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south Sudan: Enough is enough on international community

From: Sudan Press

By Kuach Y. Tutkuay

“A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.”–John Maxwell

January 15, 2014 (SSNA) — It is with a due concerns for the humanitarian situation in south Sudan that I call on international community to intervene immediately to put to an end the everlasting suffering our leaders have subjected us to because of their own personal love for power. It would have been better if the SPLA have had a thorough training that they would be the nation’s professional army with no respect to their individual’s tribes. They were the very people who would have put short this chaos between the political leaders by not taking any side but remains one army that protect civilians.

Because the government has failed completely to develop a professional army, it has turned to be very catastrophic that the civilians they were supposed to protect are finishing in their own hands. The incident in Juba and Malakal had targeted thousands of Nuer women and children that had nothing to do with the power struggle. Same thing forced some SPLA nuer Generals to rebels and kill some civilians Dinka in Bor and Bentiu which had nothing to with the genocide in Juba. The two groups that suffered genocide are the very citizen whom the government is claiming to be protecting yet they turned to kill them in a cold blood murdering.

In any country, a legitimate government is that which does not segregates its citizens on tribal or religious bases. The Arab did this but in a better way, they never massacred a certain tribe in whole including the women and children, they never massacred people in masses like what happened in Juba. I thought all citizens voted for Kiir equally, I never knew there are some votes he would wished to be casted away rather. In the night of 16th December when the president declare a 12-hours curfew from 6:00 PM to 6:00 AM, many people including women and children lose their lives because it was the very night I would wish to curse for good, the night that a door-to-door killing of innocent civilians by Kiir’s force took place. Between the two groups, there is no legitimate government because all failed to protect civilians and as such, I would say that they should not be described as government and rebels, but instead would be described as “Kiir’s militia” and “Riak’s militia” respectively.

The territorial integrity the government is supposed to protect has been abused, many troops are coming in from the south and the north. Uganda sent in thousands of troop to support his bosom friend in what the world described as a tribal war. The Sudanese rebels–Justice and Equality Movement–JEM sent in thousands of troop from the northern part of the country. The national resources that was used to hire these troops would construct thousands metres road crossing the country from north to south. Since 2005, this government never had any success. It’s always the words of desperation that describes the whole south Sudanese system of government–corruption, nepotism, austerities, unemployment, insecurity, poor infrastructures, power struggle and finally the full blown stage of ‘genocide.’

It is obvious that there are some grievances among the south Sudanese tribes as a result of the struggle story, especially the two rival tribes of Nuer and Dinka. I remember in 2010 when I was in Fangak County, an SPLA soldier gave me an hefty blow just because I was greeted by one of my pupils addressing me as “uztaz” (teacher). “You will suffer, don’t forget the killing of our people by William Chuol Deng”he said. Chuol Deng was one of the SPLA generals who hails from Fangak County, but died long ago before I was born. I don’t have any connection with what he did during his operation as an SPLA commander. This gave me an idea that there is a need for national healing and reconciliation to end all these grudges against any tribe.

The national healing and Reconciliation commission was not formed until 2012 despite the fact that it would have been done first thing as soon as we were granted internal self-government in 2005. South Sudanese always pronounces the slogan of “justice, liberty and prosperity” but in reality they end up doing the opposite, they interfered with the commission and made it redundant in the hand of Bishop Daniel without any achievement. This indicated that the government is not willing and able to achieve reconciliation and national peace.

The government has failed completely to provide anything beneficial to its citizens, the only thing they could do perfectly is the killing of unarmed civilians because it is easy. The international community keep saying “legitimate government” forgetting that we the citizens made it legitimate and only we can make it illegitimate too. To end this massive killing, the international community especially the US must intervene and protect civilians in the hands of these brutal factions. The US need to repeat what they did for Iraq in south Sudan to save the remaining population from brutal killing. If only the international community will sit with their hands folded and watch, we the victims will not appreciate their neutrality because we are being finished day by day. I call up on those who have respect for human life and value it to come immediately to our aid. Save our remains oh friends of goodwill, enough is enough. More than ten thousand people killed in one month, it is disastrous!

I have lost several cousins from Nuer and several friends from Dinka, I don’t want to keep losing the people I love each day. May all their souls rest in eternal peace.

The author is south Sudanese from Nuer currently working with the United Nations in South Sudan, he was nearly a victim of Kiir’s massacre but was evacuated from Juba by UN on the ground that his tribe is being targeted and his security at risk. The views are not representing that of the UN but my personal views as a citizen of this country. You can reach me on kuach444@gmail.com

Call for Justice: President Kiir and VP Wani Must be Held Accountable for Nuer Genocide in Juba 2013

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From: Sudan Press

Since the horrific killing of the civilians in Juba on 15th December 2013, I have been hearing people crying for justice hoping that the government of South Sudan will talk about the Nuer Massacre in Juba and held those who involve accountable for the crime they committed against the humanity. Surprisingly, the government has consistently been accusing the opposition about unjustifiable attempted coup against the government, instead to dealing with the crisis responsibly. The infiltration of fighting!

I am here to inform the world that genocide was committed by the presidential guards (mainly Dinka) with the order of the president to kill innocent Nuer. The UN and other organisations reported that over 1,000 were killed. Unfortunately our government took a partial position by refusing to publish a correct number of people killed in Juba or attempted to stop the killing of innocent people. I am one of the survivals of the Nuer mass killing that happened in Juba and I witnessed the situation. Below are the numbers of people killed in Juba and those who are affected by the conflict in Juba from 15th- 30th December 2013.

1000 University graduate who went to Juba to look for work were killed simply because they are Nuer.

1000 SPLA soldiers and policemen were killed while on duty to serve lives from 15th – 23rd December 2013 in Juba.

2300 civilians including civil servants and youth were killed

1000 children under 10 year old were killed a long side their parents

More than 3000 people still missing

More than 2000 Nuer people wounded and denied access to medical services by the SS government.

More than 18,000 Nuer escaped to UNMISS compounds for protection.

Therefore the total number of people killed was 5,300. Perhaps these figureswill help the relevant institution of the government and human right organisations bases in Juba to initiate a rigorous investigation about the Nuer massacre. The dead bodies were put in the big containers and bury them in mass grave outside and inside Juba by the Loyal Forces of the president. They also placed some dead bodies in the containers and throw them in the river. Unfortunately, the media was prevented to report on killing of innocent Nuer or to know what the killers were doing with the dead bodies, relatives were denied to bury the bodies of their love ones. I strongly advice the international community to consider what occurred in Juba serious, investigate the cause of it and held those who involve accountable. I will help with the investigation of the scent should I be alive.

The government has been conveying a misleading messages to the community alleged that the conflict was not a tribal conflict while the loyal forces were specifically targeted and killed Nuer in Juba because that was what they were instructed or oriented to do by the President Kiir. Neither Dinka, Cholo nor Equatorian was killed in Juba and those who killed Nuer in Juba were all Dinka, the so call the presidential guards.

For that reason, I believe that this is a tribal conflict. If the president intended to target the communities’ member of those who opposed the SPLAM direction, then, the loyal forces perhaps would have killed other nationality of South Sudan. This would have both the legitimacy of the government’s claim that this is not a tribal conflict.

The so call government spoke person, Makuei Lueth failed to define coup as the government claimed. He has been distorting the cause of the conflict and condemned ‘white army’ for what happened in Jonglie. If in fact, the government was to deal with this crisis responsibly, perhaps what happen in Jonglie could have been avoided. But what the so call “loyal forces” did in Juba after the president announced the curfew was intend killing and elimination of Nuer. No one talk about it event now from the government of South Sudan. This is an indication that the government take side and that it perform it duty in the tribal line. Furthermore, if any civilian was killed in Jonglie I guessed that could have been through cross shooting between the army forces.

Finally, the civilians particularly the white army weighed war against the government simply because the government they voted for killed their innocent children who went to Juba for business and looking for work. Not because they were mobilised by Dr Riek Machar.

The SPLA freedom fighters that joined the opposition did so because their families were killed while they were on duty in Unity State, in Jonglie State and in greater Equatoria region protecting the sovereignty of South Sudan. How on earth should a family of national army soldier plan coup when the father/mother is serving the nation elsewhere?

I call upon the government to show leadership this war. I will keep you update on new development in Juba.

The author of this paper is resident of Juba and can be contact by jangq15@gmail.com

EAST AFRICAN STATES SIGN AN AGREEMENT TO JOINTLY COMBAT TERRORISM IN THE REGION

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Writes Leo Odera Omolo in Kisumu City

SECURITY Ministers of the three Eastern African nations of Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda met in Kigali, the Rwandan capital early this week and signed an important pact to jointly combat the activities of the terrorists bin the region.

The new pact according to an impeccable source, will address threats posed by marauding genocidal entities such as { FDRL}, terrorists groups like ADF-Nalu, and the islamists Al-Shabaab, and several transnational crime groups, that require collective security framework.

Kenya”s cabinet secretary for Defense Ms Rachelle Omamo and internal security counterpart Joseph Ole Lenku went Kigali and met with their Ugandan and Rwandan counterparts..They Signed the pactwith the Rwandan Defense Minister James Kabarebe while Ugandan Defense Minister Grispus Kiyongsa signed on behalf of the Kampala regime.

