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Dr. Shanmuganathan and Dr. Mirvis are with the Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Maryland Medical Center and Maryland Shock-Trauma Center, Baltimore, MD. Dr. Chen is with the Department of Radiology, National Yang-Ming University and Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
The availability of fast conventional or spiral scanning, close access to CT from adjacent patient admitting areas, and facilities to monitor critically ill patients in the CT scanning suites, has made CT scan the imaging modality of choice for definitive evaluation of hemodynamically stable patients following blunt trauma. Many studies have shown contrast- enhanced CT (CECT) provides essential information for patient triage and management including accurate localization of the extent and site of hepatic injury, quantification of hemoperitonium, depiction of other associated intra- and extraperitoneal injuries resulting from blunt trauma. 1-4 CECT can also document injury healing or progression, and demonstrate early and late complications of hepatic trauma. While CECT is the principal imaging modality used at our trauma center to acutely assess the site and extent of hepatic injury, appropriate application of other modalities including sonography, angiography, and nuclear scintigraphy may play a role in diagnosing and managing hepatic injuries.
Studies comparing the outcome of patients with hepatic injury managed without surgery and a control group of patients with surgically managed liver injuries show no difference in the length of hospital stay between the two groups. However, transfusion requirements and intra-abdominal complications were significantly lower in the group treated without surgery. 5-7 Surgical literature also confirms that up to 67% of celiotomies performed for blunt trauma are unnecessary or nontheraputic, and 86% of the hepatic injuries have stopped bleeding at the time of surgery. 8,9 Hence, over the last decade trauma surgeons have moved from the traditional approach of early surgical intervention to nonoperative management of blunt liver injury.
CECT not only provides accurate information regarding the grade of liver injury and the amount of hemoperitonium, it also reliably and consistently detects the presence of other solid organ, hollow-viscus, and mesenteric injuries. By providing this constellation of information required to manage hemodynamically stable blunt hepatic injuries without surgery, CECT has played a major role in convincing trauma surgeons to widely accept and promote this method of treatment over the last 5 years. 6-10 This article will discuss the contrast-enhanced spiral CT (CESCT) findings of blunt hepatic injuries and its role in nonoperative management of liver injuries.
Currently, our trauma center uses a spiral CT (Siemens Plus 4, Siemens Medical Systems, Iselin, NJ) to evaluate the abdomen and pelvis of trauma patients. Spiral CT scans are performed with 8-mm collimation and a table speed of 8 mm/sec (pitch of 1). The abdomen is scanned from the lower chest to the iliac crest and the pelvis and then from the iliac crest to the pubic symphysis. A 100 to 120 sec delay between the abdominal and pelvic scans facilitates visualization of contrast excretion in the lower ureters and bladder. Conventional CT can be performed with ¾ 2.0 sec scan and 10-mm slice collimation at 10-mm table increments from the lower chest to the iliac crest and 10-mm collimation at 20-mm table increments from the iliac crest to the symphysis pubis. In our center, intravenous (IV) contrast material (Omnipaque 240, Nycomed, New York, NY), is power-injected (Mark-IV, Medrad, Pittsburgh, PA), using a 150-mL bolus injection and infusion rate of 3 mL/sec for spiral CT. For conventional CT, an initial bolus of 100 mL at a rate of 1.5 to 2 mL/sec is followed by an infusion of an additional 50 mL at a rate of 1.0 mL/sec. Initiation of scanning is delayed 60 sec for spiral CT and 30 to 45 sec for convention CT after the bolus infusion is started. All patients receive oral contrast material consisting of 5 g of Hypaque powder (Nycomed, New York, NY), in 300 mL of water 30 to 45 min before the scan, and if time permits, a second dose is given either orally or via a nasogastric tube when they arrive at the scanning suite.
Use of IV contrast material increases the conspicuity of parenchymal injuries of the liver (figure 1) and helps to demonstrate active bleeding throughout the abdomen and pelvis. 1,3,11 At our institution, IV contrast material is routinely administered to all patients undergoing CT scans who do not have a known history of major contrast allergies in order to optimize the difference in attenuation between normal enhanced parenchyma of solid organs and injured parenchyma or hematoma. Studies assessing optimal timing of hepatic parenchymal enhancement for hepatic CT scanning have shown that optimal enhancement varies with the volume and rate of infusion of contrast material. 12-14 Recent advances in CT technology have led to development of very fast conventional or spiral scanners that minimize misregistration from patient motion and decrease volume averaging. Use of such fast devices requires careful coordination of the initiation of contrast opacification of the liver parenchyma and initiation of scanning. Suboptimal enhancement of the liver parenchyma leading to diminished CT sensitivity for hepatic injury detection can result from early or delayed scanning, missing the peak of hepatic parenchymal opacification, markedly aberrant hemodynamics affecting systemic blood flow, or insufficient contrast material or iodine concentration.
The liver is the largest solid organ in the abdominal cavity and is enclosed by the lower rib cage anteriorly and laterally. The right lobe of the liver constitutes 80% of its volume, and it is the most frequently injured region from blunt trauma. Of all patients with blunt trauma to the abdomen, some 15% to 20% involve the liver. 15 Isolated injuries to the liver occur in less than 50% of blunt trauma victims.
The liver is incapable of achieving spontaneous hemostasis because the hepatic veins lie within rigid canals and contract poorly. 15,16 Therefore, uncontrolled hemorrhage leading to exsanguination can account for 46% to 80% of the mortality in grade IV and V hepatic injuries. 17
A variety of mechanisms have been proposed to explain hepatic injuries. Injuries occur to the posterior right lobe from compression against the fixed ribs, posterior abdominal wall, or the spine. Contusion of the dome of the right lobe may result from raised right thoracic cavity pressure propagated through the diaphragm. The posterior abdominal wall can act as sites of shear injury at the liver's attachment by the coronary ligaments to the undersurface of the diaphragm, created by motion of the liver relative to the rest of the body during rapid deceleration. Hepatic injuries can also result from transmission of excessively high venous pressure occurring at the time of impact to remote body sites. 16
Numerous studies have shown CECT can accurately diagnose the four principal types of liver injury shown by CT: hematoma(s), laceration(s), vascular injuries, and active hemorrhage. 1,3,18,19 Many systems have been proposed to classify liver injuries. At our institution, hepatic injuries are classified using the CT scan classification of Mirvis et al (table 1) 20 that is based on the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) surgical grading scale (table 2). 21 This helps to compare treatment and outcome among patients with liver injury from different trauma centers.
Single or multiple hematomas may be seen following blunt trauma. Hepatic hematomas may be intraparenchymal and/or subcapsular (figure 2). On unenhanced CT subcapsular hematoma is hyperdense relative to normal liver parenchyma. On CECT subcapsular hematomas are typically seen as a low attenuation lentiform collection of blood between the liver capsule and the enhancing liver parenchyma (figure 2). Subcapsular hematomas often compress the underlying liver parenchyma; this CT finding helps to differentiate subcapsular hematomas from small amounts of blood or fluid in the perihepatic space. Uncomplicated subcapsular hema-tomas typically resolve within 6 to 8 weeks and the attenuation value decreases with age of the injury. 22
On CECT, acute hematomas appear as irregular high attenuation areas of clotted blood surrounded by lower density non-clotted blood, bile, or an area of parenchymal contusion (figure 3). With healing, a hematoma develops smoother margins, expands in size, and demonstrates gradual decrease in attenuation values until it eventually appears as serous fluid collection.
