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In Bush Era, U.S. Has Become A Third-World Country
By MANIFESTO JOE
The signs are all there, beneath the jingoist bluster and superficial prosperity. George W. Babbitt still swaggers on the golf course and talks a great game, but it's getting tougher to make the mortgage payments on his family's $300,000 house. For his commute, the gas-guzzling Hummer has been traded in for a "sensible" Ford Taurus with leather seats.
And then, below, mostly out of sight, are the people who never had it that good, and never will. The ones who have no hope of "retiring." The ones who don't know how they can afford to make their old car pass the emissions test. The ones who would declare bankruptcy but don't know if they can qualify under the tougher new (Republican) laws. The ones who know the best bargains on navy beans and Vienna sausages.
Life in America has always been deodorized excrement for a certain minority among us.
But that minority is growing, and the middle class is feeling the pressure.
George W. Bush isn't solely responsible for U.S. descent into Third-World stagnation. But his policies have festively crowned all the economic royalism that went before him.
Food inflation is running far ahead of "core" inflation, at 4.4% (much higher for staples) compared to about 2%; yes, largely because of factors somewhat out of this administration's control, like fuel/transportation prices and rising demand from developing nations like China. But amid this, our "leaders" have been codifying policies that ever enrich the most fortunate among us, rather than make it easier for struggling people to eat and live halfway decent lives. The burden of living in America -- for health care, for a living wage, for transportation, for education, for anything that elevates people above mere brutish existence, is ever shifted upon those least able to pay.
How has this administration responded to the marginalization of America's working class? With the all the greed and conceit one would expect of economic royalists. Bush is the anti-FDR, even going beyond Reagan on that score. FDR was excoriated as a traitor to his class; no one could ever accuse Bush of that. He has devoted his entire political life to destroying all that FDR did for people who never had a "lock" on the better things in life, like little George always had. But then, what would one expect from a spoiled rich kid who got his childhood kicks killing frogs with strategically inserted firecrackers?
There have been far too many "outrages of the day" to account for all of them, but Citizens for Tax Justice has summed up the irresponsible fiscal policies of the Bush administration thusly, on Sept. 13:
"President George W. Bush has added $3 trillion to the national debt so far, despite inheriting a balanced budget when he took office in 2001. Since then, Congress has been forced to raise the statutory limit on the total amount the federal government is allowed to borrow four times -- in 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2006. Yesterday, the Senate Finance Committee approved legislation to raise the debt limit a fifth time, to an unprecedented $9.815 trillion, to prevent the federal government from defaulting on its debts and being unable to borrow any more. In contrast, when Bush took office, the debt limit was $5.950 trillion -- $3.9 trillion less than the new amount."
This was done in part by foisting a new Reaganomics policy on the country, with big tax cuts for everyone with the ability to pay, and little or nothing for anyone else. And then, obviously, by starting a totally elective foreign war.
What this amounts to is a tax on our futures. And the people who put George W. Bush in office clearly don't intend to be the ones who pay it. Even if things turn a little rough for them, 1930s-style, they can "afford" the rent-a-cops, the political consultants, the local government functionaries, the National Guard units, and if necessary, the brown-shirted goons, to help them keep their "rightful, destined" positions in life.
Does any of this sound familiar? Mexico and many other Third World societies come to mind. I wonder: Will George W. Bush ultimately go down in history as OUR Third-World strongman? Our Batista? Our Franco? Our Mubutu Sese-Seko? Our Suharto? Our Ferdinand Marcos?
At the same time as the economic screws are being tightened, the political ones are as well. The effective suspension of some Constitutional rights in the country, among other things, is an eerie tandem to the economic trend.
It's going to get worse. The news from countries like China, that have been buying U.S. Treasuries and have waning confidence in the dollar, gets grimmer all the time. There will come a day when there's no one left to borrow from.
The economic model for a Third-World country goes sort of like: 10% have about 90% of the effective wealth; about 30%, a precarious middle-class life; and the remaining 60% live in poverty.
I can foresee Canada soon having an illegal immigrant problem, what with the current trends in America. Hell, I'm ready to pack up and go now. Vamos, al norte! Any journalism jobs in Winnipeg? They aren't even building any fences on that border, not yet.
Jokes aside, many right-wingers would urge me to go, today. But this is my country, too, and I'm old enough to remember when it was a better place. I can remember when people who made $8 an hour (or the inflation-adjusted equivalent) were interested in organizing unions, not being duped by Bill O'Reilly or Rush Limbaugh. I can remember when many of them seemed to understand who it really was that was screwing them.
It's all looking way too Mexico, stolen elections and all. When they said it can happen here, they were thinking of far worse things. But the Third World looks bad enough.
Manifesto Joe is an underground writer living in Texas. Check out his blog at Manifesto Joe's Texas Blues.
Labels: George W. Bush, GOP, U.S. economic crisis
John Peret said...
I AM FROM A THIRT WORLD COUNTRY AND YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOY ARE TALKING ABOUT COMPARING THE USA TO A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY.
Speaking of Third World nations, I think we ought to re-examine the belief system that assumes that Third World nations are somehow "inferior" to the First World.
It's true, the U.S. has a higher GDP than any Third World nation. But is this the only metric for measuring how "advanced" a nation is?
Is money and material wealth and a prosperous stock market the only way to measure a nation?
I once traveled to a Third World nation and visited a poor village. The people there had very little in the way of possessions. And yet they were happy. There, families (and extended families) were very strong---in fact, the family bonds were much stronger and richer than what I've seen in the U.S. Life was laid-back and relaxed. Maybe no one there had a car or a camcorder---but I'd suspect no one was on Prozac, either.
Manifesto Joe said...
Fair point, Anon. Family ties are strong enough in Mexico that many immigrant workers from there, who are now here, faithfully wire lots of money home to relatives -- it's a major economic boon there. But obviously all those immigrants should have stayed home, where they could go hungry alongside their loved ones.
Sarcasm aside, I think maybe you miss the point, and perhaps Mr. Peret did, too. In the 1950s the U.S. came astonishingly close to being a prosperous egalitarian society. The labor force was 35% unionized. People largely worked 40-hour weeks and had two-day weekends, something their parents never had. Life spans grew longer, dramatically.
Since about 1973, the power elite of this country has gradually decided that this wasn't a social arrangement they wanted indefinitely. So, starting with a vengeance around 1981, the fingers of the U.S. working class began to be pried off those gains, one by one. Homelessness quickly increased, and the social safety net has been half gutted. There is a desperation among America's working poor that is destroying families -- and here, in a "developed" country, there is no agrarian past to go back to anymore. Extended families are rare now. Farming is mostly corporate, so there's no ancestral "land" to go back to.
And in the Third World, I would dare say that more people are living in places like the squalid shacktowns around Mexico City than in traditional, socially cohesive villages. These are the people who are willing to come here, at risk of life and limb, to do menial jobs. Globalization is displacing many people down there. The farmers in the countryside are having a hard time competing since NAFTA was enacted, and so, many are adrift. Many have the choice between a makeshift shack outside Mexico City or coming to Texas to bus tables. Many choose the latter -- about 12 million, at last count. It's one of the largest migrations in recent world history.
The point about the U.S. is that this country had a chance to have what Scandinavians and Japanese take for granted -- maybe not the individual wealth that one can attain, with luck and ruthlessness, in a "cowboy" capitalist economy, but widespread comfort and reasonably shared prosperity. The U.S. establishment turned away from that opportunity, and now the erosion is obvious.
By the way, Mr. Peret: Name me one other "developed" country in which over 15% of the population has no medical insurance. Not Third World just yet -- but time marches on.
Anon, I can appreciate your reverence for rustic romantic values. But many such people, the world over, are finding that they need beans and tortillas, or something of the sort, to stay alive. They need medicine to keep children from dying. They need decent homes to keep them out of the elements.
Americans have a long way to go to become a jumbo version of Guatemala. But, my point -- we damned sure seem to have some powerful people working on it.
Manifestojoe said...
I am the good angel that represents the hidden Christian element of that masked blogger we all know and love, Manifesto Joe. I will occasionally misspell and misuse words so I can relate better with his minions. Their you go! The purpose of my existence is to correct the blog record and wrest his tortured soul from the devil. God bless us all.
Today's installment:
1)"In the 1950s the U.S. came astonishingly close to being a prosperous egalitarian society. The labor force was 35% unionized. People largely worked 40-hour weeks and had two-day weekends, something their parents never had."
