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“Political language ... is designed to make lies sound
truthful and murder respectable, and to give an
appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
~George Orwell~
Obama vows to shut down Guantanamo Bay camp
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AFP reports:
“President-elect Barack Obama said he would shut
down the ‘war on terror’ internment camp at Guantanamo Bay and rebuild
‘America's moral stature in the world,’ in a major interview aired Sunday.
‘I have said
repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on
that,’ the Democrat, who takes office on January 20, told the CBS program ‘60
Minutes.’
‘I have said
repeatedly that America doesn't torture. And I'm going to make sure that we
don't torture. Those are part and parcel of an effort to regain America's moral
stature in the world,’ Obama added.”
Bush May
Pardon Spies Involved in Torture
The Telegraph (London) reports: “Senior intelligence officers are
lobbying the outgoing president to look after the men and women who could face
charges for following his orders in the war on terrorism. …Most vulnerable are
US intelligence officers who took part in intensive interrogations against
terrorist suspects, using techniques including water boarding, which many
believe crossed the line into torture.”
ROUND ONE: Iraqi Cabinet approves “security pact”
with Washington
AP reports: “Iraq's Cabinet on Sunday
approved a security pact with the United States that will allow American forces
to stay in Iraq for three years after their U.N. mandate expires at the end of
the year. The decision followed months of difficult negotiations and,
pending parliamentary approval, will remove a major point of contention between
the two allies. Parliament's deputy speaker, Khalid al-Attiyah, said he
expected the 275-member legislature to begin debating the document this week
and vote on it by Nov. 24.
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“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”  ROUND TWO: Iraqi Sadr Bloc
Spokesman Predicts “Security Pact” to Fail in Parliament |
Economic Crisis Is Beyond The Reach of Traditional
Solutions
“... There are no jobs waiting at US manufacturers for a
demand stimulus to pull Americans back into work. The problem is not a
liquidity problem. To the contrary, there have been many years of too much
liquidity. Credit has grown far more than production. Indeed, US production has
been moved offshore. Jobs that used to support the growth of American incomes
and the tax bases of cities and states have moved, along with US GDP, to China
and elsewhere ... The incompetent Clinton and Dubya administrations,
unregulated banksters and Wall St criminals, greedy CEOs, and a no-think
economics profession have destroyed America’s economy.”
Beware
The Obama Hype: What `Change’ Really Means
”...
Obama's first two crucial appointments represent a denial of the wishes of his
supporters on the principal issues on which they voted. The
vice-president-elect, Joe Biden, is a proud warmaker and Zionist. Rahm Emanuel,
who is to be the all-important White House chief of staff, is a fervent
"neoliberal" devoted to the doctrine that led to the present economic
collapse and impoverishment of millions. He is also an "Israel-first"
Zionist who served in the Israeli army and opposes meaningful justice for the
Palestinians -- an injustice that is at the root of Muslim people's loathing of
the United States and the spawning of jihadism.”
Shafer Cabernet
“Hillside Select” 2003 can go for as much as $500 a bottle.
THE PRIVILEGED POLITIAL CLASS:
World “leaders” dine in style as they discuss “financial crisis”
”The Power of Nightmares - Politics of Fear…”
A Classic, Six-Part, BBC Video Perspective
French president
Nicolas Sarkozy (L) shakes hands with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev (R)
Photograph:
Vladimir Rodionov/EPA
Ian
Traynor and Luke Harding, The Guardian UK: "President Nicolas Sarkozy of France joined
Russia in condemning the Pentagon's plans to install missile defence bases in
central Europe yesterday and backed President Dmitri Medvedev's previously
ignored calls for a new pan-European security pact."
War, death and animation: Cartoon film stirs Israel's
conscience
The Independent (London)
reports: “Until a matter of months ago, very few Israelis realised that their
army fired flares to light up Beirut's Sabra and Shatila refugee camps while Lebanese
Christian militiamen committed the notorious massacre of Palestinian civilians
there in 1982. …In Israel, the film has rekindled discussion about the divisive
invasion of Lebanon that was initially billed by Ariel Sharon, who was defence
minister at the time, as a limited push to halt PLO rocket attacks, and the
extent of Israeli responsibility for the Sabra and Shatila massacre
where the estimated number of victims ranged from 700 to more than 3,000.
Folman has said he had no idea the massacre was being committed when he shot
the flares.
The killings by Phalangist militiamen dispatched into the
camps by Israel came after their leader, Bashir Gemayel, president-elect of
Lebanon, was assassinated in a bombing wrongly blamed on Palestinians. An
Israeli state commission of inquiry set up as a result of a tide of public
protest in the massacre's wake found that Mr Sharon, today comatose from a
stroke nearly three years ago, bore ‘personal responsibility’
for not having foreseen the danger that the Phalangists would commit the
slaughter. He was forced to give up the defence portfolio, something that did
not prevent him from being elected as premier in 2001 and re-elected in 2003.
Lebanon, for its part, has never seriously investigated the massacre.”
Post Office $2.8 Billion in the Red
Randolph E.
Schmid, The Associated Press: "The Postal Service ended its fiscal
year $2.8 billion in the red, battered by a faltering economy that cut the
amount of mail being sent. Postmaster General John Potter said the agency is
making sharp cuts in hours and overtime, but added there are no plans for
layoffs. The mail
being sent dropped by 9.5 billion items."
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World First: Baby Born By Ovary Transplant
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VIDEO: Dolphins playing with multi-colored, underwater
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