http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Silent Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:08:47 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Silent Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:47:06 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=111_1371641389 omniradar Sorry if any repost or doubles, I just feel Erdogan has managed to suppress a lot of news out of Turkey so I've went looking ! Hope itrotests fills the gap for some of us ! http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=111_1371641389 omniradar Turkish <span class="highlight">Silent</span> Protests from the last 24 hours Turkey, Protests Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:48:50 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dc9_1371606351 dcmfox 6/17/13 - Bill O'Reilly opened a segment of his show tonight by telling guest Juan Williams, "You've been pretty crazy lately." If O'Reilly was hoping Williams would be different tonight, those hopes were dashed, as Williams aggressively fought back against his astonishment that the head of the FBI could not recall in front of Congress who is heading up the investigation into the IRS for tea party targeting. Williams also had some choice words for Republicans jumping to conclusions without any evidence supporting them, saying it's just slander. RELATED: Juan Williams Goes Off The Rails Over NSA On O'Reilly: 'I Don't Want To Get Blown Up!' Williams told O'Reilly he believes that FBI director Robert Mueller legitimately had no idea who was leading the IRS investigation. He explained that both parties "think the world" of Mueller, and he's not going to risk tarnishing his legacy by trying to cover anything up for Obama. O'Reilly likened Mueller's denial to him saying "I don't know who's on The Factor tonight!" Williams rolled his eyes, shooting back that "The FBI's a massive organization!" O'Reilly and Williams got in a loud back-and-forth over this, with Williams saying Republicans jumping the gun and accusing the White House of having a direct connection without any evidence to support it is why Americans have such high contempt for Congress. Williams shouted, "How weak is that?" Panelist Mary Katherine Ham said Mueller may not necessarily have acted with malice, but his inability to recall who was leading the IRS investigation is an "investigation of how seriously they're taking the investigation." Ham added that it's politically advantageous for the Obama administration to be silent on all of this, and took a shot at Williams by telling him the whole point of an investigation is to ask questions. O'Reilly declared that someone needs to go to prison over this, while Ham continued hammering Williams and saying it's ridiculous to stay questioning should stop. Williams insisted that's not his argument, saying if they have evidence, they should show it, but they don't and they can't. He cited the IG investigation into the IRS targeting and the multitude of Benghazi investigations, telling O'Reilly that trust in Obama is so low, even young people are jumping ship at this point. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=dc9_1371606351 dcmfox O'Reilly Gets In Shouting Match With Juan Williams Over IRS: 'You've Been Pretty Bad&quot; o'reilly, irs, juan williams, Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:06:26 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=91b_1371574988 Ruptly A silent protest against police violence continued for a second day Tuesday in the Turkish capital, Istanbul. Performance artist Erdem Gunduz started the passive protest on Monday, standing still for eight hours facing the Ataturk Cultural Centre, in a silent vigil against police actions in removing protesters. He was joined Tuesday by hundreds of other protesters across Turkey and in Taksim Square, the scene of recent violent clashes between police and anti-government activists. Protester Metin Kalem said he is taking part to show his opposition to the latest violence by police against protesters, who are calling for more freedom and democracy. "We are protesting for more freedom, more democracy. We are demonstrating here for the unity of the people, nature and peace," he said. Anti-government protests have shown no sign of abating throughout Turkey, where many continue to show their opposition to the rule of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=91b_1371574988 Ruptly Turkey: Lone standing man sparks new type of protest on Taksim Square Turkey, Taksim, occupygezi, Erdogan, protest, direngezi, Istanbul, anti-government Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:38:28 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=46d_1371549190 kaanG A Turkish man has staged an eight-hour silent vigil on Istanbul's Taksim Square, scene of violent clashes between police and anti-government protesters in recent weeks, inspiring hundreds of others to follow his lead. &quot;Standing man&quot; said he wanted to take a stand against police stopping demonstrations near the square, DHA news agency reported. He stood silently, facing the Ataturk Cultural Centre which was draped in Turkish flags and a portrait of Ataturk, from 6 p.m. (4.00 p.m. British time) on Monday until 2.00 am on Tuesday. By 2 a.m. (12.00 a.m. British time), when the police moved in, about 300 people had joined him. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22949632 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=46d_1371549190 kaanG Standing man inspires <span class="highlight">silent</span> protests in Turkey. Police couldn't know how to behave turkey Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:11:07 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1c0_1371170436 Soulsolution what kind of dog do you think the smaller one is? he was a stray that we took in, and in the process of getting him fixed, the vet told us what she thought he was, I think she might be a little crazy http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1c0_1371170436 Soulsolution <span class="highlight">silent</span> dog play fight dog, dog fight, blessed are the cracked Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:11:58 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=629_1371550115 HumanRightsAlert The executive, legislative, and judicial branch keep silent regarding conduct of "Chief Clerk" Sarah Lifschitz of the Israeli Supreme court. The evidence shows that since 2002 Ms Lifschitz has occupied the office of the Chief Clerk of the Israeli Supreme Court with no lawful appointment record. In a matter of the highest public policy significance for all residents of the State of Israel, which casts a doubt regarding integrity of the entire court system over the past decade, Presiding Justice Asher Grunis refuses to respond so far. Presiding Justice Asher Grunis; "Chief Clerk" Sarah Lifschitz of the Supreme Court of the State of Israel Occupy Tel Aviv Encampment, June 18 - Joseph Zernik, PhD, of Human Rights Alert (NGO) has forwarded today to Presiding Justice Asher Grunis of the Israeli Supreme Court a repeat request for the appointment record of "Chief Clerk" Sarah Lifschitz. Previous attempts to ascertain that Ms Lifschitz hold a lawful appointment as "Chief Clerk" of the Supreme Court through requests for her appointment record from Ms Lifschitz herself, through a request addressed to the Knesset's Chair of the Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee, through the a request to the Administration of Courts, and through an Israel Police complaint have all remained unanswered. Ms Lifschitz has occupied the office of Chief Clerk of the Israeli Supreme Court since 2002, but the evidence shows that she was never lawfully appointed to such position. The office of Chief Clerk is critical for the safeguard of the integrity of court records, and integrity, or lack thereof, of the office of Chief Clerk of the Supreme Court affects the integrity of the entire court system. The office of Presiding Justice Asher Grunis expediently responded on previous correspondence. However, to this date, the office refuses to respond on a request for the appointment record of Ms Lifschitz. The Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission was incorporated in the Periodic Review Report (2013) of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations (2013) with a note "lack of integrity in the electronic records of the Supreme Court.... in Israel". The Human Rights Alert (NGO) submission documented the forgery of numerous decision records of the Israeli Supreme Court following the occupation of the office of Chief Clerk by Ms Lifschitz, and undermining of the integrity of the