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MLGMA Members Enjoy Leadership Presentation by University of Michigan’s Dave Brandon
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The Michigan Local Government Management Association had its 2011 Winter Institute in Detroit Feb. 1-4 with more than 2000 government officials from throughout the state. During the conference, Farmington Hills City Manager Steve Brock was selected as the 2011 MLGMA President succeeding 2010 MLGMA President Alan G. Vanderberg, Ottawa County Administrator. Read more about Brock here: www.mml.org/advocacy/inside208/post/Farmington-Hills-City…. Also speaking at the convention was University of Michigan Athletic Director Dave Brandon. Brandon talked about effective leadership and believing in the words “Change is Good.” Brandon shared stories and experiences as UM’s athletic director for the past year as well as former CEO of Domino’s Pizza and as a UM football player under legendary coach Bo Schembechler in the early 1970s. Read more about Brandon’s talk with MLGMA members here: www.mml.org/advocacy/inside208/post/Dave-Brandon-Talks-Ab…. On Friday the convention ended with a presentation about positive leadership in a negative environment by Robert J. O’Neill Jr., executive director of ICMA discussions with Tim Skubick, political journalist and anchor and producer of the weekly public TV series “Off the Record.” Read more about Skubick’s talk here: www.mml.org/advocacy/inside208/post/Michigan-Political-Jo…. Other presentations during the four-day conference included a discussion on union negotiations by Howard Shifman and others; a speech by Doug Rothwell, president and CEO of Business Leaders for Michigan; a statewide Shared Services Initiative presented by the Michigan Municipal League’s Arnold Weinfeld; the latest in Lansing and Washington D.C. by Weinfeld and Samantha Jones Harkins of the League; and numerous other sessions relating to local government managers. MLGMA: mlgma.org/; is an affiliate organization of the Michigan Municipal League.

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Training The Generations Slide
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One of the slides that I really liked from the Library-Wide IT Proficiencies workshop – it shows the different training methods most effective with people from different generations – it goes along with a table from the presentation, on my website.


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Rehydration Revolution
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On the right, Brok Doman, who is local, and his Australian counterpart Darren Doherty inspired me to join thier "reverential rehydration revolution". Basically a permaculture technique, they shape the land to receive more water when it rains. Australia is leading the way since they are having to get drought savvy in a hurry due to climate chaos. They talked about using a "keyline" plowing technique. Brock is fond of puns and had lots of clever slides in his plenary presentation. He also admires the work of Brad Lancaster whose books I own and have been studying. His specialty is rainwater harvesting for drylands.

www.oaecwater.org
www.yeomansplow.com.au
www.keyline.com.au

I was also inspired by Jason Mclennan who presented his living building challenge that takes buildings beyond even the platinum LEED standards to that of biomimicry of the living structures that nature creates. This means they are rooted in place, use only the current solar income (not ancient sunlight in fossil fuels), don’t pollute, create habitat, participate in the community and are beautiful and inspirational. He counseled that we should have no new building sites, use net zero energy, no carcinogens, use salvage wood or FSCI certified and net zero water so cleans its own wastewater.

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This guy had a proactive strategy: He watched me shooting another market stand, then asked me to take a portrait of him and his dried peppers and eggplant.

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Carl Zeiss Rollei-HFT Planar 2.8/80 lens
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Lynch at Family and MWR Command SOS Training Conference, U.S. Army, 100808
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PHOTO CAPTION: IMCOM Commanding General Lt. Gen. Lynch Rick Lynch speaks at the Survivor Outreach Services Annual Training Conference in August. (Photo by Rob McIlvaine, FMWRC Public Affairs, cleared for public release, not for commercial use, attribution requested.)
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SOS training conference shares best practices with global staff and partners

By Rob McIlvaine
FMWRC Public Affairs

ARLINGTON, Va. – Over 300 Survivor Outreach Services representatives from the Active Army, Reserves and National Guard converged on the nation’s capitol for their annual training during the second week of August.

The conference hosted team building opportunities so the Active Army, Army National Guard, Reserves, Casualty Assistance Centers’ staffs and SOS teams could share best practices with each other.

It also provided an opportunity for non-government organizations to meet SOS staff and provide insight on their work with survivors.

According to Donna Engeman, FMWRC SOS program manager, SOS is one of the Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey’s top priorities. Casey, who lost his father in Vietnam, developed the idea for a better support system for survivors of fallen service members in late 2006.

“Because taking care of survivors is one of Gen. Casey’s top priorities, it’s imperative that we have the right people in the SOS positions in the field. We also need to give them the best training, tools and resources possible in order for them to care for survivors,” Engeman said.

One of those tools introduced at this conference was a draft of the SOS Operations Manual.

“The Operations Manual provides guidance, sort of a standard operating procedure. Another purpose of the training was to update our team members on the latest changes in entitlements, policies and regulations regarding survivors,” Engeman said.

At the conference, Fort Hood’s SOS team and center were given the spotlight to tell their story and share what they’ve learned since their program became official in May, 2009.

Through the efforts of Lt. Gen. Lynch, who began growing and evolving survivor outreach while serving as III Corps and Fort Hood commander, was later tapped to be IMCOM commanding general by Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey,

“SOS is the most important program the Army has and the Fort Hood SOS program center is what ‘right looks like,’” Lynch told the gathered SOS representatives.

“We’re going to fully fund this program, and we’re going to increase output at a reduced cost. And you’re going to tell me if we’re doing the right thing for our Families of the fallen because it worries me to death that there might be one Family out there who fear they’ve been forgotten,” Lynch said.

But the Army can’t do it alone.

At the training, Lynch mentioned that volunteers, local businesses and nonprofits are ready, willing and available right outside the gate.

“The community wants to help. Private organizations want to help. We have to give them the opportunity to help. They know they enjoy freedom because of the sacrifices paid by Gold Star Families and they want to give back as much as they can,” Lynch said.

After Lynch secured a building large enough to allow expansion of Fort Hood’s SOS program, garrison funds only went so far.