Acute liver lacerations on CECT have sharp or jagged margins and appear as linear or branching low attenuation areas (figure 4). A compressive force may produce multiple parallel lacerations termed "bear-claw" lacerations. Lacerations ¾ 3 cm in depth from the surface can be classified as superficial, and >3 cm deep as deep lacerations. Liver lacerations that extend into the region of one or more of the major hepatic veins (figure 5) were associated with an increased likelihood of a false negative CT for vascular injury, an increased chance of postoperative hepatic hemorrhage, an increase in delayed hepatic-based complications, and an increased chance of failure of nonoperative treatment (PA Polettie, MD, personal communication, September 1999). Unopacified portal or hepatic veins, or dilated biliary ducts can mimic hepatic lacerations with a branching pattern and need careful evalation of serial images to differentiate the various structures.
As liver lacerations heal, the lesion enlarges, its margins become smoother and assume a rounded to oval configuration on follow-up CT. Unlike subcapsular hematomas, liver lacerations persist for several months. These lesions may gradually decrease in size with time or remain as a well-defined hepatic cyst.
Fortunately, injuries to the major hepatic veins or retrohepatic vena cava (juxtahepatic venous injuries) are rarely seen following blunt abdominal trauma. Retrohepatic vena caval injuries from blunt trauma are typically associated with a very high mortality (90% to 100%). In most series, this high mortality has been attributed to excessive blood loss and the inevitable coagulopathy resulting from the long delay in recognizing that juxtahepatic venous injuries were present, bleeding, and the difficulty in obtaining exposure to repair these vascular injuries. 23,24 Retrohepatic vena caval injuries are suspected on CT on the basis of liver lacerations extending into the major hepatic veins or inferior vena cava; or profuse hemorrhage behind the right lobe of the liver, into the lesser sac, or near the diaphragm (figure 5). Prior suspicion of such vascular injuries can assist the surgeon in planning the surgical approach, controlling hemorrhage, and repairing the vascular injuries through vascular isolation techniques requiring a combined thoracoabdominal approach. A combined therapeutic approach for high-grade liver lacerations with injury to the retrohepatic vena cava involves the trauma surgeon and interventional radiologist. Initially, the trauma surgeon attempts to control the massive hemorrhage by temporary perihepatic packing. Recurrent hepatic parenchymal hemorrhage following liver packing has been successfully managed using transcatheter embolization of arterial sources of blood loss, with bleeding from major hepatic veins controlled by intravenous stent placement. 25
Partial hepatic devascularization can result from an injury to the blood vessels in the perihilar region by a deep laceration, thrombosis of the major hepatic veins, or complete avulsion of the dual blood supply of the liver. On CECT these fragments would be seen as wedge-shaped regions extending to the periphery of liver that fail to enhance (figure 6). The ability to scan during the peak of contrast enhancement of the liver parenchyma with spiral CT makes this scanning technique well suited to visualize pseudoaneurysms or contrast extravasation from an injury to the hepatic artery or its major branches. Hepatic vascular injuries may result from hepatic lacerations extending across the major hepatic arterial/venous branches, shearing forces, or excessive stretching. CT can provide a clear indication whether or not to perform hepatic angiography.
On CECT active hemorrhage in the liver is seen as an irregular area of contrast extravasation (figures 5 and 7). The significant difference in the attenuation value of extravasated contrast material (range 85 to 350 H, mean 132 H) and hematoma (range 40 to 70 H, mean 51 H) is helpful in differentiating active bleeding from clotted blood. 26 Studies performed at our institution to determine the value of CECT in detecting active hemorrhage, showed that CT was a valuable imaging modality to show the exact location of active bleeding and help direct appropriate management. 27
CT is useful in evaluating ongoing or recurrent active bleeding in the liver following surgical or angiographic intervention. Extravasated contrast from a prior angiographic study can mimic active hemorrhage by CESCT. Therefore, it is important to perform both pre- and postcontrast CT scans of the liver in patients who have recently had hepatic angiography to distinguish previously extravasated angiographic contrast from ongoing hepatic bleeding. Other parenchymal liver lesions that could mimic active bleeding on CT include calcified liver lesions and contrast enhancement seen in hepatic hemangiomas.
Periportal low density refers to regions of low attenuation that parallel the portal vein and its branches on CT (figure 8). Often, periportal low density when seen alone in blunt trauma victims is attributed to hemorrhage tracking along the periportal connective tissues and believed to represent an important, if subtle, CT sign of liver injury. 27 Macrander et al 27 reported periportal low density seen on CT in 62% of patients with liver injury. However, studies performed by Patrick et al 28 in children with blunt abdominal trauma and at our institution suggests that periportal low density without parenchymal liver injury occurs as a result of an elevated central venous pressure (CVP). This elevation results from vigorous IV fluid administration prior to obtaining the CT scan or other trauma-related causes of elevated CVP such as tension pneumothorax or pericardial tamponade resulting in distension of the periportal lymphatic vessels. 28,29 This CT finding has been noted in several nontraumatic clinical conditions including acute transplant rejection, malignant neoplasm of the liver, liver transplantation, cardiac failure, and cardiac tamponade and is usually attributed to dilatation of the intrahepatic lymphatics from obstruction of the normal hepatic lymphatic drainage. Periportal low density seen on CT without evidence of parenchymal liver injury does not represent hepatic injury and does not warrant hospital admission for observation or follow-up CT. Focal periportal low density seen in close proximity to a liver laceration may represent some focal hemorrhage dissecting into the adjacent portal tracts.
In the United States, sonography is mainly used for the detection of hemoperitoeum as an indicator of intrabdominal injuries. 30,31 However, up to 34% of abdominal visceral injuries can occur without hemoperitoneum and 17% of these patients require angiographic or surgical intervention. 32 Sonography can be used to visualize parenchymal hepatic injuries directly. The sensitivity to detect hepatic injuries or hemoperitoneum depends to some extent on the quality of imaging equipment, the conditions under which the study is performed, and the level of experience and training of the operator. Hepatic parenchymal injuries are commonly seen on sonography as discrete hyperechoic area. Other sonographic patterns seen include a diffuse hyperechoic liver parenchyma and a discrete hypoechoic focus in the hepatic parenchyma. 33 Published data report that sonography underestimated the severity of liver injury in 52.8% of 36 patients and entirely missed the lesion in 11% to 36% of the CT or surgically documented high grade (Mirvis grade 3 or greater) hepatic injury. 33,34 If a hepatic injury is identified by sonography, it could be potentially followed by this method to document resolution or complications.
Because of the dual blood supply of the liver subselective embolization can be performed without risk. As a primary treatment modality, transhepatic embolization has been used to improve success in nonoperative management of stable patients with high-grade liver injury. 35,36 Transcatheter embolization has been successfully used to treat active bleeding, pseudoaneurysms, arterio-venous fistulas, and hemobilia.
Schwartz et al 35 reported their 11-year experience of transcatheter embolization for controlling hemorrhage from hepatic injuries and found this technique to be safe and effective in 21 of the 24 patients included in their study. Angiographic embolization can be performed independently or when surgery fails to control bleeding of hepatic origin. At our institution, patients with CT evidence of active hemorrhage in the liver who do not promptly respond to IV fluid resuscitation are referred for urgent surgical or angiographic intervention.
CECT has revolutionized the diagnosis and management of patients with liver trauma. Information provided by CT allows for determination of the extent of liver injury and identification of other nonhepatic abdominal injury. This information, coupled with clinical assessment and interventional angiography, can be used to optimize management of all grades of hepatic injury.
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4. Patten RM, Spear RP, Vincent LM, et al: Traumatic laceration of the liver limited to the bear area: CT findings in 25 patients. AJR 160:1019-1022, 1993.
