
VIA NEWSBUSTERS WHO HAS MORE.
EVERY WEEK MORE AND MORE PEOPLE WILL SEE THROUGH OBAMA'S BS.
WE WILL RETAKE CONGRESS IN 2010 AND UNDO ALL OF OBAMA'S SOCIALISTIC CRAP.
"ALL CAPS IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY IS NO VICE."
Pakistan's PM says he has ordered the army to "eliminate militants and terrorists", apparently referring to operations against the Taleban.
Yusuf Raza Gilani made the announcement in an evening TV address to the nation.
Fighting has intensified in recent days in the Swat Valley and other parts of the north-west, and thousands of civilians are leaving the area.
"ELIMINATE" IS NOT "NEGOTIATE". IT'S KINETIC. I HOPE THEY DO IT. I'VE BEEN ARGUNG FOR THIS FOR A LONG TIME.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is alarmed at the public admission by Hizbullah that it provided support to Gaza-based terrorists from Egypt and condemns the "unwarranted interference" in Egypt's domestic affairs, a UN envoy said Thursday.
... The UN chief also reiterates his call for Hizbullah and all other militias operating in Lebanon to be disarmed and demobilized as demanded by a UN Security Council resolution adopted in 2004, he said.
Roed-Larsen is Ban's envoy dealing with implementation of the 2004 resolution, and he discussed Hizbullah's alleged interference in Egypt as he presented Ban's latest report on compliance with the resolution to the Security Council.
Roed-Larsen said that in recent weeks, "there has been a growing concern that Hizbullah has engaged in clandestine and illegal militant activities beyond Lebanese territory."
He cited Egypt's announcement on April 8 that it had uncovered a plot by 49 men linked to Hizbullah to destabilize the country by carrying out "hostile operations" on Egyptian institutions and Israeli tourists.
Two days later, Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah rejected the accusations but admitted a Hizbullah member was in Egypt supervising weapons shipments to Hamas.
The government will quickly take control of hundreds of small boats and other assets belonging to oil service companies operating in Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez said on Thursday, tightening his grip on the industry.CHAVEZ IS A LEFT-WING TYRANT DOING WHAT LEFT-WING TYRANTS HAVE ALWAYS DONE: SEIZE PRIVATE PROPERTY AND ARGUE IT'S FOR THE COMMON GOOD.Earlier in the day, Venezuela's legislature approved a law allowing the nationalization of a group of oil service companies. Chavez said the takeovers will start on Friday in the Lake Maracaibo oil heartland.
"Tomorrow we will start to recuperate assets and goods that will now belong to the state,

On January 22, 2009, President Obama signed an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay prison that holds hundreds of the world’s most dangerous terrorists within one year. This decision was made without a backup plan in place for where these terrorists would go. So the key question remains: What is our nation’s plan for dealing with these terrorists? Will they be brought into the United States? Will they be released back onto the battlefield? These questions haven’t been answered, and the American people deserve answers.
The Keep Terrorists Out of America Act gives Members of Congress an opportunity to stand with the American people by affirming their opposition to releasing the terrorists at Guantanamo prison or bringing them into the United States.
It also makes clear that governors and state legislatures must pre-approve the transfer or release of any terrorist detainee into their respective states.
And lastly it requires the President to meet strict criteria and certification standards before terrorists housed at the Guantanamo prison could be brought to the United States.

"I'm not only an outsider, but I'm a 20-years-older-than-anybody-around outsider," Jones said. "I'm a former general. And it took me a while to get the president to call me by my first name. Now, I'm 'Hey, you,' " he said with a laugh.THIS IS NOT SURPRISING, BUT DISAPPOINTING NEVERTHELESS.
"But there is a generational thing here. There is a process thing here. I'm used to staffs, and I'm used to a certain order. I'm used to people having certain roles. And so there's a very natural adjustment period."
"My calculus was that it would take six months," Jones said. "We're about halfway there, and I think every week gets a little better."

There have been violent clashes between riot police and anti-government protesters in the Georgian capital, Tblisi.Opposition Protesters in Violent Clashes with Georgia Police in Tbilisi
Several hundred opposition supporters blocked a main road and marched on the city’s main police compound, where the security forces had gathered.
Officers used batons to force back some who the Interior Ministry said were trying to scale the fence. Television footage showed several people walking away with blood on their faces.
