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Boy 14 Forced into Oral Sex on another Prisoner!!!

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:46:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Mazin Younis, of the Iraqi League, who has travelled in Basra collecting witness statements of allegations of abuse, says he now has "more than 80" cases involving allegations against British troops.

"Every single time I uncover a personal story of torture and humiliation in Iraq, I think to myself that I have seen the worst there is," Mr Younis added. "Then I hear the next story.

"Hassan shook with emotion and humiliation as he described to me the treatment he suffered at the hands of British soldiers five years ago. It had taken constant prompting and repeated reminders about the importance of detail before Hassan felt brave enough to describe how he was forced to engage in oral sex with his friend Tariq while their British captors laughed raucously and took photographs."

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British soldiers accused of sickening sex assault on Iraqi boy, 14

Just days after the MoD has to pay out millions to the father of a man UK soldiers beat to death, fresh claims of abuse emerge

British soldiers forced a boy of 14 to carry out an act of oral sex on a fellow male prisoner in Iraq

Hassan, says he was rounded up with a friend while trying to steal milk cartons from a food distribution centre. He was whipped, beaten and forced to strip naked.

"They made us sit on each other's laps," he said. "They were enjoying humiliating and abusing us, I wished I was dead at this moment. Then they made me sit with Tariq... where I was forced to put Tariq's penis in my mouth. The other two were made to do the same."

Court action is ongoing over a series of allegations surrounding the British base Camp Breadbasket and incidents that took place there in May 2003

There have been allegations of simulated sexual abuse of Iraqis by British troops, but this

be the first example of actual sexual abuse

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Limbaugh on Dittoheads: Comic

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 05:07:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: American foremost radio host and conservative political commentator. OMG This, from the greatest nation on earth. I hope to god that the spacemen don't listen in. Never judge any book by this cover.

Did the KKK ever go away? Now they're plain old Dittoheads. Makes it easier to control them.

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Dittoheads to pretend to think for themselves

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Rush Limbaugh Was High

Which Is The Worse Addiction according to Rush Limbaugh

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Rush Limbaugh has deployed phase two of "Operation Chaos," his effort to disrupt the Democratic campaign. The former addict told his listeners to infiltrate that Democrats' open policy meetings, informing them, "You will be allowed to sit in the same room as elitist Democrat operatives to craft the Democrat party platform."

How can you tell if that angry white man quivering behind you is an operative for Rush Limbaugh? Here's a few things to look for:

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Combining War On Terror And War On Drugs

Marijuana is Bad

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History test: What's the cause of terrorism

George W. not sticking to his principles

Who was in on Enron

The Naive American

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Crooked Ploiticians Against Crooked Executives

What Camera?

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Rush Limbaugh

he dropped out after two semesters and one summer; according to his mother, "he flunked everything", even a modern ballroom dancing class.

His mother was not entirely surprised.

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Tags: usa, media, humour

Bush-Uribe-Drugs-CIA- Noriega-Bush Senior

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:09:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Will Uribe end up in a U.S. jail like Noriega did after his days as a drug runners are done? Will Columbia be invaded like Panama to 'arrest' him?

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U.S. INTELLIGENCE LISTED COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT URIBE AMONG
"IMPORTANT COLOMBIAN NARCO-TRAFFICKERS" IN 1991

Then-Senator "Dedicated to Collaboration with the Medellín Cartel at High Government Levels"

Confidential DIA Report Had Uribe Alongside Pablo Escobar, Narco-Assassins

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Uribe "Worked for the Medellín Cartel" and was a "Close Personal Friend of Pablo Escobar"

Uribe Vélez of Colombia was a "close personal friend of Pablo Escobar" who was "dedicated to collaboration with the Medellín [drug] cartel at high government levels," according to a 1991 intelligence report from U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officials in Colombia

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Manuel Noriega

from the late 1950s to the 1980s, and was on the CIA payroll for much of this time, although the relationship had not become contractual until 1967

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Álvaro Uribe

asked for President Uribe to be investigated for bribery

called Uribe a "pawn of the empire"

plan the 1997 massacre of El Aro,

links between politicians and paramilitary groups

Salvatore Mancuso

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2004

Tags: latinamerica, columbia, panama, bush, drugs, cia

Palestine: The State History Forgot

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:37:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Is it a joke of history that before there was the states of Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Syria, etc there was Palestine? Now they all exist and Palestine doesn't yet.

You will read that there never was a Palestine from a certain quarter and how can you miss what you never had. How you know they are lying! They'll say that as they are all Arabs that there's enough room for them all. It's like saying that the Scots Welsh and Irish are all Celts and one state would do them all! Yes, there was a time when such thinking was regarded as valid. If we had the Age of Imperialism back then the Brits might validly have a claim on the USA and most of the rest of the world.

In the present imperialism, if the existent holder of the gunboat diplomacy role, the USA, decided to sort out Palestine's present difficulties it could in a breath. Hopefully in a more honourable fashion that the last gunboat holder did.

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Mandate of Palestine

was a League of Nations Mandate created after the First World War when the Ottoman Empire was split up by the Treaty of Sèvres.

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The approximate borders of the British Mandate circa 1922. In September 1922 Britain organized the territory east of the Jordan river, "Transjordan," as an autonomous state.

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At the 1920 San Remo conference of the Allied Supreme Council, at which the Mandates were granted, the precise boundaries of all territories, including that of the British Mandate of Palestine, were left unspecified, to "be determined by the Principal Allied Powers"^[1] and were not completely finalized until four years later

However, it was clear that the boundary of Britain's mandate for Palestine was to extend eastward to the western boundary of its mandate for Mesopotamia.