records of the Israeli Supreme Court in general. Unprecedented corruption of the Israeli courts over the past decade, under the tenure of Aharon Barak and Dorit Beinisch as Presiding Justice is central to the socio-economic crisis in Israel today. Joseph Zernik, PhD Human Rights Alert (NGO) LINKS: 13-06-18 Letter No 4 to Presiding Justice Asher Grunis of Israel Supreme Court - repeat request for the appointment record of "Chief Clerk" Sarah Lifschitz http://www.scribd.com/doc/148497236/ 13-06-09 Correspondence with Chair of Knesset's Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee: Lawful Chief Clerk of the Supreme Court, or lack thereof. http://www.scribd.com/doc/146705778/ 12-04-16 Criminal fraud complaint (158921/2012) against SARAH LIFSCHITZ of the Supreme Court of the State of Israel, filed with Israel Police, with certificate of complaint by the Fraud Division of the Jerusalem Police. http://www.scribd.com/doc/89517688/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=629_1371550115 HumanRightsAlert Presiding Justice Asher Grunis of Israel Supreme Court is again asked for the appointment record of &quot;Chief Clerk&quot; Sarah Lifschitz Corruption, Israel, Supreme Court, Presiding Justice Asher Grunis, &quot;Chief Clerk&quot; Sarah Lifschitz, Occupy Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:23:59 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1c1_1371474108 KingSize0 Allegiances are proving costly for Islamic militant group Hezbollah as the war in Syria deepens the sectarian divide in the Middle East . Days after the town of al-Qusair fell to President Bashar al-Assad's forces this month with help from Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah, the group was shunned by the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council. The oil-rich, mainly Sunni GCC labeled it a terrorist group and threatened unprecedented measures against its loyalists and their financial transactions. The U.S. said last week it will help arm the Syrian opposition. Hezbollah's involvement in Syria has led to greater polarization between Islam's two main sects, said Salman Shaikh, director of the Brookings Institution's Doha Center in Qatar. Without the group, it "would have been more of an inter-Syrian fight rather than being a sectarian one," he said. The result is a watershed in the 31-year history of Hezbollah, which seeks to portray itself as an anti- Israel resistance group and a champion of the downtrodden and oppressed, irrespective of their brand of Islam. Its fighters are also likely to get mired further in Syria's civil war to protect its central conduit of weapons and prevent the well-armed rebels from strengthening Sunni militias in Lebanon, said Torbjorn Soltvedt, senior analyst at Maplecroft, a U.K.-based risk consultant. Sunni Militias "Combined with significant pressure from Iran , these factors are likely to lead to even stronger involvement by Hezbollah in the Syrian conflict despite the hostile GCC stands," he said. Most of the rebels fighting Assad are Sunni Muslims while the president belongs to the minority Alawite sect, an off-shoot of Shiite Islam. The split resulted from a dispute over succession following Prophet Muhammad's death in 632. Hezbollah's open alignment with the Syrian regime has triggered an escalation in the Sunni rhetoric, including from Saudi Arabia 's top cleric. Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul-Aziz Al al-Sheikh called Hezbollah a "loathsome, sectarian" group in a statement carried June 6 by the official Saudi Press Agency. He also endorsed Egyptian-born cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi's call on Sunni Muslims from his base in Qatar to fight a holy war in Syria. Saudi Arabia's stock market, the Arab world's biggest, dropped the most in almost two years on June 15 after King Abdullah interrupted his vacation in Morocco because of what the official Saudi Press Agency said were "escalating concerns relating to events in the region." 'Arm Us!' Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi, who hails from the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood, on June 15 suspended diplomatic relations with Assad. Egyptians stood by Lebanon and Hezbollah against Israel in 2006, and "today we stand against Hezbollah for their crimes in Syria," Mursi told a stadium packed with his supporters. Khaled Al-Qazza, Mursi's secretary for foreign affairs, last week said Egyptians were free to make up their minds about going to Syria. More fighters may make their way to Syria after Mohammad Al-Areefi, an influential Saudi scholar whose comments are often cited, gave a sermon in a Cairo mosque on June 14 urging Sunnis to take up arms against Assad and Hezbollah. Scores of worshipers jumped to their feet after his comments, also broadcast on Egyptian television, and erupted into chants of "Arm us, arm us, to Syria, to Syria!" Lebanon Spillover The tension has also led to a rise in violence in Lebanon, where Shiites, Sunnis and Christians each make up roughly a third of the population of 4.3 million people. Groups clashed in the northern city of Tripoli, most recently this month, and rockets launched from Syria fell on Shiite areas in Lebanon. Lebanon's army leadership urged restraint last night following the killing of four people in a remote Bekaa Vally area close to the Syrian border. The victims included three Shiites and a Turk with a Shiite mother, the Daily Star reported. Gunmen fanned out in the region following the killings, that show how Shiite-Sunni tensions have spilled over from the Syria crisis. The army, in a statement carried by the official National News Agency, called on residents to "transcend their injuries" and said it won't allow anyone to exploit the incident to "strike national unity." Risk Premium The chaos in Syria is already weighing on the economy of Lebanon, whose modern history is marred by sectarian conflicts. Growth, which averaged 8 percent from 2007 to 2010, won't exceed 2 percent in 2013, Finance Minister Mohammad Safadi said in a June 5 interview. The risk premium investors demand to hold Lebanon's debt over U.S. Treasuries surged in the past four weeks to 467 on June 14, the highest since September last year, according to JP Morgan Chase &amp; Co. data. Lebanon's benchmark BLOM Stock Index (BLOM) fell for a sixth day today, declining 0.1 percent. The measure dropped 2.7 percent last week, the biggest weekly slide since December 2011. Arabic for "Party of God," Hezbollah, is the only group that refused to disband following the end of Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war, swelling from a small militia in 1982 to the most powerful political group in the country with seats in parliament and ministers in the cabinet in Beirut . Hezbollah says it needs its arsenal of weapons to defend against Israeli attacks. It spearheaded the fight against Israel's 18-year occupation of an enclave in south Lebanon. Israel withdrew in 2000, a move Hezbollah claimed as a victory. The group also fought an inconclusive war against Israel in 2006, earning popularity among Sunnis as well as Shiites. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has linked the group's involvement in Syria with its resistance narrative. He called the fighting part of a broader struggle against Israel, saying Hezbollah "won't keep silent and watch its back break." Loyal Fighters In funerals this month for fighters who died in Syria, Hezbollah officials repeated that message, while members of the group say they are not fighting a sectarian war. "No one should consider the al-Qusair achievement as a victory for Shiites against Sunnis," said Hezbollah lawmaker Hussein al-Moussawi in Nabi Sheet on June 5, according to a transcript of his comments e-mailed by Hezbollah. He said it was a victory against the Zionist-Western plot targeting Syria. Syrian opposition groups, which the U.S. government will supply with small arms and ammunition, say Hezbollah is mobilizing its fighters along with Syrian troops outside Aleppo in the north for a push into the city, which unlike al-Qusair, is far from the borders of Lebanon. One of the consequences of Hezbollah's engagement in Syria is the possibility that Lebanese Shiites who work in Gulf countries and send money back home would be expelled, said Peter Harling, project director with the Middle East Program of the International Crisis Group think tank. Dire Impact "It's happening on a small scale, but you could have an exodus of Lebanese Shiites who are present in the Gulf in large numbers, making a lot of money which they send home," he said in a phone interview. "This can have a very dire economic impact on the Shiites in Lebanon." The crisis in Syria has also deepened tensions between the Western-backed March 14 group and the Hezbollah-led March 8 group, which dominates the caretaker government of Najib Mikati . What is Hezbollah "doing in the alleys of al-Qusair and amid the rubble of its houses and buildings?" former Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, who heads the Future Movement in the March 14 bloc, said in a June 7 statement. "What is Hezbollah doing to Lebanon and the Lebanese, to the Arabs and Muslims?" For now, the group is stuck on its side of the sectarian divide. Hezbollah won't change its position on Syria or give up support for Assad government, leader Nasrallah said in a June 14 speech. "The alternative in Syria is chaos," he said. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1c1_1371474108 KingSize0 Hezbollah's Involvement in Syria Creates More Tentions Between Shiites &amp; Sunnis in the Region syria,lebanon,egypt,middle east,shia,shiite,sunnah,sunni,war,conflict,islam,muslims Sun, 16 Jun 2013 06:49:03 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d67_1371379345 Youssarian Translated with Google Translator. Sheila is only nine months old when her owners captivate the Doberman dog with duct tape and throw them in a lake. The life of young Doberman Lady Sheila ended silent, quietly and infinitely cruel in a lake on the outskirts of Gifhorn (Lower Saxony). No paddling with the legs, no whining, no barking. Sheila's snout and her paws were bound with duct tape. She went under like a stone. Enlarge Maikampsee The Maikampsee to Gifhorn in Lower Saxony The Maikampsee is an idyllic bathing waters with a small island in the middle and trees on the shore. It's Thursday evening, a week ago, against 20 clock in the evening. Susanne, 36, and Andrew B., 41, dragged her nine month old female to the water. You kick her in the ribs and on the muzzle. The dog does not fight back. The couple decided on afternoon that Sheila will die. Included is S. Burkard, 50, a friend of the two. It applies to the police as an accomplice. Bild am Sonntag finds him a week after the fact in his apartment not far from the lake. On the question of how to perform such an animal suffering, he shrugs his shoulders and then tells an incredible story, "Susan complained that Sheila was still not housebroken. She said the dog had finally disappear. "Andrew offered to him to cut his throat, says S. Ultimately, the trio would have decided to drown the dog. Because of the "big mess" that would have resulted had the stabbing. Incredibly, on what thoughts people can come. As the three talk about the fate of Sheila, the dog is chained to the heating in the apartment of Burkard S. "Same as always," he says. Then they make Sheila go. P is likely to take strong adhesive tape, the lake is one kilometer away. The last meters grind the Tierqu"aler the tortured dog on a leash behind him. Burkard S.: "We have tied up and threw her into the lake. Susanne was watching. " Sheila is her dog. She bought the Doberman as a puppy in November 2012. Eventually, the unemployed woman finds that she can not do anything with the animal and tried unsuccessfully to sell it. Two days before the cruel fact is Andreas from the dog. Susanne Sheila brings the next day from the shelter again. "When her owner came, the bitch was beside himself with joy," say the staff there. Sheila has no idea what will happen to them. The love of a dog for his people is boundless. Even if that is a beast. Today there will be a vigil for Sheila by 14 clock in Gifhorn. Already 200 people have signed up for it. Against animal cruelty police determined. You could face up to three years in prison http://www7.pic-upload.de/16.06.13/4eipg56yvq2v.jpg http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d67_1371379345 Youssarian Cruel Dog Death Germany, Dog, Death, Cruelty, Sat, 15 Jun 2013 04:52:26 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=aa9_1371285995 absu69 November 30, 2012 The Honorable Claire McCaskill Chairman, Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 Dear Chairman McCaskill: Following the Subcommittee's March 29, 2012, hearing on the cost of contractors, you and Senator Daniel Akaka submitted questions for the record (QFRs) to government witnesses. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Department of the Army have submitted responses to those questions. The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) submitted written testimony for the record in March, and would like to take the opportunity to comment on the agencies' responses as well. OMB's ResponseIn response to whether OMB plans to release additional guidance on in-sourcing and cost analyses, OMB stated that it expected to issue guidance by mid-July of this year to further shape the guidance set forth in Memorandum M-09-26, which OMB issued in July 2009 1 ] ; specifically, OMB promised to identify "where analyses are likely to be most effective." OMB also advised agencies to "strengthen the use of service contract inventories." It should be noted that as of the date of this letter, OMB has yet to issue further guidance. Three observations are relevant: Although OMB memorandum M-09-26 mandated that agencies perform a cost analysis that addresses the full costs of government and private sector performance and provide '"like comparisons' of costs that are of a sufficient magnitude to influence the final decision on the most cost effective source of support for the organization," OMB has neither offered guidance on how to conduct detailed cost comparisons nor implemented any policies for hiring a cost-efficient workforce. OMB has not released any results from the memo's mandated "intermediate steps," which include having improved human capital planning and management of the multi-sector workforce, conducting an analysis of one program in which there are concerns about the reliance on contractors, and establishing sound in-sourcing guidelines. OMB provided no evidence that any agency has complied with those steps or that any agency has reduced its reliance on service contractors. It has been three years since OMB released M-09-26, and the operative value of the memorandum should be questioned. OMB should be held accountable for its failure to act. POGO sees no evidence that any federal agency has complied with OMB's advice to "strengthen the use of service contract inventories." Equally important, not a single federal agency reports a service contract inventory that contains cost-comparison data. Consequently, even if agency decision-making were based on a review of service contract inventories to rebalance its government/contractor workforce in accordance with criteria for cost-effective decision-making, these inventories are devoid of the data necessary to make rational workforce decisions. Accordingly, POGO supports congressional efforts to amend service contract inventory reporting to provide agencies with enhanced data on service contracts. 2 ] DHS's ResponsesDHS's answers to the Subcommittee's QFRs raise additional questions. 3 ] Consequently, POGO submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to obtain relevant information related to DHS's Balanced Workforce Strategy (BWS). Unfortunately, DHS's FOIA response failed to provide detailed records and data that would help better understand how its workforce comparison program is saving taxpayer dollars by reducing reliance on costly contractors. Additionally, it should be noted that DHS has identified an estimated $28 million in savings that resulted when it insourced work in 2009 and 2010, and an additional $2.3 million using the BWS. Nevertheless, if DHS isn't using the BWS on all new and existing contracts, and conducting a cost comparison analysis in all cases, the savings only reflect a small portion of those that could be realized. Army's ResponsesThe Army provided a response that contained many helpful answers. 4 ] Most critically, its responses revealed that the Army is unique in creating the Contracting Manpower Reporting Application (CMRA) to collect much of the information that could result in improved human capital spending. The Army's testimony provided insight into the unique strengths of its CMRA, but its answers to your QFRs left several questions unanswered: 1. The Army testified that it uses the CMRA to collect critical data, but not in the budget process (as required by 10 U.S.C. SS 235). The Army indicated that it would do so in the future, but didn't indicate an expected date of implementation. Now that there is a new Deputy Assistant Secretary, POGO believes the Army should define its precise plans and timelines for complying with the law. 2. The Army testified it had not used the data collected from the CMRA to conduct any cost analyses. One of the critical policy mandates contained in the law requiring annual service contract inventories is that decision makers review costs and determine if continued dependency upon contractors is cost-justified. 