The protestors were calling for the release of three activists arrested over the alleged beating of a journalist.
This is the first violent confrontations since anti-government demonstrations began in Tblisi early last month.
It also comes a day after the Georgian government claimed to have thwarted an army mutiny, and Georgia began military exercises with NATO.
Dozens have been injured in the first violent clashes between protesters and police in a month in Georgia's capital overnight. Photo by BGNESGeorgian opposition say 23 hospitalized after clashes with police
At least 29 people have been wounded when violence broke out between anti-government protesters and police forces in Tbilisi overnight.
Six of the wounded persons are policemen, according to the Georgian Interior Ministry, ITAR-TASS has reported.
The clashes occurred during a late-night opposition rally demanding the resignation of the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili.
The police are reported to have used truncheons and rubber bullets in order to protect their headquarters as protesters tried to storm the building by climbing over its fence.
Twenty three people injured in clashes between the police and opposition in Georgia are still in hospital, Georgia's opposition said on Thursday.Georgia frees 3 to defuse anti-government unrest
The opposition, who have been demonstrating in the capital for the past month, claim over 60 people, including six police officers, were injured in clashes at a police compound in Didi Digomi, a Tbilisi suburb on Wednesday night, 29 people were hospitalized.
"We are fighting for democracy, and we will not disperse until we see President Mikheil Saakashvili resign," said Nino Burdzhanadze, ex-parliamentary speaker, who heads the Democratic Movement-United Georgia.
Riot police wearing heavy gear stand behind bars as they surround the Interior AP – Riot police wearing heavy gear stand behind bars as they surround the Interior Ministry in Tbilisi, GeorgiaSTAY TUNED....
TBILISI, Georgia – Georgian authorities released three opposition protesters Thursday, trying to defuse a wave of unrest that erupted into violence when police clashed with demonstrators clamoring for the resignation of President Mikhail Saakashvili.
Weeks of peaceful protests turned ugly Wednesday, one day after Saakashvili was forced to back off claims that he had suppressed a Moscow-backed coup attempt.
By Bob McCarty
Despite the overwhelming success of the Computer Voice Stress Analyzer® while it was used by the U.S. military from 2002-2008, a small group within the Department of Defense bureaucracy — namely the Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment (formerly known as the DoD Polygraph Institute) — has used its position and influence to block the use of this portable lie detector in combat zones by the military services. According to a man with a “chip” in the game, their actions are “doing great damage to our national security by keeping it from the war fighters who need it the most.”
Today, I offer a dozen pieces of evidence that reach across DoD to make a solid argument supporting CVSA® as a better tool than the Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System, a cousin to the traditional polygraph, that was designated the “only approved credibility assessment technologies” in the Department of Defense when Under Secretary of Defense James R. Clapper Jr.’s signed a memo to that effect Oct. 29, 2007.
Read all about it in the second in a series of copyrighted articles at Bob McCarty Writes.
The new US administration's engagement with Iran could be a positive move as long as there are clear parameters and a timetable for negotiations, and as long as the concerns of Arab states like Egypt are kept in mind, an Egyptian Foreign Ministry representative said Wednesday.No kidding. Then even if they consider Iran a greater threat, their stand on Israel is still disgusting.
"We told them that this is a good step," spokesman Hossam Zaki told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday about US President Obama's decision to conduct talks with Iran. "Confrontation so far has had negative effects... but you have to know on what terms you are engaging and until when you are engaging. If you decide on these issues, then it is possibly a good move."
While Iran is a regional power that shares a common Islamic heritage with the Arab world, their behavior "is subversive in many ways and we have to keep them in check," he said.
On Wednesday, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said Egypt's view on the danger of nuclear weapons did not distinguish between Israeli capabilities and the dangers that the Iranian case could pose, especially if its program became one with military capability that threatened regional security.
"Possession of any nuclear weapons in the Middle East is unacceptable by Egypt... particularly as the current confrontation between Iran and the West and Israel has consequences for the stability and peace in the region," he said, according to a statement released by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry.
Zaki was quoted by the Middle East News Agency this week as saying that Israel's nuclear abilities posed the first and greatest threat to the region.
Republican Captures Seat in Alexandria:
Council Result Another Setback For Democrats
Republicans captured a seat on the six-member Alexandria City Council last night, defying political trends that have prevailed in the city since 2003 and giving an emotional boost to local party officials.
