Tag: torture
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obamessiah: more troops, more torture, less change
US military deaths in iraq war at 4,285 obama readies troops as afghans pile up body partsfrom jeremy scahill: As rage spreads in Afghanistan after US bombing that killed up to 130 people, unnamed Pentagon officials are spinning another cover-up. Defiant Obama moves ahead with troop increase… Standing between Hamid Karzai and Pakistani president Asif…
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5/7 newspurge
9/11 updates: fema: no records identifying wtc7 dod office*microcinema intl acquires ‘loose change 9/11: an american coup’*microcinema gets rights to new ‘loose change’*’9/11 press for truth’ to be shown on mainstream tv*feds to seize land in order to build 9/11 memorial by 2011* obamessiah & the apostles of warobamas enjoy post-date stroll around lawn*obamas step…
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5/1 newspurge: mayday, mayday
obamessiah & the apostles of war top dems complicit in torture coverup*obama rejects truth panel*obama legal team wants defendants’ rights limited*court rebuffs feds, reinstates torture suit*’state secrets’ cannot hide cia torture program, appeals court rules*dems refuse to allow skeptic to testify alongside gore at congressional hearing*video: gore denies that ken lay & goldman ceo’s helped…
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torture tales: ksm, mumbai lone gunman & cia exemptions
khalid sheikh mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of 9/11, was waterboarded 183 times in one month… one month!from thinkprogress: Marcy Wheeler digs through the recently-disclosed Office of Legal Counsel memos authored by the Bush Justice Department and finds these startling statistics: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in March 2003 and Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded…
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Prosecute War Crimes? Nope: Obama, Bush & Torture
obama releases torture memos, vows not to prosecutefrom threat level: The Obama administration on Thursday released top secret memos outlining the legal rationale used to justify the CIA’s torture of terror suspects, but vowed not to prosecute the torturers. “It would be unfair to prosecute dedicated men and women working to protect America for conduct…
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report says 6 bush officials to be indicted on torture charges
from raw replay: Sources have told The Daily Beast’s Scott Horton that Spanish prosecutors will investigate six former Bush officials for sanctioning torture. Horton told CNN’s John Roberts that Spanish prosecutors wouldn’t have investigated if they had received assurances from U.S. officials that they would investigate the crimes. RAW STORY has more details here. This…
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4/09 newspurge
obamessiah & the apostles of war poll finds nation most polarized in decades under obama*cybersecurity bill gives obama dictatorial power over internet*setting the stage for obama’s control over the internet: electricity grid in US penetrated by spies*will bill give obama control of internet?*just like bush, obama moves to block challenge to wiretapping program*video: obama sides…
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cheneyacs, pnac2, the controlled opposition & yoo
…both wings of this phony bird are ratcheting up the rhetoric, but let’s not get too distracted by the false left/right paradigm… hersh: cheney left ‘stay-behind units’ in obama govt hersh: cheney has moles in obama govtfrom raw replay: Investigative report Sy Hersh talks about his interview with Dick Cheney in which the former vice…
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Obamessiah Updates: Secrets, Lies and the Give & Take Act
obama swaps teleprompters for giant tv monitor obama is a ‘manchurian candidate’ because he uses a teleprompter o’reilly: if cheney really had an ‘executive assassination squad,’ he would have killed seymour hersh a long time ago ‘give’ act strips 1st amendment from ‘volunteers’from kurt nimmo: On March 18, Rep. George Miller, a Democrat from California,…
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obamessiah: staged politricks & the left/right facade
both parties love big government – just different programs gordon brown appeals to US congress for help to save the worldfrom telegraph: Gordon Brown has attempted to establish himself as an international statesman with the vision to lead the world out of recession in a speech to the US Congress in Washington. video: nuking chicago…
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obamessiah gives team america a pep talk
here’s a couple of telling takes on the big speech: first a sports analogy, as if it’s all a big game…from time: Rarely has a pep talk come with so much pomp. The setting, for starters, was no high school locker room at halftime, with sweaty teenagers scratching their gym socks. Robed Supreme Court justices…
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obamessiah: torture, truth, surge & purge
unredacted documents reveal prisoners tortured to death torture evidence ‘hidden from obama’from guardian: US defence officials are preventing Barack Obama from seeing evidence that a former British resident held in Guantánamo Bay has been tortured, the prisoner’s lawyer said last night, as campaigners and the Foreign Office prepared for the man’s release in as little…
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obamessiah: 9/11, taxes & the ‘buy american’ remorse
obama to meet victims & relatives of 9/11 attacksfrom washington post: President Obama will gather tomorrow with victims and families of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and U.S.S. Cole bombing for a face-to-face meeting as his administration struggles to decide how to handle detainees at Guatanamo Bay, Cuba, several of those invited said. The previously undisclosed…
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geopolitiks: iceland, iraq, iran & ops
iceland’s government collapsesfrom cnn: Iceland’s ruling coalition resigned Monday, three months after the collapse of the country’s currency, stock market and several major banks, and following months of public protests, Kristjan Kristjansson, a spokesman for the prime minister said. The government also fell after the resignation of the government’s commerce minister in response to the…
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who’s got the guts to prosecute the bush administration?
from raw replay: If President Barack Obama refuses to prosecute members of the Bush administration for war crimes, the United Nations might be able to according to the UN convention on torture which the United States signed. This video is from MSNBC’s Countdown, broadcast Jan. 21, 2009. schumer signals support for prosecution of bush officialsfrom…