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The AIM NetworkSocial JusticeComplaint against John Howard to the International Criminal Court
Complaint against John Howard to the International Criminal Court
Written by: The AIM Network
John Howard: is he guilty of war crimes? (image from theguardian.com)
Category: Social Justice
9/11, International Criminal Court, Iraq, John Howard, military involvement in Iraq
The AIM Network
Australia's former Prime Minister John Howard has been accused of war crimes before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
A document titled Complaint against John Howard to the International Criminal Court has been sent to The AIMN by a member of the SEARCH Foundation – an on-line copy of the document can be found here. Permission has been given by one of the authors to reproduce the document, but due to its length (75 pages) we have reproduced a summary.
Early in 2012 the Committee of the SEARCH Foundation resolved to submit a complaint to the International Criminal Court (the ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, against John Howard, former Prime Minister of Australia, for his decision to send Australian forces to invade and wage war against Iraq.
The ICC is a permanent international tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and for the crime of aggression. The Court was set up through the Stature of Rome which was drafted and signed on 17 July 1998, and came into force on 1 July, 2002.
Australia signed the Statute on 9 December 1998, ratified it on July 1 2002, so as to be bound as from 1 September 2002.
Article 17 of the Statute, which deals with 'Issues of admissibility' prescribes that every step of the domestic jurisdiction of a country be exhausted before the Court may take jurisdiction over a complaint.
The SEARCH Foundation believes that it has satisfied the preconditions for admissibility.
Here are the steps taken
On 16 March 2012 the Search Foundation sent complaint to Commissioner Tony Negus APM, the head of the Australian Federal Police. The complaint is substantially the same as the one which would be sent to the Court. As far as the domestic jurisdiction is concerned, the complaint was based on Mr Howard's violation of Division 268 of the Australian Criminal Code Act 1995. That Division 'received' the substance of Article 6: Genocide; Article 7: Crimes against humanity, and Article 8: War crimes, as contained in the Statute of Rome.
The Office of the AFP Commissioner replied to the effect that the complaint had been sent 'for assessment' and the subsequent response concluded that:
. . . An assessment by the AFP Legal Branch, of the information you have supplied, does not disclose an offence against Division 268 of the Code, and therefore the matters raised cannot be investigated by the AFP. You may wish to seek further independent legal advice to clarify this.
The SEARCH Foundation took time to reconsider the matter, to seek further legal advice, and resolved to submit a similar complaint to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions.
The complaint was sent on 9 May 2013 to Mr Robert Bromwich SC, Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions.
The reply contained the following:
. . . The CDPP has considered the material you have provided and will not initiate a prosecution of Mr Howard based on this material. The material is not a brief of evidence, containing admissible evidence against Mr Howard. I also note that the allegations set out in your letter do not appear to fall within the terms of any offence contained in Division 268 of the Criminal Code.
The SEARCH Foundation resolved that as all avenues of domestic jurisdiction having been attempted without success, time had come to approach the International Criminal Court.
I have the honour hereby to file with you and your office the Complaint against Mr John Winston Howard, former Prime Minister of Australia, who is responsible for sending Australian military personnel into war, and into waters of, the Republic of Iraq, pursuant to a 17 March 2003 decision of the Australian Cabinet to join in the invasion of the Republic of Iraq.
As a result of this decision, I believe that offenses were committed, and that these offenses are punishable under Article 6 Genocide, Article 7 Crimes against Humanity, and Article 8 War Crimes of the Rome Statute.
I ask you initiate an investigation under Article 15, with a view to issuing a warrant of arrest for Mr John Winston Howard.
Australia's ratification of the Rome Statute came into force on 1 September 2002, and these crimes were committed after that date. The offenses we enumerate are most serious.
On 16 March 2012, our organisation made a complaint in these same terms to both the Australian Federal Police, which is the primary agency responsible for investigating breaches of the Commonwealth Criminal Code 1995 which was amended to implement Australia's ratification of the Rome Statute i.e. Chapter 8 – Offences against humanity and related offences, Division 268 – 'Genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes against the administration of the justice of the International Criminal Court'. That Division of the Code 'receives' the provisions of the Rome Statute of 1998, as amended.
On 23 March 2012, the Office of the Australian Federal Police Commissioner acknowledged receipt of our complaint and on May 3 2012, the AFP Operations Coordination Centre stated that our information did not disclose an offence against Division 268 and so declined to investigate.
On 9 May 2013, after consulting with many lawyers about how to proceed, we sent our complaint to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), the other agency which can consider a prosecution under Division 268.
On 18 June 2013, the DPP replied that it would not initiate a prosecution of Mr Howard, noting that information provided was not a 'brief of evidence' and that the allegations we made did not appear to fall within the terms of any offence under Division 268.
Under Article 17(b) of the Rome Statute, the Prosecutor cannot investigate if:
"The case has been investigated by a State which has jurisdiction over it and the State has decided not to prosecute the person concerned, unless the decision resulted from the unwillingness or inability of the State genuinely to prosecute . . . "
However, we have demonstrated that the Australian State has not investigated this complaint. We argue that this is because the Australian State is unwilling to prosecute a former Prime Minister, since it is very clear to us that the invasion of Iraq directly produce breaches of Articles 6, 7 and 8 of the Rome Statute, as we set out below.
Therefore we consider that this complaint is open to your investigation under Article 17.
(A brief summary of) The Facts
On 11 September 2001 Mr Howard was in Washington DC. USA, on a state visit while the terrorists on the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon were taking place. The day after the attacks he is reported as having declared support for the USA in retaliation: "We will help them. We will support actions they take to properly retaliate in relation to these acts of bastardry against their citizens and against what they stand for".
Five days later the Australian Government, with the support of the Opposition Labor Party, passed a motion in the Australian Parliament invoking the ANZUS military alliance with the United States on the ground that the criminal actions of Al Qaeda, the terrorist organisation responsible for the attacks of 11 September 2001, were the equivalent to a state "attack on the United States".
In January 2002 Mr. Howard was in Washington and endorsed former President George W. Bush's State of the Union speech, in which the President labelled Iran, North Korea and Iraq as an "axis of evil", on the grounds that the three countries possessed "weapons of mass destruction" (WMDs).
In June 2002 Mr. Howard returned to Washington to declare support for the Bush doctrine of "pre-emptive strike", a doctrine which repudiated the entire framework of post-second world war international relations and asserted that the United States had the right to attack any country it deemed a threat.
On 17 September 2002 Mr. Howard presented the ONA report to Parliament and asserted that, unless Iraq was "disarmed", its weapons of mass destruction would pose "a direct, undeniable and lethal threat to Australia and its people."
On 26 February 2003 forty-three Australian international law experts publicly warned that:
"The weak and ambiguous evidence presented to the international community by the U.S. Secretary of State, Colin Powell, to justify a pre-emptive strike underlines the practical danger of a doctrine of pre-emption. A principle of pre-emption would allow national agendas completely to destroy the system of collective security contained in Chapter Seven of the UN Charter and return us to the pre-1945 era, where might equalled right."
They further warned that:
"The International Criminal Court now has jurisdiction over war crimes and crimes against humanity … It attributes criminal responsibility to individuals responsible for planning military action that violates international humanitarian law and those who carried it out. It specifically extends criminal liability to heads of state, leaders of governments, parliamentarians, government officials and military personnel."
The Australian Government, led by Mr. Howard, defied legal opinion. Parliament was adjourned on 8 March 2003. In the late hours of 17 March 2003, Mr. Howard and his Cabinet voted to authorise Australian air, land and naval personnel to attack Iraq. US Assistant Secretary of State Richard Armitage made an official request for the involvement of Australian troops late on the night of March 20. It later became known that Australian special operations troops, with Cabinet authorisation, had entered Iraq as much as 30 hours before the outbreak of war.
The House of Representatives Official Hansard records later that day, at 2.03pm, that Prime Minister Howard moved a resolution asking parliament to support the Cabinet decision. The record reads in part:
"This morning I announced that Australia had joined a coalition, led by the United States, which intends to disarm Iraq of its prohibited weapons of mass destruction."
The 'facts' – and they are comprehensive with links provided to the 'evidence' – continue for over a dozen pages and conclude with:
As a result of the 20 March 2003 invasion of Iraq, there have been at least 105,439 – 115,149 civilians killed, and the Wikileaks war logs suggest a further 13,750, according to Iraq Body Count.
Nature of the complaint
The establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court with the capacity to investigate and prosecute genocide, the crime of aggression, war crimes and crimes against humanity, was a long standing human rights and foreign policy objective of the Australian Government.
The Commonwealth of Australia signed the Rome Statute, establishing the International Criminal Court 'the I.C.C.', on 9 December 1998. It deposited its instrument of ratification on 1 July 2002.
Australia's instrument of ratification includes a declaration affirming the primacy of Australia's criminal jurisdiction in relation to crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court. It outlines the conditions under which a person in Australian custody or control would be surrendered to the Court and clarifies Australia's interpretation of the crimes within the Statute. The declaration has full effect in Australian law and is not a reservation. It reinforces safeguards already built into the Statute to preserve Australian sovereignty over its criminal jurisdiction.
