Archive: November 2009
Excerpt – Book Review: The Other Gross Side of Bhutan Deepak Adhikari reviews Torture Killing Me Softly, a new book by Bhutanese human rights activist Tek Nath Rizal. Tek Nath Rizal. Torture Killing Me Softly. Kathmandu: Human Rights Without Frontiers Nepal & Group for International Solidarity. September 2009. 197 pages, Price: 450 NRs or 30 US$. The book can be
John Singlaub ” … Also involved in the Ghana operation … was the Jedburgh Group, a Lake Mary, Florida-based firm that provides intelligence, security and financial-services to industry and governments worldwide. Former US intelligence and military officers work for Jedburgh. The best known is probably retired US Major General John Singlaub, a decorated military officer involved with the CIA’s predecessor
November 25, 2009 (ChattahBox)—The proposed purity test being floated by RNC committee member Jim Bopp is being subjected to widespread mockery, as the 10-point conservative right-wing loyalty oath would have screened out former Republican hero Ronaldus Magnus from its ranks. The loyalty oath would also reject current Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and former President Bush. Apparently the shrinking “party of
” … ‘It’s shocking,’ Thompson said. “Even after liberation, Paragraph 175 was still on the records. Homosexuals were taken from concentration camps and rearrested.’ … After the war, East Germany went back to the original version of Paragraph 175, but West Germany retained the Nazi version until 1969. After 1969, ‘watered-down versions’ were implemented, Phillips said. It wasn’t until Germany’s
After an ADL report says Beck may foment violence, I visit racist Web sites to see if their denizens are listening By Alexander Zaitchik | Salon | Nov 20, 2009 It’s been a busy week for Glenn Beck watchers. On Monday, the Anti-Defamation League released a report warning of the paranoia and stridency that increasingly define the conservative grass
Excerpts: The evil curiosity of pharma/drug industries Mideast Youth | Beisan (Bahrain) November 25th, 2009 There has to be a limit to the following! In order to study how blood flows through children’s brains, researchers at Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia perform the following experiment on healthy children, ranging in age from 3-11: THEY INSERT NEEDLES INTO EACH CHILD’S FEMORAL ARTERY
All news outlets are describing the proposed facility as a “cyber-security” center, but “Utah news reports, based on federal budget documents, have described the center as a collection point for surveillance of domestic and international telecommunications … “ STORY
by Trish NelsonFoodConsumer.org | 29 Nov 2009 France’s highest court has ruled that U.S. agrochemical giant Monsanto had not told the truth about the safety of its best-selling weed-killer, Roundup. The court confirmed an earlier judgment that Monsanto had falsely advertised its herbicide as “biodegradable” and claimed it “left the soil clean.” Roundup is the world’s best-selling herbicide. French environmental
‘Draft Cheney 2012′: Group wants former vice president to run for president An admirer of the former vice president filed papers Friday in Washington for a committee whose goal is to get Cheney to run for president in 2012. “The 2012 race for the Republican nomination for president will be about much more then who will be the party’s standard-bearer against Barack Obama,” says organizer Christopher Barron. “The race is about the heart and soul of the GOP.” … STORY at the Chicago Tribune
” … Speculations about a possible CIA role at the ‘privately operated’ Radios began circulating publicly almost as soon as the stations began. Although it took nearly two decades, the rumors were eventually confirmed when RFE was identified by the New York Times in 1967 as being CIA-sponsored. The unmasking of RFE and RL is significant partly because it took