Maine Murderer Takes The Fall For Connecticut Priest, by Stan Moody Politicians are so consumed with fear over public backlash for doing something bold that they leave a lot of human suffering in their wake...The judge in the murder trial of Jeff Libby gave him 60 years for murdering his grandfather - 10 more than asked for by the prosecution...The Governor of Maine refused to permit him a clemency hearing until he had served 50% of his sentence, even though we now know he was sexually molested by a priest... Published 30Apr2011, viewed 267 times
Role of Women in Islam, by Skip Conover Women must take a larger role in Muslim societies. For many patriarchal reasons of culture, location on the planet, and stages of development, women have been disenfranchised in many parts of the Muslim World for millennia. But for the sake of peace in the world, the status of women in Islamic society must change. Published 28Apr2011, viewed 402 times
Prison Chaplains - The Last Line Of Defense Against Secrecy And Abuse, by Stan Moody Prison officials have tried, with only minimal success, to muzzle chaplains who advocate for human rights...This is the story of two chaplains separated by hundreds of miles but attempting to remain true to their convictions in a culture in which professionals are balancing their own good against a demand for conscience...It is a losing battle, as prisons tighten the leaks to an increasingly informed public... Published 28Apr2011, viewed 263 times
What Does the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Tell Us About Wael Ghonim?, by Skip Conover In order to understand the significance of the MBTI to Revolution 2.0, one must first understand its basic context. Upon completion of the test, the subject is placed in one of 16 personality profiles. This is accomplished based on placing their answers on four scales, and an individual can fall anywhere along these scales, including in the middle. Published 28Apr2011, viewed 417 times
How to Tell Your Drill Sergeant What to Do, by eric ward At basic training you are always being told what to do, how to do it and what way it should be done. Wouldn't it be nice for this to be reversed? Wouldn't it be nice if you could wake up in the morning and tell your Drill Sergeant what you wanted for breakfast? Well I have good news for you Private, now you can... Published 09Apr2011, viewed 371 times
Prison Reform: Moving Beyond the Scott Sisters, by Stan Moody Prison reform advocates tend to focus on individual human rights cases and leave behind the systemic problems that created and sustain those abuses...Dr. Boyce Watkins suggests that while high profile cases like the Scott Sisters are compelling, we should never lose sight of the big picture...As an example, he suggests that the release of the Scott Sisters took the Georgia Prison Strike off the front page... Published 24Apr2011, viewed 186 times
What Does the Reign of Terror Have to Do With Revolution 2.0?, by Skip Conover In the course of human events things sometimes get so bad that something must change and everyone knows it. This is what we are seeing play out across the Arab world today. The problem is that a common effort of getting rid of a Mubarak or Gadhafi does not result from the work of a single leader. As we see in Revolution 2.0, social media are strong in spreading a consensus quickly, but they are poor at identifying leadership. Published 24Apr2011, viewed 192 times
What List Are You On?, by Stan Moody In the interest of one group or another, government has slowly but surely categorized us by list in order to predict our actions. The sex offender list being the most virulent of lists, a bill in Maine will create a list for animal abusers. Lists detach us from the need to make face-to-face judgments. Published 23Apr2011, viewed 158 times
Denial Is A River In Gotham City, Maine, by Stan Moody We think of government as being a protector of truth...In reality, government is protector of our denial system forged in disenchantment with our lives and fortunes...The lurch from one political extreme to another is a function of which denial is in vogue... Published 22Apr2011, viewed 200 times
Murder, Assassination, War, and Genocide, by Skip Conover Hearing Moammar Gadhafi and Admiral Michael Mullen comment on CNN on March 20, 2011, suddenly brought to mind the image of British Red Coats during the American Revolution. You remember those masters of outmoded military etiquette. Published 23Mar2011, viewed 191 times
One Nation Under Debt, by Scott F Paradis Robert Wright offers two golden nuggets in "One Nation Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe" making the, at times tedious, historical exploration of the establishment of the national debt most telling and fruitful: the debt brought and held the nation together at its most crucial hour; and the "development diamond" is a viable tool to gage past achievements and to leverage for future success. Published 23Mar2011, viewed 184 times
Obama's Brilliant Diplomacy, by Skip Conover President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have done a masterful job of handling the diplomacy necessary for the Libyan crisis, setting the stage for tectonic shifts in world affairs. In one stroke they have reset international expectations about the Middle East, and set the world on a course for a better future. Published 27Mar2011, viewed 175 times