The provisions of the Rome Statute have been 'received' into Australian domestic legislation, which must be read in a way consistent with that Statute; and that includes the provisions of the Commonwealth Criminal Code Act [No. 12 of] 1995, particularly those of Chapter 8 – Offences against humanity and related offences, Division 268 – Genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes against the administration of the justice of the International Criminal Court.
The provisions referred to hereafter are, in order of their appearance in this complaint, reproduced seriatim in ANNEX 26.
By the operation of Art. 12 (1) Australia has accepted the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.
The Accused is a subject of the Commonwealth of Australia.
The Accused's criminal policy and practice could be characterised as an "act of aggression", the "supreme international crime" as early defined by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg" (hereafter IMT), and thus in violation of the United Nations Charter's Art. 2 (3) which prescribes the use of peaceful means to settle international disputes between Members, Art.2 (4) which proscribes the use of force against sovereign states, Art. 33 which sets down the duty to exhaust peaceful settlement of disputes and Art. 39 which states that the power to determine threats to peace or acts of aggression rests with the Security Council. [ANNEX 26]
The Accused knew or was in a position to know that no chemical, biological or nuclear weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq.
The Accused had no legal justification to participate in the "coalition of the willing" in a war against Iraq under Security Council Resolution 1441, because that Resolution could not "reasonably be interpreted [as the Davids Commission found] as authorising individual member states to use military force against Iraq to comply with the Security Council's Resolutions."
The Accused rendered himself liable of endangering the international peace and security of the people of Iraq by causing the death of untold numbers of Iraqi people, by authorising the destruction, burning and looting of priceless historical treasures including those of two ancient civilisations which are the common inheritance of entire humanity.
The Accused is responsible for:
acts of aggression, as defined in United Nations G. A. Res. 3314, Art. 1 (1974),
breaches of international humanitarian law and human rights,
crimes against peace, as defined in Art. 6(a) of the Charter of the IMT at Nuremberg and Art. 16 of the Draft Code of Crimes Against the Peace and Security of Mankind (1996),
war crimes, as defined in Art. 6 (b) of the Charter of the IMT at Nuremberg and in Art. 8 of the I.C.C. Statute,
crimes against humanity, as defined in Art. 6(c) of the Charter of the IMT at Nuremberg and Art. 7 of the I.C.C. Statute,
crimes against Prisoners of War, including acts in contravention of the Article 8, and against the Convention against Torture, and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984) and Arts. 13 and 14 of the Geneva Conventions Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (1949), and their 1977 Protocols,
crimes against civilians in contravention of Article 7 and Article 8, including the targeting of civilian populations and civilian infrastructure such as markets and residential areas, causing extensive destruction of property not justified by military objectives, using cluster bombs, using depleted uranium weapons; and acting in violation of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (1949) and the relative Protocol 1, Art. 54 on the protection of objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, and Art. 55 on protection of the natural environment.
The International Criminal Court has jurisdiction. Subject to any other ground that you may find in the course of your investigation, the Accused is responsible for flagrant, repeated and longstanding violation of the provisions of the I.C.C. Statute Arts. 5 (a) (b), (c) and (d), Article 6 (a), (b), (c), Article 7 (d), (i), (j), (k), and Article 8.
I respectfully request that you as the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court initiate an investigation with a view to issuing a warrant of arrest for Mr. John Winston Howard, on the basis of the information that I have provided and which is in my view sufficient for that purpose.
At the time of publication of the document – August 2014 – there had not yet been a response.
Could John Howard be citizen-arrested for his role in the Iraq war? (The Guardian)
Howard is war criminal, says former colleague (The Sydney Morning Herald)
Howard accused of war crimes over Iraq troop deployment (The ABC)
John Howard's Iraq War Fantasy (New Matilda)
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Peter Ball January 11, 2015 at 6:57 pm
Howard will thumb his nose at this one
Loz January 11, 2015 at 7:11 pm
If anything comes of this we will enter a brave new world.
mludowyk January 11, 2015 at 7:29 pm
And He should also be held responsible for the resulting disaster that is today's Iraq and the global terror threat that has ensued
Carol Taylor January 11, 2015 at 7:36 pm
The absolute mind-blowing hypocrisy of Abbott…
Headline: Tony Abbott hits out at US over Iraq post-war chaos.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbott-hits-out-at-us-over-iraq-postwar-chaos-20150105-12i9nx.html
Tony also managed to have a go at his 'mentor' John Howard. But who pray-tell was a Minister at the time?
Dagney J. Taggart January 11, 2015 at 7:37 pm
Very much a long shot, I would think.
Jennifer Meyer-Smith January 11, 2015 at 7:46 pm
Well done AIM Network,
for giving it a go.
If nothing else, it puts Howard and his cronies plus Abbott and his cronies On Notice that we're watching them and we DO take action where and when we can.
The Lion January 11, 2015 at 8:11 pm
There is also the very serious problem of handing of Prisoners of War and or Civilian Prisoners to the United States of America for incarceration, John Howard was aware that the US was undertaking enhanced interrogation techniques, Geneva which Australia is a signatory to, and which the Australian parliament has made Australian Law, is specific in that it should not hand prisoners over to a party that is in breach of the articles of Geneva. Australia handed over all prisoners to the US and we know what happened in Adu Graib and Guantanamo Bay and other sites! It is known with out doubt that Australia was well aware of the happenings of both major Prisons and refrained nay refused to demand that Australian caught prisoners be returned to Australian Custody! Note that Articles
Grave breaches to which the preceding Article relates shall be those involving any of the following acts, if committed against persons or property protected by the Convention: wilful killing, torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments, wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health, compelling a prisoner of war to serve in the forces of the hostile Power, or wilfully depriving a prisoner of war of the rights of fair and regular trial prescribed in this Convention.
No High Contracting Party shall be allowed to absolve itself or any other High Contracting Party of any liability incurred by itself or by another High Contracting Party in respect of breaches referred to in the preceding Article.
At the request of a Party to the conflict, an enquiry shall be instituted, in a manner to be decided between the interested Parties, concerning any alleged violation of the Convention.
If agreement has not been reached concerning the procedure for the enquiry, the Parties should agree on the choice of an umpire who will decide upon the procedure to be followed.
Once the violation has been established, the Parties to the conflict shall put an end to it and shall repress it with the least possible delay.
if there is an argument that they are not soldiers the US Supreme Court ruled all are at least Civilians and there are corresponding articles for Civilians in Schedule 4 Article 147 through to 149!
John Howard was more than aware of what was happening as it happened to Two Australians, he even went as far as sending AFP officers and ASIO officers to Guantanamo Bay to Question one,………… Hicks! Note also when Hicks wrote his book the AFP and the DPP decided they would go after the proceeds from that book,…………Mysteriously just before the High Court hearing they dropped the Action! I suggest it was on the basis that the High Court would have had to rule that John Winston Howard should stand trial for War Crimes!
rangermike1 January 11, 2015 at 8:16 pm
Sadly it will come to pass that nothing will be done about this, while Abbott tears this Country apart. Like Father like Son, Li'll Johnny and Abbott will continue on their merry way. Please QLD, do the right thing and vote the LNP out.
corvus boreus January 11, 2015 at 8:16 pm
I would have to align with the opinion of Dagney J Taggart (SPQR) on this one.
A short arrow from long bow across distance through fog.
If it it should mark the beast, I shall applaud, then eat a dish of crow in humble pie.
John Fraser January 11, 2015 at 8:20 pm
Notice how the media releases today have Abbott recommending an award to the victims of the Sydney siege.
At the same time that the authorities admit that one of the hostages (may) have been killed by friendly fire (hit in the heart by a ricochet while laying on the floor).
The Abbott manipulation of the media continues with their blessing and the blessing of the N.S.W. police.
When are the surviving victims be allowed to speak ?
I wonder if there is any law that restricts the victims or the families of victims from speaking now regardless of the barriers put up by the trigger-happy NSW police, Rabid Abbott or Bambi Baird?
I was beginning to give up hope on hearing anything that went on in the cafe. I am struggling to understand what all the talk about bravery awards is about, other than an attempt be the governments of NSW and Australia to play a bit of the old pea and thimble game.
If it turns out that the hostage was killed by the police, the continued (apparent) suppression of the hostages is not a good look.
wildedianaDiana Wilde January 11, 2015 at 8:44 pm
Thank the Goddess for social media!!!!!
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stephentardrew January 11, 2015 at 9:08 pm
No matter what happens it needs to be said and repeated often.
To lose history is to live a lie and that is exactly what this mob wants.
Stay the course and don't let them avoid the facts.
At least If we know it will not be forgotten and may one day have vital importance.
Hear, hear stephentardrew.
mars08 January 11, 2015 at 9:19 pm
No doubt we've all seen the public outrage following the killing of civilians in Paris (and London and Ottawa and Boston and…) . The events are captured on video and that footage (and still photos) is beamed around the world. Those who have seen these images have, understandably, reacted with grief and anger.
Now… let's consider the images that we in the "coalition" nations DID NOT see after the unprovoked attack on Iraq. Consider that these horrible images were on TV screens and newspapers all over the world…. including the Middle East…
http://warisacrime.org/image/tid/63
And understand that the harsh sanctions imposed on Iraq at the insistence of the US were responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians (mainly children) for a DECADE before the contrived invasion in 2003.
http://www.brussellstribunal.org/article_view.asp?id=824
stephentardrew,
Even if I express scepticism, about current probability of success of litigation in the ICC, I still see and applaud the merit in unearthing and compiling an ongoing evidential account (aka a 'case') about the degree of duplicity of conduct and culpability in illegal violence and atrocities of one John Winston Howard, regarding his involvement in the events of Gulf War II (Clone of the Attack). If nothing else it makes an accurate informational contribution to the collective recount of past realities that we call history.
