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May 29, 2009 - No. 107
Bush and Clinton Out of Toronto!
War Criminals and Zionist Reactionaries
Are Not Welcome in Canada!
Demonstration Against U.S. War Criminals
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush
Friday, May 29 -- 3:00-6:00 pm
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 255 Front Street West
• Bush and Clinton Out of Toronto! War Criminals and Zionist Reactionaries Are Not Welcome in Canada!
• Open Letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Top Ministers: Bush Must Be Barred or Prosecuted - Lawyers Against the War
• Double Standards in Prosecution of War Crimes
• Never Again - Robert C. Koehler
• War Crimes Law Applies to U.S. Too - Walter J. Rockler, Former Prosecutor, Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal, May 23, 1999
• Clinton: Postmodern War Criminality
• Jerusalem's Museum of In-Tolerance - Richard Silverstein, Tikun-Olam
Today, May 29, former U.S. Presidents and war criminals Bill Clinton and George W. Bush will be in Toronto for a public event billed as a "moderated conversation." Also taking place this weekend in Toronto is the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center "Spirit of Hope Benefit" on May 31, bringing together U.S. and Canadian Zionist reactionaries in support of Israel and its war crimes against the Palestinian people. TML denounces both events as an assault on the conscience of all progressive and peace-loving Canadians -- war criminals and Zionist reactionaries are not welcome in Canada!
The May 29 event is co-organized by the same Calgary firm that brought Bush to that city in March as well as a Toronto-based company which bills itself as producing "full-day inspirational, motivational and entertaining events with the power to ignite your spirit!" It will be moderated by Frank McKenna, former Premier of New Brunswick and a former Ambassador to the U.S., currently deputy chairman of the Toronto Dominion Bank. It is Bush's second public speaking engagement since leaving office, his first being the Calgary event.
Clinton has also spoken before in Canada and earns millions of dollars per year on the public speaking circuit. It is reported that Bush earned $160,000 for his Calgary appearance, while both will earn a similar amount for their Toronto engagement. The Toronto Star reports "Clinton's fees run up to $350,000. He has pocketed as much as $600,000 in one day for speeches in Canada. [...] Over the last six years, Clinton has earned some $40 million in speaking fees. In one of those years, he delivered 352 speeches -- an average of [more than] one a day. Much of the fees go to his private charitable foundation, but a good chunk of the money goes to making him an extremely wealthy man." Tickets range from $250, with VIP tickets at $625 and the sold-out "emerald" section seating going for $2,500. Clinton is making several appearances in Canada this time around -- on Thursday he spoke in St. John's at noon, followed by two talks in Halifax and then today's event with Bush.
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The premise of the Toronto event is that of a "debate" between Bush and Clinton, where the latter is presented as a congenial celebrity in contrast with Bush's uncouth demeanour and indelible infamy. Far from it, the heinous doings of the Clinton presidency include maintaining brutal and genocidal sanctions on Iraq which killed some 1.5 million Iraqis, as well as the instigating the illegal bombing and invasion of Yugoslavia on the basis of "humanitarian intervention," both of which helped set the stage for the crimes of the George W. Bush presidency.
TML rejects the undignified role being imposed on Canada and Canadians by the U.S. imperialists and their sycophants and lackeys in Toronto, Calgary and elsewhere. It is unconscionable that two men directly responsible for wanton mass destruction and the deaths of millions should be permitted into Canada instead of being arrested and put on trial for their crimes, let alone be paid hundreds of thousands of dollars and promoted as celebrities and a source of "inspiration"! The peoples of the world who have suffered directly at the hands of Bush and Clinton are not fooled by attempts to use Canada as a place to provide humanitarian makeovers for war criminals. Canada's obligations under international law require that Bush and Clinton be arrested immediately and prosecuted as war criminals and such events including the recent visit to Calgary of Condoleezza Rice are another manifestation of Canada's subservience to U.S. imperialism which brings Canada and Canadians into further disrepute internationally. TML urges Torontonians and others to go all out to denounce the visit of Bush and Clinton to Toronto!
On May 31, the "Spirit of Hope" fundraiser for the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies (FSWC) is taking place in Toronto. The annual event brings together a rogues gallery of U.S. Zionist reactionaries along with their Canadian counterparts to generate funds for the FSWC's "educational" and other programs aimed at creating disinformation about the Zionist occupation of Palestine, promoting genocide against the Palestinian people and criminalizing opposition to Zionism. Last year's attendees included well-known American reactionary Newt Gingrich and Canadian cabinet ministers Vic Toews and Jason Kenney. This year's keynote speakers are former U.S. Secretary for Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, former U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton, former Prime Minister of Australia John Howard and Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Based in Toronto, the FSWC states three areas of activities:
- "International Programmes and Activities," including the production of "film documentaries about the Holocaust and Israel" and the creation of the "Museum of Human Dignity" in Jerusalem -- notably built upon a Muslim cemetery and funded directly by Canadian donors -- which is scheduled to open in 2010
- "Educational Programmes in Canada," including "Researching, monitoring and tracking hate groups in Canada and around the world," "developing programmes to counter increasing antisemitism and anti-Jewish sentiment on some university campuses," a library "that reflects issues concerning antisemitism, terrorism and human rights" and "involvement in legal cases before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal which can benefit from our acknowledged expertise and leadership in this field"
- "Tolerance Education in Canada," about which the FSWC says "Antisemitism, racism and hatred between various ethnic and religious groups in Canada is on the rise according to hate crime reports. Friends has undertaken new and innovative measures to promote tolerance and contribute effectively to the improvement of Canadian society"
The FSWC's abuse and exploitation of the memory of all those who suffered and died at the hands of Nazi fascism for purposes of justifying genocide against the Palestinians is loathsome and unprincipled activity of the worst sort. Far from opposing racism, the backwards notion of tolerance promoted by the FSWC is part of the racist outlook of Zionism according to which a society is based on a hierarchy of privileges and reasonable accommodations, not on the recognition of inviolable rights that belong to people by virtue of their being human. Contrary to its high-sounding ideals, the activities of the FSWC promote a racist Zionist agenda while attempting to isolate progressive forces working for peace and human rights in Canada and abroad. The Canadian working class and people refuse to be blackmailed by spurious claims of anti-semitism! It will not pass!
The continued visits to Canada of war criminals and U.S. Zionist reactionaries show the need to build the work for democratic renewal and establish an anti-war government so that the political will of the Canadian working class people for peace and justice at home and abroad in opposition to the crimes being committed by the imperialists in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and elsewhere is given its full expression. This includes barring entry to and prosecution of war criminals and getting Canada out of Afghanistan and NATO.
War Criminals and Zionist Reactionaries Are Not Welcome in Canada!
Zionism Is Racism! No to the Zionist "Spirit of Hope Benefit"!
Open Letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Top Ministers
Bush Must Be Barred or Prosecuted
- Lawyers Against the War, May 27, 2009
George W. Bush, former President of the United States of America (U.S.) and Commander in Chief of the Armed Force, is reported to be coming to Toronto Ontario on May 29, 2009.
We write to advise you of your duty to immediately take all necessary steps to prevent George W. Bush from entering Canada, in accordance with the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA), s. 35 (1) (a).
If George W. Bush enters Canada we demand that he be arrested, as being inadmissible under the IRPA and as a person suspected of torture, and then either prosecuted in Canada for torture or extradited to another country that is willing and able to prosecute as required by the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Article 7 (CAT).
We remind you that the failure to take one of these actions violates Canada's international law obligations. In addition such inaction denies remedies to victims, ensures impunity for perpetrators and encourages other instances of torture. For example, reports released this month conclude that torture and abuse of prisoners in Iraq remains "routine and commonplace." (Iraq Ministry of Human Rights and Human Rights Watch)
George W. Bush stands accused of authoring, supervising and directing the most egregious war crimes and crimes against humanity, including torture, during his eight year term as President and Commander in Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces. As such he is inadmissible to Canada under the 'Human Rights and International Law Violations' sections of the 'Inadmissibility Division' of the IRPA.
Double Standards in Prosecution of War Crimes
In preparation for the mass action planned to oppose the upcoming visit of George Bush to Toronto, the Toronto Coalition to Stop the War held a public forum at the Steelworkers' Hall on May 22 under the theme "Why and how George Bush should be charged with war crimes."
Professor Michael Mandel of the Osgoode Hall Law School at York University gave the main presentation on the legal basis for prosecuting war criminals under Canadian law. Mandel explained that a relatively new federal law called the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act gives Canadian courts jurisdiction to put on trial anyone who has committed genocide, a crime against humanity or a war crime, as defined in international law. The list of potential crimes against humanity covers many serious offenses committed against a civilian population, including "murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, imprisonment, torture, sexual violence, persecution or any other inhumane act or omission."
Mandel noted the wealth of evidence to convict Bush as the "military commander" responsible for ordering such crimes, such as the torture of detainees in Afghanistan, sexual violence against prisoners in Iraq and the more than a million civilian deaths that have resulted from the invasion and occupation of both countries. He also pointed out that former U.S. president Bill Clinton who is appearing with Bush, could also be held responsible for extermination of a civilian population for his role in maintaining the brutal sanctions that denied food and clean water to the Iraqi people for years and resulted in the death of approximately 1.5 million Iraqis, including hundreds of thousands of children.
Mandel also noted that the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) could be used to keep both Bush and Clinton from entering Canada, since IRPA allows the Canadian state to refuse entry to anyone who is a war criminal.
However, Mandel noted that the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act is seriously limited because it does not consider "waging aggressive war" (i.e., a crime against the peace) to be worthy of prosecution even though it has been declared to be the most serious international crime by the community of nations. Instead, the law gives a free hand to the Canadian state to decide which individuals to prosecute according to whether the person's acts of inhumanity were for or against the powerful financial interests represented by the Canadian state. The law, he noted, specifically states that no prosecution under the act may be commenced without the personal consent in writing of the federal Attorney General. Bush would clearly be guilty of such an offense by virtue of his role as commander of the invasion of Afghanistan and then Iraq since these actions were not taken in self-defence or under other false pretences.
Also speaking at the forum was U.S. war resister Chuck Wylie, a 17-year military veteran now a war resister seeking permanent residence in Canada. He gave direct testimony of the unjust and illegal actions of U.S. in Iraq.
