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international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday October 21, 2007 - 02:23 by anon
 4 comments (last - sunday november 04, 2007 - 11:04)  1 image
ACLU V Jeppesen In July 2002, Ethiopian citizen Binyam Mohamed, while in CIA custody, was stripped, blindfolded, shackled, dressed in a tracksuit, strapped to the seat of a plane and flown to Morocco where he was secretly detained for 18 months and interrogated and tortured by Moroccan intelligence services. 238. Flight records from July 2002 confirm that the Gulfstream V jet aircraft owned and operated by Premier Executive Transportation Services (“PETS”) and Aero Contractors Limited (“ACL”) departed Islamabad, Pakistan on July 21, 2002 at 5:35 p.m. and arrived in Rabat, Morocco, the next morning, July 22, 2002 at 3:42 a.m. before departing Rabat an hour later, at 4:44 a.m., for Shannon, Ireland, arriving there at 7:21 a.m. Then departing on 23rd to Dulles Washington and then on to Johnston County NC. http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/29920prs20070530.html ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday October 20, 2007 - 11:02 by Alden Pyle
10 comments (last - tuesday october 23, 2007 - 10:49)
Tony Blair ,the UN’s peace envoy to the Middle-East has issued a stern warning on the rise of Islamo–fascism. Speaking at a charity event in New York last Thursday night Mr Blair addressed the danger Iran posed to peaceful countries in the Middle-east and beyond. He told the audience at the $1000 - a -head dinner that the world faces a situation which he compared to the “ rising tide of fascism in the 1920s”. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7052080.stm ... read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage Saturday October 20, 2007 - 01:22 by obit
6 comments (last - sunday december 09, 2007 - 18:24)
Neither you nor I are alphabet soup. We are not numbers. Genetics is not new nor really that literal. One of the two men who presented a molecular modeling of DNA/NDA & got a Nobel prize for it back in 1962 has been suspended from his place of work. It is fitting that since he was one of the "beginners" of "genetics", Dr James Watson had better explain to you the utility of his discovery. He has not passed that test in his last 45 years. His latest assertions that intelligence may be compared between "whomever he thinks he speaks for when he says" := "us" and whatever he means by "black" are being pruned out of what we considered civilised ˇ normal now even though Watson in both his science and comments remains so loyal to 45 years ago. And all his public pilloring is happening just before you get to ask him how smart he thinks orientals are. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / crime and justice Friday October 19, 2007 - 12:42 by halowe'en decorations
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New York Times :- .........."The Supreme Court has granted two stays of execution and refused to vacate a third in the three weeks since it agreed to hear a challenge to Kentucky’s use of lethal injection. On Thursday, the Georgia Supreme Court became the latest state court to interpret the justices’ actions as a signal to suspend at least some executions. It granted a stay to Jack Alderman, who had been scheduled to die by lethal injection Friday night for murdering his wife 33 years ago. The top criminal court in Texas, a state that accounts for 405 of the 1,099 executions carried out in this country since 1976, has indicated that it will permit no more executions until the Supreme Court rules, sometime next spring..........." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday October 19, 2007 - 11:16 by Willi Munzenberg
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The Stop The War Coalition In Britain has refused to accept the affiliations of Hands Off The People Of Iran and Communist Students. Mark Fischer writes on these developments. The logic of the decision taken on October 12 by the Stop the War Coalition’s officer group to reject the affiliations of Hopi and CS could be pretty drastic.Andrew Murray’s terse email announcing the exclusions made it clear that this is a political decision. He wrote that a “study of statements and articles issued” had convinced the officers that both Hopi and CS are “entirely hostile to the coalition, its policies and its work”. A sub-committee of the STWC leadership, the steering committee, made this decision. It has 11 members, 3 are members of the SWP (Lindsey German, John Rees, Chris Nineham), 2 are members of the Morning Star’s Communist Party of Britain (Andrew Murray and Kate Hudson). This small group runs the STWC on a day-to-day basis and effectively subverts the democracy of the STWC as a whole. ... read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media Friday October 19, 2007 - 01:24 by Over The Edge
As part of the second National Writers Group Festival, the Longford Arts Office invites entries for the Writers Group of the Year Award. For this, groups are asked to submit a portfolio containing one poem, one short story, one short short, and a group profile. ... read full story / add a comment |
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