Phi January 11, 2015 at 9:44 pm
Howard will not be comfortable.
Howard will will be silently squirming.
Howard is now openly accused of the worst possible atrocities.
Howard made his decision to invade sovereign Iraq based on political and not on legal or humane considerations.
With my sons I joined more than one million Australians in street protests against Howard's toxic determination to wage unprovoked war on Iraq. We knew the facts and Howard knew the facts. He chose to ignore the facts, and millions died.
Howard's contempt for the citizens of this nation will never be forgotten.
The worth and standing of the ICC will now stand or fall on it's decision in this application.
Howard must be prosecuted – let justice prevail.
lawrencewinder January 11, 2015 at 10:33 pm
Hmmm….. if Little Johnnie will only admit to slight embarrassment at being wrong in his certainty of the existence of WMD's, I'm not sure he'll lose any sleep on the occasion of this legal assault……
Roswell January 11, 2015 at 11:18 pm
I had a look at the original document in the link provided. It's an impressive piece of work. It deserves success.
Kael'thas Kamiya January 11, 2015 at 11:32 pm
At least in Australia, you can make this sort of charges against a leader or former leader of the country. In china, you are lucky if you didn't get stopped and arrested for treason.
mars08 January 12, 2015 at 12:02 am
And… in Australia, you can make this sort of charge against a leader or former leader of the country… without being killed by a 500kg Kodiak bear while you are sleeping. Isn't that great?
stephentardrew January 12, 2015 at 12:10 am
Subtle Mars8.
Brett January 12, 2015 at 2:36 am
The Iraq invasion was a noble and just one. It was the West's duty to remove Saddam, who is the one who has committed genocide, as well as harbouring terrorists and had been caught previously meddling with WMDs.
mars08 January 12, 2015 at 7:26 am
Sarcasm Brett? If so…. please use the appropriate font…
Möbius Ecko January 12, 2015 at 7:37 am
For Kaye Lee, more F-35 ammo.
I was going to put this in an on-topic article from the past but it would have been pushed off the list very quickly, so sorry for being off topic here. It's worth listening to for those against the purchase of F-35s, much more of a lemon than I believed and how Western countries get hooked into the extremely expensive US Military Industrial Complex.
High-tech heaven: defence spending from the F-111 to the F35
Kerri January 12, 2015 at 8:27 am
The information in this articlr appears quite old? Has there been a change in these charges or actions by SEARCH or The Hague?? How is the case progressing??
Michael Taylor January 12, 2015 at 8:42 am
Kerri, no update yet.
Jeanette January 12, 2015 at 8:52 am
Well I only hope the Australian Taxpayer does not have to pay for his defence. Iraq is now a cot case and I guess with everything the US touches other parts of the middle east will be the same. What about Scott Morrison? Isn't anyone who can, hurling him before an International Court on genocide charges?
Thanks Michael. Jeanette I sincerely hope Morrison gets his call to The Hague but guven it's taken this long to reach Howard I wouldn't hold your breath. I am also hoping Blair and Bush W get their trials.
Tony Rabbit January 12, 2015 at 10:35 am
If only they would get the other two as well – Blair and Bush.
corvus boreus January 12, 2015 at 11:00 am
The principal function of the Australian forces deployed during Gulf War II was to provide the 's' in 'allies'.
Nina Bravery January 12, 2015 at 12:36 pm
thank you for letting us know,and thank you for keeping on with this.it truly deserves to have him tried.
Erotic Moustache January 12, 2015 at 12:55 pm
Seems to me that the SEARCH Foundation is an organisation worthy of everyone's interest. I hadn't previously been aware of its existence, so at the very least thanks to AIMN for that revelation.
diannaart January 12, 2015 at 1:09 pm
Australia's former Prime Minister John Howard has been accused of war crimes before the International Criminal Court in The Hague
Is at least, a start.
Free the world January 13, 2015 at 2:17 am
What a waste of time and money. get a life people Howard is retired.
lets see you writing about ISIS killing people, raping women today and tomorrow.
Thank God Howard and others have the balls to do what they do. Being a fence sitter doesnt work against radical islam
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So misnomer Free the world you're OK with Howard being a war criminal helping to cause thousands of deaths and rapes, and being responsible for the rise of IS and other radical Islamic groups because of his illegal actions?
Brett January 13, 2015 at 5:19 pm
Howard responsible for rapes, that's so deluded it's not funny.
Mars08, no sarcasm intended at all. You have a problem with what I wrote? And just out of interest, which font is the 'sarcasm font'?
Baptism Font.
lee621 January 13, 2015 at 7:14 pm
The crimes against Australian Workers are the crimes that I am speaking of. 1998.. let it never be forgotten that Howard, Reith and the NFF attempted to snuff out the hopes of the Australian workers and their protectors; the Unions.
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ROBERTSGT40 January 15, 2015 at 7:30 am
Yeah, like the Hague will get to the bottom of all war crimes. Bush, Cheney Powell, Rice, Clinton(s), Blair and others all waiting their turn at being prosecuted. Yawn
Harquebus January 19, 2015 at 6:05 pm
Courts should prosecute advocates of growth. They are killing us all.
Zathras January 21, 2015 at 12:14 pm
To use his own handy-dandy excuse, a prosecution would "send a message" to those politicians who think they can act with impunity and put personal political interests above everything else, particularly the lives of innocents.
If Rudd can be investigated for complicity in the deaths of 4 insulation installers then the violent death of hundreds of thousands can't be simply brushed aside.
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mark delmege February 10, 2015 at 10:55 am
kinda sorta off topic but its not really – it wasn't just Howard it was the whole rotten system that supported war – starting with our so called ABC and the other media outlets – they pumped for war just like they still do.
Anyone who ever thought the ABC or Al Jazeera was a responsible honest reporter of news only has to follow their coverage of Ukraine. The Lie machine is busy with a Lie a Minute on this one. It's like Iraq all over again…and any number of wars before or since. This is shameful propaganda and it has the blessings of the Labor and Liberal Parties highest offices. And the Greens and every other political party has been shunted into silence. This is obscene and it should frighten the crap out of every Australian.
did you get that …. This is obscene and it should frighten the crap out of every Australian.
Haut March 13, 2016 at 11:01 pm
This is fantastic another Jew Rothschild war mongering Stooge, If you :DENY" that you are a fool, this scumbag, like "ALL" Israeli criminals, is protected by this criminal network of Usury, they own "ALL" western media & constantly bombard you with BULLSHIT, Israeli propaganda, just do the research, check out "WHO" owns your Reserve bank! IMF! UN! Anyone the media attacks & says they are terrorists, its the Opposite, Putin is kicking there ass, Iceland has arrested Rotschild bankers and is now priting their "OWN" money the way Governments are supposed to. I hope Howard & all these scumbags "HANG" Your judgement is waiting!
Carlos Weinman March 24, 2016 at 11:03 pm
Bush,Blair and Howard, 25 years each.Tens of thousands killed for NOTHING !!!!!!!!!!!
mark delmege March 24, 2016 at 11:13 pm
Almost as funny as Abbott advising Poroshenko
ImagiNation April 12, 2016 at 7:49 pm
This certainly gives support to the evidence implicating Howard in the false flag event at Port Arthur for gun control. It proves he has no problems with the killing of innocents. Just the fact that twice in his career he has been implicated in mass murder is chilling.
In November 2011 The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission exercised universal jurisdiction to try in absentia former US President George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, convicting both for crimes against peace because of what the tribunal concluded was the unlawful invasion of Iraq.
In May 2012 after hearing testimony for a week from victims of torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, the tribunal unanimously convicted in absentia former President Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Deputy Assistant Attorneys General John Yoo and Jay Bybee, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and former counselors David Addington and William Haynes II of conspiracy to commit war crimes, specifically torture. The tribunal referred their findings to the chief prosecutor at the International Court of Justice in the Hague.
In November 2013, the tribunal found the State of Israel guilty of genocide of the Palestinian people and convicted former Israeli general Amos Yaron for crimes against humanity and genocide for his involvement in the Sabra and Shatila massacre.
Unfortunately, The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission does not have the power of sentencing those found guilty but are registered as war criminals. Howard's name is not there because the Northern Hemisphere doesn't give a rats bum about Australia. It's about time we stopped fighting them for them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuala_Lumpur_War_Crimes_Commission
Nic Faulkner July 7, 2016 at 12:43 pm
AIM have failed to show the ICC that the Matter was not dealt with domestically. As the article says, both the AFP and DPP said that no evidence was supplied, nor legal argument that shows an offence under the Criminal Code. yes they may be correct about what Howard did, which we all know is the case, but in law there are processes and rules (i's and t's) that must be met.
Because the International Criminal Court has not acted in the defence of the multitude of innocent – the men women and children of Iraq and the peoples of the world, shows me they – the International Criminal Court are also complicit with these crimes, these cronies must be replaced for the sake of justice. Dialogue and education and not military force with weapons of mass destruction is the the way to resolve conflict. Lets Meditate
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JDC Clark June 1, 2017 at 1:20 am
You people really have no clue; you probably vote for the Greens.
And who really cares anyway; most Australians in the armed forces are morons who enlisted because they had no other avenue.
High school dropouts with IQ's just above the retarded cut off.
Perhaps it is a blessing in disguise in a eugenic sense that their gene pools have been eliminated?
OPPOSE THE MAJOUR PARTIES August 11, 2017 at 10:27 pm
can anyone update aimn readers on the progress of this complaint about John Howard?
Michael Taylor August 11, 2017 at 10:39 pm
It is my understanding that it was not heard.
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He was a Roman Priest at a time when there was an emperor called Claudias who persecuted the church at that particular time. He also had an edict that prohibited the marriage of young people. This was based on the hypothesis that unmarried soldiers fought better than married soldiers because married soldiers might be afraid of what might happen to them or their wives or families if they died.
A história do Dia de São Valentim remonta a um obscuro dia de jejum tido em homenagem a São Valentim. A associação com o amor romântico chega depois do final da Idade Média, durante o qual o conceito de amor romântico foi formulado.


