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UNFORGETTABLE PHOTOS

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:05:58 GMT

clipped by: thefoxalmighty
clipper's remarks: nice collecion....

Unforgettable Photos

1957. The first day of Dorothy Counts at the Harry Harding High School in the United States . Counts was one of the first black students admitted in the school, and she was no longer able to stand the harassments after 4 days.

1963. Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist priest in Southern Vietnam , burns himself to death protesting the government’s torture policy against priests. Thich Quang Dug never made a sound or moved while he was burning.

1962. A soldier shot by a sniper hangs onto a priest in his last moments.

1965. A mom and her children try to cross the river in South Vietnam in an attempt to run away from the American bombs.

1966. U.S. troops in South Vietnam are dragging a dead Vietkong soldier.

February 1, 1968. South Vietnam police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shots a young man, whom he suspects to be a Viet Kong soldier.

1972. After South Vietnam planes accidentally drop a bomb on a town.

1973. A few seconds before Chile ’s elected president Salvador Allende is dead during the coup.

1975. A woman and a girl falling down after the fire escape collapses.

1980. A kid in Uganda about to die of hunger, and a missionaire.

1982. Palestinian refugees murdered in Beirut , Lebanon .

1987. A mother in South Korea apologizes and asks for forgiveness for his son who was arrested after attending a protest. He was protesting the alleged manipulations in the general elections.

1989. A young man in China stands before the tanks during protests for democratic reforms.

1994. A man who was tortured by the soldiers since he was suspected to have spoken with the Tutsi rebels.

1996. Kids who are shocked by the civil war in Angola .

2003. An Iraqi prisoner of war tries to calm down his child.

1992. A mother in Somalia holds the body of her child who died of hunger.

Tags: history, photos

What I learned from Bush

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:57:34 GMT

clipped by: Newfman

Clip Source: www.flickr.com

This girl got a lot of attention for this one. The sign reads:

What I learned from BUSH
1. Lying is O.K.
2. Cheating is O.K.
3. Torture is O.K.
4. Taking people's rights is O.K.
5. Neglecting the poor is O.K.
6. Being a religious hypocrite is O.K.
7. Killing is O.K.
8. Incompetence is O.K.
9. Cronyism is O.K.

Tags: politics

Politican Cartoons

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:32:36 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: "The United States, some years back, found its new bogeyman "Islam" to replace its former imaginary enemy "Communism." And now the European press appears to have finally (?) found a replacement for the Jewish people that they used to malign and attack. Anti-Islam/Muslimism appears to now have officially replaced anti-Jewish sentiments in Europe.

The roots of these attacks are the same: an inability to acknowledge and respect a diversity of people that might result in a Europe that is non-White and/or non-Christian.

The anti-Muslim/Islam cartoons of today are little different than the anti-Jewish cartoons that were published by the Nazis during WW II."

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

Target: Journalists!

Newsitem: Eason Jordan, a CNN news executive stated that he knew of 12 journalists who had not only been killed by American troops, but had been targeted as a matter of policy.

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

The Israeli Peace Plan

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

The Elk-Aida Connection: Liberate Alaska!

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And now presenting... "Moderate, Pluralist Islam"

The "Center for Islamic Pluralism" was founded on March 25th by neo-con Stephen Schwartz, and others.

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

The finger problem

Europe resurrects its Facist past

Stalingrad surrendered.

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

FOX TV: We Distort You Decide!

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

Everyone is innocent around here!

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

Positive Thinking Outside The Pine Box

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

United States' Media Propaganda!

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

mosque and state

Clip Source: ihsan-net.blogspot.com

Hate Speech

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Tags: politics, cartoons

Pentagon Admits Use Of White Phosphorous

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:43:42 GMT

clipped by: thisnamecantbetaken
clipper's remarks: Chemical weapons. How deep into the moral abyss can the US sink? There seems to be absolutely no limit.

WARNING: The video contains very graphic images.
Fallujah - The Hidden Massacre

Clip Source: mwcnews.net

Pentagon Admits Use of White Phosphorus

Pentagon Reverses Position and Admits U.S. Troops Used White Phosphorous Against Iraqis in Fallujah

The U.S. government has now admitted its troops used white phosphorous as an incendiary weapon against Iraqis during the assault on Fallujah a year ago.

Chemical weapons experts say such attacks are in violation of international law banning the use of chemical weapons.

White phosphorous is often compared to napalm because it combusts spontaneously when exposed to oxygen and can burn right through skin to the bone.