For the most part this is OK. However, Americans worked less and they owned less. As American appetites for consumer goods grew slowly at first in the 60's and 70's and then exploded from the 80's and beyond, Americans had to find a way to pay for all of those things that once did not exist and that have now become essential to American life. The answer: work harder and learn to live with debt. Now we get to the part that is not OK. In looking back nostalgically at that simpler time of Ward, June and the Beaver, it is tempting to wish we could go back. This is a theme that has been repeated on a smaller scale since the beginning of time. In fact, I have it on pretty good authority that Cain and Abel were pretty pissed about Adam and Eve screwing up the paradise deal they had before the boys came along. But the premise is the real danger. The correlation between having a small portion of the workforce unionized (even if it is a large percentage "compared to today," it is still a small percentage. So don't start. I am trying to save your eternal soul.) and the overall prosperity of the country has as no validity. There is nothing tying the two issues together. It is like saying people who eat salt are more likely to pick their noses. Yes, people who eat salt pick their noses, and people who pick their noses eat salt. Does one cause the other? I will let you think about that while I mop up the rest of your messes.
You do inadvertently bring up one point. Many people (like me) work two jobs now or they work the equivalent number of hours in their primary careers. Since you seem married to the 40 hour work-week, would it be OK with you if everyone was only taxed on the income from the first 40 hours they worked? After all, anything over 40 hours is essentially volunteerism. But the funny thing I notice is the harder you work, the more money you have. How about extending the "safety net" only to individuals who have worked a minimum of say 70 hours per week in the period being considered. Call it keeping everyone honest. After all, the tax dollars providing that safety net (and the roads you drive on, the freedom you enjoy...you know where I am going) are paid by those people you call wealthy toiling away 80, 90, even 100 hours per week. It makes a person working only 40 hours seem positively lazy compared to the hard-working rich, doesn't it?
"Life spans grew longer, dramatically."
Yes they did...due to penicillin, the expansion of refrigeration of food products, additional oversigt by USDA and FDA over food safety and the end of a time when wounded soldiers came home to die. What were you implying cause the change in mortality? Working less? And lets talk about this issue of working less you harp on from time to time. Don't you like to work hard and accomplish things? Or would you rather just sit around and play on the computer while your neighbors work harder and harder to support you. Ah yes! That WOULD be utopia, wouldn't it?
"Homelessness quickly increased, and the social safety net has been half gutted." Wrong. The social safety net is fully gutted. Homelessness is largely a mental health issue, and homelessness became a much larger issue when Reagan (sound of angels singing fills the room) put the brakes on federal spending for long term mental health patients. The result: huge numbers of mentally ill patients were push out of the medical system and into the streets. Was this proper? Unfortunately, yes. We are a union of states not a homogenous nation soley governed by a benevolent central government. Thomas Jefferson is quoted as saying "Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare but only those specifically enumerated." and James Madison said "[T]he powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, beyond which it cannot extend its jurisdiction." And Benjamin Franklin said "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." He also said " I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it."
Later when arguing a bill for charity relief, Grover Cleveland stated "I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit."
This is the bottom line: we all want to see the poor in a better state financially, and nobody wants to see individuals suffer, but the federal government is not the place to look for individual assistance. State, and better yet, local government agencies are far better equipped logistically to deal with these issues, and the types of relief offered will reflect the will and mores of the local population. Your insistance that individuals who need a safety net should get it from a sprawling, inefficient central government is not wrong. It is just futile and misplaced. Look closer to home because that is not what the federal government was ever designed to be. It was not ever intended to be benevolent.
"There is a desperation among America's working poor that is destroying families -- and here, in a "developed" country, there is no agrarian past to go back to anymore. Extended families are rare now. Farming is mostly corporate, so there's no ancestral "land" to go back to."
I am not sure where you are going here. Are you suggesting the solution to the country's working poor is for them to become subsistence farmers? Does this somehow go back to Thomas Jefferson's ideal of "the journeyman farmer?" I have some sad news for you: farms are businesses. There. I know that hurts, but in the greater scheme, there is no more nobility in being a farmer than there is in owning a prosperous and successful landfill. One product of the mistaken notion that farmers are somehow better people than the rest of is is the rampant expansion of farm welfare. It is time to end subsidies for all agricultural enterprises and let the markets decide the most efficient use of the land. How do you like that...I want to stick it to the corporations! (And the mom and pop farms and hobby farms and the Amish.) There is no reason taxpayers should subsidize the existenance of these businesses.
Besides setting the record straight and thereby setting you up for eternal bliss in heaven with our Lord God, I have two jobs that provide me a measure of wealth. They have left me weary and unable to continue until later. I am afraid I must leave you with one foot in the fire.
ManifestoJoe
Marc McDonald said...
To the previous poster:
You raise a lot of points, but one thing I'd like to address is your assertion that there's no connection between organized labor and a nation's "overall prosperity."
Do you know this for a fact? Even at 35 percent participation, unions can have an enormous impact on the economy and working people's lives. In fact, the remaining 65 percent of workers are hugely influenced by the unionized part of the workforce, as non-union companies will take their cues on wages and benefits from the 35 percenters (if nothing else, in order to prevent their own workforces from organizing).
The fact is, the unions played a key and crucial role in the building of the Great American Middle Class that arose in the 40s and 50s (and is now on the verge of extinction---along with, not coincidentally, the labor union movement).
Since Reagan, unions have been pretty much crushed by hostile legislation from Congress. The fact is, 70 percent of workers not organized today say that they would join a union if they could (and the reason they give for not doing so is that they're afraid of being fired).
Fear: it's the secret ingredient in our economy. Everyone is shit-scared. I guess the point I'd like to raise here is that I could understand a fear-based culture in some place like Stalin's Russia or Hitler's Germany.
But this is America, for chrissakes! Is this really the way we wish to run our society--where all working people live in fear?
Before the unions, there was indeed "prosperity" in America. But all the wealth was controlled by a tiny rich elite. Unions served to spread the wealth around a little.
Today, we've returned full circle to the Robber Barron era in which the rich own everything and there is no middle class.
In fact, I'd argue that things today are even worse, as we've gone beyond the excesses of the Gild Age into an oligarchy that is nothing less than socialism for the rich. This is clearly unsustainable and if we continue on this path, armed violent revolution by the people will be the inevitable result.
This is the original Manifesto Joe here -- accept no substitutes, especially those who can't spell.
I'm late replying to you, my would-be alter ego, because I had to work two 8-hour shifts during what is the WEEKEND for most people. (Thank you, AFL-CIO.) I work odd hours and days, but it's 40 hours a week most weeks, and I get time and a half for overtime. I have never had to pleasure of belonging to a union, but I couldn't expect those conditions as my right if unions hadn't made huge gains in this country during the middle part of the past century, and hence presented the threat of organization to anti-union employers. The companies saw that they had to change. The standard before the 1930s was a six-day week, often 10-12 hours a day, with no time and a half.
Unlike you, I only have one job, and it's demanding enough. Oddly, I'm making more money now than in past jobs in which I worked many more hours per week, up to 60 or 65 hours of mentally demanding work.
Now I have a bit more spare time, and I use some of it to "play on the computer."
Since you have presumed a lot about me, as I have noticed that presumptuous right-leaning folks generally do, I'll return the favor. You are in a lower tax bracket than I am, and you work two jobs because you are one among many sad cases in the U.S. of those economically marginalized, Third-World-style. Welcome to America, post-Reagan. I will also presume that you are too young to recall when America was a different place for most of us.
I will presume further that you are one of millions of people in the U.S. who have been tragically duped into blaming the wrong people, and institutions, for your difficulties. As Mr. McDonald wrote, you raise a lot of points, so they must be taken one at a time, selectively. The very reason that the federal government, cumbersome and inefficient as it can often be, took over much of the role of providing a social safety net, starting mostly in the 1930s, was that states and localities had done a woeful job of helping the less fortunate among us. A catastrophic illness, or that of a family member, could turn a middle-class family into paupers before then. The answer for many such people was an institution known as the county poorhouse. This was basically a minimum-security prison camp where paupers went to work the fields in exchange for a bunk and lousy grub two or three times a day. No doubt you would like to resurrect this benevolent institution, along with chain gangs and the 72-hour work week. Let's not forget the gold standard.
I was largely saddened, rather than angered, reading the convoluted reasoning, the misplaced anger, the "intellectual" cherry-picking, and
the smug sanctimony of your comment. You are a chicken for Colonel Sanders, embracing naive libertarian notions, the very ones that have marginalized people like you, again, Third-World-style. The millions like you constitute one of the biggest reasons why I wrote this piece. You have been complicit in turning the U.S. back toward Third-World standards -- by swallowing ideological feces and not trying to fight back instead.
I should resent you using my pen name, but I don't think the readers who really matter will ever confuse the two of us. Good luck blogging -- you're going to need it.
Postscript from the real Manifesto Joe: "The hardworking rich" (????? I got a good laugh out of that one, during the second read.) "Thomas Jefferson's ideal of the journeyman farmer". Did you mean to say "yeoman farmer"? (Google it.) If you mean to blog seriously, go back to school, or read some historically accurate books. Your ideas are nonsense, but at least do the homework first.