5. Croce MA, Fabian TC, Menke PG, et al: Non operative management of blunt hepatic trauma is the treatment of choice for hemodynamically stable patients. Results of prospective trial. Ann Surg 221:747-753, 1995.
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9. Knudson MM, Lim RC Jr, Oakes DD, Jeffrey BR Jr: Nonoperative management of blunt liver injuries in adults: The need for continued surveillance. J Trauma 30:1494-1500, 1990.
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23. Beal SL: Fatal hepatic hemorrhage: An unresolved problem in the management of complex liver injuries. J Trauma 30:163-169, 1990.
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25. Denton JR, Moore EE, Coldwell DM: Multimodality treatment for grade V hepatic injures: Perihepatic packing, arterial embolization, and venous stenting. J Trauma 42:964-968, 1997.
26. Shanmuganathan K, Mirvis SE, Sover ER: Value of contrast-enhanced CT in detecting active hemorrhage in patients with blunt abdominal or pelvic trauma. AJR 161:65-69, 1993.
27. Macrander SJ, Lawson TL, Foley WD, et al: Periportal tracking in hepatic trauma: CT features. J Comput Assist Tomogr 13:952-957, 1989.
28. Patrick EL, Turner BI, Atkinson GO, Winn KJ: Pediatric blunt abdominal trauma: Periportal tracking at CT. Radiology 183:689-691, 1992.
29. Shanmuganathan K, Mirvis SE, Amerosa M: Periportal low density on CT in patients with blunt trauma: Association with elevated venous pressure. AJR 160:279-283, 1992.
30. Boulanger BR, Brenneman FD, McLellan BA, et al: A prospective study of emergent abdominal sonography after blunt trauma. J Trauma 39:325-330, 1995.
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32. Shanmuganathan K, Mirvis SE, Sherbourn CD, et al: Hemoperitonium as the sole indicator of abdominal visceral injury: A potential limitation of screening abdominal US for trauma. Radiology 212:423-430, 1999.
33. Richards JR, McGahan JP, Pail MJ, et al: Sonographic detection of blunt hepatic trauma: Hemoperitonium and parenchymal injury patterns of injury. J Trauma 47:1092-1097, 1999.
34. Wong-You-Cheong JJ, Shanmuganathan K, Chiu WC, et al: Sonography compared to CT in the detection and grading of liver injuries. Abstract presented at the American Roentgen Ray Society meeting, April 26-May 1, 1998, San Francisco, CA.
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BBC: No HD F1 in 2009
F1 will not be broadcast in high definition on the BBC in 2009.
Director of BBC Sport Roger Mosey said "we'd very much like it to be" but HD F1 broadcasts are not available yet.
He also suggested practice sessions will only be available online and 'via the red button', and said the BBC is looking into broadcasting GP2 as well.
Mr Mosey has made a series of remarks about the BBC's plans for F1 coverage on the BBC's sports blog pages. Here are a few of the major highlights:
The races will be on iPlayer, but precise red button plans are yet to be confirmed.
The idea is that F1's home will be BBC One, with all qualifying and races live and uninterrupted on that channel. The rest will be online and on the red button.
We're still working on GP2 and other scheduling details. Clearly, we'll have a lot of new content from F1 itself – which will start with practice available online on the Friday of a race weekend. Catch-up F1 will later be on iPlayer with highlights on the site.
F1 won't be available in HD though we'd very much like it to be. I'll keep you posted.
I'm surprised at the choice of BBC One for the shows – I expected them to screen it on BBC Two, to keep it clear of any clashes with mainstream programming. It makes no difference as long as they stick to their promise of "live and uninterrupted" broadcasts – even if Eastenders is on, even if England finally wins a cricket tournament, even if the queen's 17th cousin stubs her toe.
Having qualifying and races live is the bare minimum but he says "the rest will be online" indicating F1 fans will still get to see free practice live next year. Good news.
It would be a shame if nowhere could be found on the BBC's many channels to show GP2 live. At the very least I hope it's screened live on iPlayer. It's provided some of the best races I've watched in the past four years. If BBC isn't going to show it live on one of their channels I hope Eurosport or Motors TV can pick it up instead.
I'm very disappointed that F1 will not be in high definition in 2009. Once again it seems Formula One Group's laughably slow adoption of new technology is to blame.
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I'm currently thinking about living in Antarctica because I like cold and dry weather. At the present, I live in Southern California in USA. If I were to live in Antarctica, I would like two have two power generation methods -- geothermal and wind. Has anyone else thought of living around the south pole region? Regards, Vick |
Re: Is it feasible to live in Antarctica?
From my (amateur) point of view, almost anything is possible, as long as you have the cash for it.
Great idea, and feasible, but absolutely certainly very costly. Issues you would have would be (not necessarily in this priority): 1. Transport to and from. If it is deep inland, the only option would be a proper runway, which is costly to build and maintain. 2. Emergency evacuation options (medical, natural disaster etc). 3. Transport of supplies 4. Waste management (in case you want to do it the right way) 5. Power generation in very specific conditions 6. Telecom stuff (probably not too many satellites cover your specific area, and there is no underwater cables. Even if there were some, it would also be insanely expensive for an individual customer) 7. Local production of food would consume a lot of energy... All in all, it would all be possible, assuming that you have the money. |
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I presume you're an American citizen which means you will have to apply to your government for permission as the USA is a signatory to the Antarctic Treaty.
You would have to supply extensive and in depth descriptions about what you intend to do and how you will adhere to the treaty and its subsequent protocols. If you fail to do this or are unconvincing you won't be given permission, if you do it anyway, you will probably be arrested and terrible unspecified things (because no-one has ever actually really done it) will happen to you. You can't just turn up in Antarctica and do your own thing without jumping through many hoops first and showing that your "thing" fits in with many constraints. Overall, this is probably a good thing. ...and everything flighter says applies too! |
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-- I'm joined by my legal panel to discuss some some relevant huge stories that we've been covering for -- -- is -- former prosecutor joins me here on sat.
And Jon -- a rally in a criminal defense attorney joins us from our Los Angeles bureau gentlemen thank you very much.
For talking to us -- -- wanted to start talking about this case here.
-- on -- -- this story that everybody has been watching unfold especially in the last couple days but.
The just attorney's office basically reopen the investigation several weeks ago they searched the basement of of a home.
In so how they really didn't seem to find anything there.
But now they had a man and questioning yesterday who then confessed.
To strangling and murdering this little boy who has been missing since 1979.
He's in the hospital this morning being treated on some sort of medical issue that we don't know about.
And also for his mental stability against the -- -- and make sure that -- of sound mind and that this isn't made -- thing.
But they have arrested a what does it mean by that -- happening today.
With that would Ray Kelly coming out essentially holding a news conference endorsing the fact that they made an arrest they've got to have enough evidence to prove to us.
I would where's the evidence -- It is very easy to say that there is enough based upon Norris.
We have to keep in mind a bunch of things particularly with a story a story like this -- this this case has pulled that somebody's heart strings for the past 33 years.
It suddenly got legs to it.
Because there was some evidence that may be someone else was involved which let's let's remember that -- -- -- circle back to that in a moment.
That's very very important.
But there is there it is politics behind this there is.
The did this sense of the community wanting closure to this is a family that wants closure there's all of the reasons why it's great to announce an arrest to make a big splash.
But keep in mind something that you just said.
You need evidence.
And the -- even says you need evidence more than someone else's confession right.
And the law says that let's remember the Jonbenet Ramsey case where someone came in and said my name is John more car.
I did this it turns out John Mark -- -- didn't do this we've seen so many cases where people falsely confessed it was -- a study done in Illinois where I think 53%.
Of the cases that ended up getting thrown out on bad convictions had.
