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"Neither is it that US foreign policy is cruel because American leaders are cruel. It's that our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment; it might as well be written into the job description. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers - (let alone American soldiers - do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to." From 'Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower' by William Blum

From "9-11, Six Years Later": "If one looks at the credentials of skeptics compared to the credentials of defenders of the official line, it is impossible to dismiss skeptics as kooks. There are many people with strong imaginations on the Internet, but serious skeptics stick to known facts, known violations of standard procedures and the laws of physics. The vast majority of the people who call skeptics "kooks" are themselves ignorant of physics and have little comprehension of the improbability that such an attack could succeed without either the complicity or complete failure of government agencies. " Paul Craig Roberts

"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular? But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Rob Wipond: Journalism, Commentary, Satire

by Rob Wipond in BC Politics, Civil Rights, Health, Seniors

With 70% of South Island residential homes rated medium or high risk, will the Ombudsperson’s report, new regulations from government, and more frequent inspections be enough to prevent the deepening crisis in seniors’ care?

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Released a week before Christmas, the BC Ombudsperson’s first of two reports on the care of seniors made a brief splash in the media before drowning under the deluge of feel-good holiday fare. That was unfortunate, because Ombudsperson Kim Carter’s report, entitled The Best of Care: Getting it Right for Seniors in British Columbia (Part 1), discusses three key issues and reveals fundamental problems in seniors care and the provincial government’s reticence to address those problems.

In previous Focus articles (see “Who Has the Right to Control Your Life?” January 2009 and “Surviving the Borg,” March 2009), it became clear that seniors could far too easily and unscientifically be declared “incapable,” “incompetent” or “mentally ill” under BC’s archaic and draconian Patients Property Act or Mental Health Act, and instantly lose all of their rights. This opened the door to a variety of ills, including medical maltreatment, abuse from staff or family members, and care homes being unresponsive to complaints. Basically, as long as seniors’ rights weren’t strong, not much institutional will or political pressure to address their concerns could be generated. ….

Rob Wipond: Journalism, Commentary, Satire.

March 9th, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment |

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