Under the new pact, the three countries which are member states of the East African Community joint forces will tackle the terrorism in the region following the steady raise of terrorism menace in the region.

Addressing newsmen on behalf the group, Rwandan Defebse Minister Kabarabe that the landmark Mutual Defense and security agreement will help the three countries jointly tackle “Negative Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda” [FDRL], WHICH Rwandan government accuse ofhaving links with the perpetrators 0f the 1994 genocide in Rwanda which claimed the lives of close to one million people..

The minister said the Rwandan government has refused to negotiate with FDRL and has accused the UN of backing the rebel movements in the DEMOCRATIC republic of the {DRC} and deploying death squad to murder opponents abroad.

The document was also endorsed by thr Rwandan Internal Security MIinister MUSA fazil Haremana and HIS Kenyan counterpart Arounda Nyakiraima \nd Ole Lenku respectively..

According to Rwandan officials, the pact will seek to address the security challenges that may come with free movement of people..”, he said adding that co-operation between the three countries will bring more benefits t the population.”

The Rwandan Minister hinted that after signing the pact,the next step will be to develop the common foreign policy for the three countries in order to have one voice on the global stage.

He added, “We need to harmonize defense and security with foreign policies.” We must be inclusive and outward looking because dealing with the current global maters require us to work together in the region.

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USA: This is none of the IRS’s business

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From: Nita and Shaunna, UltraViolet

They’re at it again. Now Tea Party conservatives want to force sexual violence survivors to recount their experience to IRS agents. Click here to stop them!

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Dear Readers,

This morning, the House Judiciary Committee is debating legislation that could force survivors of sexual violence to tell their horrifying stories to…wait for it…Internal Revenue Service agents.1

That’s because the bill sponsored by extremely anti-choice Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) requires women who needed abortion care and are also survivors of sexual violence to prove to IRS auditors that the assault occurred.2 What?!

As you read this, House Judiciary Committee members are considering the legislation. If we act now and collect enough signatures to show House leadership that this is not only offensive but also a huge waste of time, we can stop the legislation in its tracks–just like a grassroots outcry stopped efforts to redefine rape in 2011.3 If we speak out loudly now, we can send a message to politicians that bills like this won’t win over women voters, and we can stop this outrageous law in its tracks.

Click here to tell Congress: Sexual assault is none of the IRS’s business.
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When will Tea Party conservatives get how degrading it is to force women to have ultrasounds, go through waiting periods, drive hours and hours to find reproductive care, and now describe their sexual assault to an IRS bureaucrat? In a country where 1 in 5 women have been sexually assaulted and 1 in 3 women will have an abortion, it is incredibly cruel to subject millions of women to this invasive and traumatizing line of questioning.4

In the 2012 election, Tea Party conservatives failed to gain control of the Senate due in part to their offensive and extreme comments about pregnancy resulting from rape.5 Together, thousands of us helped shine a spotlight on that, and our fellow Americans were as horrified as we were at what they saw. If we act now, we can win this new chapter in the War on Women.

Click here to tell your members of Congress: Keep the IRS out of women’s private medical records.
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Thanks for taking action,

Nita, Shaunna, Kat, Karin, Malinda, Adam, and Gabriela, the UltraViolet team

Sources:

1. House Republicans Kick Off 2014 With Renewed Focus On Abortion, Birth Control, The Huffington Post, January 8, 2013

2. Text of H.R. 7, Congress.gov, January 8, 2013

3. How Todd Akin And Paul Ryan Partnered To Redefine Rape, ThinkProgress.org, August 19, 2012

4. Nearly 1 in 5 Women in U.S. Survey Say They Have Been Sexually Assaulted, New York Times, December 14, 2011

Students aim to change tone of abortion debate, USA Today, October 30, 2013

5. Team Rape Lost Big Last Night, Jezebel.com, November 7, 2012

KENYA LAWYERS BODY TO CHALLENGE GOVERNMENT BILL IN COURT

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By Agwanda Saye

The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) will seek to be enjoined in a suit challenging the controversial Kenya Information and Communication Amendment (KICA) Bill 2013.

The LSK Secretary/CEO Mr. Apollo Mboya said that the Society has instructed Senior Counsel Mr. James Orengo over the public interest matter.

“LSK has instructed Mr. Orengo to have it enjoined as an interested party in the suit scheduled to be filed by Senior Counsel Paul Muite challenging KICA Bill,” Mr. Mboya said.

Mr. Mboya said that LSK is seeking to be enjoined as an interested party for purposes of articulating the broader constitutional issues.

“Our concerns are on the freedom of expression and information with a view of safeguarding constitutional provisions on the same,” Mr. Mboya said.

Mr. Mboya said that one of the objects of the Society as provided in the LSK Act Cap 18 is to represent, protect and assist members of the legal profession in respect of conditions of practice and otherwise.

“The KICA Bill raises several constitutional questions…we have further analyzed the President’s Memorandum on the Bill and its implications on the Media Council Act 2013,” Mr. Mboya said.

The LSK Secretary/CEO said that even though President Uhuru Kenyatta forwarded a Memorandum on the Bill to Parliament, it did not adequately address the constitutional issues therein,” Mr. Mboya said.

According to the analysis, the complaints commission should be retained under the Media Council Bill as the sole body to regulate professional ethics of journalists.

The Multi-Media Appeals Tribunal undermines constitutional principles on free and independent media under the principle of self-regulation and co-regulation.

“The Media council of Kenya should also be allowed to set standards and continue enforcement of professional ethics in line with Article 34(5) of the Constitution,” Mr. Mboya said.

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KENYA: KISUMU MAGISTRATE WHO FREED JOURNALIST’S ATTACKERS SACKED

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By Our Reporter

Kisumu based Magistrate Phylis Lusia Shinyada who set free four men who violently robbed a Kisumu based journalist has been sacked and found unsuitable to be a judicial officer by the Sharad Rao led Judges and Magistrates Vetting Board .

Shinyada had in late 2012 freed the four men ostensibly due to what she said was luck of evidence despite crucial exhibits having been brought to court by the Police.

While releasing its ninth announcement on determination on suitability of Magistrates and Judges the board also found the following Judges unsuitable to be judicial officers; Anne IreriRuguru, Douglas Musa Machage, Gilbert Kimutai Too,George Rachemi Sagero,Joseph Riitho Nduruni, Kinaro Dennis Abraham, Ruth Benta Maloba and Timothy Ole Tanchu .

In regard to Hon Shinyada the board made the following recommendations after having received four complaints against the Magistrate;

. In Complaint one, the complainant alleged that in Kisumu CMCCR. No. 393 of 2012: the magistrate did not take down accurate proceedings, and was bribed. He claimed that the magistrate omitted part of his testimony from her court record. The complainant, who appeared and testified, stated before the Board that the magistrate was on her phone all the time intermittently recording his evidence and paying little or no attention to his testimony. The complainant further averred that he believed the bribe was paid because the accused’s parent indicated their intention to bribe the magistrate if the out of court settlement failed.

In her response the magistrate vehemently denied ever receiving a bribe in the matter or ever in her practice. The Board was not convinced that the magistrate kept a proper court record. The Board also wondered why she was quick to find that no prima facie case had been established through argumentative reasoning in her ruling that went

against the known principles enunciated in Bhatt vs Republic36. The magistrate after a discussion of the issues admitted that she may have acted hurriedly. She attributes it to lack of experience and mentorship. She stated that there is no training or guidance given to junior magistrates on joining the bench. She states she was not bribed and that her action were very honest and above board.

36Ramanlal Trambaklal Bhatt versus Republic [1957] E.A. 332 it was stated thus:-“Remembering that the legal onus is always on the prosecution to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt, we cannot agree that a prima facie case is made out if, at the close of the prosecution; the case is merely one which on full consideration might possibly be thought sufficient to sustain a conviction.”

The Board finds that the bribery claim remains unproven. After a lengthy discussion the magistrate appreciated that it would have been prudent to put the defendants on their defence.

The second complaint was that in Kisii CMCC No. 88 of 2007 and No. 67 of 2009, the magistrate issued orders releasing the complainant’s motor vehicle to the plaintiff contrary to the orders issued by the High Court in Kisii. In her response the Magistrate stated that the case before her was not the High Court Case and that she had no intention of undermining the High Court’s findings on the same issue in a separate case. The Magistrate indicated that she took over the matter at the execution stage. It is clear that she never concerned herself with the decision of the High Court thereby making a contrary decision one year down the line. The Magistrate regretted her action. The Board finds that the Magistrate failed to exercise sufficient diligence in the matter.

The third complaint was that in Kisii CMCCR. No. 799 of 2011, the Magistrate threatened the accused with civil jail if he continued requesting to cross examine the witness. That the Magistrate was hostile to the complainant’s wife when she appeared before her to inform the court that her husband who was the accused was not feeling well. That the Magistrate further denied the accused the chance to cross examine the witnesses and refused to recuse herself. That she further rejected the probation report issued to her and ordered the probation officer to amend it to her desires.