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Dame Judi Dench has had the first dose of her COVID-19 vaccine.
The 'Skyfall' actress - who is 86-years-old - recently received the first of her two doses of the coronavirus vaccine and she is keen to get the next one in a few months' time.
Speaking about having the vaccine, she said: "I have [had the coronavirus vaccine]. I had one a week ago so I think my next is something like 11 weeks' time, that's a great start!"
And Judi has enjoyed going back to work and admits it was a "huge relief" to not only be able to film during the coronavirus pandemic, but also to do something different.
She added: "I was going to film something which has been postponed. I was, during this time, able to film with Kenneth Branagh, who wrote and directed a film about his childhood in Belfast ... We were all incredible lines to each other, taking every precaution.
"Everybody wore masks and everything. So we were well looked after. It was a huge relief to do something and it was exciting too at that time. Otherwise you wake up and think, 'What is the thing I will do today' and try to get something done."
The 'Victoria and Abdul' star has confessed she struggled without having a "work discipline" whilst she was forced to stay at home amid the coronavirus lockdown last year.
Speaking to BBC News, she shared: "It's very difficult if you don't have a work discipline to get yourself started in the morning really. It's terribly easy just to sit and do nothing."
This article originally ran on celebretainment.com.
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Hey folks, it has been a while since I posted. I was in a peer group discussing some of these terms recently and then a friend, who was writing a post to demystify these terms, asked me to explain these in plain English.
I thought I would share my views with everyone who is struggling to get these terms. I will use an analogy that perhaps will help. These opinions are as simplified as I could make them, so please take them with a pinch (or more) of salt.
Let us have a coffee maker for our thought experiment. We all love some variety of coffee, and there are tons of them. How you brew, how much milk, or none at all, sugar, cream, etc. You get the point.
What if I ask you, yes you, to make the best coffee for all my customers. Now assume you have no idea how to make any kind of coffee. I will supply all the ingredients, and basic tools (a kettle, grinder, and others).
Now I find a whole lot of customers for you. They would come, ask for a type of coffee and you will experiment. Boil the water (or not), add milk (or not), cream (or not), and so on. Oh and vary all kinds of amounts. You will note all your experiments and the result from each customer - trash the coffee or drink + pay. You can see how much they pay, assuming they know what each type of coffee costs and they can add tip if they really like your work.
If you kept doing that experiment over and over again, eventually you will learn how to make good coffee and perhaps of all kinds. That is learning. I did not instruct you how to make coffee, I simply gave you some apparatus, ingredients, and you learnt by seeing the customers response.
The aim of Machine Learning is to enable computers to do the same. There are no clear instructions as to how to do that stuff it is doing, but it figures out by trial and error. Well there is a ton of math involved which is much more complicated than the notes about customers you took, but we will skip that for brevity. We might even mimic biological structures into a computer system to achieve similar ways to learn.
Remember you took notes about how the customer reacted? What they ordered, if they drank or trashed, how much they paid. You can even add time of day, method of payment, blah blah blah. You get the idea.
Now let's say you wanted to understand which kind of coffee is most profitable. That is going to boost your business. This part is Data Science, where you have data but you are looking for clear signals, which might enable you to take decisions. Now if your log book of customers was huge (say a billion coffee experiments a month) you could use Machine Learning as a technique to have a machine figure out ways to crunch through the data. But that is just one of the ways you could analyse the data. The easiest would be simply looking at it row by row, querying or aggregating it by price range, date, etc. You can use a database to store and do these things.
Here we get into very debatable topics. You understand by now that you can learn how to make coffee. From your experience you also know how to learn to drive, drill a hole, use an umbrella, play football, etc. You are still one person, but you have the ability to learn. Some of that is rooted in our deep understanding of language and capability to hold abstract things in our head.
A banana is a banana in your head, you somehow "know" what that means. When you see a picture of a banana, or hear a banana or see even a red banana, you still recognize it even if the color is not common. Cognition is very fundamental to us. It allows us to join abstract (the banana in your head) with the real (pack of bananas at the supermarket).
All these abilities make us flexible to be a driver, farmer, salesman or engineer. What if a machine can do the same? What if it could choose what to learn and gradually get there just like we humans do? Well you are getting to Artificial Intelligence (specifically general AI) - the machine counterpart of our own human intelligence.


