Boehner, Cantor, Ryan, GOP : On Healthcare U.S. vs Guatemala vs Kristof @NickKristof

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You can link to RebelReporting here or excerpt at page bottom!

These are my opinions - this is what the GOP stands for

• They do not want your children to have coverage on your plan.

• They do not want you to benefit being part of a group and thus qualify for an affordable plan.

• They do not want you to be make choices about medical procedures.

• They do want to mandate certain medical procedures in case you chose something they don't like - ultrasound, vaginal inspections.

• They do want to make certain that certain medical options for procedures do not even exist.

• They do want you to be denied coverage for previously existing conditions.

• They do want you to be excluded retroactively from insurance coverage if they can find any omissions of conditions in you application history.

• They do want you to declare bankruptcy if you have an uninsured medical experience.

Put it in perspective and consider this actual experience -

Just click on the paragraph ... for "the rest of the story."

They said I would die without surgery. Three ultrasounds, two external and one internal, revealed that I was bleeding internally. The doctors weren’t certain what the problem was so they wanted to conduct exploratory surgery. If I didn’t do something soon they feared I would become septic, but I hadn’t purchased travel insurance and I was in a public hospital in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala riddled with anxiety about the bill I assumed I already racked up.  

Cristalyne Bell, March 2013

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Guilt Verdict Today 5/10 @4pm?? - Genocide - Guatemala - Trial of the Century : Latino Marathon of Shame - Montt

Way back when 1983 ... the Reagan Genocide??

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5/13/2013

RIOS MONTT CONVICTED OF GENOCIDE AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY: THE SENTENCE AND ITS AFTERMATH

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A .pdf you should see 2013.04.29

The Amnesty International Document link - the transcripts taken from witnesses begins 10 pages in!  You can read, if you have the stomach, about the descriptions of the murders of over 1700 people.

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Thirty-one years ago in a small Central American country a military leader took over from a civilian government in a coup.  Regardless of the event the prior government, the new military control and the next government - none would really be legitimate in the context "democracy".

This individual and his cohort was just willing to do some more horrible things to select groups in Guatemala than his predecessors or his successors.

Violence has long been the mutual means of dealing with conflicting interests.  This still seems to be the case today.

Why do I say the "Trial of the Century"?  Perhaps because there has been a peaceful and enduring attempt by so many groups in the world to bring accountability to the "Genocide and Massacres" that happened in 1982-1983.

The "press" focus seems to be on whether the trial will go on or be preempted on a convenient pretext.

The "focus" should be on "genocide and massacre".  Another century of the latter may be the result if our focus is lost.  If the result is instead accountability and a complete trial then something significant has really happened.

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Examples of Atrocity - can you believe it?  Are you aware of it?  What can you do about this?

Canil hid behind a tree trunk and peeked out once he heard no more gunfire. He says he saw that his mother had been struck in the face by a bullet. She had fallen with his eight-month-old sister in her arms. He watched from his hiding place as a soldier came, picked up the crying baby and cut her open with his knife.

The above appears in The Christian Science Monitor published online 2013.04.21.  This is how the article is titled -

Guatemalan who helped build genocide case against ex-dictator was survivor, too

Legal advisor Edwin Canil helped find witnesses to testify in the landmark case against former dictator Ríos Montt. Canil escaped a massacre during Ríos Montt's reign.

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The New Yorker

THE MAYA GENOCIDE TRIAL

... Beginning in July, 1982, the Army descended on the Ixil region, indiscriminately burning houses, murdering men, women, and children, destroying fields, and killing livestock. Refugees who fled into the mountains were bombed and strafed by helicopters and planes. In the end, between seventy and ninety per cent of the Ixil villages were destroyed. Ríos Montt and Rodríguez Sánchez are specifically charged with fifteen massacres in which eleven hundred and seventy-one Ixils were killed and twenty-nine thousand Ixils forcibly displaced. There are also rape and torture charges. ...

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2013-05-02. Tahoe’s San Rafael Mine Conflict leads to State of Siege.

I am living in the wrong city. Wish I was in Guate. Indigenous occupying Congress of Guatemala demanding an end to the siege that began after a protest against a Canadian mining company last week. Check out @xeni on Twitter for more info: “They haven’t captured a single narco. They have only captured peaceful protesters against exploitation of our earth.” Here are some image from last week as well. My friend said they are the same images that were seen during the war:http://www.mimundo.org/2013/05/03/2013-05-02-tahoes-san-rafael-mine-conflict-leads-to-state-of-siege/   .... Cristalyne Bell, 2013.05.07

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5/13/2013 PBS

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5/10 Guilty - Guatemala - Latino America - Marathon of Foreign Policy Shame

I should begin by saying that as a child (probably 7th or 8th grade) I wondered why as a democracy the USA supported all these dictators and seemingly brutal governments in Latin and South America.  As a child my attention span was developing but there were many competing interests.  As an emerging adult I again have to say that my attention was largely diverted by the War in Vietnam and events here in Madison.

