How Iranians Treat Prisoners

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The War on Terror’s Grand Snafu

The conservative U.S. attorney who finally won the release of the Chinese detainees has a theory that part of what's driving Administration secrecy at Guantanamo is sheer embarrassment at the nonthreatening nature of its detainees there. Not only are these people tortured, refused access to the evidence against them, and hidden from the world indefinitely at our government's whim, many of them also appear to be totally unconnected to terrorism or any plot against the United States or its citizens. Worse still, the fact that they are giving up so little information of any use has, perversely, prompted our government to use harsher and harsher interrogation techniques against its schlub captives. In addition to being a perversion of American and international norms of justice, It is a SNAFU of breathtaking proportions.

Posted May 3, 2007 11:39 AM PST
Category: TORTURE SCANDAL


Imagine an image of the Statue of Liberty, hands shacked behind her, knees and back torturously bent in one of Rumsfeld's much-loved "stress positions", blindfolded, alone, and crying.
The whole notion of the US as a nation of laws has been flushed down the toilet for all the world to see.
http://www.progressive.org/mag_rcb050107

 

[John Welch]

But isn't it wonderful that USA has grown up from teenager to adult? It is now just the same as every historic top-dog empire, and the statue of Liberty has a savage dog spiked-collar around her head.
John

 

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Media Glosses Over New Kent State Smoking Gun
Newly released audio evidence provides definitive proof of government order to shoot Ohio anti-war protestors dead

For the past four decades the truth has been sought as to exactly how and why four students were gunned down by National Guardsmen at Kent State University in 1970 during an anti-war protest that has been written into the history books.

Evidence newly released this week goes a long way to providing that truth yet as per usual the mainstream media has either received shut up orders or decided it is not worth analysing because it points directly toward a government conspiracy and subsequent cover up.

After 37 years of official denial and whitewashing, an audio tape, that has been in the possession of the FBI, has finally been made public via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The tape proves definitively that there was a direct military order leading to the unprovoked assassination of unarmed students.
http://infowars.net/articles/may2007/080507Kent_State.htm
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Genetically Engineered Crops May Produce Herbicide Inside Our Intestines

'They fail to reveal, however, that after you eat the GM corn, some inactive herbicide may become reactivated inside your gut and cause a toxic reaction. In addition, a gene that was inserted into the corn might transfer into the DNA of your gut bacteria, producing long-term effects.'

http://www.non-gm-farmers.com/news_details.asp?ID=2778

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]GM crop taints honey two miles away, test reveals [/FONT]

http://worldvisionportal.org/WVPforum/viewtopic.php?p=1627#1627​

 

[eh1eh]

Didn't you know Stretch, we only should have 1 billion people on earth. The conspiracies you mention in this thread are not conspiracies at all. They are organised by the governments of the world, mainly Bush, to cut down on the surplus population.

 

[John Welch]

How could a person have that many nukes in the mobile-phone, and stay sensible? It's worse if he is not the full bottle to start with.
chimera

 

[Stretch]

actually... it's a bit lower than that........

On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the American Stonehenge. Though relatively unknown to most people, it is an important link to the Occult Hierarchy that dominates the world in which we live.



THE MESSAGE OF THE GEORGIA GUIDESTONES 1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
2. Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity.
3. Unite humanity with a living new language.
4. Rule passion - faith - tradition - and all things with tempered reason.
5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
8. Balance personal rights with social duties.
9. Prize truth - beauty - love - seeking harmony with the infinite.
10.Be not a cancer on the earth - Leave room for nature - Leave room for nature.

http://www.radioliberty.com/stones.htm

 

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Nestlé 'bypasses' baby milk code

Joanna Moorehead
Tuesday May 15, 2007
The Guardian


Thirty years after a boycott of Nestlé products was launched to highlight its unethical marketing of baby formula in developing countries, baby formula manufacturers are still failing in their responsibilities towards the world's poorest mothers and babies, Save the Children claims today. It says around 1.4 million children die each year of illnesses such as diarrhoea that could have been prevented if they were being breastfed. But - despite the dangers of mixing infant formula with dirty water and using unsterile bottles - food companies continue to use aggressive marketing techniques to keep their share of a multi-million pound market.

