Blog Smith is inspired by the myth of Hephaestus in the creation of blacksmith-like, forged materials: ideas. This blog analyzes topics that interest me: IT, politics, technology, history, education, music, and the history of religions.
Monday, August 13, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Occupy Wall Street Rap Sheet & Comparison
Occupy Wall Street Rap Sheet & Comparison
How similar are the TEA Party and Occupy Wall Street?
‘OUR RIGHTS COME FROM NATURE AND GOD, NOT GOVERNMENT’: RYAN CHANNELS JOHN LOCKE
There was a rare, pure philosophical moment in Rep. Paul Ryan’s running mate announcement speech in Norfolk, Va. Saturday that should not be overlooked. The Wisconsin congressman waxed on the natural contract between government, man and God:
“But America is more than just a place…it’s an idea. It’s the only country founded on an idea. Our rights come from nature and God, not government. We promise equal opportunity, not equal outcomes. This idea is founded on the principles of liberty, freedom, free enterprise, self-determination and government by consent of the governed.”
Ryan’s speech was a conduit to some of the essential founding principles of the nation. In particular, the comments are a direct conceptual channeling of English philosopher John Locke.
Locke argued that because governments were instituted to protect the unalienable rights of individuals, they had no power other than what was necessary to protect such rights. In other words, a free and just government was necessarily a limited government. His sentiments were devoutly believed by the Founding Fathers and are reflected in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
In Locke’s defining Second Treatise on Government, the he argued that “freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by but as freedom of nature is, to be under no other restraint but the law of nature and God.”
Locke added further weight to the argument for natural rights as he argued against the subjugation of human beings in The State of Nature:
“For men being all the workmanship of one omnipotent and infinitely wise Maker; all the servants of one Sovereign Master, sent into the world by his order and about his business, they are his property whose workmanship they are, made to last during his, not one another’s, pleasure. And being furnished with like faculties, sharing all in one community of nature, there cannot be supposed any such subordination among us that may authorize us to destroy one another, as if we were made for one another’s uses, as the inferior ranks of creatures are for ours.”
Ryan followed up his Lockean statement by adding: “This idea is founded on the principles of liberty, freedom, free enterprise, self-determination and government by consent of the governed.”
Even on the point of consent of the governed, Locke can be consulted: In his writings on The Dissoloution of Government, Locke discusses the actions a society must take when a government steps outside the “limited powers” it is entitled to in order to change the government.
“The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property; and the end while they choose and authorise a legislative is that there may be laws made, and rules set, as guards and fences to the properties of all the society, to limit the power and moderate the dominion of every part and member of the society. For since it can never be supposed to be the will of the society that the legislative should have a power to destroy that which every one designs to secure by entering into society, and for which the people submitted themselves to legislators of their own making: whenever the legislators endeavour to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any farther obedience, and are left to the common refuge which God has provided for all men against force and violence.“
Ryan’s philosophy on the social contract between man and government has a firm grounding in the natural rights principles of John Locke and ergo the American Founders. It will be highly interesting to see these concepts drawn up in the political discourse and debate of the next few months, leading up to November.
During coverage of Ryan’s first speech as the vice presidential candidate, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry added to her resume of controversial on-air remarks when she criticized Ryan for daring to quote the Declaration of Independence in his speech when declaring rights come from God and nature, and not from government.
“The thing I really have against him is actually how he and Gov. Romney have misused the Declaration of Independence,” said Harris-Perry Saturday. “I’m deeply irritated by their notion that the ‘pursuit of happiness’ means money for the richest and that we extricate the capacity of ordinary people to pursue happiness. When they say ‘God and nature give us our rights, not government,’ that is a lovely thing to say as a wealthy white man.”
Harris-Perry’s race-related criticism of Ryan for quoting a fundamental idea, upon which the entire nature of the U.S. government rests, has been met with media and public disapproval.
On “Real News From The Blaze” Tuesday, the panel was joined by Dr. Joseph Laconte of Kings College to explain why debate around this idea, that our rights are from God and nature, could spell trouble for the future of the nation should people ever see Government as the ultimate dispensor of rights.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/real-news-from-the-blaze-left-attacks-paul-ryan-for-discussing-natural-rights/
There is dissatisfaction on the left with the Constitution, and criticism of the Romney-Ryan Recovery is based on race.
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Economics: Thomas Sowell: Washington's Meddling Wrecking Economy
Economics: Thomas Sowell: Washington's Meddling Wrecking Economy
Paul Ryan took apart Obama and Obamacare -- in 6 minutes!
Ryan has "written two budgets, both of them passed by the House but never acted on by the Senate, that would have kept tax rates low while deeply slashing spending, including making major changes to entitlement programs."
His budget spends 15 percent less than Obama would over the next decade, and he would rack up $3.1 trillion in cumulative new deficits during that time, which is less than half of the deficits the White House says Obama’s budget would produce.
Over the long run Mr. Ryan’s budget would cap taxes at 19 percent of gross domestic product — slightly higher than the post-World War II average — but would bring spending down to 16 percent of GDP by 2050, which would mean cutting about 40 cents out of every dollar spent if it were to happen today.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/11/obama-and-ryan-have-tangled-repeatedly/
"The idea of “premium support” for Medicare, which would change the program’s one-size-fits-all policy to a private-insurance model with public options, was endorsed by a bipartisan commission appointed by Bill Clinton back in the 1990s. Late last year, Ryan announced a new version of his proposal with a new partner signing on: Democratic senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, who first achieved political prominence as an advocate for seniors."
Cf. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/313732/smart-democrats-should-be-worried-john-fund
RACHEL MADDOW & NATIONAL REVIEW‘S RICH LOWRY BATTLE OVER RYAN’S BUDGET PLAN
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Obama Campaign Defends Obama's $700 Billion Cuts to Medicare
Obama cuts Medicare, lamestream media journalist deflects
Another Ramadan Slaughter of American Troops in Afghanistan
3 US troops gunned down by Afghan soldier they were training.
CAPTAIN INSISTED THAT HIS MARINES OBSERVE RAMADAN CUSTOMS
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/video?id=8769951
Friday, August 10, 2012
Military Trains to Fight TEA Party
U.S. military officers are told to plan and fight Americans.
Cf. Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A “Vision” of the Future, Kevin Benson and Jennifer Weber
Benson, Ret., of the Army's University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and Jennifer Weber.
The article posits an “extremist militia motivated by the goals of the ‘tea party’ movement.”
A professor at the Joint Forces Staff College was relieved of duty in June for uttering the heresy that the United States is at war with Islam. The Obama administration contended the professor had to be relieved because what he was teaching was not U.S. policy. Because there is no disclaimer attached to the Small Wars piece, it is fair to ask, at least in Col. Benson’s case, whether his views reflect official policy regarding the use of U.S. military force against American citizens.
In the comments about the article, the "Son of Freedom" added a worthwhile comment.
Cf. Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A “Vision” of the Future, Kevin Benson and Jennifer Weber
Benson, Ret., of the Army's University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and Jennifer Weber.
The article posits an “extremist militia motivated by the goals of the ‘tea party’ movement.”
A professor at the Joint Forces Staff College was relieved of duty in June for uttering the heresy that the United States is at war with Islam. The Obama administration contended the professor had to be relieved because what he was teaching was not U.S. policy. Because there is no disclaimer attached to the Small Wars piece, it is fair to ask, at least in Col. Benson’s case, whether his views reflect official policy regarding the use of U.S. military force against American citizens.
In the comments about the article, the "Son of Freedom" added a worthwhile comment.
In the closing days prior to the 2012 election, sensing a resounding defeat, the incumbent president seeks to hold onto supreme executive power at any cost. While watching the election returns from Chicago, a small tactical nuclear weapon is detonated in Washington, DC. The president quickly appears before the nation on live TV to declare that a state of national emergency exists, and is therefore cancelling the general election until “the situation can be stabilized.”