Dimension Drive is a comic book-styled space adventure set in a multidimensional universe. It features a unique teleportation mechanic that allows you to fight on two battlefields at once, and gameplay combining frantic shooting, defense and fast puzzling action. We'll need YOUR help to make Dimension Drive the high-quality release you deserve, and bring this unique mix of genres, storytelling and action to reality.
The Ashajuls, a cruel multidimensional alien race, are attacking our universe. Fight as Jackelyne Tywood (a.k.a. Jack) in The Manticore, a legendary ship capable of teleporting across space and dimensions. Uncover the mysteries of your past and the origin of the Dimension Drives with your trusty friend and A.I., "V.E.R.A.", at your side.
Dimension Drive will be released on Windows, Mac and Linux at the end of 2015 on Steam and also completely DRM-Free. Playstation 4 stretch goal announced!
During our last kickstarter we were trolled. We were played, we were taken for a fool, and we were gutted. But you all helped us back up and that just goes to show that through the power of community we can do anything.
So. Here we are again, Kickstarter and you all encouraged us to take this second chance. We're back and ready for round two. Who's ready for a fight? Let's rock!
During her journey to save the our universe, Jack will be visiting some of our friends from Star Mazer and Galagan's Island.
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Increase your pledge by te amount needed to claim the add-on(s).
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A New Type of Shoot'Em Up: Dimension Drive is a Dual-Battlefield vertical Shoot'Em Up with a focus on smart, quick teleporting.
Rich Sci-fi Adventure: Unfold the secrets of the Dimension Drives and your past, teleport across the multiverse fighting the ultimate threat, and meet new races and allies!
Clever Mix of Three Mechanics: A seamless combination of levels focusing on strategic shooting, fast puzzling and frantic defense make the core of Dimension Drive an exciting and varied one.
2 Wars at Once: Multitask and teleport to single-handedly fight in two shoot'em up levels at the same time.
4 Game Modes: Arcade, Modern, Pacifism and 1 Credit Clear all force you to approach the game in different ways and add replay value!
Comic Book Style: Experience the story of Jack Tywood through gorgeous, dynamic motion comics fitting the cel-shaded style and visual "pop" of the main game. In Dimension Drive, video games meet comics. Who said space was just black?
Energy Management: The Manticore is powered by Dimension Drive energy. Carefully decide when and where to teleport while in the midst of combat.
Advanced Scoring System: Shoot'em up fans and genre newcomers alike will enjoy our unique scoring system that rewards you for playing truly well, rather than simply shooting enemies.
Teleportation!: We've said that already, right? It's what makes our game really unique! No? Okay then--Teleportation!
With an experienced team of designers, artists, programmers, composers, voice actors, writers and your help, we'll polish these features and the entire Dimension Drive experience to a STELLAR shine!
The core of Dimension Drive is more than just having two shoot'em ups side-by-side. Everything in Dimension Drive is designed from the ground up to take full advantage of the Dual-Battlefield. This means that enemy squadrons, attacks, patterns, bosses, weapons, and even the level types are designed to fully utilize two battlefields. Mindlessly shooting is not enough--strategy and quick reaction is key. Every jump you make counts!
Creating dual levels is tons of fun but it also doubles the amount of work. Your pledges will allow us to spend the time needed to refine the gameplay and make everything work in perfect sync.
Dimension Drive's approach to Energy management can be summed up as "kill or be killed." Shooting consumes Dimensional Energy on the side you are currently fighting on. When you destroy an enemy, you gain some of that energy back--for the opposite side. This means you must constantly be on the move, teleporting across both sides of the Dimensional Divide to survive!
Shooting, Puzzle, and Defense--three sets of mechanics that, when combined, create the varied levels seen in Dimension Drive. Each level will highlight one of these 3 mechanics, while mixing elements of the others to keep the action dynamic, difficult and (most importantly) fun.
We are targeting 4 "issues" (every one containing a unique world), with 4 "chapters" each. Ideally, we want to make Dimension Drive as large as possible while still telling an engaging story (which is why we included 4 modes that extend the replay value significantly). However, we also don't wish to fall into the trap of creating a lot of "content" that is, ultimately, the same.
In these levels, the environment is your enemy! Race through moving walls, asteroids, blast doors, lava fields, lasers and hazards that will bring you back to the good old days of R-Type. However, in Dimension Drive, you have a new trick up your sleeve...you can teleport!
Find the right moments and places to teleport before it's too late!
"- You're not actually going IN to an asteroid field? -They'd be crazy to follow us, wouldn't they? "
The multiverse is counting on you to save them. Key positions are under attack that must be defended at all costs. You can't let them down!
Waves of attackers swarm every 30 seconds. If you don't destroy all enemies on both sides of the Dimensional Divide, those counting on you will be lost and the wave will restart. Be swift, be accurate, and teleport frantically to clear the screen and save the Dimensions!
Dimension Drive seamlessly blends video games and comics. Experience the story of Jackelyne Tywood through amazing hand-drawn motion comics, fight the Ashajuls across the multiverse and discover new alien races. Your interaction with Jack's story is not limited to cut-scenes between levels, but also extends to certain areas directly within the game as well.
All of this is only be possible with your help. Your pledge will allow our artists to create more of the wonderful work (still in an early state!) you see here.
Found orbiting the planet Vain while only a child, Jackelyne Tywood ("Jack" for short) is the only survivor of the Dalkian race--wiped from existence by the Ashajuls for the simple crime of being alive.
The Manticore is the only ship in the known universe with Dimension Drive capability besides the Ashajul motherships. Nobody knows much about it, as it was discovered at the same time Jack appeared on Vain.
While The Manticore is of Dalkian design it seems that a great deal of its technology predates that race--and for that matter, any currently known. Despite being a small craft, its advanced weapons systems coupled with the ability to warp through space and dimensions make The Manticore the best single-pilot ship in the universe.
The Ashajuls are a race of beings whose every aspect, every moral, social and cultural standard, every technology, advance and invention, has evolved to facilitate a single purpose--war.
They have lived for centuries in a constant state of chaos and combat, conquering races and erasing entire civilizations from existence. They want nothing else. They know nothing else. This is the enemy you must fight. Good luck.
Little is known of Nies, leader of the Ashajuls. Advanced knowledge of cybernetics has granted him immortality, and with its limitless time to lay waste to a powerless galaxy. He knows no fear, feels no regret...Holds a thousand lifetimes of hatred, crystallized into a single thought: Destroy. Jackelyne. Tywood. Outside of this, no one knows what goes on inside of that mind--and frankly, it's probably for the best.
Dimension Drive is built by gamers, for gamers. Over the past year of development, we've taken great care to listen to the community (and came to Kickstarter because we plan to keep it that way). Since replayabilty is something people asked for from the start, we constructed Dimension Drive around 4 pillars: Game Modes, Online Leaderboards, Level Statistics, and Achievements.
Arcade: One hit per life, three hits and you die--classic retro madness.
Modern: A four-hit shield per life protects you somewhat, but mindless shooting or poor teleporting skills will still send you back to the main menu.
Pacifism: No shields, no weapons. Just teleport through waves of bullet madness to clear levels without firing a single shot (unlocked after beating Modern or Arcade).
1 LC: With only one life and no save games, 1 Life Clear contains the highest stakes imaginable. Complete the game in a single session without getting hit once (unlocked after beating Arcade).
These are the essential game modes of Dimension Drive. Every extra mode adds a lot of work in terms of design and playtesting. With your help, we'll be able to do this properly and maybe even add more ways to play!
We've carefully crafted a scoring system designed to keep you playing and replaying the game. Killing enemies will raise your multiplier, but being hit or getting low on energy will reset it. The highest scores can only be achieved by teleporting constantly, weaving through a rain of bullets and obliterating anything and everything that comes your way. Sound easy? Then try it yourself and challenge your friends online!
Destruction percentage, lives remaining, data cubes collected, energy warnings...We throw all of that data into our super-complex wavelet transformation algorithm and give you a rank for each level. Will you achieve the best?
We're all huge fans of comics and science fiction, so with Dimension Drive, it seemed only logical to combine them. We also realized the unique game concept behind Dimension Drive required some really original visuals. Max Heyder is the mastermind behind the art style of Dimension Drive. He has worked on more than a dozen projects including Keltoi, Dust Run, Kitsune and Trail Blaze. The result of Max's work is that you'll see ships, environments and explosions that could have been taken from the pages of a comic book. Only here, with the magic of VIDEO GAMES, you get cool lighting and image processing effects!
David Jimenez and Alejandro Santiago work as engineers at the European Space Agency. In our spare time we are developing Dimension Drive, our passion project. Dimension Drive is a game about all the things we love: space, science fiction, aliens, teleportation and great female heroes (Ripley from Aliens is our favorite).
We have been thinking about the concept underlying Dimension Drive for some time, and even created a few small prototypes. However, in 2014, we decided to work tirelessly to create something much grander. The game of our dreams--Dimension Drive. Feedback from the community helped us tweak it and make it better. And now, with a bigger team that includes a band of talented artists and musicians, we can make something truly special.
Not an average shooter with a tacked on story, but something that mixes several genres and artistic elements. Something that blends the universe of a space opera with emotive motion comics and our passion for science fiction/amazing MULTIDIMENSIONAL EXPLOSIONS into a digital sized pill of pure awesome!
Until now, we've been funding development from our own savings. The amount we're asking for will allow us to support the team to not only bring Dimension Drive--the game we love--to life, but make it the game you as backers and players deserve!
This is not the first game we have developed (check the Team section for more information) so we believe our schedule/budget is realistic. Although unforeseen circumstances can lead to delays or added costs, we believe we're prepared for all possibilities.
Alejandro has more than 14 years of experience as a software engineer and David has been leading projects for the last 8. We've got a team with tremendous talent and experience, and demonstrated with our previous titles/Dimension Drive betas that we can make this game a reality. However, without proper funding, the scope, depth and breadth of the game will need to be drastically reduced and the release date delayed.
We're targeting several platforms (possibly more if we hit those stretch goals!), but even if Unity makes things easier, porting takes an incredible amount of work.
There's also the chance Ashajuls may decide to attack OUR dimension. In that unlikely event, we won't be able to finish the game as we'll be running for our lives. However, look at the bright side--you'll get to experience the Dimension Drive universe for real as an Innocent Bystander!
It'll be even better than VR!
A Big Heartfelt Thank You from the team + an exclusive Backer Wallpaper.
Everything in the 12€ tier, but cheaper! Get it while it's hot! This is the Early Bird tier.
A Digital Copy of the game + the exclusive Backer Wallpaper. Play the game and decorate your desktop with our amazing art--at the same time!
A Digital Instruction Manual + a Digital Copy of the game + the exclusive Backer Wallpaper. It's dangerous out there--take this and obliterate Ashajuls with tips and tricks straight from us!
Not one, but 2 copies of the Game! One for you and one for your wingman! Why fly alone, when you can do it with your best buddy?
Early Beta access to the game + a Digital Copy of the game + the exclusive backer wallpaper! We'll include your name in the credits and you will have the opportunity to help us improve the game with feedback, suggestions and requests.
Digital Soundtrack + Early Beta access to the game + a Digital Copy of the game + the exclusive Backer Wallpaper! Listen to the awesome tunes of Jose Mora and Daniel Polman whenever and wherever you want.
Name one of the Enemy Ships + Digital Soundtrack + Early Beta access to the game + a Digital Copy of the game + the exclusive Backer Wallpaper. You give us the name, we put it in the game!
Names subject to approval--nothing inappropriate.
Digital Comic Book + Digital Soundtrack + Early Beta access to the game + a Digital Copy of the game + the exclusive Backer Wallpaper! We'll collect all of the story scenes in the game into a marvelous comic book by Sergi Cardo. A great piece for fans of the game/sci-fi adventure!
Digital Concept Art Book + Digital Comic Book + Digital Soundtrack + Early Beta access to the game + a Digital Copy of the Game + the exclusive Backer Wallpaper! You love art and want to see the process behind the scenes--we got you covered! You'll receive a wonderfully designed Concept Art Book with all the work-in-progress material used to create the game.
Limited edition PHYSICAL COPY OF THE GAME + Digital Concept Art Book + Digital Comic Book + Digital Soundtrack + Early Beta access to the game + the exclusive Backer Wallpaper!
An amazing Dimension Drive T-SHIRT + EVERYTHING from the 80€ tier!
Printed Copies of all Books (Manual, Comic and Concept Art) + EVERYTHING from the 100€ tier!
3D-Printed version of The Manticore + EVERYTHING from the 150€ tier.
Collaborate with us to Design and Name a new Enemy Ship! Give us your ideas and we'll take care of the rest.
Collaborate with us to Design and Name a new enemy BOSS! Help us create the ultimate foe, and then fight against it in-game! Give us your ideas and we'll take care of the rest.
Turns out Jack is not alone in her fight against the Ashajuls. Your planet was destroyed by the Ashajuls when you were only a child, your family murdered in the process. You managed to escape in The Manticore and have been raised by a race of friendly aliens... but you're not Jack! The question now is who the Hell is this Jack and why does she have a ship so similar to yours?! This was bound to happen with so much inter-dimensional travel. Pledging to this tier means we'll create a new protagonist for the game--YOU (or a friend, family member, pet, piece of fruit...you name it)! With a new story and custom-painted Manticore, you and every player adopting your likeness can BECOME A HERO AND SAVE THE MULTIVERSE! This is also most exclusive reward tier!


