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Sunday, March 24, 2013
Math Teacher Escorted Out by Police, Set to Be Fired for Opposing ...
Bill Diss says his opposition to Planned Parenthood and abortion led to his removal from the classroom. (Image source: The Oregonian)
An Oregon public school teacher says he?s on the verge of being fired because of his outspoken views against Planned Parenthood and abortion.
Bill Diss, who taught at Benson High School in Portland for 11 years, was placed on paid leave March 19 and recommended for dismissal, the Oregonian reported. That day, the math teacher said he was given a few minutes to collect his things and was escorted from school premises by police, according to the Christian News Network.
Diss is a staunch Roman Catholic and blocked two Planned Parenthood workers from entering his classroom in September because, he said, they lacked proper identification.
Planned Parenthood is a partner in the Portland school district?s Teen Outreach Program, aimed at preventing teen pregnancy, and funded by a federal Department of Health and Human Services grant, according to the Oregonian.
?I think, deep down, it?s because of my views,? Diss told the newspaper. ?And that it?s much more important for them to have Planned Parenthood in the schools than to have a really dedicated teacher who really teaches math well and goes the extra mile and does a whole bunch with the kids.?
He was reprimanded for the incident and the workers were eventually allowed in to give a presentation aimed at preventing teenage pregnancy ? though school district officials said Diss interrupted them.
In December, Diss helped organized a protest at a school board meeting against Planned Parenthood?s presence in the district, calling it ?a chance to get healed so that filth doesn?t have to be handed to other people.?
Former students told KGW-TV Diss is known for sharing his anti-abortion views at school.
?He doesn?t do it a lot, but students do make fun of him for being against it and everything,? junior Ty?sha Harrell said. ?When he does talk about it, he does have really good views and everything, sometimes he goes too deep into it. He brings religion into it.?
In one suspension letter provided to the Oregonian, school officials accused him of trying to block students from attending the Planned Parenthood program because of his religious beliefs and told them to ?shut (their) mouths.?
?(Students) also quoted you as saying, ?they would end up on 82nd (Avenue) and that they kill over a million babies every three years,?? the letter, addressed from school principal Carol Campbell and the human resources director, stated.
Diss told the newspaper there was a misunderstanding in the reference to 82nd Avenue, a known hub for prostitution, but admitted to talking about Planned Parenthood and his religious beliefs in class.
In a statement to KGW, the school district said it does not ?discuss the nature of personnel issues and actions out of respect for the individual.?
?But I can tell you that we respect the rights of all employees to their own political, religious, social and other beliefs and affiliations and expect all employees to conduct themselves professionally in their work, most especially with students,? the statement said.
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Shootout in Texas may be linked to Colo. deaths
By Corrie MacLaggan
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A white supremacist ex-convict who died in a roadside gun battle with Texas police was being investigated for possible links to the deaths of a Colorado prisons chief and a pizza delivery man, law enforcement officials said on Friday.
Police said that Evan Spencer Ebel, a 28-year-old parolee from Denver killed by police on Thursday after a high-speed car chase through Decatur, Texas, was being investigated in connection with the death of Tom Clements, executive director of the Colorado Department of Corrections.
Clements, 58, was shot dead on Tuesday when he answered the door at his home near the community of Monument, in El Paso County about 45 miles south of Denver.
Denver police have named Ebel as a suspect in the killing of pizza delivery man Nathan Leon in Denver two days earlier.
Ebel was a member of a white supremacist prison gang, the 211 Crew, and had been paroled in the Denver area, a law enforcement official said.
The Hornady 9-mm bullets Ebel fired at Texas police were the same brand as those used in the killing of Clements, Denver television station KCNC-TV reported on Friday, citing a search warrant affidavit filed in Texas for police to search Ebel's Cadillac.
In the car's trunk, there was a pizza deliverer's shirt or jacket, the station reported, citing court documents.
The El Paso County (Colorado) Sheriff's Office said in a statement late on Friday that bullet casings collected at the scene in Texas would be sent to the state crime lab to determine if the same weapon was used to kill Clements.
Authorities were also looking for ties between the death of Clements and the January killing of Mark Hasse, a prosecutor in the Kaufman County District Attorney's Office. Kaufman County is east of Dallas.
The January 31 killing of Hasse occurred the same day the U.S. Department of Justice revealed that the Kaufman County District Attorney's Office was among the agencies involved in a racketeering case against the Aryan Brotherhood white supremacist group.
"The Dallas and Denver offices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation are comparing the homicides of Mark Hasse and Tom Clements to determine if there is any evidence linking the two crimes," Kaufman Police Chief Chris Aulbaugh said in a statement.
LENGTHY CRIMINAL HISTORY
In Texas, Ebel shot and wounded a Montague County sheriff's deputy during a traffic stop and fled. He led police on a car chase that ended when his car, with Colorado plates, collided with an 18-wheeler truck.
Ebel died at a Fort Worth hospital of a single gunshot wound to the forehead, the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office said.
"I do know that he has a lengthy criminal history," said Sheriff David Walker of Wise County in Texas, whose deputies were involved in the car chase.
Investigators looking into the death of Clements went to Decatur, Texas, to examine Ebel's Cadillac, said Jeff Kramer, spokesman for the El Paso County sheriff in Colorado.
According to Colorado court records, Ebel was arrested at least seven times between 2003 and 2010 for crimes including burglary, weapons possession, assault, menacing and robbery.
"He clearly was a troubled young man, but there was nothing that would have suggested he was capable of these types of incidents," Denver-based attorney Scott Robinson, who represented Ebel in four cases in 2004, told Reuters.
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper confirmed news reports that he was a friend of the parolee's father, Jack Ebel, who he said he met while working for an oil company soon after moving to the state about 30 years ago.
"Although Jack loved his son, he never asked me to intervene on his behalf and I never asked for any special treatment for his son," Hickenlooper said in a statement released on Friday.
Hickenlooper said that Evan Ebel had served every day of his original sentence and was released on "mandatory parole at the end of the time he was ordered to be incarcerated."
Mark Potok, senior fellow with the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, said the 211 Crew, also known as the Aryan Alliance, was founded in 1995 by Colorado prison inmate Benjamin Davis.
Davis is serving a 108-year sentence after his conviction for racketeering, conspiracy and other charges under the state's Organized Crime Control Act.
"The group started out as a protective group, but quickly morphed into a criminal enterprise," Potok said, adding that the 211s are known for the "harshness" of their discipline, he said.
