1. “Fox News show: Gitmo ’suicides’ torture gone wrong?
When three detainees at Guantanamo Bay were found hanged in their cells on June 9, 2006, the official explanation was suicide. Human rights attorney Scott Horton, however, believes that “clearly these were homicides.”
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In an appearance Thursday on Fox News’ Freedom Watch, Horton stated that the only real question in his mind is whether the men’s deaths were deliberate murders or were “negligent homicides” resulting from “some sort of procedure that was performed on them.” He suggested, for example, that they might have suffocated as a result of being gagged while undergoing torture.
“The father of one of the deceased,” Horton noted, “who himself was a general in the Saudi Arabian police, said he examined the body and he saw evidence of torture.”
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As described by Napolitano, the three men “had cloths shoved down their throats, and at least two of them had masks covering their faces, presumably to prevent the cloths from being ejected.”
After doing all that, the men allegedly tied sheets around their necks to hang themselves and “performed this feat simultaneously although they were not in adjoining cells.”
Horton added that it also seems unlikely the men could have died in their cells as claimed because “under the procedures there, they were subject to examination every ten minutes, and according to the official report, the bodies were hanging there for two hours, dead, without being observed.”
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0528/horton-discusses-gitmo-suicides/
2. Disgusting:
“The military-industrial complex invades the capital’s subway system.
As a visitor to our nation’s capital, it’s disconcerting to step off a Metro train and find yourself face-to-face with an F-35 fighter jet. Washington D.C.’s subway system, the second busiest in the country, hosts full-color backlit billboards for some of the most deadly—and expensive—weapons systems ever produced.
The ads for Lockheed Martin (the world’s largest arms merchant), Goodrich, KBR, AGI, BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman adorn Metro stations throughout the D.C. metropolitan area. But not surprisingly, the ads are most heavily concentrated at Pentagon City and near government offices at the Federal Center and Capitol South stations. The ads clearly aim to influence key decision-makers, but they also sell to the public the concept that only superior military prowess can protect us from a hostile world.
The billboards range from explicit ads for attack helicopters and combat vehicles to more subtle ads for companies like little-known DRS, owned by Italian weapons maker Finmeccanica and ranked 26 among the top 100 Pentagon contractors. Some are for Dell, which sells “rugged” computers designed to meet Defense Department specifications for military use.
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The most startling of all the Capitol South billboards is the ominous scene of a bombed-out apartment building above this slogan: “By the time you find the threat, we’ve already taken it out of the picture.” (Northrop Grumman fails to detail what happened to the people living in those apartments.)”
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/6009/occupied_d.c
The LAT quotes him as saying, chillingly, at a news conference Saturday in Robert, LA, “After three full days, we have been unable to overcome the flow from the well, so we now believe it is time to move on to another option . . . This scares everybody — the fact that we can’t make this well stop flowing or the fact that we haven’t succeeded so far.”
Worse, the best estimates of independent scientists for the amount of petroleum being released daily is now north, possibly well north, of 25,000 barrels a day.
To put this rate in perspective, it should be noted that oil companies routinely invest substantial resources to get fields going in places such as the Philippines, Indonesia and Iraqi Kurdistan that pump 7,000 to 15,000 barrels of petroleum a day.
Every 1000 Americans consume roughly 68 barrels a day of petroleum. This statistic means that what is gushing up from the BP well equals the daily amount of oil used by 367,000 Americans per day, that is, by cities the size of St. Louis or Minneapolis. Imagine all the cars and trucks filling up in such major cities every day, and the buildings using heating oil, and imagine taking all that oil and gasoline and dumping it in the Gulf of Mexico. Every day.”
http://www.juancole.com/
4. “Why Isn’t BP Under Criminal Investigation?”
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19415
5. “Is the U.S. Government Planning War to Quell the Tide of Economic Unrest?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25575.htm
6. “Dick Cheney’s Song of America
The Plan is for the United States to rule the world. The overt theme is unilateralism, but it is ultimately a story of domination. It calls for the United States to maintain its overwhelming military superiority and prevent new rivals from rising up to challenge it on the world stage. It calls for dominion over friends and enemies alike. It says not that the United States must be more powerful, or most powerful, but that it must be absolutely powerful.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1544.htm