The president calls out the Department of Homeland Security, which responds with amazingly fast mobilization of their new armored vehicles and “defensive” para-military equipment. All Military personnel are placed on alert, and National Guard units are federalized and mobilized.
In the following days, the bomb fragments and analysis of the bomb material is determined to have come from Iran. The great bulk of the American Military is sent into harm’s way towards Iran. The president then declares that DHS and FEMA are the new “guardians” of the homeland.
Soon after, isolated incidents of DHS and FEMA personnel are found to have been shot while “ensuring domestic tranquility.” This leads to a de facto and official revocation of the 2nd and 4th Amendments, all in the name of “security.” Soon enough, hundreds of reports of citizens resisting DHS security forces flow in, causing the president to use remaining Military forces to “pacify” the embattled areas.
Now to point out a couple of glaring errors in your fictional study. First of all, as an Active Duty Soldier, I can say with some degree of certainty that I, nor those with whom I work each day would NOT turn our weapons on other American citizens, especially those in our own communities. Secondly, activating a National Guard unit in the area where there is an incident such as the one you propose would be inviting desertion. Those men and women would no sooner hunt down and maim or kill their own neighbors than the mailman would. Thirdly, you assume that no one on the outside of the suggested “tightening noose” would assist the rebels. Darlington is close to the ocean. I-95 is already a smuggling highway, both literally and figuratively. Thus you would have to bring in the Navy and/or the Coast Guard in order to blockade the South Carolina coast. Even then, smugglers would get through. That is assuming the USN and/or USCG would cooperate fully (see my first reason).
Facts: DHS has been wargaming the detonation of a small tac-nuke in Washington D.C. The Department of Homeland Security has purchased over 450 Million rounds of .40 caliber hollow-point rounds, and has been buying up 5.56mm (NATO standard round) ammunition as well. The DHS has no foreign warfighting mission or capability. 450 Million rounds is excessive for any agency to claim for training purposes. This essay only serves to provide another “dot” to connect.
Live Tea or Die? Is the US Military Preparing To Quell the Tea Party?
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Cf. http://www.infowars.com/us-army-tactical-manuals-describe-how-to-control-domestic-insurrection/
GRAY STATE Official Concept Trailer #1
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GRAY STATE SYNOPSIS
The world reels with the turmoil of war, geological disaster, and economic collapse, while Americans continue to submerge themselves in illusions of safety and immunity. While rights are sold for security, the federal government, swollen with power, begins a systematic takeover of liberty in order to bring about a New World Order.
Americans, quarantined to militarized districts, become a population ripe for tyrannical control.
Fearmongering, terrorism, police state, martial law, war, arrest, internment, hunger, oppression, violence, resistance -- these are the new terms by which Americans define their existence. Neighbor is turned against neighbor as the value of the dollar plunges to zero, food supplies are depleted, and everyone is a terror suspect. There are arrests. Disappearances. Bio attacks. Public executions of those even suspected of dissent. Even rumors of concentration camps on American soil.
This is the backdrop to an unfolding story of resistance. American militias prepare for guerilla warfare. There are mass defections from the military as true Patriots attempt to rally around the Constitution and defend liberty, preparing a national insurgency against federal forces, knowing full well this will be the last time in history the oppressed will be capable of organized resistance.
It is a time of transition, of shifting alliance, of mass awakening and mass execution. It is an impending storm, an iron-gray morning that puts into effect decades of over-comfort and complacency, and Americans wake up to an occupied homeland. It is a time of lists -- black list, white list, and those still caught in the middle, those who risk physical death for their free will and those who sell their souls to maintain their idle thoughts and easy comforts. It is in this Gray State that the perpetuation of human freedom will be contested, or crushed.
Is it the near future, or is it the present? The Gray State is coming - by consent or conquest. This is battlefield USA.
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Thursday, August 9, 2012
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Catholic Bishop's "social justice" charitable ministry and Saul Alinksy
Catholic Campaign for Human Development and Saul Alinsky
May 14, 2012: Joe Soptic Tells Stephanie Cutter His Story About Wife
Oops, Stephanie denies knowing about it.
Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Refuses To Condemn Ad Called Outrageous And False
Egyptian Sociologist States The Muslim Brotherhood Is "the seed of an Islamic caliphate"
Egyptian Sociologist States The Muslim Brotherhood Is "the seed of an Islamic caliphate"
Saadudin Ibrahim notes: "Of course, in 2012, this sounds like sheer fantasy, but all the major enterprises in history began as an idea. Some of ideas died while still in the cradle, while others developed."
SURVEILLANCE VIDEO: STORE OWNER BEATS BACK WOULD-BE ROBBERS WITH A STICK
It was around 9:30 p.m. when the two assailants burst into the St. Elias Mini Market in New Bedford — about 60 miles south of Boston — the South Coast Today reported. Surveillance footage showed one of the men jumping on the counter demanding cash.
That’s when owner Nicholas Dawoud came out swinging, chasing him out.
The second suspect was still in the store and the two men started circling each other, with Dawoud attempting to fend him off. After several moments the suspect managed to grab the stick from the owner, so Dawoud picked up a metal rack to defend himself. The altercation continued off-camera, with neighbors coming in to help before police arrived.
“I give him money, no I give money to my kids, I work for my kids,” Dawoud, a Lebanese immigrant, told CBS Boston affiliate WBZ-TV. “I work very hard. In ten years I have no days off, no vacation.”
Breitbart Reporter in Indonesia Has Documented Proof Obama is Indonesian Citizen
Breitbart Reporter in Indonesia Has Documented Proof Obama is Indonesian Citizen
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Obama Releases Intelligence Operation Details Against Bin Laden
There was high-level cooperation from the Pentagon and the CIA apparently with the encouragement of the White House.
Update Senior Citizen in Self-Defense
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epZod2qyyN4&feature=player_embedded
Democratic Donor States Aborting "ugly black babies" is a taxpayer service
A Democratic donor and abortionist states that aborting ‘ugly black babies’ is a service to the taxpayers. A pro-life group was unsuccessful in allowing them to adopt the babies.
Occupy Violence
Occupy Violence
"The Obama White House denied on multiple occasions during the Occupy protests last year that anybody in the Obama administration had given aid or encouragement to the demonstrations, many of which erupted into public and private property destruction, arrests for drug dealing and prostitution and public health violations."
"Documents obtained by Judicial Watch confirm that somebody in the White House told officials with the General Services Administration (GSA) to "stand down" and not arrest Occupy Portland protestors who may have broken the law last year."
"We now have a new GSA scandal - one that involves the Obama White House," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "These documents clearly show that federal agencies colluded with the Obama White House to allow the Occupy Wall Street protestors to violate the law with impunity. These documents tell us that the GSA and DHS can't be relied upon to protect federal workers or property."
http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-white-house-told-gsa-to-stand-down-on-occupy-protesters/article/2504238
Occupy Smashes Oakland Obama Campaign Office
Bridge bomb plot: Suspects were active in Occupy Cleveland
L.A. Occupy Movement Says ‘Violence Will Be Necessary to Achieve Our Goals’
A protester was throwing bricks and metal rods from the roof of a building into the crowd of demonstrators, reporters, and police - injuring at least one person.
Occupy Wall Street protesters smashed windows
Occupy Oakland: 400 arrested after violent protest
Battle of Wall Street: Violence erupts
Occupy Protests Plagued by Reports of Sex Attacks, Violent Crime
White House Refuses to Condemn #Occupy Violence
CAVEMAN: BLOGGER SUING STATE FOR FREE SPEECH
The North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition (NCBDN) is now being sued with a case citing the protection of free speech. Others are also calling out the national body governing the state board, which issued the DiabetesWarrior.net blogger 19 pages of notes marking violations in January, as creating a monopoly that would give only licensed dietitians the right to provide nutrition advice.