A second postscript for the would-be MJ: (You left such a huge mess to mop up.) I get the impression that you, the "angel" who has presumed to save my soul from perdition, would have actually frowned upon Jesus getting VERY physically pissed at the money changers at the temple. What a spoilsport, that there Jesus, interfering with the FREE market. Musta been some kinda Jew LIBERAL. Hell, them fellers wuz merely doing business, just like "journeyman" (yeoman?) farmers, or even them high-fallutin' corporate ones. Hell, a feller's got ta make a livin' somehow. Sorta like runnin' a Starbucks franchise in a megachurch.
Yes. Yeoman farmer, not journeyman farmer. Evidently the point was made so consider it the most woefully misspelled word ever instead of a mistake. Without Googling it, I will move on.
To clear things up, I am a commenting on a blog, not writing blogs. The standard is clearly lower so please get used to my flinging unsubstantiated rhetoric and broad political statements without regard to facts. Wait…maybe I could write a blog…...hmmm…...
"Perdition." I just like saying that! Perdition. Perdition. Perdition.
Now it is starting to sound silly.
You have taken my barbs with class and humor and only minimal whining. As a reward, I will no longer use your pen name. Hereinafter I shall be (drum roll) Man-I-Fester Joe. (Besides, I forgot the password for the other one.) Ciao
Those were barbs? They smelled like something else.
Karlo said...
The extreme borrowing to finance unsustainable spending with huge amounts given to the military reminds me a lot of the early Nazi era. The Nazis solved the resulting problems through price controls, prison camps, and eventually, through expansion. What'll be the US solution?
Great discussion following an insightful article with which I am in sympathy.
I suspect that there was more than a bit of chauvinism involved in the coining of the term "third world", much of it American arrogance. The terms imply "First World" superiority. But as the dollar is increasingly shunned, the US would be advised to shuck the hubris. It hasn't done them any good.
Secondly, by whatever name it is called, the US itself is to blame for having capitulated to China the balance of trade. This was not an overnight development. I still want to know what Bush Sr and Richard Nixon capitulated to Chinese leaders back in the seventies. It is not coincidental that the US lost its manufacturing pre-iminence in a period of GOP dominance that began with the Nixon administration and continues with George W. Bush. During that time period there were only two Democratic regimes -Carter and Clinton. Carter was hounded from the get go. Clinton managed to reverse at least one pernicious trend --the rich getting richer at everyone else's expense. Alas, that trend has resumed under the twisted Shrub. Obscene income inequalities are a defining characteristic of "Third World Status". By that standard, the US is there.
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Public defender system challenged in Louisiana court
Right to free legal counsel is provided by U.S. Constitution
Louisiana essentially cannot afford to uphold its obligations
New York may be model for improving troubled system
Thirteen people charged with non-capital crimes are suing the state of Louisiana, claiming they were denied their constitutional right to "effective assistance of counsel" because they couldn't afford a lawyer of their own. The suit claims their government-appointed attorneys had insufficient time for their cases, and that some were denied a public defender altogether. The team of lawyers leading the lawsuit, who are working pro bono, believe the case could swell to tens of thousands of plaintiffs if a district court certifies it as a class-action endeavor in a hearing this April.
Led by four civil rights groups, the lawsuit details a criminal justice apparatus overwhelmed by cases, and draws attention to what has become a national problem.
Roughly 85 percent of Louisiana defendants require a public defender, according to the lawsuit. As the state with the highest incarceration rate in the country, Louisiana would need to hire four times its current number of public defenders to meet the national recommended standard (ABA Journal).
According to the lawsuit, the results of the deficit in public defenders are low-income defendants languishing in jail sometimes for months until a public defender becomes available. Those facing less serious charges are sometimes denied a public defender altogether, and encouraged to plead guilty regardless of the evidence against them.
"It's the state's obligation. If it's going to jail you, if it's going to deprive you of liberty and prosecute you, if you're indigent, it has to provide a lawyer to defend you," Lisa Graybill told WikiTribune. Graybill is a spokesperson for the Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the groups behind the lawsuit.
Widespread problem
Under the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, plaintiffs in the United States are entitled to a court-appointed attorney, free of charge, if they cannot afford to hire an attorney of their own. How court-appointed attorneys, or "public defenders," are paid, however, is an ill-defined mandate. And no reliable legal enforcement mechanisms exist when state governments fail to fund public defenders.
With a near $2 billion budget deficit, Governor John Bel Edwards has essentially admitted Louisiana cannot afford to uphold its constitutional obligations while other social services are struggling with insolvency (NPR).
"When you're talking billion-dollar shortfalls … the hospital is going to win (funding) every time," said Lindsey Hortenstine of Orleans Public Defenders.
Louisiana is hardly the only state to struggle with the responsibility of ensuring legal representation for low-income offenders. Missouri and Utah, for example, faced their own ACLU lawsuits with similar allegations of constitutional neglect – neither case resulted in significant increases to the states' public defense budgets.
The current class action lawsuit in Louisiana was crafted in the wake of previous attempts of reform the public defender system via litigation. The main lesson is not asking for too much from the court.
After hearing a separate lawsuit led by the American Civil Liberties Union in 2016, a federal judge acknowledged that Louisiana's public defender system violates the constitution. The judge called the lawsuit "laudable" but ultimately dismissed the case, saying he couldn't dictate what he saw as a state issue.
Drawing a lesson from the ACLU case, the current lawsuit avoids federal court and focuses on forcing a state court to acknowledge the status quo cannot continue.
"We're not asking a judge to tell [the state] how to fix (the problem) – we're just asking the judge to tell them that under the law they cannot continue to maintain this constitutionally deficient system," said Graybill.
Shifting financial burden to states
Despite its constitutional mandate, the federal government funds public defenders only in cases involving federal crimes. State governments are left to fund public defenders for state-level felonies, which made up 87 percent of convictions in the United States in 2015 (Bureau of Justice Statistics).
Along with 25 other states, Louisiana relies on local governments to fund public defense. Civil rights groups, such as the SPLC, want Louisiana's state government to assume a larger role in paying for public defenders. How to enforce adequate funding, however, is not clear in the law.
The concept of public defense proliferated after 1963 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Gideon vs. Wainwright that anyone accused of a criminal offense has the right to legal counsel, even if they're unable pay for a lawyer. At the time, legal counsel provided by the government was assured for federal crimes. But with Gideon vs. Wainwright, the Supreme Court expanded the concept of public defenders to state courts.
The court, however, never dictated who would pay for and administer what was essentially a new entitlement program. How much funding warrants adequate legal counsel was also not specified. The responsibility of public defense defaulted to the states, and Washington, D.C. Soon, 51 governments established their own systems of allocating funds for public defense with little uniformity. 26 of these state governments kicked much of the responsibility to local governments (ABA Journal).
Louisiana became especially creative, setting up an unusual system of relying on traffic and parking tickets to fund public defender offices. The result is a system with a budget that depends on how many drivers are ticketed for violations (The Advocate).
New York as a model for improvement
Like Louisiana, New York historically relied on local counties (roughly equivalent to Louisiana "parishes") to fund public defense. Similar to the Bayou State, a number of New York county governments fell behind.
In 2007, five counties were sued under Hurrell-Harring vs. State of New York for exceeding 600 caseloads a year, well above the 400-case recommendation from the American Bar Association.
It took seven years for the fives counties to begin implementing structural changes to avoid another caseload nightmare. Eventually, the Hurrell-Harring vs. New York ruling was extended beyond the five counties. With allocations in the 2018 state budget, Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature expanded the reforms throughout the entire state.
"The state stepped up," said Andrew Davies, a senior policy analyst for New York's Office of Indigent Legal Services. "This is the most exciting moment for public defense in New York since 1963 when Gideon passed. No question whatsoever, it's a seismic shift."
When Hurrell-Harring vs. New York is fully implemented in 2023, the state of New York will reimburse county public defender offices that surpass the recommended caseload limit. In theory, this will prevent the kind of backlog of cases involving un-represented, low-income defendants that led to the class action lawsuit in Louisiana.
There is no "magic bullet" for solving public defense issues, said Jon Gould, a professor in the School of Public Affairs and the Washington College of Law at American University and an expert in public defense. "There is no superior system for funding," he said. "It comes down to political will and whether the elected officials in the state recognize their constitutional duty."
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$ go get github.com/stretchr/gomniauth
```

Check out the [example web app code](https://github.com/stretchr/gomniauth/tree/master/example) to see how to use Gomniauth using [Goweb](https://github.com/stretchr/goweb).

## Contributing

  * If you add a provider that others could also make use of, please send us a Pull Request and we'll add it to the repo.

## Implementing Gomniauth

### Set up Gomniauth

First and only once for your application, you need to setup the security key and providers.  The security key is used when hashing any data that gets transmitted to ensure its integrity.