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Newly appointed SOS Program Manager Janeth Lopez immediately went out into the community to create program awareness. Soon after, furniture and appliances were donated, a Family room was improved and the adjoining kitchen took on a Family atmosphere.

“But when you go out to make presentations,” Fort Hood SOS Support Coordinator Connie McDonald said, “You won’t have to tell what you need. You’ll be asked, ‘what do you need,’ and ‘how can I help?’” McDonald said.

“Think about offering the possibility of sponsoring a meal if having a Family day or planting a tree of remembrance during an annual Family gathering, but be aware of your installation and its assets, such as trees needing lots of water. And know the regulations on what to tell people who want to donate,” McDonald said.

During August of last year, the Fort Hood SOS expanded into a larger facility that provided room for a growing staff and range of programs. This expansion also allowed for the creation of the Hall of Remembrance dedicated to the fallen heroes.

Survivors were asked to bring in or send an 8”x10” photo or artist’s rendering of their loved one to be framed and placed on the wall with a metal plaque.

McDonald provided information and guidance to the conference participants on how to manage a Hall of Remembrance, including tips from participants in focus groups such as “please don’t place the photo on the wall at a height that causes someone to look down.”

In fact, one of the “best practices” shared at the conference was the recommendation to use focus groups to ensure SOS programs are meeting the needs of the survivors.

“Some of the garrisons may have focus groups organized in order to receive survivor feedback on issues they face. At the Department of the Army level, we have the CSA’s Survivor Working Group which provides advice and comments on the SOS program,” Engeman said.

Another best practice shared is the creation of a record of fallen soldiers at the unit level.
“This register goes with the colors at the change of command ceremony and signifies that the fallen will forever be assigned to this command and the Families will continue to be part of this unit,” McDonald said.

“You are all advocates for our Soldiers and survivors. Make senior leaders realize that all of our Soldiers will be remembered for how they chose to live, not how they died,” McDonald said.

For more information, visit Army OneSource at www.myarmyonesource.com/familyprogramsandservices/familyp…

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www.Twitter.com/FamilyMWR
www.YouTube.com/FamilyMWR


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Johanna Macy
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The Dalai Lama was twice quoted at Bioneers for having said, recently in Vancouver, that "the world will be saved by Western women". I would put Johanna Macy at the top of the list. She is an amazing spiritaul teacher, activist and motivational speaker.

She still has incredible presence and can rant like no other, but she prefers to inspire. She talked of how there are 3 stories converging. The first is business as usual; the second is the great unraveling and the third is the great turning ie: from stock house and sewer to revolution which will not be televized, but we’re living it.

She talked about getting used to uncertainty by appreciating the 5 gifts of uncertainty. She said that since American culture was based on unflagging optimism and confidence based in sureness this will be especially hard for us.

1) Uncertainty can free us from constantly taking our emotional temperature; we can live in the moment which will allow us to do what needs doing. So, in other words, enough with the therapy already.

2) In uncertainty we recognize our power of intention, realize that we give a damn.

3) It allows us to befriend our pain. And don’ t le

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t anyone pathologize it, she counseled. Then quoted a great deal of Rilke "Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell…"

4) Uncertainty allows us solidarity with our kith and kin including nature. System thinking shows us this.

5) Uncertainty gives us immensity of time because what we do now will have a direct affect on future generations.

It was a call to action and we were ready.

Also terrific was Mari Margil, director of the Community Environmental Defense Fund. She spoke of how environmental laws were not created to protect the environment but to regulate how quickly natural resources were used as a resource for commerce. The laws do not allow a community to say no to removal of these resources. The only way is for communities to strip corporations of their constitutional rights and establish the rights of eco-systems. She gave examples from Blane, a tiny coal mining town in Pennsylvania and Barnstead in New England and also Ecuador. The fight continues in Spokane.

Catherine bought the DVDs of the plenary speakers if you want to borrow. In fact we’ll insist on it.


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Lt. Gen. Rick Lynch speaks to SOS reps at 2010 training conference – U.S. Army – FMWRC -100823
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Lt. Gen. Rick Lynch, IMCOM commanding general, addresses about 300 Active Army, Reserve and National Guard Survivor Outreach Services representatives on the passion needed to grow one of the Army’s newest and most important programs at the annual training in Arlington, Va. (Photo by Rob McIlvaine, FMWRC Public Affairs, cleared for public release, not for commercial use, attribution requested.)

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SOS training conference shares best practices with global staff and partners

By Rob McIlvaine
FMWRC Public Affairs

ARLINGTON, Va. – Over 300 Survivor Outreach Services representatives from the Active Army, Reserves and National Guard converged on the nation’s capitol for their annual training during the second week of August.

The conference hosted team building opportunities so the Active Army, Army National Guard, Reserves, Casualty Assistance Centers’ staffs and SOS teams could share best practices with each other.

It also provided an opportunity for non-government organizations to meet SOS staff and provide insight on their work with survivors.

According to Donna Engeman, FMWRC SOS program manager, SOS is one of the Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey’s top priorities. Casey, who lost his father in Vietnam, developed the idea for a better support system for survivors of fallen service members in late 2006.

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“Because taking care of survivors is one of Gen. Casey’s top priorities, it’s imperative that we have the right people in the SOS positions in the field. We also need to give them the best training, tools and resources possible in order for them to care for survivors,” Engeman said.

One of those tools introduced at this conference was a draft of the SOS Operations Manual.

“The Operations Manual provides guidance, sort of a standard operating procedure. Another purpose of the training was to update our team members on the latest changes in entitlements, policies and regulations regarding survivors,” Engeman said.

At the conference, Fort Hood’s SOS team and center were given the spotlight to tell their story and share what they’ve learned since their program became official in May, 2009.

Through the efforts of Lt. Gen. Lynch, who began growing and evolving survivor outreach while serving as III Corps and Fort Hood commander, was later tapped to be IMCOM commanding general by Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey,

“SOS is the most important program the Army has and the Fort Hood SOS program center is what ‘right looks like,’” Lynch told the gathered SOS representatives.

