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Sixteen years for espionage; life in jail for whistleblowing

Nathan Fuller, Bradley Manning Support Network
truthout
Sat, 20 Apr 2013 10:32 UTC
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© Bradley Manning Support Network / FlickAnonymous supporters of Bradley Manning.
Spc. William Millay, a 25-year-old military policeman, was sentenced this week to 19 years in jail; a sentence reduced to 16 years after a plea deal, minus time served, for attempting to commit espionage and for illegally communicating "unclassified national defense information that could be used to the advantage of a foreign nation," according to an Army press release.

The prosecution of Spc. Millay is strikingly lenient relative to that of Pfc. Bradley Manning, 25-year-old intelligence analyst on trial for passing documents to WikiLeaks. Manning sought to expose documents revealing crimes, abuse, and corruption to the American people, through WikiLeaks, and he faces a potential life sentence. The government charges him with Espionage and with 'Aiding the Enemy.'

Millay "admitted to trying to pass on classified information to someone he believed was a Russian agent," according to Reuters' report. An FBI agent said, "Millay betrayed his nation's trust by attempting to sell classified national defense information for profit to a foreign nation."

Contrast that motive with Bradley Manning's. In chat logs with government informant Adrian Lamo, Manning hypothesized, "what if i were someone more malicious...i could've sold to russia or china, and made bank?"
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People

Nevada buses hundreds of mentally ill patients to cities around country

Cynthia Hubert, Phillip Reese and Jim Sanders
The Sacramento Bee
Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:00 UTC
James Flavy Coy Brown
© Renee C.Byer/rbyer@sacbee.comJames Flavy Coy Brown, who suffers from mood disorders, is reunited with his daughter Shotzy Faith Harrison in Sacramento Thursday after a Nevada psychiatric hospital bused him to the capital with no medication or identification.

Over the past five years, Nevada's primary state psychiatric hospital has put hundreds of mentally ill patients on Greyhound buses and sent them to cities and towns across America.

Since July 2008, Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas has transported more than 1,500 patients to other cities via Greyhound bus, sending at least one person to every state in the continental United States, according to a Bee review of bus receipts kept by Nevada's mental health division.

About a third of those patients were dispatched to California, including more than 200 to Los Angeles County, about 70 to San Diego County and 19 to the city of Sacramento.

In recent years, as Nevada has slashed funding for mental health services, the number of mentally ill patients being bused out of southern Nevada has steadily risen, growing 66 percent from 2009 to 2012. During that same period, the hospital has dispersed those patients to an ever-increasing number of states.

By last year, Rawson-Neal bused out patients at a pace of well over one per day, shipping nearly 400 patients to a total of 176 cities and 45 states across the nation.

Nevada's approach to dispatching mentally ill patients has come under scrutiny since one of its clients turned up suicidal and confused at a Sacramento homeless services complex. James Flavy Coy Brown, who is 48 and suffers from a variety of mood disorders including schizophrenia, was discharged in February from Rawson-Neal to a Greyhound bus for Sacramento, a place he had never visited and where he knew no one.
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Sheeple

SOTT Focus: Lambs to the Slaughter: Boston lockdown for manhunt of bombings 'suspect'

Timothy C. Trepanier
Sott.net
Sat, 20 Apr 2013 13:48 UTC
Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto me...

- some guy, some place, some time long ago

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© Charles Krupa / Associated PressPolice State Boston: A SWAT team prepares to make a house to house search as residents leave the home in Watertown, Mass. on April 19, in their bathrobes and without their shoes. We bet that no search-warrants were issued either.
Don't bother reading this essay, it won't do any good. I mean it, stop reading now, there is no point, it's hopeless. There is nothing worth saying anymore.

All day yesterday the talking heads on the TV informed me that the entire city of Boston is "on lockdown" as enforcement officials search door to door for the one remaining "suspect" in the Marathon Bombings.

And like the obedient, traumatized robots they are, the good citizens of Boston just rolled over and complied. Grateful for the protection of their black-combat-gear-laden overlords, they accepted being harassed and corralled like sheep in their own homes.