You are free to use the [signature package's RandomKey function](http://godoc.org/github.com/stretchr/signature#RandomKey) to generate a unique code every time your application starts.

```go
gomniauth.SetSecurityKey(signature.RandomKey(64))
```

A provider represents an authentication service that will be available to your users.  Usually, you'll have to add some configuration of your own, such as your application `key` and `secret` (provided by the auth service), and the `callback` into your app where users will be sent following successful (or not) authentication.

```go
gomniauth.WithProviders(
  github.New("key", "secret", "callback"),
  google.New("key", "secret", "callback"),
)
```

#### What kind of callback?

The callback should be an absolute URL to your application and should include the provider name in some way.

For example, in the [example web app](https://github.com/stretchr/gomniauth/tree/master/example) we used the following format for callbacks:

    http://mydomain.com/auth/{provider}/callback

### Are they logged in?

When a user tries to access a protected resource, or if you want to make third party authenticated API calls, you need a mechanism to decide whether a user is logged in or not.  For web apps, cookies usually work, if you're building an API, then you should consider some kind of auth token.

### Decide how to log in

If they are not logged in, you need to provide them with a list of providers from which they can choose.

You can access a list of the providers you are supporting by calling the `gomniauth.Providers()` function.

### Redirecting them to the login page

Once a provider has been chosen, you must redirect them to be authenticated.  You can do this by using the `gomniauth.Provider` function, that will return a [Provider](http://godoc.org/github.com/stretchr/gomniauth/common#Provider) by name.

So if the user chooses to login using Github, you would do:

```go
provider, err := gomniauth.Provider("github")
```

Once you have your provider, you can get the URL to redirect users to by calling:

```go
authUrl, err := provider.GetBeginAuthURL(state, options)
```

You should then redirect the user to the `authUrl`.

#### State and options

The `state` parameter is a `State` object that contains information that will be hashed and passed (via the third party) through to your callback (see below).  Usually, this object contains the URL to redirect to once authentication has completed, but you can store whatever you like in here.

The `options` parameter is an `objx.Map` containing additional query-string parameters that will be sent to the authentication service.  For example, in OAuth2 implementations, you can specify a `scope` parameter to get additional access to other services you might need.

### Handling the callback

Once the third party authentication service has finished processing the request, they will send the user back to your callback URL.

Remember, you specified the callback URL when you setup your providers.

For example, the user might hit:

    http://yourdomain.com/auth/github/callback?code=abc123

You don't need to worry about the detail of the parameters passed back, because Gomniauth takes care of those for you.  You just need to pass them into the `CompleteAuth` method of your provider:

```go
provider, err := gomniauth.Provider("github")
creds, err := provider.CompleteAuth(queryParams)
```

NOTE: It's unlikely you'll hard-code the provider name, we have done it here to make it obvious what's going on.

The provider will then do the work in the background to complete the authentication and return the `creds` for that user.  The `creds` are then used to make authenticated requests to the third party (in this case Github) on behalf of the user.

### Getting the user information

If you then want some information about the user who just authenticated, you can call the `GetUser` method on the provider (passing in the `creds` from the `CompleteAuth` method.)

The [User](https://github.com/stretchr/gomniauth/blob/master/common/user.go) you get back will give you access to the common user data you will need (like name, email, avatar URL etc) and also an `objx.Map` of `Data()` that contains everything else.

### Caching in

Once you had the credentials for a user for a given provider, you should cache them in your own datastore.  This will mean that if the cookie hasn't expired, or if the client has stored the auth token, they can continue to use the service without having to log in again.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Before I begin my 'Imagination' journey, I want to acknowledge this wonderful time of the year, Springtime! Also, A very Happy Birthday to "Our Daily Feels" and, to all, Happy Easter!
For a while, I began to wonder, where has all the worldly wisdom of imagination gone? That's when I decided to turn off the TV for quite a few hours. It was all 'negative' news that I was hearing, and it began to infiltrate my thinking patterns. I know that just changing the channel or hitting the off button will not stop all the questionable and challenging stories that are being told, so, I decided on a break from it all!
Back to nature! I'm back!!!! Refreshed and ready for the world again! After all, the world wasn't created just for me or my type of thinking alone! I had a little talk with my maker! Yup! You know who! Some of you say 'Universe' others refer to their 'Source'! And He reminded me about the "Five" things I learned throughout my life. The Five I revealed on Our Daily Feels! Imagination was #3 on my list and my wisdom target for today! The world was created long before I was a gleam in my mother's eyes! So, I'm not the only earth inhabitant! And we all most certainly think differently! I guess this is how it has always been but with our extremely modern technologies, the world has become closer and smaller! And angrier! Or is just my point of view that needs changing? No, I'm not going to become angry but I certainly do wonder why people resort to the negative ideas that will one day destroy them!
I revisited all my old masters who were the deep thinkers of their time and I reacquainted myself with Einstein. He reassured me that "Life is like riding a bicycle." To keep your balance you must keep moving." Great advice. So, there I found the answer to my own puzzle. When I turned off my TV, I turned on NATURE! That's where I learned that all life is good. Our universe is filled with wonder. Plants, trees of all sizes, flowers filled with color and the edible plants as well! All of my 'senses' joined in and the entire landscape renewed and refreshed me! I was reminded that I was not created in the form of a robot, or animal, but as a human with a network of ideas. There was a time the dinosaur roamed our earth! And they would stamp us out. Today, my tiny friends, the geckos run for their lives! I keep reminding them how large and fearful they once were! But, I won't hurt them! It's up to me to figure out what works for good and what hurts! If it hurts me or others, get rid of the idea! So, with all this exploration of nature surrounding me, I thought of a question that I'd like to ask God! An idea that has been roaming around my brain and the Question is: Why didn't You create the 'cell phone' when you created Adam & Eve? He roared with laughter! If Eve hadn't been curious, you wouldn't be here today. Yes, it would have saved Moses and the tribes many years because they could have called me and asked for a short cut to their wonderings. They needed the time! And that fellow and his ark, Noah, he would not have had to wait for a bird to tell him that land was nearby! But, you see, my people of old, didn't need shortcuts to life, they needed to learn to grow together. It didn't always work because, they too, had their own free will and life's agenda! Do you think I wanted Michelangelo to have a cell phone and keep being interrupted with his work? He had enough problems with the Pope! And by the way, Queen of Wisdom, what's up with this App for the cell phone; "Back to Nature" sounds and pictures?? What's wrong with my real thing…nature in the raw? I couldn't even help my son with a cell phone. Much of His life was kept in secret. And, so it was with His cousin John! Do you understand that each and every invention has its time to be born to a world who is awaiting its arrival? And no harm has been done because all of my people of yesterday have not been forgotten. Remember, there will always be a person who has a great love for history and will write it down! A cell phone cannot do this! Yes, people can type and do it with feeling and I like that!
All history must be recorded. It's another building block of life. From God's mouth to my ears, "I love when people use their minds, their imagination to create new ideas!" AMEN! It was Einstein that said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge!" And he was correct. It goes beyond the senses. You create with the mind. You have a thought. For example, the ball! How did that get started? That little golf ball that's used today; that, too, has a tremendous history. All the way back to the 12th Century! Even the 'dimples' on the ball have a purpose! Imagine that? So, with each sport that has a ball, there is a history on that ball and it has taken many humans over time to discover, (in many cases recover), the ball that's in play. I'm sure that each player that plays a sport game concerning a ball has an idea or two to improve the ball or the game! That's imagination at work. Never discourage that imagining!
Have you looked at any fashion magazines of late? Chock-filled with ideas; some old, some new, others far fetched but always created from the seedlings of imagination. I enjoy all of these magazines. So many ideas are born out of a designer's mind! Bravo to all those who can contribute to our wonderful world! I fell in love with one of our local Floridian Femme magazines which depicted Expensive Art in such a way that it invites you to visit your local, or far away art galleries of the world. I wonder what Paul Gauguin would say about his piece "Nafea faa ipoipo?" (When will you marry?) 1892 and it was sold for $300 million! The painting That really gave me pause was Jackson Pollock's drip painting of 1948, "No. 5, 1948"! He literally threw buckets of paint on a sheet of fiberboard. It sold for $140 million! Talk about an idea with imagination! I bet if I threw buckets of paint on my house, it would not sell! So, imagination has no boundaries. It follows us to the kitchen. In our food ideas! Check out Lidia's ideas about cooking! All her menu ideas are creative, festive and colorful. Imagination! In our world of Fashion, Fragrances, Cosmetics, and all modes of travel, imagination creates better ideas. Yes, it's in our education system as well.
