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As the Darfur crisis continues to deteriorate, Southern Sudan removed its ministers from the Government of National Unity last week. Northern and Southern Sudan remain deadlocked on sharing oil revenue, drawing borders between north and south, and troop redeployment from each others territory. The Sudan People's Liberation Movement(SPLM) accuses Khartoum of multiple breaches of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in 2005. Khartoum denies these charges. Describing the fragile situation, Khartoum based journalist Opheera McDoom says "it could go either way now, we are at a critical turning point."
Update: Despite President Bashir's cabinet shuffle this week, the SPLM said the new ministers "will stay out of government until the application of the terms of the peace accord..." The standoff continues and the crisis in Darfur remains unchanged.
Last night on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, CBS News' Chief Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan was asked, "How are we doing" in Iraq? Logan responded, "It's much worse than the picture, the image we even have of Iraq":
We're doing extremely badly, from my point of view. I was asked if I felt any guilt for the fact that the world has an impression of the war in Iraq as being very bad and going very wrong. And I said I really don't because I can't imagine the last time anyone saw a dead American soldier. We've hidden that from view. Nobody knows what that looks like, and I've seen plenty of it. It's much worse than the picture, the image we even have of Iraq.
As Soldiers and Iraqi's are being Maimed and Killed!!
What The F**K, more about digging into the peoples treasury for fun and huge profits, and it's once again the food we're supplying to the troops in Iraq!
It's great, ain't it, to have an economy the preznit can say is just humming along fine, it ain't, while it seems Everyone connected to his War of Choice are raking in the big bucks, All From Our Treasury, and propping up their bottom lines for their investors, thus keeping Wall Street humming along on the War Profits!!
Investigators from the Justice Department and the Defense Department are looking into deals that Perdue Farms Inc., Sara Lee Corp., ConAgra Foods Inc. and other U.S. companies made to supply the military, according to people involved in the inquiry. The companies made the deals with the help of former U.S. military procurement officials they hired as consultants or executives.
Doesn't that last sentence just warm your heart also, War Profiteering from former U.S. military procurement officials as well.
As Soldiers and Iraqi's are being Maimed and Killed!!
Where have I seen this picture before, Oh Ya 'Nam!
Public Warehousing Co. disclosed the federal investigation in two lawsuits filed in federal courts in Washington earlier this year. • In this complaint the company contended that the Pentagon was blocking its pursuit of further contracts because of the investigation. A PWC executive states his position here. After a Federal Claims Court judge indicated he would side with the company, the Justice Department and Pentagon reached a settlement with the company granting most of its demands.
While Army officials deny that they designate vendors for food, an internal spreadsheet that Mr. Staples emailed to a vendor in 2006 names specific vendors for specific products. In one of the most striking examples of the agency's selectivity, Tyson Foods Inc., one of the world's largest chicken producers, has been virtually shut out in the competition to supply the troops for the Iraq conflict. Much of the chicken supplies for Iraq and Kuwait are provided by Perdue and Pilgrim's Pride Inc.
When in the Hell are we going to start seeing Perp Walks of Government Officials and their Chummy Business Partners?
As Soldiers and Iraqi's are being Maimed and Killed!!
More at The Real News Michael Ratner says: claiming kidnapping, imprisonment and torture are a 'state secret', is outrageous.
2007-10-16
Michael Ratner is the President of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York. He has taught at Yale Law School, lectured at Columbia Law School and was President of the National Lawyers Guild.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007; 12:00 AM Today marks five years since the authorization of military force in Iraq, setting Operation Iraqi Freedom in motion. Five years on, the Iraq war is as undermanned and under-resourced as it was from the start. And, five years on, Iraq is in shambles. As Army captains who served in Baghdad and beyond, we've seen the corruption and the sectarian division. We understand what it's like to be stretched too thin. And we know when it's time to get out.
Many already have written about the extremely sickening attacks on a 12yr. old young man, Graeme Frost, and his family.
You can find a reading of others thoughts Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, and Here. And if you just search his name you'll come up with 41 other hits under Diary's.
Many may have caught 'Count Down', last night, and the interview with the parents of Graeme and his little sister.
Here are the aftermath pics of the accident that nearly cost Graeme and Gemma Frost their lives. These are personal photos from their parents, shared with Countdown for use in a segment tonight. The children are still suffering today, and if there's any doubt they and their family could use a little help from Uncle Sam, it should disappear after you see these. THE GRAEME FROST ACCIDENT PICTURES
I hope you took a long hard look at the pictures of the accident that changed these kids, and their family, Lives!
