http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=127&e=10&u=/ucru/20051202/cm_ucru/thecaseforanationalrecallelection
We choose not to call it torture - "Robert F. Kennedy gives a short comprehensive analysis of our governmental double speak going on about the term Torture.. Senator McCains bill which prohibits "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of prisoners" is being heavily campaigned against by Cheney, Rice and Gonzales.. Maybe we should ask them to say which of these terms they object to... Do they want to be allowed to be Cruel? Or Inhuman Or Degrading. Or maybe it's the term "prisoners" they object to. Is that term too broad for them? Excerpt that says it all:"In sum, the White House's policy which we can expect Condi to elaborate "comprehensively" is "we don't torture because we choose not to call it torture and we will fight all efforts to define torture according to its ordinary meaning." "The White House's Tortured Definition of Torture By Robert Kennedy Jr." -- We see things, not as they are but as we define them. We change the definitions to fit our agenda. Another example of hypocrisy at the highest levels.
http://www.choicechanges.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=204&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
If it's not torture, then it's OK to use it on Cheney - "Perhaps the Justice Department could use this to speed up some investigations that are taking forever. How about that two-year investigation into who leaked Valerie Plame's CIA status? Stick Karl Rove on the water board and we can see who really leaked what in just a couple of minutes. That would be fair, wouldn't it? After all, his boss says it's not torture, right?"
http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20051204/OPINION/112040069
Keep quiet about secret flights to secret jails, Rice tells Europe - "Despite the uproar in Europe over America’s “extraordinary rendition” of suspects to countries such as Afghanistan, and claims that secret CIA prisons are located in Romania and Poland, Dr Rice said that she expected American allies to co-operate and keep quiet about sensitive anti-terrorism operations." -- And we continue to allow this administration to stay in office.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-1905660,00.html
War Crimes, USA - "In normal times, suggesting that the leaders of our country might have committed war crimes would violate a firm taboo in American political discussion. Yet in the post-Abu-Ghraib era—and especially as President Bush has quarreled with Congress over the McCain amendment prohibiting abuse of all detainees in U.S. custody—observers can no longer profess shock at the idea that criminal breaches of humanitarian law have occurred."
http://www.motherjones.com/interview/2005/12/war_crimes_usa.html
America can't take it anymore - "The Bush administration has embraced torture as a key part of the "war on terror." Finally, members of Congress, the military and the CIA are speaking out against the abuse."
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/salon75.html
Lieberman Calls For Formation Of 'War Cabinet' - "Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, increasingly isolated in his own Democratic party because of his strong support for the Iraq war, today called on the White House and congressional leaders to form a special "war cabinet" to provide advice and direction for the war effort."
http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/hc-lieb-warcab,0,7884135.story?coll=hc-big-headlines-breaking
Poll: Most voters want U.S. out of Iraq - "A Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday shows that 60 percent of voters favor withdrawing from Iraq and 54 percent believe going to war was wrong." -- This took way too long. And by the way, who makes up the other 46%? Are they living under a rock?
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/connecticut/ny-bc-ct--poll-iraq1206dec06,0,7659856.story?coll=ny-region-apconnecticut
Drudge, Jerusalem Post sensationalize story about nuclear Iran - "An article in the Jerusalem Post trumpeted by the conservative Drudge Report grossly sensationalizes the comments of Mohamed El-Baradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency."
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Drudge_Jerusalem_Post_sensationalize_story_about_1205.html
DC Sex Scandal About To Break? - "Come again? A "hospitality suite with several bedrooms"? Talk about raising more questions, including: -- Why does a lobbyist need a "hospitality suite with several bedrooms"? -- Who uses those bedrooms and for what? These lobbying scandals involving Cunningham and Wilkes and Abramoff are looking more and more like a bad movie script every day. Except with one difference from the movies: this stuff actually happened."
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2005/12/dc_sex_scandal.html
Who’s killing Iraqi intellectuals? - "Iraqis opposed to the U.S. occupation believe there is a systematic campaign of targeted assassinations aimed at Iraqi intellectuals and that a well-organized enemy intent on keeping Iraq weak and susceptible to foreign occupation is carrying out the killings."
http://www.workers.org/2005/world/iraq-1208/
Professor beaten; attackers cite KU creationism class - "One recent e-mail from Mirecki to members of a student organization referred to religious conservatives as "fundies," and said a course describing intelligent design as mythology would be a "nice slap in their big fat face." Mirecki has apologized for those comments. ... He said the men beat him on the head, shoulders and back with their fists, and possibly a metal object." -- God must be so proud of those individuals.
http://www.kansas.com/mld/eagle/living/education/13337930.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
Mysterious carnivore spotted on Indonesia's Borneo - "Researchers from the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) may have spotted a new mammalian species in the dense central forests of Borneo island, the organisation said. The carnivorous animal, slightly larger than a domestic cat with dark red fur and a long bushy tail, was caught by a camera trap at night twice in 2003, the WWF said in a press release."
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/05/051206001323.v7bezwpo.html
Face It: Privacy Is Endangered - "A great example of the state of the art comes from a new company called Riya, which recently launched a beta facial-recognition service for the masses. ... Riya also relies on meta tags, but uses facial-recognition software to create them automatically. Subscribers upload photos, and then tell the Riya software who the person is. By repeatedly running the recognition algorithm against multiple photos of the same person, Riya software eventually learns to identify other images of the same face. Once trained, the software will automatically generate meta tags, and users can search their own photos and the photos of other subscribers."
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69771,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2
Smoke thickens on silver screen - "Smoking is back in vogue in the movies -- especially films rated for young audiences -- and that's bad news for efforts to keep teens from lighting up."
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/health/13330795.htm?source=rss&channel=mercurynews_local
Quote of the Day
"If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American President would have been hanged."
~ Noam Chomsky
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