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The Obama Regime Orchestrates

Coordinated Nationwide Attack OnOccupy Wall Street:

Over The Past Ten Days, More ThanA Dozen Cities Have Moved To EvictOccupy Protesters From City Parks

And Other Public SpacesAccording To One Justice Official, EachOf Those Actions Was Coordinated WithHelp From Homeland Security, The FBI

And Other Federal Police Agencies


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In particular, the FBI reportedly advised on press relations, with one presentationsuggesting that any moves to evict protesters be coordinated for a time when thepress was the least likely to be present.

November 15, 2011 Rick Ellis, Minneapolis Top News Examiner [Excerpts]

Over the past ten days, more than a dozen cities have moved to evict Occupyprotesters from city parks and other public spaces.

As was the case in last nights move in New York City, each of the police actions sharesa number of characteristics.

And according to one Justice official, each of those actions was coordinated with helpfrom Homeland Security, the FBI and other federal police agencies.

The official, who spoke on background to me late Monday evening, said that while localpolice agencies had received tactical and planning advice from national agencies, the

ultimate decision on how each jurisdiction handles the Occupy protests ultimately restswith local law enforcement.

According to this official, in several recent conference calls and briefings, local policeagencies were advised to seek a legal reason to evict residents of tent cities, focusingon zoning laws and existing curfew rules.

Agencies were also advised to demonstrate a massive show of police force, includinglarge numbers in riot gear.

In particular, the FBI reportedly advised on press relations, with one presentationsuggesting that any moves to evict protesters be coordinated for a time when the press

was the least likely to be present.

The FBI has so far failed to respond to requests for an official response, and of the 14local police agencies contacted in the past 24 hours, all have declined to respond toquestions on this issue.

But in a recent interview with the BBC, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan mentioned shewas on a conference call just before the recent wave of crackdowns began.

I was recently on a conference call of 18 cities who had the same situation, wherewhat had started as a political movement and a political encampment ended upbeing an encampment that was no longer in control of the people who started

them.

At the time this story was updated, Mayor Quans office had declined to discuss hercomments.

UPDATE: Wednesday, 12:45 p.m. CT. Speaking of Homeland Security, thedepartments Federal Protective Service (which is tasked with protecting federal


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buildings) has been spotted at a couple of Occupy crackdowns, including one inPortland.

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Eighty four year old grandmother pepper-sprayed by Seattle Police:NOV 16, 2011 byjpmassar Daily Kos

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The Police Power Is Always TheFirst Response To A Mobilized

Citizen Action That Refuses To GoAway

From Oakland, California To New YorkCity, The Police, Ordered By Politicians,

Have Smashed Through OccupyEncampments

Their outcry is for law and order - clear the tents from the public parks.


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These are the same corporatists who constantly receive from the corporate-dominated state all kinds of waivers from health and safety regulations, fromgovernment contract rules, from fair labor standards, from taxes.

November 16. 2011 By Ralph Nader, Nader.org. [Excerpts]

From Oakland, California to New York City, the police, ordered by politicians, havesmashed through Occupy encampments.

Noted for their rigorous non-violence and orderly arrangements - tents with medicalassistance, legal aid, libraries, media relations and sanitation controls - the Occupyprotestors are being shoved out of their public places all over the country.

The Mayor of Oakland admitted to the BBC in an interview that mayors, police andother security officials have been in contact with each other regarding how to dealwith the removal of the protestors, including an 18 mayor conference call sheparticipated in recently.

The police power is always the first response to a mobilized citizen action that refuses togo away.

Even a protest against corporate greed and governmental complicity shattering theeconomy and millions of livelihoods, which has widespread support by the Americanpeople, faces police intervention.

How else has the plutocracy of the corporatists and the oligarchy of thepoliticians who serve them responded?

President Obama has remained aloof, as he did earlier this year with the giantWisconsin labor protests. California Governor Jerry Brown has stayed out of the fray.

The Congress is wallowing in its tone-deaf bubble squabbling over how to reduce thecrumbs for the masses while the obscenely-bonused corporate bosses feast on thetables of corporate welfare and privilege.

Chris Hedges, the Pulitzer-prize winning war correspondent - described what entrenchedillegitimacy by the power brokers has to offer besides force:

Our elites have exposed their hand. They have nothing to offer. They can destroy butthey cannot build. They can repress but they cannot lead. They can steal but theycannot share. They have no ideas, no plans and no vision for the future.

Except, one may add, for the perpetuation of their autocratic, self-enriching, dominantrule at the expense of the 99 percent.

Their outcry is for law and order - clear the tents from the public parks.

