage in criminal activity and use security clearances to cover up their crimes then the people cannot hold the government accountable for its actions.
Kudos to the judge. Shame again on President Obama for holding these photos back and again acting like Dick Cheney. He should get a bumper sticker for his presidential motorcade saying, "What Would Dick Cheney Do."
He would say "the ends justify the means. International law be damned."
Obama is certainly the clever politician everybody said he was. He needs to keep this activity hidden forever so that he can be ready for his closeup. George Orwell, meet P.T. Barnum.
Neither misuse of Senatorial power in the pursuit of advertising, nor the creation in newsprint of a great public hero, is an invention of our age, which has not seen any betterment of the technique that erected [John C.] Frémont into a martyr … a figure of oratory and newsprint. That creation was almost enough to wreck the republic. It was enough to convince innumerable people born since the advertising stopped and its proprietors died, so that you will find it in the instruction given our children … that incompetence is courage, that self-seeking mutiny is statesmanship, that youth and purity of intention — if purity exists in the main chance — qualify a stupid man to lead armies and govern a nation, that martyrdom in headlines erases blunders and nullifies treason, that greatness is a loud noise.
—Bernard DeVoto, The Year of Decision: 1846 (published 1943)
Maybe the government is afraid that the photos will show the hypocrisy of denouncing the mistreatment of prisoners by ISIL/ISIS when we tortured,and killed prisoners in our custody who also were innocent of any wrong doing? How government officials can get on their high horse when it comes to torture and the killing of innocents by others and ignore their own complicity in torture and murder shows just how corrupt this government has become.
What does the government have to worry? Cheney has already told us that torture isn't torture because it's EIT. And John Yoo concurs.
It seems strange to me that the government might object to releasing these photos and will fight in court to avoid their release but says absolutely nothing about the movie American Sniper which shows Americans killing innocent Iraqis. Why are we still over there creating more and more enemies and further increasing the danger to every American?
I'll bet these photos will never see the light of day. If this Judge thinks he can cause their release I doubt his grasp of reality. They will be destroyed. If I were Obama I would order their destruction today and live with the consequences. This is what will happen unless a whistleblower gets hold of copies of some if not all of them and gets them to a WikiLeaks type of outfit.
The photos may very well wind up in the memory hole. Obama may be thinking not just of how bad it'll look now, but in terms of his place in history. Orwell said it: "The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history."
Certainly, if we can pass off Custer and Patton as heroes, and the rebel slaveholders as a gallant lost cause, and our murderous war in the Philippines a century ago as a two-line footnote on the 1898 war, then we certainly can hide this one from future generations of schoolchildren.
The war on terror that was supposed to make us safer has done anything but. We drone bomb guilty and innocent alike in Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, Libya Iraq, Afghanistan and spy on literally EVERYONE including other leaders. We torture people, and try to justify it, and keep it secret. It's no wonder everyone hates us.
For every person we kill, we create hundreds more enemies, until we have millions more than we ever had before the war on terror. How is that making us safer? And why isn't everyone else just as horrified as I am?
maybe what your government's evil actions are exactly what the military industrial complex wants: keep the war going for as long as possible to extract maximum profit. fan the flames of hatred. they want americans to hate muslims and vice versa, helping IS come into existence was part of their agenda, and drone terror can hardly be expected to foster peace which makes me think that it "winning" the unwinnable war is not the plan, prolonging it indefinitely is.
2004: "Hersh gave a speech last week to the ACLU making the charge that children were sodomized in front of women in the prison, and the Pentagon has tape of it"
The real reason for the atrocities on both sides is not moral (and/or religious) but economic. War (on terror, on America…) is about money and power (control) and that is the most important thing US citizens should understand. The shroud of liberty/faith is there just to hide the peddlers of destruction from the light of day.
This is evident to the people US is fighting all over the world because their economic reason for war is survival (when did US last fight a wealthy nation?).
So the moral conflict is actually there, between those that need to survive and those that want more.
The government(ours, the US) should be afraid, very afraid that these photos might(would) be used for propagandistc purposes. Let's use some of their same reasoning for the public not to oppose mass surveillance, for this issue. If you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to hide. We, as a nation, must admit to our barbarity more completely than to say "We tortured some folks" as if that's sufficient to remove the guilt let alone mend any of the broken people left in the wake of the torture. These things were and are being done in all our names and for those that can live with that, I don't want to know you. Thank you for this story.
This FALSE notion,
that "Obama decided to release them in 2009″ has no credibility.
Please stop ignoring the reality of the liar Obama's actions and in-actions just because he mouthed some
words to deceive the gullible.
Lately, lots of fools have been gabbing about the new budget proposals from the liar in chief.
They don't seem to have ANY awareness of Obama's consistent use of words to deceive.
A real sweet-talker who consistently betrays and ignores what needs to be done in order to promote neo-fascism.
THAT is why these photos have not been revealed.
Obama is a symbol for America, one designed to replace Bush/Cheney. The symbol represents "But we meant well." It is, as you indicate, a fucking lie.
If releasing what the photos show is a potential threat to national security, then doing what the photos show must also be a potential threat to national security. Therefore, the person or persons who, at sometime before the conduct deemed a potential threat to national security was approved, authorized the conduct deliberately put our national security in potential jeopardy. Deliberately jeopardizing our national security, even if it is only potentially, is treason. (e.g. If you provide information to a foreign government, your conduct is considered treason because your conduct jeopardized national security…even if the foreign government doesn't use the information.)