Filled with the adrenaline of being directly involved in the center of this clearly manufactured crisis, they waited, trembling inside their bedrooms, not even dimly aware of how they were manipulated and played.

Seriously, how is it possible that people still buy this crap?

Ever wonder why scores of people numbly and willingly lined up for the gas chambers in World War II, without a shred of resistance, without even trying to fight back?

This is why.

This is what we've become.

A nation of slaves.

Blind, deaf, dumb and paralyzed with fear.
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Arrow Up

U.S. focuses on social issues, ignoring real injustices of this world

Joseph Cotto
The Washington Times Communities
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:11 UTC
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© Associated PressSeven-year-old Dalit girl was burned for walking on a High Caste pathway.
Here in the United States, we tend to make much ado about nothing, losing perspective of what is truly a hardship in the world.

Other than some genuinely pressing matters such as our economic and immigration policy, our politics revolve around purely social topics, like gay marriage or intelligent design-based educational curriculums, important perhaps, but not .

This is not so in every corner of the globe. There are real injustices in countless societies, even ones as successful as India

Over the last few weeks, I have been conversing with Yogesh Varhade, who is president of the Ambedkar Centre for Justice and Peace. He and his organization fight tirelessly for the interests of those stuck at the bottom of India's ages-old caste system.

While every country does have a class structure of some kind, the sort that has prevailed in India is unique. According to ancient tradition, those born into a certain caste are mandated to remain in it for life. This designation has nothing to do with race, ethnicity or even religious differentiation. It is a social construct that has endured well into the modern day, preventing untold millions from looking up at the stars, let alone reaching for them.

The politics Varhade discussed had nothing to do with left, right, liberal, conservative, or whatever. Rather they were the stuff of oppression and violence. A particularly brutal story was the one of a young man who fell in love with an upper-caste woman. He asked for her hand in marriage, and an assailant hacked him to death along with two others.
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Bizarro Earth

Mom who allegedly kept her two sons in Ewing, New Jersey storage locker held on $75,000 bail

Alex Zdan
nj.com
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:07 UTC
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© Alex Zdan/The TimesTwo children were taken into protective custody this morning after police found them living in a locker at a Ewing self-storage facility, according to two sources with knowledge of the investigation. The storage locker interior is shown in photo.
A woman who allegedly lived with her two young boys inside a Ewing storage locker for weeks is being held on $75,000 bail and will likely spend the weekend in jail, police said today.

Sheena Johnson, 27, faces two second-degree counts of child endangerment after Trenton police officers found the two boys, ages 5 and 10, inside the roughly five-foot-by-ten-foot locker at Extra Space Storage on the 1400 block of Prospect Street in Ewing Thursday morning.

Trenton Officer Robert Arnwine tracked the boys down after Johnson was arrested for allegedly slashing the tires of her boyfriend's car on Calhoun Street earlier.

Johnson was also charged with violating a restraining order, Lt. Mark Kieffer said today. Trenton police said Johnson had been turned over to the Mercer County Sheriff's Office and would probably be taken to the Mercer County Corrections Center.
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Heart - Black

Indian girl, 5, in serious condition after being raped, tortured for 2 days


Associated Press
Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:38 UTC
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© AP Photo/Channi AnandA schoolgirl participates in a candle-light vigil for the speedy recovery of a 5-year-old girl who was raped and tortured in Delhi, at Heritage School in Jammu, India, Saturday, April 20, 2013
A 5-year-old girl was in serious condition Saturday after being raped and tortured by a man who held her in a locked room in India's capital for two days, officials said.

The girl went missing Monday and was found Wednesday by neighbors who heard her crying in a room in the same New Delhi building where she lives with her parents, said Delhi police official Deepak Mishra. The girl was found alone locked in a room and left for dead, he said.

A 24-year-old man who lived in the room where the girl was found was arrested Saturday in Muzaffarpur town in Bihar state, about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) east of New Delhi, Mishra said. The man was flown to New Delhi, where a magistrate ordered that he be held in police custody.