He said the 211s were a "blood in, blood out" gang, meaning a prospective member must commit a violent act at the direction of one of the gang's higher-ups, or "shot callers."
Once paroled 211 members are on the street they are expected to start earning money, usually through criminal activity, and forward the proceeds to incarcerated gang leaders, Potok said.
(Reporting by Jim Forsyth, Robin Respaut, Alex Dobuzinskis, Dan Whitcomb and Keith Coffman; Writing by Alex Dobuzinskis.; Editing by Paul Thomasch, Andre Grenon, Christopher Wilson, Eric Walsh and Lisa Shumaker)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/white-supremacist-killed-texas-investigated-colorado-murders-003952231.html
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Two teen suspects arrested in murder of Georgia baby
Terry Dickson / The Morning News via AP
Authorities investigate the scene of shooting in Brunswick, Ga., on Thursday.
By Elizabeth Chuck, Staff Writer, NBC News
Updated at 4:30 p.m. ET: Two?teenage suspects were arrested in a small coastal Georgia city?a day after a baby was killed and his mom shot, authorities said Friday.
The mother, Sherry West,?told FOX affiliate WAWS-TV?that she was pushing her 13-month-old son, Antonio, in his stroller in Brunswick, Ga., Thursday morning, when?two boys ? described as about 10 and 15 years old ? came up, demanded money and shot them.
Brunswick police announced Friday afternoon that they had arrested a 17-year-old and a 14-year-old, and that they were charging them with murder. The arrests came after SWAT teams had gone door to door, searching for clues, and police had checked local school attendance and absentee lists to see if there were any students who hadn't been at school that fit the description of the suspects.
West told WAWS-TV that the older boy pointed a handgun at her during the encounter Thursday.
"He said, 'I'm gonna kill you if you don't give me your money,' and I said, 'I swear I don't have any,'" she told WAWS-TV of the encounter.?
She said they wouldn't accept no for an answer.
"He says, 'Well, I'm gonna kill your baby,'" she told WAWS-TV, crying. "I put my arms over my baby and he shoves me. And then he shot my baby right in the head."?
West was shot in the leg, according to local reports. Brunswick police spokesman Todd Rhodes confirmed she received a non-life-threatening gunshot wound from a handgun.
West was the only eyewitness to the crime, Rhodes said.?Residents in the area reported hearing gunshots, but didn't see anything, he said.?
Brunswick, Georgia Police Chief Tobe Green says authorities have arrested two teenagers suspected in the shooting death of a baby in a stroller and the wounding of the baby's mother.
"We're not leaving any stone unturned," he said earlier in the day.
In a news conference Friday afternoon, Brunswick police chief Tobe Brown said, "We're still following leads from our witnesses. We're still collecting evidence. ... We're currently serving search warrants at three locations within the city."?
Police hadn't located a weapon yet.
The baby's father, Louis Santiago, said to WAWS-TV, "Why? Why my little one? You know? You feel they could have just taken the pocketbook and go."
Brunswick is about 80 miles south of Savannah.
This story was originally published on Fri Mar 22, 2013 9:56 AM EDT
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Saturday, March 23, 2013
Three killed in shooting at Quantico Marine Base
Matthew Barakat / AP
The entrance to Marine Corps Base Quantico in Northern Virginia is shown early Friday after three Marines, including the suspected assailant, died in a shooting.
By Courtney Kube and John Newland, NBC News
A Marine opened fire on two of his comrades Thursday night at a base in Quantico, Va., before turning the gun on himself, leaving all three dead, military officials said.
A relationship dispute was believed to be behind the shooting, which occurred in the staff barracks area of the Officer Candidates School at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Northern Virginia, a Marine official said.
The assailant and both victims, a man and a woman, were staff members at the school and not students,, a senior defense official said. The official called the incident "isolated," adding: "There was nothing random here."
The names of the dead were being withheld pending notification of next of kin.
Military police and Prince William County, Va., Sheriff's Department officers responded to a report of gunshots about 11 p.m. ET Thursday and found one Marine dead and the shooter barricaded inside the barracks, a Marine official said. The barricade lasted until 3 a.m., when officers entered the barracks and found two more bodies, including that of the shooter, the official said. All three were pronounced dead at the scene.
The assailant appeared to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, base officials said.
The base had been under lockdown after the incident, but its status early Friday returned to "Code Green," meaning operations were normal.
A message posted on Quantico's Facebook page?had earlier had told residents to remain in their homes with their doors locked.
Quantico is about 40 miles south of Washington in the Northern Virginia suburbs.
The Officer Candidates School calls itself "the first proving ground for future Marine officers." Its graduates attain the rank of 2nd lieutenant.
It has a reputation for being challenging.
"The mission of OCS is to train, screen and evaluate candidates, who must demonstrate a high level of leadership potential and commitment to success in order to earn a commission," the Marine Corps says on the school's website. "Officer Candidates School training will be more demanding than any you've experienced before, regardless of commissioning program."
NBC News' Denise Ono and Christopher Nelson contributed to this report.
This story was originally published on Fri Mar 22, 2013 2:17 AM EDT
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The U.S. Defense Department Still Loves ... - Business Insider
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Reports that the DoD is ditching BlackBerry for Apple and buying?650,000 iOS devices just aren't true, the DoD says.If DoD employees want a BlackBerry 10 when the device becomes available, they can have one, spokesperson Lt. Col. Damien Pickart told PC Magazine's Damon Poeter.
If they want an iPhone or an Android phone, they can have those, too.
Pickart says the DoD currently supports more than 600,000 mobile devices between those in the field and the ones in various pilot programs. The breakdown is: 470,000 BlackBerry devices, 41,000 iOS devices, and 8,700 Android devices, Poeter reports.
Rumors that the DoD was dumping BlackBerry and would not allow employees to use the BlackBerry 10 came from a story posted by Electronista earlier this month.
Yesterday,?Electronista also reported that the DoD was gearing up to purchase 120,000 iPads,100,000 iPad minis, 200,000 iPod touches, and 210,000 iPhones, mostly to replace older BlackBerry devices.
Electronista's articles weren't totally off base. The DoD did publicly confirm that it plans to offer its employee more choices than ever, including Apple tablets.
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Matt Yglesias' $1.2 Million House Stokes Class Envy in Conservatives
Slate's liberal economics blogger?Matt Yglesias bought a $1.2 million three-bedroom condo in Washington, D.C., and a bunch of conservatives are pretty appalled that a liberal would have the gall to be rich.?Rich people shouldn't be liberal because liberals hate rich people. Or maybe it's that liberals shouldn't be rich. It's kind of hard to tell with all this class envy swirling around.
