Copyrighted Image? DMCA | For 9 years, the U.S. govt refused to let a Stanford PhD student named Rahinah Ibrahim back in the country after putting her on the no-fly list for no apparent reason. For 8 years, U.S. govt lawyers fought IbrahimĂ ‚¬ „ s request that she be told why. Last April, despite his promise in 2009 to do so only in only the most extreme cases, Attorney General Eric Holder tried to block IbrahimĂ ‚¬ „ s case by asserting the state secrets privilege, declaring under penalty of perjury that the information she wanted Ă ‚¬Ĺ"could reasonably be expected to cause significant harm to national security.Ă ‚¬ ť
Last week, a federal judge publicly revealed the govtĂ ‚¬ „ s explanation for IbrahimĂ ‚¬ „ s long ordeal: an FBI agent had Ă ‚¬Ĺ"checked the wrong box,Ă ‚¬ ť resulting in her falling under suspicion as a terrorist. Even when the government found and corrected the error years later, they still refused to allow Ibrahim... |
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Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness (more...)
