The 2005 destruction of 92 videotapes documenting the harsh interrogation torture of terrorism suspects at secret CIA prisons immediately prompted concern at agency headquarters that the decision was not adequately cleared and may have been improper, according to newly released documents. A day after the destruction, Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, then the executive director of the CIA, was told that "we may have 'improperly' destroyed something," according to an e-mail. The message was written by Foggo's deputy, who remains undercover, according to a former intelligence official. Foggo's deputy wrote that Rodriguez thought "the heat from destroying is nothing compared to what it would be if the tapes ever got into public domain -- he said that out of context they would make us look terrible; it would be 'devastating' to us." Associated Press: E-mail: Ex-CIA chief agreed with tape destruction.

Afghan prisoners are being abused tortured in a "secret jail" at Bagram airbase, according to nine witnesses whose stories the BBC has documented. The "abuses" are all said to have taken place since US President Barack Obama was elected, promising to end torture. The US military has denied the existence of a secret detention site and promised to look into allegations. Bagram was the site of a controversial jail holding hundreds of inmates, who have now been moved to another complex. The old prison was notorious for allegations of prisoner torture and abuse. But witnesses told the BBC in interviews or written testimony that abuses continue in a hidden facility.

11 Killed in Latest Kandahar Bombing. Despite President Obama’s claims of “progress” in Afghanistan the nation’s restive south, where virtually all of the latest escalation of troops have been deployed, has continued to see soaring violence, particularly in Kandahar. According to the latest numbers out of the Red Cross in Kandahar, the number of civilians wounded in roadside bombings has risen between 30-40 percent compared to the same months in 2009. Despite massive increases in the amount of personnel and funding the US has thrown at tackling the roadside bombs, the attacks are still rising dramatically.

After finding two groups of males the force executed all of them using silenced weapons. Unfortunately, it appears that the Special Ops team had not entered the sleeping quarters of an IED cell, but the dormitory of a private school for boys. LA Times: U.S. doubles anti-Taliban special forces. truthout: US Military Still Lying About Special Forces Night Raid in Afghanistan.

Two bomb explosions have ripped through Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar, killing several people, including seven Britons, and injuring scores of others. The first bomb was planted in a vehicle abandoned in front of a hotel. It went off on Thursday, destroying several shops and injuring at least six people. The second blast happened some three hours later, when a bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a compound accommodating foreigners. Seven foreign workers, believed to be British, died in the incident.

Maps, stats, jet engine schematics, volcano cross-section, mount everest, ozone layer. TimesOnline: Live: volcanic ash cloud - latest travel updates: The eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano continues to cause widespread disruption at airports for a second day.The ash, from the Icelandic mountain Eyjafjallajökull, caused airport and aircraft movement shutdowns in all over of Europe, including France, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Holland. Einar Kjartansson, a geophysicist at the Icelandic Meteorological Office, said: "It is likely that the production of ash will continue at a comparable level for some days or weeks. But where it disrupts travel, that depends on the weather. It depends how the wind carries the ash." Míla: "Eyjafjallajökull" frá Valahnúk (WEBCAM) + "Hvolsvelli" frá Valahnúk (WEBCAM). RUV.is: Here is "Katla" (WEBCAM).

Boston.com: The Big Picture: Iceland's disruptive volcano:

Today, British civil aviation authorities ordered the country's airspace closed as of noon, due to a cloud of ash drifting from the erupting Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland. The volcano has erupted for the second time in less than a month, melting ice, shooting smoke and steam into the air and forcing hundreds of people to flee rising floodwaters. The volcanic ash has forced the cancellation of many flights and disrupted air traffic across northern Europe, stranding thousands of passengers. Collected here are photos of the most recent eruption, and of last month's eruptions, which were from the same volcano, just several miles further east. (18 photos total)

Families begin to bury 29 killed in West Virginia explosion Families of workers killed in the West Virginia mine explosion are beginning to bury their loved ones, as residents speak out against Massey Energy and government regulators responsible for the disaster. In an especially vindictive move, workers said that Massey has refused to allow miners time off so that they can attend the funerals of their coworkers.

The mainstream media was quick to publicise the findings of a survey that showed widespread public support for the global drive to install 'naked' full-body scanners at airports. Articles such as Sky News: UK Holidaymakers Back Use Of Full-Body Scanners and Agence France-Presse: Opinion poll: US anti-terror too lax, uncritically repeated the report's findings without questioning the reliability of the survey or mentioning the conflict of interests held by those in the security industry who stand to profit from rolling out these dangerous machines. There is one glaring omission from these and the many media reports that published 'news' articles based on the Unisys press release.

What They Don't Tell You About Israel part 1 of 4
What They Don't Tell You About Israel part 2 of 4
What They Don't Tell You About Israel part 4 of 4

Aside from the war criminals that are in control of the Israeli government (pictured above), there are others in charge of municipal affairs. Blind support is support of the following…. at the end of this post you can see what can stop them eventually….