Since 1981, baby milk manufacturers have been bound by a World Health Organisation-ratified code which bans direct marketing to mothers and free samples, which can undermine successful breastfeeding. But, the report says, "manufacturers are still flouting the code by heavily promoting manufactured baby milk and food".
A Guardian investigation in Bangladesh found widespread use of "prescription pads", where Nestlé reps give health workers tear-off pads, with pictures of their products, for them to pass on to mothers. Nestlé spokesman Robin Tickle said he did not believe the pads equated to promotion of the company's formula milks. The device was "a safety measure", to help mothers to be sure the milk they were buying was the right kind for their baby.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/food/Story/0,,2079815,00.html

 

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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Judicial Watch Uncovers Three Deaths Relating to HPV Vaccine [/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]'Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released documents obtained from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, detailing 1,637 reports of adverse reactions to the vaccination for human papillomavirus (HPV), Gardasil.'[/FONT]
http://judicialwatch.org/6299.shtml
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[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Google Video Caught Censoring Loose Change? [/FONT]
[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]'Google video appears to be censoring the online version of Loose Change as it is not appearing in the top 100 despite having many more views than most other videos in the top 10.'[/FONT]
http://www.infowars.net/articles/may2007/240507Censoring.htm

[FONT=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Google is watching you

'Google, the world's biggest search engine, is setting out to create the most comprehensive database of personal information ever assembled, one with the ability to tell people how to run their lives. In a mission statement that raises the spectre of an internet Big Brother to rival Orwellian visions of the state, Google has revealed details of how it intends to organise and control the world's information.'[/FONT]
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article2578479.ece
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Caution: Some soft drinks may seriously harm your health

A new health scare erupted over soft drinks last night amid evidence they may cause serious cell damage. Research from a British university suggests a common preservative found in drinks such as Fanta and Pepsi Max has the ability to switch off vital parts of DNA. Now, an expert in ageing at Sheffield University, who has been working on sodium benzoate since publishing a research paper in 1999, has decided to speak out about another danger. Professor Peter Piper, a professor of molecular biology and biotechnology, tested the impact of sodium benzoate on living yeast cells in his laboratory. What he found alarmed him: the benzoate was damaging an important area of DNA in the "power station" of cells known as the mitochondria.

Posted May 27, 2007 10:42 AM PST
Category: SCIENCE/HEALTH
http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article2586652.ece

 

[Logic 7]

Anything that doesn't include obvious baloney is fine with me. The conspiracy nuts that wrote about some of the stuff on that site are clearly just nuts.

Damn conspiracy theorist, we should burn them all, like we did with the witches in the dark ages.

 

[DurkaDurka]

Damn conspiracy theorist, we should burn them all, like we did with the witches in the dark ages.

Your tin foil-body suit would prevent you from burning, you would be nicely roasted though.

 

[Stretch]

US to Meatpackers: Don't Do Mad Cow Test

The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease.
The Agriculture Department tests less than 1 percent of slaughtered cows for the disease, which can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. But Kansas-based Creekstone Farms Premium Beef wants to test all of its cows. Larger meat companies feared that move because, if Creekstone tested its meat and advertised it as safe, they might have to perform the expensive test, too.

Posted May 29, 2007 01:20 PM PST
Category: SCIENCE/HEALTH


Forgive me, but isn't this the same administration which said the other day that China should open its doors to US beef? What is this administration - and larger cattle operators - so terrified of regarding this testing, if our cattle food chain is so safe?


http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070529/D8PE80AO0.html

 

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Will Bush walk away in 2009?

Many of us have had a difficult time picturing how it's going to go in January of 2009. It's hard to imagine Bush and Cheney just walking away from their unpopular but apparently supernaturally powerful positions as the leaders of the Only Superpower On Earth. Well on May 9, Bush quietly signed a directive that may ensure that he and Tricky Dick II don't have to hand over the reigns.