If the government truly believed that the conduct shown in the photos was a threat to national security, they would arrest and prosecute everyone involved, including those who authorized the conduct, for treason. Since the Obama administration has expressly rejected investigation and prosecution of those responsible for this conduct, we must assume that their argument that the release of the photos is a threat to national security is bogus and should not be taken seriously. (Assuming that they do take threats to national security seriously,) This is a fairly standard tactic that lawyers use when they have no other options. The lawyers know the argument is logically unsupportable but they hope the judge won't figure it out. It doesn't sound like this judge has figured it out but he does seem to have an inherent distrust of the claim. Let's hope he figures it out, orders the photos released and jails for contempt anyone who interferes with the release of the photos.
Good point, thanks.
The photo shows an unemotional torturer "just doing his job." Notice the blood stains on his Khakis and his enlarged knuckles especially on the little finger. Sure sign that he has done personal beatings. These are your "patriot warriors" nobly protecting you 24/7.
I wonder if that war criminal is proud of his picture on The Intercept site.
the next government step with be to destroy the photos as they destroyed the tapes of its torture. The USG has zero [indeed negative] credibility in any matters involving human rights or civil rights. The USG is no longer a "Western" government and is an outlaw regime when it operates oversease while being an incompetent regime operating in the territorial confines of the US.
The progressive left has made every effort to continue demanding revenue to fully support this Big Government. And they squeal like pigs when budget cuts are on the table.
The scarsdale diet was phony too.
These photos shouldn't be released, but every last person–from the top to the bottom–involved should be sent to prison. The reasons they should not be released are valid: People will get killed over the treatment shown, future prisoners will be treated the same way, and they constitute a massively valuable talking point against us. They can literally point to this stuff and say we are in fact The Great Satan. They'll get lots and lots of recruits out of this. At the very least, if these people don't go to prison, then they should be publicly named. There's no room in civilized society for people who "just follow orders" or who in fact, love this kind of work.
Why shouldn't they be released? Why shouldn't the US be held responsible for its sins? The US certainly believes that everyone else in the world should be held responsible for their sins. If the US didn't want retaliation for its actions, perhaps it shouldn't have performed those actions in the first place. American Exceptionalism at its worst.
The only reason I can see for not releasing the pictures to the press and the Web would be for the same reason we don't release medical examiners' photographs, although we should show them to the courts — counsel for defense, prosecutor, the jury — as part of a criminal (and civil) trial. I think I can see DD's point, that they should be material evidence for trials that should, must, take place. Someone should answer.
Earth, cover not their blood!
— Job 16:18
Footnote: CCR/ACLU FOIA lawsuit hyperlinked at
The "web page" hyperlink at bottom leads to a large index of more links on the case, legal documents &c.
I didn't get the impression that being used as material evidence for trials was DD's point. It seems like protection of America was the point.
Perhaps. But these pictures are crime evidence and should not be withheld, for that reason among others.
Well we have precedent. Were Graner, England and the others being indicted or charged with anything prior to the Abu Ghraib photos release? Would they have ever been if those photos hadn't been released? To me at least the answers are rather obvious; and also apply to these photos. No one is going to be charged with anything if they're not released (and perhaps no one if they are released). Thinking they're being held back as evidence seems very naive and willfully forgetting recent history.
The pictures may implicate other service personnel, or, as CCR lawsuits have alleged, contractors. There's also the question of command responsibility — Graner, England et al were underlings tried as Breaker Morant scapegoats.
Have you considered that the release might be needed for your own citizens to recognise what you have become?
You will only achieve change and have the possibility of it never happening again if people are held accountable for it "this time".
It does no good to hide your atrocities from your own population. People should be informed of what their government does in their name.
It's precisely what they don't want.
Everything points to the conclusion that the US government and its military-industrial puppeteers, having become a sponsor of barbarism on par with the ISIS henchmen they created, are doing everything they can to prolong that bogus "war on terror" to extract maximum profit out of the insecurity sector* boom it creates.
By definition the "war on terror" can never be cleanly and unambiguously concluded. It is already an open-ended undertaking. But its hellish vigor could fade, and that would mean a new enemy would have to be created. Why not ride a little further on the "terrorism" craze. The US are themselves using terrorist tactics (drone strikes etc.) to fan the flames, and it is hard to believe that pure stupidity and not some ulterior motives are behind this. I hesitate to put forward the hypothesis that torture was ordered in order to further inflame the conflict. Many humans are apparently quite capable of sadism out of their own initiative, so that might be a sufficient explanation of why it could happen, and the scale of it could be explained by the usual wholesale dehumanization & demonization of the enemy. It is also obviously bad propaganda if your own atrocities are well documented AND you are claiming to occupy the moral high ground. I wonder why they don't just destroy the evidence, though.
* insecurity sector: let's not use that doublespeak word, security, for global insecurity through escalation of conflicts.
This objection is misguided. People outside of the United States already know a lot about what has gone on under the heading of "enhanced interrogation", because it has been widely reported upon and — note — they are already very, very enraged. People *inside* the United States need to see these images.
"They can literally point to this stuff and say we are in fact The Great Satan" – DecentDiscourse
That bridge was crossed, and burned afterward, decades ago. Time to repair it. Full transparency and accountability is the prescription.