The Institute of Justice filed a lawsuit for Steve Cooksey against the state board in May after Cooksey was told he could not give the type of advice he issuing on his blog Diabetes Warrior without a license.
ECONOMIC FREEDOM IMPROVES HUMAN WELL-BEING: FREE ENTERPRISE GROUP ADDRESSES HISPANICS & WELFARE
Daniel Garza and The Libre Initiative
#3509 - Former Spokesman of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West Kamal Helbawy: America Will Be Brought to Its Knees The Internet - July 26, 2012 - 01:23
#3509 - Former Spokesman of the Muslim Brotherhood in the West Kamal Helbawy: America Will Be Brought to Its Knees, The Internet - July 26, 2012 - 01:23
OBAMACARE FROM A POLISH IMMIGRANT'S PERSPECTIVE (VIDEO)
OBAMACARE FROM A POLISH IMMIGRANT'S PERSPECTIVE (VIDEO)
DEKALB - Two years ago, in front of then-Congressman Bill Foster's 14th CD office, American for Prosperity held a protest opposing Foster's support for Obamacare.
Monday, August 6, 2012
18 June 1979, Ian Hunter With Mick Ronson Concert Agora Ballroom (Cleveland, OH)
18 June 1979, Ian Hunter With Mick Ronson Concert Agora Ballroom (Cleveland, OH
http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/ian-hunter-with-mick-ronson/concerts/agora-ballroom-june-18-1979.html?utm_source=STP&utm_campaign=4748059
Edith Wharton On Islam
Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist (received for her 1920 The Age of Innocence, in 1921), short story writer, and designer. Nearly a century ago, immediately after World War I, Wharton travelled to Morocco as the guest of the first French Resident-General in Morocco from 1912 to 1925, Gen. Hubert Lyautey, and wrote In Morocco, (published in 1920), chronicling her experiences. Wharton’s poignant observations about a female black child slave of what she herself considered to be a rather enlightened, Westernized Moroccan leader capture the enduring tragedy of Islam’s continued rejection of Western notions of basic freedom and human dignity, in particular for women.
While tea was being served I noticed a tiny negress, not more than six or seven years old, who stood motionless in the embrasure of an archway. Like most of the Moroccan slaves, even in the greatest households, she was shabbily, almost raggedly dressed. A dirty gandourah [a long loose gown with or without sleeves that is worn chiefly in northern Africa] of striped muslin covered her faded caftan [a usually cotton or silk ankle-length garment with long sleeves that is common throughout the Levant], and a cheap kerchief was wound above her grave and precocious little face. With preternatural vigilance she watched the movement of the Caid [a chief esp. of the Berber tribal communities of the North African Atlas region, and/or a Muslim local administrator, judge, and tax collector in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia], who never spoke to her, looked at her, or made her the slightest perceptible sign, but whose last wish she instantly divined, re-filling his tea-cup, passing the plates of sweets, or removing our empty glasses, in obedience to some secret telegraphy on which her whole being hung…[W]hen I looked at the tiny creature watching him [the Caid] with those anxious joyless eyes I felt once more the abyss that slavery and the seraglio put between the most Europeanized Mahometan and the western conception of life. The Caid’s little black slaves are well-known in Morocco, and behind the sad child leaning in the archway stood all the shadowy evils of the social system that hangs like a millstone about the neck of Islam. [emphasis added]
While tea was being served I noticed a tiny negress, not more than six or seven years old, who stood motionless in the embrasure of an archway. Like most of the Moroccan slaves, even in the greatest households, she was shabbily, almost raggedly dressed. A dirty gandourah [a long loose gown with or without sleeves that is worn chiefly in northern Africa] of striped muslin covered her faded caftan [a usually cotton or silk ankle-length garment with long sleeves that is common throughout the Levant], and a cheap kerchief was wound above her grave and precocious little face. With preternatural vigilance she watched the movement of the Caid [a chief esp. of the Berber tribal communities of the North African Atlas region, and/or a Muslim local administrator, judge, and tax collector in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia], who never spoke to her, looked at her, or made her the slightest perceptible sign, but whose last wish she instantly divined, re-filling his tea-cup, passing the plates of sweets, or removing our empty glasses, in obedience to some secret telegraphy on which her whole being hung…[W]hen I looked at the tiny creature watching him [the Caid] with those anxious joyless eyes I felt once more the abyss that slavery and the seraglio put between the most Europeanized Mahometan and the western conception of life. The Caid’s little black slaves are well-known in Morocco, and behind the sad child leaning in the archway stood all the shadowy evils of the social system that hangs like a millstone about the neck of Islam. [emphasis added]
Ian Hunter, Tribute to the Legendary Mick Ronson | Guitar Hangar | Part Two
Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, et.al., in Stockholm
Part 1
Part 2
Robert Spencer
Tommy Robinson, EDL
Kevin Carroll, EDL
Mimosa Koiranen -- Finnish Defence League
The Most Important Press Conference Ever Held at Any Time in U.S. History: Part II
Paul Kengor is professor of political science at Grove City College and Executive Director of Grove City’s Center for Vision and Values.
Joel Gilbert is the president of Highway 61 Entertainment in Los Angeles. He is a contributing editor for the national security and foreign policy website FamilySecurityMatters.org and has appeared frequently as a foreign policy analyst on national radio shows. He is the writer and director of the notable films: Atomic Jihad: Ahmadinejad’s Coming War for Islamic Revival and Obama’s Politics of Defeat and Farewell Israel: Bush, Iran, and the Revolt of Islam.
At the Kincaid conference, he spoke about his new, groundbreaking film, “Dreams from My Real Father: A Story of Reds and Deception.”
- Obama repeatedly describes Davis’ tremendous influence on him in his book “Dreams from My Father.”
- Davis is mentioned 22 times in “Dreams,” at least once in every section of the book.
- Despite his pivotal importance, Obama never once identifies Davis by his full name.
- All references to “Frank” have been purged from “Dreams” audio excerpts.
- From the 1920s, American communists attempted to recruit black Americans.
- From the 1920s, the Soviet Union was sending money to American blacks.
- The Soviet goal was to create a separate “Negro Republic” in the American south.
- Later they would join revolution to help create “Soviet America”.
- Davis joined the Communist Party in about 1943, after the Hitler/Stalin Pact was signed.
- Davis founded and edited the CPUSA’s Chicago Star newspaper; regularly wrote virulently anti-American “Frank-ly Speaking” editorials.”
- Davis had a “direct line to the Kremlin;” and obtained exclusive interviews for a Star reporter with Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov.
- Soviet agents I.F. Stone and Lee Pressman wrote for the Star.
- Star editorial writer Howard Fast was a communist Hollywood screenwriter and winner of the Stalin Prize.
- Two top Obama aides are connected to Davis cronies.
- Vernon Jarrett (father-in-law of top Obama advisor, Valerie Jarrett) and Robert R. Taylor (Valerie Jarrett’s grandfather) knew and worked with Davis in Chicago on a communist project, the “American Peace Mobilization.”
- Communist and suspected Soviet agent David Canter worked with Davis in Chicago.
- Canter later mentored Obama’s chief strategist, David Axelrod. Axelrod coined the “Hope and Change” slogan.
- The Soviet Union had a strong strategic interest in Hawaii, not yet a state when Davis moved there.
- The Canter family and others purchased the Chicago Star to facilitate Davis’ move and renamed it “The Progressive.”
- The Communist Party founded the Honolulu Record in August 1948, just in time for Davis’ move.
- Davis picked up at the Record where he left off, writing the same “Frank-ly Speaking” column until the paper’s demise in 1958.