In the presentations and question period that followed, it became very apparent that a key problem facing the world's peoples is the double standard in the application of international law in terms of who wields political power to decide what acts constitute war crimes and which states and individuals are to be prosecuted for war crimes. Both speakers strongly urged those present to raise the consciousness of Canadians about who the real war criminals are and who is really interested in prosecuting them. Mandel cautioned against putting any faith in the international war crimes tribunals established by the UN, explaining that UN tribunals were created for the two-fold purpose of accusing the enemies of U.S. imperialism of war crimes while absolving the U.S. and its allies of any such crimes. The new International Criminal Court (ICC), he pointed out, has been set up with the same scope. For example, the Rome Statute which created the ICC allows the UN Security Council to veto any of the court's prosecutions.
Similarly, Mandel pointed to the recent example of the Harper government using federal immigration law to exclude British anti-war activist George Galloway from Canada, while it has done nothing to stop Bush or Clinton from entering Canada. Mandel urged people to raise their voices in actions such as the rally against the visit of Bush because there is a "necessity to make people in Canada and the U.S. conscious of the truth about the practice of governments of the rich around the world in violation of international law."
In closing, the forum organizers encouraged everyone in attendance to take posters and flyers for the rally and distribute them widely throughout the city with the aim of making the action a success.
- Robert C. Koehler*, May 22, 2009 -
The reason we must keep the torture issue alive is not to exact a small measure of comeuppance from the Bush administration zealots who bent the law till it screamed, but to alter the course of history.
Thus the filing of disciplinary complaints a few days ago against 12 Bush administration lawyers, who crafted the quasi-legal justifications that made waterboarding a household word, has significance well beyond the case for their disbarment. This action, taken by a coalition of citizen organizations -- from the ACLU and Vets for Peace to the Libertarian Party of West Virginia, 200 groups in total, claiming a membership of more than a million people -- represents, as I see it, American citizens' furthest reach of patriotic sanity.
The Bush sins are unoriginal. We've always done torture. We've always been at war with a dehumanized (and usually dark-skinned) other, whom we have simultaneously attempted to kill and, in our armed righteousness, "save."
The cocky Bush boys were different only in their open pursuit of this agenda. They had no need for nuanced, bipartisan hypocrisy and flaunted the shadow ops of empire as perfectly legitimate tools of government. With the declaration of an endless war on terror and much of the media on their side, they almost succeeded in legitimizing the premise that the commander-in-chief and his designated agents are beyond all law, and ushering in a strange new American oligarchy.
This effort collapsed of its own hubris, as we all know, and now Hope and Change, the Bobbsey Twins of the Democratic Party, skip merrily through the wreckage, disavowing the obvious cruelties of the last eight years and urging us to "move forward" -- while the extra-legal pursuit of America's strategic interests, as defined by the defense establishment, retreats quietly to the background.
Uh, excuse us, Mr. President. The mandate you've been given is a little bigger than that, to the regret (I fear) of the Washington establishment. We want to purge the Bush era from the national soul. We want the words "never again" to hum with meaning. We want a new relationship with the world and we want our "strategic interests" to line up with our ideals, not merely because it's right but because it's the only way we'll ever be secure. And for this to happen, we have to look squarely at the truth of who we are and who we have always been.
The failure of the Bush administration to remake America -- and the fact that the crimes of its attempt to do so are indelibly part of the public record -- present us with the best opportunity we've ever had to confront our national flaws, at least those that flow from the bete noir known as American exceptionalism, and begin making substantive changes. All that's lacking right now is the will. Believe me, it won't come from the top.
"There's a vise grip on D.C.," said Kevin Zeese, executive director of Voters for Peace and a leader in the effort to make Bush officials accountable for trying to circumvent both the U.S. Constitution and international law in order to legitimize torture. The Justice Department has sat on it for five years; Congress is paralyzed by its own complicity; and President Obama lacks the leverage to buck the defense establishment even if he has the inclination (and it's not clear he does).
We won't take the country back all at once, but we have to start somewhere. And it begins with accountability. This is why I applaud the coalition's filing of complaints with state bar licensing boards against these dirty dozen Bush administration attorneys: John Yoo, Jay Bybee, Stephen Bradbury, Alberto Gonzales, John Ashcroft, Michael Chertoff, Alice Fisher, William Haynes II, Douglas Feith, Michael Mukasey, Timothy Flanigan and David Addington. In addition, the coalition is calling for impeachment proceedings against Bybee, now a sitting federal judge.
I don't know how much of the truth will ever come out, in a way that cannot be ignored (think Germany, think South Africa), but my hope is that we begin a process that gets at all of it, that pries open every secret grave: the CIA torture research of the 1950s; the Phoenix Program of the Vietnam era; the overthrow of the governments of Iran, Guatemala and Chile; the torture training at the School of the Americas; the Reagan era complicity with the thug regimes of Central America; and so much more.
These are all products of American exceptionalism, the belief that our brutality is always benign. Where once we killed to spread the word of God, we now kill and torture in the name of democracy -- and in the Bush era, we did both, a fact underscored by the recent revelation that Donald Rumsfeld's special intelligence memos to Bush had inspirational photos (an American tank at sunset, e.g.) and Bible verses on the cover: "Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground ..."
Perhaps the antidote to this self-righteous lunacy is to be found at the coalition Web site: disbartorturelawyers.com. It will happen again if we don't stand up to it now.
* Robert Koehler, an award-winning, Chicago-based journalist, is an editor at Tribune Media Services and nationally syndicated writer. You can respond to this column at bkoehler@tribune.com or visit his Web site at commonwonders.com.
War Crimes Law Applies to U.S. Too
- Walter J. Rockler, Former Prosecutor, Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal,
TML is printing below an article by Walter J. Rockler written on May 23, 1999. Mr. Rockler was a prosecutor at the Nuremburg War Crimes Trial, held in Nurembergy, Germany from 1945-1946.
As justification for our murderously destructive bombing campaign in Yugoslavia, it is of course necessary for the U.S. to charge that the Serbs have engaged in inhuman conduct, and that President Slobodan Milosevic, the head Serb demon, is a war criminal almost without peer.
President Clinton assures us of this in frequent briefings, during which he engages in rhetorical combat with Milosevic. But shouting "war criminal" only emphasizes that those who live in glass houses should be careful about throwing stones.
We have engaged in a flagrant military aggression, ceaselessly attacking a small country primarily to demonstrate that we run the world. The rationale that we are simply enforcing international morality, even if it were true, would not excuse the military aggression and widespread killing that it entails. It also does not lessen the culpability of the authors of this aggression.
As a primary source of international law, the judgment of the Nuremberg Tribunal in the 1945-1946 case of the major Nazi war criminals is plain and clear. Our leaders often invoke and praise that judgment, but obviously have not read it. The International Court declared:
"To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."
At Nuremberg, the United States and Britain pressed the prosecution of Nazi leaders for planning and initiating aggressive war. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, the head of the American prosecution staff, asserted "that launching a war of aggression is a crime and that no political or economic situation can justify it." He also declared that "if certain acts in violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us."
The United Nations Charter views aggression similarly. Articles 2(4) and (7) prohibit interventions in the domestic jurisdiction of any country and threats of force or the use of force by one state against another. The General Assembly of the UN in Resolution 2131, "Declaration on the Inadmissibility of Intervention," reinforced the view that a forceful military intervention in any country is aggression and a crime without justification.
Putting a "NATO" label on aggressive policy and conduct does not give that conduct any sanctity. This is simply a perversion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, formed as a defensive alliance under the UN Charter. The North Atlantic Treaty pledged its signatories to refrain from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations, and it explicitly recognized "the primary responsibility of the Security Council (of the United Nations) for the maintenance of international peace and security." Obviously, in bypassing UN approval for the current bombing, the U.S. and NATO have violated this basic obligation.
From another standpoint of international law, the current conduct of the bombing by the United States and NATO constitutes a continuing war crime. Contrary to the beliefs of our war planners, unrestricted air bombing is barred under international law. Bombing the "infrastructure" of a country -- waterworks, electricity plants, bridges, factories, television and radio locations -- is not an attack limited to legitimate military objectives. Our bombing has also caused an excessive loss of life and injury to civilians, which violates another standard. We have now killed hundreds, if not thousands, of Serbs, Montenegrins and Albanians, even some Chinese, in our pursuit of humanitarian ideals.
In addition to shredding the UN Charter and perverting the purpose of NATO, Clinton also has violated at least two provisions of the United States Constitution. Under Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, Congress, not the president, holds the power to declare war and to punish offenses against the law of nations. Alexander Hamilton in The Federalist No. 69 pointed out one difference between a monarchy and the presidency under the new form of government: A king could use his army as he pleased; the president would have no such unlimited power. Under Article VI of the Constitution, treaties, far from being mere scraps of paper as we now deem them to be, are part of the supreme law of the United States. Of course, these days a supine Congress, fascinated only by details of sexual misconduct, can hardly be expected to enforce constitutional requirements.
Nor can a great deal be expected from the media. Reporters rely on the controlled handouts of the State Department, Pentagon and NATO, seeing their duty as one of adding colorful details to official intimations of Serb atrocities. Thus, the observation of a NATO press relations officer that a freshly plowed field, seen from 30,000 feet up, might be the site of a massacre has been disseminated as news.
The notion that humanitarian violations can be redressed with random destruction and killing by advanced technological means is inherently suspect. This is mere pretext for our arrogant assertion of dominance and power in defiance of international law. We make the non-negotiable demands and rules, and implement them by military force. It is all remindful of Henrik Ibsen's "Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'"
Clinton: Postmodern War Criminality
The following item consists of excerpts from a December 1999 article by Edward S. Herman entitled, "Clinton Is The WorId's Leading Active War Criminal," originally published in Z Magazine.
[... Bill Clinton] has gone beyond the [George H.W.] Bush record of criminality, and has brought to the commission of war crimes a new eclectic reach and postmodern style. A skilled public relations person, he has refined the rhetoric of humanistic and ethical concern and can apologize with seeming great sincerity for our earlier regrettable sponsorship and support of mass murder in Guatemala while carrying out similar or even more vicious policies in Colombia and Iraq at the same moment. [...]
Clinton's crimes range from ad hoc bombings to boycotts and sanctions designed to starve into submission, to support of ethnic cleansing in brutal counterinsurgency warfare, and to aggression and devastation by bombing designed to return rogues to the stone age and keep them there.
On June 26, 1993, Clinton bombed Baghdad in retaliation for an alleged but unproven Iraq plot to assassinate former President George Bush. Eight Iraqi civilians, including the distinguished Iraqi artist Layla al-Attar were killed in the raid, and 12 more were wounded. This kind of unilateral action in response to an unproven charge is a violation of international law. The legal excuse given by U.S. officials, which they relied on in justification of the bombing of Libya in 1986, is the right to self defense under Article 51 of the UN Charter. But that Article requires that the response be to an immediate threat to the retaliating party, clearly not the case, and therefore a legal fraud. This was a crime -- petty by the usual U.S. standard -- but still a crime. And it had the further repellent feature that it was done almost surely for purely internal political reasons -- to show Clinton's toughness, despite his Vietnam War record, and to countervail right-wing attacks on his lack of militancy.