The Magistrate’s response to the complaint was well explained. The complainant was unable to substantiate the issues and therefore the claim remained conjuncture and unproven. It was clear however that the Magistrate failed on her part to explain to the

Accused person his right to recall witnesses who had testified, when she took over the matter37. The Magistrate was well aware of this right but failed to ensure the accused enjoyed it. The Board felt that the conduct of the Magistrate on this specific matter painted a bad picture of the judiciary to the public. The Magistrate acknowledged the oversight and was remorseful for the same.

In complaint number four the complainant alleged that in Kisii CMCC No. 730 ‘A’ of 2009, the Magistrate adopted an incompetent surveyor’s report to determine a land matter and disallowed the complainant’s application for review on grounds that the complainant had filed an appeal despite having knowledge that the said appeal had been withdrawn.

In her response, the Magistrate was unable to substantiate why she never heard the review application despite the withdrawal of the appeal having been brought to her knowledge. The magistrate failed to quote authorities she relied on in her ruling. The Board felt that it was the duty of the Magistrate to ascertain that expert witnesses appearing before her are competent. Her failure so to do in this matter resulted in her recording evidence from an imposter surveyor. The Board concluded that the magistrate greatly relied on technicalities when writing her judgment in the matter. This was a deliberate infringement of the accused’s rights contrary to the provisions of the Kenyan constitution.

Complaint number five was from by a Law Firm who alleged that in Kisii CMCC No. 62 of 2010, the magistrate made an ex-parte order on an application which was already spent. That she declined the complainant’s application to summon the agricultural officer. She further proceeded with the matter ex parte and without ascertaining whether the mention notice was properly served thus denying the advocates the opportunity to peruse the agricultural officer’s report and or to cross examine the officer and proceeded to deliver the ruling on the matter ex parte.

Although the Magistrate denied all the allegations, it came out clearly that the Magistrate failed in several respects. The Board noted that the matter actually proceeded severally

without the defendants, and no notation is made on the Court record on whether the defendants had been served or not. On one occasion the defendant appeared ex parte and had interim orders that had lapsed extended. The Board felt that this conduct was inconsistent with judicial requirements of impartiality and fairness. The record indicates that the Magistrate greatly compromised the defendant’s rights to a fair hearing. The Magistrate explains that it was not intentional and regrets the same. The Magistrates conduct in this matter was quite despicable.

The Board felt that although the Magistrate’s language and writing skills in her judgments were commendable, she constantly failed to quote the law and decided cases in her judgments and rulings. Her judgments lacked good legal reasoning and displayed a poor analysis of the issues. She cited lack of proper induction, mentoring and training as the cause of her errors. The magistrate states that this is the first time in her career of about five years that anyone is pointing out her mistakes to her, and that she is very grateful to the vetting process, as it is also a learning curve. The Magistrate admitted that regular intervals of training and assessments would greatly improve their delivery. The Board unanimously determines that the Honorable Phylis Lusiah Shinyada is NOT SUITABLE to continue serving as a Magistrate.

‘No Such Agency’ funds support for development of Quantum Computing, with eyes upon decryption prospects

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Computers have previously, and will continue, to substantially transform many levels of activities in our society. Personally I can say that as of mid 1980’s to date such equipment greatly facilitated my ability to convey my written thoughts promptly, in easy to read form, to other individuals and audiences. For me, this been a sizable gain from personal computing.

Privacy, though, is becoming scarcer, as one of the less desirable other associated effects. That is so on personal, business-commercial, governmental, and foreign relations levels.

In 2013, events transpired so that a large majority among members of the USA public have now heard about this country’s NSA. That is, the National Security Agency. Mr Snowden’s disclosures about NSA massive monitoring made a big splash within news reports. (Previously it was jokingly called the “No Such Agency” by some of those persons who looked for and read published articles about its situation in earlier years.) NSA is charged with monitoring telecommunications covertly as part of this nation’s security intelligence community.

Governments, businesses, individual people, seek assurances that at least some portion of their electronically transmitted messages, would be kept from being readable, clearly understandable, by 3rd parties not authorized by the messages senders. Example questions at issue may include things such as: Who is doing which financial transition, for which purpose, with which monetary amount, and when; banking transactions. These are among the most obvious matters in which the direct participants want confidentiality against disclosure to outside parties. Hence computer software features to encrypt some communications are in-demand and are routinely (automatically) employed.

Currently, data privacy is usually founded upon mathematical methods of data encoding, then keys to decoding later involve specifying numbers containing many digits. Such individual numeric keys formed by specifying a selection of a string of prime numbers, which when multiplied together yield the decoding key number.

The inverse process, faced by outsiders who intercept encrypted messages, who want to learn the content, is difficult. Their computers will currently need to work for impractically long periods of time seeking to discover what had been the particular set of prime numbers needed to factor the code key number, in order to decode the message again into readable form, without being told what it is by the message sender.

Quantum computing is a newly emerging methodology in computers technology. It is being explored due to offering vast increases in data computation speed and data storage densities. Hence, motives why the NSA would want to make it available to support their mission is obvious. Therefore, read below an article in New Scientist magazine (online version) which addresses this topic.

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Entangled spies: Why the NSA wants a quantum computer
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The US National Security Agency wants a quantum computer – and has dedicated $79.7 million to the technology, according to the latest top secret government documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden to the Washington Post.

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Quantum computers promise to vastly outperform even the best ordinary computers at specific tasks by exploiting the weird properties of quantum mechanics. While a regular PC computes with bits that are either 0s or 1s, quantum machines use quantum bits, or qubits, which can be both simultaneously, and offer a computational speed-up.

Cracking the internet
One area quantum computers should excel in is factoring numbers into their prime building blocks. That could make them capable of breaking the internet’s most commonly used encryption methods, which depend on the fact that ordinary computers can’t find prime factors quickly. So in principle, the NSA could use a quantum computer to read secret data – without the need to collude with tech firms, which they have done in the past.

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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24812-entangled-spies-why-the-nsa-wants-a-quantum-computer.html

Warnings to Kampala and Nairobi Willing to Participate in Genocide

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From: Yona Maro

South Sudan’s neighbors threaten to step in to end fighting

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By Dr. Peter Kopling Joseph

December 29, 2013 (SSNA) –East African leaders on Friday gave South Sudan’s warring factions four days to lay down their arms after nearly two weeks of widening violence.

If they don’t, the leaders of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) warned they’ll “take action” to stop the conflict that the United Nations says has killed more than 1,000 and forced some 121,000 from their homes.

The group didn’t specify what sort of action it would take. But a communiqué issued Friday in Nairobi, Kenya, appears to throw the group’s weight behind South Sudanese President Salva Kiir.”

The above is an excerpt from CNN news online. If true then I must say I am bitterly disappointed but yet not surprised by the move of Kampala and Nairobi in particular. How can those who live in glass houses throw stones?

Museveni of Uganda, rules his people with iron fist and manipulates the constitutions to allow him to rule till death do him in and groomed his son to take over, he essentially murdered his opponents and democracy in Uganda, do we expect anything different from him than support one like him and that he understands Kirr and supports him? As I write his UDF are already fighting for Kirr at the frontline, so what is new here other than making it formal and now with kenyan support?

In Kenya the Kenyata’s tribe have ruled and monopolized power and economy which kirr is copying for his Jiengs in South Sudan. The Kenyan President himself is a wanted man, so why will AU and international leaders give us those with blood stein in their hands to mediate?

Is it surprising they would throw their weight behind Kirr who clearly has destroyed democracy in South Sudan and now have massacre women and children in the capital Juba, in the footsteps of these leaders who pledged him their supports?

Kirr committed the first sin of recruiting tribal militia; the same that initiated mutiny among them after Kirr ordered those opposed to his rule be arrested to include Riek. This same militia went about and killed women and Children and the elderly of the Nuer people not too far from Kirrs Palace and to say these leaders of Uganda and Kenya support such and these are the very same one to mediate who are now throwing threats here and there?

If these East African mediators are honest, they should and must condemn Kirrs Massacre of Nuer people in Juba, Which they have not done till today. Without which, Musevenis Soldiers who are already in the front line are now being Join by Kenyan soldiers to come and complete the genocidal ethnic cleansing of the Nuer people started in juba by Kirr. Is this really what Nairobi and Kampala are advocating for? Are they prepared for this?Have they really understood this?

Let the Kenyan and Ugandans ask themselves very carefully, when they join Kirr in the front line, who are at the other end of the firefight?

The answer is very simple; at this point it is the very same Nuer people who are fighting for their dear lives, preventing being wiped out by Kirr as he started it in Juba not just to topple Kirr. Their fight is a direct response to kirrs intents and massacre. Do the Kenyan and Ugandan wants to make it easy for Kirr to complete his work of genocide and ethnic cleansing?

I am not a Nuer but a very concerned Southern Sudanese and I must warn the Ugandan and Kenyan, the day you step into this war, it is the day the wait if over for the rest of us. We shall not stand by and see our Nuer brothers and Sisters wiped out by combined forces of Kirr’s tribal gangs and his foreign mercenaries. The rest of South Sudan shall join in and we shall fight it out to the very last man.

Given Museveni armies are already in the front line for Kirr and if Kenya too joints them, they have already lost credibility of being neutral and they should abandon mediation to Ethiopia and other world leaders, unless they are ready to participate with Kirr in genocide he started in Juba only halted by Riek and his forces.