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Peter Singer's pond illustration
On your way to work, you pass a small pond. On hot days, children sometimes play in the pond, which is only about knee-deep. The weather's cool today, though, and the hour is early, so you are surprised to see a child splashing about in the pond.
As you get closer, you see that it is a very young child, just a toddler, who is flailing about, unable to stay upright or walk out of the pond. You look for the parents or babysitter, but there is no one else around. The child is unable to keep her head above the water for more than a few seconds at a time. If you don't wade in and pull her out, she seems likely to drown. Wading in is easy and safe, but you will ruin the new shoes you bought only a few days ago, and get your suit wet and muddy. By the time you hand the child over to someone responsible for her, and change your clothes, you'll be late for work. What should you do?
I teach a course called Practical Ethics. When we start talking about global poverty, I ask my students what they think a person should do in this situation. Predictably, they respond that you should save the child. "What about your shoes? And being late for work?" I ask them. They brush that aside. How could anyone consider a pair of shoes, or missing an hour or two at work, a good reason for not saving a child's life?
I first told the story of the drowning child in the shallow pond in "Famine, Affluence and Morality," one of my first articles, originally published in 1972, but still widely used in courses in ethics. In 2011, something resembling this hypothetical situation occurred in Foshan, a city in southern China. A 2-year-old girl named Wang Yue wandered away from her mother and into a small street, where she was hit by a van that did not stop. A CCTV camera captured the incident. But what followed was even more shocking. As Wang Yue lay bleeding in the street, 18 people walked or rode their bikes right past her, without stopping to help. In most cases, the camera showed clearly that they saw her, but then averted their gaze as they passed by. A second van ran over her leg before a street cleaner raised the alarm. Wang Yue was rushed to hospital, but sadly, it was too late. She died.
If you're like most people, you are probably saying to yourself right now: "I wouldn't have walked past that child. I would have stopped to help." Perhaps you would have; but remember that, as we have already seen, 5.4 million children under 5 years old died in 2017, with a majority of those deaths being from preventable or treatable causes. Here is just one case, described by a man in Ghana to a researcher from the World Bank:
Take the death of this small boy this morning, for example. The boy died of measles. We all know he could have been cured at the hospital. But the parents had no money and so the boy died a slow and painful death, not of measles but out of poverty.
Think about something like that happening hundreds of times every day. Some children die because they don't have enough to eat. More die from measles, malaria and diarrhea—conditions that either don't exist in developed nations or, if they do, are almost never fatal. The children are vulnerable to these diseases because they have no safe drinking water or no sanitation, and because when they do fall ill, their parents can't afford any medical treatment or may not even be aware that treatment is needed. Oxfam, Against Malaria Foundation, Evidence Action, and many other organizations are working to reduce poverty, or provide mosquito nets or safe drinking water. These efforts are reducing the toll. If these organizations had more money, they could do even more, and more lives would be saved.
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Sponsorships are two-way collaboration with the object of benefiting both parties. Therefore, Ponsse chooses sponsorship beneficiaries representing sports and cultural life that are important to forest workers and our other major stakeholders.
At Ponsse, we believe that sponsorships work best when our partners share similar values with us. The entrepreneurial spirit is something we emphasise in our operations, and we would like to create long-term relationships with entrepreneurial bodies in our sponsorship activities, too.
He is a member of the Seinäjoen Seudun Urheilijat team. His trainer is Hannu Kangas.
Pitkämäki was 10 years old when he threw a javelin for the first time. At his first athletics competitions Pitkämäki took part in all the events, winning in the javelin, which made his choice of event easy. Pitkämäki started to compete seriously five years later when he decided to stop skiing, which, until then, he considered his main sport.
Ponsse has sponsored Tero Pitkämäki since 2004, and he has become a member of the world's elite javelin throwers during this time. His best accomplishments to date include the Olympic bronze medal in Beijing in 2008, a World Championship gold medal in Osaka in 2007 and a World Championship silver medal in Moscow in 2013. He has an extensive competition history and also has tree European Championship medals: silver and two bronze medals. Tero has won many Finnish Championship medals, including six gold medals.
KalPa is an ice hockey team in the Liiga, the highest national league in Finland.
Ponsse started sponsoring KalPa in 2004 when the team was in Mestis, the second-highest national league. The goal of this long-term cooperation was that a team from the Savo region would make it to the SM-liiga. Having won the Mestis championship, KalPa was ready to go to the elite league. The cooperation endured hard and challenging years as the bottom team in Liiga – already at that time it was understood that to succeed in ice hockey, you first need to make an effort through developing junior players.
The shared yellow/black colours of KalPa and Ponsse are now a part of the cutting edge of the Finnish ice hockey league.
Iivo Niskanen, age 22, has enjoyed skiing since he was a little boy, and he used to ski to school. His sister, Kerttu, inspired him to start competitive skiing.
"I have always been the most successful at skiing and my focus has always been on this sport. Even when I was young, I dreamed of the highest accomplishment, and still do so."
His best accomplishments to date include the Golden metal in Sochi Olympics 2014 (team skiing classic), Golden metal in World Ski Championships in Lahti, Finland 2017 (15km classic) and Golden metal in in Pyeongchang Olympics 2018 (50km classic).
Kerttu took her first World Cup victory at a Tour de Ski competition in Lenzerheide on 1 January 2014. The competition was a 10 km Classic, where all participants started skiing at the same time.
Her best accomplishments to date include two silver in Sochi Olympics 2014 (W cross-country team sprint classic & 4x5 km, 2 classic + 2 free) and golden medals in the Junior World Championships (W23, sprint, classic in 2011 and W23, 10 km classic in 2010). Kerttu has also won many Finnish Championship medals.
At present, competition in the national team is tough – a fact that motivates Kerttu to train even harder.
"The national team now includes seven women who are competing for a chance to participate in the World Cup races. You have to work very hard throughout the season to earn your place in the Cup events."
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The Royal School of Physicians are backing a 12-year-old Scottish lady's marketing campaign to make disabled bogs extra inclusive at their newly refurbished convention centre.
The School are supporting "Grace's Signal", the brainchild of Grace Warnock, by putting in a disabled bathroom signal designed by the teen.
Grace, who was recognized with Crohn's illness on the age of ten, launched the Grace's Signal marketing campaign to boost consciousness of hidden incapacity after usually going through criticism for utilizing a disabled bathroom.
The marketing campaign raises consciousness that not all disabilities or well being circumstances are seen. It additionally challenges the stigma round folks with hidden disabilities utilizing disabled bogs.
The refurbished Physicians Worldwide Convention Centre (PICC) in Edinburgh, was formally opened by the Princess Royal in February after year-long rebuilding work.
Grace's Signal is positioned on the disabled bathroom services within the decrease lobby of the PICC.
The PICC hosts a variety of public exhibitions and occasions, in addition to academic and profession improvement occasions for medical professionals.
By putting in an inclusive signal, the PICC has joined the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh Airport and different public buildings throughout Scotland.
In the meantime, the College of Edinburgh has been awarded £1.eight million to assist support scientists' understanding of Crohn's illness. The cash will enhance how specialists monitor and decide outcomes for the inflammatory bowel illness that impacts 120,000 folks within the UK. The illness results in painful irritation and ulcers forming on the liner of the intestine, with sufferers having to bear a number of operations throughout their lifetime.
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A Beginning and New Era for a Troubled School
by Drick Boyd | Sep 9, 2011 | Uncategorized | 0 comments
On Tuesday, September 6 I attended the opening ceremonies for the new West Philadelphia High School (WPHS), best known to most folks as the alma materof actor-singer Will Smith. However, the school has had long and, more recently, a troubled history characterized by violence, revolving door leadership, and persistently low test scores. At the same time it has been nationally recognized for its innovative Auto Mechanics academy, and the Urban Leadership academy, which involves students in addressing local community issues such as vacant lots and abandoned buildings. Despite these positives the public image of WPHS has been persistently negative. However, as one who has met students and teachers, I have come to know it as place where committed teachers and students have struggled to provide a quality education amidst of environment of political rancor and declining resources.
For the past four years I have been part of the West Philadelphia Community Partners (WPCP), a collection of parents, community members and other interested persons advocating and working to assure that the students of WPHS get the quality education they need and deserve. While the opening ceremonies featured political luminaries such as Mayor Michael Nutter, Councilwoman Jamie Blackwell State Senator Vincent Hughes, and acting superintendent Leo Nunnery, the real heroes were the students, alumni, parents and community members of WPCP who had labored for years to get the new state of the art school built.
The Community Partners came together nearly ten years ago when then-superintendent Paul Vallas announced plans to construct of new school buildings throughout the city, including WPHS. Through the organizing efforts of the Philadelphia Student Union and support from the Philadelphia Education Fund, WPCP met monthly to propose plans for a small school model for the new school that would have 3-4 smaller learning communities in the large building. We proposed a particular architectural design to fit this proposal in consultation with Concordia LLC, an architectural firms specializing in innovative school design. Along with several others I attended a meeting with then-Superintendent Arlene Ackerman to advocate for our design and the small schools approach. When Dr. Ackerman announced that WPHS would be part of her Promise Academy program, the WPCP advocated for a partnership with John Hopkins University. While in the end all of the specific suggestions and proposals put forth by the WPCP were rejected, we continued to be a voice of the community advocating on behalf of students and parents for quality urban education.
I joined WPCP about four years ago after reading about several highly publicized incidents of violence between students and teachers. While I do not live in the community, I am a member of West Philadelphia Mennonite Fellowship, which meets just a few blocks from the school. As a representative of our church, I helped organize a breakfast of local faith community leaders in support of the WPCP's efforts. I offered my expertise and input when necessary, but mostly I simply "showed up" in what some have called a "ministry of presence." Currently, I am a member of the School Advisory Council, a group of community people who work closely with the new principal, Mary Dean, to keep the lines of communication between the school and the community open.
At the opening ceremonies I sat next to a woman whose 11th grade son was transferring from a private school to West Philadelphia High School She sounded so proud as she told me that he had joined the football team and was excited to be in a new state-of-the-art school building. As the students filed into the gym with their new uniforms and took their places in the bleachers, she beamed with joy. In that gym there was a feeling of hope and sense that a new chapter in the 100 year old school's history was about to begin. I felt privileged and excited to be part of the process that helped put a glow on that mother's face. I continue to serve in this way seeking to come alongside those folks so long denied privileges I can too easily take for granted (like a quality public education) by joining with them in seeking the justice they deserve.