A war between Israel and Hizbollah that could spread across the Middle East is "imminent", King Abdullah of Jordan has warned the US. The king, in Washington for President Barack Obama's nuclear summit, gave his warning after Israel claimed that Syria had handed over Scud missiles in its armoury to the Lebanon-based Hizbollah. His comments, which were made to private meeting of the US Congressional Friends of Jordan caucus were said to be "sobering".

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Jewish settlers rooted out 300 olive trees in the Palestinian West Bank village of Muhmus in one night, a Hebrew daily reported on Thursday. Ha'aretz said that the attack was carried out in the course of the past week. Palestinian sources, who witnessed the attack, said that the crime was the third of its kind within the past two years. Owners of the cultivated land repeatedly complained to the Israeli occupation forces but to no avail, the sources said, noting that some of the recently planted saplings were among those uprooted.

The Pope has urged Christians to “do penance” in the face of “world attacks” on the Church over the clerical abuse scandals. At a Mass in the Pauline Chapel of the Vatican for members of the Pontifical Biblical Commission the Pope, who turns 83 tomorrow and is to make a two-day visit to Malta at the weekend, said: “I have to say that we Christians, including in recent times, have often avoided the word penance, which seemed to us too harsh.” He added: “Now, under attack from the world, which talks to us of our sins, we can see that being able to do penance is a grace and we see how necessary it is to do penance and thus recognise what is wrong in our lives”. He said that “pardon and purification” were the keys to “renewal”, which was “the work of divine mercy”.

[Editor's Comment:] This man is not naïve. He knows what is required of him but he doesn't want to do it. He also knows that the countless cases of sex abuse in the Church are not primarily to be seen as sins. Granted, they are sins too but they're not just that. Neither are they to be seen as an internal matter of the Church. Again, they are that too, but not primarily so. What Mr. Ratzinger knows full well, is that sex abuse is a crime.

He also knows that this storm now is abating and that media attention will shift from the Church to other issues. Ensconced in his papal residences, he must be smiling. He has been playing for time and has "won". For now. What we know, however, is that these crimes will be sweeped under the carpet, that the criminals will go unpunished and that the sex abuse will continue as before. We now also are certain that rather than being a servant of God, Mr. Ratzinger is the knowing and willing servant of very dark forces. -Bluntly put, he's creepy.

Many of us have pointed out that the economy will not stabilize until the too big to fails are broken up. We have also pointed out that derivatives are still very dangerous for the economy, that the derivatives "reform" legislation previously passed has probably actually weakened existing regulations, and the legislation was "probably written by JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs".

On the 17th of February 2010 Oslostudenten released its February issue where the editor, Sveinung Holien, printed his text, 'The towers were blown up'. At the end of 2009, when the decade was summarized in newspapers and other media, September 11th was pointed to as by far the most important event of the decade by most commentators. However, many easily verifiable facts undermine the official story about 9/11: That all the devastation was due 19 hijackers equipped with box-cutters, led by Osama Bin Laden from a cave in Afghanistan.

AP-GfK Poll: Obama slips, other Dems slide, too. President Barack Obama's national standing has slipped to a new low after his victory on the historic health care overhaul, even in the face of growing signs of economic revival, according to the latest Associated Press-GfK poll. The survey shows the political terrain growing rockier for Obama and congressional Democrats heading into midterm elections, boosting Republican hopes for a return to power this fall. Just 49 percent of people now approve of the job Obama's doing overall, and less than that — 44 percent — like the way he's handled health care and the economy. Last September, Obama hit a low of 50 percent in job approval before ticking a bit higher. His high-water mark as president was 67 percent in February of last year, just after he took office.

Israel has banned imports of Apple Inc.'s hottest new product, the iPad, citing concerns the powerful gadget consumes too much capacity on wireless networks and "could disrupt other devices."

Researchers say they've found the most religious place on Earth--between the southern border of the Sahara Desert and the tip of South Africa. Religion is "very important" to more than three-quarters of the population in 17 of 19 sub-Saharan nations, according to a new survey. In contrast, in the United States, the world's most religious industrialized nation, 57 percent of people say religion is very important.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, a former Democratic vice presidential nominee who campaigned for the Republican presidential ticket in 2008, called Sarah Palin a "powerful force" who speaks for "a lot of people out there." Daily Dish: Palin the most potent force in American politics since Obama.

How Terahertz Waves Tear Apart DNA: A new model of the way the THz waves interact with DNA explains how the damage is done and why evidence has been so hard to gather. Great things are expected of terahertz waves, the radiation that fills the slot in the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and the infrared. Terahertz waves pass through non-conducting materials such as clothes , paper, wood and brick and so cameras sensitive to them can peer inside envelopes, into living rooms and "frisk" people at distance.

The way terahertz waves are absorbed and emitted can also be used to determine the chemical composition of a material. And even though they don't travel far inside the body, there is great hope that the waves can be used to spot tumours near the surface of the skin. With all that potential, it's no wonder that research on terahertz waves has exploded in the last ten years or so. But what of the health effects of terahertz waves? At first glance, it's easy to dismiss any notion that they can be damaging. Terahertz photons are not energetic enough to break chemical bonds or ionise atoms or molecules, the chief reasons why higher energy photons such as x-rays and UV rays are so bad for us. But could there be another mechanism at work?