The girl suffered severe internal injuries, as well as cuts and bite marks on her face and torso, said D.K. Sharma, the medical superintendent of the government-run hospital in New Delhi where she was being treated. Sharma described the girl's condition as "serious" and said doctors were trying to stabilize her condition.
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Blackbox

Texas fertilizer plant: Why was the blast so enormous?


The Christian Science Monitor
Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00 UTC
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© LM Otero/APA firefighter stands on a rail line and surveys the remains of a fertilizer plant destroyed by an explosion in West, Texas, Thursday. A massive explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. killed as many as 15 people and injured more than 160, officials said overnight.
The explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant had the force of a magnitude 2.1 quake. Here's a look at how the combination of fire and materials at the facility could have produced the blast.

Rescuers are combing through leveled homes and apartment buildings in the hunt for survivors following Wednesday night's fire and explosion at a small fertilizer and grain-storage company near Waco, Texas.

Initial estimates put the number of fatalities at up to 15, with more than 160 people injured. The blast had enough energy to trip US Geological Survey seismographs as a magnitude 2.1 quake.

How did such a powerful explosion happen?
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Evil Rays

Hysterization of society: Malden woman attacked by man accusing Muslims of Marathon bombings

Maria Sacchetti
Boston.com
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:07 UTC
Every day, Heba Abolaban of Malden checks on her family in war-strafed Syria, where water, bread and electricity are in short supply. She was far more worried about them than about herself on Wednesday morning when she put her baby daughter in a stroller and headed into the sunshine to a play group with a friend.

But as they strolled down Commercial Street, an angry-faced man charged toward the petite woman, his hand balled into a fist. He punched her hard in the shoulder and screamed curses inches from her face. Then he pointed at her and walked away shouting.

"He said, '(Expletive) you. (Expletive) you Muslims, You are terrorists, you are the ones who made the Boston explosion,'" said Abolaban, recalling the episode in a phone interview Thursday. "I was really, really completely shocked. I didn't know what to do. Then I realized what happened. I was crying and crying."

Abolaban, a 26-year-old physician who wears a traditional hijab, or head scarf, gripped the stroller carrying her nine-month old daughter and stood in shock. Soon, she and her friend, also pushing a baby stroller, burst into tears.

"I was so afraid he might hurt my baby," she said.
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Ambulance

Blast at fertilizer plant kills nearly 70, injures 100s in Texas, authorities say


PressTV
Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:37 UTC
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A smoke cloud rises from an explosion at a fertilizer plant near Waco, Texas, April 18, 2013.
Nearly 70 people have died and hundreds of others injured in a large explosion at a fertilizer plant in the US state of Texas, local emergency authorities say.

West Emergency Medical Services (EMS) director George Smith said that some 60 to 70 people died and hundreds of others were injured in the explosion on Wednesday at West Fertilizer plant in the city of West, located about 32 kilometers (20 miles) north of Waco.

An official at a hospital in Waco said that they were told to anticipate 100 injured people coming from the explosion area.

According to Waco Assistant Fire Chief Don Yeager, the fertilizer facility had an anhydrous ammonia explosion. However, the cause still remains unknown.

There have also been reports of several buildings to be on fire, including a middle school.
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Heart

Irish official: Israel boycott passed without debate

Jonny Paul
The Jerusalem Post
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 07:42 UTC
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© ReutersThe Irish flag
Boycott was reportedly adopted without any debate or discussion. Only proposer, seconder discussed item on agenda before vote.

The Irish trade union that adopted a boycott of Israel earlier this month did so without any debate or discussion, one of its officials told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.

The Teachers' Union of Ireland (TUI) become the first educational trade union in Europe to adopt a boycott of Israeli academia.

At its annual conference on April 4, it voted to endorse a call by Palestinian activists for a boycott of the Jewish state, "including the exchange of scientists, students and academic personalities, as well as all cooperation in research programs."

The boycott motion was one of four - submitted months before the three-day conference - that made up the "Miscellaneous" section of the gathering's final day. Typically this section allots very little time to debate the finer details of a motion, and the first two motions - which looked at opposition to a new property tax and the funding of political parties in Ireland - took up all the allotted time, leaving none for the other two.

The boycott motion was third on the list.
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