“We’re going to fully fund this program, and we’re going to increase output at a reduced cost. And you’re going to tell me if we’re doing the right thing for our Families of the fallen because it worries me to death that there might be one Family out there who fear they’ve been forgotten,” Lynch said.

But the Army can’t do it alone.

At the training, Lynch mentioned that volunteers, local businesses and nonprofits are ready, willing and available right outside the gate.

“The community wants to help. Private organizations want to help. We have to give them the opportunity to help. They know they enjoy freedom because of the sacrifices paid by Gold Star Families and they want to give back as much as they can,” Lynch said.

After Lynch secured a building large enough to allow expansion of Fort Hood’s SOS program, garrison funds only went so far.

Newly appointed SOS Program Manager Janeth Lopez immediately went out into the community to create program awareness. Soon after, furniture and appliances were donated, a Family room was improved and the adjoining kitchen took on a Family atmosphere.

“But when you go out to make presentations,” Fort Hood SOS Support Coordinator Connie McDonald said, “You won’t have to tell what you need. You’ll be asked, ‘what do you need,’ and ‘how can I help?’” McDonald said.

“Think about offering the possibility of sponsoring a meal if having a Family day or planting a tree of remembrance during an annual Family gathering, but be aware of your installation and its assets, such as trees needing lots of water. And know the regulations on what to tell people who want to donate,” McDonald said.

During August of last year, the Fort Hood SOS expanded into a larger facility that provided room for a growing staff and range of programs. This expansion also allowed for the creation of the Hall of Remembrance dedicated to the fallen heroes.

Survivors were asked to bring in or send an 8”x10” photo or artist’s rendering of their loved one to be framed and placed on the wall with a metal plaque.

McDonald provided information and guidance to the conference participants on how to manage a Hall of Remembrance, including tips from participants in focus groups such as “please don’t place the photo on the wall at a height that causes someone to look down.”

In fact, one of the “best practices” shared at the conference was the recommendation to use focus groups to ensure SOS programs are meeting the needs of the survivors.

“Some of the garrisons may have focus groups organized in order to receive survivor feedback on issues they face. At the Department of the Army level, we have the CSA’s Survivor Working Group which provides advice and comments on the SOS program,” Engeman said.

Another best practice shared is the creation of a record of fallen soldiers at the unit level.
“This register goes with the colors at the change of command ceremony and signifies that the fallen will forever be assigned to this command and the Families will continue to be part of this unit,” McDonald said.

“You are all advocates for our Soldiers and survivors. Make senior leaders realize that all of our Soldiers will be remembered for how they chose to live, not how they died,” McDonald said.

For more information, visit Army OneSource at www.myarmyonesource.com/familyprogramsandservices/familyp…

Connect with us:
www.Facebook.com/FamilyMWR
www.Twitter.com/FamilyMWR
www.YouTube.com/FamilyMWR


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Utøya – killing spree’s sequence of events inscribed onto the island
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Frivillig jente fra Norsk Folkehjelp savnet på Utøya (Voluntary girl from Norwegian People’s Aid missed on Utøya) Published 24.07.2011 20.06 by Eivind Funds efo@tv2.no efo@tv2.no — Photo: Graphics: Torleif Hamre / TV 2
Utøya-Island as seen from the mainland

The Political Thinking of Anders Behring Breivik By Doug Saunders | Published: July 23, 2011
Breivik acknowledges through lawyer that he’s part of an international network of extremists, and that this was an explicitly political act.
Missed from Breivik’s manifesto earlier: "I guess I’m not an excessively religious man. I am first and foremost a man of logic." @ Doug Saunders on twitter On his Facebook profile, Breivik describes himself as a Christian. Breivik states that he chose to be baptised into the Church of Norway at the age of 15 although he later became disenchanted with Norway’s State Church. In his manifesto, he described himself as a "moderately religious" protestant (p. 1398) who supports "a reformation of Protestantism leading to it being absorbed by Catholisism". Police reports describe Breivik as a "Christian fundamentalist". @ wikipedia ABB
Anders Behring Breivik’s comments (Sept 2009 – Oct 2010) @scripd