The same point can be made as regards his 1998 bombing of Afghanistan and the Sudan. Unknown numbers were killed in Afghanistan (and by the missiles that accidentally landed in Pakistan), and the pharmaceutical factory destroyed in the Sudan was the major source of medical drugs in that poor country. All evidence points to the fact that the Sudan factory destroyed had no connection whatever to chemical weapons or Bin Laden, and was bombed on the basis of insufficient and poorly evaluated data. But following the attacks on U.S. embassies in Africa, Clinton felt compelled to act for internal political reasons once again, and there are no international constraints or costs to him or his country if he chooses to bomb small and weak countries to score political points at home. This was rogue and criminal behavior.
Clinton has given unstinting support to Turkey in its war against its indigenous Kurds. He has also escalated his aid to Colombia. In both of these countries the civilian casualties from counterinsurgency warfare and death squad operations during the Clinton years has exceeded the pre-NATO bombing deaths in Kosovo by a large factor.
In the Clinton years these recurrent U.S. policies have impacted heavily on Cuba and most dramatically on Iraq. The tightening of the embargo on Cuba under the Toricelli-Helms bill, signed into law and enforced by Clinton, which banned the sale of U.S. food and curtailed access to water treatment chemicals and medicines, took a heavy toll. According to a 1997 report of the American Association of World Health, the food sale ban "has contributed to serious nutritional deficits, particularly among pregnant women, leading to an increase in low birth-weight babies. In addition, food shortages were linked to a devastating outbreak of neuropathy numbering in the tens of thousands. By one estimate, daily caloric intake dropped 33 percent between 1989 and 1993." The decisive offsetting consideration, however, was that Clinton was able to preserve some of his political support from the powerful Cuban lobby in Florida.
The most monumental of Clinton's war crimes, however, has been his policy of sanctions on Iraq, supplemented by the maintenance of intense satellite surveillance and regular bombing attacks that have often resulted in civilian casualties. UNICEF reports that in 1999 more than 1 million Iraqi children under 5 were suffering from chronic malnutrition, and some 4,000-5,000 children are dying per month beyond normal death rates from the combination of malnutrition and disease. Death from disease was greatly increased by the shortage of potable water and medicines, that has led to a 20-fold increase in malaria (among other ailments). This vicious sanctions system, causing a creeping extermination of a people, has already caused more than a million excess deaths, and it is claimed by John and Karl Mueller that Clinton's "sanctions of mass destruction" have caused "the deaths of more people in Iraq than have been slain by all so-called weapons of mass destruction [nuclear and chemical] throughout all history" (Foreign Affairs, May/June 1999). U.S. mainstream reporters, who have so eagerly followed the distress of the Kosovo Albanians, somehow never get to Iraq for pictures of the thousands of malnourished children.
One of the notable features of the NATO-U. S. war against Yugoslavia was the gradual extension of targeting to civilian infrastructure and civilian facilities -- therefore civilians who would be in houses, hospitals, schools, trains, factories, power stations, and broadcasting facilities. Two months after the war was over, the BBC "revealed" that the attack on Yugoslav television on April 23 was part of an escalation of NATO bombing whereby the target list was extended to non-military objectives; NATO was "taking off the gloves." According to Yugoslav authorities, 60 percent of NATO targets were civilian, including 33 hospitals and 344 schools, as well as 144 major industrial plants and a large petro-chemical plant whose bombing caused a pollution catastrophe. John Pilger noted that the list of civilian targets included "housing estates, hotels, libraries, youth centres, theatres, museums, churches and 14th century monasteries on the World Heritage list. Farms have been bombed and their crops set afire."
This NATO targeting was in open violation of the laws of war, although this was certainly neither publicized nor condemned in the mainstream media; U.S. pundits like Thomas Friedman of the New York Times frequently called for a more aggressive bombing of Serb civilian targets and the commission of more war crimes (Rachel Coen, "Lessons of War: Leading papers call for more attacks on civilian targets next time," EXTRA! Update, August 1999). There can be little doubt that Yugoslavia finally agreed to a military exit from Kosovo mainly because they recognized that, although their forces had not been defeated on the battlefield, the NATO strategy of attacking civilian targets in violation of international law, was subject to no limits.
On May 27, in the midst of this criminal operation by NATO, Louise Arbour, chief prosecutor of International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia, issued an indictment of Milosevic for war crimes, thereby implicitly exonerating and facilitating the NATO commission of war crimes. By allowing her Tribunal to be so mobilized in NATO propaganda service, Arbour and her colleagues were arguably guilty of war crimes themselves. [...]
(This item can be viewed in its entirety, here: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/International_War_Crimes/ClintonWarCriminal_Herman.html)
Jerusalem's Museum of In-Tolerance
- Richard Silverstein, Tikun-Olam, November 11, 2008 (excerpt) -
Museum of Tolerance or object of
"American Jewish cultural imperialism?"
Rabbi Marvin Hier, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and Museum of Tolerance, never seems to miss an opportunity to put his foot in his mouth when promoting his international anti-Semitism carnival show. Lately, he's been doing it in spades regarding his $250 million Jerusalem satellite, known rather grandiosely as the Center for Human Dignity-Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem.
The West Jerusalem site in the Mamilla neighborhood chosen for the Museum is an old Muslim cemetery, part of which has been used for several decades as a Jerusalem Municipality parking lot. During earlier excavations at the site, skeletal remains were unearthed which led to the Islamic Movement of Israel protesting the desecration of the graveyard. This week, the Israeli Supreme Court, not known as a particularly strong defender of the rights of the Arab minority, ruled in Hier's favor, allowing construction to continue.
As a result, hundreds of Israeli Arabs have protested continuously since the ruling was made public, calling the museum a betrayal of their dignity:
"Mufti of Jerusalem Sheikh Mohammed Hussein called the court ruling a 'grave decision' which harms the Muslim holy sites, and said it was difficult to believe the project's promoters would want to build a Museum of Tolerance 'whose construction constitutes an act of aggression.'"
The rabbi has made some statements defending and explaining the project which would make anyone other than him wince:
"Hier said, the goal is to create 'a great landmark promoting the principles of mutual respect and social responsibility.'
"'Asked whether he was concerned that the project could become a new flashpoint in the ever-volatile Arab-Israeli conflict, Hier predicted that 'you'll have protests for two or three days,' then things will go back to normal."
This reminds me of something Herbert Hoover probably said after 1929's Black Thursday. "Oh, you'll have a few days of selling and before you know it, we'll be back to business as usual." How can Israeli Muslims possibly come to terms with this defilement of their dead? Only someone with absolutely no sensitivity to Muslims could possibly make such a comment with a straight face.
[Architect Frank] Gehry's comment's as carried in Samuel Freedman's excellent 2004 N.Y. Times consideration of the Museum are unintentionally ironic:
"Mr. Gehry ... designed the museum to be accessible in both literal and metaphorical ways. 'People can come from all directions, and all kinds of people can come. Families and children are constantly in view, in your face, so that you never escape from the issue of what this place is about.'"
Which makes one wonder how Mr. Gehry incorporated into his design the fact that the building will sit on an ancient Muslim burial ground. In fact, it seems to me that the building, its designer, and its creator have a rather limited idea of the "what the place is about." That idea closes out all but Jews from consideration. Can Gehry honestly tell me how it will be "open" to Muslims? What will be in it for them?
As far as I'm concerned, this is the coup de grace as far as the Museum's willingness to confront the existence of the "other" within the boundaries of the current State of Israel:
"Mr. Hier maintains that, while the museum will not conspicuously avoid the Palestinian situation, 'It's not about the experience of the Palestinian people. When they have a state, they'll have their own museum.'
I guess someone forgot to tell him that 20% of Israel itself is not Jewish, but Arab, and these Israeli citizens will not become part of this Palestinian state. Perhaps Rabbi Hier has a bad case of ethnic amnesia?
Freedman's critique of the vision behind the Museum is prescient:
"'The proposed museum is already drawing withering and widespread criticism, years before its opening ... The leftist Israeli politician [Benvenisti is an urban planner and journalist, not a politician] Meron Benvenisti, the former deputy mayor of Jerusalem, denounced the museum in the newspaper Ha'aretz as 'so hallucinatory, so irrelevant, so foreign, so megalomaniac.' Even mainstream Israelis are dubious that a museum conceived, financed and designed by Americans can possibly fathom, much less redress, the political and social chasms here
"...To...Israeli critics...the museum...is flawed in its very conception, because it's the product of an American rabbi and the object of American philanthropy. The museum strikes many here as the latest version of what Israelis tartly term 'the American uncle' -- that well-intended, well-endowed know-it-all. In private conversation, one hears the museum disparaged as the 'Museum of Nice' or an example of 'American Jewish cultural imperialism.'
What have right-wing Orthodox American Jews like Hier contributed to Israeli society? The settler movement, hamburger and pizza parlors, and Museums like this. Such contributions are usually toxic to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and utterly devoid of contact with reality on the ground for both peoples. They are grounded in ideology or theology, rather than common practice or everyday life. [...]
(This article can be viewed in its entirety, here: http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2008/11/11/jerusalems-museum-of-in-tolerance/)
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National radon specialists, ProTen Services, who are supporting the CanSAR Radon Tee World Trek 2010, have added Bath to the list of destinations the Tee has visited.
Bath, United Kingdom, February 20, 2010 --(PR.com)-- The city of Bath has become the latest stop on the Radon Tee World Trek UK tour. Famed for its Georgian architecture, Roman thermal spa and being the one-time home to Jane Austen, Bath is the only city in Britain to be designated as a World Heritage Site.
Residents and businesses are encouraged to test their properties for radon, particularly due to the large number of utilised basements in the city centre.
One such business where radon testing has been carried out is the Jane Austen Centre. David Baldock, Director of the Centre lends his support to the Radon Tee World Trek campaign, saying, "We've had our building tested for radon as we knew that it could pose a risk to our staff. It was a simple and inexpensive process and there's no reason for anyone not to do the same as us. We have confirmed that our building is safe and our members of staff are not exposed to dangerous levels of radon."
Radon Tee was photographed with Mr Baldock, Rebecca Kench of ProTen Services and Martin Salter, who dresses in Regency costume and greets visitors to the Centre. It is reputed that Mr Salter is the most photographed man in England, posing for an estimated 13,000 pictures each year.
Exposure to the naturally occurring radioactive gas, radon accounts for over 2000 lung cancer deaths in the UK every year. It is produced in the ground through the decomposition of uranium in rocks and soil and can enter buildings. If it accumulates to high concentrations, it poses a significant risk to the occupants of the building.
US non-profit organisation, CanSAR (Cancer Survivors Against Radon) is dedicated to preventing radon-induced lung cancer and saving lives through education and awareness, and is sponsoring the Radon Tee World Trek 2010. The campaign aims to bring social awareness to communities through the power of photos, videos and personal stories.
ProTen Services are taking the Tee on a national tour and will be adding photos to the social media campaign at www.facebook.com/radontee. The Tee will be visiting London later this week, and hopes to appear alongside some familiar landmarks.
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#ifndef ISC_SOCKADDR_H
#define ISC_SOCKADDR_H 1

