tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46264035718235558292024-03-28T15:18:24.817-04:00Today's Insight News“Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas” attributed to American Writer/Activist Helen Adams Keller: Bennett's 2nd Insight Studyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07886391571898759108noreply@blogger.comBlogger1066125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4626403571823555829.post-80225122460975747632017-05-16T16:49:00.001-04:002017-05-16T16:54:06.710-04:00DARK or NOT HR/WJ (Bill) Clintons’ long slog of Self-Interest Pandering to Private Interests Domestic and Foreign — 1970s – 2017<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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● <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>WHITEWATER</b></span>—Before
the Washington years (1970s and 1980s), Bill and Hillary Clinton with associates
Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal implicated in wrongdoing connected with an
Arkansas land deal in the Whitewater Development Corporation. Investigations of
Hillary and Bill which proceeded through the 1990s “found insufficient evidence
linking them with the criminal conduct of others related to the land deal.”
Susan McDougal was later pardoned by U.S. President William (Bill) Clinton. </div>
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<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Zr7AvmmWylc/WRtgsK2tPgI/AAAAAAAAT1Y/Xcg_39VaWiIKC-V8nmKfsargb3DRdWleQCLcB/s1600/whitewater%2Bfoster%2Band%2Bclintons.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Zr7AvmmWylc/WRtgsK2tPgI/AAAAAAAAT1Y/Xcg_39VaWiIKC-V8nmKfsargb3DRdWleQCLcB/s1600/whitewater%2Bfoster%2Band%2Bclintons.jpg" /></a>●<span style="color: blue;"><b>DEATH</b></span> of <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>VINCE FOSTER</b></span>—Rose Law firm partner to Hillary Clinton Vincent Walker “Vince”
Foster Jr. dies in Washington in 1993 while connected with Bill Clinton
administration. An Arkansas physician prescribes over the phone an
“anti-depressant” drug, trazodone, and Foster is found dead a day later in Fort
Marcy Park, a federal park in Virginia. In his briefcase was “a draft
resignation letter” containing “a list of grievances” among them that “‘WSJ
(Wall Street Journal) editors lie without consequence.’” According to reports, Foster had added in the
torn up letter that in Washington “‘ruining people is considered sport.’”
Investigations determined the death a suicide but questions surrounding his
death continued for years. ●[A series
of investigative press reports called the Arkansas Project funded primarily by
conservative businessman Richard Mellon Scaife in 1993 re-opened allegations
that then-Governor Bill Clinton had sexually harassed an Arkansas state
employee and reexaminations of the death of White House aide Vincent Foster,
and the Clinton’s 1970s’ Whitewater real estate investment.]</blockquote>
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●“<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>FILEGATE</b></span>”:
Bill and Hillary in the Whitehouse come under “allegations” of improper access
to and use of files. Senior White House figures—including First Lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton—“may have requested and read the files for political purposes
and that the First Lady had authorized the hiring of the under-qualified
(Craig) Livingstone (as) …, director of the White House’s Office of Personnel
Security” who had “improperly requested, and received from the FBI, background
reports concerning several hundred individuals without asking permission.” In
1998 an independent counsel exonerated the First Lady but lawsuits continued
into the 2000s until on March 9, 2010, Federal Judge Royce C. Lamberth
dismissed the final “filegate” lawsuit. </blockquote>
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●<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">CLINTON FO</span><span style="color: blue;">UNDATI</span><span style="color: #cc0000;">ON </span></b>(founded in 1997 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization) and U.S.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton—during her tenure “a number of individuals,
organizations, and countries allegedly contributed to the Clinton Foundation
either prior to, or while, pursuing interests through ordinary channels with
the U.S. State Department.” The Foundation “accepted several million dollars in
donations from seven foreign governments including a donation from one
government—that of Algeria (2010 $500,000 from Algeria) —in violation of
Clinton’s agreement with the administration. </blockquote>
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Russian atomic energy agency (Rosatom) acquires Uranium One, a Canadian company
with global uranium mining stakes including 20 percent of the uranium
production capacity in the United States; and since uranium is considered a
strategic asset with national security implications, the acquisition was
analyzed by a committee of nine government agencies, including the State
Department, which was then headed by (Hillary) Clinton. April 2015 (source NYT)
“the family foundation of Uranium One’s chairman” donates to the Clinton
Foundation (undisclosed by the Clintons) amounts totaling “$2.35 million.”</div>
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●<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>CF-SECRETARY
of STATE CLINTON-SWISS BANK</b></span> dealings: “the Internal Revenue Service was suing
Switzerland’s largest bank, UBS AG, to obtain information on Americans with
secret accounts at the bank.…” The Wall Street Journal reports “‘an unusual
intervention by the top U.S. diplomat’,” Clinton announces “a tentative
settlement between UBS and the IRS.” After the 2009 “settlement,” the Clinton
Foundation accepts increased donations from USB—from a cumulative total of
“$60,000” through 2008 growing to “$600,000” by 2014 and a payment to Bill
Clinton of “$1.5 million for a series of question-and-answer sessions with its
(the bank’s) CEO.” The payment became Bill Clinton’s “top source of corporate
speech income … between 2001 and 2014.” </blockquote>
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●<span style="color: blue;"><b>CF/HR CLINTON</b></span> Secretary of State/<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>PRIVATE INTEREST</b></span>—conflict
of “‘extraordinary proportion indicating her (Secretary of State Clinton’s) possible
ethics challenges if elected president’” (source 2016 Associated Press). Of the
154 people with “private interests” whom “Clinton met or had phone
conversations with while Secretary of State,” reportedly a total of “85 donors
contributed as much as $156 million to the <br />
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●<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>CLINTON
FOUNDATION</b></span> circa 2009-2012 (source PolitiFact) accepted “millions
of dollars from Australia, Dominican Republic, Kuwait, Norway, Qatar and Oman, and
tripled donations from the United Kingdom.” ● “Four field offices of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation—in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, and Little Rock, Arkansas”
(source October 2016 Wall Street Journal report)—“had been collecting
information about the Clinton Foundation to determine whether ‘there was
evidence of financial crimes or influence-peddling.’” </blockquote>
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●<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">DEATH </span><span style="color: blue;">of another</span></b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b> COLLEAGUE</b></span>—District of Columbia Metropolitan
Police Department (MPDC) posts $25,000 reward for information about the death; WikiLeaks
offers a $20,000 reward for information leading to a conviction; and lobbyist
Jack Burkman offers $105,000. Seth Conrad Rich (January 3, 1989 – July 10, 2016) was a
27-year old Democratic Party National Committee employee who reportedly was shot
in the back in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and died from
his wounds. [Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-native Jack Burkman, president of Burkman
Associates, LLC., in June 2016 “held an event called ‘Lobbyist for Trump’ and
invited major lobbyists of Washington, D.C., to help raise money for Donald
Trump’s presidential campaign”; and in July 2016 “helped fundraising for ‘Free
the Delegates,’ an anti-Trump effort to change delegate rules for the 2016
Republican National Convention.”]</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b> Sources:</b></i></span> Wikipedia English: Whitewater controversy, Vince
Foster, Arkansas Project, White House FBI Files controversy, Clinton
Foundation-State Department controversy, Murder of Seth Rich</div>
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewater_controversy</div>
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Foster</div>
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Project</div>
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_FBI_files_controversy</div>
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Foundation%E2%80%93State_Department_controversy</div>
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Seth_Rich</div>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Burkman<br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><i>A lifelong American writer and writer/activist</i></span> (former academic and staffer with the U.S. government in Washington), Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett is credentialed in education and print journalism and public affairs (PhD, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; MA, The American University, Washington, DC). Her work concerns itself with news and current affairs, historical contexts, and ideas particularly related to acts and consequences of U.S. foreign relations, geopolitics, human rights, war and peace, and violence and nonviolence.
Dr. Bennett is an internationalist and nonpartisan progressive personally concerned with society and the common good. An educator at heart, her career began with the U.S. Peace Corps, teaching in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Since then, she has authored several books and numerous current-affairs articles; her latest book: UNCONSCIONABLE: How The World Sees Us: World News, Alternative Views, Commentary on U.S. Foreign Relations; most thoughts, articles, edited work are posted at Bennett’s Study: http://todaysinsightnews.blogspot.com/ and on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/carolynladelle.bennett.
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Her books are also available at independent bookstores in New York State: Lift Bridge in Brockport; Sundance in Geneseo; Dog Ears Bookstore and Literary Arts Center in Buffalo; Burlingham Books in Perry; The Bookworm in East AuroraBennett's 2nd Insight Studyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07886391571898759108noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4626403571823555829.post-70234699679910255342017-04-25T12:45:00.001-04:002017-04-25T12:46:29.875-04:0021st century CIVILIAN Nürnberg needed<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">One of the Tribunal's Chief Prosecutors<br />Soviet Union Lieutenant-General <br />Roman
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Thoughts by Carolyn LaDelle Bennett</div>
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In a world, in a
nation under laws, ignorance, inexperience, stupidity do not excuse and may not
credibly be used to excuse violence, violent aggression against sovereign
states, their people, their cultures, institutions, infrastructures, indeed
(the young) their futures. Those who commit such crimes against humanity and
against the peace must be arrested and brought to stand before a court of
justice. No exceptions. </div>
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The endless cycle of violence manufactured and
sustained in a vicious pattern of making/naming/defining “terrorists” (var.
convenient names) - fighting “terrorists” - making/naming/defining “terrorists”
- fighting “terrorists” — this deadly harm and impunity perpetrated by U.S.
leaders and Western (NATO) leaders in the post-World War II (post-Nuremberg)
era must be stopped and there is no other way except through law. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>On November 19, 1945</i></span>, at the Palace of Justice in
Nuremberg (Germany) was convened the International Military Tribunal its first
session presided over by Soviet Union Supreme Court Judge/Major-General Iona
Timofeevich Nikitchenko. The prosecution (represented by chief prosecutors
United Kingdom Attorney General Hartley Shawcross, United States Supreme Court
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Justice Robert H. Jackson, Soviet Union Lieutenant-General Roman Andreyevich
Rudenko, and French politician and professor of law François de Menthon later
French politician and jurist Auguste Champetier de Ribes, France) brought
indictments for “Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the
accomplishment of a crime against peace”; “Planning, initiating and waging wars
of aggression and other crimes against peace”; “War crimes”; “Crimes against
humanity.”<br />
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<i><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>A lifelong American writer and writer/activist (former academic and staffer with the U.S., </b></span></i><i><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>government in Washington), Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett</b></span></i> is credentialed in education and print journalism and public affairs (PhD, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; MA, The American University, Washington, DC). Her work concerns itself with news and current affairs, historical contexts, and ideas particularly related to acts and consequences of U.S. foreign relations, geopolitics, human rights, war and peace, and violence and nonviolence.
Dr. Bennett is an internationalist and nonpartisan progressive personally concerned with society and the common good. An educator at heart, her career began with the U.S. Peace Corps, teaching in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Since then, she has authored several books and numerous current-affairs articles; her latest book: UNCONSCIONABLE: How The World Sees Us: World News, Alternative Views, Commentary on U.S. Foreign Relations; most thoughts, articles, edited work are posted at Bennett’s Study: http://todaysinsightnews.blogspot.com/ and on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/carolynladelle.bennett.<br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">With </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">all due</span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"> respect …</span></b></i></div>
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ame giving, taking or changing is not about “Justice” nor
can name-tinkering secure justice, ensure redress or respect, change history or
mend relations. Only people with people can accomplish and ensure substantive
change. Anything other than this is transitory, merely show. Moreover the varieties
of “Indian” are almost too many to count. </div>
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the aboriginal native inhabitants of the Americas from at least 1553 as a noun
(1610s as an adjective), reflecting Spanish and Portuguese use, on the mistaken
notion that America was the eastern end of Asia (it was also used occasionally
18c.-19c. of inhabitants of the Philippines and indigenous peoples of Australia
and New Zealand. The Old English adjective was Indisc, and Indish (adj.) was
common in 16c. ● Red Indian: used to distinguish the native Americans from
inhabitants of India; first attested 1831 in British English (Carlyle) but was
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intelligence, such as
Indian gift: An Indian gift: a proverbial expression signifying a present for
which an equivalent return is expected. [Thomas Hutchinson’s ‘History of
Massachusetts Bay’, 1765]; Indian giver ‘one who gives a gift and then asks for
it back’ (1848). Indian elephant (c. 1600); Indian corn (from 1620s); to walk
Indian file (from 1758); Indian club (from 1824), a weapon (clubs noted in
Lewis & Clark as characteristic weapons of native warriors in the American
West), (1825) exercise equipment; Indian-head (from 1862,adjective): referring to
U.S. copper pennies with a portrait of an Indian in profile. Injun: (1812, from
1683 ‘Ingin’), a spelling representing the early American English colloquial
pronunciation of Indian; Honest Injun: (first recorded 1868) as an asseveration
of truthfulness; noun phrase honest Indian (attested from 1676, Massachusetts).
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Indian: one of the native languages of American Indians— Indian, adjective; Indianness,
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nation of India: Indian people, people of Indian nationality, or people who are
citizens or residents of India; non-resident Indian and person of Indian
origin, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country.<br />
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Americans in the United States, the indigenous people in the United States; Plains
Indians, the common name for the Native Americans who lived on the Great Plains
of the United States; First Nations, the various Aboriginal peoples in Canada
who are neither Inuit nor Métis; Indigenous peoples in South America, peoples
living in South America in the pre-Colombian era and their descendants; Native
Mexicans, indigenous people of Mexico; West Indians, people from the Caribbean
region and the Lucayan Archipelago; Mardi Gras Indians, African-American
Carnival revelers in New Orleans, Louisiana, whose suits are influenced by
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the 19th century; Languages: Indigenous languages of the Americas, spoken by
indigenous peoples from Alaska and Greenland to the southern tip of South
America; Languages of India, including Indo-Aryan languages and Dravidian
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In the Arts/Music/Film/other Entertainment: Indian (1996 film), a Tamil film; Indian
(2001 film), a Hindi film; Indians (musician): moniker of Danish singer Søren
Løkke Juul accompanied by some musicians also collectively known as Indians; ‘Indian’
(song), by Sturm und Drang; Indian (soundtrack), an album from the 1996 film; Indians
(song), by Anthrax; Indian (card game), a simple card game that involves
strategy; Indian soap opera/soap operas written, produced, and filmed in India;
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<b>usiness and Sport</b>: Indian (airline), now defunct state-owned
airline of India; Indian Motorcycle Manufacturing Company, an American company
later called Indian Manufacturing Company, that produced the brand ‘Indian
motorcycles’ from 1901 to 1953 ● Cleveland Indians, a professional baseball team
based in Cleveland, Ohio; Frölunda HC or Frölunda Indians, a Swedish
professional ice hockey club based in Gothenburg; Indianapolis Indians, a minor
league baseball team based in Indianapolis, Indiana; Indios de Mayagüez, a
baseball team in the Puerto Rican Professional Baseball League; Mumbai Indians,
a franchise cricket team representing the city of Mumbai in the Indian Premier
League; Springfield Indians, a minor professional ice hockey franchise,
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<b>laces</b>: Indian, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in
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several rivers and communities; Indian Run, streams in the U.S. states of
Pennsylvania and West Virginia; Indian subcontinent; The Indians, British
Virgin Islands islets group (Wikipedia) ● Indiana: (1765 in English): name
given to the region north of the Ohio River (mid-18c. by French explorers or
settlers); Indian + Latin-derived place-name suffix –ana); Indianian (1784) (source:
Etymology online) ● West Indies/West Indian: Caribbean islands explored by
Columbus, 1550s, reflecting the belief (or hope) that they were western
outliers of the Indies of Asia; West Indian (from 1580s in reference to the
native inhabitants, 1650s in reference to European settlers there, and 1928 in
reference to people of West Indian ancestry) ● Indonesia: ‘East Indies’ (1850);
formerly called Indian Archipelago or East Indies Islands (source: Etymology
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Ontario, Judge dismisses attempt to prohibit Cleveland Indians’ use of their
name and logo during the American League Championship Series; and CHCH TV Online
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><i><b>A lifelong American writer and writer/activist</b></i></span> (former academic and staffer with the U.S. government in Washington), Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett is credentialed in education and print journalism and public affairs (PhD, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; MA, The American University, Washington, DC). Her work concerns itself with news and current affairs, historical contexts, and ideas particularly related to acts and consequences of U.S. foreign relations, geopolitics, human rights, war and peace, and violence and nonviolence.
Dr. Bennett is an internationalist and nonpartisan progressive personally concerned with society and the common good. An educator at heart, her career began with the U.S. Peace Corps, teaching in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Since then, she has authored several books and numerous current-affairs articles; her latest book: UNCONSCIONABLE: How The World Sees Us: World News, Alternative Views, Commentary on U.S. Foreign Relations; most thoughts, articles, edited work are posted at Bennett’s Study: http://todaysinsightnews.blogspot.com/ and on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/carolynladelle.bennett.
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Her books are also available at independent bookstores in New York State: Lift Bridge in Brockport; Sundance in Geneseo; Dog Ears Bookstore and Literary Arts Center in Buffalo; Burlingham Books in Perry; The Bookworm in East AuroraBennett's 2nd Insight Studyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07886391571898759108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4626403571823555829.post-71159929131188897822016-10-14T16:04:00.001-04:002016-10-14T16:04:17.125-04:00Another View: Contrived Hysteria, Feigned Outrage, What is, What Should Addressed <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WWOpuWhe0JY/WAE58RBNRyI/AAAAAAAATyw/-Qx6Q5czE7EJ9uuajeX3jw3tYJYMcDURACLcB/s1600/substance%2Bin%2Bpolitics%2Belections%2BCollage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WWOpuWhe0JY/WAE58RBNRyI/AAAAAAAATyw/-Qx6Q5czE7EJ9uuajeX3jw3tYJYMcDURACLcB/s320/substance%2Bin%2Bpolitics%2Belections%2BCollage.jpg" width="320" /></a><i style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Drivel
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power over life and death. They allow some to speak. They silence multitudes—multitudes
never seen, their voices never heard. Because of this, we—the people of the United
of America and indeed the peoples of the world—now and for a long time have been
handed “leaders” and prospective “leaders” (high placed people) who have been
fielded and supported and who rise to public office, high office, for which
they are unspeakably, entirely unfit.<br />
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Those permitted access and speech—those sided with by the masses—are thoroughly
unfit for purpose. Instead of Americans seeing and cutting through the charade
and show, instead of demanding inclusiveness of people and ideas and substantive
speech focusing on policy past, present and consequence, real needs, issues and
answers domestic and international—they are giving in (succumbing) to the inordinate
power of manipulation and flinging back and forth, up and down, wherever blows the
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words. While words, a leer, furtive touch can hurt—the truly vulnerable have neither
voice nor choice. Human beings blown up by US bombs (ordered, approved or sold by
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of the world’s nuclear weapons and unmanned/remote (drone) missiles; harbors most
of the world’s arms dealers and sellers; and whose inordinately powerful leaders (many still
in office and or aspiring to high office) have pretty near destroyed the world and
relations among peoples and cultures of the world. I am deeply concerned that
these corrupt, incompetent, immoral “leaders” have engaged endlessly in war, belligerence,
violent aggression, and directly or indirectly caused the exacerbation of
tribal and regional suffering and conflict and the death, displacement,
homelessness and statelessness of hundreds of millions of people (then further punished,
disparaged, rejected and or denied them asylum or refuge). I am concerned that these
“leaders” have assassinated or caused to be assassinated, removed or conspired to
remove other heads of state; that these mainly
(though not only) US leaders have abducted and interned (without charge
or trial) and tortured other nationals (some US citizens); that they have ripped
to shreds vital US (and international) documents and institutions; and concomitantly
with world violence they have neglected their (our) homeland, its common
defense and general welfare, the health, education and welfare of our people
and lands. Until these concerns are addressed, there is nothing out of the mouths
of the monopoly and their minions that is worth listening to. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">et’s face it. The current crop </span>of kin and kind—Nobel laureates notwithstanding
or carelessly mendacious graduates of Yale or Harvard, Columbia or Stanford, Chicago,
Princeton or Duke, Wellesley or Radcliff—they are unfit for the purpose, unfit
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Press TV October 14, 2016.Michelle Obama rebukes
Trump's 'sexually predatory behavior' October 14, 2016 “US First Lady Michelle
Obama has launched a scintillating attack against Republican presidential
nominee Donald Trump’s ‘sexually predatory behavior.’ http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/10/14/488968/Michelle-Obama-powerful-rebuke-Trump; </div>
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Dr. Bennett is an internationalist and nonpartisan progressive personally concerned with society and the common good. An educator at heart, her career began with the U.S. Peace Corps, teaching in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Since then, she has authored several books and numerous current-affairs articles; her latest book: UNCONSCIONABLE: How The World Sees Us: World News, Alternative Views, Commentary on U.S. Foreign Relations; most thoughts, articles, edited work are posted at Bennett’s Study: http://todaysinsightnews.blogspot.com/ and on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/carolynladelle.bennett.
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is horrific. But the blame and indeed the solutions neither begin nor end solely with
trafficking, traffickers and deaths of refugees. Arrests, trials and imprisonment,
though required by law <i>(except for the well-heeled)</i>, fail to solve underlying structural
problems. War and unrest and want create refugees and asylum seekers, and also
create those who exploit and profit from forced migration and the misery of displaced
peoples across the world. The DW documentary reports that on a highway in Austria on
August 27, 2015, police found “71 corpses [suffocated refugees] in a small
truck, some already in a state of advanced decomposition.” The refugees were
finally identified as having come from the countries where Western wars are being waged and have been for years—“Afghanistan, Syria, Iran and Iraq.”
