Saturday, August 18, 2018

Rule of the majority, by the majority and for the majority.

“Democracy is direct self-government, over all the people, by all the people, for all the people.”
For me it looks more like 
Rule of the majority, by the majority and for the majority.
and the majority being racist whites

In his March 22 op-ed, “Leave it to Neil,” Dana Milbank well summed up Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch’s testimony in his Senate confirmation hearings as that of “a folksy sycophant.” Mr. Gorsuch’s touted brilliance slipped a bit in his reference to “government of the people, by the people, for the people” as a declaration from Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address. He was corrected by a Democratic senator, who noted that it was part of the Gettysburg Address.
Lincoln evidently borrowed the now-famous three-part phrase. In 1384, John Wycliffe wrote in the prologue to his translation of the Bible, “The Bible is for the Government of the People, by the People, and for the People” (Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett, 1951 edition). Bartlett cites Theodore Parker using this phraseology in a sermon in Boston’s Music Hall on July 4, 1858, noting that Lincoln’s law partner William H. Herndon visited Boston and returned to Springfield, Ill., with some of Parker’s sermons and addresses. Herndon wrote that Lincoln marked with pencil the portion of the Music Hall address “Democracy is direct self-government, over all the people, by all the people, for all the people.”

Can Muslims in US be interned like the Japanese were during WWII? Isamu Shibayama Dies at 88, His Quest for Reparations Unfulfilled

 I had heard of American Japanese citizens being interned but this news about they being rounded up from South America is a shocker to me.
So What is going to prevent theTrump administration doing the same to Muslim Americans?

The Supreme court is ready to rubber stamp such an atrocity IMHO


Isamu Shibayama Dies at 88, His Quest for Reparations Unfulfilled

Isamu Shibayama, known as Art, in Seabrook, N.J., in 1952 after being drafted into the Army. It would take him 18 years to finally be granted citizenship.
By Sam Roberts
Aug. 17, 2018

Until he turned 11½, Isamu Shibayama’s childhood was idyllic.

His father was a successful textile importer and dress-shirt wholesaler in Lima, Peru. His house was staffed by servants. He was chauffeured to private school. He spent summers living on the coast with his grandparents, who owned a department store, and swimming in the Pacific.

Then, on Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

Isamu’s father was playing tennis when news of the air raid was broadcast. He was immediately summoned home. His family and their friends were frightened. But even with anti-Japanese sentiment spreading in Peru, nobody predicted what would happen next.

The Shibayama family, joining nearly 2,000 others of Japanese heritage living in Peru, were rounded up by the police, turned over to American troops and shipped to prison camps in Texas and other states. They would remain there from 1942 to 1944, sharing the fate of tens of thousands of Japanese-Americans who were also interned.

In boarding a chartered military troop ship bound for New Orleans, Isamu Shibayama embarked on what would prove to be a three-decade struggle to become an American citizen. Until then, his wife, Betty Shibayama, said last year, “he was a man without a country.”
Even more, his forced removal from the country in which he was born set him on a lifetime quest for a formal apology and reparations from the United States government.

Mr. Shibayama did become a citizen. But when he died on July 31 in San Jose, Calif., at 88 a retired gas station owner, his ultimate mission remained unfulfilled.

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Just last year, after he had given up on getting satisfaction in United States courts, he appealed to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, an agency of the Washington-based Organization of American States.

At a hearing to determine whether Mr. Shibayama and two of his brothers had been victims of human rights violations during World War II, the commission’s president, Francisco Jose Eguiguren Praeli, a former Peruvian justice minister, expressed his personal apologies. But the commission had yet to issue any formal findings when Mr. Shibayama died.

Washington’s agenda in expatriating the Peruvians of Japanese descent from Latin America was twofold. One aim, the government said, was to make the nation’s southern border less vulnerable to infiltration or attack; the other was to provide a pool of people of Japanese ethnicity who might be traded for American civilians stranded in Japan after the Pearl Harbor attack.

Whatever resistance the policy generated in Peru, it was tempered by the same kind of anti-Japanese prejudice that the war had stoked in the United States.

Moreover, there was a growing consensus that expelling the ethnic Japanese, particularly those who ran businesses, would reduce competition for other Peruvians struggling in a depressed economy.

Japanese began migrating to Peru in the late 19th century, mostly as contract laborers, but many moved to the cities and had become, like Mr. Shibayama’s father, successful entrepreneurs.

Isamu Shibayama was born on June 6, 1930, in Lima, Peru’s capital. He was the eldest of eight children of Yuzo and Tatsue (Ishibashi) Shibayama, immigrants from Fukuoka, on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu. He was baptized Carlos Arturo Isamu and came to be called Art for short.

After the war broke out, his grandparents in Peru were among the first to be seized. Sent to the United States, they were put in a detention camp for enemy aliens in Seagoville, Tex., near Dallas, until they were deported to Japan in an exchange for Americans held there.