5 ] The Army's responses to your QFRs provided no explanation for why the cost data collected from the Army's CMRA is not used to conduct the necessary cost analyses. The Army should use this critical cost data. The Army also testified that CMRA data had not been used in its acquisition process. A review of the types of data the CMRA collects makes it clear that it collects myriad data that would be useful to the Army's acquisition planning and implementation processes. The Army's response to your QFRs fails to explain why it isn't doing so. The Army should specify the date for when it expects to do so. 3. The Army testified that it had identified inherently governmental functions (IGFs) thatwere still being performed by contractors, but its response to your QFRs failed to address specifically what actions would be taken to correct violations and when. The Army should detail what corrective actions are being or will be taken, and by what date all inherently governmental functions would be performed by military or civilian personnel. In addition, the Army's answer to whether contractor inventory data informs or improves the process by which Army personnel are making acquisition decisions does not fully address your concerns. The Army's inventory contains no cost-comparison data, nor does the inventory identify which contracts transfer IGFs to the contractor workforce or how many contractor employees are performing IGFs. The Army references the Panel for Documentation of Contractors and states that the Panel conducts a contractor inventory review to identify IGFs, but it is silent on what documents other than the Army's Inventory of Service Contracts the panel reviews. Of greater significance is the Army's silence on the number of IGFs it finds contractors are performing, the number of detected IGFs it consequently insources, the number of civilian employees it assigns to perform the insourced IGFs, and what the cost consequences were as a result of the need to rebalance its workforce. Further, it is inconceivable that the Army is the only DoD component that outsources IGFs. Yet, DoD's most recent annual Report to Congress: Fiscal Year 2011 Inventory of Contracts for Services fails to address the issue of outsourced IGFs. 6 ] POGO believes it would be helpful to submit QFRs to the Secretary of Defense concerning this failure. Finally, the Army asserts that identifying IGFs being performed by contractors is an ongoing process, and that the longer it goes on the greater the likelihood they will be identified and appropriately remedied. The following facts are not in dispute: the law prohibits outsourcing IGFs, 7 ] DoD contracting officers are responsible for detecting IGF violations on an ongoing basis, and the vast majority of DoD service contracts are for extended periods of time. Nevertheless, the Army has made no attempt to explain: (a) how there were 1,935 instances of contractors performing IGFs, 8 ] (b) how long that had been known, or (c) a date by which these functions would be insourced. Congress is being assured that inappropriately outsourced functions will be remedied sometime in the future. There is no credible assurance from the Army, let alone the entire DoD, that IGFs will be insourced on an expedited basis. POGO supports legislative proposals to amend the FY 2013 NDAA by requiring that DoD components specify in their annual Inventory of Service Contracts how many contractor full-time equivalents (CFTEs) are performing IGFs for each service contract or task order inventoried. 9 ] Were this proposal adopted, Congress would be able to monitor the progress DoD makes in coming into compliance with the law and pass legislative reforms if the rate of progress were unacceptable. 4. The Army answered that, when using a federal employee is the best route, it is able to either insource functions or authorize new civilian positions. However, of the 246,916 full-time contractor employees in FY 2011, 10 ] the Army only gave permission to insource 640 positions, or .26 percent of positions that might be inherently governmental or imposing unjustifiable costs. 11 ] The Army's efforts to rebalance its workforce to conform to Congress's mandated standard of cost-effectiveness are window dressing at best and misleading at worst. 5. The Army's ostensible justification for implementing a self-imposed freeze on in-sourcing is to be compliant with the full-time employee (FTE) freeze. But that freeze hasn't prevented the Army from continuing to contract out hundreds of thousands of FTEs which potentially impose billions of dollars in higher costs over what those services would cost if performed by civilian personnel. 12 ] There is no economic justification to freeze the number of Army FTEs while allowing more costly contractor full-time equivalents (CFTEs) to proliferate. 13 ] It should be noted that DoD's FY 2011 Inventory of Service Contracts reported that DoD components awarded approximately $144.5 billion in government obligations, and estimated that there are 709,879 CFTEs across the Department. 14 ] The DoD has already acknowledged there are billions of dollars to be saved by reducing expenditures on service contracts. 15 ] POGO believes the Subcommittee should request that the Secretary of Defense explain why DoD continues to increase the number of CFTEs while it continues to freeze the number of DoD civilian employees. 6. The Army opposes civilian FTE ceilings, stating: The current caps on federal employees hiring have hampered agencies from actually making cost-analysis based decisions when contracting. The civilian full time equivalent cap instituted by the Secretary of Defense in Resource Management Decision 703A2 has had the side effect of removing some of the flexibility that the Army and its attendant Commands previously had to manage its workforce to the appropriate manpower mix. In practical terms, if the Army cannot hire civilians, then it must turn to other sources of labor-like contracting-when it needs to execute missions, provided the work is not inherently governmental. 16 ] The Army also stated that " ost-effective workforce management decisions ought to be based on allowing for the hiring of civilians to perform missions, rather than contractors, if the civilians will be cheaper." 17 ] Despite those assertions, the Army or other components of DoD aren't using the A-76 cost comparison process because DoD has not fully implemented the requirements of 10 U.S.C. SS 2330a. Additionally, the Army or other DoD agencies are not highlighting wasteful spending hat results from workforce cost comparisons pursuant to Directive-Type Memorandum 09-007. 18 ] Simply stated, something has to give-ceilings need to be lifted and the Army and other agencies should be required to conduct genuine cost comparisons to ensure that the government is utilizing the most cost-efficient personnel prior to insourcing or outsourcing any government work. 7. The Army states it is able to distinguish between non-Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) and OCO-related service contracting costs. It is interesting to note, however, that other DoD service components rely upon the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) to derive contracting costs, and the FPDS does not distinguish between non-OCO and OCO service contracting costs. The Army's data collection system should be adopted by other DoD components. POGO suggests that the Secretary of Defense be asked to explain why the Army's data collection system has not been adopted across all components. Thank you for the opportunity to submit these comments. Please feel free to contact us at 202-347-1122 for clarification or for additional information. Sincerely, Paul Chassy, Ph.D., J.D. Investigator Scott H. Amey General Counsel SOURCE: http://www.pogo.org/our-work/letters/2012/20121130-congress-being-misled-about-true-costs-service-contracts.