Investigative journalists researched the network of human traffickers,
interviewed lawyers and investigators for a film that reconstructs the flight of the
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his tragedy of human trafficking and death, happening again
and again beyond and occasionally in the news, such as this compelling
Deutsche Welle documentary, rests with leaders of world powers, West and East,
nuclear powers' leaders’ wars and their domestic and international priorities and policies; it rests with plunderers, robbers, the super rich, and
countries’ leadership, officials whose corruption lets stand the oppressive status
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percent of the world’s population</span>.</span></b> </span>$110 trillion—65 times the total wealth of
the bottom half of the world’s population—constitutes the wealth of the one
percent richest people in the world. The richest 85 people in the world hold all
of what equals to the wealth-holding of all people in the bottom half of the
world’s population. Seven out of ten people live in countries where economic
inequality increased in 30 years preceding a 2013 Credit Suisse Research Global Wealth Report. Since 2009, the United
States’ wealthiest one percent captured 95 percent of post-financial crisis growth
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affairs but real or pretended outrage doesn’t amount to a hill of beans when
common sense tells us that poverty need not “always be with us”—that was peddled
propaganda and otherwise expedient, flawed reasoning. Anyone with common sense
knows that when ordinate power, their interminable wars, dominance and plunder,
their criminal impunity create and sustain poverty—when this critical causation is pervasive and persistent—the consequence is inevitable, interminable poverty. And from conditions
of interminable want, poverty, conflict, destabilization, victimization—looking
up from scrubbing the floors and toilets of inordinate wealth—rise desperate
acts (piracy, smuggling in people, animals, and in inanimate objects of all
kinds) to get out from under the arm of oppression, to gain some measure
of self-respect and not opulence but the basics of a decent livelihood and living.
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In the United States and across the world, Oxfam warns,
“When wealth captures government policy making, the rules bend to favor the
rich, often to the detriment of everyone else. The consequences include the erosion of
democratic governance, the pulling apart of social cohesion, and the vanishing
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to curb the influence of wealth on politics, governments will work for the
interests of the rich, while economic and political inequalities continue to
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DW documentary “Asphyxiated on the Highway - The End of a
Desperate Journey” August 25, 2016, broadcast dates August 26-27; September 8-9,
2016 and archived. http://www.dw.com/en/documentaries-asphyxiated-on-the-highway-2016-08-25/e-19457567-9798</div>
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OXFAM Briefing
Paper 178 Working for the Few: Political capture and economic inequality, a paper
written by Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva and Nick Galasso, production assistance by
Natalia Alonso, Ana Arendar, Teresa Cavero, Anna Coryndon, Kimberly Pfeifer and
Max Lawson; part of a series of papers written to inform public debate on
development and humanitarian policy issues. Oxfam International January 2014 copyrighted
publication “but the text may be used free of charge for the purposes of
advocacy, campaigning, education, and research, provided that the source is
acknowledged in full.” policyandpractice@oxfam.org.uk
information correct at the time publication goes to press; published by Oxfam
GB for Oxfam International under ISBN 978-1-78077-540-1 in January 2014. Oxfam
GB, Oxfam House, John Smith Drive, Cowley, Oxford, OX4 2JY, UK, www.oxfam.org</div>
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Research and the world’s foremost experts October 2013 Global Wealth Global
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“…Global household wealth equates to USD 51,600 per adult, a
new all-time high for average net worth [but] this average global value masks considerable
variation across countries and regions. The richest nations, with wealth per
adult over USD 100,000, are found in North America, Western Europe, and among
the rich Asia-Pacific and Middle Eastern countries.… Wealth varies greatly across
individuals” but this reports estimates that “the lower half of the global
population possesses barely 1 percent of global wealth… The richest 10 percent
of adults own 86 percent of all wealth….The top 1 percent account for 46
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is horrific. But the blame and indeed the solutions neither begin nor end solely with
trafficking, traffickers and deaths of refugees. Arrests, trials and imprisonment,
though required by law <i>(except for the well-heeled)</i>, fail to solve underlying structural
problems. War and unrest and want create refugees and asylum seekers, and also
create those who exploit and profit from forced migration and the misery of displaced
peoples across the world. The DW documentary reports that on a highway in Austria on
August 27, 2015, police found “71 corpses [suffocated refugees] in a small
truck, some already in a state of advanced decomposition.” The refugees were
finally identified as having come from the countries where Western wars are being waged and have been for years—“Afghanistan, Syria, Iran and Iraq.”
Investigative journalists researched the network of human traffickers,
interviewed lawyers and investigators for a film that reconstructs the flight of the
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his tragedy of human trafficking and death, happening again
and again beyond and occasionally in the news, such as this compelling
Deutsche Welle documentary, rests with leaders of world powers, West and East,
nuclear powers' leaders’ wars and their domestic and international priorities and policies; it rests with plunderers, robbers, the super rich, and
countries’ leadership, officials whose corruption lets stand the oppressive status
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percent of the world’s population</span>.</span></b> </span>$110 trillion—65 times the total wealth of
the bottom half of the world’s population—constitutes the wealth of the one
percent richest people in the world. The richest 85 people in the world hold all
of what equals to the wealth-holding of all people in the bottom half of the
world’s population. Seven out of ten people live in countries where economic
inequality increased in 30 years preceding a 2013 Credit Suisse Research Global Wealth Report. Since 2009, the United
States’ wealthiest one percent captured 95 percent of post-financial crisis growth
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affairs but real or pretended outrage doesn’t amount to a hill of beans when
common sense tells us that poverty need not “always be with us”—that was peddled
propaganda and otherwise expedient, flawed reasoning. Anyone with common sense
knows that when ordinate power, their interminable wars, dominance and plunder,
their criminal impunity create and sustain poverty—when this critical causation is pervasive and persistent—the consequence is inevitable, interminable poverty. And from conditions
of interminable want, poverty, conflict, destabilization, victimization—looking
up from scrubbing the floors and toilets of inordinate wealth—rise desperate
acts (piracy, smuggling in people, animals, and in inanimate objects of all
kinds) to get out from under the arm of oppression, to gain some measure
of self-respect and not opulence but the basics of a decent livelihood and living.
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In the United States and across the world, Oxfam warns,
“When wealth captures government policy making, the rules bend to favor the
rich, often to the detriment of everyone else. The consequences include the erosion of
democratic governance, the pulling apart of social cohesion, and the vanishing
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DW documentary “Asphyxiated on the Highway - The End of a
Desperate Journey” August 25, 2016, broadcast dates August 26-27; September 8-9,
2016 and archived. http://www.dw.com/en/documentaries-asphyxiated-on-the-highway-2016-08-25/e-19457567-9798</div>
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OXFAM Briefing
Paper 178 Working for the Few: Political capture and economic inequality, a paper
written by Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva and Nick Galasso, production assistance by
Natalia Alonso, Ana Arendar, Teresa Cavero, Anna Coryndon, Kimberly Pfeifer and
Max Lawson; part of a series of papers written to inform public debate on
development and humanitarian policy issues. Oxfam International January 2014 copyrighted
publication “but the text may be used free of charge for the purposes of
advocacy, campaigning, education, and research, provided that the source is
acknowledged in full.” policyandpractice@oxfam.org.uk
information correct at the time publication goes to press; published by Oxfam
GB for Oxfam International under ISBN 978-1-78077-540-1 in January 2014. Oxfam
GB, Oxfam House, John Smith Drive, Cowley, Oxford, OX4 2JY, UK, www.oxfam.org</div>
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Research Institute: Thought leadership from Credit Suisse
Research and the world’s foremost experts October 2013 Global Wealth Global
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“…Global household wealth equates to USD 51,600 per adult, a
new all-time high for average net worth [but] this average global value masks considerable
variation across countries and regions. The richest nations, with wealth per
adult over USD 100,000, are found in North America, Western Europe, and among
the rich Asia-Pacific and Middle Eastern countries.… Wealth varies greatly across
individuals” but this reports estimates that “the lower half of the global
population possesses barely 1 percent of global wealth… The richest 10 percent
of adults own 86 percent of all wealth….The top 1 percent account for 46
percent of the total wealth.”</blockquote>
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nations [though within these nations there is dire want]: USA, Japan, China, India,
France, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, Australia,
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A lifelong American writer and writer/activist (former academic and staffer with the U.S. government in Washington), Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett is credentialed in education and print journalism and public affairs (PhD, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; MA, The American University, Washington, DC). Her work concerns itself with news and current affairs, historical contexts, and ideas particularly related to acts and consequences of U.S. foreign relations, geopolitics, human rights, war and peace, and violence and nonviolence.
Dr. Bennett is an internationalist and nonpartisan progressive personally concerned with society and the common good. An educator at heart, her career began with the U.S. Peace Corps, teaching in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Since then, she has authored several books and numerous current-affairs articles; her latest book: UNCONSCIONABLE: How The World Sees Us: World News, Alternative Views, Commentary on U.S. Foreign Relations; most thoughts, articles, edited work are posted at Bennett’s Study: http://todaysinsightnews.blogspot.com/ and on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/carolynladelle.bennett.
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">he presence of women in high levels in
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well-deserved success in significant careers. But the roles played by these women
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aggressive edge of US foreign policy and to make reaching any diplomatic understanding
with others more difficult. There was a time when feminists claimed that women
in powerful positions would make a tremendous contribution toward world peace.
America’s tough women are squandering expectations, dating back to Aristophanes’
‘Lysistrata’, that women could be mobilized against war. [In Greek playwright (b.
circa 450 BC, d. circa 388 BC) Aristophanes’ 411 BCE comedy ‘Lysistrata’, women
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gloating lectures of Hillary [Rodham] Clinton, the insults of Susan Rice, the
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">hese harpies all work for Democratic
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gentleness, functions primarily as a motive for punishing alleged offenders</span></i>.
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">s US Ambassador to the United
Nations, before she became President </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">Obama’s National Security Adviser, Susan
Rice showed no concern for the niceties of diplomatic usage</span></i>. She
advocated rejoining the UN Human Rights Council largely as a way to fight
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“Protégée as well as successor to Madeleine Albright, Rice
often sounds the same tone. Just as Madeleine sponsored creation of the
breakaway failed State of Kosovo, Susan is credited with a large role in
creating another breakaway failed State, South Sudan. Susan Rice acknowledges
that she is seen as ‘brusque, aggressive and abrasive’, but doesn’t care. ‘Of
course people don’t say that to my face,’ Susan Rice joked at a UN
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Clinton a ‘monster’…. However, all was apparently forgiven. As a member of
Obama’s National Security Council, Samantha Power joined Hillary and Susan Rice
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Queen of
Chaos: The Misadventures of Hillary Clinton by Diana Johnstone, published by
CounterPunch Books, an imprint of the Institute for the Advancement of
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Queen of
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$17.95 Publisher: CounterPunch Format: Book Binding:
paperback Pages: 175 Released: November
5, 2015 ● ISBN-13: 9780989763769</div>
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AK Press 370
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">he presence of women in high levels in
the [US Department of State] could be seen merely as the result of women’s
well-deserved success in significant careers. But the roles played by these women
express hostile aspects of US policy</span></i> more eloquently than men could
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aggressive edge of US foreign policy and to make reaching any diplomatic understanding
with others more difficult. There was a time when feminists claimed that women
in powerful positions would make a tremendous contribution toward world peace.
America’s tough women are squandering expectations, dating back to Aristophanes’
‘Lysistrata’, that women could be mobilized against war. [In Greek playwright (b.
circa 450 BC, d. circa 388 BC) Aristophanes’ 411 BCE comedy ‘Lysistrata’, women
of Sparta, prompted by ‘Lysistrata’, declare a ban on sexual contact until
their partners end” the decades-long “Peloponnesian War”, and persist “until
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gloating lectures of Hillary [Rodham] Clinton, the insults of Susan Rice, the
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">hese harpies all work for Democratic
administrations claiming great devotion to the cause of human rights, but they
have made it clear that this devotion, far from stemming from kindness and
gentleness, functions primarily as a motive for punishing alleged offenders</span></i>.
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“Washington’s foreign policy women specialize in haranguing
foreign leaders or diplomats as if they are badly behaved children. Their
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">s US Ambassador to the United
Nations, before she became President </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">Obama’s National Security Adviser, Susan
Rice showed no concern for the niceties of diplomatic usage</span></i>. She
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“Protégée as well as successor to Madeleine Albright, Rice
often sounds the same tone. Just as Madeleine sponsored creation of the
breakaway failed State of Kosovo, Susan is credited with a large role in
creating another breakaway failed State, South Sudan. Susan Rice acknowledges
that she is seen as ‘brusque, aggressive and abrasive’, but doesn’t care. ‘Of
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obliged to resign from the Obama support team for publicly calling Hillary
Clinton a ‘monster’…. However, all was apparently forgiven. As a member of
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Queen of
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Queen of
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A lifelong American writer and writer/activist (former academic and staffer with the U.S. government in Washington), Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett is credentialed in education and print journalism and public affairs (PhD, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; MA, The American University, Washington, DC). Her work concerns itself with news and current affairs, historical contexts, and ideas particularly related to acts and consequences of U.S. foreign relations, geopolitics, human rights, war and peace, and violence and nonviolence.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Matters of Urgency: Leaders spoke
to the press after speaking together “about [their] <span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;">grave concerns over the brazen
and brutal erosion of respect for international humanitarian law</span>.”</i></span><br />
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“… [D]eliberate
targeting of civilians and civilian areas is a clear breach of international
law.…. There is no military solution to the crisis – not in Syria or anywhere
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“Every day,
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lgpwAa8z0tI/VjgTN78MdaI/AAAAAAAATN8/Q3ZYLQ3iLbY/s1600/baghdad-sick-children-hospital.n%2B-%2Bbirth%2Bdefects%2Bpost%2Bwar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="149" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lgpwAa8z0tI/VjgTN78MdaI/AAAAAAAATN8/Q3ZYLQ3iLbY/s200/baghdad-sick-children-hospital.n%2B-%2Bbirth%2Bdefects%2Bpost%2Bwar.jpg" width="200" /></a>“Every hour, people in
dire circumstances are being denied the medical care, food, water and shelter
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Healthcare
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Yet the
hospital attacked earlier this week in Saada, Yemen, was the 39th health centre
to be hit since March. More children in Yemen may die from a lack of medicines
and healthcare than from bullets and bombs. </div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4oP0PPHIAao/VjgTiiNIL7I/AAAAAAAATOU/B8PaRXFuNJk/s1600/anti%2Bpolio%2Bvaccination%2Bcampaigns%2Bin%2Bsyria.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="134" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4oP0PPHIAao/VjgTiiNIL7I/AAAAAAAATOU/B8PaRXFuNJk/s200/anti%2Bpolio%2Bvaccination%2Bcampaigns%2Bin%2Bsyria.jpg" width="200" /></a>“The bombing
of the Médecins Sans Frontières [Doctor without Borders] hospital earlier this
month in Kunduz, Afghanistan, was yet another tragedy – a so-called surgical
strike that instead destroyed a surgical ward.<br />
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“These
violations have become so routine there is a risk people will think that the
deliberate bombing of civilians, the targeting of humanitarian and healthcare
workers, and attacks on schools, hospitals and places of worship are an
inevitable result of conflict.”</div>
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civilians, the sick and wounded</span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Mh8zJnzFmUc/VjgSRwhVuZI/AAAAAAAATNU/idHw1fsjADc/s1600/SOMALIA%2B6%2BREFUGEES%2BIN%2BETHIOPIA%2B4e1740eb2a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="110" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Mh8zJnzFmUc/VjgSRwhVuZI/AAAAAAAATNU/idHw1fsjADc/s200/SOMALIA%2B6%2BREFUGEES%2BIN%2BETHIOPIA%2B4e1740eb2a.jpg" width="200" /></a>“We are
deeply concerned about the disrespect of International Humanitarian Law; and in
particular, the response from countries involved.…I have been urging them (the
United States and other countries) to have thorough, independent, credible
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this could be referred to independent, international inquiry—that is the
prerogative of the Member States of the United Nations. I would support any
such investigation—thorough and independent and credible investigation, so that
there will be no such repetition of harming doctors and nurses and medical
workers; and mostly patients and civilian populations.”</div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ptDWGEB1ksw/VjgXFcr0eaI/AAAAAAAATOo/O5uH5L4sjMo/s1600/webbanner%2B%2Bban%2Bcluster%2Bbombs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="109" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ptDWGEB1ksw/VjgXFcr0eaI/AAAAAAAATOo/O5uH5L4sjMo/s320/webbanner%2B%2Bban%2Bcluster%2Bbombs.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">Not for Charity but HUMANITY,
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all those with influence to pressure all parties in conflict to treat civilians
with humanity and to abide by the law. </div>
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political and diplomatic measures, and referrals to national and special
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civilians in wartime is a cornerstone of the international system and the
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“Indifference will only make our world less secure. The
continued failure to act is a disgrace and a stain on the conscience of the
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respect for humanitarian access, so that people can reach the aid they need,
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United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross are calling for
an end to impunity, an end to the callous disregard for human life, and a
re-commitment to international humanitarian law.…</div>
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“International humanitarian law is being
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the law “… means political and diplomatic measures, and referrals to national
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Office of
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Off-the-Cuff on October 31, 2015, Geneva,
Switzerland: Transcript of the Secretary-General’s press encounter with the
President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (includes Q&A), http://www.un.org/sg/offthecuff/index.asp?cuff=1</div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: #3d85c6;">A lifelong American writer and writer/activist </b></span>(former academic and staffer with the U.S. government in Washington), Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett is credentialed in education and print journalism and public affairs (PhD, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; MA, The American University, Washington, DC). Her work concerns itself with news and current affairs, historical contexts, and ideas particularly related to acts and consequences of U.S. foreign relations, geopolitics, human rights, war and peace, and violence and nonviolence.
Dr. Bennett is an internationalist and nonpartisan progressive personally concerned with society and the common good. An educator at heart, her career began with the U.S. Peace Corps, teaching in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Since then, she has authored several books and numerous current-affairs articles; her latest book: UNCONSCIONABLE: How The World Sees Us: World News, Alternative Views, Commentary on U.S. Foreign Relations; most thoughts, articles, edited work are posted at Bennett’s Study: http://todaysinsightnews.blogspot.com/ and on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/carolynladelle.bennett.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/08UNCONSCIONABLE/prweb12131656.htm
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Her books are also available at independent bookstores in New York State: Lift Bridge in Brockport; Sundance in Geneseo; Dog Ears Bookstore and Literary Arts Center in Buffalo; Burlingham Books in Perry; The Bookworm in East Aurora<br />
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____________________________________________Bennett's 2nd Insight Studyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07886391571898759108noreply@blogger.com354tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4626403571823555829.post-43122983380282189612015-10-28T17:36:00.001-04:002015-10-28T17:36:30.913-04:00Police violence in schools: cause or consequence?<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IOtHC4OcfGo/VjE2HQZ4YiI/AAAAAAAATKE/jA8raa_mn38/s1600/SOLD%2Bcongress022610.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IOtHC4OcfGo/VjE2HQZ4YiI/AAAAAAAATKE/jA8raa_mn38/s1600/SOLD%2Bcongress022610.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>CONSEQUENCE</i></b></span><br />
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Commentary
by Carolyn Bennett</div>
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The news
program Democracy Now shines light on some important issues in American life. </div>
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Stories about
police violence in schools and the interface of school and law enforcement are
important considerations in the public interest. </div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Dafhw5pHLig/VjE4ELtd8KI/AAAAAAAATLE/AAIcLcI_0qw/s1600/money%2Band%2Bcapitol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Dafhw5pHLig/VjE4ELtd8KI/AAAAAAAATLE/AAIcLcI_0qw/s1600/money%2Band%2Bcapitol.jpg" /></a>But the
latest incidents of clashes (think: USA in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Ukraine, …)
between American classroom students and police and a deluge of images and retellings, “gone
viral on the Internet”—how often do we hear that phrase”—are dealing not with underlying
causes but effect; fallout not preexisting conditions or situations, prior acts,
neglect, and or a pattern of misplaced priorities and flawed values. </div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WQ_vLM2gYEY/VjE4J9LxZUI/AAAAAAAATLM/jMi-RrNu26c/s1600/white%2Bhouse%2Bmoney.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WQ_vLM2gYEY/VjE4J9LxZUI/AAAAAAAATLM/jMi-RrNu26c/s1600/white%2Bhouse%2Bmoney.jpg" /></a>As someone
who was a teacher for many years, at different levels of U.S. education (and
having seriously studied teaching and learning, school in society, human
development), I know that for a long time, there has been a breakdown in the
character of discipline and respect in American schools, in relations between
teacher and taught, between instructor and administrator, between parents and
educators, professors and entrenched politicized power, between schools and society. </div>
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contemporary teachers, K-12 through higher education, fantasy themselves “friends”
of students. They pander like politicians to no good effect. </div>
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not helped to “mature”, to develop in healthy ways. Often teachers and parents are
not “mature.” Students are not taught how to behave: they are not learning
discipline and respect nor are they given examples of these. They are not learning
to develop their minds, to think, to expand ethically, civilly, intellectually.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">Underlying causes, preconditions
first factors<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OeoQwka8nN0/VjE4Yncd_wI/AAAAAAAATLc/vTSEPAi7xDc/s1600/983019%2Bhomelessness.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a>Teachers are
not well-trained as educators, neither are administrators; the latter often fail
to support teachers, fail to support good teaching and learning. Awards or
diplomas in grade school do not encourage development of good character traits
or good teaching and learning, though they might support the opposite—lying, cheating
and stealing. </div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kDfDF_12Q-8/VjE49YogBVI/AAAAAAAATLo/9KeJ47bkjoQ/s1600/press%2Btv%2Bimage%2BWashington%2Bmust%2Bpush%2Bto%2Bdesegregate%2Bschools%2Bequalize%2Bfunding%2Band%2Bdemand%2Bbetter%2Btraining%2Bfor%2Bbeginning%2Bteachers%252C%2Brecommends%2Ba%2Bnew%2Breport%2Bon%2Bthe%2Bstate%2Bof%2BUS%2Bschools..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kDfDF_12Q-8/VjE49YogBVI/AAAAAAAATLo/9KeJ47bkjoQ/s320/press%2Btv%2Bimage%2BWashington%2Bmust%2Bpush%2Bto%2Bdesegregate%2Bschools%2Bequalize%2Bfunding%2Band%2Bdemand%2Bbetter%2Btraining%2Bfor%2Bbeginning%2Bteachers%252C%2Brecommends%2Ba%2Bnew%2Breport%2Bon%2Bthe%2Bstate%2Bof%2BUS%2Bschools..jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wZqquaK49Mo/VjE5GWcKIhI/AAAAAAAATLw/44JBis17bwo/s1600/education%2Bteachers%2Bbanner%2Bdon%2527t%2Bprivatize%2Bchildren%2Bs%2Bfuture.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wZqquaK49Mo/VjE5GWcKIhI/AAAAAAAATLw/44JBis17bwo/s1600/education%2Bteachers%2Bbanner%2Bdon%2527t%2Bprivatize%2Bchildren%2Bs%2Bfuture.jpg" /></a>Many “teachers”
and administrators are not educators at all. They are business people or
technicians from, as some are fond of saying, the “real world,” some private sector.
