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| Seymour Hersh's Awesome Ideas On How To Fix The 'Pathetic' American Media Posted: 27 Sep 2013 11:50 AM PDT The Guardian calls them extreme, but I call Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author Seymour Hersh's ideas on how to fix the truly pathetic American media (better described as the 'Obamamedia') as simply awesome and spot-on: [...] " ... close down the news bureaus of NBC and ABC, sack 90% of editors in publishing and get back to the fundamental job of journalists which, he says, is to be an outsider." ... The Obama administration lies systematically, he claims, yet none of the leviathans of American media, the TV networks or big print titles, challenge him. "It's pathetic, they are more than obsequious, they are afraid to pick on this guy [Obama]," he declares in an interview with the Guardian. "It used to be when you were in a situation when something very dramatic happened, the president and the minions around the president had control of the narrative, you would pretty much know they would do the best they could to tell the story straight. Now that doesn't happen any more. Now they take advantage of something like that and they work out how to re-elect the president. He isn't even sure if the recent revelations about the depth and breadth of surveillance by the National Security Agency will have a lasting effect. There's more here. | | Turn the other cheek? Posted: 27 Sep 2013 11:30 AM PDT All over the world, Muslims are more often than not deep down in the thick of the hate, torture, pillage, rape and murder of non-Muslims - mostly Christians. There is just no escaping the clearly transparent fact that jihadists use their religion as a rallying cry to kill Christians and other non-Muslims (and often even Muslims that don't toe the Islamist line). But surely the United Nations is on top of this, right? No. as Stu Bykofsky points out at The Daily News, the U.N. avoids the Christian "problem" like leprosy.
| | Kenyan Soldiers Reveal Al-Shabaab Brutally Tortured Hostages Before Killing Them During Nairobi Mall Siege: 'Men Castrated, Eyes Gouged Out, Bodies Hanging From Hooks, Fingers Removed' Posted: 27 Sep 2013 10:40 AM PDT The utter brutality and inhumanity of Islamists is beyond belief ... except to their victims who have to endure it and those that see the results of it first hand. 
As 90% of newspaper reports on the Kenya and Pakistan attacks censor the words Islam, jihad, and Muslims, despite the murderers' exhortations, at least The Daily Mail is out front reporting the true terror inflicted by the Islamists - reporting that soldiers are now telling of the horrific torture meted out by terrorists in the Nairobi mall massacre as the first pictures of inside the Westgate Shopping Center have emerged. The Daily Mail reports: Soldiers told of the horrific torture meted out by terrorists in the Nairobi mall massacre yesterday with claims hostages were dismembered, had their eyes gouged out and were left hanging from hooks in the ceiling. Men were said to have been castrated and had fingers removed with pliers before being blinded and hanged. Children were found dead in the food court fridges with knives still embedded in their bodies, it was claimed. Most of the defeated terrorists, meanwhile, were reportedly discovered 'burnt to ashes', set alight by the last extremist standing to try to protect their identities. The horrifying details came yesterday as the first pictures emerged from within the wreckage of the building, showing piles of bodies left strewn across the floor. A third of the mall was destroyed in the battle between terrorists and Kenyan troops. Lying in the rubble are feared to be the bodies of as many as 71 civilians who have been declared missing by the Kenyan Red Cross. With detectives, including the FBI and the Metropolitan Police, still unable to reach the wrecked part of the mall for fear of setting off explosives, it could take up to a week to determine exactly who is still inside. Yesterday, soldiers and doctors who were among the first people into the mall after it was reclaimed on Tuesday, spoke of the horrifying scenes inside. 'You find people with hooks hanging from the roof,' said one Kenyan doctor, who asked not to be named. 'They removed eyes, ears, nose. They get your hand and sharpen it like a pencil then they tell you to write your name with the blood. 'They drive knives inside a child's body. 'Actually if you look at all the bodies, unless those ones that were escaping, fingers are cut by pliers, the noses are ripped by pliers. Here it was pain.' ... More here. | | The Question is, "What's the Answer?" Posted: 27 Sep 2013 10:10 AM PDT (Guest post by Dr. Robert Owens.) In politics and economics as in everything in life there always seems to be more questions than answers. Some answers previously shared: Politically speaking, I have said before in these columns that I no longer consider myself to be a conservative because there is nothing left to conserve. Instead I consider myself a Liberal in the classical sense: in the tradition of Jefferson and Paine a believer in human liberty. The once proud name of Liberal has been coopted and fundamentally transformed by the Socialists who have followed the advice of one of their early leaders, Norman Thomas, "The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." I say it is time to reclaim the name. In the economic realm, I am unabashedly a believer in capitalism. The reason for this is that it is the only system ever devised by man that requires freedom as a foundation for it to exist. Every other economic system ever tried is a centrally-planned command system. The king, the dictator, or the politburo decides how many widgets the country needs and that is how many widgets the country gets and everyone works at the widget factory. As a child of the Cold War who had Marx shoved down his throat by Socialist teachers from grade school through college, I rebelled when one of my History professors told me that economics was the lynchpin of History. It wasn't until after the fall of the Evil Empire that I was able to appreciate this