TRAFFIC coming from:
- Sommerleir på Utøya Arbeidernes Ungdomsfylking (AUF) er Arbeiderpartiets ungdomsorganisasjon. Tid og sted 19.-24.juli Utøya, Tyrifjorden i Hole kommune. Transport Buss nr.171 (Timesekspressen nr. 4) til Utvika. Båten går fast xx.50 hver hele time fra øya, og fra landsida xx.00.
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So spielte sich das Drama in Utoeya ab (Chronologie www.faz.net/artikel/C32742/chronologie-was-auf-der-insel-… @ www.spiegel.de/flash/flash-26555.html)
~14: ABB verschickt Emails mit dem 1500 seitigen PDF-Pamphlet an europäische Gesinnnungsgenossen, u. a. dem Schweden Isak Nygren. Darin kündigte ABB einen Anschlag an: Er werde "minderwertiges Leben mit Kugeln abschießen". Und er habe einen Plan A und Plan B. (Süddeutsche Zeitung, Seite 2, 26.Juli 2011)
15.26: Eine 500-kg-AutoBombe explodiert vor dem Regierungsgebäude in Oslo, in dem sich das Büro des sozialdemokratischen Ministerpräsidenten Jens Stoltenberg befindet. Acht Menschen sterben.
~15.30: Laut Augenzeugen wird ABB unmittelbar nach der Explosion ganz in der Nähe gesehen.
15.32: The Norwegian news agency NTB reports a massive explosion in Oslo’s government district.
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Die etwa 600 Jugendlichen auf Utøya hören am dritten Tag ihres Feriencamps erste Nachrichten von dem Anschlag in der etwa 30 Kilometer entfernten Hauptstadt Oslo.
Die Jugendlichen empfangen auf ihren Smartphones Bilder des Anschlags in Oslo. Das Ausmass der Katastrophe wird ihnen bewusst, viele versammeln sich in einem Gebäude und diskutieren darüber. «Wir trösteten uns damit, dass wir auf unserer Insel wenigstens in Sicherheit seien», schreibt eine Camp-Teilnehmerin am nächsten Tag in ihrem Blog.
… ‘VERSPÄTUNG’: Angeblich wollte der Attentäter bei dem Massaker auf der kleinen Insel Utøya auch die frühere Ministerpräsidentin Gro Harlem Brundtland ermorden. Die Osloer Zeitung „Aftenposten“ berichtete am Montagmorgen in ihrer Online-Ausgabe unter Berufung auf Polizeikreise, dass Breivik dies bei Verhören angegeben habe.
Die 72 Jahre alte Brundtland war nach mehreren Amtszeiten als Ministerpräsidentin bis 2003 Generalsekretärin der Weltgesundheitsorganisation WHO. Brundtland trat am frühen Freitagnachmittag beim sozialdemokratischen Jugendlager auf der Insel Utøya auf. Breivik hatte die oft als „Landesmutter“ bezeichnete Politikerin als „Landesmörderin“ bezeichnet. Vor der Polizei gab der Attentäter nach den Angaben von „Aftenposten“ an, dass er sich auf der Insel verspätet habe. Auch seine Pläne für die vorherigen Bombenexplosionen seien eigentlich umfassender gewesen.
FAZ (25.Juli)
16:30 Anders Behring Breivik (32) tar båten ut til Utøya bevæpnet med håndvåpen og iført polituniform.
~16.30: ABB trifft am Tyrifjord-See ein; unklar ist, warum er für die Fahrt so lange gebraucht hat. Er gibt sich als Polizist aus.
16.50: Am Fähranleger begegnete Simen Braenden Mortensen, 22, Breivik. „Ich war für den Dienst von 13 bis 18 Uhr eingeteilt. Wir saßen in dem roten Zelt am Terminal und lasen im Internet über die Anschläge in Oslo“, erinnert sich Simen. „Ich weiß noch, dass ich überrascht war, dass so etwas nicht schon früher passiert ist. Hier in Norwegen haben wir uns immer zu sicher gefühlt.“
Um kurz vor fünf, es hatte gerade zu regnen aufgehört, sei dann der silberfarbene Van vorgefahren. Simen stand auf und ging zu dem Fahrer, der eine schwarze Polizeiuniform trug, mit dem Polizei – emblem auf der Schulter. „Er war freundlich, sagte, er sei der Anders und komme aus Oslo. Er müsse die Sicherheit auf der Insel überprüfen“, erinnert sich Simen. Dann habe er den Mann um einen Dienstausweis gebeten, sagt Simen leise. Breivik zeigte ihm einen laminierten Polizeiausweis, den er um den Hals trug. „Darauf war das Polizeilogo abgebildet, ein Foto von ihm und eine Erkennungsnummer.“
Simen schüttelt den Kopf. „Er wirkte total seriös. Ich habe keine Sekunde daran gezweifelt, dass er ein Polizist war. Ich habe nicht mal seine Autonummer aufgeschrieben.“
Dann habe die Fähre abgelegt, mit Monica Bøsei, mit den etwa zehn Jugendlichen, die sich auf das Camp freuten. Alles ganz normal, wie unzählige Male zuvor. Er sei wieder in das Zelt gegangen. Wenige Minuten später hörte er drei Schüsse. „Das mag absurd klingen, aber mein erster Gedanke war, der Polizist testet seine Waffen“, berichtet Simen. „Doch dann fielen immer mehr Schüsse.“ (DER SPIEGEL 2011 31)
~16.50: Zeuge Haakon Sandbakken ist ebenfalls auf dem Boot, bestaunt noch den vermeintlichen Polizisten: „Ich wunderte mich, dass er eine Waffe trug, aber ich dachte, es hätte was mit den Bomben in Oslo zu tun. Er sah sehr muskulös aus, ich habe ihn eigentlich bewundert.“ Die Todesspur des?blonden Teufels @ bild.de
16.50: Håkon ist einer derjenigen, die auf der kleinen Fähre MS „Thorbjorn“ zusammen mit Anders Behring Breivik nach Utøya übersetzten und dann, kaum angekommen, vor ihm fliehen mussten. Gegen 17 Uhr am vorvergangenen Freitag war Håkon an der Ablegestelle am See Tyrifjord angekommen. Schon auf der Busfahrt hatte er von dem Anschlag in Oslo gehört. Fast drei Tage lang, bis zum Sonntag, wollte er auf Utøya bleiben. In dem roten Zelt an der Ablegestelle der Fähre
hatte er sich registriert, dort erhielt er, wie jeder Ankömmling, das weiß-orangefarbene Armband mit der Aufschrift Utøya.
Als Håkon sich gerade für die Überfahrt angemeldet hatte, traf ein silberfarbener Van ein. Am Steuer saß ein Polizist. Ein blonder Typ, etwa so groß wie er selbst. „Ich habe mich gewundert, warum er ein ziviles Auto fährt“, erinnert sich Håkon. Dann hörte er, wie der angebliche Polizist den beiden Männern, die hier auf dem Festland die Gäste des Jugend-Camps auf Utøya in Empfang nehmen, erklärte, er wolle nach den Anschlägen in Oslo die Sicherheit auf der Insel überprüfen.
Håkon Sandbakken hat seine Erlebnisse niedergeschrieben und ins Internet gestellt. Er sagt, dort könne jeder nachlesen, was am 22. Juli geschah. Er will nicht immer den Horror neu erleben müssen. So heißt es in seinem Bericht, dass er die Fähre im gleichen Augenblick wie Breivik betrat. Auf der kurzen Überfahrt hörte Håkon, wie sich der Uniformierte mit einer Frau über das Bombenattentat in Oslo unterhielt. Es war Monica Bøsei, 45, die auf Utøya schon seit 20 Jahren das Sommerlager der norwegischen Arbeiterpartei organisiert. Jeder kannte sie hier. Für den sozialdemokratischen Ministerpräsidenten Jens Stoltenberg und viele andere war sie „Mutter Utøya“. Monica Bøsei habe noch einmal etwas anderes machen, in einem Café arbeiten wollen, erzählen Bekannte in ihrem Dorf. Es sei ihre letzte Woche auf Utøya gewesen. Ihr Mann, Jon Olsen, steuerte die Fähre. Die beiden haben erst kürzlich gebaut.