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=aa9_1371285995 absu69 Congress Being Misled About True Costs of Service Contracts POGO,contracts,fraud,procurement Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:07:26 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c0c_1371250713 USMC_SRT I know alot of you world wide could really care less about flag rules/etiquette for either the U.S. or your own personal flag but please, just skip this article and go to another. Thank You. The U.S. Flag Code formalizes and unifies the traditional ways in which we give respect to the flag, also contains specific instructions on how the flag is not to be used. The following is a list of do's and don'ts associated with Old Glory, the U.S. Flag. When displaying the flag, DO the following: Display the U.S. flag from sunrise to sunset on buildings and stationary flagstaffs in the open. When a patriotic effect is desired the flag may be displayed 24-hours a day if properly illuminated during the hours of darkness. When placed on a single staff or lanyard, place the U.S. Flag above all other flags. When flags are displayed in a row, the U.S. flag goes to the observer's left. Flags of other nations are flown at same height. State and local flags are traditionally flown lower. When used during a marching ceremony or parade with other flags, the U.S. Flag will be to the observer's left. On special days, the flag may be flown at half-staff. On Memorial Day it is flown at half-staff until noon and then raised. When flown at half-staff, should be first hoisted to the peak for an instant and then lowered to the half-staff position. The flag should be again raised to the peak before it is lowered for the day. By "half-staff" is meant lowering the flag to one-half the distance between the top and bottom of the staff. Crepe streamers may be affixed to spear heads or flagstaffs in a parade only by order of the President of the United States. When the flag is displayed over the middle of the street, it should be suspended vertically with the union (blue field of stars) to the north in an east and west street or to the east in a north and south street. When the flag is displayed in a manner other than by being flown from a staff, it should be displayed flat, whether indoors or out. When displayed either horizontally or vertically against a wall, the union (blue field of stars) should be uppermost and to the flag's own right, that is, to the observer's left. When displayed in a window it should be displayed in the same way -- with the union or blue field to the left of the observer in the street. When the flag is displayed on a car, the staff shall be fixed firmly to the chassis or clamped to the right fender. When the flag is used to cover a casket, it should be so placed that the union is at the head and over the left shoulder. The flag should not be lowered into the grave or allowed to touch the ground. When saluting the flag DO the following: All persons present in uniform (military, police, fire, etc.) should render the military salute. Members of the armed forces and veterans who are present but not in uniform may render the military salute. All other persons present should face the flag and stand at attention with their right hand over the heart, or if applicable, remove their headdress with their right hand and hold it at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart. When stowing or disposing of the flag, DO the following: Fold in the traditional triangle for stowage, never wadded up. The VFW offers the following instructions for properly disposing of a worn flag: The flag should be folded in its customary manner. It is important that the fire be fairly large and of sufficient intensity to ensure complete burning of the flag. Place the flag on the fire. The individual(s) can come to attention, salute the flag, recite the Pledge of Allegiance and have a brief period of silent reflection. After the flag is completely consumed, the fire should then be safely extinguished and the ashes buried. Please make sure you are conforming to local/state fire codes or ordinances. Quick list of Flag Etiquette Don'ts: Don't dip the U.S. Flag for any person, flag, or vessel. Don't let the flag touch the ground. Don't fly flag upside down unless there is an emergency. Don't carry the flag flat, or carry things in it. Don't use the flag as clothing. Don't store the flag where it can get dirty. Don't use it as a cover. Don't fasten it or tie it back. Always allow it to fall free. Don't draw on, or otherwise mark the flag. Don't use the flag for decoration. Use bunting with the blue on top, then white, then red. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c0c_1371250713 USMC_SRT Flag Etiquette Do's and Don'ts USA, Flag, Etiquette Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:44:48 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=721_1371163286 VartanZoravar http://www.duzceyerelhaber.com/her-taraf-haberleri/14634-gezi-parkinin-yagma-tarihi-dun-ermenilerin-mezarlari-bugun-agaclar#.UbpKKpx5ebQ A decisive act of resistance against the plunder of Istanbul in Taksim Park, organized the trip. Travel Park also has a history in which the land is very interesting. Here is the state of the land occupied by the Armenian cemetery in the past, and plundered date! Tamar Daglioglu Nalci and Emre Can, Suleiman the Magnificent, who saved him from death cemetery allocated by Armenians as the Armenian Republic cook Manuk the period of grace Karaseferyan'a confiscated after years of litigation and bureaucrats and academics play an active role in this process under the spotlight for Agos took. Diagnosis by saying passing Earth To make a new start for a nation-state, the most common form of the date, the official history of attempts to put forward, and delete the old collective memory. Facing the old drive out to draw new boundaries and one of the tools used in these initiatives, cities and urban architecture. Which is reproduced in the sense of the continuity of history 'commemorative' spaces, enables the device to link the past and the society. The 'old' architectural fabric of the city until the surface of the deletion, the deletion of the collective memory leads to disrupted the continuity between the past and the community ional society 'deep inememesine' hatirlayamamasina and, consequently, causes y"uzlesememesine history. Turkey's nation-building experience of the past and the bonds of society, considering the important role of the slogan breakout, create history by re-examining alternative memory areas. In this paper, oblivion "calling back" to contribute to the creation of an alternative to a memory area is written. Divan Hotel, one of the structures of society that serves as Break the link with the past. Travel across Taksim Park a few years ago was making gravestones. Today Trip Park Military museum, TRT Istanbul Radio building, the Hilton and the Court of hotels, this area was an ancient Armenian mezarligiydi. Divan Hotel re-opened Surp Agop Cemetery, and today we look at history, how a fundamental injustice of the past were going to have to remember the victim. Because, Mithat Sancar, as he says, "do not go lost eternally forgotten many things, temporarily place her erisemeyecegimiz waits for us." The testimony of literature This is going to be wiped out tutunulabilecek to prevent one of the most robust branches of literature testimony. Orhan Pamuk, Cevdet Bey and Ogullari'ndaki testimony, do not go to the city's surface, an event that has been deleted or lost, Surp Agop Cemetery tries to remind us: "(...) The new governor wants to yiktirmak clubhouse, give them a small plot opposite the cemetery of the Surp Agop said. This would, I think, doubtful. (...) One of the ladies playing tennis in the territory of the old cemetery, the weather relented and told him all of a sudden it would be inappropriate There was silence. (...) The old cemetery with graves of the land on the corner of tennis oynanmayacagini said the lady, he is not said to be covered with an old church yikintisiyla pacified. " In the same effort, Ahmed Aziz aboard Askale seen in the novel "fills out the aims to enable their wealth, the Wealth Tax is equivalent to. Around, a human tragedy, while the king of that year they disappeared. (...) Last year expropriated, and St. Gregory the Illuminator Church Cemetery in Surp Agop inopportune hatirli guys put it together to buy at a price that is struck. whispered names duydukca amazement. cemetery, and I think the church would be reduced at very low rates. " Hold for the memory of the period is a branch of the other organs of the press. However, the sources for this study, we found that we scanned, press covered this issue in Armenian in Turkey and outside Turkey, while the Turkish press remained silent. Subsequent litigation process as a single unified resource, Armaveni Miroglu'nun, Armenian media in creating this article and frequently consulted by scanning penned "Pangalti Armenian Cemetery (Surp Hagop Cemetery)" The article (Social History, No. 187) note that it is. The history of the cemetery Date of Surp