Kenya and Uganda must not swallow kirrs poison and buys all that he says, The rest of South Sudan is watching closely, instead of pouring water, they are pouring gasoline and the fire that shall flair as a result, they will find it hard to extinguish.

He who maintains Silence in the face of massacre is a murderer

Dr Peter Kopling Joseph can be reached at drkopling@aol.com

A Message to Actualizers of Doom: President Kiir and Dr. Machar

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By Kuir ë Garang

December 25, 2013 (SSNA) — It’s an undeniable fact that South Sudanese former Vice President, Riek Machar, and South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, have done something most of us will not find easy to forgive. They’ve reminded us of the past nightmares and caused unspeakable bloodshed! Intentionally or unintentionally, they caused Jieng and Nuer to turn against one another with vengeance …and they’ve now turned young people against one another on social media.

The conscientious and strong-minded youths have resisted mental tribalization; however, many youths have been divided along tribal and clannish lines. They are calling themselves names and writing statements they’ll regret tomorrow when sanity returns.

I blame the leaders for starting the mess and I also blame the young for being overly gullible and markedly credulous!

As most of you know, I’ve always criticized President Kiir’s leadership; however, I’d accepted the fact that he’s a humble person being misled by power-seeking people around him; and that he’d soon see the truth and change the country for better. I was being too optimistic!

And I’ve always believed that Dr. Riek Machar has seen a lot of needless bloodshed when SPLA/SPLM split in 1991…and that he would never, ever support armed rebellion in South Sudan again. I was wrong! Riek’s support of the rebellion is unforgivable. I am a living witness of 1991 atrocities as I lived through it to the end!

Besides, violent removal of the president should have no place in South Sudan no matter what!

Riek Machar

We all know that President Kiir had turned autocratic and a little lax when it came to meaningful transformation of Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) into a well-functioning political party. In addition, we all know that you and your colleagues had given President Kiir enough chances to do the right thing. There’s no doubt VP James Wani Igga and President Kiir have made fun of you in their public addresses instead of showing true leadership. Arguably, the events leading to the mutiny and the mutiny itself can’t be blamed on you and your colleagues per se!

However, you’ve lost sight of the truth you wanted to establish. It’s one thing to ‘democratize’ SPLM and South Sudan, and it’s another thing to support a rebellion. Supporting another rebellion is a mistake you’ll never recover from whether a peaceful settlement to his crisis is arrived at or not.

Jieng and Nuer tribes suffered immensely as a result of your rebellion, with Dr. Lam Akol in 1991, and these two communities are suffering as a result of a rebellion you now support. A lot of blood is in your hands: 8 years after 1983 and 8 years after 2005!

Your only redemption is to bring this conflict to a speedy end without any political benefit going to you personally.

You failed to have civilians protected in areas controlled by SPLA commanders who’ve pledged allegiance to you. Civilians were slaughtered in the towns of Akobo, Bentiu, Bor and violent deaths in other places like Pariang and Abiemnom. Why didn’t you unequivocally instruct your commanders to protect civilians? Why didn’t you even send a message of condolences to families who’ve lost loved one…be they Jieng or Nuer?

The deaths of innocent civilians remove any nationalist and moral conscience in you! You reflected yourself as a power-hungry and callous man who’d do anything to get to power! Redeem yourself in unequivocal terms!

President Kiir

I know it’s painful and even wrong for senior members of your own party to criticize you in public. There’s no country in the world where people from the same political party criticize themselves viciously and irresponsibly in the media. I agree with you that Riek Machar was wrong in publicly criticizing you. Riek, first as South Sudan VP, and as the chairman of SPLM, could have used internal avenues to solve internal party problems. I believe these are some of the ways you’ve been wrong.

However, Mr. President, you are the president of South Sudan and exemplary leadership should come from you. You’ve failed miserably in this regard. Remember, you are a president of international caliber and what you say is heard all over the world. It’s therefore imperative that you do some research before any public addresses. Saying things you can’t prove only makes fun of your personality and the presidency of South Sudan. Kawajat need proofs for one to maintain credibility!

If people around you can’t research the facts you say in your speeches then FIRE them.

Admittedly, the members of SPLM Political Bureau, who disagreed with you gave you enough chances and time to do the right thing. Instead of you showing leadership, you resorted to abuse and foul language not fit for the presidency. When the dissident group came out on December 6, 2013, your VP, James Wani Igga, instead of acting like a leader, resorted to abusive, childish language against the SPLM members…calling them ‘disgruntled.’

To give you benefit of the doubt, these members postponed the rally to give reconciliation a chance but all you did in the National Liberation Council meeting was to act irresponsibly by using divisive language causing some of the said SPLM members to walk out of the meeting in protest.

To add pepper to a bad wound, on December 15, 2013, after the mutiny, you came out, not as president of South Sudan, but as a military General ready for war. That was irresponsible! Whoever told you that should be FIRED!

The saddest part of it all was that you came out and called the mutiny a ‘coup’ without providing verifiable proofs that what happened on December 15, 2013 was actually a ‘coup.’

Don’t say anything you can’t prove! Never believe anything you’re told without any proof. This is a world of proofs! Factual evidence should be your strength; assumption will bury your leadership and give grounds for your prosecution.

The world hasn’t condemned what you called ‘attempted coup’ because you’ve not provided them with any PROOF and what you continue to say is plain nonsense. Not condemning the ‘coup’ is a big embarrassment to you and South Sudan.

Without doubt, you mishandled the affairs of SPLM and you mishandled the events after the mutiny and now a lot of blood is in your hands. Unless you bring the perpetrators of Juba atrocities to book immediately!

The sooner you end this crisis the better life would be for you or else, ICC would come snooping for evidence to put you away with your naïve rival, Riek Machar.

Never, ever, ever say something you can’t prove. How could your body guards allow someone to shoot outside NLC venue and get away? Why didn’t your body guards either pursue that lone soldier or shoot him!

If someone actually shot in the air outside NLC meeting and your body guards let him run away, then you have to investigate your body guards and someone got to pay. Otherwise the world would just assume you made it up!

You haven’t actually told the world what exactly happened at the army headquarters. Why did the Tiger battalion, a unit of the presidential guards, shoot themselves leading to the mutiny and then armed rebellion?

Your intelligence officers need to give South Sudanese and the world proofs of where the coup was plotted, who was present, what was said etc. South Sudan’s intelligence leaders should present documents, audios, secret video recordings of the coup plot. Without these proofs, Mr. President, you are setting yourself up for ICC investigation.

If all the things you say come from your advisors then FIRE them because they are setting you up for failure and public ridicule.

Kuir ë Garang is an author of seven books including “South Sudan Ideologically” and “Is ‘Black’ Really Beautiful?” For contacts see Twitter: @kuirthiy or his blog, www.kuirthiy.info

Kenya: When we finish our own citizens through killing of each other, who are we going to rule?

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By Abraham Deng Luth

December 25, 2013 (SSNA) –Dear my fellow citizens, please, pray for Jieng people in Malakal! I am hearing very disturbing news! To my fellow citizens from Nuer, urge your people in Malakal to refrain from killing civilians. Do your best to stop this war and urge Dr. Riek to accept dialogue; it is not a good idea to overthrow President Kiir but he can step down if his conscience tells him so or the parliament can act. Otherwise, let’s wait for 2015. So, our current issues have several solutions but overthrowing Kiir by force is not one of them.

This is because if one of your own, a nuer, comes to power today, you will not want the Dinkas or the Equatorians to do what you are doing today? Overthrowing an elected president is not a good precedence for a nation that wants to develop itself.

This unwarranted war is a waste of our national resources in terms of its countless lives and economic apparatus! The aggression has gone wild and people are killing each other like they don’t want to live with each other again at all! This is sad! More Jieng people are being killed. This is evidence in Akobo, Bor, Bentiu, andnow in Malakal. So, please, stop the killings. You have made your points and you are heard. So, let’s sit down and talk.

President Kiir may just call it a quit to save lives and let the Nuers take over! There seems to be several forces acting on the Nuer militia and their aggression seems to be nonstop (suicide mission i.e. The Nuers vs. The Nation) These forces, as one of my Nuer friends told me, are successive marginalization policies (that the Nuers are treated like a second class citizens), president kiir’s dictatorship styles, Juba Killings and Ngundeeng’s prophecies!

To my Nuer brothers and sisters, I do not know much about Ngundeng’s prophecies but from what I heard, one of them was that many people will die before South Sudan can be a better nation for all but I think enough have died. The president is calling for dialogue. Ngundeeng’s prophecies can also be achieved through dialogue. So, please, stop the violence and let’s try to sit down and talk ourselves to peace and the nation we want to build together.

The president needs to see this violence with a new frame; it has nothing to do with what or how it started! It has taken a form and life of its own! Addressing it needs a new thinking, a fresh look!