Ein weißes Holzhaus am Hang, von der Veranda fällt der Blick auf die Insel.
Während der Fahrt musste Monica Bøsei etwas aufgefallen sein, etwas, das nicht stimmte. Auch Håkon bemerkte den Stahlkoffer, den der Polizist mitgebracht hat. Er sah auch das Gewehr in dessen Hand, die Pistole im Halfter. Nach wenigen Minuten legte die Fähre am Bootssteg von Utøya an.
Zwei Freunde holten Håkon ab, gemeinsam gingen sie zum Haupthaus. Håkon wollte seine Tasche wegbringen, da knallte es schon hinter ihnen. Bøsei, Mutter von zwei Töchtern, die beide ihren Sommer auf der Insel verbringen, war gleich nach der Ankunft auf Trond Berntsen zugegangen, einen Polizisten, der auf Utøya in seiner Freizeit als Wachmann arbeitete und ein Stiefbruder der norwegischen Kronprinzessin Mette-Marit war.
Beide waren Breivik entgegengetreten, der hatte sofort geschossen. Jetzt hörte Håkon Schreie; Menschen rennen, rufen: „Geht rein, geht rein!“ Er hielt die anderen zunächst für hysterisch, wegen des Oslo-Attentats. „Just relax“, dachte er, als er im Hauptgebäude ankam.
Da knallte es wieder, und nun wurde auch ihm klar: Da schießt einer. Im Haus brach Panik aus. Er sah, wie alle zum Eingang drängten, der sofort verstopft war. Wie ein Flaschenhals. Und wieder Schüsse.
Die Angst der anderen steckte Håkon an. Er lief zu den Toiletten am Ende des Saals. Versteckte sich in einer Kabine zusammen mit drei anderen. Sie hörten die Schüsse im Gebäude. Unzählige Male. Sie hörten die Einschläge in den Wänden, die Schreie der Jugendlichen.
Vor der Tür der Toilette hörte Håkon einen Jungen ächzen. „Meine Knie begannen zu zittern“, berichtet Håkon. „Ein Mädchen aus Uganda hielt sie fest. Sie hatte Angst, das Geräusch könnte uns verraten.“
Alle schalteten ihr Handy aus, fassten sich an den Händen, begannen zu beten.
(DER SPIEGEL 2011 31)
16.57: Johannes Dalen Giske, who works on the passenger ferry, calls the skipper and says there is a police officer asking for transport to the island.
~17:00 I kafébygget holdes et møte om bomben som rammet Oslo. Gjerrningsmannen står utenfor og venter, kaller til seg ungdommen og begynner å skyte. (In the café building held a meeting about the bomb that hit Oslo. The criminal man standing outside and waiting, the call to the youth and began to shoot.)
17.07: Breivik arrives at Utoya island at the pier (Brygga) 1 .
17.07: Ein Mann in Polizeiuniform erreicht mit einem kleinen Boot die Insel. Er trägt sichtbar zwei Waffen, was in Norwegen ungewöhnlich ist. Zunächst erklärt er, er sei zum Schutze der Jugendlichen gekommen, plötzlich beginnt er dann aber zu schiessen.
17.10: Jugendliche, die sich in der Mitte der Insel versammelt haben, hören vom Ufer kommende Panik-Geräusche. Zunächst vermuten sie, es handle sich um explodierende Ballons. Als ihnen klar wird, dass geschossen, wird, bricht Chaos aus. Mehrere Jugendliche rufen eine Notrufnummer an. Dort wird ihnen jedoch erklärte, sie sollten die Leitung nicht blockieren, falls ihr Anruf nicht mit dem Anschlag in Oslo zu tun habe.
17.15: Laut Augenzeugen erreicht der Täter das Gelände, auf dem die Zelte stehen, geht diese systematisch ab und schiesst aus kurzer Distanz auf jeden, den er dort vorfindet.
Magnus Stenseth (18), Regionalleiter einer Jugendorganisation: „Er kam den Hügel hoch und war nur 20 Meter von mir entfernt. Ich sah ihm genau in die Augen, er lud die Waffe, richtete sie auf mich und einige andere und schoss. Ich weiß nicht, ob jemand getroffen wurde.“ Nach jedem Treffer habe der Mörder geschrien und gejubelt. Stenseth: „Es sah aus, als habe er Spaß. Das macht alles noch schlimmer. Er lief über die Insel, als sei er allmächtig. Und das war er auch, weil wir wehrlos waren.”
17.20: Eine Gruppe versteckt sich in einer dunklen Ecke in einem der wenigen Gebäude auf der Insel.
17.25: Als die Schüsse näher kommen, fliehen die Jugendlichen durch ein Fenster. Einige von ihnen schreiben Textnachrichten an ihre Eltern.
17.27: Die Polizei in Buskerod erhält einen Notruf von der Insel Utøya.
17.30: Die Jugendlichen fliehen in Richtung der Ufer, einige springen ins kalte Wasser, um sich schwimmend in Sicherheit zu bringen. Der Täter schiesst auf alles, was sich bewegt. Ein Mädchen berichtet, wie sie auf dem Körper einer toten Kameradin liegt und dabei versucht, sich möglichst still zu verhalten.
17.38: Eine Sondereinheit der Polizei bricht von Oslo nach Utøya auf. Die Einsatzleitung entscheidet, über Land zu fahren, da ein Helikopter offenbar nicht unmittelbar einsatzbereit ist.
17.42 Julie: Mummy, tell the police they must be quick. People are dying here! Marianne: I’m working on it, Julie. The police are on their way. – M.: Dare you call me? J: No. Julie: Tell the police that there is a mad man running around and shooting people. They must hurry! Julie Bremnes, 16, who survived Anders Behring Breivik’s killing spree on Utøya, texted her mother during her ordeal.
17.45: Der Besitzer eines gegenüber der Insel gelegenen Campingplatzes hört eigenen Angaben zufolge seit mehr als einer halben Stunde Schüsse. Doch erst jetzt wird ihm klar, dass sich auf der Insel etwas Schreckliches abspielen muss. Erste Überlebende erreichen schwimmend das etwa 800 Meter von Utøya entfernte Ufer. Sie berichten, dass andere noch im Wasser angeschossen wurden und vermutlich ertrinken würden. Der Besitzer des Campingplatzes und einige Urlauber fahren mit mehreren kleinen Booten in Richtung der Insel, um Überlebende zu retten.
17.52: Erste Polizeistreife erreicht das Gebiet, findet aber kein Boot, um überzusetzen.
18.00: Vier Jugendliche, die offenbar noch nicht wissen, dass der Polizist auf der Insel in Wahrheit keiner ist, rennen ihm Schutz suchend entgegen. Alle vier werden erschossen. Andere sehen dies aus ihren Verstecken, ohne eingreifen zu können.
18.09: Die Anti-Terroreinheit Delta aus Oslo erreicht das Gebiet gegenüber der Insel Utøya.
18.24: TV helicopter films killer executing people on shore 8.
18.25: Delta erreicht die Insel. Zunächst weiss sie nicht, wie viele Attentäter sich dort befinden. Viele der Jugendlichen bleiben aus Angst zunächst weiter in ihren Verstecken. Nach wenigen Minuten wird der 32-Jährige Täter gestellt – laut Polizeiprotokoll um
18.27: früheren Angaben zufolge gegen 18.35 Uhr. Der Mann ergibt sich und wird festgenommen. Die kleinen Boote, die zur Rettung der Jugendlichen losgefahren waren, sind teilweise zu voll, um weitere Menschen aufzunehmen.