These are the same corporatists who constantly receive from the corporate-dominated state all kinds of waivers from health and safety regulations, fromgovernment contract rules, from fair labor standards, from taxes.


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And all kinds of loopholes to enhance their profits and executive pay packages.

But there are no waivers for orderly encampments non-violently advancing justicefor we the people by spotlighting the gross inequities and cruelties imposed ontens of millions of innocent Americans.

At the University of California at Berkeley demonstration, Daniel Ellsberg said thatthe official enforcers instinct for repression is irrepressible.

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The Future Of Occupy Wall StreetOn the other hand, proletarian revolutions, like those of the nineteenth century,constantly criticize themselves, constantly interrupt themselves in their owncourse, return to the apparently accomplished, in order to begin anew; they deride

with cruel thoroughness the half-measures, weaknesses, and paltriness of theirfirst attempts, seem to throw down their opponents only so the latter may drawnew strength from the earth and rise before them again more gigantic than ever,recoil constantly from the indefinite colossalness of their own goals until asituation is created which makes all turning back impossible -- The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte; Karl Marx 1852

IRAQ WAR REPORTS

Soldier From Greensboro Killed In IraqNovember 16, 2011 By Dioni L. Wise, News & Record

GREENSBORO On Sunday, David Emanuel Hickman called his parents from Iraq.

The 23-year-old soldier was in good spirits as he talked with them about returning homein December and his future plans in the Army. Maybe hed be a helicopter pilot or jointhe Green Berets.

About 11:30 p.m. Monday, Army officials knocked on the door at the Hickmans

northeast Greensboro home and told David Eugene Hickman and his wife, Veronica,that their son had been killed that morning, Veronica Hickman said.

On Tuesday evening, the elder Hickman said he didnt have all the details, but it seemsthat an improvised explosive device struck his sons convoy. The soldier was transportedto an Army hospital but later died.


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In the back room of their home, Veronica Hickman flipped through dozens of instantPolaroids and other photos of her son as her husband spoke to an Army staff memberover the phone.

Some pictures showed him playing with a cousin and his brother, 21-year-old Devon.She used to dress them alike.

The next: young David and Devon in their white Taekwondo uniforms.

Another: young David smiling in a pin-striped, double-breasted suit next to an Easterbasket.

Then, young David and three boys dressed in Army fatigues.

He and his friends used to always play like they were in the war, she said.

The younger Hickman, an Army specialist stationed out of Fort Bragg, was a goodstudent and star athlete at Northeast Guilford High School, where he played football and

ran track, his parents said. He also did Taekwondo and rock climbing, Veronica Hickmansaid.

David was always an adventurous person, she said. He was never afraid to try things.He always tried dangerous things. It would make me so mad.

He played football briefly at Ferrum College in Virginia before he was red-shirted, shesaid. Her son enlisted in the Army in 2009, going to basic training around Thanksgivingof that year. He deployed to Iraq around Memorial Day this year.

The elder Hickman said his son held an E-4 rank in the White Falcons, 2nd Battalion,325th Airborne Infantry Regiment.

He said he tried to persuade his son to be in the Air Force, like him, in air traffic control.

But he wanted to do the crazy stuff, the elder Hickman said. He wanted to be in theair, shooting and stuff.

He said he was proud that his son was doing something positive with his life.

The couple saw him for the last time via Skype on Oct. 30 his mothers 47th birthday.

He was in great shape. He was in a good mood, they said.

On Friday Veterans Day Veronica told her son and other veterans that she wasproud of their service.

I was telling him Good job.

His friends are planning a candlelight vigil Sunday evening, according to Facebook.


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Rocket Attack Hits U.S. Kalsu Base

Nov 14 (Reuters)

ISKANDARIYA - Seven rockets landed in or near the U.S. militarys Kalsu base near

Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, wounding two Iraqi civilians living nearthe base, a local police source said. U.S. military officials confirmed an attack but saidthere were no reports of casualties or damage.

Resistance Action

Nov 13 (Reuters) & Nov 14 (Reuters)

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb went off near a police patrol and wounded two policemanin Baghdads eastern Camp Sara district, an interior ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - Insurgents using silenced weapons opened fire at an Iraqi police patrol,wounding two policemen in Baghdads western Jamiaa district, a police source said.

BAGHDAD - A sticky bomb attached to a car carrying a government employee woundedhim in Baghdads eastern district of Zayouna, police said.

MOSUL - A soldier was killed when a mortar shell landed at an Iraqi army checkpoint innorthern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, a local police source said.

MOSUL - A bomb attached to a car exploded, wounding a prison guard officer, ineastern Mosul, a local police source said.