A teacher has to be inclined toward lifelong learning but today’s classroom
personnel, schooled “in the real world,” know it all. Children and students in
classrooms K through college subjected to contractors and entrepreneurs
crunching numbers, competing with other numbers crunchers, making up awards, lauding
themselves as “award-winners, and taking home the profits. Education is not
meant to be profit-taking.</div>
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This is not
education. There has been a drastic change in the model, in what constitutes “education”
– as the “leading out,” “emerging,” “evolving,” a journey. What we have are underlying,
crippling causes, prior conditions, we refuse to address. </div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wzMdU6DS2Vo/VjE23abA8QI/AAAAAAAATKU/y3yck_HBME4/s1600/neglect%2Bpolice%2Bin%2Bschools.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wzMdU6DS2Vo/VjE23abA8QI/AAAAAAAATKU/y3yck_HBME4/s1600/neglect%2Bpolice%2Bin%2Bschools.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">Law Enforcement an Effect of
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Because their
mission and motives (as with business’s profit motive) is totally different and
incompatible with human development and schooling, law enforcement personnel have
no business being employed in educational institutions, elementary and
secondary or higher education – private, public or parochial. An educator would
know this. </div>
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The placement
of police—people who deal with criminal behavior and criminals, allegations of crimes
and collection of case evidence—in schools is a consequence of a prior
condition resting with school boards’ (uninformed or ill-informed by school
teachers) and municipalities’ flawed decisions, pandering politics, and irresponsibility.
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RGKaOZHMRrI/VjE3EfeuvZI/AAAAAAAATKc/IHdkv5j9a7E/s1600/war-on-terror1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RGKaOZHMRrI/VjE3EfeuvZI/AAAAAAAATKc/IHdkv5j9a7E/s1600/war-on-terror1.jpg" /></a>Another factor
in a complexity of failures is training. In the broader sense beyond schools,
whether on streets or anywhere else, police officers and those ranked above
them are poorly trained and poorly supervised; the upper levels of law enforcement,
as is true of municipal officials, are often politicized. At all levels there
is a sense of inattention, carelessness, the unattended, and out of control, the
relinquishing of responsibilities. And instead of fixing underlying problems, each
sector engages in blaming one or another individual or sector. </div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-K9ZquOrLfaY/VjE3H1hlcQI/AAAAAAAATKk/ILAapZG6fNY/s1600/BOMBS%2BFALLING%2B0223cluster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="190" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-K9ZquOrLfaY/VjE3H1hlcQI/AAAAAAAATKk/ILAapZG6fNY/s320/BOMBS%2BFALLING%2B0223cluster.jpg" width="320" /></a>he overarching
condition that contributes to America’s problems, the quality of its human
relationships, individual human failures—in schools and elsewhere—is round-the-clock violence, support of violence, priorities of destruction (in opposition to civility
and dialogue, care, construction, cooperation, uplift, peace, nonviolence)
perpetrated by mass media content, commercial interests promoting consumerism,
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Corrupt
government leadership has effectively destroyed the proper role of government of,
by and for the people – in the interest of the common good. In positions of
power are corruptible people proposing and perpetrating warped priorities –
against the public interest. If “just”
law enforcement existed in America, these people would be brought up on charges
for burglarizing the public trust.</div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6MGx3oHv1I4/VjE3bRiKDSI/AAAAAAAATK0/FY_jK118vCs/s1600/quality%2Beducation%2Bfor%2Ball.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6MGx3oHv1I4/VjE3bRiKDSI/AAAAAAAATK0/FY_jK118vCs/s1600/quality%2Beducation%2Bfor%2Ball.jpg" /></a>In Democracy
Now’s headlines today, along with stories of police violence in U.S. schools is
the shameful example of corruption-fed chronic waste that destroys America, its
people and society. It also destroys large portions of the rest of the world. Though
many would like to, we cannot realistically separate decisions in U.S. domestic
affairs (neglect of individual and public health, education, welfare, work,
human needs and relations, physical and natural infrastructural needs, neglect
of cities, states and municipalities) from decisions in U.S. foreign affairs
(endlessly arming and bombing the world’s peoples, funding manufacture and
trade in lethal weaponry, creating enemies to arm and bomb, in a endless cycle
of violence and destruction).</div>
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reports an endless bleeding of billions for bombs: “The Pentagon (U.S. War Department)
has awarded Northrop Grumman,” world leader in weapons of mass destruction, a
contract likely to rise to nearly 100 BILLION. “More than $20 billion…,” the article
says, and before all is said and done, the total outlay could “be valued at $80
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This outrageous
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One report
ranks the United States second in ignorance and its quality of education inferior
to many countries Americans disparage as “second world.” The United States of
America moves progressively backward. A study assessing the education systems of
50 countries ranked the United States seventeenth; a year earlier another report
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one has to read global reports to deduce with a fair amount of certainty that belligerence
and inherent corruption of U.S. leaders correlates directly with the
backwardness of America’s people; and that care and substantive curricular content
in rigorous subjects well taught in schools advances educational equality among
students. No petty rewards, cellular phones or coercion required. </div>
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“U.S. ranked
17th in an assessment of the education systems of 50 countries—behind several
Scandinavian and Asian nations, which claimed the top spots” http://www.ibtimes.com/us-17th-global-education-ranking-finland-south-korea-claim-top-spots-901538</div>
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“The U.S.
ranks 14th in education: According to Pearson, the United States has a
“cognitive skills and educational attainment” score of 0.39, which makes the
United States rank fourteenth out of forty countries ranked in that category” https://rankingamerica.wordpress.com/category/education/</div>
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“Are the
world’s schools making inequality worse?” William Schmidt, Michigan State
University, September 30, 2015, http://oecdeducationtoday.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/are-worlds-schools-making-inequality.html</div>
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_______________________________________________________Bennett's 2nd Insight Studyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07886391571898759108noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4626403571823555829.post-56168448028236397562015-08-25T17:15:00.001-04:002015-08-25T17:18:06.622-04:00“Equality Movement” or “Black Lives” Pageantry and Pandering Politics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Significant
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of Patrick Martin and Lawrence Lessig interest me. Martin published an article
this week at <i>World Socialist Web Site</i>.
Lessig spoke in interview this week on <i>Democracy
Now</i> but has also spoken and written in other sources including his website.
These writers articulate essential truths that are intentionally or unintentionally
omitted in varieties of mass media, independent and corporate. </div>
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domain of the Deliberately Mentally Impaired <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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looked up to … since I was like a baby.” </span><b><span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;">[</span></b><i><b><span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;">How do you spell “sycophant”, a base or servile attentive flatterer,
self-seeker, slavishly currying favor with the [queen]—a flunky,
gopher, lackey, slave, stooge, etc.?</span></b> (Merriam Webster defines)]</i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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but is patently untrue about the candidate and doubtful about the speaker, “I’m
an ardent feminist”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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describes this Democratic Party candidate more honestly as <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Wk-K9Xs9AdU/VdzTu-FtQrI/AAAAAAAATCM/-Ejo404uoxM/s1600/white%2Bhouse%2Bmoney.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Wk-K9Xs9AdU/VdzTu-FtQrI/AAAAAAAATCM/-Ejo404uoxM/s1600/white%2Bhouse%2Bmoney.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt;">A ‘leading representative of the American
imperialist bourgeoisie…, a highly experienced political operative of the most
ruthless ruling class on the planet, the American financial aristocracy …; an
experienced ruling class politician [who is] able to easily twist Black Lives
Matter activists around her finger [as] the political outlook … lends itself
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in duplicity, the deliberate exercise in stupidity is not about “equality” or “inequality”—is
surely not a struggle for the former or against the latter. It is about “me”
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zGl-s4aYRHc/VdzShYtRDAI/AAAAAAAATB0/cG15sW17jcU/s1600/intersectionality%2Bidentity%2Bpolitics.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="173" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zGl-s4aYRHc/VdzShYtRDAI/AAAAAAAATB0/cG15sW17jcU/s320/intersectionality%2Bidentity%2Bpolitics.png" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">angerously Narrow Identity Politics</span></div>
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Patrick Martin
writes that activists in the recent encounter with Hillary Rodham Clinton presented issues “entirely within the framework of race and identity politics, which
has been the semi-official program of the Democratic Party since the mid-1970s”
<span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[Of course the “Democratic”</span><span style="background-color: #3d85c6; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Dixiecrats</span><span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> of the 1940s were out and proud, far less the dissemblers
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Martin observed that nothing in the comments of the
activists “suggested the slightest opposition to the capitalist system or the
class exploitation of working people” of any kind or kin—“black, white,
Hispanic, Asian, or immigrant.”</span><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Wk-K9Xs9AdU/VdzTu-FtQrI/AAAAAAAATCM/-Ejo404uoxM/s1600/white%2Bhouse%2Bmoney.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Jycfe6LwM9A/VdzTxnmNtRI/AAAAAAAATCU/iVDrKv6msYk/s1600/Campaign-Finance-Capitol-Money-sm121-218x218.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Jycfe6LwM9A/VdzTxnmNtRI/AAAAAAAATCU/iVDrKv6msYk/s1600/Campaign-Finance-Capitol-Money-sm121-218x218.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">This callous collusion of Clinton and “Black Lifers”
manages to reduce, pervert, debase </span>“<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">the
social structure of the United States [into] entirely black-white terms,
painting white workers as inherently racist”—and embodies or effects another arm
of the oppressive, oligarchic cabal. The characters, activists and Clinton, feed
on each other in a ridiculous and selfish play for their own aims—not the needs
of society as a whole. When was it said that “We hold these truths to be self
evident” that all are created equal? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P2mjBsFU-34/VdzTGouywnI/AAAAAAAATCE/hoP5AyxY828/s1600/money%2Bcitizens%2Bunited%2Bdems%2Band%2Brepubs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P2mjBsFU-34/VdzTGouywnI/AAAAAAAATCE/hoP5AyxY828/s1600/money%2Bcitizens%2Bunited%2Bdems%2Band%2Brepubs.jpg" style="cursor: move;" /></a><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">“Black Lifers,” Martin writes, “represent a section of
the privileged middle class, seeking greater access to positions of influence
and a share in the spoils of American capitalism” and they are “happy to play
the role set out for them by Clinton.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">But the justifiable anger and grievances in the United
States and elsewhere “over ever-rising economic inequality, unemployment and
poverty as well as racism by police directed at African-Americans, Hispanics
and other minorities” is not part of their agenda. Their goal is self. They
speak, Martin correctly asserts,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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class, wedded to race politics, that is looking for more perks and positions,
particularly within or through the intercession of the Democratic Party.’</span></div>
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Debate to Equality of the Citizen</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div>
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Lawrence
Lessig speaks to a more fundamental and imperative movement, a way of thinking
that is decisively different from the pageantry makers and panderers. </div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zU1XpksB14U/VdzSkeS4TBI/AAAAAAAATB8/tbUcS-OztbM/s1600/John%2Badams%2B1776%2Bon%2Brights%2Bof%2Bpeople.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a>“This is
about achieving the fundamental equality of our democracy,” he says. “If we
raise the level of the debate” to “talking about the commitment of a
representative democracy—as Madison said: … ‘…where the rich would have no more
power than the poor in this democracy’—we could build the political movement we
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fight to be waged, he says, “and it has to be a fight “in the court of public
opinion where, if the public is reminded of this COMMITMENT OF EQUALITY in our
democracy, they could see how we could get a democracy that could work again;
and if we did, these problems” such as “climate change or the debt or student
debt or Wall Street or gun control—all of these problems would be problems we
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We need an
actual “responsive democracy, he says, in which “inequality, corrupted
inequality, has been removed.” Moreover, we would have a world in which no one
has “to stand and say ‘Black Lives matter’ because we would have equality in
the system” such that “that statement would be crazy even to imagine the
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">We’ve
got to stop with the fantasy politics and address the reality that we [must] fix
our democracy if we’re going to have a democracy that works.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b>he problem with selfishness</b></span>—whether
among politicians or activists, industrialists, sycophants or propagandists—is
that it burns the forest. It leaves so much out that is essential for human development,
society’s progress. To maintain the status quo in its favor, selfishness does what
is unthinkable to a sane person; and in so doing, it fuels regress; never
progress. Sustained long enough in the character, human beings become
desensitized to all other in creation except self. Like an addict of one kind
or another, they reduce the larger context to worthlessness; they annihilate
all around them, including themselves, in order to achieve and maintain a zombie-like,
anesthetized oblivion.</div>
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it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands</span></b>
which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the
earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s
God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that
they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.</div>
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created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.</div>
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“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted …,
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these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to
institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and
organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to [achieve]
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">“Prudence … dictate(s) that
Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient
causes …. But when a long train of abuses</span></b> and usurpations, pursuing
invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce [the people] under
absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such
Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.” [In Congress,
July 4, 1776, the Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of
America]</div>
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“H<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">illary Clinton and Black Lives Matter: A revealing
confrontation” by Patrick Martin ,
August 22, 2015, </span>http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/08/22/clin-a22.html</div>
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<span lang="EN">“We Need to Fix Our Democracy: Lawrence
Lessig Weighs Presidential Run to Rid Money from Politics,”</span><span lang="EN"> </span>August 24, 2015 Democracy Now Lawrence Lessig interview, h<span lang="EN">ttp://www.democracynow.org/2015/8/24/we_need_to_fix_our_democracy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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LESSIG
author of: “Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It”</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">CITIZEN
EQAULITY ACT 2017</span> Lessig, https://lessigforpresident.com/the-act/</div>
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website: https://lessigforpresident.com/meet-lessig/</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Entered this week on
my Facebook page</span></div>
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HEAR! HEAR!
● Lawrence Lessig: “The CITIZEN EQUALITY ACT of 2017: The Citizen Equality Act
is presented here as a template for three fundamental reforms that must happen
if we are to have equal citizens. We are presenting this package now, pointing
to the proposed legislative source for each element. If the campaign is
launched after Labor Day, then in the fall, we will crowdsource a process to
complete the details of this reform, and turn it into proposed legislation by
January 1. At this point, you should read the act as embracing at a minimum the
reforms included within the source for each element: EQUAL RIGHT TO VOTE: We
must have a system that guarantees a meaningfully equal freedom to vote. To
achieve that, we must at a minimum enact the Voting Rights Advancement Act of
2015 and the Voter Empowerment Act of 2015. We should as well add automatic
registration, and shift Election Day to a National Holiday.● EQUAL
REPRESENTATION: Equal citizens must have equal representation in Congress. That
means, districts must be drawn, and election systems structured, so as to give
each citizen as close to equal political influence as possible. FairVote has
offered the most comprehensive solution to achieve this equality. At a minimum,
the Citizen Equality Act would incorporate their proposed “Ranked Choice Voting
Act,” which ends political gerrymandering and creates multi-member districts
with ranked choice voting for Congress. ● CITIZEN FUNDED ELECTIONS: A core
corruption of our political system is the concentration of funders of political
campaigns. That concentration creates extraordinary inequality. The Citizen
Equality Act would end that inequality, at a minimum by adopting a campaign
funding proposal that is a hybrid between John Sarbanes’ Government by the
People Act, and Represent. US’s “American Anti-Corruption Act.” That hybrid
would give every voter a voucher to contribute to fund congressional and
presidential campaigns; it would provide matching funds for small-dollar
contributions to congressional and presidential campaigns. And it would add
effective new limits to restrict the revolving door between government service
and work as a lobbyist.” Lawrence Lessig, https://lessigforpresident.com/the-act/</div>
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<b><span style="background-color: #3d85c6; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A lifelong American writer and writer/activist</span></b> (former academic and staffer with the U.S. government in Washington), Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett is credentialed in education and print journalism and public affairs (PhD, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; MA, The American University, Washington, DC). Her work concerns itself with news and current affairs, historical contexts, and ideas particularly related to acts and consequences of U.S. foreign relations, geopolitics, human rights, war and peace, and violence and nonviolence.
Dr. Bennett is an internationalist and nonpartisan progressive personally concerned with society and the common good. An educator at heart, her career began with the U.S. Peace Corps, teaching in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Since then, she has authored several books and numerous current-affairs articles; her latest book: UNCONSCIONABLE: How The World Sees Us: World News, Alternative Views, Commentary on U.S. Foreign Relations; most thoughts, articles, edited work are posted at Bennett’s Study: http://todaysinsightnews.blogspot.com/ and on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/carolynladelle.bennett.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/08UNCONSCIONABLE/prweb12131656.htm
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Her books are also available at independent bookstores in New York State: Lift Bridge in Brockport; Sundance in Geneseo; Dog Ears Bookstore and Literary Arts Center in Buffalo; Burlingham Books in Perry; The Bookworm in East Aurora<br />
______________________________________________________________________Bennett's 2nd Insight Studyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07886391571898759108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4626403571823555829.post-28265399544782578482015-08-23T18:09:00.000-04:002015-08-23T18:30:44.702-04:00TRAUMATIZED —USA-in-Iraq to USA’s Gulf Coast CHILDREN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i style="font-size: x-large;">War,
criminal neglect, failure to CARE</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>REMEMBERING August 2005 HURRICANE KATRINA: </b>levee
system fails in <span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;"><b>the worst civil
engineering disaster in U.S. history</b>,</span><b> </b>causing hundreds of deaths in the city of New Orleans, more than a thousand total deaths, more thousands of displaced people from the Gulf region; and children were traumatized as if caught in <b><span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;">WAR</span></b></span> <span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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article by Katy Reckdahl “Lost Children of Katrina a decade after the hurricane…”
April 2, 2015</span></div>
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children ‘tend to stall out.’” Research on trauma “shows that many traumatized
children experience ‘cognitive bumps’ well into adulthood,” says New
Orleans-based education researcher Lisa Celeste Green-Derry.”</div>
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from more fragile families are more likely to be traumatized and to recover
more slowly”, says Lori Peek, Colorado State University sociologist and co-director of the
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esearch collaborators
Alice Fothergill and Lori Peek studied 650 displaced New Orleans-area children
and “found that poorer children were more likely to be exposed to Katrina’s
floodwaters” and that these children then experienced “challenges concentrating
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Green-Derry is reported saying, “Many of the Americans who today lack both jobs
and diplomas may have been Katrina-era adolescents who often suffered such high
levels of trauma and instability that learning became nearly impossible. It was
‘like throwing seeds at cement.’”</div>
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Green-Derry
is a native of New Orleans and has studied how teacher preparation meets the
academic needs of students traumatized by a natural disaster and she notes the
obvious, that “‘systems’” are essential “to uplifting traumatized students.”<br />
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However, New
Orleans' young people 10 years ago “came home to layers of faltering systems:
flood-damaged blocks, a school district in flux, and homes with limited adult
supervision as parents worked, rebuilt damaged houses, or struggled with their
own trauma.” In the academic year
2006-2007, young people, still traumatized, were returning to schools in New Orleans with “unseasoned and overtaxed teachers” in state-run recovery schools and the
results, in the view of experienced educators, were not unexpected.<br />
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potentially enormous damage being done to a generation of children?”</span> [University
of Sulaymaniya psychology professor Sherif Karachatani]</div>
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<span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Foreign Wars on Iraq</b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">:<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b> </b></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b>Mesopotamian
campaign (1914–1918); Anglo-Iraqi War (1941); Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988); Gulf
War (1990–1991); Iraqi no-fly zones conflict (1991–2003); Iraq War (March 20,
2003-December 18, 2011; Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013); Iraq War (2014–present)
American-led intervention in Iraq (2014–present)</b></span></span></div>
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than three decades,” he is reported saying, “…young Iraqis have been forced to
learn how to kill. We must now learn instead about dialogue and compromise.
