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Magnitude 3.5 – MAUI REGION, HAWAII
Magnitude 3.5
Date-Time

Monday, June 29, 2009 at 06:39:14 UTC
Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 08:39:14 PM at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location 20.843°N, 156.278°W
Depth 30 km 18.6 miles poorly constrained
Region MAUI REGION, HAWAII
Distances

4 km 3 miles ESE 107° from Makawao, HI
7 km 4 miles E 87° from Pukalani, HI
8 km 5 miles ESE 118° from Haliimaile, HI
20 km 12 miles ESE 102° from Kahului, HI
169 km 105 miles ESE 108° from Honolulu, HI

Location Uncertainty horizontal /- 1.6 km 1.0 miles; depth /- 31.6 km 19.6 miles
Parameters Nph= 40, Dmin=10 km, Rmss=0.13 sec, Gp=194°,
M-type=duration magnitude Md, Version=1
Source

U.S. Geological Survey, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
Hawaii National Park, Hawaii

Event ID hv00034448

Jesus' General: Health Care as Health Justice

Now that the government is looking seriously — or half-way seriously — at some sort of health care reform, maybe people will have their eyes opened about the state of health care and health insurance in America. Perhaps they will figure out just how bad the health care system has become and how extensively they have been exploited by the health insurance industry — not to mention the degree of complicity of the politicians who have been the paid servants of the insurance industry rather than the representatives of the people.

Our representative in the Senate. “We are he and he is us. Forever!” Or so the song goes. “Koo-koo-kee-doo!”

ZNet – Torture, Psych, & Inouye

A seventeen-year-old boy is locked in an interrogation cell in Guantanamo. He breaks down crying and says he wants his family. The interrogator senses the boy is psychologically vulnerable and consults with a psychologist. The psychologist has evaluated the boy prior to the questioning and says, “Tell him his family has forgotten him.” The psychologist also prescribes “linguistic isolation” (not letting him have contact with anyone who speaks his language.) The boy attempts suicide a few weeks later. On the eve of the boy’s trial, the psychologist apparently fearing her testimony will only further implicate her, indicates she will plead the Fifth Amendment if she is called to the stand. The trial is postponed, leaving the boy in further limbo.

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To explain APA’s behavior two questions have to be answered. First, how did the APA develop the connections with the military that fostered the shameful role it has played in torture? Second, why did the APA governance not join other health professions in prohibiting participation in the Bush Administration’s “enhanced interrogations,” as APA’s rank and file members were demanding?

The APA-military connection

One source of APA’s military connections is obvious to anyone who has worked at APA over the last twenty-five years. Strangely, it has been overlooked by the media. Since the early 1980’s, APA has had a unique relationship with Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye’s office. Inouye was an honored WWII veteran, a Japanese American who himself was a medical volunteer in the midst of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He entered office in 1962. For much of the ’70s, he was Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Later he became, and is currently, the chair of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, which, of course, makes up the largest chunk of federal discretionary spending and is why economists often split discretionary government funding into defense spending versus “everything else.” This appropriations committee covers not only all of the armed forces but the CIA as well. Put succinctly, Inouye controls the military purse strings, and is very influential with military brass.

More torture links:

Awaiting an End to Injustice: Rendition Victim’s Wife Speaks About Accountability and Torture

On Torture, From Someone Who Knows

The U.S. Must Honor Its International Commitment Against Torture

Tortured Logic: Judge Richard Leon Delivers Habeas Smackdown

The CIA IG Report on the Inefficacy of Torture
New Evidence: Top Psychologists Implicated In Torture

The G Spot: All class all the time
Here is a combination of words I never thought I’d read in the same sentence: “Pup” — that would be the late William F. Buckley — immediately followed by the phrase “would relieve himself through the opened door of a moving car.”

Daily Kos: Former Health Insurance Company Flack Tells All

Warren Buffett to CNBC: U.S. Economy In "Shambles" .. No Signs of Recovery Yet – Warren Buffett Watch – CNBC.com

In a live interview on CNBC underway now, Warren Buffett says there has been little progress over the past few months in the "economic war" being fought by the country. "We haven't got the economy moving yet."

While the economy is a "shambles" and likely to stay that way for some time, he remains optimistic there will eventually be a recovery over a period of years.