With all 27 precincts counted last night, supporters of challenger Frank Fannon IV, a banker at SunTrust Mortgage, were jubilant about breaking the Democratic stranglehold on the council.
"A lot of people in Alexandria thought there was no way Republicans can win," Fannon said. "The citizens of Alexandria are ready for a change -- and not having a one-party system. People like to have options."
The GOP victory is the latest in a series of wins in low-turnout elections in Northern Virginia that have been taken as a sign of resurgence for an otherwise embattled party....
A second Republican-backed candidate won a seat on the council as well....
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In a city that went 72 percent for President Obama in November, Republicans were counting on some Democrats and independents to cross over. In interviews outside polling places, some residents said they split their votes, preferring to back individuals rather than vote along party lines....
Here is the transcript:
"True foundation and education start in the mosques... Do you realize what the mosque is? It is a prime factory educating men to fear and please Allah; [it is] the prime factory educating Jihad fighters... The mosque is the life of Muslims, and the symbol of their courage and honor... The Palestinian fetus in its mother's womb, the Muslim fetus throughout the world in its mother's womb, call [on Muslims] to unite through fear of Allah, through pleasing Him, and through choosing Jihad and Resistance [terror]." [1]
Give them a state!
US President Barack Obama has said after meeting his Afghan and Pakistani counterparts that they are united in the goal of defeating al-Qaeda.
Speaking in Washington, Mr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.
He also pledged greater resources to help civilians in both countries and try to avoid civilian casualties.
Meanwhile, Pakistan's army was engaged in bloody operations to reverse a Taleban advance in its northern provinces on Wednesday.
The bottom line at the summit was more American troops for Afghanistan and more aid for Pakistan, with the Obama administration deepening its involvement in the search for stability, the BBC's Kevin Connolly reports from Washington.
'Solid support'
Mr Obama said his counterparts fully appreciated the gravity of the security threats posed by militants.
The region and the world don't need more happy-unity talk.Standing between Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Bush emphasized “the need to cooperate, to make sure that people have got a hopeful future” in both countries.
President Bush appealed to the bickering presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday to put aside their differences and “strategize together” over dinner on ways to defeat the common enemy of terrorism.
HEALTH chiefs were last night accused of abandoning "the weakest and most vulnerable" in society after it emerged terminally ill patients are being forced to spend some of their final days on lengthy waiting lists.NATIONALIZED HEALTHCARE - RUN BY BUREAUCRATS AND POLITICIANS - SUCKS.
The criticisms came as the Irish Hospice Foundation revealed that 133 terminally ill patients were on a waiting list desperately seeking access to hospice care.
... The revelations come in the wake of the HSE's admission last May that about half of the money allocated to hospices for palliative care had been diverted.
... the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children was told much of the money had been withdrawn to meet cost overruns in demand-led drugs schemes and acute hospital services.
Last night, the HSE indicated that further funding may not be available for some time.


UN nuclear inspectors have found traces of weapons-grade uranium in Egypt, IAEA said in a report obtained Wednesday by The AP.REUTERS:
Dated May 5, the restricted report said IAEA INSPECTORS detected the particles last year and in 2007. A senior diplomat accredited to the agency said that it was the first time the traces were reported by the Vienna-based nuclear monitor. He demanded anonymity for commenting on the restricted document.
It was unclear why the agency was disclosing the findings now. IAEA spokespeople did not immediately return calls asking for comment.
In its page-long section on Egypt, the 82-page document said Cairo believes the particles could have come into the country on containers with radio isotopes but said the IAEA was continuing its investigations because "it has not yet identified the source of the uranium particles."
Both high- or weapons-grade and low-enriched uranium can be used to make radio isotopes, which are used in medicine and scientific research. The report said traces of low-enriched uranium also were found at the same site - Inshas, northeast of Cairo, where Egypt's two small research reactors are located.
But highly enriched uranium can be turned into the fissile core of nuclear warheads.
Egypt ratified the Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1981 but not the IAEA's 1997 Additional Protocol that gives inspectors the right to make intrusive, short-notice inspections of nuclear facilities and other sites not declared as nuclear.

IT SHOULD BE DEAD AND BURIED ALREADY BECAUSE IRELAND VOTED IT DOWN.The upper house of the Czech parliament has voted to approve the European Union's Lisbon Treaty, removing one of its few remaining obstacles.