Peter Kaiser, of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, said, "Chemicals used against humans or animals that cause harm or death through the toxic properties of the chemical are considered chemical weapons."

reporters have noted the use of white phosphorous since the war began

"We fired "shake and bake" missions at the insurgents, using WP [White Phosphorous] to flush them out and HE [high explosives] to take them out."

Tags: chemical weapons, wmd, hypocracy, murder, torture, ethics, usa, war, crime, lies, evil, bush, neoconservatism,

Must See: Unforgettable Photos - Snapshots from the not-so-happy globe

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:08:38 GMT

clipped by: sohil

Clip Source: www.dismalworld.com

1963. Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist priest in Southern Vietnam, burns himself to death protesting the government's torture policy against priests. Thich Quang Dug never made a sound or moved while he was burning.

1965. A mom and her children try to cross the river in South Vietnam in an attempt to run away from the American bombs.

1972. After South Vietnam planes accidentally drop a bomb on a town.

1975. A woman and a girl falling down after the fire escape collapses.

1980. A kid in Uganda about to die of hunger, and a missionaire.

February 23, 1981. Colonel Molina ve military police seizes the Parliament building in Spain. The photographer did not expect the scene, and hid the films in his shoe.

1982. Palestinian refugees murdered in Beirut, Lebanon.

1987. A mother in South Korea apologizes and asks for forgiveness for his son who was arrested after attending a protest. He was protesting the alleged manipulations in the general elections.

An Iraqi prisoner of war tries to calm down his child

Tags: iraq, afghanistan, pictures, photos, democracy, china, civil war, africa, history, buddhism

Torture of cows...WTF is wrong with people!?!?!?

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:42:59 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: Honestly, the human race really depresses the shit out of me sometimes. People actually torture cows in the name of making a buck. Makes me sick.

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

The video shows Hallmark Meat Packing Co. workers administering repeated electric shocks to downed cows -- animals that are too sick, weak or otherwise unable to stand on their own. Workers are seen kicking cows, jabbing them near their eyes, ramming them with a forklift and shooting high-intensity water up their noses in an effort to force them to their feet for slaughter.

"This must serve as a five-alarm call to action for Congress and the U.S. Department of Agriculture," said Wayne Pacelle, Humane Society president. "Our government simply must act quickly both to guarantee the most basic level of humane treatment for farm animals and to protect America's most vulnerable people -- our children, needy families and the elderly -- from the potentially dangerous food."

Tags: cows, hallmark meat packing, wtf, sad

The 10 big stories the major news media refused to cover over the last year

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:24:35 GMT

clipped by: frenchcanmonkey
clipper's remarks: I never cease to be amazed at how important findings can be cut and be replaced by entertainment news. Check the link for the other headlines as well.

Clip Source: www.toledocitypaper.com

The 10 big stories the major news media refused to cover over the last year

02. Halliburton Charged With Selling Nuclear Technology to Iran

Halliburton, the notorious US energy company, sold key nuclear reactor components to a private Iranian oil company called Oriental Oil Kish as recently as 2005, using offshore subsidiaries to circumvent US sanctions, journalist Jason Leopold reported on GlobalResearch.ca, the Web site of a Canadian research group. He cited sources intimate with the business dealings of Halliburton and Kish.

The story is particularly juicy because Vice President Dick Cheney, who now claims to want to stop Iran from getting nukes, was president of Halliburton in the mid-1990s, at which time he may have advocated business dealings with Iran, in violation of US law.

08. Pentagon Exempt From Freedom of Information Act

In 2005, the Department of Defense pushed for and was granted exemption from Freedom of Information Act requests, a crucial law that allows journalists and watchdogs access to federal documents. The stated reason for this dramatic and dangerous move? FOIA is a hindrance to protecting national security. The ruling could hamper the efforts of groups like the ACLU, which relied on FOIA to uncover more than 30,000 documents on the US military's torture of detainees in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantánamo Bay, including the Abu Ghraib torture scandal.

Tags: media, journalism

FBI: Waterboarding did NOT produce useful results

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:38:16 GMT

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Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Coleman, a 31-year FBI veteran, joined other former law enforcement colleagues in expressing skepticism about Abu Zubaida's importance. Abu Zubaida, he said in an interview, was a "safehouse keeper" with mental problems who claimed to know more about al-Qaeda and its inner workings than he really did.

Looking at other evidence, including a serious head injury that Abu Zubaida had suffered years earlier, Coleman and others at the FBI believed that he had severe mental problems that called his credibility into question. "They all knew he was crazy, and they knew he was always on the damn phone," Coleman said, referring to al-Qaeda operatives. "You think they're going to tell him anything?"