#include <isc/lang.h>
#include <isc/net.h>
#include <isc/types.h>

struct isc_sockaddr {
	union {
		struct sockaddr		sa;
		struct sockaddr_in	sin;
		struct sockaddr_in6	sin6;
	}				type;
	unsigned int			length;		/* XXXRTH beginning? */
	ISC_LINK(struct isc_sockaddr)	link;
};

typedef ISC_LIST(struct isc_sockaddr)	isc_sockaddrlist_t;

ISC_LANG_BEGINDECLS

isc_boolean_t
isc_sockaddr_equal(const isc_sockaddr_t *a, const isc_sockaddr_t *b);
/*
 * Return ISC_TRUE iff the socket addresses 'a' and 'b' are equal.
 */

isc_boolean_t
isc_sockaddr_eqaddr(const isc_sockaddr_t *a, const isc_sockaddr_t *b);
/*
 * Return ISC_TRUE iff the address parts of the socket addresses
 * 'a' and 'b' are equal, ignoring the ports.
 */

isc_boolean_t
isc_sockaddr_eqaddrprefix(const isc_sockaddr_t *a, const isc_sockaddr_t *b,
			  unsigned int prefixlen);
/*
 * Return ISC_TRUE iff the most significant 'prefixlen' bits of the
 * socket addresses 'a' and 'b' are equal, ignoring the ports.
 */

unsigned int
isc_sockaddr_hash(const isc_sockaddr_t *sockaddr, isc_boolean_t address_only);
/*
 * Return a hash value for the socket address 'sockaddr'.  If 'address_only'
 * is ISC_TRUE, the hash value will not depend on the port.
 *
 * IPv6 addresses containing mapped IPv4 addresses generate the same hash
 * value as the equivalent IPv4 address.
 */

void
isc_sockaddr_any(isc_sockaddr_t *sockaddr);
/*
 * Return the IPv4 wildcard address.
 */

void
isc_sockaddr_any6(isc_sockaddr_t *sockaddr);
/*
 * Return the IPv6 wildcard address.
 */

void
isc_sockaddr_anyofpf(isc_sockaddr_t *sockaddr, int family);
/*
 * Set '*sockaddr' to the wildcard address of protocol family
 * 'family'.
 *
 * Requires:
 *	'family' is AF_INET or AF_INET6.
 */

void
isc_sockaddr_fromin(isc_sockaddr_t *sockaddr, const struct in_addr *ina,
		    in_port_t port);
/*
 * Construct an isc_sockaddr_t from an IPv4 address and port.
 */

void
isc_sockaddr_fromin6(isc_sockaddr_t *sockaddr, const struct in6_addr *ina6,
		     in_port_t port);
/*
 * Construct an isc_sockaddr_t from an IPv6 address and port.
 */

void
isc_sockaddr_v6fromin(isc_sockaddr_t *sockaddr, const struct in_addr *ina,
		      in_port_t port);
/*
 * Construct an IPv6 isc_sockaddr_t representing a mapped IPv4 address.
 */

void
isc_sockaddr_fromnetaddr(isc_sockaddr_t *sockaddr, const isc_netaddr_t *na,
			 in_port_t port);
/*
 * Construct an isc_sockaddr_t from an isc_netaddr_t and port.
 */

int
isc_sockaddr_pf(const isc_sockaddr_t *sockaddr);
/*
 * Get the protocol family of 'sockaddr'.
 *
 * Requires:
 *
 *	'sockaddr' is a valid sockaddr with an address family of AF_INET
 *	or AF_INET6.
 *
 * Returns:
 *
 *	The protocol family of 'sockaddr', e.g. PF_INET or PF_INET6.
 */

void
isc_sockaddr_setport(isc_sockaddr_t *sockaddr, in_port_t port);
/*
 * Set the port of 'sockaddr' to 'port'.
 */

in_port_t
isc_sockaddr_getport(isc_sockaddr_t *sockaddr);
/*
 * Get the port stored in 'sockaddr'.
 */

isc_result_t
isc_sockaddr_totext(const isc_sockaddr_t *sockaddr, isc_buffer_t *target);
/*
 * Append a text representation of 'sockaddr' to the buffer 'target'.
 * The text will include both the IP address (v4 or v6) and the port.
 * The text is null terminated, but the terminating null is not
 * part of the buffer's used region.
 *
 * Returns:
 *	ISC_R_SUCCESS
 *	ISC_R_NOSPACE	The text or the null termination did not fit.
 */

void
isc_sockaddr_format(const isc_sockaddr_t *sa, char *array, unsigned int size);
/*
 * Format a human-readable representation of the socket address '*sa'
 * into the character array 'array', which is of size 'size'.
 * The resulting string is guaranteed to be null-terminated.
 */

isc_boolean_t
isc_sockaddr_ismulticast(isc_sockaddr_t *sa);
/*
 * Returns ISC_TRUE if the address is a multicast address.
 */

isc_boolean_t
isc_sockaddr_isexperimental(isc_sockaddr_t *sa);
/*
 * Returns ISC_TRUE if the address is a experimental (CLASS E) address.
 */

isc_boolean_t
isc_sockaddr_islinklocal(isc_sockaddr_t *sa);
/*
 * Returns ISC_TRUE if the address is a link local addresss.
 */

isc_boolean_t
isc_sockaddr_issitelocal(isc_sockaddr_t *sa);
/*
 * Returns ISC_TRUE if the address is a sitelocal address.
 */

#define ISC_SOCKADDR_FORMATSIZE \
	sizeof("xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX#YYYYY")
/*
 * Minimum size of array to pass to isc_sockaddr_format().
 */