In 1921, following Churchill's negotiations with Emir Abdullah, Transjordan (later Jordan) was accepted into the Mandate

separated from the area on which a Jewish National Home could be establish

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Tags: palestine, israel, history

USA: Drowning in Pretend Patriotism?

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:56:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Any doubts as to this later governing impulse of our imperial ambitions were shattered with the recent news that U.S. advisers to our puppet government in the Green Zone of occupied Iraq have worked out agreements for American oil companies to gain control of Iraqi oil fields. But, then again, what did we expect when we elected a Texas oil hustler, and a failed one at that, to be our president?

... AlterNet

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The U.S. Is Drowning in Pretend Patriotism

This Fourth of July, let's remember that it's not our God-given American right to reorder the world to our liking.

Washington's "Farewell Address" to the new nation was a warning about the threat of American imperial ambitions

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"In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels

that they may now and then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. ..."

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We are drowning in the "impostures of pretended patriotism," used to cover the lies that got us into Iraq, the defense of torture and the violation of our basic liberties.

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n the name of patriotism, we presume a God-given American right to reorder the world to our liking, masking the vice of unfettered greed as an obligation of national security

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our imperial ambitions

out agreements for American oil companies to gain control of Iraqi oil fields

when we elected a Texas oil hustler

to be our president?

Tags: usa, patriotism, iraq, history, fuel

1968 Prague Spring: Dubcek, the hero.

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:25:23 GMT

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FIRST TANKS, THEN SILENCE

The Tragic Failure of the Prague Spring

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Alexander Dubcek was the hero of the so-called “Prague Spring,” the 1968 uprising crushed by the Soviets almost exactly four decades ago. Dubcek was a reformer who wanted to give communism a “human face” -- and he became a Czechoslovak icon as well as the hope of reformers in other socialist and communist countries.

Czechoslovakia’s experiment became its tragedy on the night of August 21, 1968, when the armies of fellow Warsaw Pact countries invaded

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Students in Prague graffitied on a building wall, “Lenin, wake up, they’ve gone mad.” Images of desperate people standing up defenseless against the tanks drew worldwide attention and widespread sympathy for the rebellion of little Czechoslovakia against the huge Soviet Union

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It began on January 5, 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubček came to power, and continued until August 21, when the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies invaded the country to halt the reforms.

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Memorial

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World Bank Leak: Biofuels cause 75% of Food Increase

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:50:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The report claims that biofuels have driven up global food prices by 75%, according to the Guardian report, accounting for more than half of the 140% jump in price since 2002 of the food examined by the study. The paper claims that the report, completed in April, was not made public in order to avoid embarrassing Bush.

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WORLD BANK LEAK

Biofuels May Be Even Worse than First Thought

An internal report put together by the World Bank and leaked to the Guardian claims that biofuels may be responsible for up to 75 percent of recent rises in food prices. Even environmental groups haven't gone that far in their estimates.

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More and more corn is ending up in fuel tanks rather than on plates.

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With soaring food prices high on the agenda for next week's G-8 Summit in Japan, World Bank President Robert Zoellick has been clear that action needs to be taken. "What we are witnessing is not a natural disaster -- a silent tsunami or a perfect storm," he wrote in a Tuesday letter to major Western leaders. "It is a man-made catastrophe, and as such must be fixed by people."

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E3 BioFuels' Patented Closed-loop System

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According to a confidential World Bank report leaked to the Guardian on Thursday, Zoellick's organization may have a pretty good idea what that fix might look like: stop producing biofuels.

07/04/2008

Tags: world, bank, food, bush, usa

Abu Ghraib Detainees Sue USA Contractors

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:12:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: How Much for these Photos? How Many More?

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Former Abu Ghraib detainees sue US contractors

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Four men formerly held at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq today filed lawsuits against US private security firms CACI and L-3, accusing the companies of torture and war crimes.

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The lawsuits, filed in the US states of Washington, Maryland, Michigan, and Ohio, allege that the four detainees were subjected to frequent beatings, caging, electric shocks, and threatened with dogs.

One of the plaintiffs, a 36-year-old shopkeeper named Sa'adoon Ali Hameed Al-Ogaidi, claims he was a "ghost detainee" hidden from the Red Cross during his year at Abu Ghraib, the site of a now-infamous prisoner abuse scandal in 2003.

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"Private military contractors and the individuals they employ cannot act with impunity," Katherine Gallagher, an attorney assisting the men through the non-profit Centre for Constitutional Rights (CCR), said.

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Brigadier-General Janis Karpinski

meets with Donald Rumsfeld.

"60 Minutes" Logo Copyright CBS News: Reprinted for Fair Use

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June 30, 2008

Monday

Tags: abughraib, detainees, court, usa, contractors

For WHAT? One Man! And the Next WAR?

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:46:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: And all for the lack of one assassins bullet. Where is Mossad when it's needed? "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" If he was such a bad man could no one be found to "judicially assassinate" this 'turbulent' ruler? Keeping the rules has NOT been the hallmark of this administration, so why not 'eliminate' Saddam?

The truth is that he was never the target. Assassination would not have produced occupation. It would have save 4,000+ US lives but we have learnt that these didn't matter either. The out of sight, out of mind, no presidential presence at funerals worked for AWOL Bush. However the broken in mind and body will not go away so easily. Until they are swamped by the next lot.

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El soldado David Rozelle. The soldier David Rozelle.

David Rozelle. David Rozelle.

Tags: photos, iraq, war, usa, bush

Political Cartoon

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:16:21 GMT

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Cartoon for Thursday, June 12, 2008.

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Cartoon for Monday, June 30, 2008.

Mike Ramirez is a cartoonist for Investor's Business Daily. His cartoons appear on NYPOST.COM Monday through Friday.

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