Otherwise, we will continue to produce psychopathic personalities for whom
violence is simply a means of negotiating daily life.”</div>
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Citing a psychological
study of Iraqi children, the 2007 Guardian article reports Iraqi children “seriously
suffering psychologically, with all the insecurity—especially with the fear of
kidnapping and explosions”. And in some cases these children are “suffering
extreme stress.”</div>
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University
of Sulaymaniya psychology professor Sherif Karachatani said, </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">‘Every
day another innocent child is orphaned or sees terrible things children should
never see.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0DLWTmZ8XJI/Vdo5Z6OR6DI/AAAAAAAATAM/8izOdK70_jo/s1600/drones%2Bkill%2Binocent%2Bchildren%2Bpress%2Btv%2Bimage-378217_423350144373445_1647699054_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="143" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0DLWTmZ8XJI/Vdo5Z6OR6DI/AAAAAAAATAM/8izOdK70_jo/s200/drones%2Bkill%2Binocent%2Bchildren%2Bpress%2Btv%2Bimage-378217_423350144373445_1647699054_n.jpg" width="200" /></a>Mirroring
the state of New Orleans (and of U.S. returning military personnel), Dr
Karachatani says of Iraq, “The country’s overstretched hospitals cannot cope
with psychological trauma, many of the best doctors have either fled the
country or been killed; and compounding the problems is “the stigma” attached
to psychological and psychiatric care. Relatives and others do not “bring their
children in for treatment” because they fear being “labeled as mad.”</div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fqEbLxVWGaY/Vdo-HUO9v5I/AAAAAAAATAs/lXCM5hnIMTg/s1600/hurricane%2Bkatrina%2Bpeople.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="132" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fqEbLxVWGaY/Vdo-HUO9v5I/AAAAAAAATAs/lXCM5hnIMTg/s200/hurricane%2Bkatrina%2Bpeople.jpg" width="200" /></a>The Guardian
article was pegged to an Association of Iraqi Psychologists (API) study
published in that period finding that “violence had affected millions of Iraqi children,
raising serious concerns for future generations.” The researchers called on the
international community “to help establish child psychology units and mental
health programs.”</div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TLH1Gg7r4qk/Vdo5lwwARHI/AAAAAAAATAU/67MU4NDJfsg/s1600/drone%2Bpsychotic%2Bmass%2Bmurderer%2Bkills%2Bchildren%2Bvets%2Bfor%2Bpeace%2Bimage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="149" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TLH1Gg7r4qk/Vdo5lwwARHI/AAAAAAAATAU/67MU4NDJfsg/s200/drone%2Bpsychotic%2Bmass%2Bmurderer%2Bkills%2Bchildren%2Bvets%2Bfor%2Bpeace%2Bimage.jpg" width="200" /></a>r. Harith
Hassan’s words are instructive not only to the young but to the old, to the citizen
of in any land, any office, position, or work: </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">‘We
must learn … about dialogue and compromise. Otherwise, we will continue to
produce psychopathic personalities for whom violence is simply a means of
negotiating daily life.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Sources and
Notes </div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
The Atlantic,
April 2, 2015</div>
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“The <b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Lost
Children of Katrina</span></b>— A decade after the hurricane, New Orleans'
community grapples with the effects of missed schooling and mass displacement,”
Katy Reckdahl, April 2, 2015, http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/04/the-lost-children-of-katrina/389345/</div>
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Counter Spin, April 21, 2015</div>
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“<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Katrina:</span></b>
10 Years of Media Neglect,” CounterSpin, April 21, 2015, http://fair.org/home/katrina-10-years-of-media-neglect/</div>
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“<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Children
of war:</span></b> the generation traumatised by violence in Iraq—Growing up in
a war zone takes its toll as young play games of murder and mayhem,” , Michael
Howard in Baghdad [cited API’s Marwan Abdullah in UN-funded news agency IRIN], February 6, 2007, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/06/iraq.topstories3</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Al-Harith
Hassan<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Dr.
Al-Harith Hassan, Zoom Info Profile last updated on June 24, 2005, contains
information </div>
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Dr. Hassan [was]
the Dean of the Psychological Center at the University of Baghdad, Iraq, and head
of two NGOs: Health and Safety, and the Iraqi Parapsychology Society. </div>
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He also
taught psychiatry and cognitive psychology and comparative religions at Babel
College of Philosophy and Theology in Baghdad. At Eastern Mennonite University
in Harrisburg, Virginia, he took part in a summer Peace-building Institute in
Religion and Peace-Building and Conflict Transformation.</div>
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Barcelona
Transcript, www.globalinterfaithed.org, 24 June 2005 [cached]</div>
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http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Al-Harith-Hassan/1236018061</div>
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<b>Hassan, Alharith Abdulhameed (1951-2006</b>):
“Iraqi peace advocate with ties to EMU killed,”
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: February 7, 2007, p. 5: Birth date: 1951, https://mla.bethelks.edu/mediawiki/index.php/Hassan,_Alharith_Abdulhameed_(1951-2006)</div>
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Iraqi Peace
Worker Killed—HARRISONBURG, Va. –Iraqi-Muslim advocate for peace and
reconciliation, who received support from Christian organizations for his work
in trauma-healing, has been killed. Dr. Al- Harith Abdulhameed Hassan,
56-year-old professor of psychiatry at the University of Baghdad, was shot
while traveling to work on December 6, 2006, according to an e-mail sent in
mid-January by his bereaved widow, Maysa Hussam Jaber, to friends at Eastern
Mennonite University.</div>
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Both
Alharith and Maysa attended trainings under EMU¹s Center for Justice and
Peacebuilding (CJP) in Harrisonburg, Va., in the summer of 2004. They were
selected and sponsored by Mennonite Central Committee, with additional support
from Church World Service. http://warisacrime.org/node/17720</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Dr.
Sherif Karachatani</span></b>, Psychology Professor, University of Sulaymaniya,
http://univsul.edu.iq </div>
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http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Sherif-Karachatani/1170945050</div>
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The
University of Sulaimani is a public university located in the city of
Sulaymaniyah in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Sulaymaniyah</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">Hurricane Katrina<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Part of the
2005 Atlantic hurricane season: the 11th-named storm and 5th hurricane of the
2005 Atlantic hurricane season; its surge protection failures in New Orleans considered
the <b>worst civil engineering disaster in
U.S. history<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Fatalities
confirmed: 1,833</div>
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Physical
damage cost $108 billion (2005 USD), costliest on record</div>
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Areas
affected: Bahamas, South Florida, Cuba, Louisiana (especially Greater New
Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida Panhandle, most of eastern North
America </div>
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In New
Orleans, Louisiana, the levee system failed causing the area’s “most
significant number of deaths.” Eighty percent of the city and large tracts of
neighboring parishes became flooded, and the floodwaters lingered for weeks.</div>
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Coastal
areas sustained enormous property damage: Mississippi beachfront towns were
more than 90 percent flooded; boats and casino barges rammed buildings, pushing
cars and houses inland, water reaching 6–12 miles (10–19 km) from the beach.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">August 23 began the storm</span> originating
over the Bahamas; early the following day, a new depression intensified into
Tropical Storm Katrina; the cyclone headed generally westward toward Florida
and strengthened into a hurricane two hours before making landfall Hallandale
Beach (Broward County, Florida) and Aventura (Miami-Dade County) on August 25; very
briefly weakening to a tropical storm, Katrina then emerged into the Gulf of
Mexico on August 26 and began to rapidly deepen, strengthening to a Category 5
hurricane over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and weakened before, on
August 29, making a second landfall as a Category 3 hurricane in southeast
Louisiana. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">WAR ON IRAQ’S PEOPLE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Brief Chronology of Foreign Wars on Iraq:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mesopotamian
campaign (1914–1918)</div>
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Anglo-Iraqi
War (1941)</div>
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Iran–Iraq
War (1980–1988)</div>
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Gulf War
(1990–1991)</div>
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Iraqi no-fly
zones conflict (1991–2003)</div>
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Iraq War (March
20, 2003-December 18, 2011</div>
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Iraqi
insurgency (2011–2013)</div>
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Iraq War
(2014–present) American-led intervention in Iraq (2014–present)</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Iraq War within the past 12 years</span>:
wide-scale conflict starting in 2003 encompassing a U.S. military-led campaign
by a multinational force, and subsequent Iraqi insurgency and civil war.</div>
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War</div>
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_(2014%E2%80%93present)</div>
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_(disambiguation)</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Homelessness,
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<o:p>Editing, excerpting, ending comment by Carolyn Bennett </o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">0-year-old Pakistani asylum
seeker Asif Haji speaking to IPS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“Human
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“At issue is
the divisive policy which places refugees in ‘asylum-worthy’ categories.…</div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MAAK8Kl_zQE/VdjXe6-Qo1I/AAAAAAAAS-U/X-3rcflUEyI/s1600/sudan%2Bsaudi%2Barabia%2Bmemap.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MAAK8Kl_zQE/VdjXe6-Qo1I/AAAAAAAAS-U/X-3rcflUEyI/s200/sudan%2Bsaudi%2Barabia%2Bmemap.jpg" width="200" /></a><i>‘…First
are Syrians and other Middle East refugees who are awarded permits and</i> </div>
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<i>‘[Third]
… are the Africans who are widely perceived as economic migrants leeching on
the system and petty criminals dealing in drugs who are not particularly
welcome anywhere. </i>This is unfair. Human tragedy should not be classified.’</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">udanese blogger and Refugee
Movement campaigner Adam Bahar to IPS</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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Politicians busying themselves with strategies and programs
and allocating resources to more programs to hold back refugees … should instead
“be naming and shaming the real culprits….</div>
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<i>‘Change
begins by uprooting dictators who are clandestinely colluding to misuse their
nation’s wealth and remain in power thanks to the support of the pseudo democracies
of the first world.’…<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>‘In
dictatorships, young people suffer systematic oppression for a mere criticism
of the regime.” <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Facing
‘joblessness and lack of freedom of expression’ and ‘following the lure of the
foreign media’s often empty slogans of justice and freedom, they (young people)
seek legal or illegal emigration.’<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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“His dream
of a better life of freedom and wealth evaporated when he reached Europe,” Adam
Bahar is paraphrased, “where he soon realized that freedom and human rights are
not for everyone to enjoy.”</div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2ISEMWf3IeI/VdjWw1RXjSI/AAAAAAAAS9U/1ZS89Ydm1xA/s1600/nord%2Bpas%2Bde%2Bcalais%2Bregion.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2ISEMWf3IeI/VdjWw1RXjSI/AAAAAAAAS9U/1ZS89Ydm1xA/s200/nord%2Bpas%2Bde%2Bcalais%2Bregion.gif" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">On a clear day, the White Cliffs of
Dover can easily be seen from this port town in northern France overlooking the
Strait of Dover, the narrowest point in the English Channel. Calais is the closest
French town to England and the largest city in Pas-de-Calais.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-variant: small-caps;">No one should have to live
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James
Rippingale reporting: “More than 2,000 migrants” languish “in a Calais Refugee
Camp for one reason alone”—a chance “to reach Britain, or die trying.”</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">8-year-old Whalid</span> of Nuba
Mountain, Sudan, who has been living in ‘The Jungle’ for three months,
recalls a man pretending “to be Islamic” but who was “only interested in money.”</div>
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<i>‘We were locked in a
small house near the water with around 300 others and herded like cows onto a
boat,’ <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5eAMwhRY-tI/VdjW10Msi0I/AAAAAAAAS9s/ofSHQ227cwQ/s1600/England%2Band%2BCalais%2Bsmall%2Bmap.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5eAMwhRY-tI/VdjW10Msi0I/AAAAAAAAS9s/ofSHQ227cwQ/s1600/England%2Band%2BCalais%2Bsmall%2Bmap.jpg" /></a><i>‘The Africans were made
to go below and were nailed shut beneath the deck…. We made holes in the wood
just to breathe.’<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>‘I’d
rather be killed in my own country than die here, but I will never stop trying
to reach freedom</i>.’</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">asters graduate in Food Security
and Agriculture </span>(University of Khartoum),<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">
Ahmed</span>, who has been in ‘The Jungle’ for over a month, recalled to the
reporter that after “two days at sea, the boat’s engine began billowing smoke,”
the vessel rocked wildly and “refugees sobbed, screamed, begging to be saved. </div>
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Red Cross received emergency radio message; Migrants were
transferred “onto a small rescue vessel [and] offloaded onto a nearby cruise
ship”, where they were “surrounded by picture-snapping tourists.”</div>
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The migrants
walked from Italy to Calais and Ahmed said after he tried “to sneak onto a
ferry,” he was met by “French police” who beat him and “dumped him at the
Belgian border.” At the beginning of September 2014, he “applied for asylum in
France” and is still waiting for a decision. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">olitical cartoonist and writer</span>
of slogans highlighting corruption and brutality among Sudanese government officials,
a passionate exponent of Khartoum’s protest movement, 24-year-old <span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">Yassen </span>of Khartoum, Sudan
(also (University of Khartoum student in illustration), has been three months
in ‘The Jungle’.</div>
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he “became scared for [his] future because there was no freedom, no liberty and
[he] was on a government blacklist.”</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">aghawa tribesman, cattle and
sheep rancher, 24-year-old Nahar</span> of Hamada Forest, Southern Darfur,
Sudan, three months in ‘The Jungle’ recalls snapshots from his journey to
Calais.</div>
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It was “…evening …on
a darkened beach, the refugees were </div>
packed into tiny inflatable boats to begin
the crossing to Sicily.” He then made his way to Ventimiglia then to Nice by
train; and then walking to the Calais migrant camp.’ He said he had hoped “to
reach the safety of England and end his journey.”<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The question is not “are we living
up to ‘our values’”? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The compelling issue is twofold: correcting
the harm of the past and stopping the harm currently perpetrated with impunity,
which is compounding egregious wrongs of the past. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“Germany’s
Asylum Seekers – You Can’t Evict a Movement,” Francesca Dziadek, August 22,
2015, http://www.ipsnews.net/2015/05/germanys-asylum-seekers-you-cant-evict-a-movement/</div>
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“Welcome to
The Jungle,” Web Exclusive, James Rippingale , March 18, 2015, http://newint.org/features/web-exclusive/2015/03/18/jungle-calais-migrants/</div>
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James
Rippingale can be found @mrrippingale. See more at: http://newint.org/features/web-exclusive/2015/03/18/jungle-calais-migrants/#sthash.hFM0n2Rh.dpuf</div>
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“Refugee crisis - Do we care enough?” Deutsche
Welle’s Quadriga August 20, 2015 edition</div>
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<i>“Hundreds
of thousands are fleeing persecution, war and poverty – in the hope of safety
and a better life in Europe. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>In
Germany alone an estimated 800.000 refugees are expected to arrive this year.
Many Germans are eager to help them, but there has also been opposition and
even racist attacks.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Can
Europe find a worthy answer to the migrant crisis? Or will we respond by isolating
ourselves further?</i> quadriga(at)dw.com</div>
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http://www.dw.com/en/quadriga-refugee-crisis-do-we-care-enough-2015-08-20/e-18612192-9798</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">CALAIS </span>today is a key
transport hub and notable fishing port, a center for fish marketing, with
additionally an estimated 3,000 people still employed in the town’s famed lace
industry. Ten million people visit Calais annually. In Northern France, “the
city’s proximity to England has made it a major port for centuries. It is the
principal ferry crossing point between England and France, with the vast
majority of Channel crossings being made between Dover and Calais. The port
accounts for more than a third of economic activity of the town of Calais. </div>
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Calais
overlooks the Strait of Dover, the narrowest point in the English Channel,
which is only 34 km (21 mi) wide here, and is the closest French town to
England. On a clear day, the White Cliffs of Dover can easily be seen from Calais.
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Calais is largest
city in Pas-de-Calais, a town and major ferry port in northern France; population
of the metropolitan area 126,395 (2010 census) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calais</div>
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__________________________________________________Bennett's 2nd Insight Studyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07886391571898759108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4626403571823555829.post-72500375742296571542015-08-11T16:46:00.002-04:002015-08-11T16:46:39.116-04:00U.S. foreign engagement—knowing wrong, committing it, getting away with it<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Modern-day Iran (Tehran)</b></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Alborz Mountains in </b><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Background</b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Decades-long
intervention, a Diplomat’s assessment</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From an Op-ed
by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Javad Zarif</span></div>
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Excerpt,
minor edits by Carolyn Bennett</div>
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Human values
of “affection, love for fellow human beings, patience and forgiveness have
always been fundamental components” of all religions’ messages but the past two </div>
centuries have seen “a small group of demagogues with suspicious backgrounds
and with the pretext of reforming religion” begin “offering a distorted and
unreal image of Islam.” With their “political goals” and advancement of a “short-sighted
agenda”, they set out to “alter the message of Islam and distort religious
teachings and attempted to take affection away from religion; thus the Takfiris
and their followers took a harsh stance – more than before – toward those who
refused to accept such an interpretation of religion; and the former regarded
the latter as being ‘out of religion.’”<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Mohammad </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Javad Zarif</span></span></b></td></tr>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mBhCdUJGMLs/VcpZN18h-0I/AAAAAAAAS6o/zzje3HQbhWo/s1600/iran.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mBhCdUJGMLs/VcpZN18h-0I/AAAAAAAAS6o/zzje3HQbhWo/s1600/iran.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"></a>Because of
their “social and economic conditions,” individuals and groups were “susceptible”
and “lured” to radical ideologies.…” While “the majority of those who believe
in Takfiri interpretations have always refrained from resorting to force to
spread and enforce their beliefs, some of them took up arms….” In some cases, they
“even rebelled against their own masters.…” At this point, “violent extremism
was born.”</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b>Foreigners’ exploitation</b>: </span>a “vicious
cycle of foreign intervention, radicalism, and regional instability”</div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OVGw4EL1N1w/VcpY0rRsZkI/AAAAAAAAS6g/HTNLO5cEOlE/s1600/UN%2BFLAG%2Bimage.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a>Understanding
the situation, the rise and spread of “existing extremist groups”, requires close
attention to the critical role of bloody developments in Iraq over the past
decade. “Political and military interventions in the Islamic world,
particularly in the 2000s, caused many difficulties, provided fertile ground for
extremist demagogues, allowed the most radical of them to dominate others; and
thus the ground was paved for violent extremist groups to take shape.”</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b>Deep Harm, Disregard for cultures, Illusory "democracy"</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“Those who
devised this plan were incapable of understanding that democracy cannot be
imposed on a nation through brute force.” Democracy also cannot “take root in a
society under the rule of an occupying military.” While attempts were being made to enforce this
illusory scheme (“democracy”), the damage done to Iraq and the region “has been
so extensive and deep that years of endeavors to undo [the damage] have had
little effect.</div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Cl1pqiPKT4Q/VcpYbUa9f4I/AAAAAAAAS6Q/PTUUcBdXC4M/s1600/map%2BSinjar%2BMountains%2Bin%2Bnorthern%2BIraq%2Bshowing%2BTurkey%2BSyria%2BIran.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Cl1pqiPKT4Q/VcpYbUa9f4I/AAAAAAAAS6Q/PTUUcBdXC4M/s1600/map%2BSinjar%2BMountains%2Bin%2Bnorthern%2BIraq%2Bshowing%2BTurkey%2BSyria%2BIran.gif" /></a>“The objective
of these policies—that were formed based on utter ignorance toward the innate
dynamism of the region—was to impose on it a model completely alien to the
region and in contradiction to the traditions, cultures and ways of life of
native societies.”</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><b>Cycle of suffering feeding on one
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“The
continual instability that befell a number of societies in the region as a
result of this process [of foreign intervention, exploitation, violence, provocation]
paved the ground for the empowerment of violent extremists, and caused a
vicious cycle in which foreign occupation and radicalism fed one another, in
such a way that extremists were enabled to exploit the social and cultural gaps
that have been caused.” </div>
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Though
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NJnCPgewffo/VcpYvtChy0I/AAAAAAAAS6Y/1fJe-Qtv5g4/s1600/disarmament%2BUN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NJnCPgewffo/VcpYvtChy0I/AAAAAAAAS6Y/1fJe-Qtv5g4/s320/disarmament%2BUN.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">ohammad Javad Zarif Khonsari</span>
is an Iranian diplomat, academic, and currently Iran’s Minister of Foreign
Affairs. </div>
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In 1982, he
was a member of the Iranian delegation to the United Nations and was involved in
negotiations to win release of U.S. hostages held by pro-Iranian gunmen in
Lebanon. From 2002 to 2007, he was Iran’s
representative at the United Nations and in 2003 “was closely linked with
developing the so-called ‘Grand Bargain,’ a plan to resolve outstanding issues
between the United States and Iran.” </div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OVGw4EL1N1w/VcpY0rRsZkI/AAAAAAAAS6g/HTNLO5cEOlE/s1600/UN%2BFLAG%2Bimage.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="132" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OVGw4EL1N1w/VcpY0rRsZkI/AAAAAAAAS6g/HTNLO5cEOlE/s200/UN%2BFLAG%2Bimage.gif" width="200" /></a>In 2000,
Zarif served as chairman of the Asian preparatory meeting of the World
Conference on Racism and as the chairman of the United Nations Disarmament
Commission and was also professor of international law at the University of
Tehran. From 2010 to 2012 under Abdollah Jasbi, he was vice president of
Islamic Azad University in charge of foreign affairs; and served on the board
of editors of a number of scholarly journals, including the Iranian Journal of
International Affairs and Iranian Foreign Policy. He has written extensively on
disarmament, human rights, international law, and regional conflicts.<br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mBhCdUJGMLs/VcpZN18h-0I/AAAAAAAAS6o/zzje3HQbhWo/s1600/iran.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mBhCdUJGMLs/VcpZN18h-0I/AAAAAAAAS6o/zzje3HQbhWo/s200/iran.png" width="182" /></a><o:p> </o:p></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OVGw4EL1N1w/VcpY0rRsZkI/AAAAAAAAS6g/HTNLO5cEOlE/s1600/UN%2BFLAG%2Bimage.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a>This distinguished
foreign minister and veteran diplomat has held many domestic and international positions, including adviser and senior adviser to the Iran's Foreign Minister, Deputy
Foreign Minister in Legal and International affairs, member of the prominent
personalities of the Dialogue Among Civilizations, Head of the UN Disarmament
Committee in New York, member of the prominent personalities of global
governance, and Deputy in International Affairs of the Islamic Azad University.</div>
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Sources and
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“‘Occupying
armies bring no democracy’”, Op-ed by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad
Zarif, published in the Tuesday edition of the Turkish Cumhuriyet daily, posted
at Press TV August 11, 2015, </div>
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http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/08/11/424260/Iran-Zarif-op-ed-Cumhuriyet</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Mohammad
Javad Zarif Khonsari</b></span> bio notes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Javad_Zarif</div>
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__________________________________________________Bennett's 2nd Insight Studyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07886391571898759108noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4626403571823555829.post-7562236652759312262015-08-10T15:04:00.006-04:002015-08-10T15:30:49.259-04:00WE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD say psychologists re. U.S. torture<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Righting
wrongs begins internally, motivated by a certain “something,” driven by certain
some ones together</span></i><br />
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Psychologist, Teacher, Trauma Expert <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">Steven Reisner, PhD.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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consulted on the effects of war, exile, and<span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;"> <b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">torture</span></i></b></span><span style="background-color: white;">,</span> including training psychiatrists
in Iraq to treat survivors of<span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;"> <b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">torture</span></i></b></span>, training Kosovo-returned refugees to use theater
and testimony to address the trauma of exile; consulted with clinical staff of the
United Nations, helping train and supervise counselors responsible for the
health and well-being of UN staff in many countries.<br />
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Reisner’s writings have appeared in the
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Psychoanalytic Dialogues,
Studies in Gender and Psychoanalysis. In
New York City, he is Senior Faculty and Supervisor at the International Trauma
Studies Program and on the faculties of the Department of Psychiatry and the
Psychoanalytic Institute at the New York University Medical School and the
Program in Clinical Psychology at Columbia University.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">eisner spoke in interview on today’s
Democracy Now program</span> following the Friday near unanimous vote by the Council
of Representatives of the American Psychological Association (APA) “to adopt a
new policy barring psychologists from participating in national security
interrogations.” This is something he said that impressed me in his discussion with
Amy Goodman. <br />
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“Enormous
talents” are required “to change the world.”<br />
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When “talented people get together
and are dedicated to good, to human rights, human welfare, to change—using our
skills, our individual skills, for good—it may take 10 years … but … it is
possible to make a significant change. <br />
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“…[R]ight
now, even the Obama administration is on notice that the American Psychological
Association is opposed to some of the policies that are still in existence.…: \<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the
interrogation policy of the Obama administration includes the Army Field Manual
Appendix M. That appendix uses techniques or permits techniques that have been
banned by the United Nations Committee Against <b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cc0000; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;">Torture</span></span></i></b>.</span></blockquote>
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“…[T]he
American Psychological Association is saying to the Obama administration that
we consider that cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, and none of our
members can participate in any of those activities;<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it’s time
for you to change that Army Field Manual; it’s time for the United States to
follow the American Psychological Association and ban any technique, any
condition that is considered still to be<span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;"> <b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">torture</span></i></b></span>, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“We want to
lead the way….”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">Dr. Stephen Soldz <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Director of
the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, outspoken critic of the U.S.
government’s use of psychological <span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cc0000; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">torture</span></i></b> </span>in its conduct of the War in Iraq and Global War
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In August
2007, Dr. Soldz publicly challenged the American Psychological Association to
ban involvement by professional psychologists in the interrogation of ‘enemy
combatant’ prisoners held by the CIA and Defense Department. In November 2007, with
Julian Assange, he coauthored an article published via WikiLeaks on
psychological<span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;"> <b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">torture</span></i></b>
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Dr. Soldz is
a prolific researcher and writer in the field of psychology and personality as
well as in the areas purely and interfacing with war and peace and international
affairs, human rights,<span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;"> <b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">torture</span></i></b>.</span> In addition to publishing the “Iraq Occupation
and Resistance Report” website, he has written for the Znet website on which he
questions the accuracy in reporting the number of Iraqi civilian deaths since
the March 2003 invasion. He has written op-ed columns for a variety of sources.