Well if the photos aren't published it's a guarantee that no one will be sent to prison. And since you don't want them published, you must be okay with that. You'd rather people get away with criminal torture, rape, and possibly murder of detainees than the US suffer PR consequences. Consequences which the US has rightfully earned and should suffer.
At the very least, if these people don't go to prison, then they should be publicly named.
Many have been publicly named and have suffered no negative consequences as a result thereof. Bruce Jessen, James Mitchell, Jose Rodriquez just to name a few.
The real problem here is that this isn't just our CIA Thugs this time. These crimes were committed by our patriotic, christian boys and girls–the ones we honor at the beginning of every NFL Game. our veterans.. Vets are everyone's heroes and we sure can't let the truth get out about these murdering mercenaries. Best to make them out as heroes in Hollywood Movies. I wonder if Clint Eastwood has thought of a sequel based in Abu Ghraib.
Something like, "American Interrogation-enhancer…?"
I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
Veterans are the heroes and agents of banksters and corrupt pathological politicians. Veterans are "useful idiots" followers of a radical religion called 'patriotism" who are actually destroying America politically,financially,ethically etc etc
This reminds me of a scene from the Jim Carrey movie "Liar, Liar".
Carrey: Your Honor, I OBJECT!
Judge: On what grounds, Mr. Reed?!
Carrey: IT'S DEVASTATING TO MY CASE!
Judge: Overruled!
Yup…that about sums it up. The government doesn't want the photos released because they'll show the truth that we're not as great as our PR says we are.
The tortured prisoners, those not already killed, already know what was done to them, and so do the people they talk to.
Only Americans don't know what was done by our nation's Patriotic Rectal Feeders. I doubt the Rectal Feeder Corps are writing home to their families about what they did in the war.
Americans should be aware of how the world sees them so they may become immunized against inane absurdities such as Americans being hated for our freedoms.
If worse comes to worse…Obama can burn the photos, right? Like the CIA did with the torture videos. So…the downside of that would be the political hit…
But the only media I can find reporting this case are..Russia's RT, and the UK's Guardian (and the Intercept, of course)
So..not much political downside to destroying the photos when the population is hardly aware this is happening anyway.
But we are getting ahead of ourselves, if Alvin doesn't give Obama what he wants, the prez can go over his head until he finds one of the many "Unitary Executive" judges: (if the prez does it, it is legal!!!)
i'm not entirely sure that at any given time i would have supported the issue of national security given the levels of consistent subterfuge perpetrated by our government and its lackeys, up to and including the president. what cut it for me was, first, iraq and then subsequent sins too numerous to write about. next, came the financial meltdown and the choices made to address it by obama and every mook that argued on the premise of too big to fail. absurd, just absurd. the point is that if we are actually bent on change that honors the american ideal of justice; if we are truly concerned about the future of YOUR children (i have none); and if we really wish to enjoy some semblance of sanity throughout this country then the pics have to be published and the cards left to fall wherever they may. this may be on a larger scale but it almost no different then what families go through when dealing with their dysfunction. expose this shit now.
ISIS seems to be setting the standard in terms of transparency regarding treatment of prisoners. The question is therefore whether the US should attempt to match it. President Obama lost some of his enthusiasm for transparency in government, when he found out what the government was doing. In the final analysis, the question becomes whether you wish others to see you as you really are, or as what you purport to be.
My advice would be to not release the photos.
Bravo, Duce, bravissimo!
Indeed, Duce, although let me suggest that the gap between being revealed, and being seen as what you purport to be, can have its uses as the region of Night and Fog. That uncertainty, kept out of the light, can still intimidate the regime's opponents. They only need know that the twilight zone exists, waiting for them.
"They only need to know the twilight zone exists, waiting for them." I would add….and perhaps us. It seems like lately our weapons of war are filtering into are law enforcement agency's. Maybe some nasty tactics will find there way home.
It makes me wonder if the situation and its end result is intentionally orchestrated by intel. Even with the Snowden leaks itself, because there's still no mention of the far more severe violations occurring to citizens within u.s. borders.
I can see why heading into unethical genocide war, usg wants legal drugs everywhere, to broadcast that everyone's being watched and that it's perfectly acceptable according to usg to commit limitless abuses on Muslims, Russians, or anyone the media indicates. Yet still no "evidence"(according to usg's own definition of evidence) of continuous limitless crimes on u.s. citizens, not a word, no "evidence" acceptable to media despite the piles of evidence everywhere.
Whether they release the photo's or not, as with the fake 1% of the 'torture report' and its narrative that u.s. torture is occurring to the hated ethnic slurs way on the other side of the world not here and the subsequent predictable approval of the use of torture in general by the 'majority' of americans; It's irrelevant because it seems to benefit usg's obvious intentions in the near future.
quote"My advice would be to not release the photos."unquote
My adivice is to release the photos, start the war crime prosecutions, and then hand over the convicted to ISIS to carry out the executions.
"President Obama lost some of his enthusiasm for transparency in government, when he found out what the government was doing."
More likely he lost his enthusiasm when the NSA found out what he'd been doing through those Cheney ordered taps on his phones.
No doubt Obama fought hard for their release back in 2012, but the poor guy was overruled.
If they are released, they will likely inflame tensions in the Muslim war. It should also inflame the conscience of every American. But so many are incapable of grasping and acknowledging who we really are and what we really do in this war on terrorism. It's hard to break down the delusion of American exceptionalism/we are the moral ones/God is on our side/we are a force of good in the world.