-- confessions and why would somebody wrongly confessed.
People get coerced is the old saying I just want to go home tell me I'm gonna go all I'll tell you whatever you wanna say whatever you want me to set right.
What's so important here in this case remember.
Once upon a time there was a guy -- Ramos who was the prime suspect in this case right.
Never charged criminally but a civil court.
Found him liable.
So imagine if you're now representing mr.
Hernandez wait -- second you have a lot to work with from a defendant's perspective you have nobody.
You have no weapon.
You have no motive right now we know no physical evidence linking mr.
Hernandez to describe other people that the police thought was the right gotten.
All of those things do not bode well for a very strong prosecution now add to that the fact that you're relying solely on a confession.
And suddenly this guy is in the hospital -- there -- going to be questions now as to whether or not.
He actually was in headed appeared to be able to know what he was doing what know what he was saying we know of no lawyer that was there right him.
Sorry but John obviously there have to be psychological evaluation anyone who comes forward it in confesses to a crime like this 33 years later obviously we're gonna wanna know what his mental state of mind it's about -- -- one.
He would've gotten that physical about that that psychological evaluation one way or the other.
-- -- but what.
What do you say about the lack of evidence that that they have in this case and as far as a weapon is concerned if he confessed to strangling him.
We don't know what type of of method he used but if he used his hands in the weapons would be -- -- so there would be no weapon.
How does how does the -- yes and -- prove that us.
It's going to be tough and now I'm Randy hit ready hit the nail on the head and stole my thunder by the way he's actually right we do need to be corpus the -- -- -- select -- fancy form we needed some other evidence physical evidence tying the -- world recession or any corroborating what what the -- or a witness we need other types of physical evidence perhaps I'm sure the jury would like to know whether or not the body.
And that's a -- Manhattan apartment was in fact Eton pats pats -- And now also we got to know about the mental evaluation this person -- making these statements Randy did point out that John Mark Karr did make these statements.
He's very eloquent and detailed as far as how we kill Jonbenet Ramsey.
And we found that it was fake.
So this guy could be a quack who knows -- confessing but the bottom line is.
There are quacks out there there are a lot of other people that are persons of interest and it doesn't mean that mr.
NN is necessarily is a person -- Kilby.
-- it -- talk about what he -- to lose I mean Hernandez does have a wife and he has children.
I mean he he has he hit it in the Jonbenet Ramsey case did did would you say that that car had the same clothes -- why would he confess now a look at some the other family.
There are few reasons why there was.
-- -- -- No I was I was this they'd know -- it is different and at John Mark Karr didn't have Stanley like mr.
Hernandez does but that does -- mean.
That they both don't have mental problems that can be different set of circumstances.
And in this case maybe have a guy who was following this case he was -- about this case has mental issues if you listen to the reports on this guy isn't -- yet very odd behavior.
Very -- himself.
Who knows what this -- -- but the bottom line is the confession alone is simply not enough.
It is interesting though that he lived in SoHo and then moved to New Jersey shortly after he Tom's disappearance I mean is there any.
-- -- correlation there and his up something that the prosecution's gonna try to.
That draw parallel to this case.
You can take any situation.
And criminalize it if you want to.
You you work if you wanna kinda look backwards look in the rearview mirror the fact that he moved.
Yes you wanna say well obviously he knew he did it he wanted to get out of town well now look at when did he move in relation.
To the disappearance but again the point is depending on what side of the aisle you are on you can have an innocent explanation for anything that goes on in life.
You could have a criminal explanation for anything that goes on in life you have people suddenly saying.
How he acted strange well if I'm a prosecutor I'm gonna get up there ladies and gentlemen you must convict this defendant because he was a loner.
And he acted strange I mean come -- A -- -- thing you know -- -- was not some random person car was in the sense where.
He just came out of the -- them.
The woodwork and decided I'm gonna go ahead and confessed to this thing and let the white -- case -- belly was a -- all you had him on the police that the NYPD radar.
For years and he he had been on the radar and then when they went out to New Jersey in question and he he did actually confess until hours.
And to that question which goes through which goes to whether or not.
This confession was voluntary whether or not this confession was -- works.
What did the police -- -- also keep in mind something he allegedly confessed is totally ignored or other.
This of this congress apparently it's videotape we haven't -- it is yet right well that's one of the reasons why people call for videotaping of confessions but.
From commissioner Kelly we don't know whether or not.
He gave a written confession.
And a videotaped confession whether the written confession was videotaped.
The other thing that I found very telling -- When you have confessions and nothing else.
And I will tell you -- -- delegates all the credit for saying this yesterday and studio B.
You look for something in the confession that only the suspect would know that he could not have gotten.
From the public -- Jake talked about how eloquent John Mark Karr was.
Right -- it sounded at face value is -- there with things that he knew that he could have only known ready interacted with -- it turns -- he got this stuff because it had been reported.
But if there was something in this confession.
Maybe something like it was something in this young child's backpack.
It is never being reported right.
Up publicly that his parents -- or something that he would have said that only the parents know you know when you have children there are certain things that your children do.
Certain things that they say that only you would know -- only somebody who interacted with -- would know it's interesting -- none of that has come out.
Publicly now of course there's no.
There's no necessity is no legal basis for the commissioner coming -- -- saying that the -- it hasn't been set there a lot of skeptics out there and I don't.
I don't but you know what it it was less than 24 hours after the -- was taken into custody where we all reporting on on the suspect that was in custody -- that he allegedly hit fast that's what -- sigh of -- it was -- -- and there was a huge sigh of relief but just imagine the amount of pressure on the NYPD.
They they don't want a box this case up that's for sure I mean it's been 33 years they finally are going to make an arrest they're -- -- damn well sure that they've got enough evidence or at least that there.
That that can fashion is is bulletproof.
And I would imagine that Ray Kelly took a look at that videotape you don't think that he looked out of himself.
I mean for no confession stand out and say and hold a news conference and make this big to do about the fact that they've got their guy they know that this -- Think they -- bit.
-- I only did the same exact thing and I Jonbenet Ramsey case you're the guy was my cover I'm Melanie your plastered all over the media about Strauss-Kahn I nobody true.
And Strauss-Kahn Dominique Strauss on all you know and by the way I just remember something if this guy was on the radar for so long why -- -- so -- -- to make an arrest you know.
And by the way don't get me wrong I am not for 12.
Very easy just to start hurling barbs and arrows at the NYPD.
Date they do tremendous work day in and day out and I'm on the defense side and I say that in the end of -- the day the system works and win the laundry is done you get a result that if everybody does what they're supposed to do you going to get the right result.
So I'm not sitting here.
Playing Monday Morning Quarterback.
Taking shots at the NYPD yes he would like to think that they believe that they have the right -- certainly a guy saying I did it.
Would lend itself to that -- we don't know the circumstances surrounding the confession and there's a reason why did the did the criminal procedure law in New York specifically -- You cannot be convicted solely on your own confession because she got whack jobs you have.
Detectives who are doing their job may be all of which they also yeah.
They've also got a lot of recent tips so maybe those tips combined with the confession the fact that this guy was on the radar for so many years knew that they had something on him but just not enough we.
So maybe that confession and those tips combined they're not gonna tell us everything because obviously they're not gonna wanna know -- -- to know every detail and.
Every bit -- what -- say about mr.
Ramos because mr.
Ramos was their guy.
Once upon a time was actually as I understand that a convicted child molest Serbia who apparently -- made mention of the fact that he wanted to -- He's young my child and again -- and I had Baghdad.
Is it raining here you -- and -- that you -- in -- -- bad in fact here this -- Pedro -- no record and not -- -- file and nothing in his background.