- FBI file shows that Davis was getting paid by International Longshoremen and Warehousemen’s Union, ILWU, run by CPUSA Central Committeeman Harry Bridges and was recognized as the union most penetrated by communists.
- Davis used a camera with telescopic lens to photograph Hawaiian shoreline.
- Davis’ editorials for both the Star and the Honolulu Record consistently followed the Soviet line.
- For these and other Communist Party activities, FBI suspected Davis was working for the Soviets.
- The FBI placed Davis on the Security Index. Upon outbreak of war with the USSR, Davis was subject to immediate arrest.
- Davis was listed as a communist party member in a 1957 Senate Judiciary Committee report titled “Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States” which covered subversive activities in Hawaii.
Joel Gilbert is the president of Highway 61 Entertainment in Los Angeles. He is a contributing editor for the national security and foreign policy website FamilySecurityMatters.org and has appeared frequently as a foreign policy analyst on national radio shows. He is the writer and director of the notable films: Atomic Jihad: Ahmadinejad’s Coming War for Islamic Revival and Obama’s Politics of Defeat and Farewell Israel: Bush, Iran, and the Revolt of Islam.
At the Kincaid conference, he spoke about his new, groundbreaking film, “Dreams from My Real Father: A Story of Reds and Deception.”
Ryan Mauro is the national security analyst for RadicalIslam.org, the website of the Clarion Fund, the organization that produced the films, “Obsession,” “The Third Jihad” and “Iranium.” An adjunct online professor of terrorism and homeland security, he has a Bachelor’s degree in Intelligence Studies and a Master’s degree in Political Science from American Military University.
Sunday, August 5, 2012
The View: Hot Topics: Tim Tebow's Religion!
The View: Hot Topics: Tim Tebow's Religion!
How do you feel about Tebow’s open expressions of belief in God?
Is Tim Tebow’s faith “fair game” for ridicule by comics?
Would Tebow be mocked if he was a Muslim and shouted “Allahu Akbar” after each touchdown?
Friday, 10th
Friday Aug 10th @ LGBT Center/Carriage House 3907 Spruce
9:30 Group Presentations
12:00 Lunch & Film Screening Please Vote for Me
1:00 Concluding Round Table: Best Practices and Implications for the Future
Ken Hung, The CHOICES program
Lesley Solomon
3:00 Certificates
Thursday, 9th
Thursday Aug 9th @ Education Commons 233 South 33rd
9:30 Skype session with teachers from South City International School Kolkata, India. In this interactive session the participants will discuss best practices for teaching about Revolution and Peace in their classrooms with teachers from one of the leading international schools in Kolkata, India.
10.30 Skype session with faculty from University of Cairo, Egypt talking about the revolution in Egypt.
**Return to LGBT Center/Carriage House 3907 Spruce
12:00 Lunch & Discussion Global Education Motivators
Wayne Jacoby has been a global educator for more than 30 years. Wayne co-founded Global Education Motivators (GEM) in 1981 with two other educators when he was a high school social studies teacher for the Springfield (Montgomery County) School District in suburban Philadelphia. Wayne has been President of GEM since its creation and develops and administers the work of GEM from Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia. GEM was formed to help bring the world into the classroom at a time when few people were doing it. Under the premise that open communication is an important key to world peace, Wayne was very active with school- to-school student video letters and other early uses of communication technology that was supported by global networks such as the United Nations. In the late 1980’s he also helped develop and manage the first on-line database of the United Nations. It was called UNISER (UN Information Services). In this same ten year period he supervised the development and implementation of cultural “hands-on” study/travel programs for educators to Canada, China, Hawaii, India, Japan and Southeast Asia. These experiential learning programs for teachers helped them broaden their perspectives on the world and passed this on to their students. This type of work led to several awards including the Freedoms Foundation’s Outstanding Achievement Award and the Beyond War Foundation award for his commitment to solving global problems and various awards from schools in the tri-state area. Wayne retired from the Springfield School District in 1995 to work full-time at GEM. In 1999 he began developing international videoconferencing programs for Partners in Distance Learning, a consortium of US school districts involved in interactive video conferencing. This set the stage for the variety of distance learning programs he does today.
1:00 Panel & Discussion: Science & Technology
Ed Aguilar directs "Peace Voter Education PA" -- a project designed to inform voters, through clear and concise Voter Guides, what the issues are of peace, the rule of law, global sustainability, defense budgets, and nuclear policy in 2012. The guides are based on a standard Candidate Questionnaire, being distributed to candidates for Senate, House, and President for this fall's election. Based on responses, the guides will inform voters on what the various candidates' positions are on peace, defense, and sustainability issues. It is our view that an informed citizen is an informed voter, and that an informed voter will make the changes we need. For 22 years Aguilar worked as a Special Master in the Philadelphia Courts, enforcing consent decrees in class action cases on civil and constitutional rights. In July, 2000, he joined Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, and became its director for six years in PA. In February of 2006, he co-founded the Project for Nuclear Awareness (PNA), which works on issues of peace, justice, and nuclear disarmament, together with Dr. Craig Eisendrath, former State Department nuclear policy specialist; John Haas, of Rohm and Haas; and Fred Heldring, ex-President of PNB Bank in Philadelphia. Agulilar is on the board of Physicians for Social Responsibility/Phila. and Envision Peace Museum, which is establishing an online and physical museum of peace issues in Philadelphia. He is an advisor to Common Cause, the electoral reform organization, and LCNP-- the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy in NY, which works with the UN on nuclear disarmament, as well. He is writing a book on A New US Foreign Policy for the 21st Century.
Jacques deLisle’s research and teaching focus on contemporary Chinese law and politics, including: legal reform and its relationship to economic reform and political change in China, the international status of Taiwan and cross-Strait relations, China’s engagement with the international order, legal and political issues in Hong Kong under Chinese rule, and U.S.-China relations. His writings on these subjects appear in a variety of fora, including international relations journals, edited volumes of multidisciplinary scholarship, and Asian studies journals, as well as law reviews. DeLisle is also professor of political science and director of the Center for East Asian Studies and associate director of the Cener for the Study of Contemporary China at Penn and director of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He has served frequently as an expert witness on issues of P.R.C. law and government policies and is a consultant, lecturer and advisor to legal reform, development and education programs, primarily in China.
3:00 Group Work
Wednesday, 8th
Wed. Aug 8th @ LGBT Center/Carriage House 3907 Spruce St.
9:30 Panel & Discussion: The Role of Faith & Spirituality
Cheikh Anta Babou joined the history department of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 2002. Dr. Babou teaches African History and the History of Islam in Africa. His research focuses on mystical Islam in West Africa and Senegal and on the new African diaspora. Babou has published extensively on the Muridiyya Muslim order of Senegal and the Senegalese diaspora. His book, Fighting the Greater Jihad: Amadu Bamba and the Founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853-1913 was published by Ohio University Press in 2007. Dr. Babou’s articles appeared in African Affairs, Journal of African History, International Journal of African Historical Studies, Journal of Religion in Africa, Africa Today and other scholarly journals in the United States and in France. He has presented papers in international scholarly meetings on Islam and the transnational migration of West African Muslims. He is an editor of the Journal of African History circa 2011-2016, and is also affiliated to the African Studies Center and the Center for Africana Studies. His current research project examines the experience of West African Muslim immigrants in Europe and North America.
Deven Patel joined the department of South Asia Studies in 2007, where he is an Assistant Professor. His research and teaching interests includes Sanskrit language and literature (belles-lettres, epics, and drama); the history, aesthetics, and reception of Indian literatures; Indian philosophy; theory and the intellectual history of pre-modern South Asia; contemporary literary and cultural theory; Pali, Prankrit; Hindi and Gujarati language and literature; translation and translation theory in South Asia contexts. Dr. Patel earned a B.A from Columbia University, and completed his graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley.