ISC_LANG_ENDDECLS

#endif /* ISC_SOCKADDR_H */

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Mission: Impossible | 1996
Mission: Impossible location: Ethan Hunt escapes after blowing out the restaurant window: Old Town Square, Prague
Prague, Czech Republic;
Scotland;
Jon Voight,
Vanessa Redgrave,
Jean Reno,
Ving Rhames,
Kristin Scott Thomas,
Emilio Estevez,
Henry Czerny,
Andreas Wisniewski
It doesn't matter that this breathless adventure hardly pauses to make sense with kinetic director Brian De Palma pulling out all the stops, and then some.
The film was shot mainly in Prague and London.
The 'embassy', where the doomed first operation begins, is the usual mixture of locations, outside and inside.
Mission: Impossible location: the doomed mission at the 'embassy': Liechtenstein Palace, Na Kampe, Kampa Island, Prague
The exterior, not really seen in long-shot, is the Liechtenstein Palace, Malostranské námestí 13 on Kampa Island on the bank of the River Vltava, one of two palaces in the city that once belonged to the House of Liechtenstein (the family which gave its name to the principality). Restored in the 1980s, the palace houses luxurious apartments and is currently used by the Czech Government.
You'll hardly be able to tell that Kampa is an island – artificially constructed, it's separated from Malá Strana (the Lesser Town) by nothing more than a millstream known as Čertovka.
Mission: Impossible location: the interior of the 'embassy': National Museum, Prague | Photograph: Wikimedia / Karelj
The grand interior of the 'Embassy', though, is the then-rather rundown Národní Muzeum, Natural History Museum, Václavské námestí 68 in Prague. The museum has been closed for several years for major renovations, no doubt helped by the locations fees earned by its appearances as the lobby of a grand 'Venetian' hotel in 2006's Casino Royale and as the 'art gallery' in the Hughes Brothers' From Hell, with Johnny Depp.
Mission: Impossible location: the exit from the 'embassy': Liechtenstein Palace, Na Kampe, Kampa Island, Prague
Back at the Kampa Island exterior location, on the northern side of the Liechtenstein Palace, just off Na Kampe, you can see the wooden doors through which the agent manages to make his unexpected exit.
Mission: Impossible location: Hunt discovers Sarah killed: Kampa Island, Prague
If you continue north on the riverside walk you can see the, now rather rundown and overgrown, wooden gate at which Sarah Davies (Kristin Scott Thomas) meets a sudden and shocking end.
Mission: Impossible location: Phelps plunges into the River Vltava: Charles Bridge, Prague
As it becomes clear the team is under attack, the car explodes on Na Kampe itself. The whole area is overlooked by the famous Karluv Most (Charles Bridge), from which Jim Phelps (Jon Voight) plunges into the Vltava.
The 15th Century stone Bridge, connecting Malá Strana with Staré Mesto (the Old Town) and therefore usually jam-packed with tourists and all kinds of street vendors and artists, is punctuated by 30 striking 18th Century statues of saints (now replaced by replicas). The Bridge can also be seen in Rob Cohen's XXX, in Van Helsing and in Spider-Man: Far From Home.
Mission: Impossible location: Hunt runs up the steps to Charles Bridge: Na Kampe, Prague
At the northern end of Na Kampe you'll find the double flight of steps up which Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) rushes to try to get to Phelps.
The glass-fronted Art Nouveau restaurant, in which Hunt meets up with his control Kittridge (Henry Czerny) and realises the whole set-up was a mole hunt and he's now the prime suspect, was built back at the studio. It's supposedly on Staroměstské námestí, the Old Town Square, across which Hunt escapes after blowing out the front of the restaurant.
Mission: Impossible location: Hunt gets the message to meet Max: Na Prikope, New Town, Prague
Following his own investigations, he's invited to an assignation with the mysterious Max on a bench on main shopping street Na Prikope at Nekazanka in the New Town (there is no bench, by the way).
He's blindfolded and whisked off to meet Max (Vanessa Redgrave) in a superb art nouveau apartment. Once again, two locations are used.
Mission: Impossible location: the interior of Max's HQ: Europa Hotel, Václavské nám, Prague
The interior is the historic Hotel Europa, Václavské námestí 25. The magnificent landmark hotel is unbelievably shuttered and boarded up, though you can see its extravagant frontage dominating Wenceslas Square.
Mission: Impossible location: the squad arrives at the entrance to Max's HQ: U Prasne Brany, New Town, Prague
The canopied entrance seen in the film is U Prasne Brany 2, a part of the grand Municipal House complex (which houses the French restaurant seen in XXX).
Mission: Impossible location: Max's henchman stands guard on the balcony: U Prasne Brany, New Town, Prague
The balcony on which Max's henchman stands guard is a little further south of the entrance on U Prasne Brany, alongside the landmark Powder Tower, the Gothic city gate.
The exterior of the CIA Building in Langley, Virginia is the real thing, but the interior is the old London County Hall, at the foot of Westminster Bridge, across from the Houses of Parliament.
County Hall was home to the GLC (Greater London Council) until this was abolished by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1986. Today County Hall houses an array of businesses and tourist attractions, including the London Sea Life Aquarium (featured in Mike Nichols' Closer), the London Dungeon and the Namco Funscape amusement arcade. The London Eye is next to County Hall, and its visitor centre is inside the building. County Hall provided the entrance to the hi-rise apartment of Frank D'Amico (Mark Strong) in Matthew Vaughn's 2010 Kick-Ass, the auction room in Danny Boyle's Trance, while its terrace is featured in the opening scenes of Alfred Hitchcock's 1972 Frenzy.
The London safe house in which Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and Franz Krieger (Jean Reno) hole up, is above Liverpool Street underground station, Liverpool Street at Broad Street, EC2, and Hunt meets up with Phelps nearby, on Liverpool Street Railway Station, mightily revamped since its dilapidated appearance in David Lynch's The Elephant Man. The row of telephones, where Hunt and Phelps meet, has been replaced by cashpoint machines.
Mission: Impossible location: the safe house: Liverpool Street Underground Station, Liverpool Street, London EC2
The supposedly 'cross-channel' railway climax, which so infuriated train buffs, were filmed in Scotland, on stretches of line between Annan and Dumfries, and Dumfries and New Cumnock.
The terrace pub, where Ethan finally unwinds, is the Anchor Tavern, Bankside on London's south bank by Southwark Bridge. A historic area of the city – nearby are Tate Modern (formerly the Bankside Power Station) and the re-creation of Shakespeare's Globe theatre, the culmination of years of campaigning by the late actor and director Sam Wanamaker.
Mission: Impossible location: Chilling out after the chase: Anchor Tavern, Bankside, London SE1
In Shakespeare's day, Southwark, then outside the bounds of the city, was the red-light and entertainment district. Brothels, taverns, bear-baiting and cockfighting flourished, along with the new-fangled entertainment form that marked the end of civilised values – the theatre. Apart from the rebuilt Globe, you can view the remains of The Rose, a genuine Elizabethan playhouse, where Shakespeare's earliest plays were performed.
In 1666, an exhausted Samuel Pepys watched resignedly from the Anchor as the Great Fire of London consumed the city across the river.
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Visit: the Anchor Tavern, 34 Park Street, Southwark, London SE1 9EF (tel: 020.7407.1577)
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Flights: Václav Havel Airport Prague, Aviatická, 161 08 Praha 6 (tel: 420.220.111.888)
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The Karate Kid: Bullying
Bullying affects the life and development of children, especially adolescents, consistently because it affects their socialization, their self-esteem and self-perception. Often bullying becomes the major cause of serious psychological problems in children that can be deep-rooted in them and manifest themselves in the adult life. In addition, bullying may lead to the formation of negative models of behavior in children as they grow up, especially in relation to their family members. At the same time, bullying is always a challenge for children, especially teenagers and often they need the assistance of adults to cope with their problems and to stop bullying or minimize its negative impact on their development. In this respect, it is possible to refer to the film "The Karate Kid" (1984), which reveals the case of bullying in relation to the main character, the adolescent boy, who manages to tackle the problem with the help of his teacher. In fact, the film gives insight toward possible solutions and importance of bullying in the life of adolescents but, along with the fictional view on bullying, it is important to refer to scientific studies conducted by different researchers, which reveals a number of negative effects of bullying on adolescents' psychology and help to elaborate effective measures of the prevention of bullying.
In fact, the film "The Karate Kid" (1984) focuses on the story of the adolescent boy, Daniel, who has substantial troubles with bully Johnny and his gang. Daniel falls in love with Ali Mills, whose former ex-boyfriend Johnny bulls him and beats him systematically. Nevertheless, Daniel does not give up and attempts to resist to his offenders. However, he cannot resist to Johnny and his gang. In such a situation, Mr. Miyagi the handyman of Daniel's apartment helps him. Once, Mr. Miyagi protects Daniel from several bullies. After that Daniel asks him to become his teacher. Eventually, Mr. Miyagi agrees to teach him martial arts, namely karate, when they confront the sensei, John Kreese. Mr. Miyagi and Kreese agree to a match between Daniel and Johnny. Mr. Miyagi and Kreese have different philosophies for Kreese stands on the philosophy of rude bullying, whereas Mr. Miyagi stands on the philosophy of karate, which is the lifestyle and philosophy prior to the mere martial art. Eventually, in the course of the competition Daniel's opponent, including Johnny, use dirty tricks to defeat him but they fail and Daniel, being ultimately exhausted, wins the competition and respect of the bullies. However, it is important to place emphasis on the fact that Mr. Miyagi did not just taught Daniel to fight but he also taught him a lot about the life. He offered the boy a totally new philosophy, where there was no room for bullying but reason and the set of values, according to which Miyagi lived his life.
In such a way, the film focuses on the problem of bullying depicting that bullying as a serious problem that affects the life of the main character as well as other kids. To put it more precisely, the film shows that Johnny is the main bully, who attacks Daniel permanently. Johnny is a strong boy and it is due to his physical force he has gained the respect of other children and he has managed to create a gang, where the strongest rules. Being the strongest Johnny is naturally the leader of the gang. In such a way, the film reveals the main principles of the formation of bullying, which implies that the stronger offends the weaker, and the weaker can escape bullying joining the gang and recognizing the authority of the stronger. If the weaker, like Daniel, attempts to resist, he becomes the victim and subject to bullying not only from the part of the leader but also from the part of the entire gang. Thus, the gang becomes the power teens cannot resist to and they need the assistance of adults, such as Mr. Miyagi in the film, who can help them to solve their problems. Obviously, children facing bullying become victimized and, being unable to resist, they may suffer from serious psychological traumas, whereas bullies, feeling their power and having no threats, exercise their power. However, bullies may face the problem with the violation of existing legal norms, if they carry on bullying.