Posted May 29, 2007 10:15 AM PST
Category: DICTATORSHIP
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/5/29/12921/7971

 

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What's the problem with 'no-knock' searches? They tend to get people killed

On Nov. 21 of last year, Atlanta police planted marijuana on Fabian Sheats, a "suspected street dealer." They told Sheats they would let him go if he "gave them something." Sheats obligingly lied that he had spotted a kilogram of cocaine nearby, giving them the address of the elderly spinster Miss Kathryn Johnston, who neither used nor dealt drugs, but who did live in fear of break-ins in her crime-infested neighborhood.
Police then lied to a judge, claiming they had actually purchased drugs at the Johnston house. They acquired one of those once-rare "no-knock" warrants, and violently battered down the reinforced metal door of a private home where there were no drugs.
Miss Johnston fired a warning shot at the unknown people busting down her door. That bullet lodged in the roof of her porch, injuring no one. Police replied by firing 39 rounds at her, hitting her five times, and wounding each other with another five rounds -- though they lied and said they'd been shot by Miss Johnston. They then handcuffed the old woman as she bled to death on the floor and searched her house. Finding no drugs, they planted three bags of marijuana.

Posted Jun 3, 2007 04:48 PM PST
Category: CURRENT EVENTS
http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/7812557.html

 

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Censorship 'changes face of net'

Amnesty International has warned that the internet "could change beyond all recognition" unless action is taken against the erosion of online freedoms.

The warning comes ahead of a conference organised by Amnesty, where victims of repression will outline their plights.
The "virus of internet repression" has spread from a handful of countries to dozens of governments, said the group. Amnesty accused companies such as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo of being complicit in the problem.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6724531.stm

 

[Nuggler]

It's a bad bad nasty bad very bad and nasty old institution, full of nasty old men and women who can't make it in the RW. Some of them are o/k though, I can't understand why the good ones would get involved with a bad nasty rotten nasty very bad institution that's eaten people for hundreds odf years.

What the Beaver saideth.

Funny how this EXTREMELY bad bad nasty bad very bad and nasty old institution still controls the thoughts and most waking moments of many millions of people..........very unfortunate also.

Why can't I think of these really really good good clever statements?

Too much aspertame8O

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Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A 'Gay Bomb'
A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.
Posted Jun 9, 2007 10:51 PM PST
Category: WAR/DRAFT


Your tax dollars at work.
http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_159222541.html

 

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Army admits it dumped 64 million pounds of chemical weapons at sea

"The Army now admits that it secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the sea, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets and more than 500 tons of radioactive waste - either tossed overboard or packed into the holds of scuttled vessels." Brian pointed me to the Daily Press's in depth coverage of this whole issue. Registration is free and only takes a minute or two and is extremely worthwhile. Included at the site are maps of disposal sites (downloadable as pdfs), stories, descriptions of items dumped including nerve and musturd gas, and rather depressing pictures some are below the fold (all from Daily Press).

Hundreds of dolphins washed ashore in Virginia and New Jersey shorelines in 1987 with burns similar to mustard gas exposure. One marine-mammal specialist suspects Army-dumped chemical weapons killed them. (Photo courtesy of the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in New Jersey)

The SS William Ralston filled with 301,000 mustard gas bombs and 1,500 1-ton canisters of Lewsite -- sinks in the Pacific off San Fransico in 1958


http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/06/army-admits-that-it-dumped-64-million.html​

 

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http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/preplanned.html

The US Invasion of Afghanistan was
Announced Months Before the 9/11 Attacks

Jane's Defense - India Joined US led plan against Afghanistan in March 2001.

"India joins anti-Taliban coalition"
By Rahul Bedi​

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India is believed to have joined Russia, the USA and Iran in a concerted front against Afghanistan's Taliban regime. [janes.com]
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From April 2001, yet more indications that a mideast war was planned long before 9/11.
India Reacts - American government told other governments about Afghan invasion IN JUNE 2001.