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~ 19: Noch immer werden Überlebende aus dem Wasser gerettet. Auf der Insel wagen es einige der Jugendlichen noch immer nicht, aus ihren Verstecken hervorzukommen. «Ich wusste nicht, ob ich ihnen trauen konnte», sagt eine der Überlebenden. «Ich wusste nicht, wem ich überhaupt noch trauen konnte.»

„Wir haben unsere Unschuld verloren“ Der norwegische Schriftsteller und Philosoph Jostein Gaarder spricht über die Folgen des Massakers von Utoya, 28.Juli 2011 Ich kenne viele Norweger, darunter auch einige bedeutende aus Politik und Gesellschaft, für die Utoya Teil ihrer Jugend ist, eben ein ganz besonderer Ort. Die einen haben dort ihre späteren Ehefrauen getroffen. Für andere war es der Ort, wo sie sich zum ersten Mal verliebten oder das erste Mal Fußball spielten…
Ja, Breivik ist kein Neonazi.
‘We hate everything Nazi Germany stood for, … Japan, South Korea and
Taiwan are today our role models for the conservative movement. ‘
{ABB on page 1069 of 1518 in ‘2083 – A European Declaration of Independence‘ / @Pat Dollard}
In den letzten 15 Jahren ist die Zahl der Immigranten in Norwegen von 250.000 auf eine halbe Million angewachsen.
… Nach der Zukunft der multikulturellen Gesellschaft gefragt, hat Umberto Eco mal gesagt, Europa werde in den kommenden 30 Jahren ein farbiger Kontinent werden – durch die Migranten, die Staatenlosen und Asylsuchenden, die in immer größeren Massen versuchen, im Westen anzukommen. Er sagte weiter: „Diese Verwandlung gibt es nicht umsonst. Wir werden sie mit Blut, Leid und Widersprüchen bezahlen müssen. Wir leben jetzt in einer Übergangsphase.“ …

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I always mistrusted the generation the assassin Anders Behring Breivik belongs to although this offspring from a social-democrat decade didn’t give too much hints what an horrible, paramilitary Oedipus Tyrannus – {his father and his PM have the same Christian name ‘Jens’} – they could bring out of herself.
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William Falk, the Editor of The Week, a newsweekly and member of the New York Times News Service, in the course of offering his take on the interaction between blogs and Breivik’s attack in the August 5th edition, provided his reasoning behind the "Breivik is insane" meme:
The irony, of course, is that Breivik’s violent and apocalyptic worldview is a mirror image of the one found on Jihadist websites; for both the Nordic Crusader and the soldier of Allah, there is no gray – only black and white, Us and Them, humiliation and vengeance.
ShrinkWrapped, A Psychoanalyst Attempts to Understand Our World: Anders Behring Breivik, Naser Jason Abdo, and the Nature of Evil: Part II August 04, 2011
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"Der eiskalte Mörder von Norwegen – Wer ist Anders Behring Breivik?" @ ZDF-Zoom Reporterin Beate Hübermann
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Norwegischer Attentäter ergab sich telefonisch @ der Tagesspiegel, 3.August 2011
Die Osloer Zeitung „VG“ berichtete am Mittwoch unter Berufung auf Polizeikreise, dass der Rechtsradikale Anders Behring Breivik unmittelbar vor seiner Festnahme von seinem Handy eine Polizeinummer anrief und sagte: „Breivik. Kommandant. Organisiert in der antikommunistischen Widerstandsbewegung gegen die Islamisierung. Operation ausgeführt, und will sich Delta ergeben.“ Danach legte er nach den Medienangaben auf und wurde eine Minute später von Angehörigen der Polizei-Eliteeinheit Delta festgenommen. Die Polizei wollte den Wortlaut des Anrufs nicht bestätigen.