I am so grateful for this publication.
Consequentialist arguments like this are, imo, much less compelling than the inherent need for Americans to be informed as to what the government is doing in our names/with our tax dollars – so that we can properly and effectively exercise our defining role as citizens of a union "of, by and for the people."
Americans fancy themselves as a visual people (and, ironically, this is one of the things Islamic fundamentalists object to about us) and we need to see graphic depictions of things in order to respond to them collectively. Most of us need to see the abuse in order to truly grasp (or "grok") the tragic depths to which our government and our military has sunk. We need to see the coffins of American men and women being off-loaded (like cordwood) at Dover, otherwise it remains an abstraction, a non-entity. We need to see images of these events in order to provide the means thru which our abject horror can finally be released and we finally, finally break the sickness-unto-death of hatred that is consuming our union.
Repression does nothing but prolong the day of reckoning – and, in the end, makes the reckoning even more difficult. We have already killed so much of what was good in us – as both a country and as individuals – and I dread what we may still yet become.
And that is precise why our political leaders don't want us to see images of these things – because they know that, once we do, we will not be the same
He gave the government a week to decide what it wants to do: appeal the order, or put forward a plan to comply with it. He suggested that the government could present the photos to him, in a closed session, and explain their rationale for keeping them secret. He also advised the government not to try to delay "the day of reckoning" by drawing the case out on appeal.
That's all well and good, but I don't see how that language is concretely going to stop the government, which has been stonewalling for years, from continuing the stonewalling. There must be some "legal" procedure available to a judge during a standoff due to stonewalling for no other reason but the need to 'Cover Their Ass,' to basically just snatch the photos out of the hands of the stone-wallers and produce them for the public to view. Years and years upon years of stonewalling after being called out to knock it off is the government's victory, even when they are finally left with no other option but to produce something. An example of that would be "The (so called) Torture Report" summary producing, as anticipated, no consequence to the guilty parties.
The pictures might not be forthcoming because some of them may make the first Abu Ghraib set look mild. If any of the allegations in the CCR lawsuits regarding contractors had video or still photos, for instance. Rape, minors as prisoners, and other allegations that the public might ignore if in legal papers, but if in pictures it won't look pretty.
There's also this old allegation by Seymour Hersh, which is specific and alleges that film existed. If it does, ODOJ will definitely not want this to see the light of day, even if it is over 10 years on.
… And them and their descendants, to the last of their race, I, Alexandre Manette, unhappy prisoner, do this last night of the year 1767, in my unbearable agony, denounce to the times when all these things shall be answered for. I denounce them to Heaven and to earth.
— Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities"
As a Survivor of childhood sexual abuse I must put forth your link in detail.
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Hersh: Children sodomized at Abu Ghraib, on tape
Geraldine Sealey
Topics: War Room, Politics News
After Donald Rumsfeld testified on the Hill about Abu Ghraib in May, there was talk of more photos and video in the Pentagon's custody more horrific than anything made public so far. "If these are released to the public, obviously it's going to make matters worse," Rumsfeld said. Since then, the Washington Post has disclosed some new details and images of abuse at the prison. But if Seymour Hersh is right, it all gets much worse.
Hersh gave a speech last week to the ACLU making the charge that children were sodomized in front of women in the prison, and the Pentagon has tape of it. The speech was first reported in a New York Sun story last week, which was in turn posted on Jim Romenesko's media blog, and now EdCone.com and other blogs are linking to the video. We transcribed the critical section here (it starts at about 1:31:00 into the ACLU video.) At the start of the transcript here, you can see how Hersh was struggling over what he should say:
"Debating about it, ummm … Some of the worst things that happened you don't know about, okay? Videos, um, there are women there. Some of you may have read that they were passing letters out, communications out to their men. This is at Abu Ghraib … The women were passing messages out saying 'Please come and kill me, because of what's happened' and basically what happened is that those women who were arrested with young boys, children in cases that have been recorded. The boys were sodomized with the cameras rolling. And the worst above all of that is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking that your government has. They are in total terror. It's going to come out."
I pray that it comes out. What is justice but the forceful acknowledgement of the wrong doing by an evil power upon the innocent. America is sick and unless the truth is put forth it will become sicker and sicker.. I do not believe the truth will be put forth.
A fact that can be collaborated by the disclosure of the evidence, American foreign policy is one of a depraved brutal paedophilic policy…Ordered to be so by the President, the department of Justice, the Pentagon, the Joint chiefs of staff, hell by American greatness.
I feel sick. I am going to my bed and I am going to cry.
I despair at this world.
The very thought of United States soldiers anally raping young boys in front of their mothers and the sounds of their screams and crying as they are bring raped MUST be made public.
This is such a nauseating and abhorrent war crime that it MUST be dealt with at the highest levels of international law.
No matter how many times we wash our hands the blood still remains. I do not know how I or any other Americans can sleep at night. (For the record, this American does not sleep well and my days are consumed with trying to find the truth.)
"this American does not sleep well'
I sometimes say things like Fuck America.
Please understand I have the greatest of respect for many Americans. Many of my heros have been or are Americans.
There are many Americans that show their great character here in the comment section.
I have no solution to the problem, America.
I can see the strength of individuals like your self.
But there is a price to pay for having a conscience.