We have a good many free thinkers who have grand ideas. Their contributions will most likely bring us better medications, to extend life, although I have the upper hand! I do salute all who want to be Imagineers! If I were to create a school it must incorporate "IMAGINATION!" I would want it to be a 'must take' class! Thinking beyond what you read from a book. Thinking, creating and imagining your way through life! Try putting yourself in another's thought processes. It might change one's feelings about others. I've learned to respect others, their thoughts, their feelings and I often have a change of heart about their attitudes. Imagine working with feelings, thoughts, and attitudes that are foreign to us! I'm sure that it will bring many surprises. My hope is that they will whet our appetites for pure wonderment. Remembering such wonderful books such as Dr. Seuss Cat in the Hat, Peanuts by Charles Schulz and The Little Prince by Saint-Exupery! All fashioned by imagination! And let's not forget the world of music! What would have Beethoven done without his imagination? Or the Beatles "So Happy Together! "Imagine me and You……….!" What a gift, IMAGINATION!
Nancy Fraioli is a retired Benefits Asst. from Town/Village of Harrison, NY. She's alive and well residing in Sarasota with her daughter and family and enjoying the Floridian life style daily. Her passions are writing, reading books of philosophy, children's stories and poetry. Her deep love is living, learning and sharing how faith, meditation and music guide her daily life. And she loves to lunch with the ladies!


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Air Corps Chemical Abuse Survivors
An information resource for serving & former members of the Irish Army Air Corps suffering illness due to unprotected toxic chemical exposure in the workplace.
ACCAS 101
Chemical Info
Chemicals – Aircraft Maintenance
Chemicals – Photo Section
Chemicals – Product Names & Safety Data Sheets
Chemicals – Sensitisers
Hazard Symbols – GHS
Hazard Symbols – Old EU
Hazard Statements – GHS
Risk Phrases – Old EU
Toxicant & Disease Database
Toxicology Primer
Illness List
Air Corps – Adult Illness List
Air Corps – Child Illness List
RAAF – Adult Illness List
RAAF Precedent
Victim Impact
Tag: protected disclosure
Dáil Éireann – 4th July 2019 – Public Accounts Committee – Irish Air Corps Toxic Chemical Exposure
Catherine Murphy T.D. (Kildare North)Public Accounts Committee
Watch Deputy Catherine Murphy question Mr. Ciaran Breen, Director of the State Claims Agency and Mr. Pat Kirwan, Head of Enterprise Risk, also at the State Claims Agency, about the failure of a decade of Risk Management Section, Heath & Safety Management System audits at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel.
The State Claims Agency audits at Baldonnel commenced in 2006 and continued as the Irish Air Corps were investigated by the Health & Safety Authority in 2016 for serious breaches of the Safety, Health & Welfare at Work Act 2005. Breaches that including the very basic failure to provide PPE or chemical training.
It took the threat of legal action by the Health & Safety Authority as well as 2 years & 9 months of intervention to finally close the HSA file on what their own inspectors described as the most serious case of chemical misuse in the history of the state.
It should be noted that the State Claims Agency were not only aware from 2013 that the unprotected chemical exposures at Baldonnel were an ONGOING LIVE ISSUE, but bizarrely failed to intervene to prevent further exposure once this knowledge was in their possession.
It took the actions of three whistle-blowers in 2015 to bring the ongoing toxic chemical Health & Safety failures at the Irish Air Corps to the attention of the Minister for Defence and also to the attention of the Health & Safety Authority.
Why did the State Claims Agency fail to notice the high rate of untimely mortality, the high rate of suicide, the high rate of sick leave, the lack of PPE records and the lack of any chemical training records in 10 years of supposed audits.
Why did the State Claims Agency fail to act in 2013 when they did become aware that personnel were still being needlessly exposed to dangerous chemicals without PPE and without any chemical safety training?
Author ColliePosted on 04/07/2019 04/07/2019 Categories Dáil Éireann, YouTubeTags Aengus O'Snodaigh, air corps, Ciarán Breen, Delay Deny Die, Department of Defence, Fine Gael, Former Personnel, Irish Air Corps, Irish Army Air Corps, Leo Varadkar, Minister for Defence, NTMA, Pat Kirwan, Paul Kehoe, protected disclosure, Serving Personnel, Sinn Fein, State Claims Agency, whisteleblower, whistle-blowerLeave a comment on Dáil Éireann – 4th July 2019 – Public Accounts Committee – Irish Air Corps Toxic Chemical Exposure
Army officer's case over report resolved after High Court proceedings withdrawn
A High Court action by a senior army officer over the State's refusal to provide him with an independent report into his allegations of corruption and misconduct within the military has been resolved, and the case withdrawn.
The action was brought by the Defence Forces Head of Legal Services Colonel Jerry Lane against the Minister for Defence, Ireland and the Attorney General.
When the case commenced this week, the court heard the proceedings arose over concerns raised by Col Lane several years ago that preferential treatment was being afforded to another member of the Defence Forces to the detriment of other members.
Counsel said in 2010, his client attempted to raise the issue of the other officer's alleged preferential treatment through the chain of military command, but claimed that nothing was done.
Col Lane's concerns were that the other officer was selected for, but ultimately did not get, a senior position which Col Lane claimed the other person was ineligible for.
Col Lane, from Bandon, Co Cork, made a protected disclosure to members of Seanad Éireann regarding his concerns which were raised in the Seanad in 2011.
Arising out of the disclosure, he claims he was subjected to a range of penalties, including threats of dismissal and involuntary retirement from the Defence Forces, but those threats were subsequently set aside.
Read full article on Irish Examiner website below…
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/army-officers-case-over-report-resolved-after-high-court-proceedings-withdrawn-910698.html
Delay – Deny – Die
Author ColliePosted on 13/03/2019 13/03/2019 Categories News ArticlesTags defence forces, Leo Varadkar, Paul Kehoe, protected disclosure, whistleblowerLeave a comment on Army officer's case over report resolved after High Court proceedings withdrawn
Air Corps whistleblower's decision to retire "demonstrates a dysfunction in the complaints process"
The Irish Examiner revealed today that the whistle-blower – one of three who has previously raised concerns about staff's exposure to chemicals – has announced his decision to retire early.
His decision comes two months after telling Junior Defence Minister Paul Kehoe that he has not received assurances from Defence Forces hierarchy that he is not being targeted for making protected disclosures.
Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy said a list of deaths compiled by one Air Corps whistle-blower requires explanation.
The list, the existence of which was previously reported in this newspaper, contains the details of more than 70 deaths of former Air Corps staff that the whistle-blower believes may be connected to chemical exposures at the force's headquarters in Casement Aerodrome.
She described the revelation that a whistle-blower is to retire early as 'shocking'.
"I'm very concerned about the treatment of whistle-blowers and people making disclosures, as some arms of the public service are not dealing with them as comprehensively or fairly as they should," Ms Murphy said.
Fianna Fáil Defence spokesman, Jack Chambers, said the whistle-blower's decision "demonstrates a dysfunction in the complaints process" and will act as a deterrent to anyone else who is thinking about coming forward.
"This is symptomatic of the general malaise that has been allowed to fester within the Defence Forces under the current Minister. Whistle-blowers who feel that their only next option is to retire demonstrates a dysfunction in the complaints process and it certainly doesn't encourage others who have issues of concern from engaging with the process."
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/air-corps-whistleblowers-decision-to-retire-demonstrates-a-dysfunction-in-the-complaints-process-900658.html
Author ColliePosted on 29/01/2019 30/01/2019 Categories News ArticlesTags air corps, bullying, Catherine Murphy, chemicals, defence forces, Fine Gael, Irish Air Corps, Jack Chambers, Leo Varadkar, military investigating officer, military law, Paul Kehoe, protected disclosure, vindictive, whistle-blower, whistleblowerLeave a comment on Air Corps whistleblower's decision to retire "demonstrates a dysfunction in the complaints process"
Air corps whistleblower was 'isolated, vilified'
An air corps whistle-blower has written to the Defence Forces Chief of Staff to inform him of his decision to retire early over what he has claimed is the authority's failure to protect him.
The decision comes two months after the whistle-blower wrote to junior defence minister Paul Kehoe complaining of the "unwarranted treatment" he has received since he submitted a protected disclosure on health-and-safety issues.
In this communication with Mr Kehoe, the whistle blower included signed statements from two air corps personnel, the contents of which, he said, were evidence of an attempt by those in authority to "isolate and vilify" him and turn his colleagues against him.
He is one of three whistle blowers to make complaints about the chemical exposure suffered by air corps maintenance staff, the details of which were first revealed by the Irish Examiner two years ago.
The commanding officer further pointed to previous complaints made against him by the whistle-blower, which he said constitutes "a consistent pattern of vindictive and bullying behaviour" against him.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/views/analysis/air-corps-whistleblower-was-isolated-vilified-900464.html
If said commanding officer felt he was targeted by a consistent pattern of vindictive and bullying behaviour by a subordinate the Defence Forces have measures in place to deal with such behaviour through military law.
