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The 10 big news stories the mainstream media IGNORED
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Global Research, October 1, 2008
Syracuse New Times
Editor's Note.
Four Global Research Writers received the Project Censored Award in 2008:
The daily dispatches and nightly newscasts of the mainstream media regularly cover terrorism, but rarely how fear of attacks is used to manipulate the public and set policy. That's the common thread of many of the unreported stories last year, according to an analysis by Project Censored.
Since 1976, Sonoma State University has released an annual survey of the top 25 stories the mainstream media failed to report or reported poorly. Culled from worldwide alternative news sources, vetted by students and faculty, and ranked by judges, the stories may not have been overtly censored. But their controversial subjects, challenges to the status quo or general under-the-radar subject matter might have kept them from the front pages. Project Censored recounts them, accompanied by media analysis, in a book published annually by Seven Stories Press.
"This year, war and civil liberties stood out," Peter Phillips, who has been director of the project since 1996, says of the top stories. "They're closely related and part of the War on Terror that has been the dominant theme of Project Censored for seven years, since 9/11."
Whether it's preventing what one piece of legislation calls "homegrown terrorism" by federally funding the study of radicalism, using vague concerns about security to quietly expand the North American Free Trade Agreement, or refusing to count the number of Iraqi civilians killed in the war, the threat of terrorism is being used to silence people and expand power.
"The war on terror is a sort of mind terror," says Nancy Snow, one of the project's 24 judges and an associate professor of public diplomacy at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Snow, who has taught classes on war, media and propaganda, elaborates: "You can't declare war on terror. It's a tactic that's used by groups to gain publicity and it will remain with us. But it's unlikely that {the number of terrorist acts} will spike. It spikes in the minds of people."
She pointed out that terrorist attacks have declined worldwide since 2003. Some use the absence of fresh attacks as evidence that the so-called "war on terror" is working, but a RAND Corporation study for the Defense Department that was released in August said the war on terror hasn't effectively undermined al-Qaeda. It suggested the phrase be replaced with the less-loaded term "counterterrorism."
Both Phillips and Snow agree that comprehensive, contextual reporting is missing from most of the coverage. "That's one of my criticisms of the media," Snow says. "They spotlight issues and don't look at the entire landscape."
This year, the landscape of Project Censored itself is expanding. After talking with educators who bemoan the ongoing decline of news quality and have offered to help, Phillips has launched the Truth Emergency Project, in which Sonoma State partners with 23 other universities. All will host classes for students to search out untold stories, vet them for accuracy and submit them for consideration to Project Censored.
"There's a renaissance of independent media," Phillips says. He thinks bloggers and citizen journalists are filling crucial roles left vacant by staff cutbacks throughout the mainstream media. And, he notes, it's time for universities, educators and media experts to step in and help. "It's not just reforming the media but supporting them in as many ways as they need, like validating stories by fact-checking."
The Truth Emergency Project will also host a news service that aggregates the top 12 independent media sources and posts them on one page. "So you can get an RSS feed from all the major independent news sources we trust," Phillips explains. Discerning newshounds can find headlines from the BBC, Democracy Now!, and Inter Press Service News Agency in one spot. "The whole criteria," he says, "is no corporate media."
Carl Jensen, who started the project in 1976, says the expansion is a new and necessary phase: "It answers the question I was always challenged with: How do you know this is the truth? Having 24 campuses reviewing all the stories and raising questions really provides a good answer. These stories will be vetted more than Sarah Palin."
Phillips says he hopes to expand the project to 100 schools within the year to bring more attention to the dire need for public support for quality news reporting. "I think it's going to require government subsidies and nonprofit organizations doing community media projects," he says. "It's more than just reforming at the Federal Communications Commission level."
Phillips likens it to the boom in microbrewed beer and the spread of independently owned pubs: "It we can have a renaissance in beer making, following established purity standards, then we can do it with our media, too."
1. How many Iraqis have died?
Nobody knows exactly how many lives the Iraq War has claimed. But even more astounding is that few journalists have mentioned the issue or cited the top estimate: 1.2 million.
During August and September 2007, Opinion Research Business, a British polling group, surveyed 2,414 adults in 15 of 18 Iraqi provinces and found that more than 20 percent had experienced at least one war-related death since March 2003. Using common sociological study methods, they determined that as many as 1.2 million people had been killed since the war began.
The U.S. military, claiming it keeps no count, still cites civilian death data as a marker of progress. For example, in a Sept. 10, 2007, report to Congress, Gen. David Petraeus said, "Civilian deaths of all categories, less natural causes, have also declined considerably, by over 45 percent Iraq-wide since the height of the sectarian violence in December." Whose number was he using? Estimates have ranged wildly, and are based on a variety of sources, including hospital, morgue and media reports, as well as in-person surveys.
In October 2006, the British medical journal Lancet published a Johns Hopkins University study vetted by four independent sources that counted 655,000 dead, based on interviews with 1,849 households. It updated a similar study from 2004 that counted 100,000 dead. The AP called it "controversial."
The AP began its own count in 2005 and by 2006 said that at least 37,547 Iraqis had lost their lives due to war-related violence, but called it a minimum estimate at best, and didn't include insurgent deaths.
"Iraq Body Count," a group of U.S. and U.K. citizens who aggregate numbers from media reports on civilian deaths, puts the figure between 87,000 and 95,000. More recently, in January 2008, the World Health Organization and the Iraqi government did door-to-door surveys of nearly 10,000 households and put the number of dead at 151,000.
Chillingly, the 1.2 million figure is higher than the Rwandan genocide toll and closing in on the 1.7 million who perished in Cambodia's Killing Fields. It raises questions about the real number of deaths from U.S. aerial bombings and house raids, and challenges the common assumption that this is a war in which Iraqis are killing Iraqis.
Justifying the higher number, Michael Schwartz, writing on the blog AfterDowningStreet.org, pointed to a fact reported by the Brookings Institute that U.S. troops have, over the last four years, conducted about 100 house raids a day, a number that has increased recently with assistance from Iraqi soldiers.
Brutality during these house searches has been documented by returning soldiers, Iraqi civilians and independent journalists (see story No. 9 on page 20). Schwartz suggests the aggressive "element of surprise" tactics employed by soldiers is likely resulting in several thousand deaths a day that are going unreported or are categorized as insurgents being killed.
The spin is having its intended effect: A February 2007 AP poll showed Americans gave a median estimate of 9,890 Iraqi deaths as a result of the war, a number far below that cited in any credible study.
Sources: "Is the United States Killing 10,000 Iraqis Every Month? Or is it More?" Michael Schwartz, After Downing Street, July 6, 2007; "Iraq Death Toll Rivals Rwanda Genocide, Cambodian Killing Fields," Joshua Holland, Alternet, Sept. 17, 2007; "Iraq Conflict Has Killed a Million: Survey," Luke Baker, Reuters, Jan. 30, 2008; "Iraq: Not Our Country to Return To," Maki al-Nazzal and Dahr Jamail, Inter Press Service, March 3, 2008.
2. NAFTA on Steroids
Coupling the perennial issue of security with Wall Street's measures of prosperity, the leaders of the three North American nations have convened the Security and Prosperity Partnership. The White House-led initiative—launched at a March 23, 2005, meeting of President George Bush, Mexico's then-president Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin—joins beefed-up commerce with coordinated military operations to promote what it calls "borderless unity."
Critics call it "NAFTA on steroids." However, unlike NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), the SPP has been formed in secret, without public input. "The SPP is not a law, or a treaty, or even a signed agreement," Laura Carlsen wrote in a report for the Center for International Policy. "All these would require public debate and participation of Congress, both of which the SPP has scrupulously avoided."
Instead, the SPP has a special workgroup: the North American Competitiveness Council. It's a coalition of private companies that are, according to the SPP Web site, www.spp.gov, "adding high-level business input {that} will assist governments in enhancing North America's competitive position and engage the private sector as partners in finding solutions."
They include Chevron, Ford, General Electric, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Merck, New York Life, Procter & Gamble, and Walmart. "Where are the environmental council, the labor council and the citizen's council in this process?" Carlsen asked.