Czech ratification will not be complete until signed by President Vaclav Klaus, a Eurosceptic who appears in no rush.
But the spotlight is now on the Republic of Ireland, where a second referendum is seen as the last major hurdle in the treaty's path.
The treaty cannot take effect unless all 27 EU member states ratify it.
The question of whether members of the U.S. military and intelligence communities should be allowed to use waterboarding and other forms of torture during interrogations might be largely irrelevant today if not for a memo signed by Under Secretary of Defense James R. Clapper Jr. Oct. 29, 2007.On that day, Clapper issued a memo granting “Operational Approval of the Preliminary Credibility Assessment Screening System (PCASS)” and designating the polygraph and its cousin, the PCASS, as the “only approved credibility assessment technologies” in the Department of Defense. And that's where the problems begin.
Click here to read the complete copyrighted story, If Not for Memo, Torture Might Not Be An Issue, at Bob McCarty Writes.
THIS IS JUST SICKENING!
AS BAD AS BANNING GEERT WILDERS.
THESE LABOUR-LEFTIES SIMPLY DON'T RESPECT FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
IT'S UPSIDE DOWN: OBAMA IS GETTING TOUGHER ON THE ONLY PLURALISTIC DEMOCRACY IN THE REGION AS HE PROMISES TO TALK PRETTY TO IRAN - WHICH FINANCES HIZBALLAH, HAMAS AND IS ACTIVELY DESTABILIZING EGYPT AND JORDAN AND LEBANON.
President Obama has made “empathy” with certain groups one of his criteria for choosing a Supreme Court nominee is a dangerous sign of how much farther the Supreme Court may be pushed away from the rule of law and toward even more arbitrary judicial edicts to advance the agenda of the Left and set it in legal concrete, immune from the democratic process.TAB ON SUNDAY:
Would you want to go into court to appear before a judge with “empathy” for groups A, B, and C, if you were a member of groups X, Y, or Z?
Nothing could be farther from the rule of law.
REGULAR READERS OF TAB KNOW WE SCOOP ALL THE BIGGIES ALL THE TIME BECAUSE WE DON'T JUST FOLLOW THE PACK
OBAMA SEEKS AN ACTIVIST WHO WILL DECIDE CASES BASED ON OUTCOMES AND NOT THE LAW. HE SAID THIS DOZENS OF TIME ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. IT'S WHAT HE WILL DO AND WHO HE WILL PICK.
- SEE THE SUB-TITLE OF ALINSKY'S BOOK? HERE: "A PRAGMATIC PRIMER FOR REALISTIC RADICALS".
- THIS IS THE KIND OF "PRAGMATIST" OBAMA IS: AN "ALINSKY PRAGMATIST".
- LOOK AT THE PHOTO ABOVE (IN THE NYT ARTICLE) - OF OBAMA SUPPOSEDLY TEACHING LAW:
- IT DOESN'T SHOW OBAMA PARSING THE LAW;
- IT DEPICTS OBAMA DIAGRAMMING "POWER RELATIONSHIPS IN THE ECONOMY", (CORPORATIONS, BANKS, UTILITIES); IT'S MARXIST ANALYSIS PURE & SIMPLE.
AND SO ON.

Could it be that Steve McQueen was denied his Constitutional right to be heard at a Quincy, Ill., city council meeting because of the fact that he is the chief organizer of the Quincy Tea Party movement? It sure appears that way. It was the last thing McQueen expected to have happen when he appeared at the meeting last night. But it did happen. In a 7-6 vote down party lines, members of the Quincy City Council voted to him his right to speak, despite the fact that he had taken all of the proper steps required of a citizen to appear on the council’s agenda.
“I actually went last night with the idea that I was going to speak about our local city budget and a water-sewer increase,” McQueen told me this morning during a telephone interview. “I did ask to speak prior to going and I was placed n the agenda, so I went in with the idea that it was a foregone conclusion that I would speak. When I walked in and the vote happened, I was shocked.”
Shocked, yes. But not deterred.
To read more of my interview with McQueen (the citizen, not the late actor), click here.
There has never been a complaint filed against Manna Storehouse or the Stowers related to the quality or healthfulness of the food distributed through the co-op.