The President can do the following things to help create viable conditions for dialogue:

1. Apologize to the Nuers for the atrocities committed in Juba by his security apparatus
2. Apologize to the people of South Sudan for his misrules
3. Tell the people of South Sudan that he is ready to step down if that is what people would want to see to stop killing each other
4. Issue amnesty to Dr. Riek and his forces and release the detainees
5. Ask for a dialogue and reiterate his willingness to step down unless the people want him to continue until 2015
6. Announcing that he is not going to run for re-election in 2015
7. Call for a meeting of all South Sudanese political and social forces to discuss the ways out of this mess
8. Ask for a full support of the peace process by the regional and international communities
9. Stop the use of force and only participate in war when attacked (ceasefire)
10. Stop involving other countries, militarily, in South Sudan affairs unless they are neutral and not supporting one side
Dr. Riek will need to do the following things on his side as well:

1. Apologize for the loss of innocent lives as a result of his forces aggression on civilians
2. Order his forces to stop aggression toward the Dinkas
3. Accept ceasefire: stay where he is now and no more advancement and attack
4. Accept dialogue
5. Commit himself to the peace and reconciliation that he started a while back in the areas that he controls
6. Ask for a full support of the peace process by the regional and international communities
NB: If these are done and a peace is achieved, the South Sudanese people may support the pardoning of criminal charges.

Abraham Deng Lueth is a Community Support Specialist at Truman Behavioral health Emergency Department in Kansas City, Missouri, United States; he is the President of Greater Bor Community-USA. He previously worked as a critical care laboratory technician and conducted an independent undergraduate biomedical research project which was published in the Plant Science Journal in 2007.

‘They Came to Kill’ – Escalating Atrocities in the Central African Republic

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Christian militias responding to rampant abuses by Muslim armed groups have committed atrocities against Muslim communities in northern Central African Republic, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Concerned countries should immediately bolster the African Union peacekeeping force in the country and support efforts by France to protect civilians, Human Rights Watch said.

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KENYA: WHY UHURU WON’T BE COWED BY JOURNALISTS’ THREATS

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From: Ouko joachim omolo
The News Dispatch with Omolo Beste
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2013

President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Jubilee coalition government have made up their minds that his memorandum on the media Bill remains, whether journalists drawn from all media houses hit the streets to oppose it.

David Ohito, the vice-chairman Editor’s Guild and a long time friend of mine says they are going on the street because they were not satisfied by the move to place the memorandum before the Parliament for debate and adoption without involving all stakeholders, sighting mischief by the Government.

Journalists are wondering how can individual journalist pay Sh500,000 and the media houses part with Sh20 million. Threat by media to move to court to challenge the constitutionality of the Bill is not going to help much either.

Ohito says they will present their own memorandum before the Parliament during the protest. But even so, this won’t help either since the speaker of the national assembly is jubilee slot and in many occasions has been seen siding with Jubilees’ agenda, particularly removing Kenya from Rome Statute to save Uhuru and his deputy Ruto from attending the cases against them.

Ohito is also challenging Uhuru to take personal responsibility about the whole issue and allow for media freedom. No matter how much Uhuru would be willing to do so, his hands are tied since he cannot act independently from his Jubilee mandate.

Uhuru cannot take personal responsibility that is why his effort to defend Land, Urban Development and Housing Cabinet Secretary Charity Ngilu has been challenged. Jubilee coalition members are plotting to get rid of her.

Some of the things Jubilee government would not like media to report is current silent rebellion against Deputy President William Ruto, which is slowly building up in the Rift Valley with some MPs being critical of what they say is Ruto’s soft stance on matters of national importance.

TNA particularly would not like to see media reporting that URP MPs are especially irked that Ruto has remained complacent even as plum state jobs are being distributed to one half of the Jubilee government.

The disharmony is not only limited to MPs but some of Ruto’s close associates have expressed their concerns that his erstwhile political protégé, Joshua Kutuny was appointed as President Uhuru Kenyatta’s political advisor without any consultation or notice and now being used by TNA pro Uhuru instead of Nancy and Mutahi Ngunyi.

The recent statement by Kutuny and which did not please URP legislators is when he was used to issue statement that no one coached ICC witnesses to fix Ruto. This has not gone very well with URP members.

Kuttuny robustly defended uhur against these allegations and urged the leaders to desist from making statements on the ongoing ICC cases at the International Criminal Court.

Politicians don’t work like professionals. That is also why Attorney General, Githu Muigai and the Cabinet Sectary for Communication, Fred Matiangi have been left out in darkness about the clauses in the memorandum.

The same fear of media also emerged during the Kenya’s first President Jomo Kenyatta when he fell out with his political ally, Tom Mboya in 1960s. Media was seen as a threat to Kenyatta’s government when Kenyatta and Mboya rivalry led to the formation of the Central Organisation of Trade Unions (Cotu).

Cotu was mooted by the Kenyatta administration ostensibly to neutralise Mboya’s influence in the country’s trade union movement. Trouble started in 1962 when Mboya threatened to leave Kanu.

Kenyatta feared that if Mboya used the Kenya Federation of Labour as a party, an economic strategy, which favoured capital rather than labour, would give his critics further ammunition to fight his government.

The same thing happened after Jaramogi Odinga Odinga formed an opposition party, Kenya Peoples Union (KPU). Radical trade union leaders, who supported Odinga were suspended from Cotu. Media was not allowed to report this.

Moi was even particular. He banned some sections of media several times when it emerged that they reported his brutal action of detentions and political trials, torture, arbitrary arrests and police brutality.

Moi always perceived human rights generally as alien and Euro centric conceptions inconsistent with African values and culture. That is why he always tried to ban civil organizations.

Journalists who reported things against his government were taken to Nyayo torture chamber. Moi’s actions were meant to silence journalists and the intelligent, perceived to be critical of his authoritarian rule.

In 1986 alone, 100 people were arrested and detained for their alleged association with Mwakenya, the movement started by some Kenyans in Europe who had fled Moi’s oppression regime.

Politicians who were vocal were ruthlessly killed. Foreign Affairs Minister, Dr. Robert Ouko, was assassinated in February 1990. Clergymen, lawyers, and other pro-democracy and human rights advocates were persistently arrested and harassed, or even killed.

In the build-up to the 1992 to 1997 elections were met with police beatings. Any journalist who reported this incident was put into task. Opposition members who refused to vote KANU and Moi had their houses burnt, property looted or killed.

Judges who made rulings in favor of human rights victims exposed themselves to punitive transfers or sacked.

Mwaki Kibaki’s regime was not different either- He tough with media when they reported that campaigners and critics condemned the reappointment of retired Justice Aaron Ringera as anti-corruption director.

Kibaki’s regime reappointed Ringera because he was cheap to be tamed. Campaigners were against his appointment because he failed to fight corruption, not to realize that this was the type of person Kibaki government wanted.

The same Ringera has been appointed by President Uhuru to lead the team which is to probe the activities of JSC. This is despite the fact that Ringera is not fit to head the team of tribunal since at one point when he applied to be a judge of the Supreme Court he was not short listed.

Ringera was appointed chair of the tribunal whose other members are Jeniffer Shamalla, my friend Ambrose Weda and Mutua Kilaka. Apart from Weda, the LSK chairman Erick Mutua explained that Shamalla had also come out in the media directly critisising the JSC.

At one point, Jennifer Shamalla has not only come out on national TV to say that the JSC does not know what it is doing but also criticized the honorable Chief Justice Dr Willy Mutunga.

At the end of 2005 President Kibaki appointed him director when he had failed to respond to the Anglo-Leasing dossier as the public demanded. Ringera was set for cover-up. He never released the copy to John Githongo who was then the Secretary to Ethics and Corruption.

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Professional Women confronted by Theocracy took up Arms; Iraq & WMD’s – – another viewpoint;

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Theocracy vs. women induced to take up arms

Perhaps readers may recall news accounts in the USA media during the early 2000’s concerning the situations of women and girls in places such as Afghanistan and other countries in the surrounding region.

For awhile the Talaban regime held sway. It operated as a theocracy.

Heavy restrictions against women seeking to hold employment outside of homes were enforced. Schooling of girls was ended for the duration of their time in power.

Eventually, using the events of the 2001 September NY City twin towers and Washington DC Pentagon attacks as the officially proclaimed motivations, US forces invaded and occupied Afghanistan and Iraq. Hence the Talaban regime in Afghanistan and the Sadam Husane regime of Iraq were unseated. After such actions eventually comes a time for the invading forces to be drawn down and prepare for what is to be established afterward.

In that context it occurred to me that there could be much value gained by setting up a particular kind of recruitment campaign.

It would be oriented toward involvement of the local women who had first hand experience of having been subjected to the restrictions imposed upon them by the prior Talaban regime. They would be provided with training in military skills and then equipped, formed up as military units.

Surely you would then reasonably expect that they could then be counted on to follow their natural interest and motivation to not again be placed under the thumb of elements of that kind of regime if it would seek to come back into power.

Against that background of my prior speculations, I was surprised to find recently a related history note. It was information in a presentation by mikitary historian Douglas Dietrich. Apparently that notion had already actually occurred in a near by geographic area a few years earlier. Those conditions arose in regards to the Iran / Iraq region at beginnings of 1980’s.

Under the US – sponsored 1950’s to 1980 Iran government of Shaw Raza Palavi, extensive moves toward Westernization of that nation occurred. Under programs pursued by that regime, women, often educated in Western nations’ universities, made major inroads into occupying high responsibility positions in the professions. These included Iranian universities faculty, law offices, government civil service, management positions in businesses.