It just seems strange that a guy that has been clean record all of a sudden the -- -- -- First soda and and do whatever with -- -- kill me just seems problematic to me factually speaking and I think the jury's gonna scratch your head and figure out why would he do that.
And certainly -- judge because he will be entitled to a hearing.
On the voluntary -- of this confession and whether or not he was properly advised of what what we see on law and order his Miranda warnings is certainly.
If it turns out that there was no lawyer there for hours and hours and hours and hours to me.
Says something right about this particular alleged confession and the fact that he's in the hospital now.
You gotta put the brakes on everything right now because imagine if it turns out -- by the way you mentioned earlier that this this psychological evaluation would have happened anyway.
No not necessarily it's got to be a legal reason for somebody's gotta say wait a minute what concerned about what's going on what this guy upstairs.
Are there his ability to understand that what he did was wrong which goes to Saturday or -- -- his defense which goes to competency but somebody's got to ask for but don't.
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My bomb squad rep is out of the office until next week.
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Baumbich, Charlene Ann Stray Affections : a Novel Mesmerized by a snow globe containing a little girl with hair the color of her own, Cassandra Higgins recalls memories of her beloved Grandpa Wonky, the stray she rescued as a child, and her relationship with her mother. 2009 Adult Fiction Book BAUMBIC | ||
Benitez, Sandra The Night of the Radishes A married Minnesota woman searching for her long-lost brother in Oaxaca, Mexico, finds a more complicated situation than she bargained for when she starts to fall for an engaging Berkeley professor. 2003 Adult Fiction Book BENITEZ | ||
Boggs, Johnny D. Northfield : a Western Story Boggs recounts the action of the infamous Northfield Raid using first person narratives from a different perspective in each chapter. 24 different characters share the narration - from the James brothers--reckless and violent Jesse and scripture-quoting Frank, to a five-year-old daughter of a murdered bank teller not quite able to get what all the fuss is about, to indignant members of the subsequent posses chasing the James brothers down. 2007 Adult Western Book BOGGS | ||
Carter, Emily Glory Goes and Gets Some: Stories In these interconnected stories, Emily Carter relates Glory's life, from her childhood to treatment for alcoholism and drug addiction. She's also HIV positive, chronically depressed, and lonely. We follow her through recovery, to the possibility of happiness. 2000 Adult Fiction Book CARTER | ||
Clark, Robert In the Deep Midwinter In the 1940s, the moral dilemma of a woman who becomes pregnant out of wedlock. She is Anna MacEwan, 30, a divorcee carrying a child by a married lawyer. He intends to divorce and marry her, but in the meantime he would prefer if she had an abortion, saving him embarrassment. 1997 Adult Fiction Book CLARK | ||
DePree, Traci A Can of Peas Instead of embracing the career-chasing ambitions of their friends in St. Paul, Peter Morgan and his new bride Mae accept the daunting challenge of saving the family farm in the Minnesota countryside. 2002 Adult Fiction Book DEPREE | ||
Enger, Leif Peace Like a River Eleven-year-old Reuben shares the story of how his father, trying to raise his sons alone in 1960s Minnesota, takes their family on a quest to find Reuben's older brother, who has been charged with murder. 2001 Adult Fiction Book ENGER | ||
Erdrich, Louise Four Souls Journeying to Minneapolis, where she plans to avenge the loss of her family's land to a deceptive, wealthy white man, a young Native American woman finds herself entangled within a complex relationship. 2004 Adult Fiction Book ERDRICH | ||
Flynn, Vince Protect and Defend: A Thriller In the aftermath of an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, CIA director Irene Kennedy and operative Mitch Kelly are dispatched to the Middle East to diffuse Iran's sworn retaliation against the United States. 2007 Adult Fiction Book FLYNN | ||
Gamer, Ron Winter Chance : Walking in Wolf Tracks 14-year-old Travis Larsen plans a solo camping trip in December near Mystery Lake along the Gunflint Trail. His overnight stay in the wilderness takes an unexpected turn when he crosses paths with a pair of poachers. Anxious about what Travis might have seen, one poacher leads him blind-folded deeper into the wilderness and leaves him to starve or freeze. Travis not only struggles to keep himself alive, but also takes into his care a wounded yearling wolf that escaped the poachers. 2003 Adult Fiction Book GAMER | ||
Guest, Judith. The Tarnished Eye The community of Blessed, Michigan, is shattered by the murder of the Norbois family -- Paige, Edward, and their four children -- in their summer home. Sheriff Hugh DeWitt is determined to find answers. Based on a real life case. 2004 Adult Fiction Book GUEST | ||
Harfenist, Jean A Brief History of the Flood Spanning the years 1959 to 1970, this series of eleven interlinked stories chronicles the lives and fortunes, misadventures and mishaps, of Lillian Anderson and her family in the small Minnesota town of Acorn Lake, as Lillian journeys from eight years old to eighteen. 2002 Adult Fiction Book HARFENIST | ||
Hassler, Jon The New Woman Anticipating the end of her life while watching changes within the small town of Staggerford from her apartment window, octogenarian Agatha McGee wonders if she is up to such challenges as the deaths of two close friends, her nephew's worrisome mental state, and a kidnapped girl. 2005 Adult Fiction Book HASSLER | ||
Hautman, Pete The Prop Working as a prop poker player at an Arizona casino, Peeky Kane becomes unwittingly involved in a scam against her employer, a plot that is complicated by her daughter's drug problems and a high-stakes band of murdering robbers. 2006 Adult Fiction Book HAUTMAN | ||
Hornbacher, Marya The Center of Winter At the center of winter, in Motley, Minnesota, Arnold Schiller gives in to the oppressive season that reigns outside and also to his own inner demons, he commits suicide, leaving a devastated family in his wake. Claire Schiller, wife and mother, takes shelter from the emotional storm with her husband's parents but must ultimately emerge from her grief and help her two young children to recover. 2005 Adult Fiction Book HORNBACHE | ||
Johnson, Wayne Six Crooked Highways In the sequel to Don't Think Twice, Paul Two Persons, a Native American resort owner, is forced to turn sleuth after state politicians propose a highway to run across the Red Lake reservation, a decision that will destroy his people's land and his own property, a situation that becomes further complicated when a boy who had worked for Paul turns up dead. 2000 Adult Fiction Book JOHNSON | ||
Keillor, Garrison Pontoon: A Lake Wobegon Novel Astonished to learn that her impeccable mother led a secret life marked by her passionate love for a Las Vegas man and a private commitment to pleasure, Barbara elects to end destructive patterns in her own life while honoring her mother's final wishes, an effort that coincides with a veterinarian's efforts to marry her reluctant fiancé. 2007 Adult Fiction Book KEILLOR | ||
LaDuke, Winona Last Standing Woman Traces the struggle of the Anishinaabe Indians to restore their culture and regain their land. Begins with the Great Sioux Uprising of the 1860s, continues to the 1970s occupation by Indian militants of the Minnesota White Earth Reservation, up to the present problems of alcoholism and sexual abuse. 1997 Adult Fiction Book LADUKE | ||
Landvik, Lorna Welcome to the Great Mysterious Reluctantly agreeing to take care of her nephew, Rich, a thirteen-year-old boy with Down syndrome, while her sister and her husband take a vacation, Broadway actress Geneva Jordan finds her life turned upside down by the youngster and by a fascinating local man, until tragedy forever transforms the lives of those around her. 2002 Adult Fiction Book LANDVIK | ||
Logan, Chuck Homefront It never occurred to Phil Broker and Nina Pryce that moving to Glacier Falls, Minnesota, and still recovering from their life-and-death struggle with a demented terrorist, that a minor school-yard tussle could lead to confrontation with a local clan notorious for violence and criminal behavior. 2005 Adult Fiction Book LOGAN |
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10th December 2013
Is reducing the stress in your life one of your New Year's resolutions? New wellbeing workshop dates have been added in London, North Wales and Birmingham. Places are limited so sign up today.