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Is Yglesias a hypocrite? His critics seem to feel like he is.?"Nothing says wealth redistribution like purchasing a $1.2 million condo in the heart of Washington D.C.," Breitbart News' Ben Shapiro writes. We don't have all the details yet, but thus far, there's no record that?the moment Yglesias signed his mortgage, he also signed a pledge advocating a new position on taxes -- that he should not pay very much taxes at all.
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Although in polite political discourse these days it is common to think liberals are socialists, and socialists are communists, and communists are murderous Bolsheviks, it's important to note those words don't actually all mean the same thing. When liberals advocate higher marginal tax rates, they are not also advocating kicking rich people out of their homes and eating their babies. So when Yglesias buys a house, he's not a hypocrite. He'd?be a hypocrite if he opened a P.O. box in Florida to avoid paying some income taxes.
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In fact, some of our favorite conservative bloggers seem to be playing the baby-eating game themselves.?Yglesias's real estate sale is rank hypocrisy, Shapiro writes, because "Yglesias is the same fellow who wrote back in 2012 that high-cost government entitlements were necessary in order to rectify income inequality."?Shapiro pulls up this damning Yglesias?quote?from 2011:?
"We have a lot of things that we could do that would be very conducive to growth. You know, for the poorest, I think the example historically shows that you sometimes just need to tax people more and give them more money, and give them more social services."
Again, we have no evidence that Yglesias's new home has changed his position on social services and taxes. On Friday, Yglesias wrote about how few high-achieving-but-low-income students apply to elite schools. Word-of-mouth can help once a few kids are admitted to top colleges. But, "A more centralized system in which everyone takes the Official College Entrance Test and then receives a letter from the government informing them of their score-based options and income-based financial aid would have some problems, but could be a boon to working class kids," Yglesias writes. He doesn't sound like a libertarian yet.
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No, it seems less a policy critique than a chance to scoff at a blogger with money.?"So, party at Matty's this weekend? I mean, I'm sure he won't mind if we crash the joint, what with that myth of owning private property and all,"?Andy?writes at the conservative blog Ace of Spades.?"Sounds like just the place to relax and unwind after a busy day of dismantling capitalism...?Remember:?Money?is bad unless it?s in the hands of leftists,"?The Daily Caller's Jim Treacher?writes. Noting that Yglesias has said that doctors and executives are overpaid, Shapiro writes:
How much is Yglesias being paid to write for Slate? If this report from the?Washingtonian?is correct (and it?appears to be right), an awful lot. That's the beauty of capitalism. But is it really?fair?that he be paid more than doctors, or high level executives? Where?s the justice in that??
I can usually trust my favorite conservative blogs to be steadfast in their opposition to cheap class envy. Why, here's Ace of Spades praising Adam Carolla a year ago for condemning it. "[I]t's envy that has turned into resentment that has turned into anger and essentially shame. It's pretty simple psycho dynamic which is, 'I wish I had that guy's expensive car, good looking wife, big house, whatever it is,'"?Carolla said, "Obvious but worth saying," Ace wrote.
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And here's?Shapiro, writing?of Obama's 2013 State of the Union, "Obama?s answer is not to help those who hire and create. It?s to confiscate their wealth in the name of fairness..." Here's Breitbart News' Larry Kudlow, writing in January 2012, said he was very disappointed with "some Republicans on the campaign trail" who were "Keeping class envy alive."?Here's?Ron Futrell saying the story of Mitt Romney's tax returns "fits right in [the media's] wheelhouse of deception and class envy." But Futrell wasn't happy either when Jon Stewart made fun of Romney's money, and then someone on Yahoo News said that was hypocritical, because the comedian is rich. Futrell scoffed, "The hypocritical media is always the first and the loudest at pointing out supposed hypocrisy."
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Friday, March 22, 2013
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Former oil executive becomes new head of Anglicans
By Shadia Nasralla
CANTERBURY, England (Reuters) - The new spiritual leader of the world's Anglicans was enthroned by a female cleric on Thursday, taking the helm at a time when the troubled church risks tearing itself apart over gay marriage and women bishops.
In a colourful ceremony featuring African drummers and dancers, Punjabi music and Anglican hymns, Justin Welby, 57, officially became the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury under the gothic arches of Britain's 900-year-old Canterbury Cathedral.
For the first time in the Christian church's history, the priest who placed him on the diocesan throne in Canterbury - the mother church of the Church of England and of the Anglican Communion - was a woman, Archdeacon of Canterbury Sheila Watson.
Another, male, priest then installed him in the chair of St. Augustine, marking his inauguration as Primate of All England and spiritual leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
Welby, who is against gay marriage but favours the ordination of women as bishops, now faces a tough balancing act to keep the 80 million-strong Anglican Communion together.
His voice echoing inside the vast cathedral, Welby told a congregation of 2,000 people including heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles and Prime Minister David Cameron that the church should focus more on combatting poverty and protecting nature.
"The utterly absurd is completely reasonable when Jesus is the one who is calling," he said in his sermon.
"Slaves were freed, factory acts passed, and the NHS (public health service) and social care established through Christ-liberated courage. The present challenges of environment and economy, of human development and global poverty, can only be faced with Christ-liberated extraordinary courage."
The Archbishop finds himself in the crossfire between liberal clerics in the United States and Britain who are at odds with conservatives in Africa and elsewhere over those issues, and his handling of the dispute is set to dominate his tenure.
Homosexuality is the most divisive issue, and senior African Anglican leaders have already lined up to denounce a decision to allow celibate gay bishops, saying it would only widen the rift.
"It's true that not all the African bishops, but quite a number of African bishops are strongly opposed to the way you understand sexuality in the West," Solomon Tilewa Johnson, Archbishop and Primate of the West Africa section of the Anglican Communion, told Reuters on the eve of the ceremony.
Others at the ceremony were more optimistic.
"He's a bridge-builder and a reconciler," Josiah Idowu-Fearon, Archbishop of Kaduna in Nigeria - effectively the largest province in the Communion - told the BBC.
"It is a good description to call it a holy anarchy," he added, referring to a phrase coined by Welby himself. "And how is he going to put all that together? We wait and see."
Pope Francis, who was formally installed as head of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics about a week ago, sent Welby a message from the Vatican to congratulate him.
"Please be assured of my prayers as you take up your new responsibilities, and I ask you to pray for me as I respond to the new call that the Lord has addressed to me," he said.