In this article published in India in the summer of 2001 the Indian Government announces that it will support America's PLANNED military incursion into Afghanistan.
India in anti-Taliban military plan
India and Iran will "facilitate" the planned US-Russia hostilities against the Taliban.
By Our Correspondent
26 June 2001: India and Iran will "facilitate" US and Russian plans for "limited military action"
against the Taliban if the contemplated tough new economic sanctions don't bend Afghanistan's fundamentalist regime.
The Taliban controls 90 per cent of Afghanistan and is advancing northward along the Salang
highway and preparing for a rear attack on the opposition Northern Alliance from
Tajikistan-Afghanistan border positions.
Indian foreign secretary Chokila Iyer attended a crucial session of the second Indo-Russian joint working group on Afghanistan in Moscow amidst increase of Taliban's military activity near the Tajikistan border. And, Russia's Federal Security Bureau (the former KGB) chief Nicolai Patroshev is visiting Teheran this week in connection with Taliban's military build-up.
Indian officials say that India and Iran will only play the role of "facilitator" while the US and Russia will combat the Taliban from the front with the help of two Central Asian countries, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, to push Taliban lines back to the 1998 position 50 km away from Mazar-e-Sharief city in northern Afghanistan.
Military action will be the last option though it now seems scarcely avoidable with the UN banned from Taliban controlled areas. The UN which adopted various means in the last four years to resolve the Afghan problem is now being suspected by the Taliban and refused entry into Taliban areas of the war ravaged nation through a decree issued by Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar last month. [indiareacts.com]
BBC - American government told other governments about Afghan invasion IN JULY 2001.

US 'planned attack on Taleban'
The wider objective was to oust the Taleban
By the BBC's George Arney
A former Pakistani diplomat has told the BBC that the US was planning military action against Osama Bin Laden and the Taleban even before last week's attacks.
Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by senior American officials in mid-July that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October.
Mr Naik said US officials told him of the plan at a UN-sponsored international contact group on Afghanistan which took place in Berlin.
Mr Naik told the BBC that at the meeting the US representatives told him that unless Bin Laden was handed over swiftly America would take military action to kill or capture both Bin Laden and the Taleban leader, Mullah Omar.
The wider objective, according to Mr Naik, would be to topple the Taleban regime and install a transitional government of moderate Afghans in its place - possibly under the leadership of the former Afghan King Zahir Shah.
Mr Naik was told that Washington would launch its operation from bases in Tajikistan, where American advisers were already in place.
He was told that Uzbekistan would also participate in the operation and that 17,000 Russian troops were on standby.
Mr Naik was told that if the military action went ahead it would take place before the snows started falling in Afghanistan, by the middle of October at the latest.
He said that he was in no doubt that after the World Trade Center bombings this pre-existing US plan had been built upon and would be implemented within two or three weeks.
And he said it was doubtful that Washington would drop its plan even if Bin Laden were to be surrendered immediately by the Taleban. [BBC]

MSNBC - Afghanistan war plans were on Bush's desk on 9/9/2001​

President Bush was expected to sign detailed plans for a worldwide war against al-Qaida two days before Sept. 11 but did not have the chance before the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, U.S. and foreign sources told NBC News. ... The plan dealt with all aspects of a war against al-Qaida, ranging from diplomatic initiatives to military operations in Afghanistan, the sources said on condition of anonymity. [MSNBC]

In the summer of 2001, while the American media kept the people distracted with "All Condit All The Time", the US Government was informing other governments that we would be at war in Afghanistan no later than October.
How lucky for our government that just when they are planning to invade another country, for the express purpose of removing that government, a convenient "terrorist" attack occurs to anger Americans into support for an invasion.​

"To be truthful about it, there was no way we could have got the public consent to have suddenly launched a campaign on Afghanistan but for what happened on September 11."
Tony Blair. July 17, 2002 [Guardian]​

See also:
Tony Blair’s bin Laden dossier: a pretext instead of proof
It's All About Oil!
The 9/11 Reichstag Fire​