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For the past five years, following the charity's relaunch, King Street in Manchester has been home to Pharmacist Support. From December 13th the Pharmacist Support team will be operating from our new home on Deansgate in Manchester.
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Faces Behind a Global Crisis US Carbon Billionaires and the UN Climate Deadlock
Outing the Oligarchy, "Billionaires Who Benefit from Today's Climate Crisis"
Nuclear Roulette: The Case Against a "Nuclear Renaissance"
Safe Passage to Cancun: Getting a UN Climate Deal Back on Track (Spanish)
Searching for a Miracle: Net Energy Limits & the Fate of Industrial Society
Implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Throughout the Asia-Pacific, thousands of protestors are battling expanding U.S. military base construction, as here on Jeju Island, S. Korea, and Okinawa. Elsewhere, protests challenge aggressive corporate resource raiding, threats to indigenous peoples, and colonialist policies. For details, CLICK HERE.
Acclaimed Film Director Oliver Stone Joins Resistance Rallies vs. Controversial Military Base Sites in Pacific
Acclaimed U.S. film director, Oliver Stone, visited Korea and Japan in August 2013 to lend support to citizens opposed to base-building in their nations, as well as the use of nuclear weapons. He visited Jeju Island, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Tokyo and Okinawa. While on Jeju Island, where the South Korean and U.S. governments are building a huge, state-of-the-art navy base that will house aircraft carriers, destroyers and submarines, Stone made the most of his brief, two-day visit. He met former film critic Yang Yoon-mo at Jeju prison. Yang, a Jeju native, is serving time for "obstruction of government business," after having put his body in the path of construction trucks entering the base construction site.
Stone also marched alongside Gangjeong village mayor Kang Dong-kyun and hundreds of other villagers in the Grand March for Life and Peace, an annual week-long protest trek around the circumference of the island. Mayor Kang had, several weeks earlier, spoken at Moana Nui 2013, an IFG Asia-Pacific event which took place in Berkeley, California in June.
On the last day of the Grand March, Stone spoke at a large rally about the dangers of militarizing Jeju Island.
Though Stone's activities violate the South Korean law that prohibits foreigners from engaging in political activity, in this case, the government turned a blind eye. National news media outlets in both Korean and English reported on the visit, giving the base controversy exposure that would have been ignored had it not been for Stone's presence.
Click below for two reports from the Korean English-language media, as well as a Korean-language video news segment on Oliver Stone's visit to Jeju island.
Sequester this! Three ways the Kochs win from today's "shrink government" agenda
The individuals most-involved (measured in money and ideas) have direct commercial interests that indeed benefit from weaker scientific monitoring of weather, less regulation of pollution, and stopping the shift in subsidies from fossil fuels to clean energy. All of the above are expected under sequestration (see links below), and each has its own injurious impact on our global climate crisis.
The Members of Congress who are advancing today'sunprecedented fiscal austerity are primarily Tea Party ideologues put in power by the world's two wealthiest men, Charles and David Koch. The Kochs' dark and dirty money has helped more anti-government extremists get into elected office than any other campaign contributor, outspending even Exxon. Some say their record spending in the 2012 elections by didn't buy them much, but Congress' ongoing obsession with self-contrived budget crises makes clear that the Kochs are more than ever defining the debate in Washington, and keeping their opponents on the defensive, even as Republicans remain deeply divided.
"Shrink government" is central to the "economic freedom" ideology that the Kochs espouse, and it is the inspiration for a critical mass of
Congressmen who went to Washington to enact ultra-libertarian laws. It's also an idea that's key to the Kochs' keeping their carbon-based wealth, as "less government" means more freedom for businesses to produce whatever they please, as they please. That principle is pretty important if your business plan is based on pumping carbon from underground and dumping it up in our atmosphere.
Sequestration's across-the-board approach to less government perfectly embodies the Kochs' big ideas and specific policy prescriptions, particularly by:
1) Cutting enforcement of the Clean Air Act by the EPA; 2) Scaling-back scientific monitoring of extreme weather by NOAA; 3) Gutting clean energy financing by DOE;
But it could all backfire. If hardline conservatives don't cave and serious economic and political pain ensues, then most Americans appear to be ready to blame the extremist conservatives. Until today's ultra-free market ideologues are isolated, and reasonable Republicans are allowed to step out in support of balanced approaches to budgeting and urgent, ambitious actions to curb carbon, it is hard to see what will end America's Koch problem.
See more at www.kochcash.org.
The Kochs and Congress as Citizens United marks three years
New rights for private money let two carbon billionaires buy blocking power
As America marks the three-year anniversary of the US Supreme Court's decision on Citizens United, a front page article in yesterday's Financial Times revealed the full impact of Charles and David Kochs' influence over American democracy. The Kochs' "hardliner" activist group, Americans' for Prosperity (AFP), is now "urging Republicans to show restraint during debt ceiling negotiations," signaling that Koch-funded elected officials will no longer block a deal to increase the debt.
By allowing an agreement that thereby avoids a crash of the US economy, the Kochs' stark display of blocking power in the US Congress is a stunning statement on the role of private money in policymaking today. Such control of Congress was not possible three years ago, but Citizens United changed that.
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Teach-In: Moana Nui #2
("Moana Nui" is Polynesian for "Big Ocean")
June 1-June 2, 2013 Martin Luther King Auditorium, Berkeley
The peoples of the Pacific need help. It is no longer sufficient to speak merely of working to "protect local cultures" and "traditional economic practices." Local peoples are being rapidly overrun by the expanding militarism, trade dominions and hegemonic battles of the United States, China and other Pacific powers. As the saying goes, "when elephants battle, the ants are crushed."
In June, 2013, the International Forum on Globalization (IFG), in collaboration with a broad range of indigenous and small island peoples of the Pacific, and joined by activists from countries throughout the Pacific Basin, sponsored and produced a three-day series of public events in Berkeley, CA. These events were a continuation of the first Moana Nui gathering in Honolulu, November 2011, at the University of Hawaii—which IFG created in partnership with several dozen Pacific Island activist groups.
How Violent Economic 'Reforms' Contribute to Violence Against Women January 1, 2013 | By Vandana Shiva
The brave and courageous Delhi gang rape victim breathed her last on December 30, 2012. This article is a tribute to her and other victims of violence against women. Violence against women is as old as patriarchy. But it has intensified and become more pervasive in the recent past. It has taken on more brutal forms, like the death of the Delhi gang rape victim and the suicide of the 17-year-old rape victim in Chandigarh. Rape cases and cases of violence against women have increased over the years. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) reported 10,068 rape cases in 1990 which increased to 16,496 in 2000. With 24,206 cases in 2011, rape cases jumped to incredible increase of 873 percent from 1971 when NCRB started to record cases of rape. And New Delhi has emerged as the rape capital of India, accounting for 25 percent cases. The movement to stop this violence must be sustained till justice is done for every one of our daughters and sisters who has been violated. READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE
On the small, spectacular island of Jeju, off the southern tip of Korea, indigenous villagers have been putting their bodies in the way of construction of a joint South Korean–US naval base that would be an environmental, cultural and political disaster. If completed, the base would hold more than 7,000 navy personnel, plus twenty warships including US aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines and destroyers carrying the latest Aegis missiles—all aimed at China, only 300 miles away...