A look at NAFTA's popularity among citizens in all three nations is evidence why its expansion would be disguised. "It's a scheme to create a borderless North American Union under U.S. control without barriers to trade and capital flows for corporate giants, mainly U.S. ones," wrote Steven Lendman in Global Research. "It's also to ensure America gets free and unlimited access to Canadian and Mexican resources, mainly oil, and in the case of Canada, water as well."
Sources: "Deep Integration," Laura Carlsen, Center for International Policy, May 30, 2007; "The Militarization and Annexation of North America," Stephen Lendman, Global Research, July 19, 2007; "The North American Union," Constance Fogal, Global Research, Aug. 2, 2007.
3. InfraGard Guards Itself
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have effectively deputized 23,000 members of the business community, asking them to tip off the feds in exchange for preferential treatment in the event of a crisis. "The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does—and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials," Matthew Rothschild wrote in the March 2008 issue of The Progressive.
InfraGard was created in 1996 in Cleveland as part of an FBI probe into cyberthreats. Yet after 9/11, membership jumped from 1,700 to more than 23,000, and now includes 350 of the nation's Fortune 500 companies. Members typically have a stake in one of several crucial infrastructure industries, including agriculture, banking, defense, energy, food, telecommunications, law enforcement and transportation. Eighty-six chapters coordinate with 56 FBI field offices nationwide.
While FBI director Robert Mueller has said he considers this segment of the private sector "the first line of defense," the American Civil Liberties Union issued a grave warning about the potential for abuse. "There is evidence that InfraGard may be closer to a corporate TIPS {Terrorist Information and Prevention Systems} program, turning private-sector corporations—some of which may be in a position to observe the activities of millions of individual customers—into surrogate eyes and ears for the FBI," it cautioned in an August 2004 report.
"The FBI should not be creating a privileged class of Americans who get special treatment," Jay Stanley, public education director of the ACLU's technology and liberty program, told Rothschild. And they are privileged: a DHS representative told Rothschild that InfraGard members receive special training and readiness exercises. They're also privy to protected information that is usually shielded from disclosure under the trade secrets provision of the Freedom of Information Act.
The information they have may be of critical importance to the general public, but first it goes to the privileged membership—sometimes before it's released to elected officials. As Rothschild related in his story, on Nov. 1, 2001, the FBI sent an alert to InfraGard members about a potential threat to bridges in California. Barry Davis, who worked for Morgan Stanley, received the information and relayed it to his brother Gray, then the governor of California, who released it to the public.
Steve Maviglio, Davis' press secretary at the time, told Rothschild, "The governor got a lot of grief for releasing the information. In his defense, he said, 'I was on the phone with my brother, who is an investment banker. And if he knows, why shouldn't the public know?'"
Source: "The FBI Deputizes Business," Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, Feb. 7, 2008.
4. ILEA: Training Ground for Illegal Wars?
The School of the Americas earned an unsavory reputation in Latin America after many graduates of the Fort Benning, Ga., facility turned into counterinsurgency death squad leaders. So the International Law Enforcement Academy recently installed by the United States in El Salvador—which looks, acts and smells like the SOA—is also drawing scorn.
The school, which opened in June 2005, before the Salvadoran National Assembly had even approved it, has a satellite operation in Peru and is funded with $3.6 million from the U.S. Treasury and staffed with instructors from the DEA, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the FBI, and tasked with annually training 1,500 police officers, judges, prosecutors and other law enforcement agents in counterterrorism techniques. Its stated purpose is to make Latin America "safe for foreign investment" by "providing regional security and economic stability and combating crime."
ILEAs aren't new, but past schools located in Budapest, Hungary; Bangkok, Thailand; Gaborone, Botswana; and Roswell, N.M., haven't been terribly controversial. Yet Salvadoran human rights organizers take issue with the fact that, in true SOA fashion, the ILEA releases neither information about its curriculum nor a list of students and graduates. Additionally, the way the school slipped into existence without public oversight has raised ire.
As Wes Enzinna noted in a North American Congress on Latin America report, when the United States decided it wanted a training ground in Latin America, El Salvador was not the first choice. In 2002, U.S. officials selected Costa Rica as host, a country that doesn't even have an army. The local government signed on and the plan made headlines, but when citizens learned about it, they revolted and demanded the government change the agreement. The United States bailed for a more discreet second attempt in El Salvador.
"Members of the U.S. Congress were not briefed about the academy, nor was the main opposition party in El Salvador, the Farabundo Marti-National Liberation Front," Enzinna wrote. "But once the news media reported that the two countries had signed an official agreement in September, activists in El Salvador demanded to see the text of the document." Although they tried to garner enough opposition, the National Assembly narrowly ratified it.
Now, more than three years into the school's operation, critics point out that Salvadoran police, who account for 25 percent of the graduates, have become more violent. A May 2007 report by Tutela Legal implicated Salvadoran National Police officers in eight death squad-style assassinations in 2006.
El Salvador's ILEA recently received another $2 million in U.S. funding through the congressionally approved Merida Initiative—but still refuses to adopt a more transparent curriculum and administration, despite partnering with a well-known human rights leader. Enzinna's FOIA requests for course materials were rejected by the government, so no one knows exactly what the school is teaching, or to whom.
Sources: "Exporting U.S. 'Criminal Justice' to Latin America," "Community in Solidarity With The People of El Salvador," Upside Down World, June 14, 2007; "Another SOA?" Wes Enzinna, NACLA Report on the Americas, March/April 2008; "ILEA Funding Approved by Salvadoran Right Wing Legislators," The Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, March 15, 2007; "Is George Bush Restarting Latin America's 'Dirty Wars'?" Benjamin Dangl, AlterNet, Aug. 31, 2007.
5. Seizing Protest
Protesting war could get you into big trouble, according to a critical read of two executive orders recently signed by Bush. The first, issued July 17, 2007, and titled, "Blocking property of certain persons who threaten stabilization efforts in Iraq," allows the feds to seize assets from anyone who "directly or indirectly" poses a risk to the war in Iraq. And, citing the modern technological ease of transferring funds and assets, the order states that no prior notice is necessary before the raid.
On Aug. 1, Bush signed another order, similar but directed toward anyone undermining the "sovereignty of Lebanon or its democratic processes and institutions." In this case, the secretary of Treasury can seize the assets of anyone perceived as posing a risk of violence, as well as the assets of their spouses and dependents, and bans them all from receiving any humanitarian aid.
Critics say the orders bypass the right to due process and the vague language makes manipulation and abuse possible. Protesting the war could be perceived as undermining or threatening U.S. efforts in Iraq. "This is so sweeping, it's staggering," says Bruce Fein, a former Reagan administration Justice Department official, who editorialized against it in The Washington Times. "It expands beyond terrorism, beyond seeking to use violence or the threat of violence to cower or intimidate a population."
Sources: "Bush Executive Order: Criminalizing the Antiwar Movement," Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, July 2007; "Bush's Executive Order Even Worse Than The One on Iraq," Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, August. 2007.
6. Radicals=Terrorists
On Oct. 23, 2007, the House overwhelmingly passed, by a vote of 404-6, the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, designed to root out the causes of radicalization in Americans.
With an estimated four-year cost of $22 million, the act establishes a 10-member National Commission on the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism, as well as a university-based Center of Excellence "to examine the social, criminal, political, psychological and economic roots of domestic terrorism," according to the bill's author, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.). During debate on the bill, Harman said, "Free speech, espousing even very radical beliefs, is protected by our Constitution—but violent behavior is not."
Jessica Lee, writing in The Indypendent, pointed out that, later, Harman stated: "The National Commission {will} propose to both Congress and {Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael} Chertoff initiatives to intercede before radicalized individuals turn violent."
Which could be when they're speaking, writing and organizing in ways that are protected by the First Amendment. This redefines civil disobedience as terrorism, say civil rights experts, and the wording is too vague. For example, the definition of "violent radicalization" is "the process of adopting or promoting an extremist belief system for the purpose of facilitating ideologically based violence to advance political, religious or social change."