11:00 Teaching Peace and Revolution through the Arts
Stanford Thompson is a musician and educator who is passionate about using music education and performance for social innovation. From 2004 until 2008 he was the founding Director of Operations for the Atlanta Trumpet Festival. He also serves as the President and Artistic Director for the Reading Summer Music Institute since 2008, Program Director of the Meru (Kenya) Music Project since 2009, founding Director of Tune Up Philly in 2010, and Executive Director of the El Sistema-inspired program Play On, Philly! in 2011. For El Sistema-inspired programs he has designed and consulted, Stanford has secured over $1 million in funding which has lead to the direct impact of thousands of children around the world. In Philadelphia, specifically, his students have performed on the stages of the Kimmel Center, Mann Music Center, and the Wanamaker Building and collaborated with students during the first national convening of El Sistema-inspired programs in the United States. The network of children orchestras in Philadelphia are expanding to diverse neighborhoods and steadily proving their impact on social ills the targeted communities face. Stanford is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music where he holds a Bachelor’s degree in performance and the New England Conservatory’s Abreu Fellows Program. He serves on the board of the American Composers Forum Philadelphia Chapter and recognized as one of Philadelphia’s top 76 Creative Connectors. He has presented at international conferences at TED, League of American Orchestras. Sistema Canada, and El Sistema USA.
12:30 Lunch & Discussion South Asian American Digital Archive
Samip Mallick is the Executive Director of the South Asian American Digital Archive. He was formerly the Director of the Ranganathan Center for Digital Information (RCDI) at the University of Chicago Library. He holds a M.S. in Library and Information Sciences from the University of Illinois, a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan College of Engineering and has done graduate work in Ancient Indian History at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India. He was also previously the Assistant Bibliographer for the Southern Asia Collection at the University of Chicago Library and has worked for the South Asia and International Migration Programs at the Social Science Research Council (SSRC).
1:30 Teaching Peace and Revolution through the Arts cont.
Lisa Jo Epstein (Master's & Ph.D. in Theatre, University of TX at Austin) is a professional theatre director, educator, community-based teaching artist and co-founder of Gas & Electric Arts. She is the only Philadelphia-area theatre teaching artist who trained extensively with Augusto Boal, founder of the Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) in both the US and at the Center for Theatre of the Oppressed in Paris France. She also trained in directing and physical theatre at the world-renowned French theatre company, the Théâtre du Soleil. As Gas & Electric Arts' Education Director, Lisa Jo brings over two decades of facilitating experiential TO workshops with many populations around issues of identity and empowerment, community-building, diversity and social justice. She has worked with teens and adults in diverse locations --nationally and internationally-- from community centers to colleges and universities, public and private schools, from halfway homes and residential treatment centers to social service agencies. As one of Boal's "multipliers," Lisa Jo has trained countless people in TO techniques through workshops, professional development (particularly for teachers) and residencies.
Gas & Electric Arts' Theatre of the Oppressed education is a core aspect of our mission to stimulate dialogue amongst youth and adults alike. For our company, Lisa Jo also created our immersive summer TO programs that normally run for 6 weeks, 4 times per day for at least 3 hrs per day. One is called "Power gRRRls" which is exclusively for teen girls, and the other is "Teens for a Change" (mixed group). Prior to founding Gas & Electric Arts, Lisa Jo was an Assistant Professor at Tulane University where she won awards for teaching and directing, inside the university and for her work in the community. In the Philadelphia area, she has taught at Swarthmore, Temple University, Arcadia, University of the Arts and Rutgers Camden.
3:00 Group Work
Tuesday Aug 7th @ Education Commons 233 South 33rd
Tuesday Aug 7th @ Education Commons 233 South 33rd
The Education Commons is located in Weiss Pavilion and attached to Penn's stadium on 33rd street between Walnut and Spruce. The entrance to the Commons is through the Fox Fitness Center. Take the elevator or stairs up one floor to level 3, and enter through the glass doors.
9:30 Breakout Workshops (Choose either A or B)
A.1) Think, Care, Act: Hands-on Peace & Human Rights Education for Elementary and Middle School
Susan Gelber Cannon is an American educator with 30 years of experience in elementary and middleschool classrooms. Her special fields of interest are character, global, multicultural, and peace education: developing teaching methods to help children to think, care, and act honorably and globally. Trained in moral development at Harvard Graduate School of Education, she teaches history and English, as well as Model UN, peacemaking, and debate at The Episcopal Academy, near Philadelphia, PA, in the United States. Cannon has also taught middle school students and trained teachers in China and Japan. She gives presentations and workshops on peace education at conferences globally. She and her husband (the artist J. Kadir Cannon) initiated a Citizens’ Peace Tour in 2006, to Japan, China, Canada, Denmark, and Norway. Cannon created www.teachforpeace.org to give teachers, parents, and students rationales and resources to teach and work for peace locally and globally. Her blog provides updates, news, and inspirations for teaching for peace. Cannon’s book, Think, Care, Act: Teaching for a Peaceful Future, details methods to teach for peace.
A.2 ) Anti-Bias Curriculum in Elementary & Middle School: Creating classrooms in which change is empowering, work is meaningful and community is genuine
Beverly Braxton is a veteran New York State public school teacher, education consultant and adjunct professor. She has 28 years experience in Partners in Education (PIE), an alternative program she helped develop in the Warwick Valley Central School District. The PIE program is based on multi-age classroom practices, utilizes integrated curriculum, and encourages parent-teacher partnerships. Beverly values democracy, diversity, and peace education in teaching practices and has extensive experience helping teachers create community and multicultural learning environments in their classrooms. She is a graduate of the Humanistic/Multicultural Education Program at SUNY New Paltz. She also has training in mediation, conflict resolution, and NVC (non-violent communication) and incorporates these practices in her work with students and parents. She has taught preservice and in-service teachers at the college level and in several school districts. She is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, fellowships, and honors, and is currently a member of the Hudson Valley Writing Project.
B.) Peace Education & Human Rights for High School & Post-Secondary Levels
Charlotte DiBartolomeo received her Masters in Conflict Transformation with a specialty in Intercultural Service, Leadership & Management from The School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont. She also holds a graduate certificate in civil society building. She has studied post conflict reconstruction in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and has served as an NGO delegate to the United Nations. She has been a trainer and facilitator for seventeen years working in both the corporate and governmental sector. In addition to her training experience, Charlotte was a crisis interventionist, mediator and peace educator for senior high school students for eight years. She also developed and instructs a graduate certificate in peace education at Arcadia University. In 2008 she founded Red Kite Project, a training and consulting organization dedicated to helping people move through conflict.
Zach Stone holds a degree in Counseling and Behavioral Health from Drexel University and certificates in crisis intervention, victim/offender conferencing, addiction studies, human services, and family home interventions. He specializes in human behaviors, communications, conflict management, and violence prevention. Zach has spent the last decade as a mediator, facilitator, and corporate coach. He has worked in the Philadelphia justice system, corporate, government, and academic sectors. For the past 12 years Zach has worked with youth utilizing the Help Increase the Peace Program. He is on staff at Drexel in the behavioral health department and is a regular speaker with the Association for Conflict Resolution and the International Coaching Federation.
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Panel & Discussion: Youth Perspectives on Peace & Revolution
Jamal Alsarraj is a University of Pennsylvania undergraduate alumnus, who has participated in a variety of research and international development programming since graduating. Born in the United Arab Emirates from an Iraqi background and having immigrated to the United States early in his life, Jamal has always been interested in the social and political dynamics affecting transnational and multi-ethnic populations. He has previously reported on global developments affecting various refugee populations for the United Nations Online News Center and evaluated multi-sector trends for both an urban development firm and strategy think- thank. Most recently, Jamal has started collaborating with the Philadelphia Global Water Initiative on projects related to water resource management in the Global South. He continues to grow more interested in the nexus between environmental/resource security and political conflict.