Anders Behring Breivik: Mad or bad?
Nora Johnson, Euro Weekly News, Fri, 05 Aug 2011
Janne Kristiansen, director of the Norwegian Police Security Service – Norway’s M15 – told the BBC she did not believe he is insane, but calculating and evil, and someone who sought the limelight. Likewise, Peter Svaar, childhood friend and now successful TV journalist, challenged the insanity theory: "He is cold, clever and calculating. My biggest fear now is that he’s still playing us – the media and public opinion – like a piano."
…And then there are commentators like Katharine Birbalsingh who blame Breivik’s father because he "abandoned" the family. But don’t we all know people from broken homes, none of whom are homicidal or have conspiracy tendencies? Ms Birbalsingh’s comment is misguided – though not as much as that of Glen Beck, the leading Right-wing American broadcaster, who believes those targeted were "Hitler Youth" or that of the English Defence League who strive to justify this calamity as anything but a terror attack – as far as the Utøya one is concerned – on innocent children.
Sixty eight children were murdered. Not only that but, according to the forensic examiner, the bullets were adapted so they not only caused the worst injuries possible but also maximum pain.
Breivik is a socio/psychopath and lucky to be alive – still. According to his lawyer, "he thought he would be killed after the bombing, after the action on the island, at the hearing. He believes someone WILL kill him." So, by the time you read this column in a week’s time (EWN’s copy deadline is a week in advance), he may well be dead.
A British psychiatrist, who did not wish to be named, expressed his opinion in typical NHS medical jargon. "He doesn’t sound mad, he sounds a bad ‘un." …

Anger as Italian MP praises Norway terrorist Anders Behring Breivik from Al Jazeera 05. August 2011

Norwegian right wing blogger "Fjordman" denounces Anders Behring Breivik @ The Telegraph & @ huffingtonpost, Friday 05 August 2011
Anders Behring Breivik’s favourite writer, a right-wing blogger previously known only as "Fjordman", has denounced the mass killings in Norway as a wave of funerals took place on Friday.
Norwegian daily newspaper VG identified the blogger as Peder Jensen, a 36-year-old who claims Islam is overrunning European culture and who was praised by Breivik in a 1,500-page manifesto.
"He showed an extreme brutality that’s completely incomprehensible, and he must have believed he was part of a computer game where he was the superhero," said Jensen in an interview with the newspaper, two weeks after the attacks.
Since the attack, police and Norwegian media have been trying to find the author of the anonymous "Fjordman" blog. He was questioned by police as a witness on Thursday, before meeting with reporters from VG in a central Oslo café.
Mr Jensen said Breivik had sent him a number of emails seeking personal contact, but he declined – "not because (Breivik) talked about violence, but because I thought he seemed boring – like a vacuum cleaner salesman."
"’Castle in the sky’, I thought to myself when I read the emails," said Mr Jensen.
Breivik wrote in his manifesto "Fjordman" was his favourite "contemporary author" and quoted his writing at length.
"Our views are quite similar with the exception of me being an actual armed resistance fighter," Breivik wrote.
Mr Jensen told the Norwegian daily the two had never met. Shown in newspaper photos wearing a white T-shirt, blue jeans and glasses, the blogger said he had come forward to clear his name and would now go into hiding in fear of his safety.
"I don’t wish to be associated with Breivik and his horrible actions," he said.
Mr Jensen ran his "Fjordman" blog for less than a year in 2005 but continued to write on other sites critical of Islam and has called the religion an "irrational cult based on fear". He said in a blog he has never called for violence and told VG he would never write under the "Fjordman" pen name again.
"I have read about the unspeakable things Anders Behring Breivik did at Utoeya," he wrote in a blog posted on July 26. "Any person doing such a thing is a monster."

Beerdigung von „Mutter Utoya“ @focus.de, Freitag, 05.08.2011
Die Tochter Böseis hatte nach den Anschlägen gesagt: „Mama war Utoya, und Utoya war Mama. Ich vermisse sie so schrecklich.“ Auch Stoltenberg ist seit Jahrzehnten ein regelmäßiger Besucher der Insel Utoya. Schon in den 60er-Jahren war er als Jungsozialisten dort im Sommerlager. Bis zu dem Massaker nannte er Utoya sein „Paradies“.
Zwei Wochen nach den Anschlägen in Norwegen sind erst 32 der insgesamt 77 Todesopfer beigesetzt. Knapp die Hälfte von ihnen war unter 18 Jahren alt, wie aus der Beerdigungsliste hervorging. Regierungsmitglieder hatten versprochen, an allen Beerdigungen teilzunehmen, bei denen die Angehörigen dies wünschten.

Far-right anger, violence thrive on Europe’s edges By Angela Charlton, Associated Press / August 5, 2011
In Internet chatter, some of the most extreme European voices even say Anders Behring Breivik wasn’t xenophobic enough. Spain’s Democracia Nacional, Russia’s Slavic Union and the Swedish Resistance Movement dismissed him as a Zionist.
Foreign-born people made up 9.4 percent of the population of the 27 European Union states last year, or 47 million of the EU’s half a billion citizens, according to statistics agency Eurostat. But millions of those "foreigners" originally came from another EU country.
The proportion of the foreign-born is low compared to the United States, but has been rising steadily and is unsettling to some in Europe, where many countries were relatively homogenous until recent generations.
As xenophobic sentiment bleeds into the mainstream, authorities are closely watching the activities of the hardened extremists.
The French police unit monitoring extremist activity online registered more than 8,000 complaints last year of racist or xenophobic commentary. Police determined just 10 serious potential threats, according to an official with the Central Office of Judicial Police. The official was not authorized to be publicly named because of the sensitivity of his job.
While most European extremists active online sought to distance themselves from Breivik, Russian neo-Nazis and far-right Russian nationalists hailed his killing spree — and hinted of similar attacks in Russia.
"The white race is attacking: The White Hero of Norway Anders Bering Breivik," read the headline on the website of the Slavic Union, one of Russia’s largest neo-Nazi groups.