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">n the Democracy Now program</span>
today Stephen Soldz impressed me with part of his personal statement as to why
he helped lead the drive to end psychologists’ participation in U.S.<span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;"> <b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">torture</span></i></b> </span>programs.
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He said he refused
to be a person “…who does not stand up when I have the opportunity. I can’t live with myself if that’s the case,” he
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’ve always
admired those who did. This was my time to do it. And I knew that if a few of
us did not keep it up, this policy would keep on.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif;">United
Nations CONVENTION AGAINST</span><span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif;"> <b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">TORTURE</span></i></b></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif;"> and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment
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<i>The Convention against <span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cc0000; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Torture</span></b>
</span>and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (the <span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;">‘<b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Torture</span></b> </span>Convention’) was adopted by the General Assembly of
the </i><i>United Nations on December 10, 1984
(resolution 39/46) and entered into force on June 26, 1987, after it had been
ratified by 20 States. The <b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cc0000; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;">Torture</span></span></b> Convention
was the result of many years’ work, initiated soon after the adoption of the
Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Being Subjected to<span style="background-color: red; color: white;"> <b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cc0000; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Torture</span></b> </span>and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment (the <span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;">‘<b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cc0000; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Torture</span></b> </span>Declaration’) by the General
Assembly on December 9, 1975 (resolution 3452 (XXX)). http://legal.un.org/avl/ha/catcidtp/catcidtp.html</i></div>
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The States
Parties to this Convention AGAINST <span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">TORTURE</span></i></b> </span>and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment
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that, in accordance with the principles proclaimed in the Charter of the United
Nations, recognition of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the
human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,</li>
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the obligation of States under the Charter, in particular Article 55, to
promote universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental
freedoms,</li>
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<li>Having
regard to article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and article 7
of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, both of which
provide that no one may be subjected to<span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;"> <b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">torture</span></i></b> </span>or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
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regard also to the Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Being
Subjected to <span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #cc0000; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Torture</span></i></b>
</span>and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, adopted by the
General Assembly on 9 December 1975 (resolution 3452 (XXX)),</li>
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<li>Desiring to
make more effective the struggle against<span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;"> <b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">torture</span></i></b></span> and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
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Democracy Now
program segment: “No More <b><i><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="color: red;">Torture</span></span></i></b>: World’s Largest Group of Psychologists Bans
Role in National Security Interrogations,” Monday, August 10, 2015, http://www.democracynow.org/2015/8/10/no_more_<b><i><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="color: red;">torture</span></span></i></b>_world_s_largest</div>
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“By a nearly
unanimous vote, the American Psychological Association’s Council of
Representatives voted Friday to adopt a new policy barring psychologists from
participating in national security interrogations. The resolution also puts the
APA on the side of international law by barring psychologists from working at
Guantánamo, CIA black sites and other settings deemed illegal under the Geneva
Conventions or the U.N. Convention Against <b><i><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="color: red;">Torture</span></span></i></b>, unless they are working directly for the
persons being detained or for an independent third party working to protect
human rights. The vote came at the APA’s first convention since the release of
a report confirming the APA leadership actively colluded with the Pentagon and
the CIA<span style="color: red;"> <b><i><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">torture</span></i></b></span>
programs. The <b>sole dissenter was retired
Col. Larry James, former top Army intelligence psychologist at Guantánamo and
Abu Ghraib</b>.” The program’s guests included “two of the leading dissident psychologists
who have been pushing the APA to reverse its stance on interrogations for
nearly a decade: Steven Reisner and Stephen Soldz, founding members of the
Coalition for an Ethical Psychology.”</div>
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Parties to this Convention AGAINST <span style="background-color: red;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">TORTURE</span></i></b> </span>and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment
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</span><!--[endif]-->For the purposes of this Convention, <b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: red; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">torture</span></i></b> means any
act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is
intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or
a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a
third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating
or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of
any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of
or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting
in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only
from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions.<br />
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2. This article is without prejudice to
any international instrument or national legislation which does or may contain
provisions of wider application.</div>
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1. Each State Party shall take
effective legislative, administrative, judicial or other measures to prevent
acts of <span style="background-color: red;"><b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">torture</span></i></b>
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2. No exceptional circumstances
whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat or war, internal political
instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of
<b><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: red; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">torture</span></i></b>. </div>
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3. An order from a superior officer or
a public authority may not be invoked as a justification of<span style="color: red;"> <b><i><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">torture</span></i></b>. </span></div>
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1. No State Party shall expel, return
("refouler") or extradite a person to another State where there are
substantial grounds for believing that he would be in danger of being subjected
to <span style="color: red;"><b><i><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">torture</span></i></b>. </span></div>
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2. For the purpose of determining
whether there are such grounds, the competent authorities shall take into
account all relevant considerations including, where applicable, the existence
in the State concerned of a consistent pattern of gross, flagrant or mass
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1. Each State Party shall ensure that
all acts of <b><i><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="color: red;">torture</span></span></i></b>
are offences under its criminal law. The same shall apply to an attempt to
commit<span style="color: red;"> <b><i><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">torture</span></i></b>
</span>and to an act by any person which constitutes complicity or participation in <b><i><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="color: red;">torture</span></span></i></b>. </div>
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2. Each State Party shall make these
offences punishable by appropriate penalties which take into account their
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1. Each State Party shall ensure that
education and information regarding the prohibition against <span style="color: red;"><b><i><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">torture</span></i></b> </span>are fully
included in the training of law enforcement personnel, civil or military,
medical personnel, public officials and other persons who may be involved in
the custody, interrogation or treatment of any individual subjected to any form
of arrest, detention or imprisonment. </div>
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2. Each State Party shall include this
prohibition in the rules or instructions issued in regard to the duties and
functions of any such persons. </div>
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Each State Party shall keep under
systematic review interrogation rules, instructions, methods and practices as
well as arrangements for the custody and treatment of persons subjected to any
form of arrest, detention or imprisonment in any territory under its
jurisdiction, with a view to preventing any cases of <b><i><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="color: red;">torture</span></span></i></b>.</div>
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Each State Party shall ensure that its
competent authorities proceed to a prompt and impartial investigation, wherever
there is reasonable ground to believe that an act of <b><i><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="color: red;">torture</span></span></i></b> has been committee in any
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Each State Party shall ensure that any
individual who alleges he has been subjected to <span style="color: red;"><b><i><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">torture</span></i></b> </span>in any territory under its
jurisdiction has the right to complain to and to have his case promptly and
impartially examined its competent authorities. Steps shall be taken to ensure
that the complainant and witnesses are protected against all ill-treatment or
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1. Each State Party shall ensure in its
legal system that the victim of an act of <b><i><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="color: red;">torture</span></span></i></b> obtains redress and has an enforceable right to
fair and adequate compensation including the means for as full rehabilitation
as possible. In the event of the death of the victim as a result of an act of <b><i><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="color: red;">torture</span></span></i></b>, his
dependents shall be entitled to compensation.
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2. Nothing in this article shall affect
any right of the victim or other person to compensation which may exist under
national law. </div>
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Each State Party shall ensure that any
statement which is established to have been made as a result of <b><i><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="color: red;">torture</span></span></i></b> shall not
be invoked as evidence in any proceedings, except against a person accused of <span style="color: red;"><b><i><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">torture</span></i></b> </span>as
evidence that the statement was made.</div>
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1. There shall be established a
Committee against <b><i><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="color: red;">Torture</span></span></i></b>
(hereinafter referred to as the Committee) which shall carry out the functions
hereinafter provided. The Committee shall consist of 10 experts of high moral
standing and recognized competence in the field of human rights, who shall
serve in their personal capacity. The experts shall be elected by the States
Parties, consideration being given to equitable geographical distribution and
to the usefulness of the participation of some persons having legal
experience. </div>
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2. The members of the Committee shall
be elected by secret ballot from a list of persons nominated by States Parties.
Each State Party may nominate one person from among its own nationals. States
Parties shall bear in mind the usefulness of nominating persons who are also
members of the Human Rights Committee established under the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and are willing to serve on the
Committee against <span style="color: red;"><b><i><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">Torture</span></i></b>. </span> …</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">Article 20<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Coalition For an Ethical Psychology <br />Trudy Bond <br />Stephen Soldz <br />Roy Eidelson <br />Stephen Reisner <br />Brad Olson <br />Jean Maria Arrigo</b></span></td></tr>
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the Committee receives reliable information which appears to it to contain
well-founded indications that<span style="color: red;"> <b><i><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">torture</span></i></b> </span>is being systematically practised in the
territory of a State Party, the Committee shall invite that State Party to
co-operate in the examination of the information and to this end to submit
observations with regard to the information concerned. …</div>
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United
Nations CONVENTION AGAINST <span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;"><b><i><span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">TORTURE</span></i></b> </span>and Other
Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, http://www.hrweb.org/legal/cat.html</div>
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“The COALITION
FOR AN ETHICAL PSYCHOLOGY is dedicated to putting psychology on a firm ethical
foundation in support of social justice and human rights. The Coalition has
been in the lead of efforts to remove psychologists from torture and abusive
interrogations.” http://ethicalpsychology.org/resources/reclaiming-our-profession.php</div>
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<b><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #3d85c6;">A lifelong American writer and writer/activis</span></span></b><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: #3d85c6;">t </b></span>(former academic and staffer with the U.S. government in Washington), Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett is credentialed in education and print journalism and public affairs (PhD, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; MA, The American University, Washington, DC). Her work concerns itself with news and current affairs, historical contexts, and ideas particularly related to acts and consequences of U.S. foreign relations, geopolitics, human rights, war and peace, and violence and nonviolence.
Dr. Bennett is an internationalist and nonpartisan progressive personally concerned with society and the common good. An educator at heart, her career began with the U.S. Peace Corps, teaching in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Since then, she has authored several books and numerous current-affairs articles; her latest book: UNCONSCIONABLE: How The World Sees Us: World News, Alternative Views, Commentary on U.S. Foreign Relations; most thoughts, articles, edited work are posted at Bennett’s Study: http://todaysinsightnews.blogspot.com/ and on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/carolynladelle.bennett.
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_________________________________________________Bennett's 2nd Insight Studyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07886391571898759108noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4626403571823555829.post-33593676716812682702015-07-16T15:51:00.000-04:002015-07-16T15:57:31.194-04:00Character of Impunity—Ida B. Wells-era Anti-lynching today’s Anti-war imperative <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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Editing,
excerpting by Carolyn Bennett</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">Today is her birthday</span>. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">American of African descent, teacher, journalist, newspaper
editor, suffragist, sociologist, early leader in human rights movements— Ida B.
Wells documented lynching in the United States and showed that this act of
barbarity was often motivated by a segment of the American majority’s attempt
to control or punish their business competitors’ among American Negroes, rather
than to curb actual criminal behavior committed by Negroes. </span></blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Ida B. Wells<br />July 16, 1862-July 16, 1931</b></span></td></tr>
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Wells was also active in women’s rights and the Woman
Suffrage Movement and established several notable women’s organizations. She
was an accomplished and persuasive orator who traveled widely, giving lectures
in the United States and other countries.</div>
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<span style="background-color: #3d85c6; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ida Bell Wells-Barnett: July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">ECHOES</span>: The following (excerpted,
minor edit) from a speech given by Ida B. Wells in the year 1900 is eerily resonant in today’s U.S. actions at Guantanamo Bay and other detention and
torture centers; actions on the streets of Illinois, Connecticut, California, Missouri,
Georgia, New York, and other U.S. domestic sites; together with endless cases of U.S. lawlessness
and repercussions against and among peoples and nations of Yemen, Libya, Sudan,
Pakistan, Syria, Somalia, Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea, Ukraine, and
others. </div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7W5Vix3DPkA/VagEAUdHbcI/AAAAAAAAS1Q/H0Tal-KFlQg/s1600/BOMBS%2BFALLING%2B0223cluster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="118" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7W5Vix3DPkA/VagEAUdHbcI/AAAAAAAAS1Q/H0Tal-KFlQg/s200/BOMBS%2BFALLING%2B0223cluster.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">Judge Jury Executioner sans Constitutional
Due Process or regard for Rights of Human Beings as Human Beings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“It is not
the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the
unspeakable brutality of an insane mob. It represents the cool, calculating
deliberation of intelligent people who openly avow that there is an ‘unwritten
law’ that justifies them in putting human beings to death without complaint
under oath, without trial by jury, without opportunity to make defense, and
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‘unwritten</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> law’</span>
first found excuse with the rough, rugged, and determined man who left the
civilized centers of eastern States to seek quick returns in the gold-fields
of the far West.… Far removed from and entirely without protection of the
courts of civilized life, these fortune-seekers made laws to meet their varying
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Judge Lynch</span> was original in
methods but exceedingly effective in procedure. He made the charge, impaneled
the jurors, and directed the execution. When the court adjourned, the prisoner
was dead. Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread
into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The
emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West. But
the spirit of mob procedure seemed to have fastened itself upon the lawless
classes, and the grim process that at first was invoked to declare justice was
made the excuse to wreak vengeance and cover crime.…emergencies.…</div>
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work of the ‘unwritten law’ about which so much is said, and in whose behest
butchery is made a pastime and national savagery condoned. The first statute of
this “unwritten law” was written in the blood of thousands of brave men who
thought that a government that was good enough to create a citizenship was
strong enough to protect it. Under the authority of a national law that gave
every citizen the right to vote, the newly-made citizens chose to exercise
their suffrage. But the reign of the national law was short-lived and
illusionary. Hardly had the sentences dried upon the statute-books before one
Southern State after another raised the cry against 'Negro domination' and
proclaimed there was an “unwritten law” that justified any means to resist it.…</div>
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“…Political
excuse was no longer necessary [and] wholesale murder of human beings went on [unabated]….
A new name was given to the killings and a new excuse was invented for so
doing.…”</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif;">Impunity—World bodies, charities,
foundations in complicity shrug (Think U.S. forces, mercenaries, military
contractors, drone missiles in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine, et.al)</span></div>
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“… [L]ynchings
have steadily increased in number and barbarity [yet] … there has been no
single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the
country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter. The silence and seeming [condoning]
grow more marked as the years go by. The world accepts without let or
hindrance. </div>
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cases there has been open expression that the fate meted out to the victim was
only what he deserved. …</div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paris,
Texas: The mayor gave school children a holiday and the railroads ran excursion
trains so that the people might see a human being burned to death;<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Texas: Men and boys amused themselves by cutting off strips of flesh and
thrusting knives into their helpless victim.…</span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">n
many instances there has been a silence</span></b> that says more forcibly than
words can proclaim it that it is right and proper that a human being should be
seized by a mob and burned to death upon the unsworn and the uncorroborated
charge of [an] accuser. </div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No
matter that our laws presume every man innocent until he is proved guilty; <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">…no
matter that it leaves a certain class of individuals completely at the mercy of
another class; <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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matter that it encourages those criminally disposed to blacken their faces and
commit any crime in the calendar so long as they can throw suspicion on some
negro, as is frequently done, and then lead a mob to take his life; <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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matter that mobs make a farce of the law and a mockery of justice; <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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matter that hundreds of boys are being hardened in crime and schooled in vice
by the repetition of such scenes before their eyes</i> </span></div>
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“… [W]ith
all the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition, all the barbarism of the Middle
Ages—the world looks on and says it is well.…”</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">mericans
of all stripes</span></b> who were born in the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth
century seemed far less afraid to proclaim America’s promise and their
authentic love—not of politicians or political parties, but of country. </div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lPdcKsyZzg8/VagEZe6-eGI/AAAAAAAAS1w/0m7DbdpH1Fw/s1600/us-flag-burning-demotix%2B-%2BCopy%2B%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lPdcKsyZzg8/VagEZe6-eGI/AAAAAAAAS1w/0m7DbdpH1Fw/s200/us-flag-burning-demotix%2B-%2BCopy%2B%25282%2529.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">For love of country<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“Our
country’s national crime is lynching,” Wells wrote in 1900. And 115 years later
we must ponder a parallel in violence committed at home and abroad on orders of
U.S. officials and by acts of their partners, contractors and government employees.
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“… No
American travels abroad without blushing for shame for his country on this
subject; and whatever the excuse that now passes in the United States, it
avails nothing abroad,” Wells wrote. </div>
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“With all
the powers of government in control… —no excuse can be offered for exchanging orderly
administration of justice for barbarous lynchings and ‘unwritten laws.’” </div>
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How and when
will constructive change, substantive change in our character of being come to
us? Ida Wells responds, Not “until Americans of every section of broadest patriotism and best and
wisest citizenship—not only see the defect in our country’s armor, but who take
the necessary steps to remedy [that defect].” </div>
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“Speech on
Lynch Law in America, Given by Ida B. Wells in Chicago, Illinois, January, 1900” Civil Rights
and Conflict in the United States: Selected Speeches by FCIT Source: Wells, I.
B. (1900). The Arena, http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/185/civil-rights-and-conflict-in-the-united-states-selected-speeches/4375/speech-on-lynch-law-in-america-given-by-ida-b-wells-in-chicago-illinois-january-1900/</div>
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Biographical
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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells</div>
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Biography http://www.biography.com/people/ida-b-wells-9527635</div>
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<b><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i style="background-color: #3d85c6;">A lifelong American writer and writer/activist </i></span></b>(former academic and staffer with the U.S. government in Washington), Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett is credentialed in education and print journalism and public affairs (PhD, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; MA, The American University, Washington, DC). Her work concerns itself with news and current affairs, historical contexts, and ideas particularly related to acts and consequences of U.S. foreign relations, geopolitics, human rights, war and peace, and violence and nonviolence.
Dr. Bennett is an internationalist and nonpartisan progressive personally concerned with society and the common good. An educator at heart, her career began with the U.S. Peace Corps, teaching in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Since then, she has authored several books and numerous current-affairs articles; her latest book: UNCONSCIONABLE: How The World Sees Us: World News, Alternative Views, Commentary on U.S. Foreign Relations; most thoughts, articles, edited work are posted at Bennett’s Study: http://todaysinsightnews.blogspot.com/ and on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/carolynladelle.bennett.