truth. It is interesting to note that before we adopted the German style of College education in the 1890s Economics, History and Political Science were all one discipline. How can we understand any one of them without the others? One legged stools do not stand very well. Information in a vacuum is still a vacuum. So what is the question? How can America continue to exist politically as a Republic with a constitutionally limited government dedicated to personal liberty, economic freedom and individual opportunity if our central government destroys competition? The support of competition does not make someone an anarchist as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid accuses. The use of competition as an organizing mechanism in society precludes the use of certain types of coercive regulations. However, it does not preclude the use regulations or guidelines. There are important reasons why the negative aspects of this statement have been stressed by the advocates of competition while the positive have been neglected by its opponents. It is necessary that all parties in the market place must be free to buy and sell at any price which they can agree on. It is also necessary that everyone should be free to produce, sell and buy anything that can be produced or sold. It is also necessary that everyone has equal and free access into the trades. Any attempt to control or regulate prices or quantities of commodities deprives competition of its ability to bring about the effective coordination of individual efforts because price changes then are no longer able to correctly act as a reliable guide for an individual's actions. This is not an iron-clad rule. As long as any restrictions placed on all potential producers affect all producers the same and are not used as an indirect method for controlling prices and quantities. All such restrictions impose extra costs however if they are imposed evenly competition can survive if not thrive. For example, it is generally agreed that regulations to control the use of poisonous substances, to limit working hours, or to require sanitary conditions are both desirable and necessary. The only question here is: are the social advantages gained by these regulations greater than the economic costs they impose. Neither is the existence of social services incompatible with freedom as long as their organization and operation is not designed to restrict competition. Thus it is shown that the advocates of competition and economic freedom are not anarchists demanding a Laissez-faire anything goes free-for-all. They admit the need for safety and agree that as long as things are equal things are fair. The fairness of competition is shown in one of its primary foundational principles: that the owner of private property benefits from all the useful services rendered and is liable for all the damages caused to others by its use. When it becomes impossible to make the enjoyment of certain services dependent on payment or if the damages from its use are deflected then completion is ineffective as a social organizer because the price system has been disrupted. Thus both restrictions on the use of property and bailouts which transfer the cost of failure from those who made the bad decisions to the taxpayers cause the market to become unhinged from reality and the creature of government direction. We see licenses, permits, and other regulations control who can engage in what economic activity. Look at the stock market. Does it rise or fall because of innovation? Do the efforts of people to create and market new products lead the DOW to new heights? No. The market rises and falls on whether or not the Fed is going to continue pumping fiat money into the system. The rules of the game have been so distorted by the government that honest and open competition is almost impossible. This is why the underground economy flourishes, because it the only place where free competition still exists. And people will always yearn to be free. No matter how governments try to chain their citizens down with webs of regulations and nets of laws Gulliver will always struggle and strain against the ties that bind until he breaks free. It is obvious to all that President Obama has succeeded in his goal of fundamentally transforming America. For example, his massive stimulus that paid off campaign debts to unions and donors and his mountains of new regulations on everything from banking to coal to student loans. There is the never-ending FED pump which just keeps pouring more money into an already bloated bubble in an effort to make a socialized crippled economy at least look like it works. And of course there is Obamacare which effectively socializes 1/6 of the entire economy. The combination of these policies breaks the back of competition and sound the death knell of the great experiment in freedom begun in 1776. Drip by drip, inch by inch we have been moved closer to the goal. Now it is the Health Care take-over and the flood of fiat currency that are leading to a terminal case of bankruptcy, a systems collapse, and as our Progressive leaders hope the dawn of a new day. When the invisible hand has been tied and competition weighted in favor of government chosen winners and losers, when the electoral game has been stacked in favor of a two headed Progressive Republicrat party of unlimited power, pride and ambition, when equal justice under the law applies only to citizens and not to officials, the Question is, "What's the Answer." That answer might be, "How long?' How long before we the American people demand that our nation founded in revolution against tyranny reject the empire and restore the Republic? We can all see that the emperor has no clothes. We all know the deck has been stacked, the game rigged, and the winners chosen. How long before we demand that we are allowed to live in a nation where we will be judged by the content of our character and not by our membership in a protected or favored group, our political contributions or whether or not we have saluted the party line? As we watch our beloved nation transformed it might be well to remember what our second President John Adams once said, "a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever." Then again he also said, "Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion for Southside Virginia Community College. He is the author of the History of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com View the trailer for Dr. Owens' latest book Copyrite 2011 Robert R. Owens dr.owens@comcast.net Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook. |  |