If the commanding officer didn't act to use existing disciplinary mechanisms against his subordinate why did he introduce such complaints when he himself was being investigated?
Author ColliePosted on 28/01/2019 28/01/2019 Categories News ArticlesTags air corps, bullying, chemicals, defence forces, Fine Gael, Irish Air Corps, Leo Varadkar, military investigating officer, military law, Paul Kehoe, protected disclosure, vindictive, whistle-blower, whistleblowerLeave a comment on Air corps whistleblower was 'isolated, vilified'
Protest by ex-Air Corps personnel targets Minister Paul Kehoe
A group of former air corps personnel say they will campaign against junior defence minister Paul Kehoe's re-election in his Wexford constituency in protest at his response to health and safety issues within the force.
The group, Air Corps Chemical Abuse Survivors, picketed outside Mr Kehoe's constituency office in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, on Saturday, and have claimed that 19 of their former colleagues have died since whistle-blowers raised concerns three years ago.
Seven former air corps technicians are suing the State, alleging that their exposure to toxic solvents in the course of their duties has caused them to suffer from chronic illnesses including cancer.
"Both the Minister for Defence, Leo Varadkar, and the minister of state with responsibility for defence, Paul Kehoe, have failed to offer medical help to save the lives and ease the suffering of Air Corps Chemical Abuse Survivors and apparently believe the best place to get medical help is via the High Court," said the protest group in a statement.
"In the meantime the State Claims Agency is doing all in its power to prevent cases of injured Air Corps personnel from reaching court in order to hide their own negligence."
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/protest-by-ex-air-corps-personnel-targets-minister-paul-kehoe-884781.html
Author ColliePosted on 12/11/2018 12/11/2018 Categories News ArticlesTags air corps, coverup, defence forces, Fine Gael, health and safety, Irish Air Corps, Leo Varadkar, Leo's Flak Jacket, Leo's Mudguard, missing reports, Paul Kehoe, Political Manslaughter, protected disclosure, shredded reports, Toxic Chemicals, untimely deathsLeave a comment on Protest by ex-Air Corps personnel targets Minister Paul Kehoe
Dáil Éireann – 8th November 2018 – Public Accounts Committee
Catherine Murphy T.D. (Kildare North)
Deputy Murphy questions Mr. Ciaran Breen the Director of the State Claims Agency, regarding the agency's stance on claims taken agains the Irish Air Corps regarding unprotected toxic chemicla exposure.
Author ColliePosted on 08/11/2018 08/11/2018 Categories Dáil Éireann, YouTubeTags Aengus O'Snodaigh, air corps, Delay Deny Die, Department of Defence, Fine Gael, Former Personnel, Irish Air Corps, Irish Army Air Corps, Leo Varadkar, Minister for Defence, NTMA, Paul Kehoe, protected disclosure, Serving Personnel, Sinn Fein, State Claims Agency, whisteleblower, whistle-blowerLeave a comment on Dáil Éireann – 8th November 2018 – Public Accounts Committee
Air Corps chemicals safety system 'deficient'
The safety management of chemical hazards within the Air Corps was "significantly less developed than expected" when inspected in 2016, according to an internal report by the health watchdog.
The document is the latest to raise questions about historic conditions within the Air Corps base at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel, amid whistle-blower allegations and personal injury claims taken against the State by former personnel who now suffer chronic illnesses.
In late 2015, the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) received complaints by former and serving members of the Air Corps, who had claimed personnel were not being adequately trained or being protected from the effects of the cancer-causing chemicals used to service aircraft.
The HSA inspected the site and then wrote to the Air Corps to threaten legal action against the force unless its recommended improvements were implemented, as previously reported by the Irish Examiner.
These recommendations included providing gloves, eye protection, and respirators to those using toxic chemicals, and the monitoring of personnel's health.
While the HSA has since closed the case and said the Air Corps has implemented its recommendations, a review of the case, released to this newspaper under the Freedom of Information Act, reveals further criticism of conditions in Baldonnel at the time of the inspection.
"However the safety management system for control of chemical hazards was noted to be significantly less developed than would be expected for an organisation of the size and resources of the Air Corps," the HSA inspector noted in his review.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/air-corps-chemicals-safety-system-deficient-883125.html
Author ColliePosted on 05/11/2018 05/11/2018 Categories News ArticlesTags air corps, coverup, defence forces, Fine Gael, health and safety, Irish Air Corps, Leo Varadkar, missing reports, Paul Kehoe, Political Manslaughter, protected disclosure, shredded reports, Toxic Chemicals, untimely deathsLeave a comment on Air Corps chemicals safety system 'deficient'
Department of Defence coy on probe of bullying claims
An air corps whistleblower has been told that it is "difficult to envisage" how the Department of Defence would investigate complaints of bullying made in a protected disclosure about chemical exposure within the force.
The protected disclosure, seen by the Irish Examiner, contains allegations that the whistle-blower was doused in chemicals used to service aircraft as an initiation, and was frequently exposed to chemicals without protective equipment as he carried out his duties in the Engine Shop at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel.
He alleges that he became ill while still serving in the air corps, but was targeted by superiors for his frequent absences due to sickness.
His complaints match those of a number of other whistleblowers, and the State is currently facing at least seven separate legal actions from former air corps staff who claim they are chronically ill due to their exposure to chemicals at Casement Aerodrome.
A Government-commissioned report by former civil servant Christopher O'Toole into earlier whistleblower disclosures found there was no documentation available to demonstrate that the air corps met its health and safety obligations.
The latest whistleblower called on the Government to launch a fresh review into the complaints about conditions in Casement Aerodrome, and asked that his allegations of bullying be considered as part of this probe.
"My allegations need to be investigated in full as part of a wider investigation into the air corps chemical exposure scandal and the subsequent bullying and mistreatment of personnel injured by the same chemical exposure," states the whistle blower.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/department-of-defence-coy-on-probe-of-bullying-claims-472827.html#
Author ColliePosted on 16/07/2018 16/07/2018 Categories News ArticlesTags air corps, bullying, coverup, defence forces, Fine Gael, health and safety, ignore, Irish Air Corps, Kerosene, Leo Varadkar, Paul Kehoe, protected disclosure, shredded reports, Toxic Chemicals, trichloroethylene, Tubbing, turbine engine oil, untimely deaths, whisteleblower, whistle-blowerLeave a comment on Department of Defence coy on probe of bullying claims
No response to latest Air Corps whistleblower claim
The Government has not responded to a new protected disclosure on chemical exposures within the Air Corps.
The disclosure was made by a whistleblower, who says he is chronically ill, due to his experiences at Casement Aerodrome, the Irish Examiner can reveal.
The protected disclosure, seen by this newspaper, was submitted to the Department of Defence last December, but the whistleblower has not been contacted since, bar an acknowledgement that his disclosure was received.
In the December 2017 disclosure, the former member of staff echoes previous submissions to the Government. He says he was doused in chemicals by other recruits colleagues, as an initiation, and was frequently exposed to various chemicals as part of his duties in the engine shop at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel.
He alleges that he became ill while still serving in the Air Corps, but was bullied and mistreated by superiors for his frequent absences, due to illnesses he believes were caused by his working environment.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/no-response-to-latest-air-corps-whistleblower-claim-472451.html
Author ColliePosted on 28/06/2018 28/06/2018 Categories News ArticlesTags air corps, coverup, defence forces, Fine Gael, health and safety, ignore, Irish Air Corps, Leo Varadkar, Paul Kehoe, Political Manslaughter, protected disclosure, shredded reports, Toxic Chemicals, untimely deaths, whisteleblower, whistle-blowerLeave a comment on No response to latest Air Corps whistleblower claim
Dáil Éireann – Oral Question 38 – 26th June 2018 – Irish Air Corps Protected Disclosure
Mr. Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South-Central )
Question No. 38
To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has received a protected disclosure from a member of the Defence Forces (details supplied); if he has responded to the disclosure; and the action that has been taken on foot of the disclosure. — Aengus Ó Snodaigh. [27762/18]
To be clear Minister Paul Kehoe & Taoiseach Leo Varadkar received this Protected Disclosure in December 2017, issued a receipt and have ignored since.
