Bush order allowing murder of US citizens abroad still in effect

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"Oops! He was the school principal? But he was wearing a rag over his head. What? He was dressed up as Lawrence of Arabia for Holloween? Sorry, but he sure looked like a terrorist."

If a United States citizen was determined to have joined a foreign terrorist group, that person could be legally murdered under orders given by President George W. Bush after the 9/11 attacks.

In spite of an administration change in Washington, D.C., that allowance is still in effect, according to a late-breaking report in The Washington Post on Tuesday.

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Bush Silences a Dangerous Witness

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Another "Bush" witness silenced

Editor’s Note: The hanging of Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as “Chemical Ali” for his role in using chemical weapons in Iraqi wars of the 1980s and early 1990s, silenced yet one more witness who otherwise could have filled in the blanks of the Reagan-Bush-I roles in secretly assisting Saddam Hussein’s armies, the so-called Iraq-gate scandal.

If Majid had been turned over to the International Criminal Court – rather than prosecuted by kangaroo tribunals set up in Iraq by George W. Bush’s administration – he could have been systematically debriefed about what U.S. officials, including George H.W. Bush, did to facilitate Iraq’s acquisition of dangerous chemical weapons.

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Sarah Palin's Energy Plan for the US: Oil, Oil, and More Oil

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Image via Climate Progress

I know many would prefer it if Sarah Palin's ideas for US policy were to never again grace another blog post, seeing as how she left public office behind.

But now she's gone and joined Fox News, so we have to take her ideas seriously again, right? And boy does she have some ideas for our energy policy--and they lean more heavily on oil than George W. Bush did.

Click on picture to see Condi's name on oil tanker

Will Sarah Palin have an oil tanker named after her, like Condi Rice did?

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Torture Never Stopped Under Obama

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“A year on, the [Obama] administration continues to look the other way when it comes to full disclosure of and remedy for human rights violations perpetrated by the U.S.A. in the name of countering terrorism.” – Amnesty International

The U.S. continues to practice torture.

Yes, Obama outlawed some especially shocking forms of torture — water boarding, for example — but other types of torture were not labeled “torture” and thus continue.

Surprisingly, this fact was recently discussed at length in The New York Times, under an Op-Ed piece appropriately entitled Torture’s Loopholes.

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ISRAEL: PLEASE, NO MORE BIN LADEN TAPES, NOBODY IS BUYING IT!

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A further abuse, of course, is not only that we are no longer seeing the easily debunked bin Laden doubles whose video tapes were “mysteriously” released by SITE Intelligence, the Rita Katz/Israeli group that seems to find them in trash bins behind delicatessens.

The “new” audio tape itself contains statements claiming credit for 9/11 in direct contradiction to the real bin Laden videos, the only ones authenticated. If you wondered why the FBI doesn’t list Osama bin Laden as a suspect in 9/11, I think you have your answer. If they think the bin Laden “admissions” aren’t credibile, I wonder who the FBI is investigating or if they have simply been told to mind their own business.

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Florida manatees die in record numbers from cold

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More than 100 manatees have been found dead in Florida waters since the beginning of the year, mostly victims of a nearly two-week cold snap.

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"Reverse" Global Warming???

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Washington's Militarized Takeover Of Haiti Using Quake As Excuse

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Market Day

Haiti is no stranger to adversity and anguish - over 500 years of severe oppression, slavery, despotism, colonization, reparations, embargoes, sanctions, deep poverty, starvation, unrepayable debt, and natural calamities from destructive hurricanes to a dozen magnitude 7.0 or greater Caribbean region earthquakes in the past 500 years.

After Washington ousted President Jean-Betrand Aristide in February 2004, UN Blue Helmets (MINUSTAH) occupied Haiti as paramilitary enforcers.

They still do, subordinate to around 20,000 US land and sea based troops, including Marines, Army 82nd Airborne paratroupers, Navy assault ships, and Coast Guard vessels offshore.

A powerful force for indefinite occupation, severe repression, and ruthless exploitation for American interests - obstructing, not providing, humanitarian aid, and facilitating potentially hundreds of thousands of deaths from starvation, dehydration, disease, untreated wounds and trauma.

Dance of hope

MORE HAITI PAINTINGS HERE

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War Criminals: Arrest Warrants Requested

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International arrest warrants have been requested for George W. Bush, Richard (Dick) Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleeza Rice and Alberto Gonzales at the International Criminal Court, The Hague, Netherlands.

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70 Percent of antibiotics used on animals slaughtered for food

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Widespread antibiotic use in animal agriculture is drawing increasing fire as a primary cause of the growing prevalence of drug-resistant and ever more lethal superbugs.

"There is clear evidence of the human health consequences [from agricultural use of antibiotics, including] infections that would not have otherwise occurred, increased frequency of treatment failures (in some cases death) and increased severity of infections," the World Health Organization wrote in 2003 (seven years ago!!!).

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The billion-dollar hoax: Global Warming

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ONCE global warming was the "great moral challenge of our generation".

In just the past few months has come a cascade of evidence that the global warming scare is based on often dodgy science and even outright fraud.

Here are just the top 10 new signs that catastrophic man-made warming may be just another beat-up, like swine flu, SARS, and the Y2K bug.