The family of a man who died when a German doctor gave him a massive overdose while working his first shift in Britain have called on the NHS to suspend all foreign out-of-hours doctors until the system has been "overhauled".THE NHS IS RIFE WITH PROBLEMS, BUT OBAMA ANS THE LEFT WOULD HAVE YOU THINK THAT NATIONALIZATION IS A PANACEA.
Dr Daniel Ubani on his first shift providing out-of-hours cover for GPs, killed a patient by giving him 10 times the normal recommended dose of a pain-killing drug.
Daniel Ubani, from Witten, Germany, gave 70-year-old David Gray 10 times the dose of diamorphine for kidney pains after confusing it with moderate painkiller pethidine.
Mr Gray died at his home in Manea, Cambridgeshire, just three hours later on February 16 2008.
Dr Ubani, who was employed as a locum to provide out-of-hours GP cover, blamed the mistake on tiredness as he had only flown into the UK the night before and had had just three hours rest.
The death has raised serious concerns over the current system of out-of-hours care provided by private firms on behalf of NHS primary care trusts across the country.
Dr Ubani was also investigated over the death of a second patient on the same day – a 86-year-old woman who suffered a heart attack just two hours after being treated by the Nigerian-born doctor.
Cambridgeshire Police prepared a case against Dr Ubani over her death but the Crown Prosecution Service decided no charges should be brought.
If you want to stop a conversation in its tracks, just question something President Barack Obama has said or done. It's not open to debate -- and I don't think that's healthy, for the country or the president.REPEAT: "We need to hear both sides." THIS HAS BEEN MY ARGUMENT WITH MY FRIENDS ON THE LEFT FOR YEARS.
It's especially unsettling for a free speech girl like me. The First Amendment is important -- but lately, it feels like my right of self-expression is being squashed.
One example: Obama's comment to Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show," comparing his bowling abilities to someone in the Special Olympics.
Can you imagine the uproar had Bush said that? He'd be banished from bowling alleys for eternity. His bowling average and IQ would have immediately been compared in Twitter messages demanding his resignation.
But instead, media and water cooler conversations the next day were about bowling scores and how tough the game can be. Anyone bringing up the insensitivity of the president's remark heard, "Come on, give the guy a chance. So he said one thing wrong. Anyone could have said something like that." End of discussion.
Anyone remember poor Dan Quayle, the vice president who misspelled "potato" at a school spelling bee in 1992? No second chance for a Republican. Five months after the resulting media field day, Quayle and the first President Bush were voted out of office.
And doesn't anyone want to debate the wisdom of Obama's people allowing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who derides the "imperialist United States," to hand the president a book in an embarrassing publicity stunt that rocketed the leftist tome, "The Open Veins of Latin America" to the top of the best-seller lists? A couple of months ago, we were refusing to buy Venezuelan gas; now we're rushing out to buy copies of an anti-American book. This is certainly fair game for party talk.
Don't get me wrong, there is a whole lot to like about Obama. I want his smart ideas and policies to work. I love his youth, his inclusiveness and the way he cuts through the minutiae of public policy. But when auto execs get the boot, foreign meanies mock us and Special Olympians are insulted, I'm sorry, he rates some disapproving chatter.
Of course, if you move in circles with disaffected conservatives who are feeling powerless these days, I suppose mentioning Obama in a favorable way risks drawing the wrath of those who can't wait to tell you that socialism is upon us.
Hey, this is OK. We need to hear both sides. We must hear both sides. But we ought to be listening to each other, not waiting to pounce and then closing down the conversation.
President Obama convened a crisis meeting at the White House last Monday to hear a report from Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who had just returned from Pakistan. Mullen described the worrying situation there, with Taliban insurgents moving closer to the capital, Islamabad.REPEAT: they must act decisively."It had gotten significantly worse than I expected as the Swat deal unraveled," Mullen explained in an interview. He was referring to a truce brokered in February in the Swat Valley, about 100 miles north of Islamabad. The Pakistani military had expected that the cease-fire would subdue Taliban fighters in Swat. Instead, the Muslim militants surged south into the district of Buner, on the doorstep of the capital.
... At a Wednesday news conference, Obama said he was "gravely concerned about the situation in Pakistan." He said his biggest worry was that "the civilian government there right now is very fragile."
... Success depends on Islamabad's recognition that it's their problem, and that they must act decisively.