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Topic#1 : Weak Climate Deal at UN Doha Conference Again Fails to Seriously Address the Climate Crisis As the Planet continues to suffer from the devastating effects of catastrophic climate change – The world's The biggest polluters have yet again failed to take any serious responsibility for their major role in the climate crisis –at the UN COP18 Climate Summit in Doha this Saturday.
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Topic #2: New Study Shows Koch Brothers a Major Force Behind the UN Climate Stalemate A report entitled "Faces Behind a Global Crisis: US Carbon Billionaires and the UN Climate Deadlock highlights Charles and David Koch as THE top spenders to stop climate policy hold hostage any progress in Washington, and hence any meaningful global deal in Doha.
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To find out more about the report and how billionaires are impacting today's climate deadlock and the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline, watch IFG's "Outing the Oligarchy" press briefing at the UNFCCC in Doha. Here's what the press is saying about IFG's new report: -The Guardian, UK -Democracy Now! -Center for Media and Democracy, PR Watch -One World -Alertnet -DESMOGBLOG -Inter Press Service -Trouw, Netherlands -Publico, Portugal -El Correo, Spain -TVi24, Brazil For more about the Kochs see: kochcash.org
A new report was released at 10am today in Press Conference Room 2 at global climate talks in Doha, Qatar by the International Forum on Globalization entitled Faces Behind a Global Crisis: US Carbon Billionaires and the UN Climate Deadlock. IFG's report details how Charles and David Koch's undue influence over United States climate policy has helped to paralyze United Nations climate talks. Bloomberg's Billionaire Index recently ranked the oil baron brothers' combined net worth ($80.2B) as greater than that of the world's wealthiest man, Carlos Slim ($71.8B). The Kochs also outspent Exxon to kill US climate legislation.IFG's new report follows the 2011 report, Outing the Oligarchy: Billionaires Who Benefit from Today's Climate Crisis, published during COP 17 in Durban, South Africa, which identified the world's fifty wealthiest individuals most invested in fossil fuels who wield their wealth to prevent the phase out of fossil fuels. Faces Behind A Global Crisis focuses on the top billionaires blocking US climate policies because the US is widely seen as the major obstacle to any meaningful multilateral commitments to cutting dangerous greenhouse gases that cause climate disruptions. The report explains how the Kochs' campaign contributions, lobbying legislators, funding climate denialists, attacking clean air laws, and stopping the shift in subsidies from fossil fuels has helped to halt any serious progress on climate policy in the US. The result is a deadlock in addressing the global crisis, as the US is the indispensable nation for action. "As the top spenders to stop climate policy in the planet's most polluting nation, the two oil barons from Wichita hold hostage any progress in Washington, and hence any meaningful global deal in Doha," said Victor Menotti, Executive Director of the IFG. "Advancing a UN agreement requires substantial changes in US domestic dynamics to reduce the role of the Kochs, and all private money, corrupting policy outcomes. Setting stronger standards for power plant pollution will be a litmus test."
As cleanup continues in the US after the devastating Superstorm Sandy—which killed 125 Americans, 71 Caribbeans and did $62B in damage—the UN's Climate Conference in Doha enters its final week with US negotiators still unable to table any ambitious commitments to cut emissions. Instead, the US insists on a "new paradigm" of voluntary pledges that falls far short of keeping below the agreed 2 C degree increase in global temperatures, and sets the world on course to warm up by 4-6 C degrees. Meena Raman of the Third World Network and an IFG Board Member noted that, "The world cannot expect US negotiators to do anything but lead a race to the bottom toward a total climate crisis as long as they speak for their oil billionaires and not for the American people. How many more must die from climate disruptions before US negotiators align their position with the scientific reality that says the world needs ambitious actions to cut carbon now?" Download the full report
ANNOUNCING IMPORTANT NEW BOOK: NUCLEAR ROULETTE Now in Bookstores.
IFG is very pleased to announce publication of "Nuclear Roulette," by author Gar Smith, with a foreword by Jerry Mander and Ernest Callenbach. This 278 page book, now in bookstores around the country, enormously amplifies IFG's earlier report of the same name, produced as part of our climate change campaigning. This is the most comprehensive case against nuclear power ever published, and is must-reading for anyone interested in a sane energy future. (Publisher: Chelsea Green.)---Victor Menotti, Executive Director, IFG ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NUCLEAR ROULETTE By Gar Smith Foreword by Jerry Mander & Ernest Callenbach
Pub Date: November 1, 2012
A False Solution to Energy Needs Nuclear power is not clean, cheap, or safe. With Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima, the nuclear industry's record of catastrophic failures now averages one major disaster every decade. After three US-designed plants exploded in Japan, many countries moved to abandon reactors for renewables. In the United States, however, powerful corporations and a compliant government still defend nuclear power—while promising billion-dollar bailouts to operators.
Each new disaster demonstrates that the nuclear industry and governments lie to "avoid panic," to preserve the myth of "safe, clean" nuclear power, and to sustain government subsidies. Tokyo and Washington both covered up Fukushima's radiation risks and—when confronted with damning evidence—simply raised the levels of "acceptable" risk to match the greater levels of exposure.
Nuclear Roulette dismantles the core arguments behind the nuclear-industrial complex's "Nuclear Renaissance." While some critiques are familiar—nuclear power is too costly, too dangerous, and too unstable—others are surprising: Nuclear Roulette exposes historic links to nuclear weapons, impacts on Indigenous lands and lives, and the ways in which the Nuclear Regulatory Commission too often takes its lead from industry, rewriting rules to keep failing plants in compliance. Nuclear Roulette cites NRC records showing how corporations routinely defer maintenance and lists resulting "near-misses" in the US, which average more than one per month.
Nuclear Roulette chronicles the problems of aging reactors, uncovers the costly challenge of decommissioning, explores the industry's greatest seismic risks—not on California's quake-prone coast but in the Midwest and Southeast—and explains how solar flares could black out power grids, causing the world's 400-plus reactors to self-destruct. This powerful exposé concludes with a roundup of proven and potential energy solutions that can replace nuclear technology with a "Renewable Renaissance," combined with conservation programs that can cleanse the air, and cool the planet.
Praise for Nuclear Roulette:
"If ever there was a book that people need to read at this moment in the history of the world it is Nuclear Roulette. Comprehensively referenced, it is not only an encyclopedia of the nuclear age related specifically to nuclear power, it is a potent warning of the almost incomprehensible dangers that lie ahead, as well as the damage that has already contaminated portions of our beloved planet beyond repair. I highly recommend this wonderful book to all who care about our children, future generations, and the thirty million other species that cohabit this earth with us." —Dr. Helen Caldicott, pediatrician, founding president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, and author of Nuclear Madness and Nuclear Power is not the Answer "A thoroughly brilliant work. Extraordinary! Gar Smith cuts through the lies of the nuclear promoters to document the deadliness of atomic power." —Karl Grossman, professor of journalism, State University of New York College at Old Westbury, and author of Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power "This powerful solartopian screed leaves no doubt that the experiment with atomic energy is the most dangerous and expensive technological failure in human history. Gar Smith writes with extraordinary power and clarity on an industry whose failure threatens the future of our species—ecologically, economically, and in terms of biological survival. Nuclear Roulette is a strong signpost pointing straight to a green-powered world, where we get our energy cheaper, safer, cleaner, community-owned, and quicker. Take this book with you next time you're out shutting a nuke or opening a wind farm." —Harvey Wasserman, author of SOLARTOPIA! Our Green-Powered Earth, A.D. 2030, and editor of www.nukefree.org. "Nuclear Roulette by Gar Smith is a timely and necessary book. Nuclear energy is unaffordable by every measure—by the measure of financial costs, of safety, and of the destruction of democracy. We are witnessing this in India where the US-India nuclear agreement is imposing a 'nuclear renaissance' by creating a police state in Koodankulam and in Jaitapur. Nuclear Roulette should be in the hands of everyone who cares for life and freedom." —Dr. Vandana Shiva, founder of Navdanya Research Foundation for Science Technology & Ecology "Nuclear Roulette is an act of love and reason for Mother Earth. We've had five decades of poisonous decision making in the face of millennia of life. Now is the time to safeguard our generations yet to come. Gar Smith's powerful writing tells the stories that inform our good work." —Winona LaDuke, indigenous rights activist and author of All Our Relations and Recovering the Sacred
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Korean Village Could Be First Casualty of US Military's "Pacific Pivot"
Gangjeong Villager Sung-Hee Choi Blocking Construction Vehicle
This article by IFG's Koohan Paik, now running in Earth Island Journal, summarizes the enormous battle on the island of Jeju, South Korea. The indigenous Gangjeon villagers are trying to block a U.S.-Korea military base that will be environmentally and socially disastrous. The story is typical of what U.S. policy is achieving throughout the Pacific right now.