"What is an extremist belief system? Who defines this? These are broad definitions that encompass so much. It is criminalizing thought and ideology," says Alejandro Queral, executive director of the Northwest Constitutional Rights Center.
Although the ACLU recommended some changes that were adopted, it continued to criticize the bill. Harman, in a response letter, said free speech is still free and stood by the need to curb ideologically based violence.
The story didn't make it onto the CNN ticker, but enough independent sources reported on it that the equivalent Senate Bill 1959 has since stalled. After introducing the bill, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) later joined forces with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) on a report criticizing the Internet as a tool for violent Islamic extremism.
Despite outcry from a number of civil liberties groups, days after the report was released Lieberman demanded YouTube remove a number of Islamist propaganda videos. YouTube canned some that broke their rules regarding violence and hate speech, but resisted censoring others. The ensuing battle caught the attention of The New York Times and on May 25 they editorialized against Lieberman and S.B. 1959.
Sources: "Bringing The War on Terrorism Home," Jessica Lee, Indypendent, Nov. 16, 2007; "Examining the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act," Lindsay Beyerstein, In These Times, November 2007; "The Violent Radicalization Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007," Matt Renner, Truthout.org, Nov. 20, 2007.
7. Slavery's Runner-Up
About 121,000 people legally enter the United States to work every year with H-2 visas, a program legislators are modeling as part of future immigration reform. But Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) called this guest worker program "the closest thing I've ever seen to slavery."
The Southern Poverty Law Center likened it to "modern-day indentured servitude." They interviewed thousands of guest workers and reviewed legal cases for a report released in March 2007, in which authors Mary Bauer and Sarah Reynolds wrote, "Unlike U.S. citizens, guest workers do not enjoy the most fundamental protection of a competitive labor market—the ability to change jobs if they are mistreated. Instead, they are bound to the employers who 'import' them. If guest workers complain about abuses, they face deportation, blacklisting or other retaliation."
When visas expire, workers must leave the country, hardly making this the path to permanent citizenship that legislators are looking for. The H-2 program mimics the controversial old bracero program, established through a joint agreement between Mexico and the United States in 1942, which brought 4.5 million workers over the border during its 22 years in existence.
Many legal protections were written into the program, but in most cases they only existed on paper, in a language unreadable to employees. In 1964, the program was shuttered amid scores of human rights abuses and complaints that it undermined petitions for higher wages from U.S. workers. Soon after, United Farm Workers organized, which Cesar Chavez acknowledged would have been impossible if the bracero program still existed.
Years later, it essentially still does. The H-2A program, which accounted for 32,000 agricultural workers in 2005, has many of the same protections—and many of the same abuses. Even worse is the H-2B program, used by 89,000 non-agricultural workers annually. Created by the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986, none of the same safeguards are legally required for H-2B workers.
Still, Mexicans are literally lining up to join, the stark details of which were reported by Felicia Mello in The Nation. Furthermore, thousands of illegal immigrants are employed throughout the country, providing cheap, unprotected labor and further undermining the scant provisions of the laws. Labor contractors who connect immigrants with employers are lining their pockets with cash, while people return home with very little.
The SPLC outlined a list of comprehensive changes needed in the program and concluded: "For too long, our country has benefited from the labor provided by guest workers but has failed to provide a fair system that respects their human rights and upholds the most basic values of our democracy. The time has come for Congress to overhaul our shamefully abusive guest worker system."
Sources: "Close to Slavery," Mary Bauer and Sarah Reynolds, Southern Poverty Law Center, March 2007; "Coming to America," Felicia Mello, The Nation, June 25, 2007; "Trafficking Racket," Chidanand Rajghatta, Times of India, March 10, 2008.
8. Bush Changes the Rules
The Bush administration's Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice has been issuing classified legal opinions about surveillance for several years. As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) had access to DOJ opinions regarding presidential power and he had three declassified in order to show how the judicial branch has, in a bizarre and chilling way, assisted Bush in circumventing its own power.
According to the three memos:
1. "There is no constitutional requirement for a president to issue a new executive order whenever he wishes to depart from the terms of a previous executive order. Rather than violate an executive order, the president has instead modified or waived it;"
2. "The president, exercising his constitutional authority under Article II, can determine whether an action is a lawful exercise of the president's authority under Article II," and
3. "The Department of Justice is bound by the president's legal determinations."
Or, as Whitehouse rephrased them in a Dec. 7, 2007, Senate speech: "I don't have to follow my own rules, and I don't have to tell you when I'm breaking them. I get to determine what my own powers are. The Department of Justice doesn't tell me what the law is. I tell the Department of Justice what the law is."
The issue arose within the context of the Protect America Act, which expands government surveillance powers and gives telecom companies legal immunity for helping. Whitehouse called it, "a second-rate piece of legislation passed in a stampede in August at the behest of the Bush administration." He pointed out that the act does not prohibit spying on Americans overseas—with the exception of an executive order that permits surveillance only of Americans the attorney general determines to be "agents of a foreign power."
"In other words, the only thing standing between Americans traveling overseas and government wiretap is an executive order," Whitehouse said in an April 12 speech. "An order by this president, under the first legal theory I cited, claims he has no legal obligation to obey."
Whitehouse, a former U.S. attorney, legal counsel to Rhode Island's governor, and Rhode Island attorney general who took Senate office in 2006, went on to point out that Marbury vs. Madison, written by Chief Justice John Marshall in 1803, established that it is "emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is."
Sources: "In FISA Speech, Whitehouse Sharply Criticizes Bush Administration's Assertion of Executive Power," Sheldon Whitehouse, Dec. 7, 2007; "Down the Rabbit Hole," Marcy Wheeler, The Guardian U.K., Dec. 26, 2007.
9. Soldiers Speak Out
Hearing soldiers recount their war experiences is the closest many people come to understanding the real horror, pain and confusion of combat. One would think that might make compelling copy or powerful footage for a news outlet, but in March, when more than 300 veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan convened for four days of public testimony, the media largely ignored them.
Winter Soldier was designed to give soldiers a public forum to air some of the atrocities they witnessed. Originally convened by Vietnam Vets Against the War in January 1971, more than 100 Vietnam veterans and 16 civilians described their war experiences, including rapes, torture, brutalities and killing of non-combatants. The testimony was entered into the congressional record and filmed and shown at the Cannes Film Festival.
Iraq Veterans Against the War hosted the 2008 reprise of the 1971 hearings. Aaron Glantz, writing in One World, recalled testimony from former Marine Cpl. Jason Washburn, who said, "his commanders encouraged lawless behavior. 'We were encouraged to bring drop weapons or shovels. In case we accidentally shot a civilian, we could drop the weapon on the body and pretend they were an insurgent.'"
An investigation by Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian in The Nation that included interviews with 50 Iraq War veterans also revealed an overwhelming lack of training and resources and a general lawlessness with regard to the traditional rules of war.
Although most major news outlets managed to send staff to cover New York City's Fashion Week, few made it down to Silver Spring, Md., for the Winter Soldier hearings. Fortunately, KPFA and Pacifica Radio broadcast the testimonies live and, in an update, said they were "deluged with phone calls, e-mails and blog posts from service members, veterans and military families thanking us for breaking a cultural norm of silence about the reality of war." Testimonies can still be heard at ivaw.org.
Sources: "Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan Eyewitness Accounts of The Occupation," Iraq Veterans Against the War, March 13-16, 2008; "War Comes Home," Aaron Glantz, Aimee Allison and Esther Manilla, Pacifica Radio, March 14-16, 2008; "U.S. Soldiers Testify About War Crimes," Aaron Glantz, One World, March 19, 2008; "The Other War," Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian, The Nation, July 30, 2007.
10. APA Helps CIA Torture
Psychologists have been assisting the CIA and the U.S. military with interrogation and torture of Guantanamo detainees—which the American Psychological Association has said is fine—in spite of objections from many of its 148,000 members.