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Quote from: Mr.Cho-Cho on January 05, 2016, 05:24:47 AM
I was about to but then I got to the end of your post.
I like IMDB because it's made me discover a tonne of movies that 20 years ago, would just not be possible; especially the information about silent films. It really is an amazing tool, but the other side of the user input isn't as great and the Top 250 list is obviously based on popularity which negates it. Still, I must admit when I first got into movies in the early 2000s (when GBU was probably about #20) I used the 250 as a guide to watch the "best movies ever made"; AND The Shawshank Redemption is a great movie, but I was a fan before it was cool to like it
I really think that a major problem now is that a lot of movies in the past 10 years or so that are being produced in Hollywood aren't that great, but I have an idea that the studios somehow manipulate the IMDB voting system so most blockbusters appear on the list during the first couple of weeks of release.
The simple fact that every movie with less than 30 or 50 000 votes (don't know the exact number) is excluded from the top 250, makes sure that tons of outsider films are out, so that there are mainly films which everybody has at least heard about once, and nobody must wonder about films they have never heard about.
Without these vote limit e.g. many Tarkovsky films would be in the list.
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Yeah of course the vote limit is a key element, but it is at a major disadvantage to older films and foreign films which don't have the same coverage. Not that it matters, there are plenty of other sources to see the top films ever made.
I've only ever seen 'The Mirror' and 'Solyaris' but both great films, I really want to see 'Stalker', but there are 100s of film that can fit in the same category.
"You remind me of my mother. She was the biggest whore in Alameda and the finest woman that ever lived. Whoever my father was, for an hour or for a month - he must have been a happy man."
The Sight and Sound list is for that matter more fun.
And the They Shoot Pictures, Don't They list, a kind of meta list build on a lot of other lists. But only on lists which have some kind of reputation.
http://www.theyshootpictures.com/gf1000.htm
Yes, I haven't searched through TSPDT extensively before; but I enjoy it as it's named after my favourite Michael Sarrazin movie and also contains some great profile pages of my favourite directors along with quotes about them that I've never read before.
I've never gone through their full film list before though.
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« #49 : October 08, 2017, 11:11:05 PM »
We first discussed the Leone film's IMDB ranking in February 2014, and then again in May 2015. Here is how the Leone films have fared on IMDB at those two time periods, and now:
GBU was #6 in February 2014, #8 in May 2015, and is now #9
OUATITW was #24 in February 2014, #29 in May 2015, and is now #31
OUATIA was #78 in February 2014, #74 in May 2015, and is now #69
FAFDM was #99 in Feb. 2014, #94 in May 2015, and is now #105
FOD was #237 in Feb. 2014, #231 in May 2015, and has now fallen out of the top 250
(DYS was never on the list; it has a solid 7.7/10 rating)
Full IMDB 250 list: http://www.imdb.com/chart/top
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Reminds me that I have watched The Shawshank Redemption meanwhile, and while it was entertaining (6/10), I have now for sure no idea why it is featured that high. Actually being in the top 250 in a lower position would be surprise enough.
IMDb list is now totally irrelevant, too much fanboy manipulation voting their favorites with 10s and all others with 1s en masse it was first mentioned by posters when Batman shot inexplicably up and was repeated with other blockbusters.
Well, it was never a list I could take seriously. Still the love for TSR surprises me. It is not a famous film here in Germany, unlike the others which are in the top 20. (famous does not necessarily means also good)
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12,000 Migrants in Two Weeks: How Mexico Is Opening Its Borders
SourceComposite Sean Culligan/OZY, Image Getty
By Deborah Bonello
The Trump administration wants to keep southern migrants out. But Mexico, under its new president, is opening up its door to those escaping violence and poverty.
When the first major caravan of migrants from Central America — mostly Hondurans — arrived at Mexico's southern border in October 2018, they were met by riot police, sent by then-President Enrique Peña Nieto. But when thousands more migrants who were part of a different caravan lined up on the Guatemalan side of Mexico's southern limit in mid-January, they got a very different welcome: expedited humanitarian visas issued in a matter of days instead of several months, giving them the right to travel and work legally in Mexico.
Welcome mat: Central American migrants heading to the United States with a second caravan receive their visitor's card for humanitarian reasons in Mexico.
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That shift is the outcome of what was among the first policy moves of Mexico's recently installed President Andrés Manuel López Obrador — widely known by his initials, AMLO — who took office in December. For the past four years, the country effectively did the U.S. government's dirty work by stepping up the deportation of unauthorized migrants in Mexico. Now, even as American President Donald Trump continues to vilify migrants from south of the U.S.–Mexico border and stick to his mission to secure funding to extend the border wall, Mexico is changing direction.
The waves upon waves of migrants from countries to the south include many people escaping violent gangs and grinding poverty back home. The expedited humanitarian visas give them that shelter and the opportunity to earn a livelihood in Mexico. Unlike the past, when they were detained at the border, they're now receiving asylum. Central American migrants are responding positively, says Silvia Garduño, public information officer at the United Nations Refugee Agency in Mexico (known as UNHCR), queueing up for their documents instead of trying to cross the border illegally through the Suchiate River that runs along the Mexico-Guatemala border. These policy and behavioral changes are showing up in the numbers too.
This is something that has never happened before.
Silvia Garduño, UNHCR
More foreigners — largely from Central America — were registered in Mexico during January than during the whole of 2017, and more than between January and November 2018. In just the last two weeks of January, Mexican authorities registered 12,000 foreign nationals at the border and issued approximately 4,000 humanitarian visitor cards, says Garduño.
"This is something that has never happened before," she says.
The new approach is not a return to times when the Mexican authorities largely just turned a blind eye to the Central American migrants riding the trains (known as La Bestia, or the Beast) across the country toward its northern border with the U.S. But it is more humanitarian than the Frontera Sur Plan (Southern Border Plan) created by AMLO's predecessor, Peña Nieto, in 2014.
Under pressure from the administration of Barack Obama — after a wave of underage and unaccompanied migrants arrived at the U.S.–Mexico border — immigration officials began pulling migrants from the trains and arresting them on the road and at the resting hostels that dot the migrant trail. Mexico has expelled more than 600,000 migrants since then, mostly to the Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, and human-rights abuses reported by migrants in Mexico surged.
For now, the expedition of visas for migrants in Mexico at the country's southern border with Guatemala has stopped. Migrants now need to approach the Mexican embassies in their country. At a media conference in late January, Tonatiuh Guillén López, the head of Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM is its Spanish acronym), said that the government was establishing "new channels and processes."
But AMLO has been clear: He wants to keep migrants passing through Mexico in Mexico by making legal permission to live, work and get asylum easier. While many of those traversing the country may continue to want to reach the U.S., Mexico's more welcoming stance might prove an attraction for others.
The Mexican president has also appealed to the U.S. and Canada to join Mexico in investing more in development programs in southern Mexico as well as the Northern Triangle countries that are the source of so many of the migrants. His choice of people to oversee his new administration's approach to the migrant question is significant too. Guillén at the INM is an academic who wants to overhaul the institution and reset its slow, sometimes nasty reputation. Another state body — the Mexican Commission for Aid to Refugees (COMAR) — is now being headed by Andrés Ramírez Silva, who comes from the UNHCR. He oversaw the creation of an "Attention to Migrants" program in Baja California during his first week in office.
"Taken at face value, they do seem to be doing some things that are distinctly different … and in some ways presenting it as a win-win, not just for Mexico generally, but also for the private sector and the migrants [so] they can find or be helped in making contact with employment," says Eric Olson, a security expert at the Wilson Center's Latin America Program. There is also some political gain behind the move, says Olson. AMLO and his team, he says, are "looking to differentiate themselves" from the Peña Nieto government and from Trump "by portraying themselves as humanitarians, concerned about the well-being of migrants from Central America," rather than viewing migrants as a security threat.
A news report on Guatemalan migrants at the Mexico border, where their entry is being fast-tracked.
But AMLO's approach carries its risks. Although public discourse between AMLO and Trump has so far been respectful and positive, Mexico's new policy contrasts starkly with Trump's. AMLO's move to expedite permission to live and work in Mexico for migrants could encourage more to come — a fact that threatens to create tensions at home as well as north of the border, because some of those migrants could just be passing through toward the U.S.
Within Mexico, locals in Tijuana have opposed migrant camps — historically, Mexicans haven't been overwhelmingly welcoming to those coming from south of the border. Promises by the Mexican president to offer jobs to those arriving could also provoke problems. Many Mexicans would argue that the government should focus on creating jobs for them, not foreigners, in a market where employment opportunities are already short.
There are also questions around the practicality of AMLO's new immigration plan. "How do you keep track of all these people, how do you ensure they're not being victimized by coyotes and also at the U.S. border, where the 'remain in Mexico' policy is most strong?" asks Olson. Many migrants, especially women and children, may not be easily employable, he points out, and housing, clothing, feeding and educating them will prove a challenge. "In my mind, AMLO seems to have led with his heart but not his brain here."
The months, and maybe years, ahead will show how true to his promises AMLO will be. For now, the divide between the leaders of the U.S. and Mexico on immigration is sharpening — even without the wall Trump wants to build to separate them.
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Hockey is for Everyone uses the game of hockey to drive positive social change and foster more inclusive communities. During the month of February, the Wild will celebrate organizations and teams around Minnesota that work to create a greater State of Hockey and exemplify the meaning of Hockey is for Everyone -- providing a safe, positive and inclusive environment for players and families regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation and socio-economic status.
Herb Brooks is, perhaps, best known for coaching the underdog United States men's team to victory in the 1980 Winter Olympics, including the iconic Miracle on Ice game against the Soviets. That success came from his willingness to adapt the Americans' game to European trends, allowing them to skate better and faster with the puck.
That approach altered the state of North American hockey, and carried over decades later, is influencing a new generation of hockey players with the Herb Brooks Foundation's Rink Rats.
The Herb Brooks Foundation was created after the legendary coach's 2004 death to promote his approach of back-to-basics hockey and desire to grow the game. The Rink Rats program not only allows inner-city children to learn to skate and play hockey but also to gain life lessons from the sport and mentors.
Area universities' hockey teams, including Hamline University and Augsburg University, skate with the Rink Rats and help them develop both hockey skills and life skills.
During the 2017-18 winter, Rink Rats programs have grown to 12 Minneapolis schools and 3 St. Paul indoor arenas, including TRIA Rink at Treasure Island Center.
By allowing kids who may not normally be exposed to the sport to learn to play, the Rink Rats program is in line with Brooks' core values and the values his foundation seeks to carry on. By improving the game, improving the players and increasing opportunities to play, the goal is to help Rink Rats players grow personally and athletically and be well-equipped for the rest of their lives.