TIKRIT - A roadside bomb targeted an Iraqi army patrol, killing one officer and woundinga soldier north of Tikrit, 150 km (95 miles) north of Baghdad, a source at the policeoperations centre in Salahuddin province said.

TAJI - Two roadside bombs went off near the car of an Electricity Ministry official, killinghim and wounding seven others, including four policemen, in Taji, 20 km (12 miles) northof Baghdad, police and hospital sources said. The second bomb went off when policerushed to the scene.

FALLUJA - Insurgents using silenced weapons shot dead a police lieutenant colonelnear his house in central Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, late on Saturday, a

local police source said.

BAGHDAD - Insurgents on a motorcycle opened fire at an Iraqi army checkpoint, killingone soldier and wounding another in Baghdads northern Adhamiya district, late onSaturday, police and hospital sources said.


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AFGHANISTAN WAR REPORTS

Foreign Occupation Servicemember

Killed Somewhere Or Other InAfghanistan Sunday:

Nationality Not Announced

November 13, 2011 Reuters

A foreign servicemember died following an improvised explosive device attack insouthern Afghanistan Sunday.

Foreign Occupation ServicememberKilled Somewhere Or Other In

Afghanistan Wednesday:Nationality Not Announced


A foreign servicemember died following an improvised explosive device attack insouthern Afghanistan Wednesday.

Two More Foreign OccupationServicemembers Killed Somewhere Or

Other In Afghanistan Wednesday:Nationality Not Announced


A foreign servicemember died following an improvised explosive device attack insouthern Afghanistan Wednesday.

French Soldier Killed In Afghanistan


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November 14, 2011 AP

PARIS: A French soldier has died after French forces came under fire from insurgentswhile escorting a logistical convoy in Afghanistan.

President Nicolas Sarkozys office also said another French soldier was injured inMondays attack on the convoy led by the Afghan National Army in the Kapisa provinceeast of the capital, Kabul.

France has lost 76 soldiers in Afghanistan since 2001, including several in recentmonths.

Killed By A Taliban Bomb, The DevotedTeenage Mother Who Joined The Military

To Fund Her Dream Of Becoming ANurse

Private First Class Sarina Butcher, 19, of Checotah was assigned to the 700th BrigadeSupport Battalion, 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team based in Tulsa but was tragicallykilled in November


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Proud dad: Spc Christopher Gailey was the 13th Oklahoma National Guard soldier todie in Afghanistan in the last three months but while alive, was a proud and fantasticfather to his three-year-old daughter, Ally

7th November 2011 By Daniel Miller and Nina Golgowski, Daily Mail

A 19-year-old mother serving with the National Guard has been killed in Afghanistanafter the vehicle she was traveling in was hit by a Taliban roadside bomb.

Private First Class Sarina Butcher of the Oklahoma National Guard was off supportingher three-year-old daughter and career dreams when killed on Tuesday during aresupply mission in the countrys Paktia province.

A second soldier, Specialist Sergeant Christopher Gailey, 26, a father to a three-year-oldgirl, was also killed in the explosion.

The bodies of the two soldiers were flown back to Dover Air Force base, Delawareyesterday.

An aspiring nurse, Ms Butcher joined the national guard to help finance and pursue hercareer dreams while also helping to support her young daughter Zoey.

Her grandmother, Martha Wills, described her as a much-loved daughter, sister,granddaughter and mother.

My husband is so proud of her, actually we all are, Mrs Wills told Tulsa World of herhusband who was also in the military.

My son, hes so torn right now, she described the 19-year-olds father.

In her mere 18 months of service with the Guard, Ms Butcher stood decorated withseveral ribbons and awards.


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Posthumously she will be promoted to the rank of specialist.

She was very proud to be in the military, family friend Patty Brown told Tulsa World ofMs Butchers service as an automated logistical specialist after joining the Guard in Aprilof 2010.

She joined the military to follow in her grandfathers and brothers footsteps, Ms Brownsaid.

Close to Ms Butcher, Ms Brown said she took care of Zoey when her mother was awayfrom home.

She says the last time she spoke with her daughter was on Sunday, asking her how shewas doing after hearing news that her grandfather had died recently.

She was very thoughtful, someone you could always count on, Brown said.

Entering Jami Butchers life after marrying her brother Timmy after a first date where she

pushed him in a wheelchair through a local mall, she said, she always said she didntwant to be forgotten, to the Tulsa World, before reminiscing on her strong Southernaccent shell miss.

It wasnt forgotten, it was forgot ten. Her little accent, she recalled of her former sister-in-law.