A 10-member APA task force convened on the divisive issue in July 2005 and found that assistance from psychologists was making the interrogations safe and they deferred to American standards on torture over international human-rights definitions.
The group was criticized by APA members for deliberating in secret, and later it was revealed that six of the 10 had ties to the armed services. Not only that, but as Katherine Eban reported in Vanity Fair, "Psychologists, working in secrecy, had actually designed the tactics and trained interrogators in them while on contract to the CIA."
In particular, psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, neither of whom are APA members, honed a classified military training program known as SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape), which teaches soldiers how to tough out torture if captured by enemies. "Mitchell and Jessen reverse-engineered the tactics inflicted on SERE trainees for use on detainees in the global war on terror," wrote Eban.
And, as Mark Benjamin noted in a Salon.com article, employing SERE training—which is designed to replicate torture tactics that don't abide by Geneva Conventions standards—refutes past administration assertions that current CIA torture techniques are safe and legal. "Soldiers undergoing SERE training are subject to forced nudity, stress positions, lengthy isolation, sleep deprivation, sexual humiliation, exhaustion from exercise and the use of water to create a sensation of suffocation," Benjamin wrote.
Eban's story outlined how SERE tactics were spun as "science," despite a void of data and many criticisms that building rapport works better than blows to the head. Specifically, it's been misreported that CIA torture techniques got al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah to talk, when it was actually FBI rapport-building. In spite of this, the SERE techniques became standards in interrogation manuals that eventually made their way to U.S. officers guarding Abu Ghraib.
Ongoing uproar within the APA resulted in a petition to make an official policy limiting psychologist involvement in interrogations. On Sept. 17, a majority of 15,000 voting members approved a resolution stating that psychologists may not work in settings where "persons are held outside of, or in violation of, either International Law (e.g., the U.N. Convention Against Torture and the Geneva Conventions) or the U.S. Constitution (where appropriate), unless they are working directly for the persons being detained or for an independent third party working to protect human rights."
Sources: "The CIA's Torture Teachers," Mark Benjamin, Salon.com, June 21, 2007; "Rorschach and Awe," Katherine Eban, Vanity Fair, July 17, 2007.
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12. Bush Profiteers Collect Billions From No Child Left Behind
13. Tracking Billions of Dollars Lost in Iraq
14. Mainstreaming Nuclear Waste
16. Annual Survey on Trade Union Rights
17. United Nations' Empty Declaration of Indigenous Rights
18. Cruelty and Death in Juvenile Detention Centers
19. Indigenous Herders and Small Farmers Fight Livestock Extinction
20. Marijuana Arrests Set New Record
21. NATO Considers "First Strike" Nuclear Option
22. CARE Rejects U.S. Food Aid
23. FDA Complicit in Pushing Pharmaceutical Drugs
24. Japan Questions 9/11 and the Global War on Terror
25. Bush's Real Problem with Eliot Spitzer (F. William Engdahl, Global Research)
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# 15 Worldwide Slavery
in Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009
Foreign Policy, March/April 2008
Student Researcher: Brandon Leahy
Faculty Evaluator: David McCuan, PhD
Twenty-seven million slaves exist in the world today, more than at any time in human history. Globalization, poverty, violence, and greed facilitate the growth of slavery, not only in the Third World, but in the most developed countries as well. Behind the façade in any major town or city in the world today, one is likely to find a thriving commerce in human beings.
As many as 800,000 are trafficked across international borders annually, and up to 17,500 new victims are trafficked across US borders each year, according to the US Department of Justice (DOJ). More than 30,000 additional slaves are transported through the US on their ways to other international destinations. Attorneys from the DOJ have prosecuted ninety-one slave trade cases in cities across the United States and in nearly every state of the nation.
Commerce in human beings today rivals drug trafficking and the illegal arms trade for top criminal activity on the planet. The slave trade sits at number three on the list, but the gap is closing. According to the US State Department's 2004 Trafficking in Persons Report, the FBI projects that the slave trade generates $9.5 billion in revenue each year. A report put out by the International Labor Office in 2005, titled "Global Alliance Against Forced Labor," estimates that figure to be closer to $32 billion annually.
Like the slaves who came to America's shores over 200 years ago, today's slaves are not free to pursue their own destinies. They are coerced to perform work for the personal gain of those who subjugate them. If they try to escape the clutches of their masters, modern slaves risk personal violence or reprisals to their families.
Increasingly severe and widespread poverty and social inequality ensure a growing pool of recruits. Parents in desperate straits may sell their children or at least be susceptible to scams that will allow the slave trader to take control over the lives of their sons and daughters. Young women in poverty-ridden communities are more likely to take risks on job offers in faraway locations. The poor are apt to accept loans that slave traders can later manipulate to steal their freedom. Thousands of traffickers lure children from impoverished rural parents with promises of scholarships, free schooling, and a better life. All of these paths carry unsuspecting recruits into the supply chains of slavery.
Though modern day forms of slavery are emerging to suit global markets, bonded labor continues to be the most common form of slavery in the world. In a typical scenario, an individual falls under the control of a wealthy patron after taking a small loan. The patron adds egregious rates of interest and inflated expenses to the original principal so that the laborer finds it impossible to repay. Debt slaves may spend their entire lives in service to a single slaveholder, and their "obligation" may be passed on to their children. Bondage, with no legal standing, is typically established through fraud and maintained through violence.
The United Nations, whose founding principles call for it to fight bondage in all its forms, has done little to combat modern slavery. And though since 1817 nations have signed more than a dozen international antislavery resolutions, very little effect has been realized.
Authors David Batstone and E. Benjamin Skinner are, however, impressed and heartened by the effectiveness of nongovernmental abolitionists around the world involved not only in brave acts of liberating slaves, but in launching transitional schools and training facilities for those recently freed.
When Foreign Policy published "A World Enslaved" in March 2008, they dropped a rock in a pool. There were few ripples. The mainstream media seems to have trouble grasping and presenting the concept that there are more slaves today than at any point in human history. And for understandable reasons: legal slavery was buried in most countries a long time ago. On a positive note, in its June 4 Trafficking in Persons Report the US State Department began to seriously address forms of slavery other than sex slavery. But the media seems to find little of interest in the bondage of millions who are enslaved in industries other than commercial sex. And such a narrow presentation means that the struggle against slavery in all its forms remains hidden and underfunded.
Despite the media abandonment, a handful of American citizens who had never been exposed to the issue before got involved after reading A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern Day Slavery, the book that the Foreign Policy piece excerpted. A plastic surgeon in Missouri offered his services pro bono to those survivors who had scars as a result of their slavery; a woman from North Carolina lobbied her elected officials to stop slavery in Romania; a famous visual artist is working on a series of pieces about modern-day slavery, and has offered to give the proceeds from the sales to Free The Slaves, the most effective organization working to combat slavery worldwide; other readers made their own contributions to Free The Slaves or to domestically-focused antislavery organizations like the DC-based Polaris Project. Those few Americans have made commitments that will help turn the tide against modern-day slavery—and carry on the struggle of our ancestors who were slaves and abolitionists.
#24 Japan Questions 9/11 and the Global War on Terror
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Testimony in the Japanese parliament, broadcast live on Japanese television in January 2008, challenged the premise and validity of the Global War on Terror. Parliament member Yukihisa Fujita insisted that an investigation be conducted into the war's origin: the events of 9/11.
In a parliament Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee session held to debate the ethics of renewing Japan's "anti-terror law," which commits Japan to providing logistical support for coalition forces operating in Afghanistan, Fujita opened the session by stating, "I would like to talk about the origin of this war on terrorism, which was the attacks of 9/11, . . . When discussing these anti-terror laws we should ask ourselves, what was 9/11? And what is terrorism?"
Fujita pointed out that, "So far the only thing the government has said is that we think it was caused by al-Qaeda because President Bush told us so. We have not seen any real proof that it was al-Qaeda." He reminded parliament that twenty-four Japanese citizens were killed on 9/11, yet the mandate of a criminal investigation by the Japanese government never followed. "This is a crime so surely an investigation needs to be carried out," said Fujita (Censored 2008, #16).