Then in 1980. came the revolution in which the Revolutionary Islamic Republic of Iran was established, led by the clerics, very formally operating as a theocracy with religious law being held as supreme. Westernized socieo-econic-political forms were to be abolished.

In one of his presentations, Douglas Diettich said that the women, employed in such positions within the professions, were informed that they must end their participation in such activities, or else face execution. As a reaction to being confronted with that kind of drastic proposition, many chose to flee that country. Due to geographic closeness, having a shared national border with Iran, Iraq received a major influx of these Iranian expatriate women.

Iraq’s regime had seen the Iran revolution as its opportunity to try to grab some territory from Iran, hence beginning a war between the two which bogged down and became very costly to them both.

In this setting, a number of the women who had fled into Iraq from Iran under duress then were able to take up arms. They joined their efforts into a battle which they hoped would allow the regime of the new Islamic Republic of Iran to be overturned. The records show that their units proved to be quite effective, militarily speaking.

Tragically though, their potentials for successes came to be deemed to be not in the US national interests, as viewed by its top level foreign relations officials. This was on the basis that Iraq, and the military units composed by expatriate Iranian women professionals, were being interpreted as players who joined alliances with the then Soviet Union as the main source for their military supplies and anticipated future political support, in the event that that they succeeded militarily.

This was a time in which the US arranged to sell arms to Iran for use in its war against Iraq. Those deals were set up by members of the Regan presidency. They started as a way to leverage his election into office. They continued afterward as a an element in his actions to confront Soviet power world wide. Look into accounts under two headings. One is “October Surprise”. The other is Iran / Contra Arms Scandal.

Observe also that previously Iraq had purchased much of its military supplies from the US as well as from the USSR.

US, Iraq, WMD-s

In the Media, much attention has been placed on the question as to presence, or not, for Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD’s) in the hands of Iraq. The Younger President Bush made this the celebrated cause for the US invasion of Iraq following the Twin Towers Sept 2001 events. Afterward, the most widely published view holds that there turned out not to be any of those things found by the US & its allies.

But WMD’s – – chemical and biological agents – – actually had been in the possession of Iraq, at least for a period of time. However, these were items manufactured and sold by US companies to Iraq. with the quiet acquiescence of the US government. A witnesses to this fact stated he had been a member of a special forces team. During infiltration and recon operational mission he broke into the relevant Iraqi storage bunkers, and there read company receipts inside, and lettering stenciled on outside of the containers of such ordnance. Mr. Dietrich’s info is an additional account of this situation.

You can thus recognize that US officials would have strong motives to avoid national embarrassment which would arise if the presence these munitions were officially proclaimed by US / Allied officials. The trail of receipts which announced US origins likely would not go unnoticed if investigation followed high profile disclosure of such armaments. Thus a policy to have US forces in the field just bomb (not capture and retrieve) them can easily be understood as a tactic to remove inconvenient evidence.

Douglas Dietrich states that he served as an enlisted man in the ranks of the US Marines during the Elder President Bush’s Persian Gulf War. He reports being an eye witness, within sight of the event in which one of the largest storage areas containing chemical agents and bio-agents was exploded by US fighter-bomber aircraft attack. He reports that he saw the rising flaming clouds,and soon afterward experienced the strange odors stemming from some of those agents being dispersed with the winds, hence becoming a source for chronic health problems effecting the troops who had been there.

By contrast the US official position was and continues to be that our troops were not subjected to exposure to chemical and or biological weapons agents. But this is counter to the facts of the matter. A result is a rather new medical illness. This is the much talked about ‘Gulf War Sendrome’.

Some of these veterans face a very difficult predicament. A former army nurse from that theatre of conflict speaks out now advocating their cause. The veterans’ medical system has been skewed with intent to keep benefit expenditures low. It often asserts that the vets seeking treatments are officially deemed to only have psychological difficulties. In reality, though, these folks are subject to many important medical physiological pathology conditions due to exposures to exposures to toxic materials.

Signed, -om-

The dark side of migration: Spotlight on Qatar’s construction sector ahead of the World Cup

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From: Yona Maro

Qatar’s population is increasing by 20 people every hour. most of those arriving in the country are low-income construction workers from Asia. These migrant workers have been recruited to help build massive projects worth up to US$220 billion, as part of Qatar’s drive to create a regional and global hub. Many of these projects will contribute, directly or indirectly, to the staging of the 2022 World cup. This Amnesty International report looks at how a permissive legal framework in Qatar allows unscrupulous employers to exploit and abuse migrant workers.

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USA: Mitch McConnell ACTUALLY said this

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From: Nita and Shaunna, UltraViolet

Senator Mitch McConnell is claiming he spent a lifetime working for equal pay for women. But it’s a lie–he’s blocked all equal pay legislation. Tell Sen. McConnell to back up his words by endorsing the Paycheck Fairness Act.
http://act.weareultraviolet.org/go/1322?t=2&akid=701.6000.gZC2C8

Dear Readers:

Wow. In a recent interview, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell’s spokesperson said this about pay discrimination: “As the father of three daughters, fair pay for women is more than a talking point for Sen. McConnell. It’s something he’s worked to achieve his entire career.”1

This would be all fine and dandy if it were the truth. But it’s not. Sen. McConnell, who is up for re-election, has voted against every piece of legislation that sought to establish equal pay for equal work like the Lily Ledbetter Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act (twice!).2

While Sen. McConnell is falsely claiming to support pay equity now, women are still making an average of 77 cents per every dollar a man makes. And the numbers are even lower for women of color: Compared to white men, African American women were paid 64%, and Latina women were paid just 55%.3 And because two thirds of mothers are breadwinners, it’s not just about women–families and children are affected by pay discrimination, too.4

It’s time to set the record straight. Pay equity has become a major issue in his reelection campaign and Sen. McConnell thinks he can get away with lying about his track record. But we can stop that and make sure the truth comes out. Can you sign the petition asking him to prove his commitment to pay equity by endorsing the Paycheck Fairness Act? If tens of thousands of us speak out, we can expose the truth–that Sen. McConnell is no friend of pay equity.

Can you sign this petition calling on Sen. McConnell to endorse the Paycheck Fairness Act?

http://act.weareultraviolet.org/go/1322?t=3&akid=701.6000.gZC2C8

On average, women lose $10,784 a year because they are paid less than men. What could you do with almost $11,000 extra a year? You could pay rent for over a year, buy groceries for over a year, or pay health insurance premiums for almost 4 years. You might even be able to save up to $800,000 for retirement.5

It is unfair that women have to pay a tax for simply being women.

Mitch McConnell’s blatant lie is disrespectful to all the people who have truly fought for equal pay only to find themselves unable to get legislation through Congress because of politicians like Sen. McConnell.

But this is Sen. McConnell’s moment to redeem himself. He might not have spent a lifetime fighting for equal pay, but he can start now by supporting the Paycheck Fairness Act. If it finally passed, it would get rid of loopholes that allow employers to pay women less. And as the Senate Minority Leader, Sen. McConnell is influential in shaping what GOP members will support.

But if thousands of us don’t speak up now, he’ll get away with lying about support for equal pay while nothing changes. If we show Sen. McConnell we’re onto the lie, media will take notice, and he’ll be forced to endorse the Paycheck Fairness Act or risk the media exposing him as untruthful as he campaigns for re-election.

Tell Sen. McConnell: If you say you care about equal pay, then publicly endorse the Paycheck Fairness Act.

http://act.weareultraviolet.org/go/1322?t=4&akid=701.6000.gZC2C8
Thanks for all you do.

–Nita, Shaunna, Kat, Karin, Malinda, Adam, and Gabriela, the UltraViolet team

Sources:

1. Grimes calls for additional child care tax breaks, Associated Press, November 22, 2013

2. Despite Voting Against It, Top Republican Claims He ‘Worked His Entire Career’ For Pay Equity, Think Progress, November 25, 2013

3. Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage, 2012 Census

4. Fact Sheet: The Wage Gap for Women, Center for American Progress, August 16, 2012

5. What Women Could Afford If They Earned Equal Pay For Equal Work, Forbes

YEAR OF FAITH CONCLUDES WITH NUMEROUS CHALLENGES IN KENYA

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From: Ouko joachim omolo
The News Dispatch with Omolo Beste
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Next Sunday November 24, 2013 is the Feast of Christ the King, established by Pope Pius XI in 1925 as an antidote to secularism, a way of life which leaves God out of man’s thinking and living and organizes his life as if God did not exist.

The feast demonstrates the fact that Jesus came to serve all humankind. His kingship spells out a kingdom of justice and judgment balanced with radical love, mercy, peace, and forgiveness.

Though he died, like other kings, he died willingly to save his people, and his death was not a result of a battle lost or a plan gone awry, but of a glorious victory. He rode into Jerusalem, announcing his kingship on a borrowed donkey. He had no palace or statehouse, much less a place to lay his head, and lacked a transportation service.

Although the day was established as an antidote to secularism, today in Kenya there are some people who still believe that there is no God, that science and the scientific process have made God obsolete. They believe on things you can touch, feel, prove, or study.