I just loved it. Grew on you real hard, her former father-in-law added.

Her daughter has since gone to Arkansas to be with her grandmother which is where MsButcher will be buried.

Fourth District U.S. Representative Mike Ross, D-Ar., on hearing Ms Butchers deathremarked, Another American hero was tragically taken from us in the line of duty.Private First Class Sarina Butcher was a mother, daughter, and a brave and dedicatedsoldier who put her life on the line in service to her country. We will be forever gratefulfor her selfless sacrifice, he said.

Ms Butcher is the first female Oklahoma National Guard soldier to be killed duringwartime and is also the youngest Oklahoma citizen-soldier to die in combat in Iraq orAfghanistan, according to a release.

My thoughts and prayers are with her mother, father, daughter and the rest of her familyand friends during this very difficult time, Mr Ross adds.

As we approach Veterans Day, we must remember the sacrifices our troops make everyday in service to this great country and thank them for what they do.

Maj. Gen. Myles L. Deering, the adjutant general for Oklahoma on both soldiers deathremarked on both of the soldiers deaths saying, The Oklahoma National Guard family isdeeply saddened by the loss of these two outstanding Citizen-Soldiers. Theircommitment and willingness to serve our nation during a time of war is indicative of theirtremendous character and courage.


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The second soldier, Specialist Sergeant Gailey, was also a young parent to a three-year-old, named Ally.

He was one of the best guys around, family friend Heather Fugate told Tulsa World onMr Gailey.

He would do anything for you. Thats the kind of guy he was, she added.

But he was especially a proud father to Ally.

He was a fantastic father. He loved his little girl, Ms Fugate said, while also noting hisfondness for the outdoors.

Home and off duty, you wouldnt find him off his feet.

He loved to be outside riding four-wheelers and mudding with his friends, she said.

Mr Gailey was the 13th Oklahoma National Guard soldier to die in Afghanistan injust the last three months, according to News On 6.

A family friend told the station that his parents are flying to Maryland where they willmeet his body when its returned to the United States.

Both soldiers were assigned to 700th Brigade Support Battalion, 45th Infantry BrigadeCombat Team of the Oklahoma National Guard.

POLITICIANS CANT BE COUNTED ON TO HALT

THE BLOODSHED

THE TROOPS HAVE THE POWER TO STOP THEWARS

Resistance ActionDonkey Bomb Kills Two In Afghanistan

11.16.11 Gulf-Times

A bomb strapped to a donkey blew up in northern Afghanistan yesterday, killing apoliceman.

The bomb went off in a market in Ghormach district, Faryab province. Although donkeybombs are rare in Afghanistan, they are occasionally used by insurgents as a way ofgetting close to targets.


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Oops:The Enemy Cannot Capture Me. I Am In

A Safe Place

11.14.11 By Sardar Ahmad, AFP

Interior ministry spokesman Sediqqi told journalists that a man believed to be one of theTalibans main media spokesmen, Zabiullah Mujahid, had been captured in southeastAfghanistan Monday.

However, ISAF spokesman Sergeant Christopher DeWitt cited the deputy governor ofPaktika province as saying that while the individual captured had the same surname asthe spokesman, it was not the same person.

An individual identifying himself as Mujahid and using his regular telephone number toldAFP he had not been detained.

The enemy cannot capture me. I am in a safe place, he added.

Obama Regime Successful InPlanting U.S. Model Of Government

In Afghanistan!Some 78% Agreed With The Statement,

I Dont Think The Government CaresMuch About What People Like Me

Think

November 15, 2011 By: Margaret Warner, PBS [Excerpts]

In the American coverage of the Afghan war -- firefights, bombings, political wranglingand U.S. casualties -- the sentiments of ordinary Afghans often get lost.

But once again this year, The Asia Foundation is offering an exhaustive survey ofAfghan public opinion, with more than 6,000 face-to-face interviews throughout the strife-torn country. Like measuring the progress of the war itself, the numbers offer somecause for optimism -- but also equal cause for concern and plentiful contradictions.


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Some 78 percent agreed with the statement, I dont think the government cares muchabout what people like me think.

THIS ENVIRONMENT IS HAZARDOUS TO YOUR

HEALTH;ALL HOME, NOW

A U.S. soldier top on a military vehicle control the scene where a bomber was shot todead in Kabul, Afghanistan, Nov. 14, 2011. Afghan security forces shot dead a would-be bomber outside the venue for a meeting of regional leaders and tribal powerbrokersstarting in Kabul later this week, the interior ministry said. The man was carrying a bombin a box, and was near the entrance to the site where the meeting will be held. (APPhoto/Musadeq Sadeq)

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MILITARY NEWS

THIS IS HOW OBAMA BRINGS THEM HOME:ALL HOME NOW, ALIVE

The remains of Army Pfc. Cody R. Norris of Houston, upon arrival at Dover Air ForceBase, Del. Nov. 12, 2011. Norris was killed by small arms fire in Afghanistan. (APPhoto/Jose Luis Magana)...

