GOVERNACIDE: Six more die in Afghan

Sunday, July 11, 2010

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100710/D9GS7K7O0.html

NATO: 6 US troops killed in Afghanistan
Jul 10, 9:48 AM (ET)
By RAHIM FAIEZ

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Six American service members and at least a dozen civilians died in attacks Saturday in Afghanistan’s volatile east and south, adding to a summer of escalating violence as Taliban militants push back against stepped-up operations by international and Afghan forces.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Ron_Paul#Nonintervention

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Paul’s stance on foreign policy is one of consistent nonintervention,which opposes war of aggression and entangling alliances with other nations. Paul advocates bringing troops home from U.S. military bases in Korea, Japan, and Europe, among others. He also proposes that the U.S. stop sending massive, unaccountable foreign aid.

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I distinctly remember in the debates Ron Paul saying “the first thing coming this way”. So why didn’t we elect the only true anti-war candidate? BHO44 was a fraud; he had no intention of ending the wars.

And, now six more are lost.

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GOVERNACIDE: Turning over health care to the blob

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

http://www.forbes.com/2010/05/19/internet-ibm-cities-technology-breakthroughs-healthcare.html

Health Care
Staying Healthy In Big Cities
Rob Merkel, 05.20.10, 06:00 AM EDT
Why urban centers are the perfect place for ”smart health care.”

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This smarter approach is already beginning to take hold. In October 2009, during the height of the H1N1 flu outbreak, Duke University Health System used analytics tools to cull through 20 million electronic patient records for insights into chronic illness and medical history. High-risk patients, such as children with respiratory distress, were prioritized to receive the H1N1 vaccine. Via e-mail, Duke was able to update its patients on vaccine availability. It also used its system to contact more than 250,000 patients and provide education on how to avoid getting the flu and spreading it to others.

In the U.S. alone, an estimated $59 billion has been allocated for health care stimulus spending under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). With recent advances in technology and the improvements made possible by ARRA funding, we have the potential to infuse our existing health care systems with new intelligence. Technology alone can’t cure what ails us. But it can provide new ways to help those who treat our illnesses and battle major outbreaks do their jobs even better.

Rob Merkel is the Global HealthCare Service Line Leader for IBM Global Business Services. For 19 years he has helped many of the world’s leading health care brands, governments and institutions tackle their complex challenges.

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Sorry, but your vision for elites deciding what’s best is communism. The recent swine flu with the gooferment in charge was a disaster. Immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. Immoral because the gooferment robs wealth at gunpoint to provide “services” that folks don’t want, don’t need, and can’t afford. This is but one example. Ineffective because the shots were late to the marketplace, misdirected, poorly prioritized. But, rest assured, all the elite, politicians, and bureaucrats got theirs first. Argh! Finally inefficient because the cost was absurd, the doses were late, delivered long after the need, and they expired unused.

No, we need to shoot the FDA and put Walmart in charge of health care. It’ll be good, cheap, and available.

Freedom for those cranky individuals to buy what they need when they need it will motivate greedy drug makers to get what we want to buy to us in plenty of time.

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Don’t overlook the bias of the author. IBM will make big buxs off of this particular form of “corporate welfare”.

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How many people died from the swine flu? And, after the vaccine was delayed by red tape?

None of the elite, politicians, or bureaucrats, I’m sure.

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GOVERNACIDE: Only vets should vote

Monday, May 31, 2010

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Today, I think and pray for all the dead — vets, non-vets, the “draft dodgers”, and those that have had their lives ruined by wars throughout our history.

I’m reminded of Washington’s “entangling alliances”. I think of Heinlein’s “Only vets should vote” and decide when to send troops in harm’s way. I think of all the venial politicians and some of the larger mass murders, some of whom were Presidents; they have led us astray.

But mostly I pray for all the lost potential.

And, of course, for my fellow vets, for the boys and girls in the field, and for the “dim bulb” politicians and bureaucrats who can’t seem to steer us to peace.

Signed, a USAF vet 70-73, who defended Maryland to the best of his meager abilities!

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GOVERNACIDE: The “War on (some) Drugs” kills people

Monday, May 10, 2010

https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/campaigns/109

Help End the Mexican Civil War

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How do you weaken the drug traffickers? You take away their obscene black-market profits.

Al Capone and the mafia got rich running alcohol during Prohibition. When Prohibition ended the violence ended too. Jim Beam distributors don’t do drive-by shootings on outlets that sell Jack Daniels. And neither Jim Beam nor Jack Daniels are killing politicians, policemen, journalists, and private citizens.