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<br />Bennett's 2nd Insight Studyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07886391571898759108noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4626403571823555829.post-2526361898213587312015-06-07T17:05:00.002-04:002015-06-07T17:05:34.195-04:00America polarized by money, uncivil relations says ex-U.S. President Jimmy Carter<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i24YBX0L0oQ/VXSplCvXEeI/AAAAAAAASqw/o1ObKEs0Q78/s1600/video-conversations%2BTHE%2BCARTER%2BCENTER%2BJIMMY%2BAND%2BROSALYNN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i24YBX0L0oQ/VXSplCvXEeI/AAAAAAAASqw/o1ObKEs0Q78/s1600/video-conversations%2BTHE%2BCARTER%2BCENTER%2BJIMMY%2BAND%2BROSALYNN.jpg" /></a><i style="font-size: x-large;">Words of warning from the wise to fellow Americans</i><br />
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don't think anybody now can hope to be the nominee of the Democratic or
Republican Party if they cannot raise a quarter of a billion dollars. </div>
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“This massive infusion of money automatically polarizes our country. </div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XZdjP_S1hIY/VXSrz-UAxRI/AAAAAAAASrk/l_SLyYshS_k/s1600/jimmy%2Band%2Brosalyn%2Bcarter%2Bpenn%2Bave%2Bmarch%2Binauguration.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a>“When hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent tearing down the
reputation of an opponent in order to get elected, animosity and negativism
carries on into Washington. </div>
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“There was harmony among [members of Congress and the White House] when I was there, and I
got just as much support from Republicans as I did from Democrats. I can’t
imagine myself as a successful candidate today.”<br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XAqy66JeBJw/VXSr1-07BVI/AAAAAAAASrs/K6Z2slwGZ4s/s1600/Jimmy%2BCarter%2BUS%2Bflag%2Bin%2Bbackground.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">RESPECT, CIVILITY IN
GOVERNMENT<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Jimmy Carter</span>: “George
H.W. Bush… was the only one …, along with his secretary of state, James Baker, who treated
ex-presidents with respect.… And I’m not derogating the others when I say that.
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mzNWNqb5aNY/VXStICvtjeI/AAAAAAAASr4/IFXwzpm2x7A/s1600/Hands-HRRAC2%2Bcolors%2Bhuman%2Brights%2Bhuman%2Brelations.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="196" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mzNWNqb5aNY/VXStICvtjeI/AAAAAAAASr4/IFXwzpm2x7A/s200/Hands-HRRAC2%2Bcolors%2Bhuman%2Brights%2Bhuman%2Brelations.jpg" width="200" /></a>“Somebody who has been out of office for 35 years is much less helpful
to an incumbent president than either Gerald Ford or Richard Nixon was to me,
because they had only been out of office just a few months or years.”</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">RACE RELATIONS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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recent publicity about mistreatment of black people in the judicial and police
realm has been a reminder that the dreams of the civil rights movement have not
been realized. </div>
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“Many Americans still have racist tendencies or feelings of superiority
to people of color.”</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">PERSONAL
CHARACTER, ATTITUDE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XZdjP_S1hIY/VXSrz-UAxRI/AAAAAAAASrk/l_SLyYshS_k/s1600/jimmy%2Band%2Brosalyn%2Bcarter%2Bpenn%2Bave%2Bmarch%2Binauguration.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XZdjP_S1hIY/VXSrz-UAxRI/AAAAAAAASrk/l_SLyYshS_k/s1600/jimmy%2Band%2Brosalyn%2Bcarter%2Bpenn%2Bave%2Bmarch%2Binauguration.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Jimmy Carter</span>: “I
haven’t been very belligerent in my life, maybe because of that ancestral background [his great-great, great-, and grandfathers having lost their lives
in acts of violence].</div>
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“I’ve been primarily devoted to peacekeeping. I’ve stayed in a peaceful
mood.”</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">PARTNER <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The marriage of former First Lady Rosalynn Carter and former president Jimmy Carter is 69 years. Jimmy Carter describes their relationship and work as “fully
collaborative.”</div>
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<o:p> </o:p> </div>
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Sources and Notes</div>
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Conversation with the United States’ thirty-ninth president, Jimmy
Carter (James Earl Carter), humanitarian and peanut farmer, AARP Bulletin, interview
and article by Charles Green, freelance writer and former editor of National
Journal, June 2015, http://www.aarp.org/politics-society/history/info-2015/jimmy-carter-reflections-at-90.html</div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZXOJpWVVer0/VXSru7vyAsI/AAAAAAAASrU/A50NbpqsK5g/s1600/Rosalynn%2BCarter%2BUS%2Bflag%2Bin%2Bbackground.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="133" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZXOJpWVVer0/VXSru7vyAsI/AAAAAAAASrU/A50NbpqsK5g/s200/Rosalynn%2BCarter%2BUS%2Bflag%2Bin%2Bbackground.jpg" width="200" /></a><o:p> </o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">Rosalynn Carter née
Eleanor Rosalynn Smith</span>: First Lady of United States of America (1977–81),
wife of Jimmy (James Earl) Carter, 39th president of the United States and
mental health advocate; one of the most politically astute and active of all
American first ladies.</div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Foreign Relations</span></o:p></div>
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First Lady Rosalynn Carter “participated in political affairs to an
extent unmatched by any of her predecessors. … She attended cabinet meetings
when the subject under discussion interested her and attracted attention for
taking whatever seat was vacant, even if it happened to be the one normally
occupied by Vice President Walter Mondale. </div>
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<ul><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OpRqb47Zc-Y/VXSrxV5bjyI/AAAAAAAASrc/ihtu0jjyXpg/s1600/Rosalynn%2BCarter%2Bsymposium%2Bon%2BMental%2BHealth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="133" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OpRqb47Zc-Y/VXSrxV5bjyI/AAAAAAAASrc/ihtu0jjyXpg/s200/Rosalynn%2BCarter%2Bsymposium%2Bon%2BMental%2BHealth.jpg" width="200" /></a>
<li>June 1977 she visited seven nations in the Caribbean and Latin America and met with their leaders to discuss substantive matters related to defense and trade.”</li>
<li>She routinely traveled “to various parts of the world for ceremonial occasions and on humanitarian missions such as a 1979 trip to a refugee camp in Cambodia.”</li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Domestic Affairs</span></div>
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<ul>
<li>Rosalynn Carter “served as honorary chair of the President’s Commission
on Mental Health and took an active role in the commission's work, which
resulted in the submission of the Mental Health Systems Bill to Congress in May
1979. During debate on the bill, which passed in 1980, she testified before a
Senate subcommittee, the first presidential wife to make such an appearance
since Eleanor Roosevelt in 1945.”</li>
<li><br /></li>
<li>The President “sometimes pointed out that his
wife’s first name was Eleanor and that she had been as valuable a working
partner to him as had Eleanor Roosevelt to her husband. </li>
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<li>Compared with other first ladies, Rosalynn Carter’s “popularity was consistently high.”</li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eleanor Rosalynn Carter: birth and birthplace August 18, 1927, Plains, Georgia </span></div>
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Carter, Rosalynn. (2013). Encyclopedia
Britannica. Encyclopedia Britannica Deluxe Edition. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica. </div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XAqy66JeBJw/VXSr1-07BVI/AAAAAAAASrs/K6Z2slwGZ4s/s1600/Jimmy%2BCarter%2BUS%2Bflag%2Bin%2Bbackground.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="132" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XAqy66JeBJw/VXSr1-07BVI/AAAAAAAASrs/K6Z2slwGZ4s/s200/Jimmy%2BCarter%2BUS%2Bflag%2Bin%2Bbackground.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">Carter, Jimmy (James
Earl Carter, Jr.)</span>: <span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In a period of serious domestic and international problems, Jimmy
Carter served as the 39th president of the United States (1977–81). A one-term
president, he had been perceived as unable “to deal successfully with those
problems”. After leaving office Mr. Carter broadened his credentials, embarking
“on a career of diplomacy and advocacy,” meriting high praise for his peace
efforts. </div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vOfKxFsVwGI/VXStqShXQfI/AAAAAAAASsA/_4i36lywIqU/s1600/MIDDLE%2BEAST%2BWORLDATLAS%2BIMAGE%2B2.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="316" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vOfKxFsVwGI/VXStqShXQfI/AAAAAAAASsA/_4i36lywIqU/s320/MIDDLE%2BEAST%2BWORLDATLAS%2BIMAGE%2B2.png" width="320" /></a>While in office critics had charged that Mr. Carter’s vision of the
world was naïve in the area of foreign affairs but he has received “accolades
for championing international human rights.” </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Foreign affairs
accomplishments as president </span>major achievements: </div>
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<ul>
<li>In 1977, he obtained two treaties between the United States and Panama
that gave the latter control over the Panama Canal at the end of 1999 and
guaranteed the neutrality of that waterway thereafter. </li>
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<li>In 1978, he brought together Egyptian President Anwar el-Sādāt and
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the presidential retreat in Camp
David, Maryland, and secured their agreement to the Camp David Accords, which
ended the state of war that had existed between the two countries since Israel’s
establishment in 1948. </li>
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<li>On January 1, 1979, Carter established full diplomatic relations
between the United States and China and simultaneously broke official ties with
Taiwan. </li>
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<li>Also in 1979 in Vienna, U.S. President Carter and Soviet leader Leonid
Brezhnev signed a new bilateral strategic arms limitation treaty (SALT II) [which
Carter removed from consideration by the Senate in January 1980 after the
Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan] intended to establish parity in strategic
nuclear weapons delivery systems between the two superpowers on terms that
could be adequately verified. </li>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9xwRO7I0Ov4/VXSrpVtTpgI/AAAAAAAASrM/RScT2eoY0oU/s1600/Peace-Not-Apartheid-sm%2Bbook%2BJimmie%2BCarter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9xwRO7I0Ov4/VXSrpVtTpgI/AAAAAAAASrM/RScT2eoY0oU/s1600/Peace-Not-Apartheid-sm%2Bbook%2BJimmie%2BCarter.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Diplomat without
portfolio post presidency<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The former president Carter “served as a kind of <i>diplomat without portfolio</i>” in conflicts in many countries among them
“Nicaragua (where he successfully promoted the return of the Miskito Indians to
their homeland), Panama (where he observed and reported illegal voting
procedures), and Ethiopia (where he attempted to mediate a settlement with the
Eritrean People’s Liberation Force).” </div>
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<ul>
<li>In 1994, he was active in “negotiating with North Korea to end nuclear
weapons development there and with Haiti to bring about a peaceful transfer of
power and with Bosnian Serbs and Muslims to broker a short-lived cease-fire.” </li>
</ul>
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<li>Also in his post-presidency years, Jimmy Carter “became a prolific
author, writing on a variety of topics. Two books on the Middle East were Palestine:
<i>Peace Not Apartheid</i> (2006) and We <i>Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That
Will Work</i> (2009). His interview with Syria’s Forward Magazine, published in
January 2009, marked the first time that a former or current U.S. president had
been interviewed by a Syrian media outlet. Carter also authored <i>The Hornet’s Nest: A Novel of the
Revolutionary War</i> (2003) and a collection of poetry. His presidency is
chronicled in <i>White House Diary</i>
(2010), “which contains edited entries from a journal Carter kept during his
years in the White House.” </li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">James Earl Carter Jr., birth and birthplace: October 1, 1924, Plains,
Georgia </span></div>
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Carter, Jimmy. (2013). Encyclopedia
Britannica. Encyclopedia Britannica Deluxe Edition. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica. </div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Uo5lDijwYK0/VXSvlbHNYaI/AAAAAAAASsk/u8jwA2JetAs/s1600/George%2BH%2BW%2BBush.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Uo5lDijwYK0/VXSvlbHNYaI/AAAAAAAASsk/u8jwA2JetAs/s200/George%2BH%2BW%2BBush.jpg" width="154" /></a><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">George Herbert
Walker Bush</span> (b. June 12, 1924, Milton, Massachusetts) was the 41st
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president of the United States (1989–93). As president, Bush assembled a
multinational force to compel the withdrawal of Iraq from Kuwait in the Persian
Gulf War. This American politician and
businessman had also been U.S. vice president (1981–89).<br />
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Bush, George (2013). Encyclopedia Britannica. Encyclopedia Britannica
Deluxe Edition. Chicago: Encyclopedia
Britannica. </div>
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Editing and commentary by<br />
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Don’t invest in Bernie Sanders in bed with weapons industry Lockheed Martin
● or Hillary Clinton with hands on, direct and indirect, killing and taking her<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> (foundation-laundered)</span></i> cut. </div>
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Endless war can be expected from these candidates—evening gowned or tuxedoed. An associate or friend of the legislator in interview today
on KPFA spoke of “Bernie” in military terms: “Bernie’s ‘insurgency’”, he called the Senator's run for the White House, “with nothing to lose.”</div>
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imperialism, nuclear armament, global arms sales and violent aggression (together
with gross neglect of domestic issues such as immigration, education, human rights
and relations, general health and welfare)—serious times call for serious candidates. </div>
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With U.S. “leadership” recklessly waging scores of wars and other aggression in
Middle East, Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa—no thoughtful person in the twenty-first century would
consider someone addressed down as “Hillary” or “Bernie” (“Bill” or “Billy”). </div>
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We know where Hillary was but where was Bernie when bribes were being handed
out? Politician Bernard Sanders had been ensconced in the legislature of the
United States for just short of a quarter century and when he is through the
quarter century mark will have passed (his tenure in U.S. House of Representatives
January 3, 1991-January 3, 2007, in U.S. Senate 2007-2015 current term ending in
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In his long tenure, what benefit has Sanders brought to the American
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What has he done for the general welfare of this country? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">Partnered with Military Industry Leader
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Hitters ● one of the heaviest Lockheed Martin: the
United States’ “top defense contractor, the brains behind high-tech military
hardware such as the F-16 jet fighter and a variety of land and sea missiles. </div>
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in 2001 “landed the biggest defense contract in history when it was named the
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Lockheed 2014 “LOBBYING: $14,581,800” ● REVOLVING
DOOR: “73 out of 109 Lockheed Martin lobbyists in 2013-2014 have previously
held government jobs” ● Lockheed Martin PACs’ [Political Action Committees’] total
contributions to U.S. candidates for public office “is 7 times larger than
contributions from individuals…: Contributions to candidates $3,001,933, Contributions
to Leadership PACs $865,875, Contributions to parties $223,216, Contributions
to 527 committees $5,812, Contributions to outside spending groups $10,373” </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">Nuclear-Lockheed “Bernie”</span></div>
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Greg Guma writes this week under headline “Between the Lines—Will
Sanders’ Run for the White House Help Build a National Progressive”? </div>
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The “progressive” military-industrial-complex-supporting Bernard
Sanders, Guma reports, is a flip-flopper on a seriously dangerous domestic and
global issue. </div>
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“Despite his (Sanders’) past criticisms of the corporation’s
serial misconduct and excess,” by 2011 Sanders was “supporting the Pentagon’s
proposal to base Lockheed-built F-35 fight jets at the Burlington (Vermont) International
Airport…. Sanders “joined with Vermont’s most enthusiastic booster, U.S. Senator
Patrick Leahy, signing on to a joint statement of support.”</div>
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Concerning the Vermont partnership with the energy company Sandia,
“managed by Lockheed Martin for the Department of Defense”, the state’s
governor reportedly described Sen. Sanders as being “like a dog with a bone” in
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I think America needs—and has for a long time needed—“freshness”. New
people and new ideas, human sensibility, true independence of thought and
action, principled leadership; people who don’t engage in getting by and
fooling, hoodwinking, the American people, but who enable Americans—by supporting substantively
good public education (not “race to a top or bottom”) for all—to think for
themselves; not to succumb to propaganda, yield to manipulation; but to
regularly ponder and act on the notion that we Americans must end the inherently
regressive status quo, end legacy and dynasty, and put the “lifers” and the “old
guard” out to pasture.</div>
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large crowd of candidates will likely compete for the Democratic and Republican
nominations—<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">plus <i>LOTS</i> of likely third
party and independent P2016 hopefuls.” </span>And “if a person is running or thinking
of running—<i>regardless of party, ballot
status, or chances of winning</i> (incumbent party, main opposition party, third
party candidates, independent and write-in hopefuls)” —Politics1 will list all of the
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: #3d85c6;"><i>magine</i></b></span> beyond elephants and donkeys. Anybody can be an “arse” or “heavy-footed”,
even a great orator, a convincing propagandist. </div>
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However, not anyone should be
trusted with the leadership of a (<i>potentially</i>)
great country. There is a whole world of truly progressive thinkers and doers, competent
and principled people, not propagandists or counterfeit, waiting for a turn at
the helm. Waiting for a chance to <i>progressively</i>
help right this ship of state.</div>
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“Upfront” May 29, 2015 episode, KPFA, https://kpfa.org/episode/upfront-may-29-2015/</div>
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Center for Responsive Politics Open Secrets, http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000104</div>
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http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00000528#ind</div>
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Bernard Sanders bio, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000033
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">Sanders, Lockheed,
Nuclear armament: TRUST ME <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015: Greg Guma: “Between The Lines - Will Sanders’
Run for the White House Help Build a National Progressive … Lockheed in
Vermont: Sanders’ Corporate Conundrum Progressive Eclipse – Chapter Ten; Sandia,
Citizens United and Smart Meters: December 2011, http://gregguma.blogspot.com/2015/05/lockheed-in-vermont-sanders-corporate.html</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The growing
influence of corporations made the emerging relationship between Sandia
Laboratories and Bernie Sanders somewhat perplexing. Sandia was managed by
Lockheed Martin for the Department of Defense, had roots in the Manhattan
Project and a history of turning nuclear research into weapons. Most of its
revenue still came from maintaining and developing defense systems. … [Sanders’]
position hadn’t changed that much. Sandia’s nuclear associations were never a
major obstacle: Sanders had once been pro-nuclear power and his criticisms were
restrained. His stalwart alliance with labor had always outweighed his
skepticism about military spending and his corporate criticism, which focused
on fairness and inequality, rarely prevented him from making an alliance that
furthered ‘bold’ initiatives or burnished his record of leadership. … By 2011,
Sanders was … supporting the Pentagon’s proposal to base Lockheed-built F-35
fight jets at the Burlington International Airport. Despite his past criticisms
of the corporation’s serial misconduct and excess, he joined with Vermont’s
most enthusiastic booster, Senator Patrick Leahy, signing on to a joint
statement of support.”</span></div>
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“Lockheed Martin in Vermont: Senator Bernie Sanders’ Corporate
Conundrum” by Greg Guma</div>
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Global Research, May 28, 2015, Theme: Environment, Global Economy, Oil
and Energy, Politics and Religion, http://www.globalresearch.ca/lockheed-martin-in-vermont-senator-bernie-sanders-corporate-conundrum/5452106</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">Presidency 2016
Politics1 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A large crowd of candidates will likely compete for the Democratic and
Republican nominations plus there LOTS of likely third party and independent
P2016 hopefuls.</div>
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If a person is running or thinking of running—regardless of party,
ballot status, or chances of winning (incumbent party, main opposition party, third
party candidates, independent and write-in hopefuls) —Politics 1 lists all of the
candidates at its site. http://www.politics1.com/p2016.htm</div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i style="background-color: #3d85c6;">A lifelong American writer and writer/activist </i></b></span>(former academic and staffer with the U.S. government in Washington), Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett is credentialed in education and print journalism and public affairs (PhD, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; MA, The American University, Washington, DC). Her work concerns itself with news and current affairs, historical contexts, and ideas particularly related to acts and consequences of U.S. foreign relations, geopolitics, human rights, war and peace, and violence and nonviolence.
Dr. Bennett is an internationalist and nonpartisan progressive personally concerned with society and the common good. An educator at heart, her career began with the U.S. Peace Corps, teaching in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Since then, she has authored several books and numerous current-affairs articles; her latest book: UNCONSCIONABLE: How The World Sees Us: World News, Alternative Views, Commentary on U.S. Foreign Relations; most thoughts, articles, edited work are posted at Bennett’s Study: http://todaysinsightnews.blogspot.com/ and on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/carolynladelle.bennett.
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_____________________________________Bennett's 2nd Insight Studyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07886391571898759108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4626403571823555829.post-64073373178274394042015-05-28T16:37:00.003-04:002015-05-28T16:37:18.584-04:00From a music lover: Happy Birthday, Beverly Sills<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9L_LcCrgpiQ/VWd1aQxZGqI/AAAAAAAASnI/pB9HNFq5e_s/s1600/Beverly%2BSills%2Btitle%2Brole%2Bin%2BDonizetti%2Bs%2BLucia%2Bdi%2BLammermoor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9L_LcCrgpiQ/VWd1aQxZGqI/AAAAAAAASnI/pB9HNFq5e_s/s320/Beverly%2BSills%2Btitle%2Brole%2Bin%2BDonizetti%2Bs%2BLucia%2Bdi%2BLammermoor.jpg" width="212" /></a><br />
<i style="font-size: x-large;">Her life, her art, her attitude in thoughts</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We remember American treasure Beverly Sills whose birthday fell on this
year’s U.S.-celebrated Memorial Day. Her life spanned May 25, 1929 – July 2,
2007; her peak performing years as a soprano on the stage of opera 1950s -1970s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual
from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to
stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.” ―Beverly Sills </span></blockquote>
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touring company produced by Jacob J. Shubert, playing twelve cities in the United
States and Canada, offering seven different Gilbert and Sullivan operas.” Her performance
as Cleopatra in the New York City Opera’s revival of Handel’s opera seria
Giulio Cesare in 1966 made her an international opera star.</div>
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Born of parents who had immigrated from Odessa, Ukraine (then
part of Russia) and Bucharest, Romania, Beverly Sills was multilingual before entering
the arena of opera—her signature roles on stage including title roles “in Donizetti’s Lucia di
Lammermoor, in Massenet’s Manon, Marie in Donizetti’s La fille du régiment, the
three heroines in Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann, Rosina in Rossini’s The
Barber of Seville, Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata, and Elisabetta in Roberto
Devereux. In an operatic career spanning thirty years, she “recorded eighteen
full-length operas”, “nine solo recital albums of arias and songs, and “was
soprano soloist on a 1967 recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2.”</div>
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stage performance</span> </div>
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quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still
do what it used to do; it can’t.” ―Beverly Sills</span></blockquote>
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Beverly Sills retired from the stage of opera in 1980 and assumed the
roles of general manager of the New York City Opera; chair of Lincoln Center
(1994) and the Metropolitan Opera (2002), and lent her celebrity to charities “for
the prevention and treatment of birth defects.”<br />
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televised on PBS and several more on other public TV systems. In television specials she appeared in “A
Look-in at the Met with Danny Kaye” (1975), with Carol Burnett in “Sills and Burnett
at the Met (1976), the Emmy-Award winning “Profile in Music” (recorded in
England in 1971, showing in the United States in 1975). Some of the televised
performances were commercially distributed on videotape and DVD.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better
or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone
loved me or not--more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way
turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.” ―Beverly Sills</span></blockquote>
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Beverly Sills received many awards including Grammy and Emmy nominations.