"I look forward to meeting you in the near future, and to continuing the warm fraternal relations that our predecessors enjoyed."
INCREASINGLY SECULAR
Welby is seen as a pragmatic and down-to-earth trouble-shooter, hardened by years of work as a crisis negotiator in Africa among separatists in the swamps of the Niger Delta and Islamists in northern Nigeria.
His life changed dramatically in 1983 when his daughter was killed in a car accident, an event he described as a "dark time" which brought him and his wife closer to God.
The bespectacled and soft-spoken Welby inherits a church struggling with falling congregation numbers in an increasingly secular society where many see religion as irrelevant.
The church now counts about 26 million baptised members, but says only about a million of them attend services every Sunday.
Born in London in 1956, he was educated at the elite Eton College, and went on to study history and law at Cambridge University. His father's family were German-Jewish immigrants who fled persecution to England in the 19th century.
His liberal predecessor Rowan Williams - a self-confessed "old hairy lefty" who opposed the Iraq war - once famously said the next Archbishop of Canterbury needed "the constitution of an ox and the skin of a rhinoceros" to do the job.
Just hours before the ceremony, Welby spoke out publicly about gay marriage, offering a softer stance on the issue.
"You see gay relationships that are just stunning in the quality of the relationship," he told the BBC, while stressing he had no doubts over the church's policy on same-sex relationships.
"The Church of England holds very firmly, and continues to hold to the view, that marriage is a lifelong union of one man to one woman."
(Additional reporting by Philip Pullella; Writing by Maria Golovnina, editing by Michael Roddy)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/former-oil-executive-becomes-head-anglican-communion-154322287.html
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Thursday, March 21, 2013
How Young Women Promote The Hookup Culture
By Athlone McGinnis
People wonder why it is that the hookup culture has risen as rapidly as it has, with some still seemingly taken aback by millennial apathy towards dating. Too often, those concerned with these developments look immediately to blame men for the devaluation of relationships.
Men are dogs, some say.
?Young guys just want to play the field,? say others.
A few posit that ?Men don?t value good women.?
Some just ask themselves (and society in general) ?Where did all the good men go??
The list goes on. Take a trip around Tumblr, Facebook or any mainstream media/social media venue online and you?ll see a host of critiques of male failure to uphold the relationship.?These shortsighted arguments that look solely to the male sex as the source of the hookup culture?s rise ignore a crucial reality: the role of young women, and the conscious effort on their part to move away from the meaningful relationship and toward the more informal hookup culture.
Recently, Leslie Bell took the time to expose this reality on The Atlantic:
Ambitious young women in their 20s feel they shouldn?t want relationships with men at this phase in their lives?
?When I talk to real women, as I did in researching my book on sexual freedom and 20-something women, I hear young women?s mixed feelings about relationships. Some young women deeply desire meaningful relationships with men, even as they feel guilty about those desires. Many express the same sentiment again and again: ?Why do I, a young and highly educated woman in the 21st century, value relationships with men so highly?? To do so feels like a betrayal of themselves, of their education, and of their achievements?
? Katie, a 25-year-old woman I spoke with as part of my research, confided that she worried her single-minded pursuit of a graduate degree might limit her ability to meet a man with whom she could build a life? She felt deeply ashamed by such thoughts, worried that they signaled weakness and dependence, qualities she did not admire. To put such a high premium on relationships was frightening to Katie. She worried that it meant she wasn?t liberated and was still defined by traditional expectations of women. I have heard Katie?s dilemma from countless young women.
Here rests my largest critique of modern feminism. Somewhere along the line, it began to preach a message that went beyond the mere encouragement of equal treatment and the maintenance of female choice. Instead, it began sending the message that to be a truly ?empowered? woman in the feminist mold, females had to move entirely away from ?old? ways (traditional relationships, marriage, motherhood, etc).
The end result? Women who feel guilty building anything meaningful with a male. They are more consciously working toward a model of ?new femininity? constructed for them by modern feminism, and somewhere along the line they?ve been getting the message that they cannot get there with a man or by adhering in any way to more traditional models of femininity. The movement that claimed to be all about offering greater choice for women has, in the end, left them with only one real option?adhere to the new ?independent,? career-oriented feminist model of womanhood.
And yet people wonder why so many have gotten the impression that feminism is anti-male. I mean, how could a movement that seems to have played such a large role in encouraging young women to view the maintenance of meaningful relationships with men as hindrances to their future and ?betrayals? of their femininity be considered in any way anti-male?
But I digress. Continuing with the article?
Laura Hamilton and Elizabeth Armstrong, sociologists at University of California, Merced and the University of Michigan studied relationship patterns among upper-middle-class female college students, and they discovered that these women believed relational commitments were supposed to take a backseat to self-development. And that young women often found relationships to be ?greedy,? demanding excessive amounts of time and energy that detracted from the main tasks of college?educational achievements and meeting people. Hamilton and Armstrong found that young women often sought protection from relationships that could ?derail their ambition.?
And herein rests a key driver of the modern hookup culture. Many girls have become just as allergic to commitment as young men are often stereotyped to be. Women are now playing just as large a part as men in the perpetuation of hookup culture.
Many men are still asking young women out, going on dinner dates, calling, and adhering to the other ?gentlemanly? rules established for them in a much older age and still outwardly pined for by certain female critics. What they?re finding is that young women are becoming less and less responsive to this behavior?the more serious the men get, the more distant the girls begin to make themselves, ostensibly fearing for their ?independence?.
Given such a reality, what is the appropriate male response?
Quit going on dinner dates. Quit asking girls out in a formal manner. Don?t call. Cease all manner of ?gentlemanly? behavior you may have learned as a child via your parents or the Disney Channel. Replace dinners and other traditional dates with bar/pong dates, and allow late night ?booty-call? texts to supplant phone calls and traditional methods of asking a girl out. In short, do less.
And lo and behold, what do men find as they move to these more informal methods of courtship? Far more enthusiastic responses from their female peers and more sexual success. The girls may complain to their peers about a given man?s lack of commitment, but his low investment offers no threat to her perceived identity as a ?liberated woman?, and is therefore more acceptable than anything else.
The adaptations we are seeing from men in the dating world are a natural response to female choice. The reality is that women have begun to vote with their feet. Their actions are sending the clear message that they do not want to be stuck in the trappings of traditional relationships, and they are running away from the men who threaten to offer them. They have fought quite vigorously to remove themselves from the confines of traditional dating, and continue to battle in order to maintain that distance.
