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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/04/27-6

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=British+Petroleum
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=drilling
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=oil+spill
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Terry+Macalister

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Starmail - 28. Apr, 05:48

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GOP and Dem Push for Health Care Privatization Will Accelerate Costs and Deaths

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/04/27-8

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=GOP
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=healthcare
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Margaret+Flowers
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Starmail - 28. Apr, 05:44

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Mittwoch, 27. April 2011

Why the US and NATO Fed Detainees to Afghan Torture System

Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: 'Starting in late 2005, U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan began turning detainees over to the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS), despite its well-known reputation for torture. Interviews with former U.S. and NATO diplomats and other evidence now available show that United States and other NATO governments become complicit in NDS torture of detainees for two distinctly different reasons.'

http://www.truth-out.org/why-us-and-nato-fed-detainees-afghan-torture-system/1303914987

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Sanctioned sociopaths

Authority!
by Timothy J Taylor

05/01/11

We have a word to describe the common individual human personality disorder characterized by abnormal behavior and a seeming absence of a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience: sociopath. Torturers are sociopaths. Torture, although a common practice among human beings, is not normal human behavior. Torture is sadistic behavior. Torture is abhorrent behavior. Normal people don?t torture other people. Normal people have a sense of moral shame...

http://authoritycon.blogspot.com/2011/05/sanctioned-sociopaths.html

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Gareth+Porter
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Timothy+J+Taylor

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Starmail - 27. Apr, 22:38

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Cheney Was Right About One Thing: Deficits Dont Matter

Ellen Brown, Truthout: 'Former Vice President Dick Cheney famously said, 'Deficits don't matter.' A staunch Republican, he was arguing against raising taxes on the rich; but today, Republicans seem to have forgotten this maxim. They are bent on stripping social programs, privatizing public assets and gutting unions, all in the name of 'deficit reduction.' Worse, Standard & Poor s has now taken up the hatchet. Some bloggers are calling it blackmail. This private, for-profit rating agency, with a dubious track record of its own, is dictating government policy, threatening to downgrade the government s long-held triple AAA credit rating if Congress fails to deal with its deficit in sufficiently draconian fashion.'

http://www.truthout.org/cheney-was-right-about-one-thing-deficits-dont-matter/1303850419

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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Ellen+Brown

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Starmail - 27. Apr, 22:28

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End the Death Penalty in Connecticut

http://www.change.org/petitions/end-the-death-penalty-in-connecticut

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=death+penalty
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Starmail - 27. Apr, 22:03

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The partisan temptation

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

04/27/11

[P]ut not your trust in partisan politics. There is no hope there, at least not under the present two-party system. Rome, in the era of its prolonged decline, had two great political parties, the patricians and the plebeians, or, in the Byzantine version, the Greens and the Blues, which were closely associated with teams of chariot racers. The two-party system, in and of itself, is a symptom of decadence: it represents the degeneration of politics from a civic duty into an entertainment. Donald Trump?s candidacy underscores how relevant this analysis is to our present day condition...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2011/04/26/the-partisan-temptation/

The debt ceiling charade

Future of Freedom Foundation Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

04/26/11

With respect to the debt ceiling, let me issue an easy prediction: The Republicans are going to cave. They are going to vote to raise the debt ceiling. Oh sure, there will be plenty of posturing. There will be expressions of anger and outrage over out-of-control federal spending, borrowing, and debt. There will be political tactics to gain electoral advantage, including threats to 'shut down' the government...

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-04-26.asp

An open letter to Democrats

Liberty For All
by John Jay Myers

04/26/11

So you are feeling a little let down? You probably voted for Democrats because you were tired of the endless wars, Gitmo, torture, the Patriot Act and the bad name the Republicans were giving the United States. We are disappointed too. But come to find out the Democrats have now escalated our current wars, and started new ones. They didn t close Gitmo and have just approved the Patriot Act yet again...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=5785

Donald Trump s eminent domain empire

Freedom Politics
by Michelle Malkin

04/22/11

Don t be fooled by The Donald. Take it from one who knows: I am a South Jersey gal who was raised on the outskirts of Atlantic City in the looming shadow of Trump s towers. All through my childhood, casino developers and government bureaucrats joined hands, raised taxes and made dazzling promises of urban renewal. Then we wised up to the eminent-domain thievery championed by our hometown faux free-marketeers. America, it s time you wised up to Donald Trump s property redistribution racket, too...