But, Coleman and other law enforcement officials said, CIA officials concluded to the contrary that Abu Zubaida was a major player, and they saw any lack of information as evidence that he was resisting interrogation. Much of the threat information provided by Abu Zubaida, Coleman said, "was crap."

Tags: fbi, cia, torture, waterboarding, abu zubaida, abu zubayda

The Biggest Threat to the West Lies Within Itself, Not with Islam

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:32:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Simon Jenkins on threats to peace and democracy.

This defeatism led the American Congress to allow its president to authorise torture and detention without trial in what Senator Robert Byrd called “the slow unravelling of the people’s liberties”. It enabled a British Home Office to curb free speech and habeas corpus. It arms police, fortifies buildings and impedes the free movement of citizens. It makes every Christian suspicious of every Muslim.

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

The biggest threat to the West lies within itself, not with Islam

The chief threat to world security at present lies in the capacity of tiny groups of political Islamists to goad the West into a rolling military retaliation.

Extremists on each side feed off the others’ frenzied scenarios so as to garner money and political support for their respective armies of the night. Each sees the other as a cosmic menace and abandons communal tolerance and peaceful diplomacy to counter it.

To portray Islam as a whole as a concerted threat to western security, and to imply that the West’s democratic institutions and freedoms are not proof against that threat, is absurd and close to treason. Then to demand that western freedoms be dismantled and stored away for the duration of a “war on terror” is to wave the flag of surrender.

I believe in the robustness of the democracies created in the West over the past half-century. I am not sure that our leaders do.

Tags: terrorism, islam, christianity, religion, freedom, war, peace, democracy, west, torture

Bush's America: LESS Safe, LESS Free.

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:43:34 GMT

clipped by: righthand
clipper's remarks: In a new book, "Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror," law professors David Cole and Jules Lobel argue that the problem lies in the aggressive "preventive paradigm" the Bush administration adopted in the wake of 9/11.

Clip Source: www.truthout.org

new book, "Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror," law professors David Cole and Jules Lobel argue that the problem lies in the aggressive "preventive paradigm" the Bush administration adopted in the wake of 9/11

"While the 'preventive paradigm' can point to few gains in our security, it has come at great cost to our ideals. In the name of preemptive security, the administration has undertaken torture, indefinite detention without trial, extraordinary renditions, disappearances into CIA 'black sites,' warrantless wiretapping of American citizens, and an illegal and disastrous war in Iraq."

have compromised the most basic commitments of the rule of law

have actually impeded our efforts to bring known terrorists to trial, limited our long-term options for security, sparked anti-American resentment and terrorist recruitment, and undermined relations even with our closest allies

has garnered few terrorists and actually made us less safe

treat the rule of law as an asset

Tags: usa, terrorism, war

Breast Ironing: another horror girls must endure

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:52:27 GMT

clipped by: Antara
clipper's remarks:

I hadn't heard of this until tonight.
Horrifying.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

If you use very hot objects, if you pound on the breast at this tender age when the structures are developing of course you could cause damage

Prof Anderson Doh

Most tools are warmed before pounding the girls' chests

"Breast ironing is not a new thing. I am happy I protected my daughter. I could not stand the thought of boys spoiling her with sex before she completed school," one woman explained.

Anthropologist Dr Flavien Ndonko says that breast ironing is not an effective method of preventing early sex and pregnancies because many of the girls still become pregnant. He recommends plain talking between parents and their daughters.

This involves pounding and massaging the developing breasts of young girls with hot objects to try to make them disappear.

A nationwide campaign is under way in Cameroon to discourage the widespread practice of "breast ironing".

Cameroon girls battle 'breast ironing'

Tags: breast ironing, superstition, ignorance, torture, women

President above the law, Nominee for US Attorney General says

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:02:09 GMT

clipped by: citizenbfk
clipper's remarks: This warmongering White House just keeps unraveling our Constitution, our principle, our ideals, our society and our politics day after day.

A common idea we use to have, for example, was that "No man is above the law."

But apparently this nominee thinks the President is above the law. And the talk is still how he's suppose to be approved!?

Screw him. Screw any politician who votes for him. Of course in the real world we all know that the rich, if not 'above the law,' normally have a 'better,' law, better results with the law, better lawyers, special consideration. So too big names, celebrities, Hollywood stars.