Ayuen Ajok is originally from Bor, a small village in South Sudan. In 1987, an insurgent group from North Sudan attacked his village. Like many of his friends, he fled to Ethiopia, where they stayed as refugees for 4 years. In 1991, they traveled back to Sudan where constant attacks from the North led them to leave for Kenya the following year. In 1992, he became registered as a refugee at the Kakuma Refugee Camp. Ajok and his friends often went without food or water for long periods of time. The camp was often raided, and boys were routinely kidnapped. In spite of everything, they managed to learn from teachers who used the ground as a blackboard. After spending 8 years in Kakuma, Ajok came to the U.S. in 2000. He graduated from high school, Temple University, and most recently Arcadia University, with an M.A. in International Peace and Conflict Resolution. He is described as one of the "Lost Boys of Sudan," a term used for male refugee children from South Sudan who were resettled to United States. Ajok’s daily life and professional aspirations are motivated by the challenges and hardships he endured during Sudan’s civil war.
Jessica E. Lee is a Ph.D. candidate at Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. Her research interests include acculturation and assimilation of refugees and immigrants, health care utilization, and health policy. She received her M.S.S. from Bryn Mawr and an M.L.A. in Medical Discourse and a Certificate in Gender Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. She is an Albert Schweitzer Fellow partnering with the Nationalities Service Center as well as the Philadelphia Refugee Mental Health Collaborative. The goals of her Schweitzer project are to help refugees with high medical needs to navigate the health care system in Philadelphia and to implement a refugee mental health-screening tool at refugee health clinics.
Parangkush Subedi (PK) was born in Bhutan. He lived for 17 years in the UNHCR managed refugee camps in eastern Nepal as a refugee and came to the United States in July 2008 under a refugee resettlement program in Clarkston, Georgia. He moved to Philadelphia in 2011 for his current job as a Refugee Health Coordinator at HIAS-PA (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society). In 2009, PK was granted permanent residency status along with his family members. He eagerly awaits the year 2013 when he can obtain U.S. citizenship. PK completed an undergraduate degree in science in India, MS in Thailand and MPH from Emory University, Atlanta, GA. PK has teaching experience as well experience working with NGOs in the refugee camps in Nepal. PK’s family and over 100,000 Nepali speaking Bhutanese nationals were evicted from their homes between 1990-1993 by the Royal Government of Bhutan. The reason behind their sudden eviction is still mysterious; however, the King and his coterie used the peoples’ demand for human rights and democracy as an excuse to justify the expulsion. Today 1/6th of the total population of Bhutan lives in exile in different parts of the world (USA, Canada, Australia, Nepal, India, Netherland, Denmark, New-Zealand, UK).
3:00 Group Work
Monday 9:30
9:30 Registration & Welcome
Middle East Center, Labaron Palmer
South Asia Center, Raili Roy
African Studies Center, Anastasia Shown
Center for East Asian Studies, Melissa Jen DiFrancesco
Peace Day Philly, Lisa Parker
Teacher introductions
10:30 Major Revolutions in the Middle East, Asia and Africa
Shahana Chattaraj is a postdoctoral researcher in Global Cities at the Lauder Institute for the 2012-2013 academic year. She holds a Ph.D. in public affairs (urban planning/sociology) from Princeton University and a master’s degree in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Shahana’s research interests are located broadly at the intersection of globalization, economic development and urbanization in emerging economies, with a particular interest in state-business-civil society relations in globalizing cities, the informal economy, and emerging patterns of socio-economic and socio-spatial inequality in urban centers. Her dissertation compares urban restructuring in the context of globalization in Mumbai and Shanghai, with a focus on the role of the sub-national state. While at Lauder, Dr. Chattaraj will be preparing an article for publication on the political economy of Mumbai, and working on a book manuscript based on her dissertation. She will also be leading a graduate seminar on Cities in the Global Economy, and co-teaching a City and Regional Planning course on urban poverty, as well as advising Lauder students in their own research. Dr. Chattaraj is also involved in a comparative urban research project on urban governance with the Center for Policy Research, New Delhi, and is collaborating with the Penn Institute of Urban Research on two projects. Prior to her doctoral studies, Dr. Chattaraj has worked with the United Nations Population Fund and the World Bank as well as a community organization in New Delhi, where she grew up.
12:00 Lunch & Film Screening God Grew Tired of Us
1:00 Teaching Peace and Revolution
Lesley Solomon Lesley Solomon is a "master" teacher who has worked previously with the Center for East Asian Studies providing teacher-training programs throughout the year (National Consortium for Teaching About Asia). Lesley is now a retired teacher but she taught world history, international relations, Asian history, and world literature at the middle, high school and college levels. She has earned in a PhD in International Relations.
2:30 Group Work
Caliphate? Saudi invites Iran for the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
Caliphate? Saudis invite Iran for the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
Immediately labeled as "domestic terrorism," Possibly Multiple Shooters in Wisconsin Incident and Feds on Scene
The shooter was on the Federal government's observation list.
WASHINGTON -- Federal investigators had “looked at” Sikh temple gunman Wade Michael Page more than once because of his associations with right-wing extremists and the possibility that he was providing funding to a domestic terrorist group, but law enforcement officials at the time determined there was not enough evidence of a crime to open an investigation, a senior U.S. law enforcement official said.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, would not say Monday which law enforcement agency had considered investigating Page, or when.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-investigators-kept-tabs-alleged-sikh-temple-shooter-20120806,0,2390104.story
"OAK CREEK - AUGUST 6: FBI special agent in charge, Teresa Carlson holds a photograph of a subject that the FBI wants to interview and is asking for any information as she speaks at a press conference on the shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin where yesterday a gunman fired upon people at service August, 6, 2012 in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. At least six people were killed when the shooter identified as Wade Michael Page opened fire on congregants in the Milwaukee suburb. The suspect who was a United States Army veteran was shot dead in a shootout with police. (Credit: Getty Images)."
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/presser-reveals-new-details-about-victims-timeline-of-sikh-shooting/
FoxNews reported that the person of interest was cleared of any involvement; however, there was no released information about why this non-Sikh person, on the scene, was not involved.
The shooter's mother stated "in the last 12 years I have not been in contact with him at all since his dad and I divorced."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2184602/Wisconsin-temple-shooting-Devastated-mother-Sikh-temple-killer-Wade-Michael-Page-apologizes-sons-victims.html
The shooter was "trained in psychological warfare," had a recent break-up, and financially difficulties. He was discharged from the service because of working issues, and excessive drinking. "On July 15, Page moved to a duplex across the street. After the FBI searched that residence Sunday, Weins said he returned to the apartment and found only a computer desk, chair and an inflatable mattress." "Online records show Page had a brief criminal history in other states, including pleading guilty to misdemeanor criminal mischief after a 1994 arrest in El Paso. He received six months' probation. Page also pleaded guilty to driving under the influence in Colorado in 1999 but never completed a sentence that included alcohol treatment, records show." "The FBI was leading the investigation because the shooting was considered domestic terrorism. The agency said it had no reason to believe anyone other than Page was involved." "Page was issued five pistol-purchase permits in 2008 in North Carolina, paying a $5 fee for each. The Cumberland County Sheriff's office declined to release his application form, which requires another person to affirm the applicant is of "good moral character." The forms also typically ask about military experience of applicants, who must pass a criminal background check." "Page did not have the additional permit needed to legally carry a concealed weapon."
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SIKH_TEMPLE_SHOOTING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-08-05-15-14-22
"Page served as a "psychological operations specialist" between April 1992 and October 1998, ending his career at the base at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, home to the US Army's airborne forces and Special Operations Command.
