Janine Jackson interviewed Omar Shakir about Obama’s failure to close Guantanamo for the January 15, 2016, CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
Omar Shakir (photo: Human Rights Watch)
JANINE JACKSON: It was widely noted that Barack Obama’s last State of the Union address contained the same promise as his first, that he would move to close the military detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, now entering its 14th year. Media present closing Guantanamo as Obama’s quest, something he wants badly. That he has struggled mightily to close the prison is one presumption. The more striking one is that Guantanamo is, above all, Obama’s problem, rather than that of the hundreds of people who’ve been held there, or of a society aspiring to democracy that permits a prison that operates outside the law.
We’re joined now by Omar Shakir. He’s the Bertha Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights. He joins us by phone from New York. Welcome to CounterSpin, Omar Shakir.
OMAR SHAKIR: Thank you for having me.
JJ: I understand Beltway reporters’ tendency to report on Guantanamo Bay as about Barack Obama, you know: his legacy, his power. That’s not irrelevant, but there’s just so much else at stake. Some of our listeners were in grade school when Guantanamo Bay opened. Remind us why it opened; what was the supposed purpose in 2002?
Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay
OS: Sure. The Bush administration opened Guantanamo to create a prison that was beyond the reach of any law. They explicitly chose it so that the US Constitution and other law would not apply. In their minds, the nature of US control over that base meant that international law wouldn’t apply, Cuban law wouldn’t apply. It was meant to be an area where they could use torture and other brutal interrogation tactics as they wanted, where they could hold people without charge, where they could conduct trials without basic due process protections. It was meant mostly for that purpose and, in addition, to be far removed so that could easily be hidden from the conscience of most Americans, and out of sight, out of mind, in a place where they could bring whoever they wanted whenever they wanted for as long as they wanted.
JJ: Well, that sounds dystopian. And it’s amazing the degree to which it was kind of accepted, or has become normalized, at least, by US media. A CBS affiliate story recently on five Yemeni men who were released to the United Arab Emirates just sort of reported none of the men had been charged with a crime, but they’d been detained as enemy combatants, you know, as though this were a kind of generally understood legal terminology and as though it made sense.
So who was there, who is there still, in Guantanamo Bay? Who got caught up in it?
OS: So we currently, as of today, have 93 individuals left in Guantanamo. Over the history of Guantanamo, 780 individuals have been held there. All are Muslim men and boys. Out of the 780, the vast majority have not been charged with any crime at all. Most were cleared for release. You have a lot of people, as the former US envoy for Guantanamo’s closure put it, that simply were not the worst of the worst but, a direct quote, “had the worst of luck.” A lot of people that were brought over because the US was offering bounties in late 2001, early 2002, to local villagers who turned in anyone they suspected of militance, which obviously, for communities, meant people turning in anybody that they could make any kind of case. You know, maybe they were not from that town, or they had a personal gripe with them.
The US’s own numbers say that only 8 percent were ever Al Qaeda fighters. There’s even a smaller percentage of numbers that the US actually claims were involved in any sort of combat. And at the end of the day, you have more people that have died in Guantanamo than actually have been convicted by a court. So that should give you some perspective, now that we commemorate the 14th anniversary of Guantanamo’s opening, 15 years for many men there, and we still have a reality where men continue to languish without charge, and many of whom have been cleared for release.
JJ: FAIR took the New York Times to task in 2009 for a story on a leaked Pentagon report which they headlined “One in Seven Freed Detainees Rejoins Fight, Report Finds.” It was talking about former prisoners from Guantanamo “returning to terrorism or militant activity” when, as you’ve just explained, in many or most cases, they’ve not been shown to have been involved in any in the first place.
And yet for reporters, this image of Guantanamo as holding “the worst of the worst,” and we’ve seen politicians pick up on this, it had something to do with the fact that—and there were exceptions, folks like Carol Rosenberg, who really did hard, independent work—but, in general, there was a reliance on the Pentagon as the source for any knowledge you were getting out of Guantanamo. And that turned out not to be the best route to reliable information.