Agop Cemetery, 1560'ta begins in Istanbul, the great plague. Armenian community, the victims of the epidemic, the time-of-town Elmadag counted today, Surp Agop Surp Agop Hospital Cemetery is located across the field begins to bury. In 1929, according to the letter penned by Van Natanyan'in Margos, the cemetery is located on the land, thanks to Sultan S"uleyman the Armenians were Karaseferyan Manuk cook. After Sultan zaptetmesinin Buddha, the Germans established a plot to poison him, Manuk want to be involved in the conspiracy because the Sultan, do not eat anything except his knowledge. Manuk unveils it rejects the request and conspiracy. Sultan, Gaspar want to reward. Manuk, him, demands a graveyard for the Armenians in Istanbul. Sultan also gives Pangalti'ndaki Armenians wide land. Natanyan'a, according to the Taksim Harbiye dates back to the land. Van Karaseferyan family, who died in 1808 in Harutyun Karaseferyan, such as Manuk Efendi, Pangalti buried in the Armenian cemetery, headstone, cemetery, imperial edicts he issued his ancestor was written. After the outbreak of cholera in 1865, is now very close to the city center of Pera, the Surp Agop Cemetery burial of the dead is prohibited. In contrast, the Armenian Cemetery fiisli is allocated to the congregation. Vacant land for the cemetery dead defnedilemedigi Surp Agop, Istepan Pasha Aslanyan'in efforts, the St. Gregory the Illuminator Church is built. Sultan Abdul Aziz retained In 1872, fiehremaneti (City Hall), the Surp Agop Armenian Cemetery War confiscated land to include land, but the Sultan Abdul Aziz, the cemetery was given, and the Armenians in the territory of the Armenian community confirms that the imperial edicts. In 1912, the Municipality, the street, to expand, to take a portion of the cemetery. The congregation, as the price of the land, not only the construction of the wall, such as bones and tombstones transportation costs will be paid for 15 thousand gold. Mezarlik'taki "monuments" Cemetery were buried after the March 31 incident, a separate information causes confusion. In 1909, the Istanbul Action Army approached, Taskisla and Selimiye barracks and put up barricades Hunter Taburlari'ndaki soldiers killed violently opposed. The bodies were buried in the Surp Agop Armenian Cemetery. Mustafa Turan, author of Memoirs of a General's March 31, the situation, "these poor victims of the events of March 31 at unprecedented even worthy of a Muslim cemetery, Surp Agop Armenian Cemetery buried," he explains. On the other hand, Action Army soldiers who died in this incident and the Christian volunteers, with a grand ceremony, the embedded. Enver Pasha, in his speech at the Tomb "Muslims and Christians living and dying, no longer as a sign of racial and religious discrimination to recognize that they are patriotic friends they lie side by side," says then. Arsen Avagyan, the Armenians and the Committee of Union and Progress in the book, the Surp Agop Cemetery and buried those who died fighting in the Army, and even the cemetery, brotherhood, and erected a monument representing the Muslim-Christian unity indicates. However, this claim is shown as the source, Edwin Pears' Forty Years in Constantinople in his book, this monument, in fact, Abide-i H"urriyet, H"urriyet is located on the hill, the Army Corps of land adjacent to the burial of the victims of the British Girls High School written . Have this conversation in front of the monument that Enver Pasha. A further argument, the Surp Agop Cemetery, planted in 1919, is that a genocide monument. That year, a committee established for this purpose, and a number of Istanbul is true that the memorial project. Famous Armenian intellectual Teotig this komitededir, collecting and writing biographies of Armenians were killed in 1915 and taken to the start of this reason. Teotig April '11 Monument Surp Agop's cemetery memorial monument in the photograph on the cover of the book, whether it is unfortunately unknown. Rita S. Kuyumjian'in, Teotig subject area and established the committee did not mention in his book to the monument, and what we have today, that the ceremony of inauguration of the monument, or there are no pictures showing the absence of this information is now not only the nature of a claim. The case begins Located on the busiest street in Istanbul's Beyoglu district, and a large Surp Agop Cemetery, has a large and very valuable land. Therefore, 19 Starting at the end of the century, the land acquisition efforts, cut off from the old and new Istanbul takes aim at establishing a Republic in the period. Towards this goal, in 1931, the Municipality of Istanbul, a foundation from the land of Sultan Beyazit parents, claiming that the transfer request of the Council, such as other abandoned cemeteries and Land Administration refers to the legal process starts by opening the case. Miroglu'nun Armaveni According to the article, in turn, required documents prepared by the Board of Community Corporeal Land Registry Head Office in Ankara sent two representatives to apply. Representatives of the Armenian Cemetery Pangalti not abandoned, just in time, due to health reasons explain forbidden burial of the dead there. Since then, many times, the land, the property is registered with the Armenian community and, therefore, states that can not be put in hand, Land Center, Istanbul Land Administration, orders to save on municipal land. Patriarch Mesrop Naroyan the period, as the representative of the Armenian community and is involved in the case will follow the process. Municipalities, as well as the seizure of Surp Agop Cemetery, cemetery property foreclosures income when you put the Patriarch and the deputy Kevork Naroyan Torkomyan, abandoned cemetery on the grounds that the Council will prosecute on behalf of the Patriarchate. Narliyan Maksut Patriarchate and Necati Bey's lawyer, cemetery, until the final decision of the court not being allowed to pass through the official shall request the Council. Court to take the case, since now the Council from taking the land of 20 thousand dollars bail in the display in order to meet future depreciation, provided that the request is accepted. Based on this decision, the Council's lawyers and the Armenian Patriarchate of the Armenian community in Turkey, does not exist, the decision of the Council of Ministers dated 19 July 1915 the Patriarch of the Armenian Patriarchate in Jerusalem and the exile had been transported back to the claim that there . Their aim is to prove that the right to sue on behalf of the congregation Naroyan'in Patriarch. The Patriarchate's lawyers, the cemetery set aside the trial, the court would have to provide evidence proving the existence of the Armenian community. Re-regulation of the Patriarchate and the Patriarchate decree dated 18 October 1915 shows onaylanisini, Mayor refutes objections to the lawyers and the court rejected the demands of the Council accepts that the right to sue the Patriarchate. Thus, the Armenian community in Turkey, with all the rights of legal personalities and religious institutions that Naroyan been approved on behalf of the Patriarch is the leader of the rightful owner. Ahmed Rafik "OPINION" Court to determine the boundaries of Sultan Beyazit parents and have a historian Ahmed Refik Altinay Foundation and Istanbul Asar-i Atika Museums Director Aziz Ogan throws, including a four-person panel of experts. Claiming false documents showing that the cemetery belonging to Armenians Altinay of the land is the property of Sultan Beyazit Parent Foundation 'scientific' means exposes. In this process, Turkey increased media interest in the case of the Surp Agop Cemetery. Published reports, often mentioned as a historian praised Altinay'dan which intervened in the proceedings. Altinay, gives an interview about the case of the evening newspaper, Surp Agop Cemetery. The historical background to the case told the interview report prepared by the Patriarchate, Necati Bey's lawyer said the case is a lack of knowledge about the fort, "the Turkish fortress everything breaks down, but never his own," he specifies. "You know" results The Committee of Experts, as a result of his research report by the Foundation's parent indicates that the cemetery arsasinin Sultan Beyazit. Directorate of Foundations of the meeting, Mr. Rafiq Ahmed, Sultan Beyazit Foundation's parents argued that provides examples of documents and provide information on the foundation's borders. In 1933, the Criminal Court of Istanbul, on the basis of this report, the Surp Agop Armenian Cemetery, Cemeteries Act passed by the Council of derelict land as a cemetery, and decides to accept. Altinay'a Rafiq Ahmed, the Council