From Scott Olson

13 November 11 Scott Olsen, at Reader Supported News

Im feeling a lot better, with a long road in front of me.

After my freedom of speech was quite literally taken from me, my speech is coming backbut Ive got a lot of work to do with rehab.

Thank you for all your support, it has meant the world to me.

Youll be hearing more from me in the near future and soon enough well see you in ourstreets!


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Investigation Of TwistedNational Guard Commander

Finds Members Of HisCommand Lived In Abject Fear

I Would Rather Have A RootCanal Without Anesthesia Than

Have To Deal With Him

Soldiers Sworn Statements Paint AVivid Picture Of A Man Who ShoutedObscenities At Them, Threw ObjectsAt Them In Anger, Or Was Prone To

Kicking Them Under The TableDuring Briefings

He Ordered Two Field-Grade Officers ToDo His Laundry Or Pick It Up

November 21, 2011 By Joe Gould, Army Times [Excerpts]

An investigation into the command climate of 67th Battlefield Surveillance Brigadeblasted the former commander as a bullying leader whose command triggered at leasttwo congressional inquiries.

Nebraska National Guard Col. Philip Stemple, the brigade commander in Iraq until he

was relieved in April, would publicly belittle, berate or disrespect fellow soldiers,according to an Army 15-6 investigation obtained by Army Times.

He has since retired.

Stemple created an overall environment of anxiety and degradation in which opencommunication and professional discussion were nearly impossible and members of his


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command lived in abject fear, the investigator, Maj. Gen. William Garrett, chief of staff ofU.S. Forces-Iraq, said in his report.

Stemples brigade deployed to Iraq with 750 people in August 2010. The unit includedtwo military intelligence battalions and provided intelligence support to three divisionsspread throughout Iraq.

The Army released a copy of the investigative file in response to a Freedom ofInformation Act request. The 510-page file includes sworn statements from 74 membersof the unit, 58 who blamed the units negative environment on Stemple. Their namesand several sections of classified material were redacted.

I would rather have a root canal without anesthesia than have to deal with him, saidStemples assistant, a female sergeant.

When reached by Army Times, Stemple, a 28-year career guardsman, declined tocomment. He denied wrongdoing in his own sworn statement to Garrett. He said hewas oblivious to his units negative climate and stunned by his subordinates

allegations.

Stemple told Garrett, This is the worst day of my career. These are revelations I never,in my worst imagination, thought would be said about my command and my leadership,he said, adding later: I was in a false reality about how my people were perceiving meand therefore interacting with me.

Stemples soldiers sworn statements paint a vivid picture of a man who from day to day,shouted obscenities at them, threw objects at them in anger, or was prone to kickingthem under the table during briefings.

Subordinates also accused him of bigotry, sexism and rudeness.

Garrett found that Stemple had subordinates perform personal tasks for him, againstmilitary regulations.

According to the report, Stemple had his administrative assistant pay his personal billsand make travel arrangements for Stemples family.

He ordered two field-grade officers to do his laundry or pick it up.

The brigade judge advocate said Stemple smoked two to three cigars each day, oftenindoors, and helped himself to more than 100 of the lawyers cigars at a cost of $8 to$15 each.

There are times Ive offered, but its so gone past that now that its just he comes in,the lawyer stated. Its my humidor is his humidor.

Fond of calling his soldiers fatty, chubby, baldy, or tubby, Stemple had his drivers trackthe number of desserts eaten by his command sergeant major and put the results on aslide in a staff briefing.


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He had drivers for three months go through my trash can to see what I ate and thendisplayed that publicly to everyone in the staff, said the noncommissioned officer in hissworn statement.

And he thought it was hilarious.

The brigade intelligence officer said when he corrected Stemple in a staff meeting,Stemple shouted, I am so fucking mad, I want to punch you in the face! The officersaid Stemple later apologized.

More disturbingly, the investigation found that Stemple openly made disparagingremarks based on race, religion and gender charges Stemple denied in hissworn statement to Garrett.

Stemple reportedly implied to subordinates that a black colonel on the USF-I staff waspromoted due to his race and that a black general would do well under PresidentObama.

On numerous occasions Stemple allegedly referred to the 141st Military IntelligenceBattalion, a Utah National Guard unit, saying Those Mormons are not to be trusted.