Therefore, it is important to study bullying from a scientific standpoint. At this point, it is possible to refer to the article "Recall of childhood neglect and physical abuse as differential predictors of current psychological functioning" by Gauthier and other researchers (1996). In this article, the authors focus on consequences of bullying and related psychological problems individuals may have in their adult life. In fact, if Daniel could not resist and stop bullying, he could have suffered serious psychological problems described by Gauthier (1996). In actuality, the article reveals the fact that the teenage violence can have a long-lasting effect on the life of teenagers and, what is more important, the effects of teenage violence can be traced even in the adult life of a person. In this respect, it is important to understand that teenage is a very process because it contributes to the formation of essential social experience of interaction and intimate relationships between teenagers. In such a situation, the experience teenagers acquire in their adolescence influences consistently their relationships with their partners and spouses in the adult life. To put it more precisely, cases of violence in the course of teenage influence consistently the relationships of teenagers. Moreover, the teenage violence can provoke the violent behavior of individuals in their adult life because they develop certain models of behavior in their adolescence. Later they extrapolate this experience on their adult life and relationships with other people.
At the same time, it is possible to refer to another article "Attachment disorganization: unresolved loss, relational violence and lapses in behavioral and attentional strategies" by Lyons-Ruth and Jacobvitz (1999), which focuses on behavioral changes and problems adolescents may have under the impact of or in the result of bullying. In fact, the authors of the article argue that the teenage violence can have a negative impact on teenagers' psychology even in the adolescence. The specialists (Lyons-Ruth and Jacobvitz, 1999) point out that the teenage violence can provoke serious psychological problems in teenagers to the extent that they may suffer from depression. Another psychological aspect of negative effects of teenage violence is possible problems in relationships with peers. What is meant here is the fact that the teenagers who suffered from aggressive and violent behavior of their mates in the course of are often anxious about their experience. Moreover, victims of teenage violence can avoid development of close relationships with their peers out of fear of suffering another act of violence. In this regard, the article is close to the film, where Daniel has suffered from the exclusion, being the subject to bullying. The boy had considerable problems in communication with his peers because they believed him to be dangerous. To put it more precisely, if Daniel remained the subject to bullying, his friends could also become victims of bullies. In such a way, the film shows the exclusion of victims of bullying from their peers' society. On the other hand, Daniel did not really trust his peers, who could not resist to bullies and were unwilling to. He considered them being too weak and unworthy of communicating with. Therefore, the article "Attachment disorganization: unresolved loss, relational violence and lapses in behavioral and attentional strategies" raises an important problem, which was described in the film as well, the problem of communication gaps between victims of bullying and their peers.
On the other hand, offenders may grow more and more aggressive and violent in their behavior, if they succeed in violence. In this respect, it is important to lay emphasis on the fact that teenagers' psychology is not stable, whereas their physiological changes make their behavior unpredictable. In such a situation, teenagers inclined to violent and aggressive behavior can manifest their violent inclinations. However, the more frequent are cases of violence, the more aggressive teenagers become because they believe that violent and aggressive behavior is a norm. They grow confident in their power to abuse other teenagers and, thus, they develop violent models of behavior. Potentially, this may lead to the deviant and antisocial behavior of teenage offender who can become juvenile offenders or sociopath because of the systematic use of violence.
At the same time, it is important to understand causes of bullying. In this respect, it is possible to refer to the article "Long term consequences of childhood physical abuse" by Malinosky-Rummell and Hansen, who explore causes of violence and bulling among children. In fact, the authors of the article view the roots of bullying and violence in the family life of children and their relations with their parents as well as relationships between their parents. What is meant here is the fact that the authors of the article stand on the ground that children can borrow violent models of behavior from their violent parents and extrapolate these models of behavior on other children. At the same time, the authors of the article argue that neglected children may also develop aggressive and violent models of behavior or, in contrast, become victims from the part of their peers and bullies because they have no one to support them. At this point, it is possible to refer to the film, which shows that Daniel was alone in face of his problems. He did not have the father, who could have supported him or given him a piece of advice. This is why Mr. Miyagi is so important for him because he becomes not just a teacher but also a sort of father for the boy. His support helps him to cope with his problems.
In such a way, teenage violence may have destructive impact on psychology and social relations of teenagers. Teenagers develop different models of behavior and acquire their experience of intimate relationships in their adolescence. If they suffer from the teenage violence, they may naturally have problems in their relationships with their mates not only in adolescence but also in their adult life, whereas teenage offenders can become extremely aggressive and violent. Therefore, the prevention of the teenage violence becomes extremely important in terms of the prevention of psychological and social problems in teenagers. Bullying affects consistently the life of children and their adult life as well.
At this point, the authors of the articles discussed above place emphasis on the fact that bullying and violence among children can have long-run effects on children and their adult life. At the same time, roots of bullying could be found in the family life and problems within the family of bullies as well as their victims. In such a situation, children need the assistance of adults, such as Mr. Miyagi, who helped Daniel and guided him through all his troubles teaching him not only to fight but also to live right. Thus, the film shows that bullying is a serious problem, which children alone cannot solve but they need the assistance of adults.
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"Can you use the straight-in approach at non-towered airports? If so where in the FAR's does it state this? I have heard both yes and no, what is the legal answer?"
"Sorry, I can't show you a place where the FAR's tell you something is legal. They usually tell you what is not legal. As far as I know, there is no FAR that says a straight-in approach at a non-towered airport is illegal.
Best practices for pilots in part are spelled out in the Aeronautical Information Manual and there it suggests that the best practice is to enter at a 45-degree angle to the downwind leg of the traffic pattern. This is also stated in the Airplane Flying Handbook.
This practice has many safety advantages. But, if you want to make a straight-in approach, you will not be in violation of any traffic pattern rules. However, if you were to come straight-in at a busy and bustling airport, that perhaps could be considered a careless and reckless operation. There is a rule that says you can't fly that way.
At Lakeland airport during the Sun n' Fun fly-in, there are very strict rules for the pattern and guess what, we all enter the traffic pattern on the downwind leg. Can you imagine what a straight-in arrival would do at a place like that?
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Forty Years of Food Rescue in New Mexico
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PHOTO: State Rep. Dan Ramos, D-Lorain, will soon introduce legislation requiring the state to restore access to food assistance benefits for 135,000 unemployed Ohioans.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Without a change of heart by state government, some 135,000 low-income Ohioans could find it even more difficult to put food on the holiday table.
Current rules for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) require childless adults to work or participate in a job-training program, but given the economic climate, states can waive the work requirement.
The Kasich administration has only filed to receive the waiver in 16 select counties in the coming year.
State Rep. Dan Ramos of Lorain says with high unemployment, a large number of people will be unable to find work placements and will face food insecurity as a result.
"Hunger doesn't know a zip code," he stresses. "It doesn't know a county line. "So I don't think we should be picking and choosing winners on issues of food security."
Since 2007, Ohio has accepted the full waiver and Ramos will soon be introducing legislation that would require the Director of Job and Family Services to request a waiver for SNAP recipients in all federally qualified counties across the state. There is no cost to the state to accept the full waiver.
From 2010 to 2012 more than one in six Ohio households faced food insecurity.
Ramos says the reality is that Ohio is moving in the wrong direction in ensuring all Ohioans have enough food available for their next meal.
"Ten years ago, 29 states were worse off than us in food insecurity," he explains. "Now only nine states are. We are backsliding, and quite simply the people are the ones paying for it."
The governor's office says it did not accept the waiver because the state's unemployment has dropped since 2010.
But Ramos says the state's overall job growth continues to be among the worst in the country, falling below the national average to 7.5 percent.
"Although I don't doubt that certain counties are somewhat worse off than others, there is no part of this state where the economy is fully turned around, where there are enough jobs to go around," he maintains.
Currently there are only 9,000 slots available in the Work Experience Program, and given the growing trend of joblessness, Ramos says the waiver needs to be extended statewide.
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Sexual transmission of Zika more common than previously believed: WHO
Written by Mohan Garikiparithi
Published on June 1, 2016
Zika virus transmission through sexual intercourse is more common than the World Health Organization (WHO) originally believed it to be. Women looking to get pregnant should wait at least eight weeks, the United Nations officials recommend, if they or their partners live in or have visited a Zika-ridden country.
Although mosquito bites are the most common way a person can contract Zika virus, sexual transmission of Zika has been found to be more common than previously believed. The WHO first recommended that women wait at least four weeks before trying to conceive, but the wait period has now been bumped to eight weeks.
Furthermore, if the male partner has signs and symptoms of Zika virus, it is recommended that the couple wait six months before trying to conceive.
Four of five Zika patients will not experience symptoms, and those who do often experience mild symptoms. The real risk is to the fetus, which could be born with birth defects.
To date, Brazil has seen an estimated 5,000 microcephaly cases – a birth defect associated with Zika virus. In the U.S. so far, 280 women have been infected and are being followed by the CDC.
To limit any potential spread of Zika virus via mosquitoes, health officials on the federal, state, and local levels are deploying a three-pronged strategy: improving mosquito control, expanding their ability to test for Zika, and urging the public to protect themselves against mosquitoes.
Women, particularly those in their child-bearing years, should take all necessary measures to protect themselves from mosquito bites, along with avoiding sexual intercourse if they are residing or visiting a country with Zika.
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Amadeo di Saluzzo (ur. 1361 – zm. 28 czerwca 1419) – krewny "awiniońskiego" antypapieża Klemensa VII, który w grudniu 1383 mianował go kardynałem-diakonem S. Maria Nuova. Administrator diecezji Valence et Die 1383-88. Kilkakrotnie był legatem Klemensa VII wobec królowej Joanny I Neapolitańskiej. Archidiakon Reims (od stycznia 1389) i Rouen (od października 1403). Uczestniczył w konklawe 1394, które wybrało antypapieża Benedykta XIII. Legat w Paryżu 1398-1401. Kardynał-protodiakon od 1403. W 1408 porzucił obediencję awiniońską i w następnym roku wziął udział w Soborze Pizańskim. Koronował wybranego wówczas antypapieża Aleksandra V i został jego legatem w Genewie. Uczestniczył w kończącym Wielką Schizmę Soborze w Konstancji 1414-18. Legat papieża Marcina V we Francji i w Niemczech. Zmarł w Saint-Donat w wieku 58 lat.