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O'Reilly falsely equates waterboarding of detainees, training for U.S. military

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On January 25, Bill O'Reilly falsely equated the waterboarding of detainees by U.S. interrogators with the training U.S. soldiers undergo.

In fact, officials familiar with both the techniques used in harsh interrogations and those used in military training programs have said that such a comparison is false.

Those who undergo certain interrogation techniques in such training programs are aware that there are safeguards and know they can stop the training immediately if necessary.

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The Truth Behind Glenn Beck's 'Live Free Or Die'

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Goodbye Gitmo pictures

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4 contest pictures

Advanced Photoshop Pictures Contest

Contest Directions: After President Barack Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum formally closing Guantanamo Bay detention camp (Gitmo) in December 2009, the camp is in the process of closing.

Most of the Gitmo prisoners will be transfered to the Thomson Correctional Center, Thomson, Illinois; while other prisoners will be sent abroad.

The future of the camp facilities is unclear at this point. There are speculations that it may be used for Haiti refugees that became homeless after the earthquake.
Gitmo camp lasted for almost 8 years - from 2002 under Bush administration to 2010 under Obama administration.

To mark the closing of the Gitmo camp photoshop anything related to Guantanamo Bay detention camp (Gitmo).

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The Obama Administration's Cover-up of the Flight 253 Affair

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"New Smoking Gun" Disclosures

Relevant questions begging for answers include:

Who made the decision not to "connect the dots"?

Are right-wing elements and holdovers from the previous administration actively conspiring to destabilize the Obama government?

Was the attempted bombing a planned provocation meant to incite new conflicts in the Middle East and restrict democratic rights at home?

As with the 9/11 attacks, these questions go unasked by corporate media. Indeed, such lines of inquiry are entirely off the table and are further signs that a cover-up is in full-swing, not a hard-hitting investigation.

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Tylenol - at least nobody died...

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Details of Iraq whistleblower’s alleged suicide to be sealed 70 years

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By 2080, anyone with a direct interest in learning how Dr. David Kelly died, will themselves be dead.

That's how an Oxford coroner reacted to a recent ruling ordering the details of the former United Nations weapons inspector's death locked away for 70 years, according to a Mail Online report.

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SC Lt. Gov. regrets comparing poor to animals, then does it again

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"My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed," Bauer said, as quoted at the South Carolina State. "You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better."

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OSAMA BIN LADEN: Behind the Madness

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The US Navy has anchored one of its secret prisons in Haitian waters

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Over recent years, this amphibious assault ship has been converted into a floating secret prison, forming part of the CIA network of "black sites" used for torture.

The ship’s flat hold bottom, designed to accommodate troops for disembarkment, has been equipped with cages.

Prisoners are subjected to the same experiments as in Guantánamo.

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12 more glaciers that haven’t heard the news about global warming

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...TO BELIEVE IN GLOBAL WARMING!!!

The glaciers are melting! The glaciers are melting! The glaciers are…uhhhhh…never mind.

Turns out the IPCC’s chicken little story that all the Himalayan glaciers are melting is just another exaggeration. Or fraud. Take your choice.

You know, like the stats coming out of East Anglia CRU. And its claim that Antarctica is melting. And that Greenland’s ice cap is melting. And that sea levels are rising. And that the polar bears are dying.

Fact is, some glaciers are retreating, but many others around the world are growing.

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Bin Laden’s Ghost Claims Flight 253 Attack

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"OK, ready to make another tape warning Americans of the next 9/11"

Yet another attempt into making sure everyone is properly scared of another devastating 9/11-style attack on US soil.

According to the new Bin Laden audiotape he is claiming responsibility for the foiled Flight 253 attack on a Detroit airliner and promises more attacks if US continues to support Israel.

CIA-linked IntelCenter, –a company that was CAUGHT red-handed manipulating an al-Zawahiri video– now claims that this new audio is a ‘possible indicator‘ for an upcoming attack within the next 12 months.


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See: Osama bin Laden: A dead nemesis perpetuated by the US government



Also, see: Fake Al Qaeda

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"Chimp-cam' to be aired on British TV

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How it will differ from typical American network fare is anyone's guess, but the BBC intends to air what is being billed as the world's first film footage shot entirely by chimpanzees.

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The Anthrax Attacks Remain Unsolved

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The FBI disproved its main theory about how the spores were weaponized.

These attacks killed five people, closed down a Senate office building, caused a national panic, and nearly paralyzed the postal system.

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THE FBI KNOWS WHO DID IT!

See: THE HIDDEN ANTHRAX LETTERS SUSPECT

The FBI knows of a man who was caught entering the lab where the Anthrax used in the letters was kept, after he had been fired for a racially motivated attack on a co-worker.

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Sunday Funnies - Not So Funny

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David Kelly post mortem to be kept secret for 70 years

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Vital evidence which could solve the mystery of the death of Government weapons inspector Dr David Kelly will be kept under wraps for up to 70 years.

In a draconian – and highly unusual – order, Lord Hutton, the peer who chaired the controversial inquiry into the Dr Kelly scandal, has secretly barred the release of all medical records, including the results of the post mortem, and unpublished evidence.

The move, which will stoke fresh speculation about the true circumstances of Dr Kelly’s death, comes just days before Tony Blair appears before the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War.

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