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Tuesday, January 31, 2017 |
The middle path: Why balance is the hardest to achieve |
I have found inspiration in the vigorous discussions that have sprung up from my previous blog and the writings of others. This is a good thing even if we vociferously disagree that we are talking rather than trying to shout each other down. Yet I see the growing cancer of intolerance, disinformation, and excessive hyp... |
The issue that I am taking up in this post is the often utter lack of context when we discuss a political, social, or religious issue today. I see the rise of meme's, tweets, and other aspects of social media as tools that are being grossly misused by all of us. Rather than permitting facts as we can research and verif... |
I can personally attest to the need for our data to be accurate, factual, and as devoid of bias as possible. Given both my training as an Intelligence Analyst and student of human psychology empiricism isn't just a good idea, it is sacrosanct as without the information is useless. The goal of your research is to provid... |
Given the divisive nature of our recent turn in our national politics and rise of what to many are disturbing parallels given the actions of the Trump Administration and Nazi Germany. The fact that such comparisons made regularly are disturbing yet so are the actions by the Trump Administration to draw such ire from ... |
Something to keep in mind, amidst the sound and fury, be mindful of where and what your data comes from if someone else does the research for you. We must be intellectually honest and hold our integrity dearly in the face of such temptations to fight with our hearts. Our emotions are powerful tools to help us, but unc... |
Before we take to the streets and the Internet, let's stop for a moment and gather facts. Groups that have long experienced discrimination have shown us that being armed with factually truthful information is both transformational and infinitely powerful, History provides numerous examples of this such as our revolutio... |
Thus I again sound my refrain of "Stop, listen, research, gather facts, recognize bias both in yourself and your data" before you act. As for me personally, I find it disturbing the amount of concern with our current political and social climate for a lot of reasons. I will fight for those freedoms I have fought for on... |
Monday, January 23, 2017 |
The justification for violence against those who hate??? |
During the events of the inauguration a known white-supremacist, also someone who openly admires the politics of Nazi's, was struck while on camera. I quickly came to see many people who I respect celebrating this act of, in their words "poetic justice", violence. Their reasons for justification of this glee was he was... |
I have made no attempt to hide my mistrust of this violence and its potential long-term effects upon the very groups that are the subject of the hideous and vile claptrap that is peddled by the white-supremacy movement be they Nazis or otherwise. I have first hand seen the horrifying results of such beliefs that violen... |
A World War was fought with the deaths of millions, so much death that the actual human toll is still unfathomable today. With the end of that war the world was ushered in to the nuclear age, promising death on a species scale of annihilation. Thus it is through the lens of history that I see the dangers of violence in... |
Violence is a tool that I understand must be employed at times to defend one's self or others lest they be a victim(s) of that violence themselves. Still I cannot state enough why it is and should always be the court of last resort in the face of hate, even when they call for such violence against yourself or others. I... |
This is not to say to be kind to those who would subjugate or enslave you or any other human being. Only that we must understand fully the consequences of using violent means, however justified, against others. There is a heavy price to be paid for this responsibility and one that as of my experience continues to be pa... |
Thus I counsel all of humanity to passionately oppose hate and those who preach it in any fashion, do not be silent or complicit in their oppression. Please be mindful that while in our opposition we do not become that which we fight, this is the greatest trial of the warrior to fight without corruption of the heart an... |
Saturday, January 21, 2017 |
An Oath I Swore to My Country and why you should swear it as well.. |
On July 11, 1991, I found myself inside the Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Military Entrance Recruit Processing Station or (MEPS) in a room with about 25 others. I swore the following oath... |
I, Jared Michael Royka, to hereby solemnly swear to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies foreign and domestic. To obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me. And to bear true faith and allegiance to the same, s... |
Now given our 45th President who was sworn in on January 20, 2017, I am not saying you swear allegiance to Donald J. Trump personally but that we are in service to the nation, her people, and their way of life. That the office of the President of the United States is ultimately as I am bound by that same oath. It is ou... |
My oath did not come with an expiration date nor should any oath we swear for it is a reflection of what we hold sacred and honor most about ourselves, our people, and our beloved nation. I call upon all of us to either swear or renew our oaths to support, uphold, and defend our Constitution as well as our ideals that ... |
Let us leave no one behind in that march to our future. All Americans are valuable and necessary to our nation even those we would otherwise shun or ignore. Yes even those who espouse hate and spew venom against their fellow Americans, we will lead by example and answer hate with love, violence with peace, and ignoran... |
Our nation requires informed and active citizens, if you wish to change things become involved in every single aspect of our government from local all the way through to national level issues. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH and always VERIFY your sources never trust anything that is presented to you by anyone else, remember the... |
Support groups and organizations that help do these very things as well for they can magnify our efforts to uphold and defend our Constitution against those foreign and domestic enemies. Do not give in to complacency or brutality given as a response to your efforts to uphold your oaths. I challenge all of us to renew o... |