Dodd: We prosecuted the Nazis so let’s prosecute Bush
VIDEO Via Moe Lane. No, he’s not saying that waterboarding terrorists is as evil as genocide, but he does seem to be saying that both are sufficiently evil as to require prosecution.
By Bob McCartyBarely an hour after “60 Minutes” reporter Scott Pelley’s story, “Amazon Crude,” aired on CBS Sunday night, I had exchanged e-mails with representatives on both sides of the lawsuit.
On the plaintiff side, Andrew Woods, a Huffington Post blogger and Harvard Law School graduate who serves as one of the attorneys for the plaintiff, got things started by sending me a link to the “60 Minutes” piece along with a transcript of the CBS segment at 8:10 p.m. Central. He ended his message by saying, “I’d be interested in your reaction.”
To find out more about the "spin" I encountered, visit Bob McCarty Writes.

The Pakistani government announced the creation of a new Islamic appeals court over the weekend, saying that it was meeting the terms of a February peace agreement with the Taliban and that the militants should now cease their armed struggle.REPEAT: ARMED TALIBAN WILL BE "... prosecuted in the Qazi courts..."But the Taliban said Sunday that they had not agreed to the two judges appointed to the provincial court.
“The government has fulfilled its part of the agreement,” Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the information minister for North-West Frontier Province, told reporters on Saturday evening. “Now anyone carrying arms would be treated as a rebel and would be prosecuted in the Qazi courts,” he said. A Qazi is a judge trained in Islamic law.

THIS IS UTTER BS AND TOTAL CRAP. REPEAT: WHEN THE NYTIMES WRITES THIS: a careful pragmatist with a limited view of the role of courts - IT IS A LIE. A DELIBERATE LIE.As a Professor, a Pragmatist About the Supreme Court
Obama for America, via Associated PressBarack Obama teaching law at the University of Chicago.
Many American presidents have been lawyers, but almost none have come to office with Barack Obama’s knowledge of the Supreme Court. Before he was 30, he was editing articles by eminent legal scholars on the court’s decisions. Later, as a law professor, he led students through landmark cases from Plessy v. Ferguson to Bush v. Gore. (He sometimes shared his own copies, marked with emphatic underlines and notes in bold, all-caps script.)
Now Mr. Obama is preparing to select his first Supreme Court nominee to replace retiring Justice David H. Souter. In interviews, former colleagues and students say they have a fairly strong sense of the kind of justice he will favor: not a larger-than-life liberal to counter the conservative pyrotechnics of Justice Antonin Scalia, but a careful pragmatist with a limited view of the role of courts.
Joe Wrinn/Harvard University, via Associated PressThis photo provided by Harvard University Law School shows Barack Obama as a student at the school in Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 6, 1990. Obama came to Harvard in the fall of 1988 after graduating from Columbia University and spending four years as a community organizer in Chicago.
[OBAMA:] “I will seek someone who understands that justice isn’t about some abstract legal theory or footnote in a case book,OBAMA SEEKS AN ACTIVIST WHO WILL DECIDE CASES BASED ON OUTCOMES AND NOT THE LAW. HE SAID THIS DOZENS OF TIME ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. IT'S WHAT HE WILL DO AND WHO HE WILL PICK.
it is also about how our laws affect the daily realities of people’s lives,
whether they can make a living, and care for their families, whether they feel safe in their homes, and welcome in their own nation.
I view that quality of empathy, of understanding and identifying with peoples hopes and struggles as an essential ingredient for arriving at just decisions and outcomes.”

Brazilian police and soldiers have begun an operation to remove non-indigenous residents from an Indian reservation in northern Brazil.THIS TYPE OF THING WAS CONDEMNED IN SERBIA. AND EVEN IN ZIMBABWE.
The operation follows a landmark ruling by the country's Supreme Court that the Raposa Serra do Sol reservation should be solely for indigenous people.
The non-indigenous rice farmers and farm workers say they are victims of "legalised robbery".
But the authorities say they will be properly compensated.
In March, Brazil's Supreme Court ruled that the area in the northern border state of Roraima should be maintained as a single continuous territory exclusively for use by the indigenous population.
The decision was hailed as a major victory for indigenous rights, and was also regarded as setting an important precedent for future court cases.

OUR READERS KNEW WHAT WHITTLE WAS TALKING ABOUT BECAUSE WE POSTED THE SAME STUFF TWO YEARS AGO - ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIROSHIMA ON AUGUST 6TH 2007,