Stemples alleged prejudice against women was such com-mon knowledge it yielded anoffice joke that he was, allergic to the female anatomy, according to the report.

Stemple reportedly said a sustainment brigade was fucked up because it was led bywomen; he barred women from serving as his driver or his doctor; and he reportedly saidhe did not want a woman to sing the national anthem at the units going-away ceremony.

The lone woman on Stemples staff said he had never let her complete a brief to him.His female physician assistant said she told him, he would never, never, never see a

female doctor.

The first major problems surfaced just prior to the units deployment.

Stemple knew as early as March that USF-I had cut the number of deployingsoldiers from about 996 to 752, but ordered his staff to withhold the informationfrom subordinate commanders, the report stated.

As a result, more than 200 troops did not learn until a week before the scheduledsendoff that they would not be going.

By then, the unit had already been at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., for a month.

The brigade personnel strength manager said that unit had to find new homes for75 soldiers who had been uprooted. A lot of soldiers were affected financiallyand mentally by this reduction of forces with no plan set in place, the officer said.

Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., launched a congressional inquiry into the snafu.

Stemple described for Garrett a series of conflicting orders and said he was not told byhis higher headquarters to make the cuts until just before he announced it.


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Another controversy was that Stemple denied interrogators in the brigadepermission to strip their uniforms of identifying patches when conductinginterviews, a common practice for intelligence soldiers.

Subordinates said Stemple sat on requests for exceptions from his soldiers. This

sparked fears among interrogators that subjects with insurgent ties might identify themand target their families in the U.S.

The controversy ultimately triggered another congressional inquiry.

Stemple, in response to the inquiry, said his stance was consistent with policy inplace since 2009 and claimed he never received the requests which Garrett, inhis report, concluded was just short of a lie.

I find these responses were not outright lies, but I do find them to be intentionalmisrepresentations of the facts, Garrett wrote. On Nov. 10, 2010, Stemple held ameeting with the heads of the 325th Military Intelligence Battalion to explain why the

uniform guidance of higher commands was improper or did not apply to unit members.

Stemples subordinates said at the end of the brief that he gave them anultimatum. He looked each commander, first sergeant and command sergeantmajor in the eye and asked whether they would support the uniform policy orprefer to resign a charge Stemple denied.

The result of the seminar was that my command team believed (Stemple) wouldrelieve anyone who questioned his policy, the battalion commander said in hisstatement.

Stemple also made waves when he insisted soldiers wear the combat patch of 67th

BfSB and intimidating them if they did not.

This was a break with Army policy, which permits soldiers to wear the previously earnedcombat patch of their choice.

In one incident, Stemple pulled off a captains 101st patch in front of a group andreplaced it with the patch of the 67th BfSB, the report stated.

Another soldier said Stemple got into his personal space over an 82nd Airborne patch hewas wearing.

He stated, Let me put it to you like this: You live in a house with your current girlfriend

yet you keep a picture of your ex-girl-friend on the shelf, the soldier quoted Stemple assaying. Probably not going to make the current girlfriend happy.

In his interview with Garrett, Stemple said, To be honest with you, sir, thats one thing Iwould definitely, amongst many things now that I am hearing, that is one thing I wouldback off of.


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Dover:Officials At The Office Of Special

Counsel Urged The Air ForceMultiple Times To Tell The Families,And Claim That Air Force Officials

Expressed Concerns That TheInformation Might Leak Out To The

Media

In Other Words, They Were MoreWorried About How The Scandal WouldLook Than About Doing The Right Thing

By The People Involved

November 21, 2011 Editorial, Army Times [Excerpts]

Revelations that the remains of fallen service members were mishandled at the military

mortuary at Dover Air Force Base, Del., are startling enough.

That top Air Force leaders chose to withhold what happened from surviving families formore than a year makes everything even worse.

Air Force Secretary Michael Donley and Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz chose tohold back on telling the affected families until all investigations were complete.

Our judgment was that it was in the better interest of the fami-lies to have the definitiveposition on this, Schwartz said.

But the fact is that the Air Force, rather than the families, had the most to gain bywaiting.

Doing so gave the Air Force more control over how and when the story broke.

Over at the Office of Special Counsel, the federal agency that protects governmentwhistle-blowers such as the civilian mortuary workers who brought this case to light, theview was different.


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Officials there urged the Air Force multiple times to tell the families, and claim thatAir Force officials expressed concerns that the information might leak out to themedia.

In other words, they were more worried about how the scandal would look than aboutdoing the right thing by the people involved.

And thats wrong.