Breivik’s Call to Arms
@burmadigest, Aug 6th, 2011, Ian Buruma is Professor of Democracy and Human Rights at Bard College, and the author of Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents.
So, how seriously must we take the ideological reasons that killers like Breivik and the September 11 terrorists invoke to justify their murders?
A few years ago, the German writer Hans Magnus Enzensberger wrote a fascinating essay about the “radical loser.” Radical losers are mostly young men who are so enraged by their own lack of social, economic, and sexual self-esteem and the indifference of the world around them, that they long for a suicidal act of mass destruction.
Anything can trigger such an act: rejection by a girl, being fired from a job, failing an examination. And sometimes the killers reach for ideological justifications: building pure Islam, struggling for communism or fascism, or saving the West. The particular ideals might be unimportant – simply those that happen to be available, owing to fashion or other historical circumstances. Once a radical loser is in the mood to kill, any reason will do.
Perhaps. But does this mean that there is no link at all between the stated views of radical clerics or politicians and the acts committed in the name of those opinions? For all the finger pointing at Wilders, just because Breivik professed to admire him, the acts of a deranged killer, others caution, should not be used to discredit what he stands for. After all, there is nothing irrational, or murderous, about claiming that multiculturalism is a flawed ideal, or that Islam conflicts with modern Western European views of gender equality or gay rights, or that mass immigration will cause serious social conflicts.
These claims began to be made by respectable conservatives, and even some social democrats, in the 1990’s. They reacted against a rather smug liberal establishment that tended to dismiss all critical thought about immigration or non-Western faiths and traditions as racism and bigotry.
But, while there was nothing intrinsically wrong with discussing the social consequences of large-scale immigration from Muslim countries, some populists in Holland, Denmark, France, Germany, Belgium, Britain, and other countries, went much further. Wilders, in particular, likes to speak in apocalyptic terms of “the lights going out over Europe,” and “the sheer survival of the West.” And the problem is not just a particular strain of violent revolutionary Islam, but Islam itself: “If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national socialism – a totalitarian ideology.”
This is the language of existential war, the most dangerous kind. Indeed, the terminology of World War II is being deliberately revived. Those who oppose radical hostility to all forms of Islam are “appeasers” of, or “collaborators” with, “Islamofascism.” For some, September 11, 2001, was analogous to 1938, or even 1940. The very survival of Western civilization is at stake. Is it really so surprising that certain people might mistake this rhetoric for a call to arms?
To be sure, neither Geert Wilders, nor even rabidly anti-Islamic bloggers in the United States, such as Scott Spencer and Pamela Geller (both of whom were quoted extensively in Breivik’s manifesto), have called for physical violence. But their writings and statements have been sufficiently hysterical and hateful to incite a person with an unbalanced mind. Indeed, Breivik’s interpretation of their words is, in an odd way, more rational than the idea that a war for our very survival can be fought with words alone.

Grundsätzlich: Anders Behring Breivik @ liberale Rechte In Grundsätzliches am 6. August 2011
Anders Behring Breivik hat keine Unterstützung für diese Aktion in „seinem“ politischen Lager, im Gegensatz zu den islamisch motivierten Terroristen und damals dem linken Terror der RAF. Hinter Anders Behring Breivik steht offenbar keine Organisation oder gar ein grosses Netzwerk. Anders Behring Breivik kann sich auch auf keine Schriften aus unserer Szene berufen die zur Gewalt aufrufen
Oder aber man nimmt seine politische Ansichten ernst. In diesem Fall werden sich die linken Gewalttäter, Zensurbefürworter und linken Hetzer gegen „Rassismus“ und „Islamophobie“ sowie die Mitglieder der Migrationslobby in ganz Europa die Frage stellen lassen müssen, in wie weit sie für die Tat mitverantwortlich sind. Ihre Verhalten ist zwar keine Rechtfertigung für die Tat, aber eine Erklärung für die Wut die dahinter steckt.
Ein wichtiger Unterschied zwischen Herrn Breivik und den friedlichen Rechtsdemokraten und Islamkritikern ist seine Ansicht das es keine Hoffnung für eine friedliche Lösung gäbe. Als unsere Aufgabe sehe ich es daher an mehr Mut und Hoffung im Kampf gegen die Islamisierung und Überfremdung Europas sowie gegen die Herrschaft der Gutmenschen und Linksfaschisten zu verbreiten. Wir müssen Lösungen aufzeigen wie wir noch siegen können..

In his rage against Muslims, Norway’s killer was no loner by Seumas Milnem,The Guardian, Thursday 28 July 2011
It’s comforting, perhaps, to dismiss Anders Behring Breivik as nothing more than a psychotic loner. That was the view of the Conservative London mayor, Boris Johnson, among others. The Norwegian mass killer’s own lawyer has branded him "insane". It has the advantage of meaning no wider conclusions need to be drawn about the social context of the atrocity.
Had he been a Muslim, as much of the western media concluded he was immediately after the terrorist bloodbath, we can be sure there would have been no such judgments – even though some jihadist attacks have undoubtedly been carried out by individuals operating alone.
In fact, however deranged the bombing and shooting might seem, studies of those identified as terrorists have shown they rarely have mental illness or psychiatric abnormalities. Maybe Breivik will turn out to be an exception. But whether his claim that there are other members of a fascistic Christian terror network still at large turns out to be genuine or not, he has clearly fostered enthusiastic links with violent far-right groups abroad, and in Britain in particular.
Those include multiple contacts with the Islamophobic English Defence League, which has repeatedly staged violent protests against Muslim communities. "You’re a blessing to all in Europe," Breivik apparently told EDL supporters in an online message, hailing "our common struggle against the Islamofascists". Whatever Breivik has done, he hasn’t done in isolation.
…For those who failed to deliver decent jobs, wages and housing, and encouraged employers to profit from low-wage migrant labour, how much easier to scapegoat minority Muslim communities than deal with the banks and corporate free-for-all that triggered the crisis? The attempt to pathologise last Friday’s slaughter and separate it from the swamp that spawned it can only ratchet up the danger to all of us.


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