Fujita went on extensively to ask "about the suspicious information being uncovered and the doubts people worldwide are having about the events of 9/11."
The Japanese parliament viewed several slides from the Pentagon and World Trade Center (WTC) sites as Fujita explained each. The slides showed evidence inconsistent with official explanation: damage in and around the Pentagon was not consistent with the damage a 757 airplane would cause. Fujita noted, "Also, there were more than eighty security cameras at the Pentagon, but officials have refused to release the footage. In any case, as you have just seen, there is no picture of the airplane or of its wreckage in any of these photographs. It is very strange that no such pictures have been shown to us." A US Air Force official corroborated the fact that the plane executed a U-turn and avoided the Defense Secretary's office, a feat that would be impossible for an unskilled first-time pilot to maneuver; and no air defense was made in the ninety-minute interval between the initial impact of the planes at the WTC and the Pentagon. Fujita added, "It is baffling that no flight records were found at any of four sites." On the ground at the WTC sites, both sounds and visual evidence from explosions were verified. Flying debris shot out as far as 150 meters consistent with buildings exploding. A New York fireman during rescue operations confirmed that a series of explosions resembled a professional demolition, and a Japanese survivor heard explosions while fleeing the site. The World Trade Center Building 7 (WTC 7), forty-seven stories high and located one block away, collapsed into its footprint, seven hours after the main WTC buildings were attacked, in five or six seconds, although no plane struck it and it had minimal fire damage. Not only did the 9/11 Commission fail to mention WTC 7, but the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) made no mention of it in their reports.
Fujita went on to detail proof of insider trading from September 6 through 8, when investors executed "put options" to sell stock in United and American Airlines at a fixed price. Finance specialist Keiichiro Asao responded with confirmation that such complex transaction would be the work of insiders rather than al-Qaeda.
Fujita then addressed Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, "I would like to know why the Prime Minister thinks it was the Taliban who was responsible for 9/11." He continued, "We need to go back to the beginning and not just simply and blindly trust the US government explanation and indirect information provided by them. . . . We need to look at this evidence and ask ourselves what the war on terrorism really is. . . . We need to ask who the real victims of this war on terrorism are. I think the citizens of the world are its victims."
"Prime Minister," Fujita continued, "what about the origin of the War on Terror and the idea of whether it is right or wrong to participate in it? Is there really a reason to participate in this War on Terror?"
Fujita received support for concluding that the reason for participating in the US War on Terror needs to be investigated and analyzed. Opposition blocked the extension of Japan's anti-terror law and colleagues acknowledged his bravery with congratulatory phone calls.
This came to an end in mid-January when, after months of parliamentary debates and the opposition of at least 50 percent of the Japanese public, Fukuda rammed the anti-terror bill through parliament. After the bill was voted down by opposition in the Upper House plenary session on January 12, the government resubmitted it later that same day to the Lower House, where the ruling conservative party holds the majority, and turned a bill into a law. Thus, they overturned a veto in the Upper House.
This is the first time in half a century that a Japanese government has resorted to such tactics—deemed a drastic measure by Japanese standards.1
According to Christopher W. Hughes, professor of politics and international studies at University of Warwick, "Fukuda's government was under a lot of US pressure to re-deploy ships, and even if he was always somewhat doubtful about the importance of the mission in military terms and the whole US War on Terror, he perceived passing the bill as very important to US-Japan relations. This was also impressed upon him by a personal meeting with US President Bush."
1. Axel Berkofsky, "Japan: The Deployment Dilemma," International Relations and Security Network, January 24, 2008.
If you still believe that the English language corporate media is free, take a look behind the scenes at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan (FCCJ) and think again.
I was a member of that club for over two decades, but I had no clue about what it really represented until I tried to stage a press conference about 9/11. From that point on all sorts of nasty things started to happen and I suddenly realized the place seemed more like a nest of spies than a club for journalists.
For example, people I did not know tried to have me evicted from the club, e-mails vanished from my inbox before I got to read them, and people started to spread the word that I had mental issues.
The list of insults to press freedom at the club since that initial conference is too long to write about in detail here, so I will merely cite the most recent example.
Yukihisa Fujita, a member of parliament for the opposition Democratic Party, in a parliamentary debate broadcast nationwide on NHK, asked Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda about many of the glaring discrepancies in the official US government explanation of what happened on 9/11. A member of parliament in Japan, a US ally, showed powerful evidence on national TV that the US government murdered 3,000 of its own citizens as well as people from Japan and many other nations. I suggested we call him for a press conference, and nine working journalists—representing a potential audience of billions—agreed. Usually, only three or more yes votes from working journalists is enough for an event to go ahead. Despite this, the Wall Street Journal's James Sims, head of the Professional Activities Committee (PAC), in confederation with FCCJ President Martyn Williams, vetoed the event even though it was subject matter that they, as technical journalists, do not cover. They vetoed it in violation of Article 3 of the club bylaws that call for press freedom. Not only that, they kicked me off the PAC in a blatant attempt to shut me up.
Fujita has since been invited to speak to the EU parliament and many other venues. Fujita has been given a chance to ask more questions in parliament, and many Japanese news magazines have written about his activities. Books about 9/11 are also selling well in Japan. A growing group of Japanese politicians has become aware of what really happened on that day. The Japanese government itself actually knows the truth and is starting to affect the US–Japan alliance in fundamental ways. The Japanese government's formal replies to Fujita's questions show it is becoming increasingly suspicious that the US government murdered over twenty Japanese citizens. The long-term repercussions for US security could be huge.


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jak w szachach grozba jest wazniejsza od jej spelnienia :
The current crisis is not about Crimea. It is about the rights of
Russian-speakers throughout Ukraine whom the Kremlin wants to protect
from violence and discrimination. Russia does not want a military
intervention in Crimea and does not want to take Crimea from Ukraine.
There is a political solution to this crisis. First, create a coalition
government in Kiev composed of all parties, including those from the
east and south of the country. The current government is dominated by
anti-Russian extremists from western Ukraine.
If the extremists who seized power in Kiev do not accept Russia's
democratic proposals, Russia will likely be forced to revert to military
means to solve the crisis in Ukraine.
Second, Ukraine needs to draft a democratic constitution that has
guarantees for Ukraine's Russian-speaking population that would grant
official status to the Russian language and establish the principle of
Third, presidential and parliamentary elections must be held soon.
Independent election observers must play an active role in ensuring that
the elections are free and fair. There is a real danger that they will
be manipulated by the neo-Nazi militants who de facto seized power in a
If these democratic and peaceful solutions to the crisis in Ukraine are
rejected by the opposition forces that have seized power in Kiev, I am
afraid that Russia will have no other choice but to revert to military
means. If the junta leaders want to avoid war, they need to adopt
Moscow's peaceful and democratic proposals and adhere to them.
Those currently in power in Kiev are carrying out a political strategy
that is not so much pro-European as it is anti-Russian, as evidenced by
the surprisingly heavy-handed tactics the U.S. and European Union have
employed in Ukraine. In the end, a minority executed a violent coup that
removed the democratically elected and legitimate president of Ukraine.
The Kremlin believes that the current Ukrainian leadership will
manipulate the elections planned for May 25 to install a single leader
or coalition government functioning much as former Georgian President
Mikheil Saakashvili did in Tbilisi. A "Ukrainian Saakashvili" will
unleash an even more repressive campaign of intimidation against
Russian-speakers, one that over several years would stoke anti-Russia
hysteria among the general population.
After that, Kiev may evict Russia's Black Sea Fleet from Sevastopol and
purge Crimea of any Russian influence. Ukraine could easily become a
radicalized, anti-Russian state, at which point Kiev will fabricate a
pretext to justify taking subversive action against Moscow. This looks
especially likely considering that ruling coalition members from the
neo-fascist Svoboda and Right Sector parties have already made
territorial claims against Russia. They could easily send their army of
activists to Russia to join local separatists and foment rebellion in
the North Caucasus and other unstable regions in Russia. In addition,
Russia's opposition movement will surely want to use the successful
experience and technology of the Euromaidan protests and, with the help
and financial support of the West, try to carry out their own revolution
in Moscow. The goal: to remove President Vladimir Putin from power and
install a puppet leadership that will sell Russia's strategic interests
out to the West in the same way former President Boris Yeltsin did in
the 1990s.