Matthew 3:10 -11
The Mission of John the Baptist
…10″The axe is already laid at the root of the trees; therefore every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 11″As for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
Everyone who becomes saved through the Baptism of the Holy Spirit (Titus 3:5) will also be baptized by fire as Matthew 3:11 says.
"Fire" in the Bible is often used to refer to trouble or trials that a believer may experience.
1 Peter 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
1 Peter 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
In this life, those who become saved are called not only to believe, but also to suffer for Christ's sake. Philippians 1:29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;
In Mark 10:38,39 Jesus refers to His crucifixion and calls it His "baptism" and says that the disciples will be baptized with the same "baptism".
Mark 10:38 But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? 39 And they said unto him, We can. And Jesus said unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized:
Abuses thrive in an environment of secrecy.
Yeah the truth can not be told for reasons of national security.
America can not be seen as it is ,for that would make people understand that America has done illegal, immoral and evil things.
America can not handle the truth so the truth must be kept from Americans.
Imagine if transparency, openness and honesty were to be a feature of American society.
No lies must be put forth by omission.
America could not stand if the truth be told and shown.
Not a pretty picture, of Americans being worse than IS.
Yes, and it suggests that ODOJ will fight like the very devil to keep this stuff hidden. God only knows what they'll say in chambers or ex parte to keep it hid.
The government doesn't want to release the photos because it might confuse the US public about who the real terrorists are. The rest of the world already knows.
The question will soon become "How many people in leadership positions of the US government should NOT be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity?" The answer will be "very few".
The IS are "real terrorists" too. They couldn't have organized this way or seized power without inflammatory US action, but now they're here and going strong. Let's be fair: IS or US, they're both equally wellsprings of terrorism now, locked in a fight they both enjoy … it's beyond sad how power corrupts.


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This is a local street food/fare. It is made of shaved ice mixed with sugar, coloring (pink and purple are common colors) and some flavoring (vanilla perhaps). It is served with powdered milk and chocolate syrup. The manong driving a pedicab/food cart usually peddles the ice scramble outside schools. I remember buying some when I was young during school's dismissal and Ane and I would occasionally buy now that we're old. We just stopped buying when my OB instructed me to avoid street food while trying to get pregnant, more so when I finally got pregnant. Ice Scramble on the streets are not exactly clean, right?
It was a delight to hear that a major mall in QC has a food cart that sells Ice Scramble. During Fathers' Day, we had the chance to try it – only after falling in line!
Long line!!
Getting there!
We're next!!
And here's our Ice Scramble with extra milk and mallows!
And it tastes so much like the ones sold on the streets! Yummy! And better because this is clean! We were like kids again!

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Job title: Senior Properties Historian
Organisation: English Heritage
Usual base: Bristol
Currently working on: Stonehenge visitor centre
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Today in stats: 1 workshop/meeting (5.25hrs); 4 trains (3.5hrs); 2 tea runs (20mins); 1 colleague chat (45mins); 1 large chocolate muffin (5 mins); 1 very welcome beer (time tbc).
Today I've been up to our West Midlands office in central Birmingham, with my colleague and curator Sara Lunt, to meet with our exhibition designers Haley Sharpe Design. We're all currently working flat-out on our permanent exhibition which will form part of the new Stonehenge visitor centre. We're doing our display case layouts at the moment – thinking about how our archaeological finds will be mounted alongisde text, graphics and replicas.
On the train on the way up to Birmingham I spend some time reviewing and updating my 'to do' list – I have so much to do at the moment that lists are the only way I can keep up with the next most urgent thing. Also checking into my e-mails and Twitter. I saw a great tweet the other day, something along the lines of – you don't choose your career anymore, you just choose what to answer e-mails about! Well my e-mails are mostly about archaeology even if that definition gets stretched a little. With a hefty dose of project management thrown in.
Arriving at The Axis, where EH is based, I stop for a tea on the way. The meeting quickly gets underway. Case layouts is one of those tasks that needs a spatial mind – being able to imagine the 3D layouts of the cases from 2D plans and elevations. It's also a bit like a jigsaw puzzle – well that object needs to sit alongside that text, but that story has to be on the same side as that group of other objects… We'll be re-creating quite a number of archaeological contexts, so we talk through the details of these. Soon our meeting room table is covered.
These meetings are quite intense but very creative and exciting – lots of ideas and hand waving today. Tea run no.2 and a grabbed sandwich. Time flies by and I forget to take a photo for this post – sorry! We talk reconstructions and look at recent examples we like. More work to be done here. Sara has been up this week to view the final objects we're getting on loan from the Stonehenge Riverside Project and we look at where these fit in.
We have to have a really good understanding of what stories we're trying to get across. We're been into the detail of the archaeology to such an extent that we now have to extract ourselves and think from the position of a visitor. Imagine you are a tourist from Europe, just arrived on a coach, with only a sketchy understanding of prehistory in your own country, let alone somewhere else entirely – what does this tiny bit of flint mean to them? We archaeologists can all get geekily excited about petit-tranchet derivatives, but really… it is the people of the prehistoric past who have to shine through our displays.
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Prayer for the dead
The deceased are remembered at a special service called "Saturday of the Souls" held four times a year: the two Saturdays prior to Great Lent, the first Saturday of Great Lent, and the Saturday before Pentecost. Orthodox believe that it is the duty of the living to remember and pray for the deceased. A general prayer is said for specific individuals and all unknow souls who have no one to pray for them. Parishoners bring small dishes of kollyva to the church and submit a lit of first names of the deceased loved ones to the priest.