Black-market drug profits fund criminal enterprises that threaten your safety, not only at home and in Mexico, but around the world. Taliban warlords in Afghanistan and Pakistan fund much of their operations through the illicit drug trade.

The solution to the coming spillover of the Mexican Drug War is simple: Stop doing the same failed thing over and over again. Do something different. End drug prohibition in the United States, and thereby defuse the Mexican Civil War and defund the terrorists in Afghanistan.

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Please bring peace to both Mexico and the United States by ending the War on Drugs.

We, as a nation, didn’t learn from (alcohol) Prohibition. Let’s get smart now.

Repeal the federal “war on drug” statutes. (Advise President Obama to pardon ALL non-violent drug offenders.)

Call the big Drug Companies and the big Retailers and the big Drug Vendors up to Capitol Hill and tell them they are now responsible to keep drugs out of the hands of children. And you don’t want to see ads on TV! (You can threaten to make a law; that’ll scare the you know what out of them.)

Let’s try freedom. And, bankrupt our enemies.

(I always was upset when children are killed by “bad drugs”. Cut with rat poison, of unknown strength, or even unidentifiable. We can avoid killing and maiming our progeny by simply recognizing human nature. We can’t control what people will put voluntarily in their own bodies.)

Repeal the Drug War laws. They’re ineffective and inefficient.

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GOVERNACIDE: Kent State murders

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

http://aaeblog.com/2010/05/04/the-state-in-action/

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Forty years ago today, Ohio National Guardsmen murdered four unarmed students at Kent State and wounded nine others, permanently paralysing one.

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So soon we forget.

From whence does the State, any state, get the right to execute its citizens?

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GOVERNACIDE: Gooferment North of the Border kills as well

Sunday, April 25, 2010

http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/04/17/13622106.html

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Stranded woman dies despite 911 call

By THE CANADIAN PRESS

Last Updated: April 17, 2010 2:34am

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BIG RIVER, Sask. – A woman who died trying to get help for three family members is being called a hero, but the situation has RCMP investigating why their calls to 911 went unheeded.

RCMP said two women and two children had been driving to Loon Lake from Prince Albert when their car got bogged down in mud and water on a poorly maintained road in a remote area near Big River. Records indicate someone in the car called 911 on April 8 but no officers were dispatched.

One of the women tried to get help, walking some 60 kilometres from the vehicle.

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There have been several high-profile problems with 911 service in other Canadian cities.

In Calgary, one woman narrowly escaped being killed when she came home last November and found her two children slain. Ying Louie called 911 earlier saying she feared for the safety of her children because her husband wouldn’t let her speak to them. Louie called again about 30 minutes later and talked to a different operator. There was a scream and the line cut off.

In February, a Calgary woman was heard in distress in the background of a 911 call made more than 12 hours before she was found dead by police.

An inquest was held in Winnipeg after two aboriginal sisters — Corrine McKeown, 52, and Doreen Leclair, 51 — were murdered in 2000. They had called police and 911 five times over eight hours to get help. Police responded to the first call and to the last call, when they found the women had been stabbed to death inside Leclair’s home in Winnipeg’s north end.

Morin said the woman was released from hospital Friday. He met with her and the boys, along with the RCMP.

“She was still pretty weak, but the kids were … pretty healthy,” said Morin.

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Argh! “Dial 911 and die”

Mistakes happen. Fatal mistakes. Avoidable mistakes.

(1) Logging road shortcut.

Are you kidding me? That’s what got that California guy and his family. At least, his excuse was he was following his Garmin. Wasn’t the lack of pavement a clue that they were headed in the “wrong” direction?

(2) Calling 911!

Always a mistake. If lost, call a friend or relative who will care if you are succored or not. A follow up with the donut eating bureaucrats. (Nice of them to conduct an investigation abot the multiple gooferment failures in this story.

(3) Car not equipped for survival.

No 72 hour bag in the trunk. No tools. No survival gear. And these were Native Americans?

(4) 60 click hike

That’s about 40 miles. (That’s a good hike for a Marine.) But doable. Didn’t say how old the lady was, but with properly gear, it has to be do-able. “Four days later” indicates she made ten miles per day. Would seem to be a comfortable pace.

(5) Dead on the side of the road

Natural causes or run over?

(6) 911 Operators

No one knew nothing. No follow up. No use.

(7) 911 History

Only the gooferment can provide an expensive service that fails so badly. No one gets fired. No one is reprimanded. “She’s lucky!”

Where’s the outrage?