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| HT Breaking News: JPC report on 2G scam adopted by committee: PTI Posted: 27 Sep 2013 03:45 AM PDT Hindustan Times Breaking News JPC report on 2G scam adopted by committee: PTIDate: Sep 27 2013 4:07PMJPC report on 2G scam adopted by committee: PTIClick here if you do not wish to receive news alerts from Hindustan Times in future | | Zee Cafe Leading all the Way Posted: 27 Sep 2013 02:24 AM PDT <!-- Body_Start --> Can't view this? Click the URL or paste it into your browser: http://www.indiantelevision.com/advt/zeecafe/y2k13/mailer/sep/27sep-zeecafe-mailer.htm This communication is brought to you by Zee Cafe in association with Indiantelevision.com If you do not wish to receive further communication from | | Meet New Buyers at Mumbai Film Mart,18 - 20 October, 2013 Posted: 27 Sep 2013 01:17 AM PDT <!-- Body_Start --> Can't view this? Click the URL or paste it into your browser: http://www.indiantelevision.com/advt/general/mailer/y2k13/sep/27sep-mfm-mailer.htm This communication is brought to you by MFM in association with Indiantelevision.com If | | HT Breaking News: Voters have right to reject poll candidates: SC Posted: 26 Sep 2013 10:30 PM PDT Hindustan Times Breaking News Voters have right to reject poll candidates: SCDate: Sep 27 2013 10:54AMVoters have right to reject poll candidates: SCClick here if you do not wish to receive news alerts from Hindustan Times in future | | WWE Superstar Ryback India Visit Posted: 26 Sep 2013 10:20 PM PDT <!-- Body_Start --> Can't view this? Click the URL or paste it into your browser: http://www.indiantelevision.com/advt/general/mailer/y2k13/sep/27sep-wwe-mailer.htm This communication is brought to you by WWE in association with Indiantelevision.com If you do | | Star Plus and Sony gain big in TAM week 38, Sony LIV rolls out new TVCs to drive viewership, Emami wins the Greentech Safety awards - Indiantelevision.com's The Ad Linx dated 27 September 2013 Posted: 26 Sep 2013 09:47 PM PDT <!-- Body_Start --> 27 Sep 2013 Newsletter Subscription Email this Page Volume 36 - Issue No: 39 | | IDOS 2013 to kick off in Goa on 27 Sep , TRAI gives final deadline for filling CAFs, FoodFood appoints SK 'Raj' Barua as CEO, Colors' Kapil comedy turns to tragedy, Star Plus and Sony gain big in TAM Posted: 26 Sep 2013 09:44 PM PDT 27 Sep 2013 | Volume 39 - Issue No:79 | Visit Indiantelevision.com FoodFood appoints SK 'Raj' Barua as CEO Zee 24 | | IDOS, 2013 - Harvesting the fruits of the digitisation. Watch LIVE discussion on 27th September, 2013; 9:00 AM (IST) onwards Posted: 26 Sep 2013 08:11 PM PDT <!-- Body_Start --> Can't view this? Click the URL or paste it into your browser: http://www.indiantelevision.com/advt/idos/y2k13/mailer/sep/27sep-idos2013.htm This mail is an invitation to watch the LIVE webcast only. IDOS, organized by Media Partners Asia (MPA) and Indian |  |
| The Drug Court Community Mourns the Loss of a Pioneer Posted: 27 Sep 2013 01:26 PM PDT 
The Drug Court Community Mourns the Loss of a Pioneer  On Saturday, September 21st, retired Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Harl Haas passed away at his southwest Portland, OR home at the age of 80. Judge Haas was an early pioneer of Drug Court. In 1992, he helped lead the effort to establish one of the nation’s first Drug Courts in Multnomah County, Oregon. He strongly believed that prior criminal history should not necessarily preclude offenders from an opportunity to enter the program and he was an early proponent of targeting a “high risk/high need” population. Within two years of launching, the Multnomah Drug Court added additional access to mental health services, family intervention assistance, resource coordination, and aftercare services.
Under Judge Haas's leadership, and with the support of a strong Drug Court team, the Multnomah County Drug Court became a model program for the rest of the country. It was among the first to initiate evaluations to better understand its impact on recidivism and its cost-benefit. In 1998 the Northwest Professional Consortium (NPC) released a study documenting the impact of the Multnomah County Drug Court. The report noted significant reductions in recidivism for individuals served by the program.
Part of the success of the Multnomah County Drug Court was due to Judge Haas’ ability to connect with those before the court. He cared deeply about the participants in the program and believed that the criminal justice system can truly be an agent of change in the lives of those in need. His legacy lives on in over 2,700 Drug Courts in operation today, and the countless lives saved due to the model he helped advance.
Judge Haas was born Dec. 24, 1932, in Cape Girardeau, Mo. He served two years in the U.S. Army and pursued undergraduate studies at Southeast Missouri State and the University of Montana. He worked as a trial lawyer, then successfully ran for the Oregon House in 1969. He was appointed to a seat in the Oregon Senate in 1971. A year later, he was elected as Multnomah County district attorney and served two four-year terms. In 1974, Haas created the nation's first rape victim assistance program in a prosecutor's office. A year later, he created the state's first crime victim assistance program, which offered financial support. In 1976, he started Oregon's first court-ordered restitution program and in 1985 he was elected as a Multnomah County Circuit Court judge.
Judge Harl Haas is survived by his wife, Mary Lou; daughter, Holly Haas; stepchildren, Cathy Calvin-Smith, Ross Calvin and Scott Calvin; six grandchildren; and former wife, Sharron Haas. Another daughter, Amy Taylor Sandlin, passed away in July.
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