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Q: Generating Two Numbers With a Specific Sum I'm trying to generate two numbers with a specific sum. Here is my proposed method:
Edited: http://jsfiddle.net/KDmwn/274/
$(document).ready(function () {
    function GenerateRandomNumber() {
        var min = -13, max = 13;
        var random = Math.floor(Math.random() * (max - min + 1)) + min;
        return random;
    }

    var x = GenerateRandomNumber();

    function GenerateRandomNumber2() {
        var min2 = -13, max2 = 13;
        var random2 = Math.floor(Math.random() * (max2 - min2 + 1)) + min2;
        if ((random2 + x) == 0){
            return random2};
    }

var xx = GenerateRandomNumber2();

There's something wrong with the if ((random2 + x) = 0) line, as the code runs perfectly fine when it's removed. How can I modify this line so that the sum of the two numbers is 0? It would be most helpful if someone could modify the Jsfiddle that I've included. Thanks!

A: This is invalid:
if ((random2 + x) = 0){

You cannot assign something to an expression.
You probably meant to use the comparison operator (==), like this:
if ((random2 + x) == 0){

A: First, your GenerateRandomNumbers2 function returns undefined value other than in your if statement. So you need to return a value. I updated your fiddle and refactor some of your code.

A: Are you trying to make it only output a second number that, when added to the first, equals 0? Because it actually already does that - but only if it gets it on the first try (try hitting refresh at least 30 times.) You need to tell it to keep re-choosing (looping) the second random number while the sum isn't 0:
function GenerateRandomNumber2() {
    var min2 = -13,
        max2 = 13;
    var random2;
    while ((random2 + x) !== 0) {
        random2 = Math.floor(Math.random() * (max2 - min2 + 1)) + min2;
    }
    return random2;
}

http://jsfiddle.net/vL77hjp0/

To take this one step further, if I'm reading this right (if not ignore this) it looks like you might want to eventually choose a random sum and have it determine the required second number to be added. To do this, we would replace the 0 in our "while" loop with 'sum'. And 'sum' would have to be defined as a random number with a "max=x+13" and "min=x-13" (otherwise the random number may be too high/low for random2 to ever reach, causing the browser to crash.) [Or just remove the limits from random2.]
http://jsfiddle.net/fkuo54hc/

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