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Mr. Shibayama testifying before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington in 2017. At his death the panel was still considering his appeal for official redress for his wartime internment.
In Peru, Mr. Shibayama’s father went into hiding, but he turned himself in after his wife and 11-year-old daughter were arrested.

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After being shipped to New Orleans, the family was taken by train to the federal government’s largest wartime internment camp, in Crystal City, Tex., southwest of San Antonio.


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Mr. Shibayama recalled that as a schoolboy he had difficulty in classes taught in English and Japanese — his primary language was Spanish — but managed to finish the eighth grade. Around the camp, he delivered mail and ice and joined the baseball team.

When the war ended, in 1945, the family was warned that they would be unwelcome in Peru. But neither were they embraced in their new home. The American authorities classified them as illegal immigrants on the grounds that they had entered the country without proper authorization.

Mr. Shibayama said he was confounded by the government’s position. In an interview with Discover Nikkei, an advocacy group that says it supports “Japanese migrants and their descendants,” he asked, “How can I be illegal when we didn’t want to come here in the first place, and the government brings us, brings us here, forces us to come here, and they bring us at gunpoint?”

With the war over, his family was scheduled to be deported to Japan, by then a devastated country enduring shortages of food and other staples. The family was unwilling to go.

They were rescued by Wayne M. Collins, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, who intervened and arranged to have Mr. Shibayama’s father hired by Seabrook Farms, a frozen-vegetable packing factory in New Jersey. The family was paroled and moved there, settling in the town of Seabrook.

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In time the family moved to Chicago. In 1952, though still classified as an illegal immigrant, Mr. Shibayama was drafted into the Army and deployed to Germany. He was honorably discharged two years later.

After returning to Chicago, he took the advice of solicitous immigration officials and traveled to Canada so that he could re-enter the United States from there. Once he did, he was told that he could qualify for permanent residency but would have to live in the United States for about five years before he was eligible for citizenship.

In the interim, he took a mechanics course, was hired by a car dealer and married Betty Morita, a Japanese-American who had lived on a farm in Oregon before she, too, was sent to an internment camp.

She survives him, along with their children, Bekki and Brian; his brothers, Ken, Tac and George; and his sister, Rose Nishimura. His death was confirmed by his daughter.

Mr. Shibayama received permanent resident status in 1956 and was finally granted citizenship in 1970, the same year he moved to California.

After the Office of Redress Administration was established as part of the Justice Department in 1988 to indemnify Japanese-Americans who had been interned, Mr. Shibayama applied for reparations. His request was denied; only Japanese-Americans who had been citizens or permanent residents during the war were eligible, and he, of course, had been neither.

Years later, a coalition of Japanese Latin Americans called the Campaign for Justice sued for reparations and won its case. In 1999, the federal government expressed regret and awarded each of them $5,000 (compared with the $20,000 in tax-free restitution being paid to Americans of Japanese descent).

Mr. Shibayama, however, declined the payment and sued on his own. When he lost in federal court, he and two of his brothers, Ken and Tac, filed their petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in 2002. That body can issue findings, mediate and refer cases to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which is also overseen by the Organization of American States.

Sixteen years later, Art Shibayama’s brothers are still awaiting a decision.

A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 18, 2018, on Page A26 of the New York edition with the headline: Isamu Shibayama, Detained After Pearl Harbor, Dies at 88. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

The web is deteriorating right in front of us, and a big contributor to that is Google

The web is deteriorating right in front of us, and a big contributor to that is Google

The web is nominally an open platform. Whichever team built this decided to build it in a way that it would only support Google’s own web browser. It’s not unreasonable to expect a massive web company to build cross-browser support for their user-facing demos, especially in cases where there is obviously no reason that it needs to be incompatible.

clearly the marketing page of a feature service for a major cloud vendor should be accessible to as many as possible. There's no real reason something as simple as an audio player to play samples doesn't work well on all browsers.

I appreciate the quality of the offering, and indeed I'm excited because I am currently building a product that uses Google's synthesis!
But it's the lack of care displayed here that's really disappointing. It's like nobody involved with this demo went "Hey, maybe people aren't using Chrome and we should at least not totally fail when that happens". It's disappointing; as a mostly front-end dev at a small company, I put a lot of time into making sure that things work cross-platform, even if I don't always get it right. It's disappointing that Google's culture doesn't rate that highly enough.

There are four or five out there. I would expect the average modern web app to be compatible with Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, and possibly IE11 if that’s appropriate for the particular use case.

Friday, August 17, 2018

Google Dragonfly :Google has no “moral and ethical” values to undergo a crisis

Google has no “moral and ethical” values to undergo a crisis 

The same American public who want all the tech companies to hand over private information of US  citizens to government agencies are suddenly irate over Google's dragonfly  Why?

 So probably one out of 88 Google employees signed  a letter "Big Deal"

Google is a publicly traded business.
No such business will have any qualms when it is ready to lose a billion  + customers.

Thier previous decision to quit China must have hurt them so no more morals or ethics when it comes to the balance sheet.

Silicon Valley tech companies have shown a willingness to put aside their idealism — or rationalize their decisions to court Beijing. 