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GOVERNACIDE: Flubs kill

Sunday, April 11, 2010

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100403/D9ERRRGO0.html

Lapses hinder rescue teams hunting for lost planes
Apr 3, 5:14 PM (ET)
By JOAN LOWY

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The 78-year-old Ohio businessman freed himself from the wreckage and, though badly injured, activated an emergency signal. For nearly six hours, the letters “EMRG” flashed on radar scopes at a Federal Aviation Administration facility near Atlanta, giving air traffic controllers a general idea of Smiley’s location.

Yet it was full two days before rescuers arrived. Smiley was dead. He had scrawled a last note to his wife on an envelope.

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It’s not just a “lapse”. It’s a complete failure!

So who lost their jobs over this death? Reprimands? Transfers? Unpaid days off?

Argh!

Unfortunately, the “service” provided by the gooferment was … … unsatisfactory.

Maybe we should have OnStar run the function?

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GOVERNACIDE: Are drones “moral”?

Saturday, April 10, 2010

http://original.antiwar.com/lobe/2010/04/02/legality-of-drone-strikes/

Legality of Drone Strikes Still in Question by Jim Lobe, April 03, 2010

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While welcoming an initial effort by the administration of President Barack Obama to offer a legal justification for drone strikes to kill suspected terrorists overseas, human rights groups say critical questions remain unanswered.

In an address to an international law group last week, State Department Legal Adviser Harold Koh insisted that such operations were being conducted in full compliance with international law.

“The U.S. is in armed conflict with al-Qaeda as well as the Taliban and associated forces in response to the horrific acts of 9/11 and may use force consistent with its right to self-defense under international law,” he said.

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“The question is a legal one: under what circumstances can you use lethal force at all? Our view has always been that it should be limited to zones of active armed conflict where normal arrest operations are not feasible.”

A related question involves who may be targeted. While many authorities insist lethal force can be used under the laws of war against those who are actively participating in armed conflict, the U.S. has used defined participation in very broad terms, including membership in – or even financial support of – an armed group.

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“The big issue is where the war is and whether it’s a war, and we couldn’t disagree more strongly as to the tenor of Koh’s comments,” he said. “It goes back to the idea of an unbounded global war on terror where terror is hardly defined at all.”

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Sorry, it can’t be a “war” because Congress has NOT declared it. That pesky Constitution thing. (See Lysander Spooner.)

Further, in the absence of a declared war, on who’s authority does the gooferment kill anyone?

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GOVERNACIDE: Governement, even gooferments, even “ours”, kill people. Fact of Life!

Thursday, March 4, 2010

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20100224/ARTICLE/2241029?p=3&tc=pg

Follow the rules, comrades … or else
By DAVID BALL
Correspondent
Published: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 1:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 7:50 p.m.

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Most students followed protocol and said they learned more than in a regular classroom assignment. Ninth-grader Joe Polarr was arrested several times for walking on the grass, wearing a hat and not pulling back his long hair — basically just being Joe Polarr on a normal school day.

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Left out the killing. Socialists, Communists, and Fascists kill people. So “old” Joe would be dead for not following the rules. The gooferment skool left out that little lesson. But, we, The People, can’t ever forget that gooferments, for all their usual ineptitude, are really good at mass murder! Look at the body counts. All gooferments, even ours, kills innocent people at home and abroad. Aren’t we ashamed of that? Aren’t we afraid of that? Aren’t we personally at risk?

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GOVERNACIDE: Hazelwood man dies; gooferment fails, no penalty

Thursday, February 18, 2010

http://www.postgazette.com/pg/10048/1036403-53.stm#ixzz0foHdeppW

Hazelwood man dies after 10 calls to 911 over two days
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
By Sadie Gurman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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In his first call to 911, Curtis Mitchell sounded calm, explaining to dispatchers that his “entire stomach [was] in pain.”

By the time his longtime girlfriend made a 10th call nearly 30 hours later, she was frantic. He wasn’t breathing. He was cold to the touch.

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The city planned today to start dispatching firefighters as first responders on medical calls of the two highest grades of severity, and on calls of the third highest level that remained unanswered for more than 30 minutes. Firefighters are currently only called as first responders to the most severe incidents.

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The gooferment has inserted itself into so many areas that it fails at most of them. In trying to be all things to all people, it has to disappoint. And, the costs.

I find it hard to believe that volunteers would be as inept. When I was on the First Aid squad, we’d have just dismounted and proceeded on foot. We’d have called on other volunteers if the need was so urgent.

Paid bureaucrats need to drive up to the door.

Sad.

Sad for us, in that, we’ve bought into the myth. The myth that the gooferment does great stuff and it’s all “free”!

Argh!

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