We do not live in an age where the male retains unquestioned dominance/control over the sexual and social behaviors of his female peers, and it is for this reason that men have no choice but to respect these efforts and the decisions they seem to symbolize.
Girls not responding to traditional approaches about commitment and relationships? Well, you can?t make them want what they don?t want, so just don?t provide it to them. Problem solved!
Slowly, the reality of growing female aversion to commitment is dawning on society and more people are beginning to talk about it. Any discourse, however, will prove unproductive if people fail to acknowledge the fem-centric nature of the trend. Women are the gatekeepers of sex?men (at least in Western nations like the USA) do not get to directly control all aspects of female sexuality as they once did, and it is women who decide which men receive sexual companionship, when they get it, and on what conditions it is given.
Right now, those conditions are increasingly requiring young men to minimize investment. Female action has determined this, and only female action can reverse it. If young women want more male investment in relationships, then they?ll need to accept it more often when it is offered. Until such a time, men will just continue to do what works.
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About the Author
Athlone McGinnis is a young man whose background gives him unique insight on sociological and cultural changes that are happening today. His column runs every Thursday.
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GameStick shipping dev units this month, marks progress on controller, SDK and UI
Things seem to be rolling along nicely for Kickstarter success story, GameStick. The makers of the compact Android console will be shipping a dev unit later this month, measuring slightly larger than the final version, thanks in part to a Type A USB slot for mousing / keyboarding. The company also used its Kickstarter newsletter to note that the controller is "nearing readiness," despite almost giving "the lead mechanical engineer a heart attack," due to its size. GameStick will be releasing an SDK later this week and will be announcing some unnamed partnerships soon (subtly hinting that it will be at ARM's GDC booth this month). The UI, meanwhile, is pretty much done, and the retail excitement is quite high, according to the company. Hopefully this all means that we'll be wrapping our hands around the console soon.
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SpaceX's Merlin 1D engine gets flight qualified, Musk expects launch this year
It's been quite the eventful year for the team at SpaceX. A few weeks after sending a Dragon capsule to the International Space Station, Elon Musk's company announced that its Merlin 1D engine managed to snag flight qualification, thanks to 1,970 seconds of testing time at its McGregor, Texas facility. That adds up to more than 10 full mission durations. The engine scored a ratio of 4:1 for critical engine life parameters, well above the industry's 2:1 standard. SpaceX will waste little time in getting it off the ground -- Musk said the engine will be taking off this year, as part of a Falcon 9 flight.
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UK to nudge government spending towards investment
By Andrew Osborn and David Milliken
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will nudge government spending away from day-to-day expenditure and towards longer-term investment over the coming two years in a bid to spur faster economic growth, the government said on Tuesday.
Speaking a day before the government presents its annual budget, Prime Minister David Cameron's spokesman said most government departments would have to cut spending by a further 1 percent in each of the next two financial years.
"That will save us cumulatively almost 2.5 billion pounds ($3.8 billion)," the spokesman said. "It is also allowing the recycling in the short term of money into capital spending, which is an important part of the government's agenda."
Chancellor George Osborne, known as the chancellor of the exchequer, is expected to forecast slower growth and further delays in achieving the government's deficit reduction goals on Wednesday, faced with what Cameron's spokesman called "an unprecedented peacetime economic crisis".
Britain has recently lost its prized top-notch triple-A sovereign debt rating, and many economists, business groups and others have called on the government to reverse a fall in public investment in order to revive growth.
Osborne opposes more government borrowing to fund investment, but is willing to cut other areas of public spending to pay for long-term projects. He is expected to detail which projects will benefit from these latest cuts in his budget on Wednesday.
In December, he announced cuts to most departments' budgets of 1 percent in the 2013/14 tax year and 2 percent for 2014/15, raising 3.4 billion pounds to spend on infrastructure and measures to support businesses.
Public sector trade unions are already due to stage a one-day strike on Wednesday to protest against existing cuts, and were swift to condemn Tuesday's news of more.
"With interest rates negative in real terms, the chancellor has the perfect opportunity to invest in Britain's future, rather than raiding departmental budgets to cover his failed economic strategy," said Frances O'Grady, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress.
The latest round of cuts will not affect spending on health, schools, international aid or tax collection, while local government and police will be exempt from the first year's cuts. They only cover departmental spending, and not welfare payments, which are categorised separately in Britain's public finances.
Savings made in 2014/15 will also count towards a goal of reducing departmental spending by 10 billion pounds in 2015/16.
(Reporting by Andrew Osborn and David Milliken)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/uk-cut-government-budgets-boost-capital-spending-125016484--business.html
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Tanner's Pets Of The Week: Jackson ? The New 103.7 ? Charlotte's ...
Jackson is a lover ? lover ? lover! He really needs you as much as you need him. His owner couldn?t care for him so he turned him outside and all this boy wanted to do was find someone to take him in. He was so happy to come to the shelter and now we are featuring him where he can finally find his new home. Jackson is also one of the special ?Leader of the Band? kitties. This is the rating for the most confident and most social of the personalities. Basically, that means that he is demonstratively affectionate and outgoing, and a really happy cat! This boy is very easy to get along with and settles in quickly in new places. Whenever you are in the mood, he will be ready to offer a soft coat and a warm heart. He LOVES to sit on your lap! He is also a VIP so he has a special adoption price!
Name: Jackson
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Age: 3 years
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CMPD Animal Care & Control?s pet adoption program brings animals and people together. If you are looking for a new pet, the shelter has hundreds of dogs and cats, along with occasional snakes and pot-bellied pigs, to choose from for adoption. The shelter also has two specially designed bonding areas for people to interact and play with the animals they are considering for adoption. Visit www.cmpd.org, click on Animal Control for more. We are located at 8315 Byrum Drive Charlotte, NC 28217. Phone: 311.
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Uncontrolled hypertension could bring increased risk for Alzheimer's disease
Mar. 18, 2013 ? A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association Neurology suggests that controlling or preventing risk factors, such as hypertension, earlier in life may limit or delay the brain changes associated with Alzheimer's disease and other age-related neurological deterioration.
Dr. Karen Rodrigue, assistant professor in the UT Dallas Center for Vital Longevity (CVL), was lead author of a study that looked at whether people with both hypertension and a common gene had more buildup of a brain plaque called amyloid protein, which is associated with Alzheimer's disease. Scientists believe amyloid is the first symptom of Alzheimer's disease and shows up a decade or more before symptoms of memory impairment and other cognitive difficulties begin. The gene, known as APOE 4, is carried by 20 percent of the population.