Most of US prisons, for example, are overpopulated with the poor, the least educated and the minorities. (The USA has the biggest prison populations in the world, BTW, by %)

The audaciousness of these warmongers. Theyshoot you in the face and expect/get the victim to apologize for being there (a Cheney factual example). Well...no longer a good country. Hopefully

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

On the second day of confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mr. Mukasey went further than he had the day before in arguing that the White House had constitutional authority to act beyond the limits of laws enacted by Congress, especially when it came to national defense.

He suggested that both the administration’s program of eavesdropping without warrants and its use of “enhanced” interrogation techniques for terrorism suspects, including waterboarding, might be acceptable under the Constitution even if they went beyond what the law technically allowed. Mr. Mukasey said the president’s authority as commander in chief might allow him to supersede laws written by Congress.

Tags: mukasey, attorney_general, torture

Torture and Imprisonment of Children

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:42:27 GMT

clipped by: righthand

Clip Source: www.dci-pal.org

Israeli military continues to torture Palestinian children

On the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

Clip Source: www.appletreeblog.com

Clip Source: www.dci-pal.org

In one case, Israeli interrogators beat 15-year-old Ibrahim S. over the course of several hours. Ibrahim was then threatened with sexual assault for the purpose of extracting his confession. The accusation, which Ibrahim kept denying, was that he had thrown stones at the Israeli army when it invaded his village the day before. A Military Court accepted Ibrahim’s confession and he was imprisoned in Israel for five months.

Clip Source: www.appletreeblog.com

Clip Source: www.dci-pal.org

A 10-year-old boy was subjected to physical abuse amounting to torture for 2.5 hours by Israeli soldiers who stormed his family’s shop on 11 June, seeking information on the location of a handgun. The boy was repeatedly beaten, slapped and punched in the head and stomach, forced to hold a stress position for half and hour, and threatened. He was deeply shocked and lost two molar teeth as a result of the assault.

Clip Source: www.appletreeblog.com

Clip Source: sabbah.biz

Clip Source: www.dci-pal.org

case, 14-year-old Mohammad E.

Tags: israel, torture, children, prisoners

Another Bush Lie: On Torture

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:11:00 GMT

clipped by: ratilfar
clipper's remarks: From the article:

"Mr. Gonzales approved the legal memorandum on “combined effects” over the objections of James B. Comey, the deputy attorney general, who was leaving his job after bruising clashes with the White House. Disagreeing with what he viewed as the opinion’s overreaching legal reasoning, Mr. Comey told colleagues at the department that they would all be “ashamed” when the world eventually learned of it."

Clip Source: thelede.blogs.nytimes.com

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 — When the Justice Department publicly declared torture “abhorrent” in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abandoned its assertion of nearly unlimited presidential authority to order brutal interrogations.

But soon after Alberto R. Gonzales’s arrival as attorney general in February 2005, the Justice Department issued another opinion, this one in secret. It was a very different document, according to officials briefed on it, an expansive endorsement of the harshest interrogation techniques ever used by the Central Intelligence Agency.

The new opinion, the officials said, for the first time provided explicit authorization to barrage terror suspects with a combination of painful physical and psychological tactics, including head-slapping, simulated drowning and frigid temperatures.

Tags: torture, war, war on terror, lies, deception

Clipmarks | masbury's 'torture' clips

UNFORGETTABLE PHOTOS

Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007

What I learned from Bush

Politican Cartoons

Ever been a Muslim?

Bring 'em home, Rummy, Bring 'em home!

the spread of american democracy

Internment camps for Muslims in America?

The Enemy of "Freedom!"

Target: Journalists!

The Israeli Peace Plan

The Elk-Aida Connection: Liberate Alaska!

And now presenting... "Moderate, Pluralist Islam"

The finger problem

FOX TV: We Distort You Decide!

Everyone is innocent around here!

Positive Thinking Outside The Pine Box

United States' Media Propaganda!

mosque and state

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Pentagon Admits Use Of White Phosphorous

Must See: Unforgettable Photos - Snapshots from the not-so-happy globe

Torture of cows...WTF is wrong with people!?!?!?

The 10 big stories the major news media refused to cover over the last year

02. Halliburton Charged With Selling Nuclear Technology to Iran

08. Pentagon Exempt From Freedom of Information Act

FBI: Waterboarding did NOT produce useful results

The Biggest Threat to the West Lies Within Itself, Not with Islam

The biggest threat to the West lies within itself, not with Islam

Bush's America: LESS Safe, LESS Free.

Breast Ironing: another horror girls must endure

President above the law, Nominee for US Attorney General says

Torture and Imprisonment of Children

Another Bush Lie: On Torture