Author ColliePosted on 27/06/2018 27/06/2018 Categories Dáil Éireann, YouTubeTags Aengus O'Snodaigh, air corps, Delay Deny Die, Department of Defence, Fine Gael, Former Personnel, Irish Air Corps, Irish Army Air Corps, Leo Varadkar, Minister for Defence, NTMA, Paul Kehoe, protected disclosure, Serving Personnel, Sinn Fein, State Claims Agency, whisteleblower, whistle-blower1 Comment on Dáil Éireann – Oral Question 38 – 26th June 2018 – Irish Air Corps Protected Disclosure
Court rules against State ahead of ex-Air Corps mechanic's case alleging exposure to dangerous chemicals
Abnormal number die early in Irish Air Corps
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Just imagine it – you're sitting at home when you receive a call from the Palace to say that the Queen is popping round. Oh, and she may stay for dinner. You've now got to whip together an entire table setting fit for Royalty – but who on earth can you call on to help?! Step forward Hubert de Vinols, the renowned French interior architect and art collector, who has launched his latest project, called Tables d'Exception, offering magnificent table settings for hire. Designed by Vinols using his extensive collection of fine and rare 18th and 19th century tableware, the concept is aimed at affluent individuals and organisations wishing to entertain in a manner that evokes elegance and grandeur (irrespective of whether your guests are members of the Royal household). Vinols' creative eye and design skills have been honed from his interiors and restoration projects in chateaux and castles across Europe. He now combines his opulent antique porcelain dinner services, fine silver and textured glassware to create his "tablescapes" for up to 100 guests.
Vinols has had a passion for designing grand table settings ever since he inherited a large collection of important 18th and 19th century tableware from his historically interesting family. Over the years, he has steadily added to his collection, acquiring the finest pieces at auction, privately and from antique dealers around the world. He also owns a fascinating collection of his family's menus, and these serve to inspire him when he creates beautifully hand-written menu cards for his clients.
With fine dining making a steady and welcome return to the London foodie scene, Vinols sees a gap in the UK market. "I wish for Tables d'Exception to enable a return to refined entertaining, where a beautiful setting inspires convivial discourse," he revealed.
Vinols' extensive tableware collection comprises the crème-de- la-crème of names in European luxury tableware, including Sèvres, Meissen, Chantilly, Locré, Baccarat, Odiot, Daum and Saint-Louis. These combine with fine embossed silk and table linens, antique silver and silver-gilt candlesticks, menu stands, salt cellars, sugar casters and magnificent ornate centre-pieces. It has rarely been possible to hire antique tableware, let alone have a table setting designed by a renowned collector and authority on the subject. Her Majesty is sure to be impressed….
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Q: PHP MySQL query result into a variable and then echo ($variable) wish to check the last id (cat_id) in a table (category) and insert that result into a variable that I can echo.
My intention is to create a record last cat_id +1 as long as it doesnt already exist of course.
What I thought I should do was something like this;
<?php
   require "mydbdetails.php";
   $query="SELECT cat_id FROM category ORDER BY cat_id DESC LIMIT 1";
   $result=mysql_query($query);
   echo ($result);

 ?>

But oh no, nothing so simple. The echo was only to check I had the correct result (in phpmyadmin it returns the desired number)
Then I was hoping to be able to, with a simple html form, was to ask if the user wanted to add a category through a text box:
addrec.html:
<form action="addrec.php" method="post">
 Category: <input type="text" name="category">
 <input type="submit">
 </form>

addrec.php:
<?php
  require "mydbdetails.php";
  $new_id = $result + 1;
  $query="INSERT INTO category VALUES ($new_id, 'Fruits')";
?>

A: echo $result[0]['cat_id'] i think

A: Please consider using PDO query Syntax instead of the old deprecated mysql_query.
If you make a PDO connection and store it in the $conn object ( pretty similar to what you already have in mydbdetails.php) just do:
   $query=$conn->query("SELECT cat_id FROM category ORDER BY cat_id DESC LIMIT 1");
   $result=$query->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_COLUMN,0);
   echo ($result[0]);

A: First of all, you should really be using mysqli instead of mysql because mysql is deprecated and will be removed in PHP 5.5.
Of course the PDO would be better, but i think that you're so new that it would be a bit to much right now.
Basically, you're firing a Query, but you don't tell the query to what connection. You're doing this:
$result=mysql_query($query);

What it should be is
$result=mysqli_query($link, $query);

Where $link is the variable where you're setting up the database connection in the mydbdetails.php file.
Without the connection the Query doesn't know where to get the data from.
But if OOP isn't new to you, the answer from @amenadiel is better because it's an OOP way.
Further, there is no need for your $new_id = $result + 1; line.
IDs should almost always set to Auto Increament in the database, so this line will be done automatically in the database when you're adding a new dataset.
More information here

A: Hope this helps
<?php
  require "mydbdetails.php";
  $query="SELECT cat_id FROM category ORDER BY cat_id DESC LIMIT 1";
  $result=mysql_query($query);

  $i;
  while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_NUM)) {
      var_dump($row);  /* dump rows*/

      /* or add to array to use later */
      $results[$i] = $row; // add to array
      $i++; // +1 the counter to increment the array
  }
?>

A: You must first know as a developer, that mysql extension in php will be fully deprecated in the future as it is already in the newer php versions. So use instead Mysqli extension and PDO for sanitation and securer code for your database.
As it goes to your question:- Try the following ;
   // Make a MySQL Connection
   $query = "SELECT cat_id FROM category ORDER BY cat_id DESC LIMIT 1";
   //assign result to a variable
   $result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
   //fetch result as an associative array
   $row = mysql_fetch_array($result) or die(mysql_error());
   echo $row['cat_id'];

You can assign it to avariable  $row['cat_id'] = $catId; like that and use it .

A: Try to write your scripts in mysqli_  or pdo functions. Work around in mysql_ function (not recommended)
<?php
   require "mydbdetails.php";
   $query="SELECT cat_id FROM category ORDER BY cat_id DESC LIMIT 1";
   $result=mysql_query($query);
   if (mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) {
      $row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
      $cat_id = $row['cat_id'] + 1;
   } else {
      $cat_id = 1;
   }

 ?>

A: cat_is is the primary key? If yes you can set that column as auto increment. You can try this
https://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-result.php

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Launched in 2013, this strategy had one over-riding ambition: to accelerate the pace of financial returns to shareholders. This was to be achieved through two initiatives. First, by driving organic growth from the existing portfolio through replicating those events and by increasing buyer attendance. Second, by making strategic acquisitions in selected high-growth geographies.
To execute the strategy Tarsus re-shaped its portfolio significantly and moved into fast-growing economies. In addition to the US and China – the world's largest exhibition markets – the Group's selected territories now comprise Mexico, South East Asia, Turkey and the Middle East (principally the UAE).
Between 2013 and 2017, the first phase of the strategy, the number of events held was grown from 65 to 153 through a combination of acquisition and new launches.
2018 saw the launch of the next phase of the Quickening the Pace strategy – "QTP2: Driving Scale and Momentum". The Group will deepen its presence in higher growth markets; look to maximise the scale of existing events; and acquire new platforms for growth. A key part of this will be continued investment in the Tarsus replication programme, which spreads the success of the Group's leading brands around the world.
Tarsus will also continue to focus relentlessly on improving the experiences of its exhibitors and buyers. Everything depends on the user experience; the front line leads directly to the bottom line. Therefore attracting high-quality buyers will continue to be a priority – and with an industry-leading record in buyer growth, the Group is confident it can continue to drive up volumes.
Between 2013 and 2017, the first phase of the strategy delivered average revenue growth of 9% per annum, average buyer growth of 8% per annum and average adjusted earnings per share growth of 9% per annum. To measure the success of this next phase through to 2021, the Group has set itself three Key Performance Indicators: a growth of 5 to 10% per annum in like-for-like revenue growth, buyer growth and earnings per share growth.


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Crisis24 and WorldAware, GardaWorld companies now acting as one, have released an annual Global Forecast report and associated Risk Maps that provide insight and analysis of various threats for 2021 which organizations need to be aware of.
The 2021 Global Risk Maps also highlights the six countries that are considered the hotspots for 2021 with accompanying analyses and color-coded maps providing security risk levels for more than 200 countries.
Key topics analyzed in the 2021 Global Forecast include:
The evolving situation in the Middle East, as Arab states are likely to normalize ties with Israel.
The ever-changing dynamic between Russia and Turkey, and how it will affect the broader region.
The economic challenges facing the UK following the end of the Brexit transition.
The impact of a COVID-19 vaccine on organizations and travel.
The recovery of the transportation industry after the pandemic.


The past few weeks I have been working on writing a new training on windows workflow foundation. Last week we did an internal dry run of the content and as we speak I am working on the hands-on labs that accompany the course.
During the development of the labs I ran into an interesting struggle with the activity binding dialog when you try to implement an interface that has enumerations as an input parameter.
You can see I use the ApprovalStatus type that is an enumeration that can contain values: approved, declined, and pending.
Now when I try to bind the parameter to the workflow the property editor will not show the ellipses box in the property designer, but you will get a dropdown box where you can select the value of the parameter. The problem is that I did not want to bind a fixed value to the WevServiceInput parameter, I want to bind it to a WF property so I can use it later on in the workflow.
b.t.w. The training is already scheduled to run beginning of February, so if you are intereseted in attending, you can find more information on the content and dates over here.