Until recently, amyloid plaque could be seen only at autopsy, but new brain scanning techniques allow scientists to see plaque in living brains of healthy adults. Findings from both autopsy and amyloid brain scans show that at least 20 percent of typical older adults carry elevated levels of amyloid, a substance made up mostly of protein that is deposited in organs and tissues.
"I became interested in whether hypertension was related to increased risk of amyloid plaques in the brains of otherwise healthy people," Rodrigue said. "Identifying the most significant risk factors for amyloid deposition in seemingly healthy adults will be critical in advancing medical efforts aimed at prevention and early detection."
Based on evidence that hypertension was associated with Alzheimer's disease, Rodrigue suspected that the combination of hypertension and the presence of the APOE-e4 gene might lead to particularly high levels of amyloid plaque in healthy adults.
Rodrigue's research was part of the Dallas Lifespan Brain Study, a comprehensive study of the aging brain in a large group of adults of all ages funded by the National Institute on Aging. Rodrigue's group recruited 147 participants (ages 30-89) to undergo cognitive testing, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and PET imaging using Amyvid. Amyvid is a compound that when injected travels to the brain and binds with amyloid proteins, allowing the scientists to visualize the amount of amyloid plaque. Blood pressure also was measured at each visit.
Rodrigue classified participants in the study as hypertensive if they reported a current physician diagnosis of hypertension or if their blood pressure exceeded the established criteria for diagnosis. The participants were further divided into groups based on whether they were taking anti-hypertensive medications or if they were unmedicated and showed blood pressure elevations consistent with a diagnosis of hypertension. Finally, study subjects were classified in the genetic risk group if they were in the 20 percent of adults who had one or two copies of an APOE ?4 allele, a genetic variation linked to dementia.
The most striking result of the study was that nonmedicated hypertensive adults who also carried a genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease showed much higher amyloid levels than all other groups. Adults with medication-controlled hypertension, even those with genetic risk, had levels of amyloid plaque equivalent to participants without hypertension or genetic risk.
The study suggests that controlling hypertension may significantly decrease the risk of developing amyloid deposits, even in those with genetic risk. Rodrigue noted that long-term studies are needed to be certain that the use of hypertensive medications decreased amyloid deposits. Nevertheless, this early finding provides a window into the potential benefits of controlling hypertension that goes beyond lowering the risk of strokes and other cardiovascular complications.
Scientists cannot fully explain the neural mechanisms underlying the effect of hypertension and APOE ?4 on amyloid accumulation. But earlier research in animal models has shown that chronic hypertension may enable easier penetration of the blood-brain barrier, resulting in more amyloid deposition.
The recent study is significant because it focuses on a group of healthy and cognitively normal middle-aged and older adults, which enables the examination of risk factors and amyloid burden before the development of preclinical dementia. The team plans for long-term, longitudinal follow-up with participants to determine the proportion of the subjects who eventually develop the disease.
The study's co-authors included Dr. Denise Park, director of the Dallas Lifespan Brain Study and co-director of the Center for Vital Longevity, Dr. Kristen Kennedy and doctoral student Jennifer Rieck, all from The University of Texas at Dallas. The team also included Dr. Michael Devous and Dr. Ramon Diaz-Arrastia from UT Southwestern Medical Center and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. In addition to the National Institute on Aging support, the Alzheimer's Association provided funds for the study and Avid Radiopharmaceutical provided doses of Amyvid used in scanning.
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Slabs of ancient tectonic plate still lodged under California
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Large chunks of an ancient tectonic plate that slid under North America millions of years ago are still present under parts of central California and Mexico, according to new research led by Brown University geophysicists.
Around 100 million years ago, the Farallon oceanic plate lay between the converging Pacific and North American plates, which eventually came together to form the San Andreas fault. As those plates converged, much of the Farallon was subducted underneath North America and eventually sank deep into the mantle. Off the west coast of North America, the Farallon plate fragmented, leaving a few small remnants at the surface that stopped subducting and became part of the Pacific plate.
But this new research suggests that large slabs from Farallon remain attached to these unsubducted fragments. The researchers used seismic tomography and other data to show that part of the Baja region and part of central California near the Sierra Nevada mountains sit atop "fossil" slabs of the Farallon plate.
"Many had assumed that these pieces would have broken off quite close to the surface," said Brown geophysicist Donald Forsyth, who led the research with Yun Wang, a former Brown graduate student now at the University of Alaska. "We're suggesting that they actually broke off fairly deep, leaving these large slabs behind."
The findings are published today (March 18, 2013) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Geologists had known for years about a "high velocity anomaly" in seismic tomography data near the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. Seismic tomography measures the velocity of seismic waves deep underground. The speed of the waves provides information about the composition and temperature of the subsurface. Generally, slower waves mean softer and hotter material; faster waves mean stiffer and cooler material.
The anomaly in California, known as the Isabella anomaly, indicated that a large mass of relatively cool and dehydrated material is present at a depth of 100 to 200 kilometers below the surface. Just what that mass was wasn't known, but there were a few theories. It was often explained by a process called delamination. The crust beneath the eastern part of the mountains is thin and the mantle hot, indicating that part of the lithospheric plate under the mountains had delaminated?broken off. The anomaly, scientists thought, might be the signature of that sunken hunk of lithosphere, which would be cooler and dryer than the surrounding mantle.
But a few years ago, scientists detected a new anomaly under the Mexico's Baja Peninsula, due east of one of the known coastal remains of the Farallon plate. Because of its proximity to the Farallon fragment, Forsyth and Wang thought it was very likely that the anomaly represented an underground extension of the fragment.
A closer look at the region showed that there are high-magnesium andesite deposits on the surface near the eastern edge of the anomaly. These kinds of deposits are volcanic rocks usually associated with the melting of oceanic crust material. Their presence suggests that the eastern edge of the anomaly represents the spots where Farallon finally gave way and broke off, sending andesites to the surface as the crust at the end of the subducted plate melted.
That led Forsyth and his colleagues to suspect that perhaps the Isabella anomaly in California might also represent a slab still connected to an unsubducted fragment of the Farallon plate. So they re-examined the tomography data along the entire West Coast. They compared the Baja and Isabella anomalies to anomalies associated with known Farallon slabs underneath Washington and Oregon.
The study found that all of the anomalies are strongest at the same depth ? right around 100 kilometers. And all of them line up nearly due east of known fragments from Farallon.