Here is that interview, if some had missed it. Or to once again see these hard working, non-wealthy, Regular Caring Parents, speak in their own words of a world turned upside down because some, with Total Ignorance and Pure Hate, instead of hearts and understanding, stuck the virtual knives in their backs and kept twisting them!
Threatening & SwiftBoating a 12yr. Old & Family
I'm way beyond Disgusted with not only this but everything else that this country, and it's people and politics, have become, in these last short, quick years!
A Great Big Cyber HUG going to Ilona Meagher for this catch {I might have missed it} and passing it on at her site {that girl just keeps her Dedication front and center}, especially from All of us, here in North Carolina, working with Nadia to help these Roots Grow for the Health and Welfare of our returning Veterans of these Wars of Choice.
Patrick is smiling down and I'm sure giving a little push here and there to help his mother, wife, and young daughter bring about the help his fellow returning soldiers need and are owed, for their service!
A World War II veteran, who wants to remain anonymous, made the donation late last month after hearing McCaffrey speak in Petaluma two months ago about her vision for the Veterans' Village program SNIP: Please Read The Rest Here
Veterans are the light at the tip of the candle, illuminating the way for the whole nation. If veterans can achieve awareness, transformation, understanding, and peace, they can share with the rest of society the realities of war. And they can teach us how to make peace with ourselves and each other, so we never have to use violence to resolve conflicts again". Thich Nhat Hanh
Sergeant Patrick Ryan McCaffrey Foundation for War Veterans
Please visit the Veterans Village.org for further information. Mission The mission of Patrick McCaffrey’s Foundation is to promote mental and holistic wellness and palliative care among veterans returning from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, especially those suffering from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), by providing a live-in retreat village, wherein with the help of trained professional staff and volunteers, veterans will find inner healing and an eventual re-entry into society. The Patrick McCaffrey Foundation, named after Sergeant Patrick R. McCaffrey, the first California National Guard, since WWII, (from the 579th Engineer Battalion from Petaluma), to lose his life in Iraq on June 22, 2004, is committed to bringing healing and hospice, as well as career counseling and training, to veterans returning from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its founding member and President, Nadia McCaffrey, mother of Sergeant Patrick McCaffrey, wants to carry on the work her son would have pursued had his life not been curtailed so prematurely. Patrick, who did not expect to be deployed to Iraq, decided to honor the commitment he made to help people by going to Iraq as a leader and Combat Life Saver, bringing healing and love to his fellow soldiers and the Iraqi children.
A place of peace, a place to heal, a place to renew… …. a place built by gratitude.
The U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs estimates there are 275,000 homeless veterans, about a quarter of the nation's homeless population. 19 percent of troops returning from Iraq suffer from such mental health issues as major depression, generalized anxiety, or post-traumatic stress disorder. These conditions frequently lead to substance abuse. This population is the most susceptible to homelessness and suicide. As of July, 2006 18,490 U.S. Servicemen and women have returned with severe injuries suffered in Iraq. Almost half of America's 2.7 million disabled veterans receive $337 or less a month in benefits.
Patrick in photo taken shortly before he was killed
“This government does not torture people.” Of course, it all depends on what the meaning of “torture” is. The whole point of these memos is to repeatedly recalibrate the definition so Mr. Bush can keep pleading innocent.
Still, the drill remains the same. The administration gives its alibi (Abu Ghraib was just a few bad apples). A few members of Congress squawk. The debate is labeled “politics.” We turn the page.
Call me cynical, but when Laura Bush spoke up last week about the human rights atrocities in Burma, it seemed less an act of selfless humanitarianism than another administration maneuver to change the subject from its own abuses.
But we must also examine our own responsibility for the hideous acts committed in our name in a war where we have now fought longer than we did in the one that put Verschärfte Vernehmung on the map.
Instead of taxing us for Iraq, the White House bought us off with tax cuts. Instead of mobilizing the needed troops, it kept a draft off the table by quietly purchasing its auxiliary army of contractors to finesse the overstretched military’s holes. With the war’s entire weight falling on a small voluntary force, amounting to less than 1 percent of the population, the rest of us were free to look the other way at whatever went down in Iraq.
“We got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture,” said Henry Kolm, 90, an M.I.T. physicist whose interrogation of Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy, took place over a chessboard. George Frenkel, 87, recalled that he “never laid hands on anyone” in his many interrogations, adding, “I’m proud to say I never compromised my humanity.”