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This year's conference theme is "Crossing Boundaries in Science, Management, and Conservation" focusing on the challenges and opportunities posed by crossing environmental, disciplinary, and jurisdictional boundaries in the quest to achieve one greater Yellowstone ecosystem.
This year's signature speakers include conservationist and author Craig Groves, senior scientist for The Nature Conservancy; fire ecologist, author, and University of Wisconsin professor Dr. Monica Turner; and Southern Methodist University professor, historian, and author Dr. Robert Righter. Discounted conference registration rates are available through Sept. 5, 2014. To register, visit https://secure.xanterra.net/forms/pub/yellowstone_biennial.php.
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The Conference Program Committee consists of representatives throughout the GYE including Yellowstone National Park; Grand Teton National Park; Montana State University; University of Wyoming; University of Montana; National Park Service (NPS)-Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative; Gallatin National Forest; US Geological Survey- Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center; Wildlife Conservation Society; NPS-Greater Yellowstone Inventory and Monitoring Network; Greater Yellowstone Coordinating Committee; Wyoming Game & Fish; and Montana Fish, Wildlife, & Parks.
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Businesses were seriously concerned that a tax on carrier bags would go ahead as a Scottish Member of Parliaments consultation on the idea closed today.
Fourteen packaging firms were worried enough to meet at Glasgow Airport and declare their opposition to the levy proposed by Liberal Democrat Mike Pringle.
The Carrier Bag Consortium (CBC) attended that meeting and convinced the companies there were no environmental benefits to the tax.
So all parties agreed to campaign publicly against the idea and admitted there was a big risk politicians would be persuaded to vote for it.
CBC spokesman Peter Woodall, who made the presentation in Glasgow, said: There is a level of serious concern that ill-informed politicians may introduce the tax, with negative environmental effects.
The main output of the meeting was that the businesses realised there were no environmental benefits to the tax and agreed to act in opposition to it.
Travelstock Packaging director Ron Keenon said: This constitutes no more than yet another stealth tax. It is unjustified, obscene and even goes as far as contradicting Government figures on reuse.
Look at the time and the expense our politicians are wasting on this junk science.
The CBC outlined eight reasons why it opposes the tax, including fears of an increase in litter and theft.
The organisation insisted plastic bags were more environmentally friendly to transport than paper ones, had a high reuse rate and took up little room in landfill sites.
Pringle is considering a tax of around 10p per bag, which the CBC says works out as a 2,000% rise an equivalent charge would make a newspaper cost £12.
Woodall added: A bag tax would effectively remove the highly convenient, secure and hygienic method of carrying groceries home and disposing of kitchen waste, while leaving everyone to purchase replacement bin liners.


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Louis Michel Rieul Billon (ou Rieul-Michel Billon, dit l'horloger Billon), né à Senlis (Oise) le  et mort dans cette même ville le , est un horloger, membre de la compagnie des Chevaliers de l'Arquebuse (avant son intégration à la Garde nationale, en 1790) dont il aurait été exclu pour cause d'usure.

Il est l'auteur de l'attentat de Senlis, en 1789, où il tira sur la Garde nationale, tuant le commandant parmi d'autres, lors du défilé de la bénédiction des drapeaux. Il décède lynché à la suite du déclenchement volontaire de l'explosion de sa maison, au cours de son arrestation, qui causa un grand nombre de victimes.

Ce meurtre de masse de 26 personnes (dont un, à la suite de ses blessures, parmi les 42 blessés), principalement des militaires, fut longtemps inégalé en tant qu'attentat-suicide, selon .

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Sources bibliographiques

 Guillaume Mazeau, « Violence politique et transition démocratique : les attentats sous la Révolution française », dans La Révolution française, 1,  2012 (en ligne).
 Jean-Claude Flament, Billon, l'horloger fou : Senlis, , Grandvilliers, Delattre, 2011 .
 André de Maricourt, « Un Bandit Assiégé dans son Repaire », dans Lectures pour tous, revue universelle illustrée, 10, Paris, Hachette, , p. 841-848 (en ligne).
 Armand Fouquier, Causes célèbres de tous les peuples, 7 (123 livr.), Paris, H. Lebrun, 1864, 16 p. (en ligne).

Tueur de masse français
Meurtre-suicide en France
Violence politique en France
Attentat-suicide
Naissance en septembre 1750
Naissance à Senlis (Oise)
Décès en décembre 1789
Décès à Senlis (Oise)
Décès à 39 ans

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The appointment with 'The monthly interview' comes back again, thus another interesting connection between creative people committed to sustainability is born. In July Tiziano Guardini (congratulations again for the beautiful fashion show at Milan Fashion Week yesterday) 'nominated' Paola Caracciolo, a friend with whom he shared his professional beginnings, a designer of strictly eco-friendly, luxury and made in Italy footwear. Great, we lacked a creative of accessories in our monthly appointment! So let's take you to Paola and her experience with the production of high-end vegan shoes.
So Paola, I refer to the last thing Tiziano Guardini told me by 'nominating you', that is, he met you at the beginning of your path and you also work on the topic of sustainability. Your beginnings, in fact. How have they been and what is the motivation that made you choose to produce ethically?
When you choose and take a road devoted to cruelty-free, obviously no distinction is made between food and clothing. Eating meat and wearing leather are two different sides of the same coin. In 2006 in Italy there were not many alternatives (and no qualitative) in terms of cruelty-free footwear. Finding no ways, I decided to produce them directly, thus opening my first sustainable and vegan business. Today Nemanti, my brand, is the result of about 12 years of research and hard work to combine concepts that seemed distant initially: sustainability, luxury and quality craftsmanship.
From my research on the web, I understand that you first founded a startup, and then move on to Nemanti; you remained in the footwear industry but with what differences, if any?
The first start up had a high-sounding name full of meanings, but only for us Italians. By the time we realized that it was very difficult to pronounce it for those who are not Italian. With the entry of Sebastiano Cossia Castiglioni into the company and with the most cosmopolitan drive of the brand, we decided to re-branding, simplifying the name for our main market and working on the brand image. With Nemanti it was like starting from scratch, we revisited and improved everything: the name, the image, the site, the shoes … yes, because we took a further step also with the collections and the artisans, looking for even more excellent materials, workmanship, manpower and designers.
Your products have Italian style and elegance in their DNA but with the added value of being vegans; would you like to talk to me about the various materials you use and maybe you should indicate some characteristics that have convinced you over time to continue using them? Do you have a favorite one?
We use the best materials on the market in terms of comfort, durability and sustainability. We do a lot of research because the raw material is very important to have a quality product. The last material that came into the collection is the apple skin, a very sustainable and very beautiful fabric to look like, exactly like the classic leather but with the plus of being obviously totally cruelty-free. We use Alcantara, an Italian brand well known for this extremely qualitative material that has an incredible softness to the touch. For the next season we have added a cork skin to the collection which, in terms of sustainability, softness and comfort, really competes with the finest leathers. However, our warhorse has been remaining for years a grain of wheat, a material derived from the cereals of non-food crops.
Interesting, you gave me different ideas in terms of ecological materials that I will go deeper. But besides these, talking about the entire supply chain, what makes your footwear sustainable?
We pay great attention to the whole supply chain. I'll give you an example to clarify how in reality it is possible to go deeper in terms of sustainability: our website adheres to the Zero Impact Web project, ie we offset the CO2 generated by the internet traffic of those who surf on our site with the creation and protection of a wooded area (just think that data centers and telecommunications networks will consume 2,000 billion kilowatt hours of electricity in 2020, concretely: a data center operating at 4 MegaWatt can consume up to 57 barrels of oil a day). We pay attention to everything and we look for ever new and innovative solutions to make our production greener every day.
And you do well, congratulations! However, Italy still seems a step behind other European countries in terms of sustainability and, specifically, ethical fashion, even if something is moving. As an entrepreneur with many years of experience, how do you see the present and above all the future of our local eco-fashion?
Sensitivity and respect for the planet and animal welfare are also increasing in Italy. We are still far from the levels reached above all in Northern Europe but in recent years the eco-fashion is no longer relegated to a niche of consumers but is becoming a real mainstream. The trend is evident, the range of products is extended and the 'consumption' becomes easier and more accessible to everyone. This generates a positive flywheel that will gradually lead to a deep change in consumption even in Italy, although with a little delay.
Yes, I think so too, I discover every day new realities, entrepreneurial and creative, which are passionately dedicated to this issue and in most cases I feel sensitivity and a deep ethics and not just the desire to follow a trend. Well Paola, our interview has come to an end; as usual I have to ask you who you nominate for the October interview, while I thank you for your important contribution. Keep me updated on your news!
I nominate Ecoalf, known at a fair in Berlin; I fell in love with their line and commonality of values.
So let's go to Spain to know this brand of clothing and accessories committed to the protection of oceans (and oceans here at eco-à-porter always return ).


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