One of their major beliefs is based on wealth. That man is an evolving creature who will become capable of planning the perfect economy. Man, who must “save himself,” must be in absolute control of all aspects of his universe, and that government must be granted authority over man’s economic affairs. Read Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Quas primas (On the Feast of Christ the King) which shows that secularism is the direct denial of Christ’s Kingship.

Another challenge is of post-election violence victims who are still traumatized. As Pope Francis says, we must continue in our efforts to bring healing to the wounded and be more merciful them.

We must admit that as a church in Kenya we have not done a lot to show balance and “heal wounds” of the victims. We have not found a new balance because most often, especially as pastors we think that only few of the suspects of post-election violence need our prayers and healing.

Pope Francis says if we think this is how the church should operate, then even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel.

There are those who lost their income, job, or displacement due to the event, still housed by relatives or friends. They are not only homeless, they are landless and jobless. Ethnic communities in Kenya have not been healed and reconciled. People of different ethnic communities are still bitter and wonder justice would prevail one day.

Children have been adversely affected economically, socially, physically and psychologically. They saw their mothers and sisters being gang raped, their fathers stripped naked and forcefully circumcised. These children have never healed from this trauma.

Physically some children have dropped out of school, some were also raped as their parents watched and some were injured. Psychologically children are still traumatized from the orgies they witnessed. They have nightmares and no one is thinking about them.

The Waki commission mandated to recommend legal, political and administrative measures to prevent violence in future and to ensure that those involved in the violence are brought to justice as individuals. To date the victims are still crying for that justice.

Fr Joachim Omolo Ouko, AJ
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-Anne Montgomery, RSCJ
UN Disarmament
Conference, 2002

KENYANS NEEDS REPENTANCE

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From: Nyambok, Thomas
Date: Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 3:01 PM
Subject: KENYANS.docx
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KENYANS: THE SITTING PRESIDENT UHURU KENYATTA WILL NOT GO TO THE HAGUE EASILY COUNT IT ON ME AND KENYA WILL FACE THE WRATH THAT HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN IN AFRICA. AU CANNOT SUSTAIN THE NEEDS OF KENYANS

KENYANS NEEDS REPENTANCE

KENYANS: What would you like to know about your President? Why the president and the jubilee MPs want to frustrate the Media industries? There are so many questions pending that need to be addressed and answered by His Excellency the president of the Republic of Kenya Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta himself.

REMEMBER: That as the Jubilee government and the AU hope for the proposed amendment to the Rome Statute, which established the ICC to block the Kenyan Inductees trial at The Hague. This will not happen and it is foolish, and it makes Africans look foolish.

WARRANT OF AREST: The Kenyan inductees’ warrant of arrest still stands. The Kenyans’ warrants are different from the one of the Sudan’s President El-Bashir because Bashir never went to the ICC to sign any Affidavit for a warrant of arrest in advance in case he failed to appear in court.

UHURU KENYATTA: Kenyatta went to The Hague and agreed with the ICC‘s conditions and signed for the warrant of arrest in advance in case he changed his mind. The President of Sudan El-Bashir did not. With Kenyans cases, they have been trying to avoid going to The Hague. Secondly, the inductees have been abusing the privilege’s that were given to them by the ICC.

As they signed to adhere and abide by the courts orders, if they changed their minds to not attend the courts, then they will be in trouble with the ICC courts, they will be picked up from any country, at any International AirPort without resistance. Note that they all signed and agreed with the condition at The Hague.

JUSTICE FOR THE DEAD: There shall be no healing and reconciliation before delivering justice to the dead and the victims. We must find these rich human beings who turned into goons?

The poor Kenyan citizens and the voters don’t want to bring back the ICC courts to Africa, it will not work for the poor citizens but for the rich goons. The EACJ wouldn’t provide the poor citizens with clear justice. They have never, ever been cohesive mechanisms to deal with cases like those before the ICC today.

THE UNSC’s: The UNSC’s doesn’t work for the EALA members as AU. EAU and Kenya alone proposed the postponement of the ICC cases facing the Kenyans inductees. They will not bring back our dead including children and there will be no justice for the victims as well. The EALA are still sleeping on their ears. We shall let them know that we know more than what they may think they know about the ICC.

Is there any African President who has faced the court of law after they killed innocent citizens like Mr. ARAP MOI and Mr. MWAI KIBAKI? Their administration should face justice. Kenyans must now demand for the previous two Presidents to be taken to courts before they fall sick or die.

KENYANS: Kenyans and the opposition parties should not relent, and they should not give up. Kenyans want all the goons to be in one place. They belong to the jails that are outside of the African continent. Does the EALA know the meaning of the one year deferral of the ICC cases to Africa?

It is just away to start killing innocent Kenyans and to demise with documents and play around with Kenyans intelligence – not again. These African Presidents have misused power. ICC is going nowhere, we fought for it and it must remain in place. AU will get a shock of the2% they are looking up to.

MUNGIKI AND THE GSU AT THE STATE HOUSE NAIROBI GATE “A” ENTRANCE.

These are the people who make Uhuru Kenyatta fear to go to The Hague because the truth is there with all their Identities on board with every thing that should be known. If by any chance he steps in there, he will not be released because he has been the most expensive inductee president in Africa at large.

(A)As far as the State House budget is concerned, how much were they paying Mungiki’s Army per month, per hire or as per individual with different responsibilities? What did it cost to buy the tools, weapons, machetes, arrows and many crude weapons?

The general service unit (GSU) at gate” A’’ at the State House came to set the goons by recording the events they knew. They know everything as they well recorded the Mungiki’s officials. Those who went to State House Nairobi for the strategies to get ready for the rigging matters were not spared. Their pictures, audio and date and time were recorded accordingly.

(B)The world would like to know from His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta to address the public personally and clear the air about his sexuality. We need to know if he has ever been part of the homosexuality community before and after being in the United States for further Education.

It is high time he let the truth prevailed about his life in Kenya and in the United States. Kenyans will accept the truth as it is no matter what.

(c) Terrorists invaded Nairobi – Did the President and the Commander of the Armed Forces of Kenya know about the coming of the terrorists to attack Kenyans on the Kenyan soil? He was at home in Kenya at State House Nairobi where he never tried to prevent the killings as it happened. He was in Nairobi, not at The Hague. He was in the capital city of the Republic of Kenya.

Kenyans do not trust their President together with the Jubilee government because Mr. Uhuru’s god father Mr. Arap Moi is still ruling Kenya with dirty games jointly with Mama Ngina Kenyatta.

(D)WHY IS THE SITTING President Uhuru Kenyatta afraid to go to The Hague? Kenyans and the World want to know from Uhuru Kenyatta about his behavior? He likes taking lame excuses about the security of the country yet other dirty things are happening around his leadership now.

Matters are still not coming out clear about his commanding in chief of the armed forces to the country. I propose and recommend that the opposition parties and Kenyans at large take these matters seriously. The inquiry should be instituted to find out who did what and who knew what and when did they know about it and why did they let it get to live killings? The whole West Gate Mall killing was like a clip out of a Will Smith movie.

(E) KENYANS: The sitting president Uhuru Kenyatta will not go to The Hague Courts – count it on me. The truth always set every individual free and if Uhuru Kenyatta is not found guilty then he will be a free man and he will be at Peace. Remember one of my articles I wrote about 13 people who were in the Mwai Kabaki’s administration who should be called to tell the truth because we have the evidence. I said only 10 will be available but now they have started poisoning others who could be helpful to the inquiry as staunch witnesses.

REMEMBER FEW DAYS AGO: Some Kenyan newspapers tried to give the same information I had tried to alert the Kenyan authorities before about the Westgate Mall attack but they never took it seriously, instead it was left for ritual matters. Can Uhuru Kenyatta remove the band marked with the Kenya flag colors around his left hand next to the wristwatch. These are charm matters which will not last.

(F)KENYANS: Do you all know that Mama Ngina Kenyatta and the former President Daniel Arap Moi are working together to make sure that Kenya go back to the old darkness. They will not let Uhuru Kenyatta be prosecuted at The Hague’s courts no matter what and a good man must have a wife next to him – isn’t it?

(G) Westgate mall becomes the ritual set up for the Jubilee and KANU government to proceed with the ruling? Remember the Westgate scandal has come to be the ICC matter for deferring the cases back to Kenya? How many African presidents have ever been taken to Courts of Law in their own county? The AU is making a big mistake for the deferral matters. As far as we know, it will not work and again ICC is not a market you walk in as you may – it is the Worlds’ justice Court for the Dead and the Victims.

(H)THE IDPs: The timing is not right for giving Land title deeds in Rift Valley while the ICC Court is still in its initial process. The reconciliation should be done by Kenyans through referendum. There is still tension and fear because there is nothing binding the IDPs and other victims. You can’t live in Peace with a neighbor who lost his wife, children, husband and members of their families while in the same neighborhood, other people never did because they were protected. The MPs, the voters and the Churches must come together for repentance, and cleansing by prayers (Gods Prayers and repentance)

(I)Why were the police officers transferred after the Westgate footage was being asked about the truth from the government? President Kenyatta authorized Police Chief to be in commanding before the Army Commander Come on board.

His Excellency the President did a good job to have commanded the head of police forces to be in command, but unfortunately, the president never thought about the Army commander with his commandos coming on board, the two could not work together. The President could have advised all forces to meet and agree on the best strategy that would make them succeed.