He was a qualified parachutist who received several good conduct awards and a National Defense Service Medal, but never won significant promotion.
He had a general discharge and was ineligible for reenlistment, Oak Creek Police Chief John Edwards told reporters."
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/7-killed-us-sikh-temple-shooting-police-185640479.html
"Tattoos on the body of the slain Sikh temple gunman and certain biographical details led the FBI to treat the attack at a Milwaukee-area temple as an act of domestic terrorism."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-sikh-temple-domestic-terrorism-20120805,0,6094643.story
ABC reported that "the shootings are the work of a `white supremacist' or `skinhead.'"
http://abcnews.go.com/US/sikh-temple-oak-creek-wisconsin-officials-white-supremacist/story?id=16933779#.UB8uEP2iPqI
The evidence is stated so vaguely, including no details, this easily could be made up.
The "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 defines homegrown terrorism as the `use, planned use, or threatened use of force or violence by a group or individual born, raised, or based and operating primarily within the United States or any possession of the United States to intimidate or coerce the United States government, the civilian population of the United States, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.'”
Cf. GovTrack.us. H.R. 1955--110th Congress (2007): Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007, GovTrack.us (database of federal legislation) http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?tab=summary&bill=h110-1955
No details on how the investigation has determined that this was domestic terrorism so quickly.
In contrast, despite his contacts with a known international terrorist, Nidal Hasan was not considered a terrorist.
"The FBI and U.S. Army determined that Hasan acted alone and as of yet have found no evidence of links to terrorist groups. They are satisfied that his communications with Awlaki, targeted in 2010 as a dangerous Al Qaeda leader, posed no threat at the time. The decision by Attorney General Eric Holder not to charge Hasan with terrorism was controversial, and it was widely debated as to whether Hasan could be called a "terrorist".[10] One terrorism analyst believed Hasan was "acting individually because he doesn't want to deploy overseas".[11] Hasan has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder.[12][13"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidal_Malik_Hasan
The initial incident call went out at 10:30 am according to a police spokesperson: FoxNews, 5:15 p.m.
FoxNews reported possibly multiple shooters.
The shooting started about 10 a.m.
"Someone who sent a text message to a Journal Sentinel reporter shortly before noon said that there were two shooters with children possibly as hostages."
http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/reports-of-people-shot-at-sikh-temple-in-oak-creek-qc6cgc0-165059506.html
"There were conflicting reports about whether another gunman had taken hostages inside the temple. Local news agencies, citing text messages from people inside have reported that two or more gunmen could have been involved."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/us/shooting-reported-at-temple-in-wisconsin.html
Though early reports had suggested there may have been more than one attacker, he said officers had not identified any other gunmen.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/05/us/wisconsin-temple-shooting/index.html
Police did not initially identify any additional gunman on scene, but did not rule out the possibility of additional shooters.
http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/165061026.html
One witness told Newsradio 620 WTMJ's Dan O'Donnell that at least one, possibly four gunmen were hiding inside the temple after they started shooting.
http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/165061026.html
Police say they don't think there is a second shooter involved.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/05/possible-injuries-after-shooting-at-sikh-temple-in-wisconsin/
Unidentified persons stated there were two or more shooters.
Yet, at least one source already concluded there was only one, crazed, gunman.
"Among the deceased is the gunman, who apparently acted alone."
The shooter was a white male in his 30s.
"We have no idea," one of the temple's committee members, Ven Boba Rihe, said of the motive. "It's pretty much a hate crime. It's not an insider."
How would he know the motive?
Information broadcast over a police radio frequency said one witness told law enforcement the shooter was a white male with a heavy build, bald head and wearing a sleeveless T-shirt.
http://oakcreek.patch.com/articles/several-people-reported-shot-at-sikh-temple
Numerous police agencies had responded to scene to assist Oak Creek, including the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The Joint Terrorism Task Force, a collection of federal, state and local law enforcement, was on the scene of the shooting by 1 p.m. Those task forces, several of which are situated around the country, typically work quietly to prevent terrorism attacks but also respond to mass shootings to help coordinate law enforcement. Sources said it was too early to say if this will be considered an act of terrorism.
U.S. Attorney James Santelle said he expected federal law enforcement will play a role in the investigation. Exactly what that role is remains to be seen, Santelle said.
In previous mass shootings, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives trace the gun or guns used in the shooting. FBI also may take on a general investigative role, as they have in the past, helping with search warrants or conducting out of state aspects of the investigation.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/reports-of-people-shot-at-sikh-temple-in-oak-creek-qc6cgc0-165059506.html
WASHINGTON -- Federal investigators had “looked at” Sikh temple gunman Wade Michael Page more than once because of his associations with right-wing extremists and the possibility that he was providing funding to a domestic terrorist group, but law enforcement officials at the time determined there was not enough evidence of a crime to open an investigation, a senior U.S. law enforcement official said.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, would not say Monday which law enforcement agency had considered investigating Page, or when.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-investigators-kept-tabs-alleged-sikh-temple-shooter-20120806,0,2390104.story
"OAK CREEK - AUGUST 6: FBI special agent in charge, Teresa Carlson holds a photograph of a subject that the FBI wants to interview and is asking for any information as she speaks at a press conference on the shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin where yesterday a gunman fired upon people at service August, 6, 2012 in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. At least six people were killed when the shooter identified as Wade Michael Page opened fire on congregants in the Milwaukee suburb. The suspect who was a United States Army veteran was shot dead in a shootout with police. (Credit: Getty Images)."
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/presser-reveals-new-details-about-victims-timeline-of-sikh-shooting/
FoxNews reported that the person of interest was cleared of any involvement; however, there was no released information about why this non-Sikh person, on the scene, was not involved.
The shooter's mother stated "in the last 12 years I have not been in contact with him at all since his dad and I divorced."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2184602/Wisconsin-temple-shooting-Devastated-mother-Sikh-temple-killer-Wade-Michael-Page-apologizes-sons-victims.html
The shooter was "trained in psychological warfare," had a recent break-up, and financially difficulties. He was discharged from the service because of working issues, and excessive drinking. "On July 15, Page moved to a duplex across the street. After the FBI searched that residence Sunday, Weins said he returned to the apartment and found only a computer desk, chair and an inflatable mattress." "Online records show Page had a brief criminal history in other states, including pleading guilty to misdemeanor criminal mischief after a 1994 arrest in El Paso. He received six months' probation. Page also pleaded guilty to driving under the influence in Colorado in 1999 but never completed a sentence that included alcohol treatment, records show." "The FBI was leading the investigation because the shooting was considered domestic terrorism. The agency said it had no reason to believe anyone other than Page was involved." "Page was issued five pistol-purchase permits in 2008 in North Carolina, paying a $5 fee for each. The Cumberland County Sheriff's office declined to release his application form, which requires another person to affirm the applicant is of "good moral character." The forms also typically ask about military experience of applicants, who must pass a criminal background check." "Page did not have the additional permit needed to legally carry a concealed weapon."
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SIKH_TEMPLE_SHOOTING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-08-05-15-14-22
"Page served as a "psychological operations specialist" between April 1992 and October 1998, ending his career at the base at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, home to the US Army's airborne forces and Special Operations Command.
He was a qualified parachutist who received several good conduct awards and a National Defense Service Medal, but never won significant promotion.
He had a general discharge and was ineligible for reenlistment, Oak Creek Police Chief John Edwards told reporters."
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/7-killed-us-sikh-temple-shooting-police-185640479.html
"Tattoos on the body of the slain Sikh temple gunman and certain biographical details led the FBI to treat the attack at a Milwaukee-area temple as an act of domestic terrorism."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-sikh-temple-domestic-terrorism-20120805,0,6094643.story
ABC reported that "the shootings are the work of a `white supremacist' or `skinhead.'"
http://abcnews.go.com/US/sikh-temple-oak-creek-wisconsin-officials-white-supremacist/story?id=16933779#.UB8uEP2iPqI
The evidence is stated so vaguely, including no details, this easily could be made up.