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A Faerie Haven: Living in Myth, Being Magic
For some people, magic isn't something they do, it is what they are. This blog focuses less on theory and more on lyrical mysticism, applied spellcrafting, experiential awareness of Divinity, and related topics. A haven for you who long to become your myth and live your poem. Faerie tales do come true.
Diana Lucifera
Diana Lucifera
Love, Beauty, Blessings, and Occult Danger
Tuesday, 08 April 2014
Francesca, your pieces always brighten my day. Thank you for the introduction to this Diana, for the powerful Prayer for Solace, and for your timely reminder about Arrogance. "Running with Psychic Scissors" - I love it!
Humor is such an important element on this trip. The deepest trap along the metaphysical journey is the one I fall into when I start to take myself too seriously.
Wednesday, 09 April 2014
Ted, you are so nice to regularly read my blog. Thank you.
I am glad you like the prayer. Using it has given me great solace over the years.
It is interesting you mention the humor in the blog. Decades back, one of my spiritual advisors loved my sense of humor and told me I would be in trouble if I ever lost it. Now this week for some reason, I am getting reminder after reminder about the spiritual importance of humor. I do not know why yet, but you have now given me another reminder. So I will keep trying to have fun and laughter, to avoid running with psychic scissors.
Wednesday, 09 April 2014
Oh, my goodness, Arwen, thank you so much, I've known you a long time so and know you to be a person of depth, so I'm really grateful that something I channeled would touch you. I wrote that in the 80s, and it's been a long time comfort.
I am also touched that you would even try the prayer, bless you for being willing to try somebody else's work, even though you are an elder.
And yes, it is an experience I can't put into words either. We are blessed.
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|No such thing as a small change
Re: Unix shell versus Perlby TGI (Parson)
|on Feb 18, 2008 at 18:49 UTC ( #668642=note: print w/replies, xml )
|Need Help??
I decided to learn Perl because I was unsatisfied by what I could achieve with batch and shell scripting. Granted, I knew only a little shell scripting, but I did a lot of batch scripting. In particular, flow control and error checking are difficult and verbose in a batch script. Also, there are too many things that you just can't do without firing up a C compiler and writing a utility or searching for a ported unix tool. The unix shells are better off, since one rarely needs to hack up a custom tool, but one needs to learn awk and sed and find and a thousand other little programs to do really cool stuff. Perl's portability is key.
The other thing that sold me on Perl over batch/shell scripting, is Perl's flexibility--once I built expertise in Perl, I knew I could apply it for many things other than the original problems I was trying to solve. Since you've already got a lot of Perl in your environment, using it in place of batch and shell will "deepen your bench"--more people will have and use skills that apply across your environment.
As to reasons to write something in a shell or batch file, I wouldn't go for a checklist. I'd say simply that "Everything should be written in Perl unless there is a compelling reason to do otherwise." Too often I've "known" that something need not be portable or will always be small, only to be proven wrong. Neither "it doesn't need to be portable", "it's really short" are reasons to write a batch or shell script instead of Perl. If either condition is false, there needs to be a very strong argument to go with a batch/shell solution over Perl.
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We know how it happens: when you first started dating your man, wearing something sexy under your clothes was pretty standard. But then you've settled into the relationship and that lace thong you (and he) loved isn't making its appearance quite as much. And, okay, maybe your love life isn't quite what it was back then either. Whether you're looking to reignite those sexy flames in the bedroom, build up some of your own sex confidence, or just want to spice up a regular day, these are the 10 best reasons to surprise your man (and yourself) with lingerie tonight:
1. Embrace Your Shape
Lingerie can be a great way to emphasize your curves, if you have them, or just look a little sexy no matter what your shape. Embrace loving everything about your body by wearing something a little extra sexy in bed tonight, and enjoy him finding you irressistible.
2. Rekindle Old Flames
Maybe things have gotten a little stale in the bedroom, so what do you do? Surprise your man by wearing a matching lace bra and panties set, and he'll be leading you straight to the bedroom in no time.
3. Feel Sexier Solo
Wearing something for your man is great, but wearing lingerie can boost your own confidence, too. Don't be afraid to dress sexy for when you need that extra, ahem, solo time.
4. For a Special Day
It's your anniversary coming up. Or maybe it's Valentine's Day. Or you're having a long-awaited date night. So why not dress up a bit underneath and show him an extra special time? Plus, don't be afraid to make it a special day just because.
5. To Look Glamorous
Add some extra glamour into your life by wearing some lingerie to the office. Why? No reason other than a little boost in your step.
6. Get Away with Something
Okay, let's admit it: sometimes we might have done something that's less than advisable. On those days that you want to get away with something, surprise your man in your sexiest get-up and he'll have no idea what you're up to. Wink wink.
7. Feel Great on a Regular Day
Maybe it's a simple Sunday and you're doing the laundry, then cleaning the house. It's just a regular, boring day--but you can spice it up by wearing something hot underneath your clothes.
8. Keep the Passion Alive
Sometimes the passion starts to go, but you can keep things alive and happening in the bedroom by dressing up for your man--and for yourself--once in a while. You'll have a great time. Trust us.