Once Schwartz and Donley knew they had a problem, they had an obligation to informthe families about what happened without delay.

In doing so, it would have been perfectly appropriate to also tell them that aninvestigation was still ongoing and a solution was still being sought.

Delaying ultimately added to the pain and anguish of the families, sucking them backinto emotional turmoil just as they were probably starting to heal from their loss.

Moreover, their inaction undermines the confidence of grieving families that the remainsof their loved ones who have fallen in the war zones were handled properly.

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FORWARD OBSERVATIONS

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Oh hadI the ability, and could reach the nations ear, I would, pour out a fiery stream ofbiting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke.

For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder.

We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom theyoppose.

Frederick Douglass, 1852

I say that when troops cannot be counted on to follow orders because they seethe futility and immorality of them THAT is the real key to ending a war.

-- Al Jaccoma, Veterans For Peace

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Unity And Self-Awareness AmongBase Projects, The GI Movement

Displayed Increasing Strength AndPolitical Sophistication

From: SOLDIERS IN REVOLT: DAVID CORTRIGHT, Anchor Press/Doubleday, GardenCity, New York, 1975. Now available in paperback from Haymarket Books. [Excerpts]

Most major organizations experienced an occasional lull because of cadreturnover, repression, etc., but in nearly every instance new activists rose tosustain the struggle -- as I found in my own experience at Fort Bliss.

When I arrived in Texas, in July 1970, GIs for Peace was in a state of disarray, with thechairman and most of the active members discharged and no activities scheduled.

Meetings soon began, however, and within a few months a GI coffeehouse had been setup in downtown EI Paso, Gigline was again circulating, and the core membership hadincreased to twenty-five soldiers.

On October 31, a major peace rally was held at the local University of Texas campus,with over four hundred GIs joining several hundred civilians to hear featured speakerRennie Davis.

Several months later, on March 21, 1971; GIs for Peace engaged in another successfulaction, this time countering a pro-war Honor POW Day held in EI Paso.


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The POW Day sponsors (among them several officers at Fort Bliss) had expected acrowd of fifteen thousand people to kick off a massive tell it to Hanoi campaign.

Because of the vigorous publicity and educational drive mounted by local peace forces,however, only a few hundred people actually showed -- including approximately onehundred GIs for Peace members who had come to distribute anti-war literature.

An increasingly important element in sustaining, political activity at Fort Lewis,Fort Bliss, and elsewhere was, the growth of civilian support.

One result of this support was an increase in the number of civilians workingdirectly with soldiers at the local level.

Recently discharged GIs, and in some cases outside civilian radicals, formed collectivesand, often with the aid of USSF (United States Servicemens Fund), provided legalcounseling and other services to active-duty organizers.

A number of observers, most notably Fred Gardner, have been highly critical of

such arrangements, claiming that civilians often exploit GIs for sectarian politicalpurposes and stifle spontaneous dissent.

To a certain degree the criticism is valid, but it is also true that civilian workersimpart needed stability and legal expertise to GI projects.

Indeed, in some cases their presence sparked substantial political activity amongservicemen.

At Fort Ord, for example, a civilian collective in March 1971 started a new base paper,P.O.W.; within a few months, a new GI group emerged, the United Soldiers Union.

Similarly; civilians helped establish an important new organizing center and coffeehousenear Fort Campbell, in Clarksville, Tennessee. The center, known as the PeoplesHouse, was immediately successful, attracting over two hundred soldiers in its first sixweeks and publishing the newspaper Peoples Press.

The groups first major action occurred on April 10, when approximately three hundredpeople, many of them active-duty, demonstrated at the ClarksvilIe federal buildingagainst the jailing of Lieutenant William Calley.

The protesters demanded that the leaders responsible for the war, not low-rankingservicemen, be tried as war criminals.

With the growth of civilian support and a consequent greater degree of unity andself-awareness among base projects, the GI movement displayed increasingstrength and political sophistication.

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The Disorderly Unraveling OfWenzhous Financial-Industrial

Model. In Wenzhou, You SeeThe Temperature Of China

Captains Of Local Industry HaveFled From Debts, Sometimes

Escaping Loan Sharks By Taking

Their Own LivesHuang Weijian Repeatedly Cites

Panic To Describe How In RecentMonths His Fellow Wenzhou

Moneylenders Decided Cash WasSafest In Their Own Pockets:

Financing Networks That Took ThePlace Of Banks In Wenzhou And Fueled

Its Binge Are Collapsing

NOVEMBER 15, 2011 By JAMES T. AREDDY, Wall Street Journal [Excerpts] Yang Jiecontributed to this article.