"The geometry was the kicker," Forsyth said. "The way they line up just makes sense."
The findings could force scientists to re-examine the tectonic history of western North America, Forsyth said. In particular, it forces a rethinking of the delamination of the Sierra Nevada, which had been used to explain the Isabella anomaly.
"However the Sierra Nevada was delaminated," Forsyth said, "it's probably not in the way that many people had been thinking."
His research colleague asnd co-author Brian Savage of the University of Rhode Island agrees. "This work has radically changed our understanding of the makeup of the west coast of North America," Savage said. "It will cause a thorough rethinking of the geological history of North America and undoubtedly many other continental margins."
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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
How to hire the right SEO expert for your small business ...
For the past two years, I?ve had the pleasure of running educational webinars that help companies to transform their business with inbound marketing. And long before that, I was practicing it, as I still am.
However, beyond hosting webinars ? I also frequently have conversations with companies who have been doing inbound marketing for a while and are looking to refine their efforts.
While both parts of my job are equally satisfying ? the conversations I?ve had with customers lately regarding SEO have been incredibly interesting. ?It?s no secret that the world of SEO is forever changing, however, it appears that an?insurgence?of ?SEO Experts? have recently emerged. ?More than ever,?customers?are asking whether they should hire this ?SEO Expert? that has?recently?reached out to them.
Whenever I hear somebody is going to hire an ?SEO Expert? I immediately cringe. I cringe for two reasons:
- I know that 90% of the time, this ?expert? is not really an expert at all.?
- The ?expert? will most likely engage in techniques that will only favor the business short-term ? and can potentially damage the business? online presence long-term.
- And some people think an ?SEO Expert? will immediately be able to fix their traffic problems.
I?ve seen the damaging affects that the wrong SEO hire can result with because of the customers I?ve engaged with. And it can come in a few forms:
- The SEO guru will claim to optimize the page title which will result in higher ranking, but usually these page titles are not true to their content ? or what?s on the page ? causing confusion not only with Google, but also with searchers.
- And they often promise to provide inbound links to the website ? which is good for off-page SEO, but these links often come at the risk of them employing black hat?techniques.
Well, I?ve seen enough. I?ve decided to take matters into my own hands and show you some of the emails I?ve received to my blog (thegirlsguidetobeer.com) from people who claim to be SEO experts. Yes, I get this spam too. Lucky for me, I understand the intricacies of inbound marketing, and I?m able to spot a fake from far, far away.
The following are three emails I?ve received from SEO experts who can help me ?improve my rankings.?
Side note ? these are the traps that most small businesses tend to fall in to. Afterward, I?ll explain how you can see their deceit right from within the emails.
?It?s a fact: more people find out about your business on Facebook or Twitter than on search engines. Making these sites work maybe tricky for you, but it?s business as usual for us. Let us improve your visibility and enhance your image. It?s part of our complete Internet Marketing package. We?ll be more than your friends ? we?ll be your partners. ?
From:?stellafair217@someemailaddress.com
?We offer quality Search Engine Optimization / SEO Services and Internet Marketing Solutions. Our dedicated team of SEO Professionals ensures Top 10 search engine rankings. Our SEO Processes are designed in view of the SEO guidelines, and white hat SEO techniques are strictly followed to ensure that our clients from world over get the best SEO services. Please reply to this email so we can send you more details. ?
From:?ballardivan9@someemailaddress.com?We can increase rankings of your website in search engines. Please reply back for more details.?
From: DonnaGabriel18@someemailaddress.com
Now there are plenty of problems with the messages above that I received through my sites ?Contact Us? form ? and they are as follows:
- First indicator of unreliable experts are the email addresses.
All three are not professional and neither came from a hosted domain ? but rather a free email hosting site. Now this doesn?t always indicate foul play, but would you want to put your business in the hands of stellafair217, ballardivan9 or donnagabriel18? I hope not.
- The first ?company? says it?s a fact that more people find sites from Facebook or Twitter than search engines.
That is actually not a fact. Where people find your website depends on who your buyer persona is and where they go for information. Yes, in some cases they may use Twitter or Facebook more, but that is mostly unusual. And as a marketer who had complete insight into my own websites marketing metrics, I know that most people actually find my site from Google. So nice try StellaFair.
- The second company ensures ?top 10 search engine rankings?
And as any inbound marketer knows, there is no way to guarantee or ensure rankings. And if you do, we can usually assume there are some less than honest marketing tactics they?re using.
- The third company barely provides any detail.
This one is simply a joke. They have made zero effort to help me ? and it is evident.
- All three messages are obviously a canned message.
If they were serious about trying to help, you think they?d put some effort into it by customizing it in some way. All of these are message that could be sent to anybody as there is no personalization resulting in that spammy feel.
- They?re both lacking a good quality bottom of the buying process offer.
As any marketer knows, a strong call to action at the end of the message is incredibly important. Both should have included a form or an?opportunity?for their potential new business to get a free consultation or free SEO assessment. We use these offers to entice people to see what we have to offer and prove our industry prowess by investing just the right amount of time. In the message from ballardivan9 ? the ?please reply to this email so we can send you more details? is incredibly passive and unprofessional.
- It?s all about them.
Any good inbound marketing knows that the buyer is now in control. And we?re not here to just close a deal, we?re here to build relationships, prove our expertise from our helpful information and tips ? versus simply closing somebody. ?And we do this because it?s not just about closing a customer, but also delighting them into a promoter or a raving fan. ?This is almost impossible to do if you?re simply out for yourself.
If you?re planning to hire an outside company to help you with your inbound marketing, seo or any online marketing, be sure to do your research first. Look for references, legitimacy, thoughtfulness in their message, proof of results and even Google search their names or business to see what you can find. Otherwise, not only can it result in loss of money, but it can also result in being penalized in search engines like Google or Bing.
Google has a super helpful article on how to hire the right SEO company?that I recommend checking out.
And lastly, if you feel you?ve been deceived by an ?SEO Expert? don?t hesitate to file a complaint with the FTC. ?To file a complaint, visit their website (www.ftc.gov/) and click on ?File a Complaint Online? ? or call 1 (877) FTC-HELP. If your complaint is against a company outside of the US, file it at www.econsumer.gov/.
Have you experienced deceit or spammy messages from self-proclaimed experts of SEO? What stood out to you as a immediate indicator of?illegitimacy? Feel free to leave comments below.