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If the upcoming elections result in her favor, Secretary Morgan Robb would become the first female president of Suffolk's Student Government Association (SGA) in six years.
"To be a female president, and what that would mean for our female students, and for even for students of other marginalized identities is a huge thing," said Robb in a recent interview with The Suffolk Journal.
Robb acknowledged the long-standing issues that impact a great deal of Suffolk students and said she plans to work on resolutions before aiming to tackle even more. Securing space for students to have club meetings, classrooms and a more suitable theatre for university performances are at the top of Robb's list.
She explained that she seeks to "inspire the way I [she] was inspired" when she first joined SGA. Having held positions in the organization as a senator, committee chair and her current role on the executive board, Robb's experience has allowed her insight on a vast array of jobs that SGA conducts.
As someone that has stressed the importance of connecting personally with each member of SGA if elected president, Robb said she wants to make sure each student is able to express themselves uniquely.
"We all know you have strength in numbers, but each individual student should have as much attention as 10 students or five students," said Robb. "If one specific student has a concern or a need that needs to be fulfilled, that should be done."
SGA is an organization that regularly conducts meetings with members of Suffolk administration. Being a voice for the students isn't enough for Robb, who said she wants to help SGA become a voice of introduction- to bring the students to the administration if they have grievances that need addressing.
I just want to make sure I'm hearing other people and I'm working on their behalf," said Robb. "Nothing fulfills me more than working hard and making sure that someone else feel good and that their life is a bit easier."
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Lasantha's Daughter Sues Gota In LA; "Mr Nandasena, Here Are The Summons
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Lasantha's Daughter Sues Gota In LA; "Mr Nandasena, Here Are The Summons………………….
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The daughter of Sunday Leader murdered Editor Lasantha Wickrematunge, Ahimsa filed action against Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the courts of Los Angeles, California requesting a Jury trial and compensation. Gotabaya who was the Secretary of the Defence Ministry was widely known to be single minded and ruthless. His ruthlessness pervaded all he perceived and was not restricted to the LTTE.
Unlike strictures that bound other Secretaries of Ministries Gotabaya was not bound to follow any such rules. He was often seen making political speeches on behalf of his brothers and extended family. Any other government servant would have been issued a show cause and summarily dismissed. No, not Gotabaya. Apart from the whispered stories of white van abductions alluded to Gotabaya many were the published news of threats to journalists such as Poddala Jayantha and Fredrica Jansz. Yet this man wishes to be President of this country.
"There is no progress without discipline", says Gotabaya throwing his hat into the ring to run for President. What about discipline for him? White vans, abductions, murder??? Is he a psychopath? Discipline? Certain signs of a budding dictator.
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I have noticed that Jboss is insanely slow to render a servlet or a simple JSP (example below).
I have tried repeatedly calling so its definitely not the JSP compile issue.
Is that the first access to the JSP? What are the numbers for subsequent access? And how exactly are you measuring those numbers?
It is for subsequent accesses. I am measuring them using: http://www.webpagetest.org/ you could try a variety of other online tools like that. The results are similar. Please note as mentioned if i render a flat image not through the JSP it is 50ms. Even though the bytes being transferred is higher than the JSP's simple HTML code.
I am measuring them using: http://www.webpagetest.org/ you could try a variety of other online tools like that.
So basically you are testing network connectivity from some external site, hosted far far far away from your server. But not actually testing response time that your server/application can give you. So is this intentional or you just don't know any other way to test performance?
and then test your application from same machine you have it on, or at least from same network.
this will issue 10 concurrent connection that will each do 100 requests.
and you will get response times from them.
ab is not perfect tool for high load testing but for basic tests like this it is great.
I have a 57kb image in the war file that you can access here: http://173.1.18.180:8082/images/TestImage.jpg . Using webpagetest.org the single image shows a rendering time of 50ms.
So i do not think it is a network connectivity issue. As the image is 5x faster than the simple jsp both in the same war on the same app server on the same box on the same network.
I will try the ApacheBench software you recommended.
Servlets, JSPs and other (real) server side resources unlike static image files obviously involve more processing. So it can potentially take time relatively more than accessing a static image.
Do you have a benchmark for the dynamic resources against which you are comparing the response times? In other words, why do you think 250ms is a bad performance? It may or may not be bad, but we need to understand the benchmark against which you are basing this.