China military 'likely training for strikes' on US targets, really USAF is not training it's pilots to bomb china

 China military 'likely training for strikes' on US targets, really
USAF is not training its pilots to bomb China! Whom are you trying to fool pentagon Buddies?

See the  Netflix Documentary on  USA  Iraq war cooked up by  Bush, Cheyney and Collin Powell

Now trump and  Pentagon want to attack Iran and China?
Obama  the Nobel peace prize winner  has  killed  more  people illegally by drone strikes than  any other  wartime  president




Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Abrism poisoning by Abrus precatorius

Abrus precatorius, known commonly as jequirity,[1] Crab's eye,[1] or crab's eye creeper,[2] cock's eyes,[2] rosary pea,[1] paternoster pea,[2] love pea,[2] precatory pea or bean,[1] prayer bead,[2] John Crow Bead,[3] coral bead,[2] red-bead vine,[2]country licorice,[2] Indian licorice,[1] wild licorice,[2] Jamaica wild licorice,[2] Akar Saga, coondrimany,[2] gidee gidee,[1] Jumbie bead[1][4] ratti/rettee/retty,[2] or weather plant,[2] is a slender, perennial climber that twines around trees, shrubs, and hedges. It is a legume with long, pinnate-leafleted leaves.
The plant is best known for its seeds, which are used as beads and in percussion instruments, and which are toxic because of the presence of abrin. Ingestion of a single seed, well chewed, can be fatal to both adults and children.[5] The plant is native to a number of tropical areas.[6] It has a tendency to become weedy and invasive where it has been introduced

Abrism poisoning

Poisoning ICD-10-CM Alphabetical Index

The ICD-10-CM Alphabetical Index is designed to allow medical coders to look up various medical terms and connect them with the appropriate ICD codes. There are 32 terms under the parent term 'Poisoning' 

 Poisoning - see also Table of Drugs and Chemicals
 algae and toxins T65.82- 
 Bacillus B (aertrycke) (cholerae (suis)) (paratyphosus) (suipestifer) A02.9 
   botulinus A05.1 
 bacterial toxins A05.9 
 berries, noxious - see Poisoning, food, noxious, berries 
 botulism A05.1 
 ciguatera fish T61.0- 
 Clostridium botulinum A05.1 
 death-cap (Amanita phalloides) (Amanita verna) - see Poisoning, food, noxious, mushrooms 
 drug - see Table of Drugs and Chemicals, by drug, poisoning 
 epidemic, fish (noxious) - see Poisoning, seafood 
   bacterial A05.9 
 fava bean D55.0 
 fish (noxious) T61.9- 
   bacterial - see Intoxication, foodborne, by agent 
   ciguatera fish - see Poisoning, ciguatera fish 
   scombroid fish - see Poisoning, scombroid fish 
   specified type NEC T61.77- 
 food (acute) (diseased) (infected) (noxious) NEC T62.9- 
   bacterial - see Intoxication, foodborne, by agent 
   due to 
    Bacillus (aertrycke) (choleraesuis) (paratyphosus) (suipestifer) A02.9 
     botulinus A05.1 
    Clostridium (perfringens) (Welchii) A05.2 
    salmonella (aertrycke) (callinarum) (choleraesuis) (enteritidis) (paratyphi) (suipestifer) A02.9 
     with 
      gastroenteritis A02.0 
      sepsis A02.1 
    staphylococcus A05.0 
    Vibrio 
     parahaemolyticus A05.3 
     vulnificus A05.5 
   noxious or naturally toxic T62.9- 
    berries 
    fish - see Poisoning, seafood 
    mushrooms 
    plants NEC 
    seafood - see Poisoning, seafood 
    specified NEC 
 ichthyotoxism - see Poisoning, seafood 
 kreotoxism, food A05.9 
 latex T65.81- 
 lead T56.0- 
 mushroom - see Poisoning, food, noxious, mushroom 
 mussels see also Poisoning, shellfish 
   bacterial - see Intoxication, foodborne, by agent 
 nicotine (tobacco) T65.2- 
 noxious foodstuffs - see Poisoning, food, noxious 
 plants, noxious - see Poisoning, food, noxious, plants NEC 
 ptomaine - see Poisoning, food 
 radiation J70.0 
 Salmonella (arizonae) (cholerae-suis) (enteritidis) (typhimurium) A02.9 
 scombroid fish T61.1- 
 seafood (noxious) T61.9- 
   bacterial - see Intoxication, foodborne, by agent 
   fish - see Poisoning, fish 
   shellfish - see Poisoning, shellfish 
   specified NEC 
 shellfish (amnesic) (azaspiracid) (diarrheic) (neurotoxic) (noxious) (paralytic) T61.78- 
   bacterial - see Intoxication, foodborne, by agent 
   ciguatera mollusk - see Poisoning, ciguatera fish 
 specified substance NEC T65.891 
 Staphylococcus, food A05.0 
 tobacco (nicotine) T65.2- 
 water E87.79