by Koohan Paik – October 29, 2012
Residents of Jeju Island are protesting construction of new joint US-South Korean Navy base This article by IFG's Koohan Paik summarizes the enormous battle on the island of Jeju, South Korea. The indigenous Gangjeon villagers are trying to block a U.S.-Korea military base that will be environmentally and socially disastrous. The story is typical of what U.S. policy is achieving throughout the Pacific right now. In November 2011, President Barack Obama, joined by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, announced the "Pacific Pivot," a strategy to shift the US military's focus to the Asia-Pacific region. The announcement was a signal to China that the United States would not permit its ascendance to advance any further into the US's historic zone of economic and military domination, which dates back to the nineteenth-century occupations of the Philippines, Guam and Hawaii.
But the announcement of the Pacific Pivot also raised a red flag for environmentalists, Indigenous peoples of the region, and small states within the Pacific Basin, who fear the consequences of this new geopolitical struggle. As an African saying goes: "When the elephants battle, the ants get crushed."
Resistance to US military bases in the Pacific is not new. Massive protests in Okinawa sometimes draw as many as 100,000 people into the streets in opposition to the decades-old US bases there. On the island of Guam, a new, youth-driven movement has recently emerged to challenge the US military presence there. And in Hawaii, the long battle that began with the occupation of Pearl Harbor at the end of the nineteenth century continues today.
New Forbes figures are out for 2012, and the Kochs' family fortune increased by another one-quarter. So what?
The Kochs' wealth jumping from $50B to 62$B means they now have an even bigger war chest to rollback inherent rights to clean air, to clean water, collective bargaining, and even to vote.
And that's aside from the billion dollar electoral blitz they're bundling to replace the President, seize the Senate, and fill the House, and our Courts, with even more ideologues to advance their extremist "economic freedom" agenda.
Since Koch Industries is a private corporation, no one but David and Charles really know how they managed such high rates of return during today's deepening recession. Since the economic recession began in 2008, the Kochs have exponentially increased their wealth by 58% while median family net worth dropped 40%.
"Koch Cash" has skyrocketed amidst increasing American poverty, rising gas prices, as well as record temperatures and drought due to increased carbon emissions.
Sure, the Kochs "built" it, but on all of our backs. The biggest burden will be born by young people, especially if the Kochs get their wish from a Romney-Ryan regime: to remove all carbon regulations from the EPA, and to deregulate oil derivatives.
Gas prices go higher, climate disruptions spread, people go hungry, and the Kochs gets richer.
The new Forbes numbers come as IFG and allies announce an emergency effort to call out the Koch Cash corrupting our democracy and destroying the Earth.
IFG convened leaders of key constituencies to come up with a counter plan. See more here… You can support such efforts in many ways… • Click the "share" button on the top right of this email to send to your friends; • Check out our blog on everything Koch, www.kochcash.org; • Follow OWS activities surrounding the Kochs' on Twitter #kochparty: https://twitter.com/i/#!/search/?q=kochparty&src=typd; • Give generously to IFG so we can intensify our efforts to take on the single largest source of money corrupting democracy today. Thank you.
IFG's Asia Pacific Network continues; here's a report from the battle on Jeju Island IUCN OFFICIALLY BLOCKS PARTICIPATION BY JEJU VILLAGERS WHO OPPOSE NAVAL BASE CONSTRUCTION NEAR CONVENTION
IUCN leadership still refuses to criticize Korea's destructive naval base, though construction work is killing rare soft corals, numerous endangered species (including from IUCN's Red List), and destroying indigenous communities and livelihoods. This stance from IUCN defies its traditional mission, conserving nature and a "just world." NEW RESOLUTIONS ARE NEEDED FOR EMERGENCY VOTE OF ALL IUCN MEMBERS
IFG's Asia-Pacific Program wants to avoid a conflict by bringing together grassroots groups from the region for coordinated responses toward a peaceful resolution.
Noam Chomsky: "The protest on Jeju counts as a critical struggle against a potentially devastating war in Asia. China sees the base as a threat to its national security, likely to trigger confrontation and an arms race between South Korea and China, with the U.S. involved." MORE....
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"At the center of it all, lo and behold, is the Kochtopus Empire."
IFG released a special report, "Outing the Oligarchy: Billionaires Who Benefit From Today's Climate Crisis," which identifies the world's top 50 individuals whose investments benefit from climate change and whose influence networks block efforts to phase out pollution from fossil fuels. IFG's report comes as global debates intensify on how best to protect the climate and how best to counter the corrupting power of extreme wealth over politics. The report draws the links between the two debates and identifies the emerging, ultra-rich tycoons who are deepening the world's climate crisis. READ MORE
IFG announced its Asia-Pacific Network program as part of our 3-day teach-in and conference, Moana Nui 2011, Honolulu, November 9-11.
In partnership with a coalition of Pacific Island activists, I Pua Mohala I Ka Po, the event protested the impending APEC/TPP trade agreements among Pacific Rim nations, as well as rampant militarism and colonization in the Pacific, environmental devastation from undersea corporate mining, and the growing battle between the U.S. and China for hegemony in the region. Events culminated with a march on the APEC/TPP meetings.
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30 Speakers included (LtoR) Walden Bello (Philippines), Victoria Tauli Corpus (Igorot, Philippines), Anuradha Mittal (India), Christine Ahn (South Korea), Lisa Natividad (Guam), Walter Ritte (Molokai)
NEWS FROM IFG BOARD (more news) Anuradha Mittal Oakland Institute, Convention on the Great Land Grab Saga in Ethiopia and India Vandana Shiva How Violent Economic 'Reforms' Contribute to Violence Against Women Walden Bello Why the Philippines cannot afford to be "Like-Minded" in Doha Martin Khor An Analysis of the Doha Climate Conference (COP18) Meena Raman IPCC meeting grapples with key issues Maude Barlow Canada's entry to Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks a "coup" for Big Business, not Harper
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With that said, I don't think very well under stress at all; however, my husband excels under it. It improves his focus causing him to become more efficient, except stress free days will require coaxing by me for him to accomplish things. This is when the stress in his life evolves into me glaring at him to get something….anything done, thereby causing him to do what he does best, to excel under pressure…even if it is his wife's glare telepathically communicating said threats.
Well, that's marital stress but we also have police related stress in our lives. Recently between shifts, my husband was cleaning his unmarked car in the station lot when three officers walked over telling him to get in and drive. They spouted off an address with little details. At the scene, he found out it was a police involved shooting, which became his new shooting case.
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