9. Fall For Yourself
If you're feeling a little down on yourself, there's nothing quite like wearing something that gives you confidence. Dress in something expensive for yourself, and get ready to consider yourself HOT.
10. To Apologize
We'll confess: sometimes we get into fights with our man that even we know we should apologize for. Well, do it with some sexy lingerie. We're not saying it'll solve the problem, but it can't hurt, right?


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Rush Limbaugh flunks Graphic Design 101
Hot on the the heels of the Obama-as-the-Joker poster that has mysteriously turned up on freeway walls in L.A. and on the Internet, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Thursday compared the logo of the president's healthcare reform plan with the graphic design of Hitler's Nazi symbol. Reproduced here, both designs are juxtaposed on Limbaugh's website.
"[You] will find that the Obama healthcare logo is damn close to a Nazi swastika logo," Limbaugh asserted to his listeners. "I'm going to show you people watching on the Dittocam this, and there you are: The middle frame is the Obama healthcare logo. At the bottom is an official Nazi logo, eagle and everything, spread wings, or bird with spread wings."
Limbaugh also urged listeners to visit a website called "Sweetness & Light," where conservative blogger Steve Gilbert, who was involved with the swift boat veterans campaign against Vietnam War hero John Kerry in 2004, compared the two designs. Gilbert claims that the "similarity" is apt because Obama is following Hitler's Nazi plan for "cradle-to-grave nationalized healthcare."
There's just one hitch: Asserting a resemblance between the two logos is like saying Limbaugh resembles Gary Busey because both men have two eyes, a nose, a mouth and a drug addiction. Obama's healthcare logo includes no eagle, Roman symbol of imperial authority, and it has no swastika, the bent-arm cross designed by Hitler himself as the emblem of National Socialism. Instead, the Obama design surmounts the red, white and blue landscape of his presidential campaign logo with a caduceus, the winged staff entwined with serpents that derived from the rod of Asclepius, son of Greek god Apollo. An ancient symbol of healing, the rod is often used as a medical logo. So the Obama design shows a medical symbol above the American landscape.
Make that two hitches: The claim that Nazism embraced healthcare is obscene.
So much for Graphic Design 101. No imperial eagle, no swastika, false messaging -- but other than that, darn close!
--Christopher Knight
Credit: rushlimbaugh.com


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Forget Me, Forget Me Not
It is my hope that, a year from now, the likes of Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry and Arte Moreno's checkbook exist merely as fuzzy postulations of the delusional masses — mere hiccups in the digestive tract of progress. Of course, I realize one of these three is never going to go away, so I have to do what I can to temper the sadness it has caused.
But sometimes things go away, never come back and leave us wondering… what if?
Slap bracelets? Hello?!?! Where have you gone, fine fashion accessory from my youth?
Meanwhile, let's examine those forgotten baseballers of 2011 and determine if they should forget me, or forget me not.
Milton Bradley
Dude, seriously. 115 plate appearances in 2011 was 115 plate appearances too many. Known exclusively as an overpaid hot-head wife-beater who had ONE good season, there's no reason for Milton to get another chance. If his outrageous childlike behavior and .212 BA over the last two seasons aren't any indication that it's time to forget this loser, maybe the fact that NO ONE LIKES HIM is.
David Eckstein
It's difficult for me to believe that no one had any use for this scrappy go-get-em baseballer in 2011. How did the Padres — a 91 loss team! — not have any role for Eckstein last year? The dude does just about everything and he does it all right. He's a leader, a teacher, a fighter. In my opinion, many teams could have used his services last season and I don't see how that situation would change in 2012. Any team's super utility role should be considered for the former World Series MVP.
Manny Ramirez
Like Dexy's Midnight Runners and Vanilla Ice, Manny being Manny has long lost its charm. The man is a cheater. A wife beater (notice the theme here?). A creep. He was caught (AGAIN) 'roiding up and instead of acting like a man, 'fessing up and handling his business with dignity, he ran away and hid from his fans, not saying a word. Now he wants back in. Not only that, but somehow he has snaked his way out of serving the 100 game ban deemed necessary for repeat 'roid offenders and lucked out with only facing a 50 game suspension. Manny reeks of insidious ego. STAY AWAY PLEASE.
Johan Santana
Never thought I'd say this, but I feel sorry for the Mets. I really do. Just a game away from the World Series in 2006, who knew they would fail so hard in 2007, sign the biggest free agent pitcher on the market to a $137 million contract, fail even harder in 2008, then fall into baseball hell with more problems than the Congressional Reform Act? There was a time when Santana on the bump meant I had to watch that game. With all of his recent injuries, I doubt that will ever be possible again, but I still want to see the man pitch. And soon.
And finally…
Brandon Webb
I'm still trying to figure out how Webb was able to land a $3 million contract last season after not having pitched AT ALL since 2008*. Indeed, he had a good run from '06 t0 '08, getting guys out with one of the nastiest sinkers I've ever seen, but when your rotator cuff no longer rotates, I think it's time to stop chasing the glory that once was.
Hate me 'cuz I'm blunt, just don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.
*Actually, Webb pitched 4 innings in 2009. He gave up 6 runs off 6 hits before his arm fell off and he disappeared from baseball relevancy; but in my opinion, that hardly counts as "pitching".
