President Obama has commuted Chelsea Manning's sentence, so she will be released May 17, after serving about seven years in jail. I found out from an email announcement and instantly, tears welled in my eyes.
CNN points out that Julian Assange said that if Obama commuted Mannning's sentence, Assange would " agree to US extradition if Manning freed." I wonder, is Obama releasing Manning as a gesture of good will or as a part of a strategy to imprison or cast negative light on Julian Assange and Wikileaks, the kind of thing to be expected from Clinton Democrats.
What do you think? How did you react when you found out. This feels like one of those moments, like when Kennedy was shot and the Space Shuttle exploded.
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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...)