I will hold our government accountable, I will educate and inform myself about the issues facing our nation and act vigorously on them. I challenge everyone to do the same with the caveat of remember to love each other when we want most to hate or denigrate one another. |
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Kunduz 'quiet,' MSF demands probe into clinic attack |
Kunduz residents have returned to the Afghan city's streets for the first time since last week's Taliban assault. Doctors Without Borders says it wants a war crimes probe into Saturday's airstrikes on its hospital. |
Afghan television on Monday showed the national flag being re-erected in the Kunduz governor's compound as residents ventured out to buy food, saying the sound of gun battles had faded away. |
Kunduz police spokesman Sarwar Hussaini said that "all of the city is under our control now." But the German DPA news agency quoted a Qawa Khana suburb resident as saying there was "still sporadic fighting in some areas." |
Residents quoted by Reuters said the city smelt of dead bodies that still lay on pavements. Shops were open in central Kunduz. Food and medical supplies were reportedly short. |
Last Monday, Taliban fighters captured the strategic northern provincial capital, prompting a |
counteroffensive by Afghan and US special forces |
backed by US air strikes. |
MSF demands independent probe |
Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French acronym MSF on Monday demanded an independent probe into |
airstrikes on its clinic |
that killed at least 12 MSF staff and 10 patients and left its main medical building gutted. |
Kampfflugzeug AC-130 |
Slow but heavy armed - an AC-130 gunship |
"An internal investigation by a party to the conflict would be wholly insufficient," MSF general director Christopher Stokes said on Monday. |
The Associated Press quoted anonymous US officials as saying that a AC-130 gunship had fired on the site early Saturday. NATO said US forces had carried out a bombardment in the "vicinity" of the clinic without being more specific. |
Afghans call for air support, says US |
Visiting the Pentagon Monday, the top commander of US and coalition forces in Afghanistan General John F. Campbell said the airstrike ensued after Afghan forces said they were taking fire and "asked for air support from US forces." That request was conveyed via US special operations personnel on the ground in Kunduz, h... |
In the clinic were more than 180 patients and medical staff. MSF quit the burnt-out trauma clinic on Sunday. |
Campbell's description differed from initial claims that the air strike was ordered because US forces were threatened. |
Statements amount to admission, says MSF |
Stokes hit out at claims by Afghan officials that Taliban insurgents had used the clinic as a position to shoot at Afghan forces and civilians. |
kundus afghanistan klinik krankenhaus hospital luftangriff feuer MSF |
MSF's Kunduz clinic in flames |
Those claims combined with US statements implied that Afghan and US forces had decided to "raze to the ground a fully functioning hospital," Stokes said. |
"This amounts to an admission of a war crime. This utterly contradicts the initial attempts of the US government to minimize the attack as 'collateral damage,'" he said. |
MSF had previously said that Afghan and US-led coalition forces had been aware of the exact location of the hospital for four years and had been sent frantic messages during the hour-long air strike. |
Situation was confused, says Carter |
US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter told reporters on a flight to Madrid at the start of a European tour on Monday that Saturday's situation in Kunduz had been "confused and complicated." |
He had previously expressed sadness over the "tragic loss of life." |
UN rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein also called for a full probe, saying that an air strike on a hospital "may amount to a war crime." |
MSF's withdrawal from Kunduz leaves the whole region without a medical facility capable of dealing with major war injuries aside from Kunduz' public hospital. |
Health workers unsettled |
Luca Radaelli, the director of another charity, Emergency NGO, which runs hospitals in Kabul, Panjshir and Lashkar Gah, said health workers felt increasingly unsafe. |
"You feel vulnerable, that you can be attacked. you are not a soldier, you are here to treat people, just doing your job, but then you get hit," Radelli said. "It's just scary." |
This kind of act, even if a mistake, cannot be justified," she added. "I don't have real comments, polite comments - just bad, incredibly bad," she said. |
Nicolas Elias Metri, an official of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Kabul, said doctors and nurses were "opting not to come and work." |
"Once the trust is lost, that the place you work is not safe, you can not continue working," he told DPA. |
Confirmation would harm Ghani |
Any confirmation of US responsibility for the clinic deaths would deal a blow to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's policy of forging ties with the United States. |
Last Monday's surprise Taliban assault on Kunduz hugely embarrassed Ghani. His predecessor |
Hamid Karzi fell out with his US-led backers |
over the number of civilians killed in past US strikes. |
Most NATO combat troops pulled out of Afghanistan last year but a smaller contingent remains, including 10,000 American soldiers. |
ipj/se (AP, dpa, Reuters, epd, AFP) |
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3736970470182280842017-09-20T04:52:31.863-07:00The Decarie ReportA critical review of local and world news. This blog originally commented on the Moncton Times and Transcript but has enlarged its scope. Graeme Decariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06387255602086172912noreply@blogger.comBlogger... |
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 |
And, We're Back |
Hi. I am back in America. |
Couple things... |
Just in case there was any confusion: |
Being able to SEE Russia does not constitute "foreign travel" nor does Putin flying over your Home state mean that you have experience with diplomatic relations. |
Please vote for Obama. |
Please go register to vote. Like, right now if it is before 5pm where you are. |
Please do not buy a pair of eye glasses that look like Sarah Palin's because she wears them. |
Please do not be enticed by the fact that she is a "MILF." |
Please be afraid that she could be the President. |
Please do not confuse her for a feminist. |
Please go to places like Pennsylvania and Ohio and knock on doors and tell them. |
The whole world is watching. No, seriously, it is, and shooting Moose while various animal species are dying off warms my fucking cockles. I don't know about your cockles. |
(Yes, I understand that she has probably been to Canada.) |
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