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"Rumors that I'm going to set the place on fire or blow it up or lock the doors are completely false," acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Mick Mulvaney said. | Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo
Mulvaney imposes temporary hiring, regulations freeze on CFPB
By ANDREW RESTUCCIA
Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump's pick for acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said Monday he has no immediate plans to dismantle the agency, but he nonetheless implemented a temporary freeze on hiring and new regulations.
"Rumors that I'm going to set the place on fire or blow it up or lock the doors are completely false," Mulvaney, a longtime critic of the bureau, told reporters during a briefing at CFPB headquarters.
He insisted that his first day at the CFPB was "extraordinarily smooth and professional" despite an unfolding fight for control of the bureau between himself and Leandra English, who on Friday was appointed acting director by outgoing chief Richard Cordray.
Both the hiring freeze and the freeze on all new regulations and guidance will last for 30 days, as will a separate freeze on civil penalty payments. Mulvaney stressed that the bureau will continue to meet its legal and statutory deadlines.
Mulvaney, who also serves as director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said he'll spend three days a week at CFPB and another three days at OMB.
His first day at CFPB included a meeting with senior staff and a broader meeting with several dozen more employees. He did not have any contact with English, he said, but he did not rule out a meeting with her if she shows up to work.
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In addition, Mulvaney said he has not taken any steps to fire English, who filed a lawsuit against him and Trump on Sunday and asked the court to establish her authority as acting director. Mulvaney said she had the right as a private citizen to file the suit.
Mulvaney said he expects Trump to name a permanent CFPB director "as quickly as possible." He added that he will respect any effort by the court to prevent him from acting as director, but he said he believes the White House is accurately interpreting the law.
The former South Carolina congressman met with Trump Monday. The president told him he "wants me to get [the bureau] back to the point where it can protect people without trampling on capitalism," according to Mulvaney.
Mulvaney reiterated his longstanding criticism that the CFPB has unchecked power, but he said it's up to Congress to change that.
"It is a completely unaccountable agency, and I think that's wrong," he said, adding later, "If the law allowed this place not to exist, I'd sit down with the president to try to make the case that other agencies can do this job well if not more effectively."
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