01/19/10

Permalink Detainees Sent to Secretive 'Camp No' Hours Before Their Deaths

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Gitmo ‘Suicides’ Linked to Black Site Cover-Up. A new article by Scott Horton of Harper’s magazine cites soldiers on the scene at the Camp Delta detention facility at Guantanamo Bay as casting serious doubt on the “suicides” of three detainees in early June of 2006. Though the official story has the three men "hanging themselves" in their cells as part of a plot to wage “assymetric warfare” on the United States by dying, the report suggests that the men may have actually died well outside the prison complex, at a secret CIA “black site” known colloquially as “Camp No.” AWIP/Harper's: The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle.


Permalink U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret 'Jesus' Bible Codes

Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided to the United States military by a Michigan company, an ABC News investigation has found. The sights are used by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the training of Iraqi and Afghan soldiers. The maker of the sights, Trijicon, has a $660 million multi-year contract to provide up to 800,000 sights to the Marine Corps, and additional contracts to provide sights to the U.S. Army. PT: U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret ‘Jesus’ Bible Codes. You Tube: More Evidence The Pentagon Is Fighting A Religious Crusade. (Video)


Permalink Pennies for Haiti, Billions for Israel

Consider this: in fiscal 1998 Haiti received $106 million from the U.S, the No. 9 nation among foreign aid recipients. Ten years later, it didn't even make the top 15 list. Compare that to the more than $5 billion paid out to Israel and Egypt. Daily Telegraph: US-accused-of-occupying-Haiti-as-troops-flood-in.htmlUS accused of 'occupying' Haiti as troops flood in. Global Research / AWIP: The Militarization of Emergency Aid to Haiti: Is it a Humanitarian Operation or an Invasion? CLG: US as 'Facehugger': "I've come to the conclusion that the US government most resembles the 'facehugger,' a stage in the life cycle of an alien, the 'primary antagonist' of the film series 'Alien.'" IPS: FRANCE: Time to Pay Back Haiti.


Permalink The FBI used fake emergencies to force phone carriers to hand over user data and let them listen to conversations

The FBI violated the law in collecting thousands of U.S. telephone records during the Bush administration, The Washington Post reported Monday. Citing internal memos and interviews, the Post said the FBI invoked nonexistent terrorism emergencies or persuaded phone companies to provide information as it illegally gathered more than 2,000 records between 2002 and 2006. WaPo: FBI broke law for years in phone record searches.


Permalink THE NEW CLIMATE CHANGE SCANDAL

Fresh doubts were cast over controversial global warming theories yesterday after a major climate change argument was discredited. The International Panel on Climate Change was forced to admit its key claim that Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035 was lifted from a 1999 magazine article. The report was based on an interview with a little-known Indian scientist who has since said his views were “speculation” and not backed up by research. Times of India: Ramesh turns heat on Pachauri over glacier melt scare. WUWT: Pachauri used TERI email account to conduct official IPCC business. TimesOnline: World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown


Permalink Scandal between the covers

The first book on the Climategate scandal has just been published - Climategate: The Crutape Letters by Steven Mosher, Thomas W. Fuller. From the publishers website: "The Climategate scandal covered from beginning to end - from ‘Hide the Decline’ to the current day. Written by two authors who were on the scene - Steven Mosher and Tom Fuller - Climategate takes you behind that scene and shows what happened and why. For those who have heard that the emails were taken out of context - we provide that context and show it is worse when context is provided. For those who have heard that this is a tempest in a teacup - we show why it will swamp the conventional wisdom on climate change. And for those who have heard that this scandal is just ‘boys being boys’ - well, boy. It’s as seamy as what happened on Wall Street."


Permalink Congress Accidentally Gives South Dakota Back to Sioux

On Friday, in a late business wrap up, the US Congress gave back the state of South Dakota to the Oglala Sioux Tribe. Reports have surfaced that an obscure bill, which was suppose to cede a 100 acre parcel of land in South Dakota back to the Oglala Sioux, had a small typographic error in the official copy which, accidentally, ceded the entire state of South Dakota back to the Oglala Sioux. President Obama signed the measure into law without reading it late on Friday and on Saturday morning, the Oglala Sioux began the process of taking over a number of Uranium mines and oil fields. A group of South Dakota Republican state legislators stated that the acts were illegal [the original land grab was illegal] and the law obviously a mistake. However, federal lawmakers are now into a two-week recess and are not available to set the motion right [that is, steal it back from them].


Permalink Will Diebold steal Ted Kennedy's seat – and the Senate?

The same types of machines that helped put George W. Bush in the White House in 2000, and “re-elect” him 2004, may now decide who wins the all-important “60th Senate seat” in Massachusetts. The fate of health care and much much more hang in the balance. As Bay Staters vote to fill Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, most will be marking scantron ballots to be run through easily hackable electronic counters made by Diebold/Premier. BIN: Martha Coakley Scott Brown For Senate Poll Coakley May Surge. + Coakley vs Brown Poll Shows Massachusetts Senate Race National Barn Burner.


Permalink US "Security" Companies Offer "Services" in Haiti

The Orwellian-named mercenary trade group, the International Peace Operations Association, didn’t waste much time in offering the “services” of its member companies to swoop down on Haiti for some old fashioned humanitarian assistance disaster profiteering. Within hours of the massive earthquake in Haiti, the IPOA created a special web page for prospective clients, saying: “In the wake of the tragic events in Haiti, a number of IPOA’s member companies are available and prepared to provide a wide variety of critical relief services to the earthquake’s victims.”


Permalink Israel Jails Palestinian Peace Activists

Israel has long argued that Palestinians should pursue their political objectives in a nonviolent way. However, several prominent Palestinian peace activists have recently been arrested and jailed for doing just that.


Permalink Palestinians in Gaza donate to Haiti

It might be one of the world’s poorest areas, besieged by its neighbour Israel, but Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip have been donating what little they have to help those struck by the earthquake in Haiti. Among the donations collected by a Red Cross representative: toys, toiletries and sweets – small luxuries that Gazans know only too well can brighten spirits in the face of devastation. Some also gave money.


Permalink Why Beijing is making a mistake with Google. The Beijing/Google skirmish is a reminder that free markets require free minds

Google vs. China represents a clash of what may be the two most powerful forces of the first decade of the 21st century. Like China, Google has changed the terms of competition in crucial markets, thanks to its advantages in hardware, productive capacity, and engineering brainpower. The juggernaut rolls into new industries—e-mail, GPS, smartphones, operating systems for netbooks—heedless of the competition, rolling up profits and disheartening rivals.


Permalink The Body Scanner Scam... Why invading our physical privacy at airports won't make us safe

The scanners that are now to be acquired would perpetuate futility at even greater cost. True, it is perfectly feasible to design very high definition scanners that could detect objects inside body cavities, and at least one manufacturer already claims that capability. But to use those scanners would throw out any pretense of preserving privacy. It also would mean subjecting every passenger to whatever level of radiation those machines will emit. Recent research has demonstrated that the cancer risks of radiation have been grossly underestimated, even for medical equipment operated by qualified radiologists and their trained technicians. It is therefore no good showing that in the manufacturer's tests the level of radiation is only moderately harmful, because once distributed at airports, those machines will not necessarily be perfectly calibrated, nor will they be operated correctly by experts.


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