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Listening to Ok Smartypants (2008) by The Max Levine Ensemble I love this album so much, and I think it's available for free on their website, or at least their previous releases are

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A new Post has been published on http://www.dailybrian.com/2014/08/12/aclu-will-sue-the-military-if-chelsea-manning-is-not-given-gender-treatment/

ACLU Will Sue The Military If Chelsea Manning Is Not Given Gender Treatment

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Chelsea Manning have given the military until Sept. 4 to put in place appropriate medical treatment for the transgender woman, who is an inmate at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. If the military does not act by that time, the lawyers say they will sue to ensure that Manning r...

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Ideas at the House:  Panel - The War on Whistleblowers and Their Publishers

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On August 21, 2013 Sparrow Media partnered with Jeff Wirth of Burning Hearts Media to produce Alexa O'Brien's exclusive interview with David Coombs, lead civilian counsel for Private First Class Manning. An excerpt of this interview aired that afternoon on Huffpost Live and was embedded on Huffington Post. The next morning, 40 minutes of this interview aired on Democracy Now!. The following is Alexa's interview with David in its entirety available for embed or download. We welcome bloggers and media outlets to use this footage as it is the only comprehensive long-form interview with Manning's counsel and sheds an important light on one of the most historic and heartbreaking cases of whistleblower prosecution to date.

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Diet Eating | Healthy Eating Diet Plans - http://dieteating.org/video-manning-wants-to-serve-time-as-a-woman-get-therapy/ - http://dieteating.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Manning_Wants_To_Serve_Time_As_A_Woman__Get_Therapy.jpg - Bradley Manning’s latest bombshell that the convicted Army private wants to live the rest of his life as a woman named Chelsea and begin hormone treatment soon has exposed rifts in the way the government and society view transgender men and women. Manning, 25, received a 35-year prison... - <div id="grabpreview"> <p><img src='http://images.grab-media.com/wochit_news/2013/08/23/c4b72ab1319e7b7b19747979d3d66dabd9c0bed4_preview.jpg' /></p> </div> <p>Bradley Manning's latest bombshell that the convicted Army private wants to live the rest of his life as a woman named Chelsea and begin hormone treatment soon has exposed rifts in the way the government and society view transgender men and women. Manning, 25, received a 35-year prison sentence for leaking a trove of classified information to the website WikiLeaks. Manning revealed in a statement to NBC's Today show that he will now be known as Chelsea and live as a woman.</p> - Afghanistan, and Gender Nonconforming People, Boston, Bradley Manning, David Coombs, Hormone replacement therapy, Iraq, Leavenworth, LGBT, National Center for Transgender Equality, New York City, Sex reassignment therapy, Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, Transitioning, Transsexualism, U. S. Army, U. S. Army Special Forces, U. S. Departmentof Veterans Affairs, United States, USA, Virginia, Wiki Leaks, wikileaks

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VIDEO: Manning Wants To Serve Time As A Woman, Get Therapy

Bradley Manning’s latest bombshell that the convicted Army private wants to live the rest of his life as a woman named Chelsea and begin hormone treatment soon has exposed rifts in the way the government and society view transgender men and women. Manning, 25, received a 35-year prison sentence for leaking a trove of classified information to the website WikiLeaks. Manning revealed in a statement to NBC’s Today show that he will now be known as Chelsea and live as a woman.

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The Sentencing of Chelsea Manning: Alexa O’Brien’s Exclusive Interview with Attorney David Coombs -- http://www.sparrowmedia.net/2013/08/sentencing-chelsea-manning-alexa-obriens-exclusive-interview-attorney-david-coombs/ On August 21, 2013 The Sparrow Project partnered with Jeff Wirth of Burning Hearts Media to produce Alexa O’Brien’s [https://twitter.com/carwinb] exclusive interview with David Coombs, lead civilian counsel for Private First Class Manning. #FreeChelsea

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TEXT OF BRADLEY MANNING'S LETTER TO PRESIDENT

The decisions that I made in 2010 were made out of a concern for my country and the world that we live in. Since the tragic events of 9/11, our country has been at war. We've been at war with an enemy that chooses not to meet us on any traditional battlefield, and due to this fact we've had to alter our methods of combating the risks posed to us and our way of life.

I initially agreed with these methods and chose to volunteer to help defend my country. It was not until I was in Iraq and reading secret military reports on a daily basis that I started to question the morality of what we were doing. It was at this time I realized that (in) our efforts to meet the risk posed to us by the enemy, we have forgotten our humanity. We consciously elected to devalue human life both in Iraq and Afghanistan. When we engaged those that we perceived were the enemy, we sometimes killed innocent civilians. Whenever we killed innocent civilians, instead of accepting responsibility for our conduct, we elected to hide behind the veil of national security and classified information in order to avoid any public accountability.

In our zeal to kill the enemy, we internally debated the definition of torture. We held individuals at Guantanamo for years without due process. We inexplicably turned a blind eye to torture and executions by the Iraqi government. And we stomached countless other acts in the name of our war on terror.

Patriotism is often the cry extolled when morally questionable acts are advocated by those in power. When these cries of patriotism drown out any logically based dissension, it is usually the American soldier that is given the order to carry out some ill-conceived mission.

Our nation has had similar dark moments for the virtues of democracy - the Trail of Tears, the Dred Scott decision, McCarthyism, and the Japanese-American internment camps - to mention a few. I am confident that many of the actions since 9/11 will one day be viewed in a similar light.

As the late Howard Zinn once said, "There is not a flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."

I understand that my actions violated the law; I regret if my actions hurt anyone or harmed the United States. It was never my intent to hurt anyone. I only wanted to help people. When I chose to disclose classified information, I did so out of a love for my country and a sense of duty to others.

If you deny my request for a pardon, I will serve my time knowing that sometimes you have to pay a heavy price to live in a free society. I will gladly pay that price if it means we could have a country that is truly conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all women and men are created equal.

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Manning family issue statement

Manning’s US-based aunt, who has asked to remain anonymous, writes on behalf of the soldier’s family:

While we are obviously disappointed in today’s verdicts, we are happy that Judge Lind agreed with us that Brad never intended to help America’s enemies in any way. Brad loves his country and was proud to wear its uniform.

We want to express our deep thanks to David Coombs, who has dedicated three years of his life to serving as lead counsel in Brad’s case. We also want to thank Brad’s Army defense team, Major Thomas Hurley and Captain Joshua Tooman, for their tireless efforts on Brad’s behalf, and Brad’s first defense counsel, Captain Paul Bouchard, who was so helpful to all of us in those early confusing days and first suggested David Coombs as Brad’s counsel. Most of all, we would like to thank the thousands of people who rallied to Brad’s cause, providing financial and emotional support throughout this long and difficult time, especially Jeff Paterson and Courage to Resist and the Bradley Manning Support Network. Their support has allowed a young Army private to defend himself against the full might of not only the US Army but also the US Government.