Again and again the documentation seems to suggest that intentional or unintentional acts and policies pursued by the USA has not had a "democratizing" or even benign impact on Latin and South America.  I have included what is publicly available but in all cases been able myself to see each video/film completely.

Much of what has awakened me has come in visual form.  I thought I would share the experience.  It will take you some time.  The experience is living and growing.  Marathons go on and on ... or so it seems.  This is just the start.


El Salvador - Guatemala : Water/Mining Life Conflicts

“The Ixil people of Nebaj, Chajul, Cotzal are here to stand in solidarity with those under State of Siege.” twitter.com/xeni/status/33…
— Xeni Jardin (@xeni) May 7, 2013

La Mesa Anti-mining Demonstration (link to RebelReporting.com blog, original production for WORT 89.9 Madison, Wisconsin, 3/3/2013)

Guatemala

April 17, 2013

Radio comunitaria snuq jolom konob.mpg

Daniel Pedro Mateo and his wife.

© Photo courtesy of Lisa Maya Knauer

culturalsurvival.org : Breaking News: Community Leader Daniel Pedro Mateo Kidnapped and Murdered in Guatemala

Last night, April 16th, the body of Qanjob’al community activist Daniel Pedro Mateo was found murdered in Santa Eulalia, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.   He had been kidnapped for 12 days and his body showed signs of torture.  

Daniel, a founder of the community radio station Snuq Jolom Konob, disappeared on Sunday, April 7^th  in the village of El Quetzal, Huehuetenango on his way to host a workshop on Indigenous rights in the community of Santa Cruz Barillas. His family was contacted by kidnappers and demanded a ransom of Q150,000 in return for his safety. Despite the efforts of his family and community to gather money to pay the ransom, Daniel’s body was found last night in his village of Santa Eulalia. ...

"Granito: How To Nail A Dictator" theatrical trailer from Skylight Pictures on Vimeo.

http://wi1848forward.blogspot.com/2012/04/granito-when-groups-are-premeditated-in.html

It was presented at Wisconsin Film Festival.

Prequel

Watch When the Mountains Tremble on PBS. See more from POV.

BackGround

Tales of Reagan’s Guatemala Genocide April 16, 2013

A Motion for Retrial

A Motion for Retrial from Skylight Pictures on Vimeo.

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Wikipedia: Operation Condor - Marathon of ?

Operation Condor

Moyers - Richard Wolff - Rampant Capitalism - PBS

4/14/13

This entry is for a friend.  What is wrong is "the system" not the person.  Hard to argue with.  The challenge is to have confidence in changing the system, not making it worse while causing enormous pain and upheaval and ending up where you started.

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You do not know what you are talking about unless you have acceptable and consistent concepts shared by those doing the talking.  The dictionary definition of capitalism (below) is about as concise as possible but is it acceptable?


Capitalism

:an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market ... as defined in Merriam-Webster.

Note that this definition does not include any reference to "political systems".  Nor does it mention "market systems" or "global or international markets".  But they all exist and are interconnected in myriad ways, interoperating in both positive and distasteful ways on humankind.

My own reflections on these complexities I find are a lot more like those of Richard Wolff than others I have heard.  But even in that not everything said is new or amazing but old observation on things understood by many for a long time.  I have also found that "behavioral economics" brings a lot to understanding that humankind is capable of great misunderstandings in processes and systems we create.  The challenge that we must accomplish - can we understand ourselves and adapt our "systems" in time to avoid convulsions.  Every violent collective action among ourselves is a risky failure, no matter the scale, be it local or larger in scale.

I do not think that big should automatically be equivalenced with efficient.  I do not think that allowing large "entities" to function via small groups charged with meeting short term objectives as the measure of success is wise at all -  but will almost always worsen humankind.  I do believe that "entities" need to have long term accountability built into their charter and those involved in following the charter have long term accountability for their actions.

Moyers and Company has produced another excellent program ... will we all realize it in time?

From the broadcast preamble of 2/22/2013

...Yet some aren’t just wringing their hands about our economic crisis; they’re fighting back. Economist Richard Wolff joins Bill to shine light on the disaster left behind in capitalism’s wake, and to discuss the fight for economic justice, including a fair minimum wage. A Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, and currently Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School, Wolff has written many books on the effects of rampant capitalism, including Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It.

Economist Richard Wolff on Capitalism Run Wild from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.

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Pridemore Grothman :Tool Time: Abused Wives Should Stick it Out?!

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