The official census puts the Russian minority in Ukraine at 16 percent
of the total population, although that number was falsified. The actual
number is closer to 25 percent. Surveys indicate that 45 percent of the
country's population speak Russian at home, 45 percent speak Ukrainian
and 10 percent speak both languages. In the most recent Gallup survey,
when asked in which language they would like to be polled, 83 percent of
respondents chose Russian. Taking into account the rural population in
western and central Ukraine, about 75 percent of the people, probably
speak Russian. Of that 75 percent, only about 10 percent are those in
Kiev and a few other major cities who supported the protests. This means
that only 35 percent of the population are attempting to impose its will
on the remaining 65 percent, using a violent coup to achieve their goals.
Putin made the right decision: He did not to wait for that attack and
took preventative measures. Many in the West say the Kremlin's reactions
were paranoiac, but Germany's Jews also thought the same of leaving the
country in 1934. Most of them chose to believe they were safe and
remained in Germany even after Hitler came to power. The infamous
Kristallnacht took place five years later, one of the first early
chapters in the "Final Solution." Similarly, just four years remain
until Russia's presidential election in 2018, and there is a strong risk
that subversive forces within and outside Russia will try to overthrow
Putin, in part using their new foothold in Ukraine.
Will there be war in Ukraine? I am afraid so. After all, the extremists
who seized power in Kiev want to see a bloodbath. Only fear for their
own lives might stop them from inciting such a conflict. Russia is
prepared to move its forces into southern and eastern Ukraine if
repressive measures are used against the Russian-speaking population or
if a military intervention occurs. Russia will not annex Crimea. It has
enough territory already. At the same time, however, it will also not
stand by passively while Russophobic and neo-Nazi gangs hold the people
of Crimea, Kharkiv and Donetsk at their mercy.
Sergei Markov is director of the Institute of Political Studies.
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Area students from Carbon County high schools and Marian took part in a weeklong Youth Leadership Camp sponsored by "Leadership Carbon".
Leadership Carbon is an adult leadership development program designed to cultivate leaders for the benefit of Carbon County's future.
The adult program is part of the Carbon County Chamber of Commerce and Partners for Progress.
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The weeklong Youth Leadership Camp was the project of the adults who had already participated in Leadership Carbon.
In much the same way as the adult program, Youth Leadership Camp is also meant to prepare these youths to be the future leaders in our county.
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The first book Joanne Garver read cover-to-cover was a children's version of the adventure classic "Robinson Crusoe."
She found it when she was 8 years old on the second floor of her grandmother's "rambling country house" in Indiana.
She's now 81 and a Tucsonan living in Barrio Viejo, and health issues have made it difficult for her to leave her adobe row house, so the books come to her.
The Pima County Public Library, through a partnership with the Pima County Bike Ambassadors, has made it convenient for homebound book lovers to enjoy good reads through a monthly delivery service called Books on Wheels, recently started at three Tucson branches.
Garver is one of three people using the service at the Joel D. Valdez Main Library, but the downtown branch is hoping to expand its reach, said Karen Greene, the adult-services librarian who launched the program.
Greene previously worked for several years at the Joyner-Green Valley Branch Library, which had a staff member who delivered books to homebound patrons. When that employee retired, that position wasn't filled, Greene said.
Because of the sizable homebound population in Green Valley, Greene made it a volunteer program, and it has been serving patrons for more than five years.
"There were a lot of folks who had to give up their car keys," she said, "They couldn't drive anymore, and the fact that people could come and bring them books they were interested in was really huge."
About a year ago Greene was working with Matt Zoll, the bicycle and pedestrian program manager with the Pima County Department of Transportation, on another library program and suggested having bike ambassadors deliver books to patrons.
Zoll jumped on board, she said.
Greene presented the idea to Tucson-area library branches to see if they would be interested in being part of the pilot program. The Himmel Park and Murphy-Wilmot branches joined the effort in October and the Main Library in February.
"We didn't want to overextend ourselves so we started really small to make sure that we can actually do this," Greene said.
Library volunteers select books for users of the service based on their interests or requests. When possible the branches try to match volunteers and patrons with similar reading interests, Greene said.
A bike ambassador picks up the books once a month at the branches, delivers them and returns any the patron has finished.
Garver spends a lot of time reading about local history, eager to learn more about the city her mother, a nurse at the Desert Sanatorium, and her father, a real estate agent, called home for several years.
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I type this at 6 a.m., as my daughter and a friend are up after a sleepover. And by "sleepover," I mean a three-hour nap.
Speaking of sleepovers, my son is at his own sleepover. No stranger to shenanigans, guess who tried to FaceTime me at 3 a.m.?
Yesterday, before the sleepover, we went to the movies and roller skating. Lots of kids activities happenig this vacation week, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
This is the first year, post-divorce, that I've felt most settled, most at peace. That's not to say that I haven't felt a lot of pain or, at times, been full of doubts or felt really, really angry. But I know something happened this year that took me to another place emotionally.
This is the first year I felt truly confident about how I balanced obligations toward teaching and the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. I actually slept for more than five hours a night, most nights (not last night). Also, my relationship with Alex and Ella is stronger than ever. Even when the kids want to zig and I want to zag, we're learning from each other. We're learning how to be kind(er) to each other. We need each other. Their need for security in a single-parent home is something I don't take for granted.
And my relationships with my friends and family feel more connected and authentic--if that's even possible. I just feel more connected to my community as a whole. I am most grateful to those who share their light and love with me--even when they don't know it's happening.
So what's caused this great internal shift?
If I had to trace it back to its origin, I'd say the two weeks I spent in August at writers retreats changed my perspective. Specifically, the week I spent at the Fine Arts Work Center and Marie Howe changed how I approached writing on a fundamental level. Being in the moment, writing down my observations, writing with intention--all of those things have made it easier to write. It's given me a new confidence about my abilities and a way to better handle self-doubt.
I trust my voice more than ever.
This new-found ability to be in the moment has made the other parts of my life easier. I see more of a connection among all parts of my existence, which has given this great sense of peace. Some might call it living with purpose, or living more wholeheartedly. Whatever it's called, I'm in. I live with a clarity of purpose that has simplified my life. Go figure.
So when I think about goals for the New Year, I don't see them as separate areas. Getting a better handle on finances or working on my health are not that far from writing consistently or working on better a relationship with my children.
If I had to distill what worked for me in 2013 that I will carry into the New Year, here it is:
- Be in the moment
- Have a vision
- Try harder, fail harder
- Ditch what's not working
Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
As Marie says, "It's hard to be present."
For the record, here are my goals for 2014:
1. Continue to stay connected to my writing (Poetry Action Plan in a separate post)
2. More love, more laughter
3. Maintain a consistent workout routine
4. Get financially fit
Wishing you all the best in 2014, dear reader!