There were no consultations on the ground unfortunately. That is why the forces killed one another, there was no ground communication.

I wish Mr. Ruto would know that to resign from the office asap would pave him a way for a better future without going through chest thumping because he still has a string on his neck no matter what.

Uhuru Kenyatta had their own strategy with Kibaki’ administration at the State House and that was their secrete for fixing Ruto. Ruto also had his own strategies that brought Kenya to where it is today. If I were Mr. Ruto, I would live the office and continue with the ICC cases. After that, Kenyans may realize that he is a great man worth being the future president of Kenya with good leadership.

I would wish that Uhuru Kenyatta resigns from the office too asap with honor to become an ordinary Kenyan. It will give him enough time to deal with ICC cases and clear his name first.

INDEED: MOI, KIBAKI, UHURU AND BIWATT – ARE THE ENGINEERS OF KENYAN GENOCIDE TOGETHER WITH THEIR ADMINISTRATION – THERE IS ENOUGH EVIDENCE.

Cc. State House Nairobi
Cc. Kenyan Embassy US.
Cc. All Kenyans in the World.

Thanks Yours: Tom Nyambok
11/20/2013 200:00pm

Sen. Brown and Portman: Stop military rape

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From: Nita and Shaunna, UltraViolet

The Senate is about to vote on a proposal to take military rape cases out of the chain of command and finally get justice for survivors. Can you call Sens. Brown and Portman and ask them to pass the Military Justice Improvement Act?
http://act.weareultraviolet.org/go/1277?t=2&akid=687.6000.Q0PlqU

Sen. Brown – (202) 224-2315
Sen. Portman – (202) 224-3353

Dear Readers:

Right now is our big chance to stop the epidemic of rape in the military and finally get justice for survivors.

This week, the Senate will vote on Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s (D-NY) amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would take military sexual assault cases out of the chain of command.1 That means that decisions about these cases will be made by an independent, objective military justice system–not commanding officers.

Momentum for Sen. Gillibrand’s proposal, called the Military Justice Improvement Act, has been growing and the bill has support from Republicans and Democrats. But it also faces resistance from some members of the military brass, and it’s being .2

Your senators, Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman, will be key votes on this amendment, and they need to hear from you right away. Can you call Sens. Brown and Portman and tell them to stand up for survivors of military sexual assault? Ask them to support Sen. Gillibrand’s amendment to the NDAA.

Here’s where to call:

Sen. Brown – (202) 224-2315
Sen. Portman – (202) 224-3353
Then, please report your call here, so we can track our progress together.
http://act.weareultraviolet.org/go/1277?t=3&akid=687.6000.Q0PlqU

Here are some points you can make on your call:

– The military should be a place that is safe for the men and women who are willing to give their lives for their country. They deserve better.

– The Gillibrand bill creates an independent, objective, and non-biased system of military justice. It leaves commanders with the tools they need to maintain good order and discipline.

– Both survivors and military brass say the current system has failed. Survivors and many retired military leaders support the Military Justice Improvement Act.

Military sexual assault is a national crisis. The Pentagon estimates that 26,000 service members were sexually assaulted in the military last year. That’s up from 19,000 the year before. But only 3,000 incidents were reported.3 This has to stop.

It’s time to take oversight and prosecution of military sexual assault cases out of the chain of command. Will you ask Sens. Brown and Portman to vote for the Sen. Gillibrand’s amendment and help military sexual assault survivors get justice?

Call Sens. Brown and Portman and tell them to vote for the Military Justice Improvement Act.
http://act.weareultraviolet.org/go/1277?t=4&akid=687.6000.Q0PlqU

Thanks for speaking out,

-Nita, Shaunna, Kat, Malinda, Adam, Gabriela, and Karin, the Ultraviolet team

Sources:

1. Gillibrand ready for next fight over sexual assault reforms, MSNBC, November 17. 2013

2. Retired U.S. Military Officers Who Support The Military Justice Improvement Act, Senator Gillibrand

Veteran & Women’s Groups Supporting the Military Justice Improvement Act, Senator Gillibrand

3. Sexual Assaults in Military Raise Alarm in Washington, New York Times, May 7, 2103

USA: They’re only hearing from haters

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From: “Nita and Shaunna, UltraViolet”

Right-wing groups are trying to block an amazing, pro-woman lawyer from becoming a judge on an important court. Tell the Senate: confirm Nina Pillard!
http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fact.weareultraviolet.org%2Fgo%2F1239%3Ft%3D2%26akid%3D664.6000.xKN5zy&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHvSOqKn3liKUkmWRFs0wJ2XmoK2g

Dear Readers:

This week is our last chance to get a pro-woman, pro-choice judge confirmed to one of the most important and influential courts in the country.

President Obama nominated a superhero–Nina Pillard–to be a judge on the DC Circuit Court. No really, she truly is a superhero, with a history of fighting injustices against women–and winning. She argued before the Supreme Court nine times, including upholding the Family and Medical Leave Act and ending the Virginia Military Institute’s exclusion of women. She’s been a lawyer for the Justice Department, ACLU, and NAACP.1

But right-wing groups like the Family Research Council are raising a ruckus, trying to get the Senate to block Pillard’s nomination because they don’t like her positions on abortion and abstinence-only sex ed.2 If their voices are the only ones senators hear, Pillard might not become a judge.

Senator Harry Reid is expected to call for a vote on Pillard’s nomination as early as Tuesday and some moderate Republican senators are on the fence about how they’ll vote.3 We have to show our support right away if we want her to be confirmed. Will you sign the petition asking the Senate to confirm Nina Pillard and put a great judge on an important court bench?

Sign the petition.
http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fact.weareultraviolet.org%2Fgo%2F1238%3Ft%3D3%26akid%3D664.6000.xKN5zy&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGkZXebau8s-aWIzyIUCjjRNOgtvg

In the fight for women’s rights, judges have a HUGE influence. Most recently, 3 female judges appointed by George W. Bush reinstated Texas’s sweeping abortion ban that’s closing clinics across the state.4 Judges who are more concerned with pushing an ideological agenda than good law are hurting women.

But it’s not just Texans who have to worry. Another George W. Bush-appointed judge on the DC Circuit Court–the very court Pillard is nominated for–authored an opinion saying religious employers can ignore federal birth control coverage rules. The judge has also called the New Deal a “socialist revolution” and likened Social Security to intergenerational cannibalism.5

Pillard’s nomination won’t just bring balance to the DC Circuit Court, it’s also critical for the court to function. There are currently 3 vacancies on the court which only has 11 seats.6 The DC Circuit hears cases on federal regulations–everything from environmental rules to labor policy. That’s why the DC Circuit Court is considered second in power only to the Supreme Court. Four of the current nine Supreme Court justices served on the DC Circuit Court.7

We can’t let ultra-conservative voices like the Family Research Council be the only ones senators hear from about Nina Pillard. It’s critical that we get such an amazing pro-woman, pro-choice superhero appointed as a judge if we want women’s rights to keep progressing. Will you sign the petition asking the Senate to stop the filibuster and confirm Pillard?

Add your name.
http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fact.weareultraviolet.org%2Fgo%2F1238%3Ft%3D4%26akid%3D664.6000.xKN5zy&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEmST_wT5valu-70_g5K-9MuBk_Ug

Thanks for all you do.

–Nita, Shaunna, Kat, Karin, Malinda, Adam, and Gabriela, the UltraViolet team

Sources:

1. Nina Pillard Nomination for D.C. Circuit Advances, Legal Times, September 19, 2013

Cry of the Republican Male Senator, Slate, July 25, 2013

2. Scary Feminist Nominated for Federal Judgeship; Conservatives Flip Out, Jezebel, July 24, 2013

3. Can You Be Openly Pro-Choice And A Federal Judge? We’ll Find Out Next Week, Think Progress, November 7, 2013

4. BREAKING: Three Bush-Appointed Judges Reinstate Texas’ Anti-Abortion Law, Think Progress, October 31, 2013

5. What You Need To Know About The Severely Conservative Judge Who Just Ruled Against Birth Control, Think Progress, November 1, 2013

6. Republicans Push Back On Obama's D.C. Court Nominees, NPR, September 19, 2013

7. Ibid.

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By Choice, Not By Chance: Family Planning, Human Rights and Development

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From: Yona Maro

All human beings—regardless of age, sex, race or income—are equal in dignity and rights. Yet 222 million women in developing countries are unable to exercise the human right to voluntary family planning.

This flagship report analyzes data and trends to understand who is denied access and why. It examines challenges in expanding access to family planning. And it considers the social and economic impact of family planning as well as the costs and savings of making it available to everyone who needs it.

The report asserts that governments, civil society, health providers and communities have the responsibility to protect the right to family planning for women across the spectrum, including those who are young or unmarried.

Nevertheless, the report finds that financial resources for family planning have declined and contraceptive use has remained mostly steady. In 2010, donor countries fell $500 million short of their expected contribution to sexual and reproductive health services in developing countries. Contraceptive prevalence has increased globally by just 0.1 per cent per year over the last few years.

Link:
http://www.unfpa.org/webdav/site/global/shared/swp/2012/EN_SWOP2012_Report.pdf

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