Source: http://www.sarahbedrick.com/2013/03/18/how-to-hire-the-right-seo-expert-for-your-small-business/
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World-famous animal trapper born in Texas
On this day in 1884, Frank "Bring 'Em Back Alive" Buck, hunter, author, and film maker, was born in Gainesville, Texas. He traveled over the world trapping and transporting exotic animals to zoos and circuses. He wrote at least seven books and produced several motion pictures about animals and his adventures. Buck died in Houston on March 25, 1950.
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Arms flowing to Syria from every direction
The United Nations said today that more than 5 million Syrians ? about 20 percent of its population ? have been left reliant on aid handouts by the ferocious civil war that has raged there for two years now.
A glance at today's headlines gives good reason to expect the number of Syrians driven from their homes to bulge ? they highlight the prospect of more arms flowing into a conflict that has already claimed 70,000 lives and driven more than 1 million refugees into neighboring countries.
Saudi Arabia and Qatar are already arming the rebellion, and Iran and its partner Hezbollah in Lebanon have been sending arms and men to fight alongside President Bashar al-Assad's troops. Now Britain and France want to open the door to direct arming of the rebels themselves. Yesterday, the two countries said they want to lift immediately a European Union embargo on arming the rebels, set to expire on May 31.
"We have to go very fast," French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said, indicating France may act even if it doesn't get an EU green light. "We are a sovereign nation," he emphasized.
The UK doesn't appear to be quite as gung-ho as France, but still seems to be inching close to much stronger intervention in Syria's war. "We have no plans at the moment to do anything different," Foreign Secretary William Hague said in London today.
But he also didn't fully distance himself from the French position, adding, "I have said of course that that policy may need to change again in the future if the situation continues to get worse, more people dying, more people fleeing, but we have no plans at the moment, the British government has no plans to send lethal arms, lethal equipment to Syria."
The one constant of this war has been more people dying and more people fleeing, so Mr. Hague appears to be laying the public ground for a shift. The UN refugee agency said registered Syrians who had fled their country surged to 121,000 last week, 10 percent of the running total of 1 million refugees generated in the past two years. UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres called the increases a "staggering escalation." He said the daily flow of refugees more than doubled from December to February ? from 3,000 a day to 8,000.
This is tragic, but hardly surprising. December is when it first became clear that the rebels had tapped into a new arms supply, since confirmed to be supplied by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, mostly via Jordan. As a result, rebels have made gains in a number areas, but has also intensified fighting that has reduced whole blocks of cities like Homs and Aleppo to rubble. The Syrian government has responded with an even greater willingness to target civilian residential neighborhoods with stand off weapons like mortars, rockets and cluster bombs.
Amnesty International wrote yesterday:
Research carried out inside Syria in the last fortnight confirms that government forces continue to bomb civilians indiscriminately, often with internationally banned weapons, flattening entire neighborhoods. Detainees held by these forces are routinely subjected to torture, enforced disappearances or extra-judicial executions
?While the vast majority of war crimes and other gross violations continue to be committed by government forces, our research also points to an escalation in abuses by armed opposition groups,? said Ann Harrison, Deputy Director of Amnesty International?s Middle East and North Africa Programme. ?If left unaddressed such practices risk becoming more and more entrenched - it is imperative that all those concerned know they will be held accountable for their actions.?
So, will even more arms for the rebels make a difference? While US Secretary of State John Kerry said on a visit to Saudi Arabia earlier this month that the US hopes arms flows to the rebels will force Assad to the negotiating table, so far they have only bolstered the resolve of the rebellion while doing nothing to take away from the commitment of Assad's troops, many of whom belong to his minority Alawite sect and view victory in this war as a question of survival.
The sectarian dimension, both locally and internationally, looms ever larger. Syria is already in many ways a hot proxy war in Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia's long tussle for regional power and influence. Iraq, which has a Shiite-led government but an angry Sunni minority, is providing aid to both Assad via official channels and to the rebels via Sunni militants who see victory for Syria's rebellion as a potential gamechanger for their own prospects inside Iraq.
With all this activity comes the possibility of blowback for international actors. Secretary Kerry has said the US is convinced that current arms flows are going only to nationalist groups, rather than to the jihadi-inspired organizations like Jabhat al-Nusra, which have been at the forefront of some of Syria's bloodiest recent rebels, but the historic track record of making sure only the "good guys" end up with the weapons is not very promising.
Consider the US and Saudi effort to arm the mujahideen who fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s. While the US tried to avoid arming what it viewed as the most extreme and anti-American groups fighting the Soviets, the Saudis had far fewer qualms about this. In any event, following the Soviet withdrawal, the weapons that ended up in the hands of what became the Taliban enabled them to win their own civil war, at an enormous cost that country is still counting today.
Syria is not Afghanistan. A different place, a different culture, a different time. But there are at least superficial similarities. The Global Post reported on Wednesday that "hundreds of young Saudis are secretly making their way into Syria to join extremist groups fighting against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad... over a dozen sources have confirmed that wealthy Saudis, as well as the government, are arming some Syrian rebel groups. Saudi and Syrian sources confirm that hundreds of Saudis are joining the rebels, but the government denies any sponsoring role."
Sound familiar? It should. Saudi fighters flowed to the Afghan jihad too, and were the vanguard of what became Al Qaeda. Back then, the House of Saud didn't consider the dangers of blowback. They may be making the same mistake again.
Meanwhile, US involvement continues apace, and is making for strange bedfellows. The Wall Street Journal had an interesting story this week about the CIA stepping up training and equipping efforts for Iraqi anti-terrorism units that answer directly to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
"The stepped-up mission expands a covert US presence on the edges of the two-year-old Syrian conflict, at a time of American concerns about the growing power of extremists in the Syrian rebellion," WSJ wrote. "Al Qaeda in Iraq, the terrorist network's affiliate in the country, has close ties to Syria-based Jabhat al Nusra, also known as the Nusra Front, an opposition militant group that has attacked government installations and controls territory in northern Syria. The State Department placed Al Nusra on its list of foreign terror organizations in December, calling the group an alias for Al Qaeda in Iraq."
The concerns are obvious. But units that answer directly to Mr. Maliki have frequently been accused of torture and execution, with their efforts largely targeted at Iraq's Sunni Arabs. And Iraq's goal in this is to stem the flow of support and fighters to Syria's rebellion ? a rebellion the US says it would like to see succeed, even as Iraq helps Iran arm Bashar al-Assad.
This all seems likely to grow more, not less, complex. While the outcome remains difficult to predict, the near-term future seems to promise more suffering for Syria's people.
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