text: "The Martin Marietta proposal offers a reality-based opportunity to Vulcan shareholders who will receive an upfront premium, 58% ownership in the combined company, a meaningful dividend and the synergies and any cyclical recovery that would benefit the combined company."As previously announced, on December 12, 2011, Martin Marietta commenced an exchange offer in which each outstanding share of Vulcan will be exchanged for 0.50 Martin Marietta shares. The offer represents a premium for Vulcan shareholders of 15% to the average exchange ratio based on the closing share prices for Vulcan and Martin Marietta during the 10-day period ended December 9, 2011 and 18% to the average exchange ratio based on the closing share prices for Vulcan and Martin Marietta during the 30-day period ended December 9, 2011. Martin Marietta also intends to maintain the dividend for the combined company at Martin Marietta's current rate of $1.60 per Martin Marietta share annually, or the equivalent of $0.80 per Vulcan share annually, based on the proposed exchange ratio. This dividend rate is 20 times Vulcan's current level. Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements This press release may include "forward-looking statements." Statements that include words such as "anticipate," "expect," "should be," "believe," "will," and other words of similar meaning in connection with future events or future operating or financial performance are often used to identify forward-looking statements. All statements in this press release, other than those relating to historical information or current conditions, are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond Martin Marietta's control, which could cause actual results to differ materially from such statements. Risks and uncertainties relating to the proposed transaction with Vulcan include, but are not limited to: Vulcan's willingness to accept Martin Marietta's proposal and enter into a definitive transaction agreement reasonably satisfactory to the parties; Martin Marietta's ability to obtain shareholder, antitrust and other approvals on the proposed terms and schedule; uncertainty as to the actual premium that will be realized by Vulcan shareholders in connection with the proposed transaction; uncertainty of the expected financial performance of the combined company following completion of the proposed transaction; Martin Marietta's ability to achieve the cost-savings and synergies contemplated by the proposed transaction within the expected time frame; Martin Marietta's ability to promptly and effectively integrate the businesses of Vulcan and Martin Marietta; a downgrade of the credit rating of Vulcan's indebtedness, which could give rise to an obligation to redeem Vulcan's existing indebtedness; the potential implications of alternative transaction structures with respect to Vulcan, Martin Marietta and/or the combined company, including potentially requiring an offer to repurchase certain of Martin Marietta's existing debt; the implications of the proposed transaction on certain of Martin Marietta's and Vulcan's employee benefit plans; and disruption from the proposed transaction making it more difficult to maintain relationships with customers, employees or suppliers. Additional risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: the performance of the United States economy; decline in aggregates pricing; the inability of the U.S. Congress to pass a successor federal highway bill; the discontinuance of the federal gasoline tax or other revenue related to infrastructure construction; the level and timing of federal and state transportation funding, including federal stimulus projects; the ability of states and/or other entities to finance approved projects either with tax revenues or alternative financing structures; levels of construction spending in the markets that Martin Marietta and Vulcan serve; a decline in the commercial component of the nonresidential construction market, notably office and retail space; a slowdown in residential construction recovery; unfavorable weather conditions, particularly Atlantic Ocean hurricane activity, the late start to spring or the early onset of winter and the impact of a drought or excessive rainfall in the markets served by Martin Marietta and Vulcan; the volatility of fuel costs, particularly diesel fuel, and the impact on the cost of other consumables, namely steel, explosives, tires and conveyor belts; continued increases in the cost of other repair and supply parts; transportation availability, notably barge availability on the Mississippi River system and the availability of railcars and locomotive power to move trains to supply Martin Marietta's and Vulcan's long haul distribution markets; increased transportation costs, including increases from higher passed-through energy and other costs to comply with tightening regulations as well as higher volumes of rail and water shipments; availability and cost of construction equipment in the United States; weakening in the steel industry markets served by Martin Marietta's dolomitic lime products; inflation and its effect on both production and interest costs; Martin Marietta's ability to successfully integrate acquisitions and business combinations quickly and in a cost-effective manner and achieve anticipated profitability to maintain compliance with Martin Marietta's leverage ratio debt covenants; changes in tax laws, the interpretation of such laws and/or administrative practices that would increase Martin Marietta's and/or Vulcan's tax rate; violation of Martin Marietta's debt covenant if price and/or volumes return to previous levels of instability; a potential downgrade in the rating of Martin Marietta's or Vulcan's indebtedness; downward pressure on Martin Marietta's or Vulcan's common stock price and its impact on goodwill impairment evaluations; the highly competitive nature of the construction materials industry; the impact of future regulatory or legislative actions; the outcome of pending legal proceedings; healthcare costs; the amount of long-term debt and interest expense incurred; changes in interest rates; volatility in pension plan asset values which may require cash contributions to pension plans; the impact of environmental clean-up costs and liabilities relating to previously divested businesses; the ability to secure and permit aggregates reserves in strategically located areas; exposure to residential construction markets; and the impact on the combined company (after giving effect to the proposed transaction with Vulcan) of any of the foregoing risks, as well as other risk factors listed from time to time in Martin Marietta's and Vulcan's filings with the SEC.


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Potential harms of type 2 diabetes drugs have been ignored, finds BMJ investigationBMJ 2013; 346 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f3782 (Published 11 June 2013) Cite this as: BMJ 2013;346:f3782
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Drug regulators and manufacturers have been criticised for failing to take enough action in response to research highlighting the potential serious adverse effects of new forms of drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes, known as glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) based drugs.
A joint investigation by the BMJ and Channel 4's Dispatches current affairs programme has found that concerns about the drugs, also called incretin therapies, started to emerge in 2007.1 Since then many published reports, regulatory documents, and adverse event databases have highlighted concerns about the safety of these drugs and linked them with an increased risk of …
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Shares of The Bancorp ( TBBK) of Wilmington, Del., closed at $9.39 Monday, returning 30% year-to-date, after declining 29% during 2011. The shares trade for 1.1 times tangible book value, and for 11 times the consensus 2013 EPS estimate of 87 cents. The consensus 2012 EPS estimate is 51 cents. Sterne Agee's price target for The Bancorp is $11, implying 17% upside for the shares. The Bancorp specializes in prepaid cards, and with total assets of $3.2 billion as of June 30, the company is exempt from the Durbin Amendment's cap on debit card interchange fees, which the Federal Reserve implemented for banks with over $10 billion in total assets, in October 2011. Sterne Agee analyst Matthew Kelley on Monday said that The Bancorp was one of his firm's "favorite small cap growth stocks in the financial sector," with operating revenue "expected to increase by 25% and 23% in 2012 and 2013," while fee income from prepaid cards "is expected to grow by 49% and 29% in 2012 and 2013 and will represent 33% and 35% of revenues, up from 28% in 2011." Looking ahead, Kelley said that "with EPS growing at a 50%
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The Wild West or the mild west?
The Wild West or the mild west? Internet experts work through the challenges of the digital frontier
Wellington, 26 November 2012
The Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Hon Amy Adams, today launched Netsafe's 2012 'Our community: Our challenge' conference. Over 100 delegates from the digital safety and security community gathered to develop solutions for a range of challenges in the digital environment.
They have heard industry representatives from Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Sophos, and the NZ Game Developers Association share their views on the future trends that will impact the community as well as preeminent Australian psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg, Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff and David Rutherford, Chief Human Rights Commissioner.
By far the highlight was the light hearted debate involving a panel of experts discussing the moot, 'The Internet is still the Wild West'. Michael Carr-Greg compared the internet to the19th century American frontier with our young people battling the unknown in 'Cyberia' and their parents playing it safe in the mother country watching from a distance.
Stephen Knightly, Chair of the New Zealand Game Developers Association, took the opposing view and suggested the internet was in fact regulated by capitalism and that 'draw partner' had been replaced with the Draw Something app on your iPhone.
"There's been plenty of discussion and interest from presenters and attendees about how we can work together to address the challenges presented in the online environment", said Martin Cocker, NetSafe Executive Director. "The great thing about day one of the conference is the enthusiasm from the different representatives to work together to help solve the challenges faced by the community."
Tomorrow conference participants will hear from international expert and keynote speaker Stephen Balkam, CEO of the Washington, DC based Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) as well as the Hon Judith Collins, Minister of Justice and experts from across the ditch.
You can follow live coverage on Twitter using the hashtag #netsafe2012. Outcomes from the conference will be published online.


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Quote:In my opinion it just seemed like the whole Captain role was just introduced as an excuse to have a white main character in a samurai movie...Also, the fact that EVERY single asian good guy died was sort of depressing.
Quote: Most of you prob already know Last Samurai was filmed here in NZ, + we now own one of the stunt horses in our club.
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Covington, La. -- Stirling Properties has announced it will develop a new full-service Walgreens drugstore in Gulfport, Miss.
The proposed Walgreens will be located on a former Gulfmart Shopping Center site. Stirling Properties is providing development services, including lease negotiation, financing, and project management, to a third party owner of the property.