his "contribution to the value of billions from" a house is allocated for. By the way, where all the documents related to the case, will not fire in Sultanahmet Courthouse on December 3, 1933. Therefore, the Surp Agop Armenian Cemetery proceedings, be postponed until the courts to begin work again. However, the Miroglu'na, according to the Department of Land and the municipality a copy of all documents are available. From 1 March 1931, Surp Agop Cemetery trial ended November 26, 1934. The court, in addition to other decisions, the Patriarchate, court costs and attorneys' costs 150 lira Deputy Mayor decides to pay. The second case After a while, the Church of Beyoglu three Horan Head of the Board of Directors. Hovsep Jalal, open a new case in order to eliminate the injustice 'precautionary measure-i' demands. Court, the request, the cemetery grounds, and 10 thousand pounds for the part of the building on bail until the end of the case show the condition of these parts congregation accepts and decides to stay. However, the Municipality, without waiting for the conclusion of the trial, maps prepared by deeds cikarttirip plans to sell these lands. Meanwhile, the court applied for the determination of the land value of the land three years ago, set up a commission to determine the difference between the current value. Suffered the loss of value of the land determined, Mayor, damages, demands, and 3-year total rent. On top of that the Central Land Council, decides to give the Council the land title. Identified in his report to the commission of the Court of the land value in 3 years, it was determined that the loss of 124 thousand pounds. Municipality, or by adding the damage caused by the delay in the consideration of the sale, the Patriarchate and open proxies against the claim for compensation of 180 thousand pounds. Asim Us'un journalist claims that the Patriarchate Sabur Sami Bey puts it together in order to avoid paying the price. Sabur Sami Bey case deterrent city hall, and in return, the cemetery, which will remain in the hands of the Patriarchate of land is part of about 6 thousand m2. His daughter built on the land, in the name of National Reinsurance Administration should commercialize and sell 60 thousand pounds. In the meantime, the cemetery had already been removed and the table in front of the cross and the inscription today Sisli Armenian Cemetery. Cemeteries are not The Foundation then initiated proceedings in the new land, claiming that its results can not. Thus, a years-long affair with the Municipality of the Armenian community, by order of the Ministry of Interior, and the Governor of Istanbul, Beyoglu Muhittin "Ust"undag Arsag three Horan Foundation Board of Directors (Fair) ended with an agreement between Surenyan (a period of Atat"urk who was physician to dental Arsag Surenyan, the former chairman of Galatasaray Faruk S"uren grandfather). 850 thousand square meters of land through the Council, the Patriarchate of 6 thousand square meters of land, and the court costs remains the cost of three thousand two hundred pounds. The basis of the new Istanbul Surp Agop Armenian Cemetery, in spite of all these pursuits and just struggle, are condemned in its entirety in 1939. St. Gregory the Illuminator Church destroyed, the owners of the tomb, tombs, time is allowed for shipments. Then, the cemetery on the sewn in large buildings, Elmadag also begins to take its present form. Many tombstones, designed a new urbanist Henri Prost and Travel Emin"on"u Square Park ladders are used in making repairs. In 1939, the Surp Agop Cemetery case, as a means of power showdown appears again. In this process, the President Ismet In"on"u Muhittin taken in almost dismissed "Ust"undag 'misconduct' case which is the subject of a result does not change the fate of the cemetery. The case on the grounds that the Ministry without notice process, resulting in the supply of "Ust"undag'a 50 pounds penalty. Prof. Mayor from office after Lutfi Kirdar. Fahrettin Kerim G"okay, begins the sale of the land. First guest house on the plot of land about to be sold to Koc Court today, Hilton and Hyatt Regency Hotels, Travel Park, is part of the TRT Istanbul Radio and Harbiye Military Museum. The building blocks of the regime Surp Agop Cemetery case, as a clear case of corruption in front of us. The official ideology of private property, the state radio building blocks, such as the military cemetery laid one by one to get back on today 'legal' point of view is almost impossible. However, by remaining silent in the face of such injustice, usurpation of the obvious can not find peace of mind by covering them. Surp Agop example, even a casual Turkey gayrim"uslimlerinin were left dead, tombstones, which are used in the construction of new examples of Istanbul, Turkey, and the only one that new. Today, we need transparency, face and mouth will be a formal apology, the souls of the inhabitants of the Surp Agop Cemetery allows you to find peace of mind, perhaps ... Maybe, but then you really bury "our dead." Actors in the history of the cemetery seizure Muhittin "Ust"undag Istanbul Governor's Office, CHP Istanbul Provincial Directorate and served as mayor of Istanbul between 1928-1938. acquired an Istanbul Eminonu Square, was built and is known for Tiyatrolari'ni Siirt city regulations. Relatively removed from politics in an era of Ismet In"on"u, received the support of Mustafa Kemal's immediate surroundings, as the President Inonu removed from politics. Urbanist Henri Prost from France in Istanbul as a result of his work on the face of the city changed. Surp Agop Cemetery land is very precious arsasinin "Ust"undag Referring to the plans approved by Prost and the work began. Municipality land 'of bringing' then, who mezartaslariyla Eminonu Square, where allegations of corruption or any other thing of "Ust"undag name. Asri Cemetery in particular draws attention to the issue. Several different cases of irregularities shall be tried but acquitted. According to the journalist, Asim Us'un, this is something that caused the acquittal, the threat of disclosure, availability, because the claims of negligence and corruption are issues which seem to be under the orders from the Interior Minister fi"ukr"u lies in the Rock. Sabur Sami Bey Esrafindandir Kayseri. Was graduated from Political Sciences, and after 1915 he served as governor of Antalya. Armenian massacres is not known whether the active duty, during the proceedings, his "Erzurum, Diyarbakir and in the provinces of Mosul, one Armenian left in Antalya, you still have jobs?" he sent a telegram to Dr. encrypted. By disclosing the offense has fiakir'i bahattin fixing. During his tenure, the Greek craftsmen built and worked battalions that make up the school and the town hall in the town of Serik is currently recognized. History of the Republic, aka corruption and irregularities fixed. First, in 1924, who survived the Holocaust and the Armenians wishing to have goods returned to Turkey in return for money and assistance allegedly issued false documents, including Yunus Nadi, Sword, including famous names such as Ashraf Ali and Rusen 10 with a public officer about the investigation started, the inquest can not be a result. Kaya fi"ukr"u known for its proximity to the Interior Minister Mustafa Kemal change. Asri Cemetery and the Council of Foundations of problem, while assigned to the four referees, peace be included as a referee, in spite of internal medicine to work on behalf of the Ministry of Internal Medicine aldirmasi a car, which broke out at the end of the '30s to the head actor famous bus case, it must have been a result of proximity. Parting of the Ways Kemal Tahir, told in his novel, the Czech ambassador, Falih Rifki Atay came from, they want to open the Skoda factory in Turkey to be representative. Sabur Sami before doing this task, but he adds that it is not one of the influential political as claimed. However, according to Asim Us'a, he lives in America is said to be as famous cheaters insulin Sami Bey, who took office after the Lutfi Kirdar Muhittin "Ust"undag'dan entry is prohibited by the government authorities. Fahrettin Kerim G"okay Istanbul Governor's Office and the Directorate of Municipal done between 1949-1957, the population in this period "Mini mini governor, what will happen Halimiz" dolamasina language has led to rhyme. It is also a doctor of mental disorders, 1939, the National Population Politics Mazhar Osman (Eugenique) Nature of the Issue and has written the book Aryanization have conducted studies on the Turkish race. "People flocked to the beaches, the citizen can not enter the sea," said laf G"okay the date of September 6-7 