http://tinyurl.com/3v8prrh

Donald Trump: Corporatist bully

The Liberty Papers
by Stephen Littau

04/25/11

Donald Trump is the poster child for what many on the Left as a greedy capitalist; a caricature of everything that is wrong with capitalism as preached by the Ralph Naders and Michael Moores of the world. But those of us who know better know that Donald Trump isn t a capitalist at all but a corporatist. Trump doesn t try to work within a framework of a free market as a true capitalist would, but like far too many businessmen, he uses his wealth and influence to encourage the government to work on his behalf to his advantage (and at the expense of anyone else who would dare get in his way)...

http://tinyurl.com/3du7zel

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

'The two parties have combined against us to nullify our power by a 'gentleman s agreement' of non-recognition, no matter how we vote ... May God write us down as a... if ever again we are found putting our trust in either the Republican or the Democratic Parties.' - W.E.B. DuBois (1922)

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=empire
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Patriot+Act
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=raimondo
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+Jay+Myers
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Michelle+Malkin
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Stephen+Littau

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Starmail - 27. Apr, 09:53

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The Four Horsemen Behind The Oil Wars

While Americans are robbed at the gas pump, Exxon Mobil will this week report a 60% increase in its quarterly net profits to a cool $10 billion. Royal Dutch/Shell will report a 30% increase.

http://deanhenderson.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/the-four-horsemen-behind-the-oil-wars/

From Information Clearing House

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Four Horsemen

http://www.fourhorsemenfilm.com/

Global mega-trends are converging when governments, organised religion and mainstream economists have stalled. Understanding we will never return to Business as usual' thinkers, advisors and Wall Street money-men break their silence and explain how the world really works.

http://www.fourhorsemenfilm.com/cast-crew/

From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Wall+Street+money
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Royal+Dutch+Shell
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Starmail - 27. Apr, 09:45

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US Airstrikes In Yemen

According to Abyan s security chief, Colonel Abdullah Ali Saeed, a new airstrike hit the small village of Amfryad in Mudiyah district on 24 April 2011. The attack involved two cruise missiles being launched by a US Predator drone.

http://www.yementimes.com/defaultdet.aspx?SUB_ID=35975

From Information Clearing House

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Yemen
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Starmail - 27. Apr, 09:29

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Just 8 at Gitmo Gave Evidence Against 255 Others

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/04/26

Witness Against Torture: Close Guantanamo with Justice Now
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/04/26-5

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Egypt s Darkest Corner Was The Forerunner to Guantanamo

By Yvonne Ridley

The Scorpion Prison is a hellish institution that former prisoners told me was the blueprint for America s Guantanamo, the world's most notorious jail. It is reasonable to say that this is Egypt s very own Guantanamo.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27971.htm

Secret US torture files on Mamdouh Habib and David Hicks released by WikiLeaks

Mr Hicks' file describes him as a 'compliant' but 'deceptive'. He was held in 'high regard' by other detainees, including senior al-Qa'ida operatives.

http://bit.ly/f6wrpm

WikiLeaks highlights 'original sin' of Guantanamo

Innocent bystanders locked up for no reason, Al-Qaeda militants released to commit new atrocities: WikiLeaks has poured light on the 'original sin' of Guantanamo, activists and experts say.

http://bit.ly/e0lDtF

Gitmo Doctors Hid Evidence of Torture

By Spencer Ackerman

They explained away the bone fractures, didn t ask what caused the lacerations, and called the hallucinations routine.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/04/gitmo-docs-torture/

From Information Clearing House

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Guantanamo: Doctors neglected, concealed medical evidence of torture

ABC News

04/26/11

Doctors caring for detainees at the Guantanamo prison may have neglected or concealed medical evidence of torture, such as bone fractures, lacerations, and symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder, according to a study released today by Physicians for Human Rights. For example, one of the suspected terrorists held at Gitmo who claimed he had been severely beaten with kicks and punches until he was unconcious had evidence of a fracture on X-ray, but the circumstances of the injury were not discussed in his medical file...

http://tinyurl.com/3hgsdl8

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Guantanamo
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Spencer+Ackerman
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Starmail - 27. Apr, 08:45

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