Some of the honors included the Handel Medallion from New York City for
artistic achievement (1973); Recording Industry of America Cultural Award (1979);
Golden Baton, American Symphony Orchestra League (1980); Kennedy Center Honors (1985);
Induction into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame (2007); Pearl S. Buck Women’s
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The Presidential Medal of Freedom (1980); Barnard College Medal of
Distinction (1981); Honorary doctorates in music: Temple University (1972), New
York University and New England Conservatory of Music(1973), Harvard University
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.” ―Beverly Sills</span></blockquote>
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Beverly Sills has been described as “down-to-earth and approachable,”
one who “helped dispel the traditional image of the ‘temperamental opera diva’.”
In the late 1970s’ Sunday morning on network television she hosted “Lifestyles
with Beverly Sills”, her talk show that won an Emmy Award. In her talk show
appearances on programming shows such as Johnny Carson, Dick Cavett, David
Frost, Mike Douglas, Merv Griffin, Dinah Shore, she “popularized opera.”</div>
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Beverly Sills co-hosted American television’s “The View for Best
Friends Week (November 9, 2006) as Barbara Walters’ best friend. She appeared
on screen in movie theaters during HD transmissions live from the Met and as a
backstage interviewer in February and April 2007. </div>
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was born “Belle Miriam Silverman” in Brooklyn, New York, May 25, 1929.</span></span></div>
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Beverly Sills—biographical information at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Sills</div>
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Beverly Sills—biographical information on a website
dedicated to preserving the artistry and humanity of Beverly Sills, offering an
in-depth look at her life and career through print, sound and video, http://www.beverlysillsonline.com/</div>
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Quote Links: http://izquotes.com/author/beverly-sills</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Coloratura soprano</span>:
a type of operatic soprano who specializes in music that is distinguished by
agile runs, leaps and trills. Coloratura refers to the elaborate ornamentation
of a melody, which is a typical component of the music written for this voice. Categories
within a certain vocal range are determined by the size, weight and color of
the voice. Within the coloratura category are roles written specifically for
lighter voices, “lyric coloraturas”, others for larger voices, “dramatic
coloraturas”; some roles may be sung by either voice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloratura_soprano</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Soprano:</span> “a
type of classical female singing voice”, the highest vocal range of all voice
types. Vocal range (using scientific pitch notation): approximately middle C
(C4) = 261 Hz to ‘high A’ (A5) =880 Hz in choral music, or to ‘soprano C’ (C6,
two octaves above middle C) =1046 Hz or higher in operatic music. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soprano</div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i style="background-color: #3d85c6;">A lifelong American writer and writer/activist</i></b></span> (former academic and staffer with the U.S. government in Washington), Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett is credentialed in education and print journalism and public affairs (PhD, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; MA, The American University, Washington, DC). Her work concerns itself with news and current affairs, historical contexts, and ideas particularly related to acts and consequences of U.S. foreign relations, geopolitics, human rights, war and peace, and violence and nonviolence.
Dr. Bennett is an internationalist and nonpartisan progressive personally concerned with society and the common good. An educator at heart, her career began with the U.S. Peace Corps, teaching in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Since then, she has authored several books and numerous current-affairs articles; her latest book: UNCONSCIONABLE: How The World Sees Us: World News, Alternative Views, Commentary on U.S. Foreign Relations; most thoughts, articles, edited work are posted at Bennett’s Study: http://todaysinsightnews.blogspot.com/ and on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/carolynladelle.bennett.
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__________________________________________________________Bennett's 2nd Insight Studyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07886391571898759108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4626403571823555829.post-85217082369392505112015-05-25T13:25:00.005-04:002015-05-25T13:40:18.505-04:00“More than absence of war”—the Young with maturity raise Movement for Peace<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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What was “principle for our generation is imperative” for the current
generation “because we know that the price of war is too high. We know that the
price of neglect of the issues that affect the human condition—we do it at our
peril—so that we have a responsibility now to address the imperative.… </div>
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“We say to this generation of young people, out of a sense of urgency,
out of a sense of the imperative—<i>You now
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always hear it. But when they do hear it, they get it, because they listen
carefully. And if I had to bet my last dollar, I would bet it on this
generation of young people, because they’re not carrying the same baggage we
carry; and if they ever stand up, they will change America and change the world
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“‘Peace is more than simply the absence of war; it is the presence of
justice.’ I interpreted that to mean … the peace movement is the ultimate
movement. Peace is the superior idea, that the umbrella movement for—of all
movements; the peace movement because to come together under the banner of
peace forces us to challenge all forms of injustice.</div>
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“Peace is more than simply the absence of war—it is the absence of
conditions that give rise to war. … If we stayed together, what would the
international community look like [today]?<br />
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“What would the world look like
globally?<br />
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“What would America look like? Would we still be seeing the Baltimore(s),
if we had challenged on these issues?<br />
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“<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But it’s not too late.”</span><br />
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issues are so hard’—I keep saying ‘Are you kidding me? We had Vietnam, the 1973
[Israeli-Palestinian] war, impeachment [of former President Richard M. Nixon]; how
many more things can you juggle at one time?’</div>
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And, yet, we were treating each other, even if we disagreed, with
respect and decency; and debating on the facts.” </div>
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Today “I don’t see that [civility, rigor, rationality] at all. I see
name calling, [which] reminds me of the junior high school lunch room. One food
fight after another and it’s very sad.”</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="background-color: #3d85c6; color: white; font-size: large;">Peace (anitwar) Movement
mattered then, matters now</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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While in the Oval Office President “Nixon said, ‘That peace movement … doesn’t
have anything to do with me; I’m president, and I’m doing what’s right.’ In a
book written after his presidency “he said the peace movement kept him from
escalating the war.”</div>
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“Now, none of us want to say anything; but it
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“Let’s go out and
get young people thinking about it [the Peace Movement] in the environment we’re
in today…: Iran, and how many people seem to want to go to war with [Iran]…; what
we’ve done in Iraq and Afghanistan…. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">Jane
Addams</span> (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935): pioneer American settlement
social worker (and founder of the social work profession in the United States),
public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and
world peace. “In an era when presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow
Wilson identified themselves as reformers and social activists—Addams was <i>one of the most prominent reformers of the
Progressive Era</i>. She helped turn America to issues of concern to mothers,
such as the needs of children, local public health, and world peace. She said
that if women were to be responsible for cleaning up their communities and
making them better places to live, they needed to be able to vote to do so
effectively.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Addams</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">“Vietnam: The
Power of Protest ● Telling the Truth. ● Learning the Lessons”</span> May 1 -
May 2 event in Washington D.C.: weekend gathering commemorating “the Vietnam Antiwar
Movement,” addressing unlearned critical lessons of that war, and building
opposition to today’s contemporary wars ● Featured speakers and performers: Phyllis
Bennis, Julian Bond, Ron Kovic, Ron Dellums, Amy Goodman, Tom Hayden, Holly
Near, Pat Schroeder, Susan Schnall and Peter Yarrow; a march to the Martin
Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall.</div>
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http://vietnamfulldisclosure.org/index.php/event/vietnam-the-power-of-protest-telling-the-truth-learning-the-lessons/</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">“Former Congressman
Ron Dellums: Organizing for Peace Forces Us to Challenge All Forms of Injustice,”</span>
Monday May 25, 2015, http://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/25/former_congressman_ron_dellums_organizing_for</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">Ronald Vernie (Ron)
Dellums</span>: American activist, veteran, politician, born of labor organizers,
native of Oakland, California, where he also served as mayor (2007-2011) and
held positions on the Berkeley City Council; elected to thirteen terms (1971-1998)
as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Northern California’s 9th
Congressional District after which he worked as a lobbyist in Washington D.C. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Dellums</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">“Former Rep. Pat Schroeder:
The Peace Movement Made ‘Huge Difference’ in Ending Vietnam War,”</span> Monday
May 25, 2015, http://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/25/former_rep_pat_schroeder_the_peace</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">Patricia (Pat)
Nell Scott Schroeder</span>: American former politician who represented
Colorado in the United States House of Representatives (1973–1997). She had
also been On the National Labor Relations Board (1964-1966), attorney for Planned
Parenthood and a public school teacher in Denver. In her position as member of
the U.S. Congress she was involved in reform of that body— “working to weaken
the long-standing control of committees by their chairs, sparring with Speaker Carl
Albert over congressional ‘hideaways,’ and questioning why Congress members who lived
in their offices should not be taxed for the benefit.” Schroeder served on the
House Armed Services Committee and was a major supporter of the Family and
Medical Leave Act of 1993 and the Military Family Act of 1985. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Schroeder</div>
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<span style="background-color: #3d85c6; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>A lifelong American writer and writer/activist</i></b></span> (former academic and staffer with the U.S. government in Washington), Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett is credentialed in education and print journalism and public affairs (PhD, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; MA, The American University, Washington, DC). Her work concerns itself with news and current affairs, historical contexts, and ideas particularly related to acts and consequences of U.S. foreign relations, geopolitics, human rights, war and peace, and violence and nonviolence.
Dr. Bennett is an internationalist and nonpartisan progressive personally concerned with society and the common good. An educator at heart, her career began with the U.S. Peace Corps, teaching in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Since then, she has authored several books and numerous current-affairs articles; her latest book: UNCONSCIONABLE: How The World Sees Us: World News, Alternative Views, Commentary on U.S. Foreign Relations; most thoughts, articles, edited work are posted at Bennett’s Study: http://todaysinsightnews.blogspot.com/ and on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/carolynladelle.bennett.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/08UNCONSCIONABLE/prweb12131656.htm
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____________________________________________________Bennett's 2nd Insight Studyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07886391571898759108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4626403571823555829.post-86183185694461735432015-05-02T17:24:00.005-04:002015-05-02T17:54:24.665-04:00Unraveling race, rioting, disproportionate rich: Jay Johnson connects pieces<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Media’s divide-and-shill</span>
masks sinister deeds. And considering Baltimore and similar incidents, Jay
Johnson asks: “Will the riots lead to more people calling for the State to
normalize the situation? What role do media
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Trayvon Martin in Florida, Eric
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Though all of these young men “had
troubled pasts, the entire debate [focuses] on how the police interact with the
public.” However, Johnson points out, what is happening in all of these cases
is not happening to the public in general; it is happening to “a very specific
group of people who happen to be poor and from a minority ethnic group and who live
in a certain area.” <br />
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The media employ “catch-phrases
and slogans.” They “manipulate imagery and audio” and employ “selective fact
reporting” purposely leaving out information. Media shape the narrative,
Johnson says, but toward what end? </div>
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<b>Media's Case of Trayvon Martin </b></div>
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The repeated image of Martin,
Johnson reports, was of a “young smiling preteen” but “in reality [Martin] was a
nearly full-grown 17-year-old … [whose] Facebook pictures were anything but
smiling.” Zimmerman was portrayed in a variety of images depending seemingly on the whim of the reporting organization.</div>
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young Michael Brown but a different picture of Brown surfaces in results of a Google
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But after all the media
repetition and misleading images, “after the media trial and a grand jury” the
result is a society divided, not better for the truth; “what really happened on that fateful day [of
the Zimmerman-Martin encounter remains] unclear.”</div>
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hashtag’” but “it is [also] unclear how [Brown] could have had his hands
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nor would I, that these cases are not tragedies</span>. Of course, they are tragedies
all round. But he is suggesting that the public has been denied the true facts
while the media employ tactics that distract and cover up other parties and
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that 20 to 50 “social media accounts in Baltimore” (Maryland) were “tied to the
peak period of violence in Ferguson” (Missouri) … suggesting “the presence of ‘professional
protesters’ or anarchists’ taking advantage of Freddie Gray’s death to incite
more violence.”</div>
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provocateurs: Other sources, he reports, were questioning the appearance among Baltimore
“rioters” of “six-foot tall white guys with bandannas over their faces” and
speculating that these people were “professional provocateurs … trying to stir up young
kids, make it look like [this is] right.”</div>
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imitating fiction: “The Purge”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A brief on this film says it is a
set-in-the-future story of “a wealthy family held hostage for harboring the
target of a murderous syndicate during a 12-hour period in which <b><i>any
and all crime is legalized</i></b>.” The Purge, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2184339/</div>
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case, the mayor decriminalized crime for her own sinister motives. After a
weekend of rioting, police were called off on Monday. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie
Rawlings-Blake is quoted saying — “…We also gave those who wished to destroy
space to do that as well.” Why would a mayor
seemingly condone violence and destruction of her city?”The background on the mayor is
interesting. Johnson points to infowars.com notes showing that</div>
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who provided broad input into President Obama’s <i>Task Force on 21st Century Policing</i>, which advocates the
federalization of police departments across the country. … This could explain
her inaction to stop the rioting when it began. </span></div>
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the mayor and her friends at the [US Department of Justice] could use the
unrest to justify the expansion of federal power into local law enforcement,
which would also allow her to receive more funding.’”</span></div>
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Sinister: Motivation Camouflaged: fear-mongering, federalization,
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the past few years have “given surplus military gear such as machine guns,
drones, MRAPS (light tanks) to local, state and federal agencies.” </div>
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part of federal agencies such as the Department of Agriculture, the Railroad
Retirement Board, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Office of Personnel
Management, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, even the Department of Education. Reportedly federal agencies such as
the IRS and Social Security Administration, the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (overseer of the National Weather Service) are purchasing
ammunition and weaponry in bulk.</div>
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reportedly creates “terrorists” to arrest “terrorists”, and in so doing boost
its budget and justify its existence; so too do government agencies in general create
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affairs as in US foreign affairs covers what is really going on and justifies
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Looking at underlying causes including
the continuing collapse of the US economy, the criminally widening gulf into “third-world”
inequality—largely because higher ups are essentially getting away with murder,
robbing not only the nation’s wealth but the world’s wealth without putting
back or investing in substantive and sustaining resources for human independence,
advancement and uplift—the oppressive arm of militaries and weaponry are set
loose on communities, as on underdeveloped countries, to protect power elites, the
higher-ups and their partners, the ruling plutocracy and its plunder.<br />
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As voices and actions rise in
resistance, the voice of the plutocracy demands “order”, that the State protect
and preserve this cabal by military force. Jay Johnson question is, <b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Will
Americans welcome with open arms the coming police state?</span>”</span></b></div>
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“Will Americans Welcome the
Coming Police State With Open Arms?” Jay Johnson [Connecting the Pieces], April
30-May 2, 2015, http://sputniknews.com/radio_connecting_the_pieces/20150430/1021566260.html</div>
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______________________________________________________Bennett's 2nd Insight Studyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07886391571898759108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4626403571823555829.post-38000601122280818492015-04-26T15:47:00.001-04:002015-04-26T15:55:52.883-04:00North American Disconnect from reality Endangers World—Ca. high school student sounds alarm<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GVHO4VfWYw4/VT07Yco5y1I/AAAAAAAASbc/1V4dHejpqVg/s1600/PRICE%2BOF%2BAPATHY%2BPLATO%2BQUOTE%2Bsocial-apathy-image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GVHO4VfWYw4/VT07Yco5y1I/AAAAAAAASbc/1V4dHejpqVg/s1600/PRICE%2BOF%2BAPATHY%2BPLATO%2BQUOTE%2Bsocial-apathy-image.jpg" height="200" width="200" /></a><br />
<i style="font-size: x-large;">Apathy’s consequences are borne by the “less powerful…”</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the mind of the young—<span style="background-color: #0b5394; color: white;"><b>HEAR! HEAR! </b></span></span></div>
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Responding to an international affairs, war and peace segment on last week’s “The
Sunday Edition” with Michael Enright and Peace Studies Professor Paul Rogers,
Heather Mitchell penned a message to Canadians which might equally have been
addressed to their southern neighbors and their educational leaders and learners.<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6eDdAmqmUeA/VT07ldBnDJI/AAAAAAAASbs/lWgfNMW3_68/s1600/William-Gaddis%2Bquote%2Bstupidity%2Bdeliberate%2Bcultivation%2Bof%2Bignorance.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6eDdAmqmUeA/VT07ldBnDJI/AAAAAAAASbs/lWgfNMW3_68/s1600/William-Gaddis%2Bquote%2Bstupidity%2Bdeliberate%2Bcultivation%2Bof%2Bignorance.png" height="203" width="400" /></a><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Indented are Heather Mitchell’s words
pegged to questions raised in the earlier program and the issue of endless western
aggression in the Middle East: “</span>How do we change? How do we get
Canadians more politically involved? How do we return to a peacekeeping role,
rather than acting as a U.S. WAR ally?” She writes: </div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">As someone who has
spent her entire life as part of the Canadian educational system, it is not
surprising to me that Canadians are mostly indifferent when it comes to
politics. Apart from being a generally wealthy and safe population, which in
itself often leads to political disinterest, the most obvious problem to me is
how devoid our public education system is of any sort of world issues, politics
or current events discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ar1AymtCQTs/VT0_Tfi67bI/AAAAAAAAScY/aN2-Gh7iOQs/s1600/global%2Bprotests%2Bwar%2Bon%2Bgaza.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ar1AymtCQTs/VT0_Tfi67bI/AAAAAAAAScY/aN2-Gh7iOQs/s1600/global%2Bprotests%2Bwar%2Bon%2Bgaza.jpg" /></a><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">From ages 5 to 18, the
young people of Canada are being brought up in an environment largely devoid of
any interaction with the rest of the world.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">We are not graduating
with strong political knowledge, awareness, or any value for activism. There is
generally no space or time during the school day to discuss what’s in the news—what
Canada is doing militarily, politically or socially, other world events, or
even any current issues in our local communities.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p3Gt8JXjO98/VT0_pGlcDVI/AAAAAAAASco/agZIaDupe6Y/s1600/syria%2Bin%2Bmiddle%2Beast.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p3Gt8JXjO98/VT0_pGlcDVI/AAAAAAAASco/agZIaDupe6Y/s1600/syria%2Bin%2Bmiddle%2Beast.png" height="320" width="291" /></a></i></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GpqiHxoleSw/VT0_jU57FII/AAAAAAAAScg/YSlMBUl9h5Y/s1600/TIME%2BFOR%2BGLOBAL%2BUN%2BPARLIAMENTARY%2BASSEMBLY.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The result is that
young people are being raised with the idea that these are not important or
necessary to learn about, an attitude I think has a high chance of carrying
into their adult lives.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Along with the U.S.,
due to our power and wealth, we have the luxury of being apathetic citizens
without dealing with the results. Largely, it seems to me, we export the
consequences onto other, less powerful countries.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kbFEaEYpfa4/VT07pIiwA9I/AAAAAAAASb0/vVhIISKHl4A/s1600/IGNORANCE%2Bnothing%2Bmore%2Bdangerous%2Bthan%2Ba%2Bclosed%2Bmind.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kbFEaEYpfa4/VT07pIiwA9I/AAAAAAAASb0/vVhIISKHl4A/s1600/IGNORANCE%2Bnothing%2Bmore%2Bdangerous%2Bthan%2Ba%2Bclosed%2Bmind.png" height="320" width="320" /></a><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">As a young person now
beginning to enter adult life, and soon eligible to vote in the next federal
election, I feel wholly unprepared to participate in Canadian politics. Judging
by Canada’s abysmal youth voting numbers, I am not alone.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Hearing the
announcement of our plans to bomb Syria was the last straw of my country acting
in ways I do not endorse. I do not feel proud to be a Canadian, when I hear of
our government acting this way.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">However I feel lost
and disconnected from any means of having my voice heard. I would be very
interested in hearing how I, as a Canadian citizen, can learn more about my
country. As high school students, I think our contact with reality and the outside
world, is limited to the point of being dangerous.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cIHtdpSUTO4/VT08G3Qx_ZI/AAAAAAAAScE/EjJMh0Y5W3A/s1600/Eleanor%2BRoosevelt%2Bquote%2Bbest%2Bways%2Bof%2Benslaving%2Bpeople%2Bkeep%2Bthem%2Bfrom%2Beducation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cIHtdpSUTO4/VT08G3Qx_ZI/AAAAAAAAScE/EjJMh0Y5W3A/s1600/Eleanor%2BRoosevelt%2Bquote%2Bbest%2Bways%2Bof%2Benslaving%2Bpeople%2Bkeep%2Bthem%2Bfrom%2Beducation.jpg" height="187" width="400" /></a><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">I know as much as
anyone how hard it is to convince young people to learn anything they are not
interested in. I want to figure out how we might be able to change the culture
of our public schools from one of disconnected, theoretical, text-book
learning, to one of participation, involvement, and interest in Canada and the
world.<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red;"> <b>[End quote]</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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distracted, sadly obliviously dangerously ignorant people of North America let
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imposed and perpetuated by inordinate power, armed power and wealth, such as that
which rises from Western nations; it’s like a giant iron foot being placed on
the necks of the vulnerable. But alone a people can surely rise from the
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“Upper v. lower; Jihadi Town; Listener mail; The untold story of
psychiatry; Reciting poetry,” The Sunday Edition April 26, 2015, http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/upper-v-lower-jihadi-town-listener-mail-the-untold-story-of-psychiatry-reciting-poetry-1.3045391</div>
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Last week The Sunday Edition’s Michael Enright spoke with University
of Bradford (UK) Peace Studies Professor Paul Rogers about “Canada’s decision
to embark on an expanded campaign against ‘ISIS,’” which involves Canada in “the
intractable civil conflict and humanitarian disaster that is Syria.” Among the
e-mail responses to that episode was one from Ottawa high school 12th-grader Heather
Mitchell. On invitation from The Sunday Edition, she recorded her letter at the
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Listener Mail, Sunday April 19, 2015, posted April 26, 2015, http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/borgen-armenian-genocide-listener-mail-robert-harris-on-the-great-american-songbook-1.3037372/listener-mail-1.3037516</div>
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William Thomas Gaddis, Jr. (December 29, 1922 – December 16,
1998) was an American novelist, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gaddis</div>
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<b><i><span style="background-color: #3d85c6; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A lifelong American writer and writer/activist </span></i></b>(former academic and staffer with the U.S. government in Washington), Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett is credentialed in education and print journalism and public affairs (PhD, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; MA, The American University, Washington, DC). Her work concerns itself with news and current affairs, historical contexts, and ideas particularly related to acts and consequences of U.S. foreign relations, geopolitics, human rights, war and peace, and violence and nonviolence.