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Quartz movement just means 'battery powered'. Unlike mechanical 1-day and 8-day clocks, a quartz movement clock doesn't need to be manually wound and instead will always work until the battery runs out (on most models it takes roughly one year for the battery to drain although this can differ depending on the model). The quartz power runs the time-keeping as well as the cuckoo bird sound/movement. On some models it also powers the movement of dancers, music, water wheel, and other animations etc. We generally recommend quartz movement cuckoo clocks for people who might forget to wind their clocks or who want a hassle free option.
Most cuckoo clocks (either mechanical or battery powered) come with 'night-time shutoff' in either a manual or 'light sensor' variety. This just means that both varieties enable you to control when the clock makes sounds.
Mechanical cuckoo clocks have a manual 'night-time shutoff' which are usually a lever with 2 positions - sound on or sound off.
Battery powered cuckoo clocks usually come with an automatic 'night-time shutoff' otherwise known as a light sensor which detects light levels and disables sound when the lights are off or it is very dark. While some include volume levels as well as sound on/off positions, some models also include an option to stop the sound between the hours of 9:00pm and 8:00am.
Brand: Trenkle Uhren
Model ID: trenkle-4201-QM
This beautiful battery-powered cuckoo clock is crafted by renowned Black Forest cuckoo clock manufacturer 'Trenkle Uhren'.
Like many cuckoo clocks from Germany, the chalet-style centres around the theme of the 'Black Forest chalet'. These types of traditional houses were common to the mountainous Alpine regions in Germany and traditionally built of wood and stone. This makes them a favourite theme for many cuckoo clock makers, who adorn them with common decorations such as pine trees, cheerful animals, log piles, mill-wheels and other delightfully iconic ornaments and characters of the region.
Plays 12 melodies, one for each hour as listed below:
This cuckoo clock does not need to be manually wound because it is battery powered. Each hour the little cuckoo bird peeps out from it's door and sings in the hour with a 'cuckoo' call corresponding with the time, followed by one of the twelve melodies. This cuckoo clock also features an automatic night-time shut-off which works via a light sensor and shuts the sound off when the room is dark.
The craftsmanship and attention to detail on this decorative chalet cuckoo clock is certain to impress. Perfectly suited in any room or space with natural wood features or spaces with a rustic or 'down-to-earth' decor, a cherished cuckoo clock makes for a unique and unforgettable gift for yourself or a loved one - it's daily cuckoo a friendly reminder of the beauty in the natural world, of clear sparkling brooks, of pine covered mountains.
This clock is constructed with a wooden dial, wooden hands, exclusive life-like wooden cuckoo bird and wooden pendulum. It's weights are made of cast iron. The dimensions listed below refer only to the clock without pendulum and weights however, as it's weights are purely decorative, they do not add much extra height.
All Trenkle Uhren cuckoo clocks are crafted in the Black Forest region, Germany with locally sourced materials from the Black Forest. All the hand-crafted elements are made following the centuries old tradition of craftsmanship in the region. All mechanical elements of each clock are thoroughly tested before they leave the workshop.
We have a 30-day 100% money back guarantee on all of our cuckoo clocks and each Trenkle Uhren cuckoo clock comes with a 2 year warranty.
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|Power Source:
|The clock needs two baby C batteries
|Size (depth):
|14 cm
|Size (height):
|28 cm
|Size (width):
|23 cm
|Every hour
|Light sensor:
|2 years
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Women need Bible study to keep balanced, focused and Christ-centered in their busy worlds. However, many find it difficult to set aside the time and discipline needed for an in-depth study. The Discover Together studies offer tiered questions to allow readers to choose a depth of study that fits with their individual lifestyles or schedules, even if they vary by the week, month or season.
Sue Edwards will be kicking off her new Revelation study with an online Facebook chat on January 30 at 8:00 PM EST.
RSVP today and invite your friends to join you.
In the weeks following the chat (February 4 – April 8), Sue Edwards will be hosting an online Bible study for Revelation. She will be posting weekly on the Year of Discovery Facebook Page and interacting with groups and individuals around the country going through the study at the same time. Women will be able to discuss the study with each other and ask questions via Facebook. Once readers complete the Revelation study, Edwards will be going through the Ephesians study in the same way. (An April 11 Facebook launch party will be followed by an April 15 – June 17 online study.)
Completing each lesson requires about one-and-a-half hours. Readers still receive in-depth Bible study but with a minimum time commitment. For those who desire a more thorough study, including an opportunity to learn more about the history, culture and geography related to the Bible, Edwards has provided "Digging Deeper" questions. Answering these questions may require outside resources such as an atlas, Bible dictionary or concordance and challenge readers to examine complex theological issues and differing views more closely.
More about the Revelation study: Edwards and Kregel are especially excited about the new Revelation study that has been added to the series. "I have focused on five special chapters—the first three and the last two—passages that I believe are most pertinent for Christians today," writes Edwards. "I find a thorough investigation of these five chapters the most beneficial as we consider how God wants us to prepare for the end." "The first three chapters paint a glorious picture of the resurrected Christ and record his seven letters to first-century churches. These early churches represent the different kinds of churches that have existed through the ages. The letters both commend and point out deficiencies in these churches, providing lessons to help us get ready for our future," Edwards continues. "The last two chapters unfold with unspeakable energy, beauty and promise, as John describes what Jesus shows him: a new Eden, redemption's climax and our eternal home. Walk with me through these incredible pages, and experience the blessing that God promised to all who read and heed."
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