The "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 defines homegrown terrorism as the `use, planned use, or threatened use of force or violence by a group or individual born, raised, or based and operating primarily within the United States or any possession of the United States to intimidate or coerce the United States government, the civilian population of the United States, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.'”
Cf. GovTrack.us. H.R. 1955--110th Congress (2007): Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007, GovTrack.us (database of federal legislation) http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?tab=summary&bill=h110-1955
No details on how the investigation has determined that this was domestic terrorism so quickly.
In contrast, despite his contacts with a known international terrorist, Nidal Hasan was not considered a terrorist.
"The FBI and U.S. Army determined that Hasan acted alone and as of yet have found no evidence of links to terrorist groups. They are satisfied that his communications with Awlaki, targeted in 2010 as a dangerous Al Qaeda leader, posed no threat at the time. The decision by Attorney General Eric Holder not to charge Hasan with terrorism was controversial, and it was widely debated as to whether Hasan could be called a "terrorist".[10] One terrorism analyst believed Hasan was "acting individually because he doesn't want to deploy overseas".[11] Hasan has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder.[12][13"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidal_Malik_Hasan
The initial incident call went out at 10:30 am according to a police spokesperson: FoxNews, 5:15 p.m.
FoxNews reported possibly multiple shooters.
The shooting started about 10 a.m.
"Someone who sent a text message to a Journal Sentinel reporter shortly before noon said that there were two shooters with children possibly as hostages."
http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/reports-of-people-shot-at-sikh-temple-in-oak-creek-qc6cgc0-165059506.html
"There were conflicting reports about whether another gunman had taken hostages inside the temple. Local news agencies, citing text messages from people inside have reported that two or more gunmen could have been involved."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/us/shooting-reported-at-temple-in-wisconsin.html
Though early reports had suggested there may have been more than one attacker, he said officers had not identified any other gunmen.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/05/us/wisconsin-temple-shooting/index.html
Police did not initially identify any additional gunman on scene, but did not rule out the possibility of additional shooters.
http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/165061026.html
One witness told Newsradio 620 WTMJ's Dan O'Donnell that at least one, possibly four gunmen were hiding inside the temple after they started shooting.
http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/165061026.html
Police say they don't think there is a second shooter involved.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/05/possible-injuries-after-shooting-at-sikh-temple-in-wisconsin/
Unidentified persons stated there were two or more shooters.
Yet, at least one source already concluded there was only one, crazed, gunman.
"Among the deceased is the gunman, who apparently acted alone."
The shooter was a white male in his 30s.
"We have no idea," one of the temple's committee members, Ven Boba Rihe, said of the motive. "It's pretty much a hate crime. It's not an insider."
How would he know the motive?
Information broadcast over a police radio frequency said one witness told law enforcement the shooter was a white male with a heavy build, bald head and wearing a sleeveless T-shirt.
http://oakcreek.patch.com/articles/several-people-reported-shot-at-sikh-temple
Numerous police agencies had responded to scene to assist Oak Creek, including the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The Joint Terrorism Task Force, a collection of federal, state and local law enforcement, was on the scene of the shooting by 1 p.m. Those task forces, several of which are situated around the country, typically work quietly to prevent terrorism attacks but also respond to mass shootings to help coordinate law enforcement. Sources said it was too early to say if this will be considered an act of terrorism.
U.S. Attorney James Santelle said he expected federal law enforcement will play a role in the investigation. Exactly what that role is remains to be seen, Santelle said.
In previous mass shootings, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives trace the gun or guns used in the shooting. FBI also may take on a general investigative role, as they have in the past, helping with search warrants or conducting out of state aspects of the investigation.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/reports-of-people-shot-at-sikh-temple-in-oak-creek-qc6cgc0-165059506.html
Saturday, August 4, 2012
MEET THE WALL ST. BUSINESSMEN WHO STOOD UP TO THE PROTESTERS: ‘OCCUPY A DESK!’
MEET THE WALL ST. BUSINESSMEN WHO STOOD UP TO THE PROTESTERS: ‘OCCUPY A DESK!’
Friday, August 3, 2012
SENATE RULES COMMITTEE BLOCKS TEA PARTY DEBT COMMISSION FROM PRESENTING BUDGET PROPOSAL
SENATE RULES COMMITTEE BLOCKS TEA PARTY DEBT COMMISSION FROM PRESENTING BUDGET PROPOSAL
SOLYNDRA UPDATE
The House Energy and Commerce Committee released its final report Thursday on the 18-month investigation of the failure of energy company Solyndra, that collapsed 2 years after receiving a $535 million loan grantee. Three subpoenas were issued in the investigation, with five hearings and the review of over 300,000 documents.
Joined Friday by Tara Setmayer, communications director for Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, the ‘Real News’ panel discussed the latest developments in the Solyndra controversy and whether the scandal is still warranting the media attention it deserves.
Islamist Restricts American Military Votes
Previous to her working at the Department of Justice, Lema Bashir was a legal adviser with the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) in Washington, D.C. The ADC:
- Opposes U.S. aid to Israel
- Opposes ethnic profiling of Arab Americans
- Supports Palestinian "martyrdom" campaigns in Israel
With the Justice Department, the Obama for America Campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and the Ohio Democratic Party filed suit in OH to strike down part of that state's law governing voting by members of the military. Their suit said that part of the law is "arbitrary" with "no discernible rational basis."
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/02/obama-campaign-sues-to-restrict-military-voting
Tribute to the Legendary Mick Ronson | Guitar Hangar | Part One
Rick Tedesco has always been an infallible fan of Mick Ronson, from his early days with David Bowie to his later years as a solo artist so inevitably, after Ronson passed away in 1993, Rick decided to begin his search for all things Ronson.
With the Help of his good friend Ian Hunter, and some strategic investigative skills he was able to track down Ronson's infamous Gibson Les Paul and the rest, as they say, is history.
So we hope you enjoy this video we at Guitar Hangar put together for you, as Rick takes you on a journey through his collection of gear Mick Ronson used to develop his sound.
Screenshot, 3 August 2012
Screenshot from Tedesco interview illustrating Ronno's chronically broken guitar from an earlier period and using Ian as the almost naked model.
Police Drone in Houston: PSA Prepares
A Houston area law enforcement agency is prepared to launch an unmanned drone that could someday carry weapons, Local 2 Investigates reported Friday.
The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office in Conroe paid $300,000 in federal homeland security grant money and Friday it received the ShadowHawk unmanned helicopter made by Vanguard Defense Industries of Spring.
A laptop computer is used to control the 50-pound unmanned chopper, and a game-like console is used to aim and zoom a powerful camera and infrared heat-seeking device mounted on the front.
"To be in on the ground floor of this is pretty exciting for us here in Montgomery County," Sheriff Tommy Gage said.
He said the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) could be used in hunting criminals who are running from police or assessing a scene where SWAT team officers are facing an active shooter.
Gage said it will also be deployed for criminal investigations such as drug shipments.
"We're not going to use it to be invading somebody's privacy. It'll be used for situations we have with criminals," Gage said.
http://www.click2houston.com/news/29619788/detail.html
Is it just a coincidence but with a $200,000 federal grant Houston has produced a shooter PSA (similar to the Batman shooting)?
Cf. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/run-hide-fight-city-of-houston-releases-controversial-video-outlining-how-to-survive-an-active-shooter-crisis/
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Rock And Roll Queen [ Soundboard audio, Hammersmith Apollo '09 ]
Rock And Roll Queen [ Soundboard audio, Hammersmith Apollo October '09 ]
Fan filmed video matched to soundboard audio.
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