Dream On Guys

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   Oui on June 6, 2012 at 6:06 pm

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   Enjoy, I came across this presentation due to a discussion of a 5-year old. Is the diagnosis ADHD faulty or is it a form of overexcitability due to too many signals in our modern information society. The young kid is overactive and investigates the world in which he lives in and tries to analyze and comes up with profound answers. He doesn’t like school, yet makes friends easily and often gets into discussion with adults he meets. He enjoys being outdoors and talks about nature and meteorology. Explains to me in which weather patterns tornados are formed. I love this kid, he is my grandson.

   Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

    Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence.

    

   Full bio

   "But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

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   Oui on June 7, 2012 at 1:15 pm

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   I listened with total amazement to Hillary Clinton’s press conference while on visit to NATO ally Turkey. She praised her counterpart into far reaches of outerspace as an ally and moderator for de disunited opposition group on Syria. A lot of bally crock as the Aussies would say, there was no clear or coherent policy on Syria. If you are not with us, you are with the enemy she threatened Russia and China. She very distinctly stated Assad has to go or there is no way forward in the UN Security Council. I understand the US and its allies will invoke the Chapter 7 option for intervention in Syria. The facts are already clear, intervention has already started by funding and supplying arms to all sorts of militants, insurgents or foreign Jihad fighters. Hillary has not learned anything from the failed political interventen and ugly civil war on the Balkans. Very fitting how she was portrayed as special envoy to the Balkans for President Bill Clinton.

   I was so amazed, I figured to look for her special advisor on Middle-East policy, in particular for Syria. Quickly I came across the name “Fred Hoff”, it didn’t lead anywhere until I found out it was probably Frederic C. Hof, as special envoy to Lebaon and Syria. He was involved in pre-talks with Israel and Syria to resolve the Golan Heights issue in 2010. Later I learned he is/was part of USIP, the United States Institute for Peace. These experts are involved with foreign policy and can be found on the Hill speaking with the Congressional Committees on Foreign Policy. They also are deeply involved in policy making for the US State Department. See USIP report by Frederic D. Hof – Mapping Peace Between Syria and Israel [pdf].

   The one person that shouldn’t be absent for US Foriegn Policy under Obama/Clinton is Stephan S. Hadley. Right, the circle is complete and I do now understand the press conference of Hillary Clinton in Turkey today.

   • Didn’t he write  Colin Powell’s speech at the UN Security Council making the case for the Iraq invasion?!
   • Obama’s foreign policy has been Bush’s Third Term

   "But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

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   Oui on June 7, 2012 at 2:29 pm

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   Israel: The injustice and secrecy surrounding administrative detention

   (Amnesty International) – Israel must release all Palestinians held under long-standing administrative detention laws or charge and try them promptly and fairly, Amnesty International said in a new report.

   ‘Starved of justice: Palestinians detained without trial by Israel‘ documents human rights violations associated with administrative detention – a relic of British control of the area that permits detention without charge or trial on indefinitely renewable military orders.

   The report also calls on Israel to stop using these measures to suppress the legitimate and peaceful activities of activists in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It urges the immediate and unconditional release prisoners of conscience held just for peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression and assembly.

   Administrative detainees – like many other Palestinian prisoners – have been subjected to violations such as the use of torture and other ill-treatment during interrogation, as well as cruel and degrading treatment during their detention, sometimes as punishment for hunger strikes or other protests.  

   Failure to prohibit torture
   Israeli law allows the right of all persons to protection of their life, body and dignity to be restricted during a state of emergency, which has been in place in Israel since 1948. Israel’s existing legislation does not contain an absolute prohibition on torture. More specifically, the Supreme Court ruling of 1999, while prohibiting the use of torture and other ill-treatment generally, ruled that exceptionally, interrogators using “physical interrogation methods” in “ticking time-bomb” situations may escape criminal liability under the “defence of necessity” found in Israel’s Penal Law. This justification for torture, in clear defiance of Articles 2 and 4 of the Convention, has – far from being a mere theoretical construct – resulted in total impunity for ISA torturers during the past 12 years.

   JFJFP: 2000 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike against administrative detention

   "But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

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   Oui on June 8, 2012 at 1:24 am

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   Why Is the Government Withholding Documents About JFK’s Assassination?

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   But by 2011, Kurtz, who had been at NARA for decades, had retired. At the 2011 forum, Jim Lesar was told that JFK assassination records are not part of the declassification process. Hence, they will not be reviewed for release.

   Huh? What Happened

   For some perspective, meet Sheryl Shenberger . She’s the head of the Archives’ National Declassification Center. What would you guess Sheryl’s professional background would be? Library of Congress? Academic research? Nope. Before NDC, Sheryl worked for … the Central Intelligence Agency.

   The most logical and reasonable explanation for this is that the Obama administration placed an ex-spook in charge of declassification because this would induce her old colleagues in Langley to cooperate. (Which of course raises the question of whether, in a real democracy, you would want to have a bunch of people secretly deciding to do whatever they wanted with 50-year-old documents pertaining to a supposed loony loner who whacked a president.)

   Sheryl Shenberger, ex-CIA, and new appointment to Declassification Center

   Corporate attorney William A. Burck was appointed to the Public Interest Declassification Board, which advises the White House on declassification policy.  Its membership is appointed by the White House, and by Congressional majority and minority leaders.

   Mr. Burck was named to the Board by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).  According to his bio, he previously served as a Special Counsel to President George W. Bush, in which capacity he advised the President and other officials “on major legal issues confronting the Administration.”

   "But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."