Maine Prison Advocacy Group Files Federal Complaint On Prisoner Deaths, by Stan Moody A number of recent rsuspicious deaths in or around segregation within the Maine prison system has prompted the Maine Prison Advocacy Coalition to file a formal request for investigation with the US Department of Justice...Among the complaints were callous medical attention, abuse of chronically ill prisoners and cremation of bodies without properly notifying next of kin... Published 18Apr2011, viewed 247 times
Most Oppressors of Muslims Are Muslim, by Skip Conover If Muslims want to experience less hate in the United States, they would do well to emphasize the positive aspects of their culture. More Americans will thereby be persuaded of the positive values of Islam. Suppression of Muslims globally is largely executed by other Muslims, not by Americans. This is an undeniable fact. Published 17Apr2011, viewed 243 times
Death Row Organ Banks, by Stan Moody As a logjam of executions builds due to a shortage of lethal injection sedatives, states are wrestling with the ethics of permitting organ donations by death row prisoners seeking one more chance at humanity... Published 17Apr2011, viewed 341 times
Worried About Lethal Injection Supplies? Help Is On The Way!, by Stan Moody We are an angry, volatile nation that
dispatches justice with the same production-line efficiency exhibited in the
abortion industry. Meanwhile, those most eager to meter the death penalty to
the vilest of offenders are pro-life Christians. Go figure! Published 16Apr2011, viewed 197 times
Maine's Sex Offender Conundrum, by Stan Moody State legislators continue to bend to the will of constituents who stereotype sex offenders as some sleazy-looking male hiding in the bushes in a shool yard...They want to prohibit a sex offender from living within 2,500 feet of a school or day care center...In fact, the common profile of a sex offender is a person who looks, acts and lives like us! Published 16Apr2011, viewed 292 times
Prison Reform: Is "Joe The Boss" Ready For Prime Time?, by Stan Moody Joe Ponte has been a very successful prison warden but never a commissioner...We suspect that he is feeling a bit of nervous restraint right now by moving into the political realm...Initial indications are unsettling - too much emphasis on retirement and not enough on wrestling that booger to the ground! Published 15Apr2011, viewed 170 times
Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami Prove It's Time to Build Bandwidth, by Skip Conover One thing the last few weeks have proven to us is that its time for Internet companies like Twitter, Facebook and the news media like CNNd to build bandwidth and monetize. The earthquake and tsunami in Japan on March 11, 2011, and Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya's Revolution 2.0, prove to us that the world has become dependent upon social networks. The question is, what now? Published 16Mar2011, viewed 193 times
Tips For You: Repair Credit Companies, by Charles Waterman You may be surprise to know that there are even more than 32 million
citizens in the United States whose credit score is below 630. Published 14Mar2011, viewed 208 times
Prison Reform: Kicking The "Can" On Down The Road, by Stan Moody You know that the nanny state has fully matured when
its economy boasts corrections as its fastest-growing industry...In upstate New York, corrections has become its economic development lifeline, with 13 state prisons within one state senate district...Gov. Cuomo made it clear that NY would no longer be putting people in prison so other people would have jobs..."If people need jobs, let's get people jobs!" Published 09Apr2011, viewed 212 times
With the 2011 Budget Fast Approaching UK Business Calls for a 'Business Budget', by Timothy Frodsham The retail industry has been hit hard over the last few years and many
companies have struggled to survive. Recent Government policy decisions
have hit the retail industry hard, and now the British Retail
Consortium (BRC) has urged the Chancellor, George Osborne, to introduce
measures to support the struggling British economy in this month's
budget. Published 24Mar2011, viewed 310 times
Dismantling The Empire: America's Last Best Hope, by Scott F Paradis The US pursuit of empire, coupled with financial missteps of enormous proportion, have brought us to the edge of ruin. To survive the US must change course. While Chalmers Johnson claim in "Dismantling The Empire" - that the military-industrial complex is solely to blame for the failings of empire falls short, following his sound advice to peacefully dismantle the empire is one of the necessary steps to save the nation. Published 12Mar2011, viewed 163 times
Prison Reform: A Fool's Errand, by Stan Moody The nature of prisons is to accomplish exactly the opposite of their intention by creating a subclass of repeat customers...Reforming a system intrinsically in definance of any kind of reform is a fool's errand...However, reform at the level of bail, probation and parole can reduce recidivism and reoffending to 20% and close down half the prisons in America within 5 years thereafter... Published 08Apr2011, viewed 209 times
Conservatives Divide and Conquer the Middle Class, by Skip Conover Did you ever wonder why Wall Street bankers think they are worth $100 million bonuses? They think they are worth it because they have skewed the concentration of wealth in the United States. They are getting away with ripping off the Middle Class, and few of them have gone to prison for their behavior. Every so often, though, they overstep, and then we all get to see and feel the consequences directly. Published 08Apr2011, viewed 185 times
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