Dr. Bennett is an internationalist and nonpartisan progressive personally concerned with society and the common good. An educator at heart, her career began with the U.S. Peace Corps, teaching in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Since then, she has authored several books and numerous current-affairs articles; her latest book: UNCONSCIONABLE: How The World Sees Us: World News, Alternative Views, Commentary on U.S. Foreign Relations; most thoughts, articles, edited work are posted at Bennett’s Study: http://todaysinsightnews.blogspot.com/ and on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/carolynladelle.bennett.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/08UNCONSCIONABLE/prweb12131656.htm
http://bookstore.xlibris.com/Products/SKU-000757788/UNCONSCIONABLE.aspx
Her books are also available at independent bookstores in New York State: Lift Bridge in Brockport; Sundance in Geneseo; Dog Ears Bookstore and Literary Arts Center in Buffalo; Burlingham Books in Perry; The Bookworm in East Aurora<br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">Entrenched pattern: Reckless disregard for life</span></i></b><br />
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came across this story the other
day at Spiegel Online and it haunts me as it should haunt you if for no other
reason than because it brings to mind the ingrained brokenness in another US
system that is long overdue for housecleaning and overall. </div>
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She is a daughter of Germany. She is also the daughter of a US veteran
who disparaged her at court. In prison prisoners demeaned her; and a US <b><i>in</i></b>justice
system robbed her of the better part of her life—all based on “too-easy
evidence,” false testimony, and a deeply flawed, entrenched state and local judiciary
and prosecutorial apparatus. This daughter of Germany came close to losing her
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rj_Gc7Th5Z0/VTboDWHJ_EI/AAAAAAAASaM/QPoSzxfwjOY/s1600/solitary-confinement%2B2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rj_Gc7Th5Z0/VTboDWHJ_EI/AAAAAAAASaM/QPoSzxfwjOY/s1600/solitary-confinement%2B2.jpg" height="133" width="200" /></a>For two decades in the US death-row system of perverted justice, Debra
Jean Milke suffered immeasurable harm but one particular abuse was, in my view,
unspeakably, sadistic. As described by Der Spiegel who interviewed her, the Arizona
penal system placed Debra Milke “in solitary confinement for 22 years,” robbing
her of much of her life and “… treated [her] like a monster, locked up in the
labyrinth of the US justice system, a system in which the more you know about
it, the less you understand.” But as final appeals were running their course in
a slowly moving system—whose timing is itself torture, an added layer of injustice—
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Debra Milke described an offense
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">“Then there was this doctor in a
white coat tying off my right arm with a flexible tube and running his fingers
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Debra Milke had committed no crime yet an Arizona jury had found her
guilty based on false testimony and no direct evidence. It took 22 years of a
woman’s life on death row for one of the most influential US appellate courts, the
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit — the U.S. Federal court
with appellate jurisdiction over the District of Arizona— to right a wrong. </div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SuFtSby-TG4/VTboNrEDPZI/AAAAAAAASak/k_0pVDCJvwI/s1600/death%2Bpenalty%2Bhanging%2Brope%2Billus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SuFtSby-TG4/VTboNrEDPZI/AAAAAAAASak/k_0pVDCJvwI/s1600/death%2Bpenalty%2Bhanging%2Brope%2Billus.jpg" height="200" width="200" /></a>The singular testimony that led to the Arizona jury’s conviction of Debra
Milke was of a rogue police officer with his own rap sheet: “a long history of
misconduct,” including “lying under oath.” Prosecutors had been aware of the “list
of sins” attributable to Detective Armando Saldate Jr. but, the Spiegel article
reported, they “concealed” his record from the Milke jury. But in discovery of
the Ninth Circuit, “the judges listed many cases prior to Debra Milke’s trial
in which Saldate had lied, used unorthodox methods to obtain confessions,
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In one case, “Saldate obtained a confession from a man who was in the
hospital with a fractured skull and couldn’t even remember his own name.” In another
case, the detective reportedly had “interrogated a suspect who was on
artificial respiration, was being given intravenous infusions and repeatedly
lost consciousness; [yet] Saldate shook the seriously injured man in order to
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he court was outraged by such perversion of justice and behavior of
those sworn to uphold law. The judges
called shame on the Phoenix Police Department and the detective’s supervisors for
“having given free rein to a <i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">lawless cop</span></i> to misbehave
again and again, [thus] undermining the integrity of the system of justice they
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">‘No civilized system of justice
should have to depend on such flimsy evidence, quite possibly tainted by
dishonesty or overzealousness, to decide whether to take someone’s life or
liberty.…’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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country that lays claim to a
ridiculous notion of “exceptionalism” and whose leaders often lecture other
countries on “human rights” has, as Spiegel rightly point out, “the largest
prison population in the world” and right now almost “3,000 people” on death
row—“waiting to be poisoned, gassed or hanged, or executed in the electric
chair or by a firing squad.”</div>
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In a public-private system where prison turns a hefty profit, as war
turns a hefty, often hidden profit—the innocent who come under America’s hand
often “end up in prison and on death row,” or dead.</div>
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Debra Milke was innocent. But on January 18, 1991, an Arizona court sentenced
her to death. Had the state gotten away with it, they would have executed her on
January 29, 1998. She suffered miserably but thanks to a supportive German mother
and an able defense team she was able to live and obtain a first stage of release,
with ankle bracelet beginning on September 6, 2013, followed by a full release on
March 23, 2015.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Current estimates of the number of inmates held in United States <span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;">solitary confinement</span>: minimum held at any given time <b><span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;">20,000</span></b> with estimates up to <span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;"><b>80,000.</b></span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The United States of America is among the <span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;">18 percent </span>or 36 member states of the United Nations that still uses the barbaric death penalty</span>. [Wikipedia]</blockquote>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-guZjJU6u_ss/VTbpuopa5aI/AAAAAAAASbA/QCgpqewz-bM/s1600/HUMAN%2BRIGHTS%2BNOT%2BOPTIOINAL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-guZjJU6u_ss/VTbpuopa5aI/AAAAAAAASbA/QCgpqewz-bM/s1600/HUMAN%2BRIGHTS%2BNOT%2BOPTIOINAL.jpg" height="200" width="200" /></a><i><o:p> </o:p><span style="font-size: 82.6666641235352px;">I</span></i> have often thought what a person never wants is to, in any way, come into the criminal justice system of the United States. But that is not enough, is it? The system itself—or rather the people running it, comprising, powering it all over the United States—must change.</div>
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For a people who never tire of telling other people how much they believe
in the “right to life,” boasting of <i>their</i>
“values” and how much they value life—their behavior, in matters domestic and foreign,
directly contradicts their words. Their behavioral pattern exemplifies a devaluing
of and disrespect for life—a reckless disregard for human life. </div>
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American Nightmare:</span> Debra Milke Recounts Life on Death Row” by Clemens
Höges and Antje Windmann, translated from the German by Christopher Sultan, April
16, 2015, http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/Debra-milke-recalls-her-years-on-death-row-a-1027584.html
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(b. March 10, 1964, in Berlin, Germany) was a US citizen innocent of a crime
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In 1990, Debra Milke was convicted of the murder (complicity in the
murder) of her son Christopher Conan Milke. On September 6, 2013, she was
released on bond (and wearing ankle bracelets). On March 23, 2015, the case was
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The wrongful conviction of Debra Milke “rested on the testimony of
disgraced Phoenix police detective Armando Saldate.” Also convicted in the case
were Roger Scott and Jim Styers, both sentenced to death; neither of these men testified
at Milke’s trial. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debra_Milke</div>
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Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the Ninth Circuit is the
largest of the thirteen courts of appeals, with 29 active judgeships. The
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (in case citations, 9th
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of the 195 independent states that are United Nations members or have
UN observer status:</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">103 (53%) have abolished it for all crimes; 6 (3%) have abolished, but
retain it for exceptional or special circumstances (such as crimes committed in
wartime);</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">50 (26%) retain, but have not used it for at least 10 years or are
under a moratorium;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">36 (18%) retain it in both law and practice.</span> [Update: March 2015]</li>
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“In the United States, prisoners may wait years before execution can be
carried out due to the complex and time-consuming appeals procedures mandated
in the jurisdiction. The time between sentencing and execution has increased
relatively steadily between 1977 and 2010, including a 22% jump between 1989
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In 2010, a death row inmate
waited an average of 178 months (or close to 15 years) between sentencing and
execution. Nearly a quarter of deaths on death row in the U.S. are due to
natural causes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_row</div>
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“In the US Federal Prison system, solitary confinement is known as the
Special Housing Unit (SHU),[16] pronounced like ‘shoe’ (/ˈʃuː/). California's
prison system also uses the abbreviation SHU, but it stands for Security
Housing Units. In other states, it is known as the Special Management Unit
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“Current estimates of the number of inmates held in solitary
confinement are difficult to determine, though generally the minimum held at
any given time has been determined to be 20,000, with estimates as high as
80,000.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solitary_confinement#Solitary_confinement_in_the_United_States</div>
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Dr. Bennett is an internationalist and nonpartisan progressive personally concerned with society and the common good. An educator at heart, her career began with the U.S. Peace Corps, teaching in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Since then, she has authored several books and numerous current-affairs articles; her latest book: UNCONSCIONABLE: How The World Sees Us: World News, Alternative Views, Commentary on U.S. Foreign Relations; most thoughts, articles, edited work are posted at Bennett’s Study: http://todaysinsightnews.blogspot.com/ and on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/carolynladelle.bennett.
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xThZJvzIocY/VSwforhcQyI/AAAAAAAASYs/hC7MPIot-z8/s1600/2%2Bintegrity%2Bmeans.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xThZJvzIocY/VSwforhcQyI/AAAAAAAASYs/hC7MPIot-z8/s1600/2%2Bintegrity%2Bmeans.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><i>COMPETENCE and Integrity COUNT: My response to today’s “Hillary” edition of Democracy Now </i></span></div>
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Tribal vision manifestly limited to superficialities of gender,
party, hue, presumption and personality—enables what it claims to abhor: the status
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It is unfair, undemocratic and disingenuous to reduce qualification
for the office of head of state to tribalism: gender, race, singular political
party. In today’s discussion the Democracy Now program should not have excluded
other candidates and potential candidates and political parties contending for
the 2016 US presidency. Every election year, web pages are full of many
different people contending for public office but who are silenced by mass
media. This is undemocratic, on its face. No wonder the oblivious US public cannot
see through the fog or beyond limited vision. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hat about</span> the Green Party, the Justice Party, the Socialist
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Under the heading “<b>Presidency
2016</b>,” the organization <i>Politics1</i>, a non-partisan
public service aimed at promoting fully informed decision-making by the
American electorate, writes: “President [Barack] Obama is barred by
constitutional term limits from seeking re-election in 2016.” And toward that
election year, there is… </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A large crowd of candidates likely
competing for the Democratic and Republican nominations; plus LOTS of likely
third party and independent P2016 hopefuls. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, if a person is running, or
thinking of running—regardless of party, ballot status, or chances of winning”—Politics1
will list them: Incumbent party first followed by the main opposition party
then third party candidates and finally independent and write-in hopefuls.</span> http://www.politics1.com/p2016.htm</div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-emhnF-oFjHA/VSwfrclDjWI/AAAAAAAASY8/c2LWgcrgibY/s1600/integrity%2Bmeans.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-emhnF-oFjHA/VSwfrclDjWI/AAAAAAAASY8/c2LWgcrgibY/s1600/integrity%2Bmeans.jpg" /></a>The site is worth looking into because, but not only because Hillary
Clinton (P2016) is a mistake on every substantive level. She is unfit for
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She is carelessly under-educated and ill-informed on domestic
affairs. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She is carelessly reckless, arrogant and belligerent in
international affairs. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She’s a war monger, a creator of international incidents and
needless death, an incompetent, and a cynical opportunist. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Further, she is definitely neither “feminist” nor Eleanor
Roosevelt, ER having given the world the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
HRC having been associated with assassination and engaged in gross global violations of human rights.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Incompetence and lack of integrity constitute weakness, a dangerous weakness, as was with the
current US president, together or separately they negate any possibility of able and courageous leadership
and, as character traits, they weaken the country as a whole, domestically and internationally. </span></div>
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Though I understand the news peg taken from Clinton’s silly,
almost-childish video over the weekend, Democracy Now’s limiting today’s
program to Hillary-centering discussants and excluding <span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;">NON</span>-Dem-Repub contenders
disserves the U.S. public. I am a supporter of Democracy Now but the narrow angle
taken today is insulting to adult human intelligence. </div>
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It reduces and negates altogether deeply critical issues
surrounding this extremely powerful and influential office to superficialities
of gender and race and to a <i>singular</i> regressive
Dem/Repub Party; as well as to a fear-driving status quo whereby any old “horse”
will do who gathers the most oats, attracts boat loads of big money to buy pubic
office (remains forever in the stable of big benefactors)—instead of essential, DEMONSTRATED
qualifications (not ideological bent), and courage to make important progressive
strides in domestic and international affairs. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> REPEAT: Hillary Clinton
is unfit on every level</span>. And Americans should never again seat her or anyone who
fails to meet wide-ranging essential criteria, demonstrated credentials, a
progressive track record and character traits signifying able service in public
office—either as US head of state or member of the legislature, and therefore
the judiciary. </div>
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The cycle of inferior leadership steeped in nepotism, corruption,
criminality, and incompetence must be broken if the USA is to build itself, its
people, into a truly great nation, earn genuine respect at home and abroad, and
stand tall for good in the world.</div>
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“Debate: Hillary Clinton Sounds Populist Tone, But Are
Progressives Ready to Back Her in 2016?” In today’s edition of Democracy Now
were host Amy Goodman together with discussants Joe Conason of the The National
Memo and The Investigative Fund; Michelle Goldberg of The Nation magazine; Robert
Scheer of Truthdig dot com; and Kshama Sawant of the Socialist Alternative organization,
April 13, 2015, http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/13/debate_hillary_clinton_sounds_populist_tone</div>
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One of the first political blog sites on the Internet and published
as a non-partisan public service to promote fully informed decision-making by
the American electorate, Politics1 was launched online in 1997. It is “one of
the pioneering political blog and news sites and has drawn a sizable and
devoted audience of political professionals, journalists, educators, and
activists.” http://www.politics1.com/about.htm</div>
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Politics1: P2016, http://www.politics1.com/p2016.htm</div>
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“Whatever It Takes - Hillary Clinton’s Record of Support for
War and Other Depravities” posted by Robert Barsocchini, 1:46 PM Friday, June
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i style="background-color: #3d85c6;">A lifelong American writer and writer/activist</i></b></span> (former academic and staffer with the U.S. government in Washington), Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett is credentialed in education and print journalism and public affairs (PhD, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; MA, The American University, Washington, DC). Her work concerns itself with news and current affairs, historical contexts, and ideas particularly related to acts and consequences of U.S. foreign relations, geopolitics, human rights, war and peace, and violence and nonviolence.
Dr. Bennett is an internationalist and nonpartisan progressive personally concerned with society and the common good. An educator at heart, her career began with the U.S. Peace Corps, teaching in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Since then, she has authored several books and numerous current-affairs articles; her latest book: UNCONSCIONABLE: How The World Sees Us: World News, Alternative Views, Commentary on U.S. Foreign Relations; most thoughts, articles, edited work are posted at Bennett’s Study: http://todaysinsightnews.blogspot.com/ and on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/carolynladelle.bennett.
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_________________________________________________Bennett's 2nd Insight Studyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07886391571898759108noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4626403571823555829.post-55060264243130660162015-04-12T12:45:00.001-04:002015-04-12T12:53:11.085-04:00Stop cycle of Western-leader terrorizing, trafficking<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i style="font-size: x-large;">We must prosecute human rights abusers, traffickers, war
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 70.6666641235352px;"><b><span style="color: red;"><i>L</i></span></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b><span style="background-color: #0b5394; color: white;">eadership in</span> the <span style="background-color: #cc0000; color: white;">United States </span></b>is simultaneously creating “terrorists”, arming “terrorists”, in oral speech refusing to talk to “terrorists”, and committing war on “terrorists”.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span> <br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y2_SI8gvAPY/VSqf9E_2_FI/AAAAAAAASXs/JmhfBOEX0Oo/s1600/poppyfields2%2Bopium%2Bfields%2Band%2BUS%2Bin%2BAfghan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y2_SI8gvAPY/VSqf9E_2_FI/AAAAAAAASXs/JmhfBOEX0Oo/s1600/poppyfields2%2Bopium%2Bfields%2Band%2BUS%2Bin%2BAfghan.jpg" height="200" width="196" /></a>The Western banking system or known enormous financial institutions, such the HSBC, are engaging in criminal laundering of drug money and are therefore participating in drug trafficking and likely the allied trade of human trafficking. Compounding and sustaining pervasive criminality are US political leaders’ executing and legislating it: on the one hand they bail out big banks when pyramid schemes bust and default ensues, and on the other hand they take big bank money (shoring up cycles of drug and people- trafficking) to feed their campaigns coffers, a lifetime in public office, and their high-living lifestyles.<br />
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While these leaders and their “partners” support drug production (consider US soldiers protecting lucrative poppy fields in Afghanistan), they are committing an endless “WAR ON DRUGS”; and, simultaneously, while deeply engaged in an incestuous affair with the violence industrial complex and creating “terrorists,” they are committing an endless global “WAR ON TERROR.”</div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CVyd-Zp5q88/VSqgMCC8P0I/AAAAAAAASX0/7-E7P3cKfL8/s1600/ICC_premises%2Bimage%2Bat%2BICC%2BNOW%2BDOT%2BORG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CVyd-Zp5q88/VSqgMCC8P0I/AAAAAAAASX0/7-E7P3cKfL8/s1600/ICC_premises%2Bimage%2Bat%2BICC%2BNOW%2BDOT%2BORG.jpg" height="157" width="200" /></a><o:p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 56.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-text-raise: -5.5pt; position: relative; top: 5.5pt;"><span style="color: red;"><i><b>I</b></i></span></span> </o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">believe that any leader</span>, any country whose leaders are involved in the ordering or participating directly or indirectly in the affairs of another country, violating others’ national sovereignty, waging violence against another country or its people, its lands and or institutions—should be arrested, led in chains, and prosecuted before an independent, international court.</span><br />
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And though I am not sure any more, given loss of credibility, that this court will be either the UN Court of Justice or the International Criminal Court in The Hague, I do believe that there must be recourse, there must be an ending to the global criminal and deliberate madness that, for too many years, has been perpetrated particularly by Western leaders against the world and its people.<br />
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Michael Enright’s conversation on this week’s The Sunday
Edition with Paul Rogers, author of A War on Terror, Afghanistan and After and international
security editor of the website openDemocracy, prompted my collected thoughts in
the above essay. </div>
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Michael spoke with Professor Rogers of Peace Studies at the
University of Bradford in the United Kingdom about what the West has typically
gotten wrong in its military adventures in the Middle East, North Africa and
Central Asia, and what it could possibly do, to not make things worse. </div>
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<i>Iraq
is now in a desperate struggle against ISIS, and Libya has been torn apart by
rival factions that were united only by their hatred of Gaddafi. They're just
two examples of the unintended consequences of the West's enthusiasm for
forcible regime change in the Middle East and its environs. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Yemen,
now, has become inflamed by a violent uprising, but Syria - a case in which the
West actually declined to get involved militarily - remains perhaps the biggest
mess of all: hundreds of thousands of citizens killed by their own government
or by one or another rebel groups and now ISIS. And millions more forced to
flee to Syria's neighbours as refugees. Canada is embarking on an expanded
campaign against ISIS that will take us into the intractable civil conflict and
humanitarian disaster that is Syria. <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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“Does military intervention in the Middle East ever work?” Sunday
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i style="background-color: #3d85c6;">A lifelong American writer and writer/activist</i></b></span> (former academic and staffer with the U.S. government in Washington), Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett is credentialed in education and print journalism and public affairs (PhD, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; MA, The American University, Washington, DC). Her work concerns itself with news and current affairs, historical contexts, and ideas particularly related to acts and consequences of U.S. foreign relations, geopolitics, human rights, war and peace, and violence and nonviolence.
Dr. Bennett is an internationalist and nonpartisan progressive personally concerned with society and the common good. An educator at heart, her career began with the U.S. Peace Corps, teaching in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Since then, she has authored several books and numerous current-affairs articles; her latest book: UNCONSCIONABLE: How The World Sees Us: World News, Alternative Views, Commentary on U.S. Foreign Relations; most thoughts, articles, edited work are posted at Bennett’s Study: http://todaysinsightnews.blogspot.com/ and on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/carolynladelle.bennett.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/08UNCONSCIONABLE/prweb12131656.htm
http://bookstore.xlibris.com/Products/SKU-000757788/UNCONSCIONABLE.aspx
Her books are also available at independent bookstores in New York State: Lift Bridge in Brockport; Sundance in Geneseo; Dog Ears Bookstore and Literary Arts Center in Buffalo; Burlingham Books in Perry; The Bookworm in East Aurora<br />
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