WENZHOU, ChinaThe mystique of Wenzhouthe birthplace of Chinas private sector,where entrepreneurs have splurged on Bentleys and helicoptersis cracking.

This seaside city spearheaded Chinese manufacturing, building export industries aroundcigarette lighters, buttons and shoes, and transforming itself into a seedbed ofinvestment capital.

Its nouveaux riches captivated the rest of China with their special brand of unapologeticconsumption, whether they were buying Shanghai apartments, Shanxi coal mines orFrench wine.


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Now, the trust-based financing networks that took the place of banks in Wenzhou andfueled its binge are collapsing in the face of slowing exports, a trend made worse byEuropes economic woes.

Property prices are down. Captains of local industry have fled from debts, sometimes

escaping loan sharks by taking their own lives, local authorities say.

Add to that strikes, heavy-handed policing, food scares and grisly score settlingfor anannus horribilis in the Zhejiang province city of 9.1 million. Images of a bullet-traincarriage dangling from a Wenzhou viaduct after a July railway collision seemed toillustrate the citys bad luck.

Its stumbling local economy has much of China fretting whether trouble for Wenzhousfamously nimble manufacturers heralds broader danger.

In Wenzhou, you see the temperature of China, says Geng Xiao, director of researchat Fung Global Institute, a Hong Kong think tank.

This is the capital city of Chinas private enterprises.

Anxiety is mounting that Wenzhous troubles are a bad omen beyond the hills that ring it.

Ruthless price competition from factories in places like Wenzhou helped China becomethe No. 1 merchandise-exporting nation.

But this years disorderly unraveling of Wenzhous financial-industrial model marks aninauspicious finale to Chinas first decade as a member of the World Trade Organization.

After Wenzhou granted the countrys first private business license in 1980 to a woman

whose store was a tabletop it built factories that churned out cheap stuff that could beshipped easily.

Wenzhou is defined by one-industry clusters that make only buttons or zippers. Andunlike Dongguan in Guangdong, Kunshan in Jiangsu and other Chinese industrialboomtowns, Wenzhou never depended on foreign investmentor support from Chinasbanks.

The citys tight-knit diasporas trade throughout China. Two million Wenzhounese areestimated to live abroad, with footholds in Italys fashion industry and the Africa tradethrough Dubai.

The worry now centers on how Wenzhou wealth capitalized a nonbank financingsystem where relationships matter more than collateral.

Traditionally a system for channeling friends-and-family money, the shadow financialsystem has ballooned.

IHS Global Insight analysts estimate Wenzhounese control capital of 800 billionyuan (about $126 billion), or 2% of Chinas 2010 gross domestic product.


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Its a process of building a pyramid on top of these entrepreneurs, says GraemeJohanson, a Monash University professor in Melbourne.

From an oversize chair trimmed in snakeskin, Huang Weijian repeatedly cites panic todescribe how in recent months his fellow Wenzhou moneylenders decided cash wassafest in their own pockets.

Past global downturns never seemed to weigh heavily on China, explained Mr. Huang,president of Wenzhou Financial Harbor Development Co., for instance when cash brieflygot tight in 2008 before authorities released waves of credit to sidestep global recession.

This year it was like a fire in your backyard, he said.

During last months National Day celebrations, Premier Wen Jiabao spent twodays with central-bank Gov. Zhou Xiaochuan touring factories around Wenzhouand pledging support for smaller businesses.

The ominous subtext: Mr. Wen marks most holidays with mercy missions to

disaster zones.

Financial strain is serious at Chinese factories, says Merle A. Hinrichs, chairman ofHong Kong trade-services firm Global Sources, and Wenzhous high-risk businessstrategies make it particularly vulnerable in an economic downturn.

Numerous Wenzhou factories appear recently abandoned, including JiadianShoes Co., where witnesses said police clashed last month with unpaid workersafter the indebted owner fled.

A factory owner surnamed Wang says Wenzhous niche is cheap products, like hisnewest $4 item: a Steve Jobs lighter-combination-USB drive. Citing news about the

collapsed empire of an eyewear tycoon who got indebted expanding into solar power,Mr. Wang scoffs, What does he know about high-tech?

The moneylender, Mr. Huang, assures financing remains available in Wenzhou, as heleads a reporter through crowded offices designed like a Chinese tea house where hesays borrowers from as far as Korea seek cash.

He takes a moment to sign a contract granting $1.25 million to a local businessman to lethim pay off one bank loan before a new one kicks in.

It is a two-day bridge loan offered for a fee that is the equivalent of an annualizedinterest rate of 36.5%.

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