The 13,650-sq.-ft. store will have a drive-thru window and full service pharmacy and will serve as a catalyst for future retail development of that corridor. The Gulfport store is slated to begin construction in January and open in third quarter 2013.


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The Beaver Falls boys basketball won a PIAA Class AA title and finished the season as the No. 1 ranked team, according to the (Harrisburg) Patriot-News and Pennlive.com. But the Tigers weren't the only WPIAL team to finish the season …
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Don Branaman was new to running when the Cinco de Mayo 10K got its start 33 years ago.
The retired firefighter has run in every one since.
"It's a great race to attract a lot of newcomers to running," said Branaman, who serves on the board of the nonprofit Southern Arizona Roadrunners, which hosts the event.
The course is scenic, with gentle hills. The event is well organized, he said, and offers nice prizes including full-sized margarita glasses and gift certificates. And it's followed by a Mexican burrito breakfast, a mariachi band and kids activities. It all makes for a nice start to the day.
Organizers expect 1,000 people to run and walk on May 5.
That first year, Branaman was one of about 250 runners. The race started at Fort Lowell Park, 2900 N. Craycroft Road, and headed east on River Road.
The course has changed a few times over the years, but has been at Cholla High Magnet School more than a decade.
There is also a 2-mile fun run and walk, and walkers get a half-hour head start on the 10K.
Branaman was about 38 when he started running. "I needed to lose weight and I picked up a book at the swap meet for 10 cents, "Positive Addiction" (by William Glasser)," he said.
Branaman embraced the concept that running at least five days a week for two years would lead to positive change. He started walking and running around the park near his house, then worked up to 10 miles a day seven days a week.
"I haven't missed a day of running in the 35 years since I started," said Branaman, now 74.
The biggest change in Tucson's running scene that he has noticed over the years is the increase in the number of women taking part.
The Cinco de Mayo run attracts runners and walkers of all ages - from teens to people in their 80s, said Mary Lasser, who co-directs the race with Kara Middendorf.
The event also draws a fair number of participants each year from Better Than Ever, the University of Arizona Cancer Center's fitness training program that raises money to support research.
Another tradition that has evolved is the challenge to see which runner can wear the oldest Cinco de Mayo T-shirt.
Branaman estimated that there are about 15 to 20 others who have taken part from the very beginning.
If you go
• What: Dr. Gann's Diet of Hope Cinco de Mayo 10K and 2-mile fun run and walk.
• When: 6:30 a.m. (walkers) 7 a.m. (runners) May 5.
• Where: Cholla High Magnet School, 2001 W. Starr Pass Blvd.
• Cost: $32 until 11:59 p.m. Friday; $37 through race day. Includes a technical shirt and traditional post-race breakfast featuring hot breakfast burritos from El Saguarito Mexican Food, a mariachi band and more. For the kids: a sombrero-topped race, pinata, jumping castle and water balloon toss.
• Register: Online at active.com or in person from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. May 4 at TriSports, 4495 S. Coach Drive; or from 5:30-6:30 a.m. race day at Cholla High Magnet School. Only cash or checks are accepted for payment in person.


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Ed Tait and Gary Lawless discuss the Blue Bombers and Roughriders rivalry leading into the Aug 7 game in Winnipeg, the first of three in five games for the teams.
Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 6/8/2014 (1112 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.


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My ex is delinquent on child support - and is self employed so we can't garnish his wages. I just found out though - the feds will take it out of his tax refund! hopefully this...
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NEW YORK, April 11 (Reuters) - Dan Fuss, known as the Warren Buffett of bonds, said his $23 billion Loomis Sayles Bond Fund is sitting on more than 20 percent of cash and cash equivalents, its highest level ever, because he sees scant opportunities in the bond market.
"If we saw a lot of value, we wouldn't have those reserves," Fuss told Reuters in an interview on Friday.
Fuss, vice chairman and portfolio manager at Loomis Sayles, which oversaw $199.8 billion as of Dec. 31, said the Loomis Sayles Bond portfolio has been building cash since early 2013 and has boosted levels as fixed-income securities have become increasingly pricey.
"The bond market is a bid-only market," Fuss said. "The danger in the corporate bond market is not the availability in the money. The problem is that for providing the money for an extended period of time, you don't get the same amount of protection that you used to on the lower-rated credits."
Fuss called junk bonds and corporate debt securities "high-priced."
"At the long end of corporates, the liquidity is great if you're a seller," he said. "It's non-existent if you're a buyer."
Fuss said Loomis did not participate in Greece's auction on Thursday of five-year bonds, which marked the country's return to the bond market after nearly crashing out of the euro zone two years ago. Greece sold the bonds at a yield less than 5 percent.
In 2014, the Loomis Sayles Bond Fund has posted a return of 3.94 percent, outperforming 86 percent of its peers, according to Morningstar data. Over the past 10 years, on an annualized basis it has returned 8.24 percent, surpassing 94 percent of its peers for the same period, according to Morningstar data.
For its five-year record, the Loomis Sayles Bond Fund has posted returns of 14.94 percent, ahead of 86 percent of its peers. (Reporting by Jennifer Ablan; Editing by Leslie Adler)


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My gunshow find............
Picked up this Ruger Single Six .22 at the gun show in Memphis Saturday. Price was $200, and I believe the gun is unfired:
It's a welcome addition, as I've been .22-less for some time.
Bob Wright
Congratulations! That's a great find, a great revolver and a great price. Geez, I'm starting to sound like Tony the Tiger. :D
Nice acquisition. Those run about $50 - $75 more where I live.
Did it come with a .22 mag cylinder also? I have a .22 pistol with a LR and Mag cylinders. Have you fired it yet? This might sound stupid but make sure you wear hearing protection, those .22 revolvers will really ring your ears.
No, no magnum cylinder, unfortunately. Hearing protection? You bet I do. Obviously you don't know me very well. Big .44s and .45s are staples in my shooting diet!
Know very well about ringing ears, as I started shooting before hearing protection was invented. We used cotton balls, and later when they became fashionalbe, cigarette filters.
Bob Wright
Is this what you're talking about? hooooo how I love my 44 Bisley.
You got a great deal on that Ruger 22!!
I never got into the Bisley. Despite what others have stated, I found it whacked my knuckle with heavy loads. I set up several guns as Blackhawks, Bisleys, and Super Blackhawks and tried each with heavy loads, finding, for me, the Super Blackhawk handled the heavy loads better.
These are some of my .45s, the one with stag grips originall a Bisley:
And, here's a couple of my .44s, both three-screw guns:
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Inês Albuquerque – Currently a PhD student, Inês has been working at the IMM, in Lisbon (Portugal), studying cerebral malaria and anti-malarial strategies for the past 4 years. She is interested in infectious diseases, Parasitology and drug-design and she intends to pursue a research career in vaccine development. In her spare time, she is a photographer-wannabe.
Christine Archer – A Registered Veterinary Technician at the University of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada. Since 2009, her work has involved ensuring that the health and welfare needs of animals at multiple university facilities are being met. Currently, she manages the zebrafish facility in the university's aquatics core department, which includes the training of all new zebrafish users. She's keenly interested in developing and improving husbandry practices for non-traditional animals in research.
Jeremy D. Bailoo – a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Bern in the division of Animal Welfare. He has worked with rodents and nonhuman primates at the intersection of basic science and human health and disease. In his current position he is examining the hypothesis that both impaired welfare and poor reproducibility of experimental results are caused by a failure to account for the nature and limitations of phenotypic plasticity.
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Marco Delli Zotti – Physician, chief of the Scientific Committee and founding member of Pro-Test Italia; for his dissertation, he has made and discussed a study on patient's survival after cytoreduction and intraperitoneal hypertermic chemoperfusion (HIPEC) for primary and secondary tumors, during his study in the University of Udine. He has a great interest in rare diseases, emergency medicine, pharmacology and internal medicine.
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To make white; to whiten; to whitewash; to bleach.
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Whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of . . . uncleanness. --Matt. xxiii. 27. [1913 Webster]
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