cases of 'insufficient' had to resign due to remain. When he died, acquired after September 6-7 deed turned out to be 630. These deeds, while there is a disaster in Istanbul, G"okay'in cause 'insufficient' explaining the. Rafiq Ahmed Altinay He was born in 1880 Validecesme'de. After receiving military training in the Military School of Geography, History, French and taught; I. Resigned from the military after World War II. History is known for his research. Although the Unionist claims that the Unionists New Mecmua worked for many years in the newspaper. Talat Pasha, the search warrant on the first post-war published on the earth, is known to be the home island of Buyukada Altinay. At the end of 1918, which is serialized in the newspaper Ikdam 'Two of the Committee and two continents' from a series of articles, Soykirim'a of the 'reciprocity' arguments temellendirse, especially the testimony of what happened in Eskisehir and Krikor Zohrab Circassian Ahmet killer in his interviews with the Vartkes Sereng"ulyan'in terms contain valuable. With the establishment of the Republic, as a historian begins to fall from grace. The cause of the cemetery at the end of 1931 as an expert appointed by the Prime Minister's Archives of the case found that the fate of a single copy of document changes. However, due to lack of support from the Turkish Theory of History humiliated by Mustafa Kemal himself, and even "reverse even if the pen with us not fall!" he warned. University Reform in 1933, in the face of a new university gate closes. Publisher, writes a letter stating that the very cramped in monetary terms, and then, by the Council for his contribution to the cause of the cemetery itself is a gift of a home. In 1937 passed away. Reflected in the funeral of a bumpy relationship with the Republic. However, buried quietly, though, was represented by the ruling Muhittin "Ust"undag and Mahmut Esat Bozkurt. (Agos) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=721_1371163286 VartanZoravar Taksim Gazi Park . Yesterday Armenian graves trees today! Taksim , Turkey , Armenian , dont forget , Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:02:37 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=792_1371157259 USMC_SRT The U.S. Army is harnessing the elements to help reduce casualties from sniper attacks on forward operating bases.The U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command's research laboratory and aviation missile and communications-electronics RD&amp;E centers -- the Army Research Laboratory, or ARL, the Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center, and the Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center, or CERDEC -- have integrated and deployed wind and solar harvesting systems to provide continuous energy to company-level, force protection systems used by U.S. Army combat units in theater. A joint venture by ARL, Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center, known as AMRDEC, and industry, the Hostile Fire Detection Sensor, or Firefly, is a 360-degree surveillance system that uses acoustics fused with Short Wave Infrared detectors to locate enemy shooters for more accurate return fire. Firefly detects line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight hostile fire and classifies these as small arms, heavy machine gun or rocket/mortar. It calculates geo-location of the shot and provides self-position and heading in a standard cursor-on-target format. The Firefly can be either a mobile or fixed system, attached to the Soldier's backpack while on patrol, or mounted at forward operating bases. The Firefly system was initially deployed to Afghanistan in May 2012 to support a fires detection requirement. However, deployment sites faced challenges in sustaining conventional power delivery to Fireflies along perimeter walls due to enemy attacks when Soldiers were above the wall line changing batteries. 'In our attempts to solve the power issue, we discovered that CERDEC had sponsored the development of RENEWS power kits, which offered more complete solutions for charging the power supplies,' said William Lawler, an electrical engineer in ARL's Sensor Integration Branch. 'They immediately provided us with several kits, which we sent to AMRDEC for integration with Firefly and testing. Once it was determined that this solution satisfactorily extended the power supply, CERDEC provided several solar versions of the kits for deployment.' The Reusing Existing Natural Energy, Wind &amp; Solar system, or RENEWS, enables the harvesting and utilization of wind and/or solar power and is intended to produce up to 300 watts of energy field usage in silent, remote operations where the supply of power and fuel resupply is difficult or risky, noted Daniel Berka, an electronics technician in CERDEC's Command, Power &amp; Integration directorate, or CERDEC CP&amp;I. RENEWS consists of a wind turbine, three 124-watt flexible solar panels, a power conditioner, an AC inverter, and a battery storage/charging unit that contains six BB-2590 rechargeable batteries; it can be hooked into either the solar panels or the wind turbine for continuous charging. The BB-2590 battery, which was developed by CERDEC CP&amp;I, is lighter than the standard BB-390 battery and features better capacity. 'RENEWS offers options; solar was preferred in this case, using the solar panels to charge the six-pack of batteries during the day. We connected a cable from the RENEWS kit to the Firefly, giving them 1.2 KW of continuous energy to run the Firefly system. There still was some maintenance to check the Six-Pack and clean the dirt off the solar panels, but the Soldiers are not going up there every day because the solar panels are within the walls, so they're not exposed to enemy fire,' Berka said. Limited pairings of the two systems have gone to theater as a package, with the most recent deployment being April 24. 'Integration is absolutely a critical, relevant and priority S&amp;T (science and technology) investment, and RDECOM is uniquely positioned to provide this to the Army,' said Dale Ormond, director of U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command, known as RDECOM. 'We are the only organization that has the flexibility and technical expertise to execute the Army S&amp;T mission across a broad portfolio of services. We can draw on a wide range of strengths and technical competencies from each of our centers and laboratories to develop holistic solutions that meet real operational needs. It provides better technical solutions for Soldiers and it enhances the Army's ability to be more flexible and adaptive against asymmetrical threats.' The integrated solution also provided an opportunity for CERDEC CP&amp;I to gather additional operational feedback to be used in efforts to reduce Soldier load and logistical support, said Pedro Passapera, chief for CERDEC CP&amp;I's Experimentation and Simulation Branch. 'Changing power sources and delivering fuel can be dangerous for Soldiers in the field. We are always looking for opportunities to collaborate with other organizations in order to address small unit power issues while reducing the logistics footprint,' Passapera said. 'Operational feedback allows us to see areas for improvements that would make the technology more effective for mission support,' Passapera continued. 'Other Soldiers will benefit from this because we will use the feedback to make adjustments to the current or next generation system and provide the data back to the appropriate decision makers. This was a perfect fit.' said. CP&amp;I has deployed 40 complete RENEWS systems and more than 60 solar systems to units, Passapera noted. AMRDEC is seeking to transition Firefly to a program of record in late fiscal year 2013, noted Timothy Edwards, Ph.D., lead for AMRDEC's Firefly team. RDECOM, whose mission is to develop technology and engineering solutions for America's Soldiers, is a major subordinate command of the U.S. Army Materiel Command. AMC is the Army's premier provider of materiel readiness -- technology, acquisition support, materiel development, logistics power projection, and sustainment -- to the total force, across the spectrum of joint military operations. If a Soldier shoots it, drives it, flies it, wears it, eats it or communicates with it, AMC provides it. 'This integrated solution has been very successful and is still serving the warfighters in Afghanistan. Working across RDECOM truly is the best way to support the warfighter,' Edwards said. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=792_1371157259 USMC_SRT Army harnesses sun to reduce casualties from sniper attacks Army, Sniper, Weapon, Sun,