OS: That’s absolutely right. I mean, I think a lot of this has to do with Islamophobia and the reality that fearmongering has always been the primary justification for the ongoing detention of folks at Guantanamo Bay. And I think those leaks also, if you sort of look at the timing, it’s always bureaucrats. Usually the Department of Defense, Homeland Security, FBI, that have their own reasons for wanting Guantanamo open, who are selectively leaking, in many cases, inaccurate information. Or even if it has some accuracy in it, it’s being framed in a way to further the opportunistic politicians that want to bank on fearmongering as a way to either criticize President Obama or to scuttle efforts to close Guantanamo.
So the way that that sort of reverberates in media and in political circles I think is deeply problematic, and those folks deserve a lot of the blame for Guantanamo still being open in 2016.
JJ: It’s not that the obstacles aren’t real, but what can we say about Obama’s capacity to move the issue? Could he not do more?
OS: Absolutely he can. I mean, it is very real that there are obstacles, both within his own administration and in Congress. But at the same time, these obstacles emerged as a result of the fact that from the beginning, while President Obama did on his second day in office issue executive orders calling for the closure of Guantanamo, from the early days of that administration it was not followed up with a concrete plan of action and a set of steps to actually effectuate it.
The way he went about the first year, and on into subsequent years, provided space for these obstacles to emerge. And as soon as they emerged, they were the excuse for no action. On his own, based on his own authority, he can release guys that are cleared for release. I mean, we’re talking about out of the 93 detainees left, 34 of them are cleared for release. Tomorrow President Obama could put them on an airplane, send them away. Of the remaining detainees, you have 49 of whom who are awaiting hearings by the periodic review boards that have been clearing the vast majority of detainees.
If those review boards were expedited—and as president, Obama promised to do all hearings within a year—if he actually followed through with expediting that, you would have many more men cleared for release. And if the military commission system, which has been fraught with abuses and serious due process violations, were once and for all done away with, and those that the US does suspect of criminal involvement were charged in federal courts, and the administration used a simple charge-or-release paradigm very familiar to prosecutors, he could on his own power close Guantanamo in a matter of days, not months or years.
JJ: It was interesting, in the State of the Union speech, that Obama said—and which many media credited him for revealing yet again his urge, his strong compulsion, to close Guantanamo—what he actually said is: “I will keep working to shut down the prison at Guantanamo. It’s expensive, it’s unnecessary, and it only serves as a recruitment brochure for our enemies.”
Anytime a criticism of an abusive practice or policy begins with “it’s expensive,” you know, it’s not really inspiring. It doesn’t really give you the feeling that the problem is the absence of due process, that the problem is putting people in a black hole of a prison that’s opaque to the public and that’s outside of the rule of law. His opposition, it doesn’t seem to be based on what some of us would call the right reasons.
OS: Right. The core injustice is indefinite detention; it’s this idea that you can have individuals who are now in their 15th year of detention under US control, who the US government has said pose no threat, are cleared for release, who have never been charged with a crime, but yet wake up each day in Guantanamo and have no idea whether that will be the day that they’re released, whether they could die there, whether they’ll ever see their families again. That core injustice—that’s not going to be solved by the reports of the president thinking about transferring Guantanamo to a federal prison in the United States. That’s not closing Guantanamo; that’s merely changing its zip code and not addressing the core injustice.
JJ: We’ve been speaking with Omar Shakir of the Center for Constitutional Rights. You can find their work on Guantanamo, along with their work on other issues, online at CCRJustice.org. Omar Shakir, thank you so much for joining us this week on CounterSpin.
OS: Thank you for having me.
With so many crimes perpetrated by so many of the US financial, political and security elites, it is immeasurably sadder to have seen seven years of Obama inaction. This still-open national gulag will share a place, alongside his creation of drone warfare as a primary vector of US “diplomacy,” in that sad brand-to-be: The Obama Legacy.
When did we lose our national sense of decency?
“For four months I was heavily tortured by the Army in Rio de Janeiro, and then in the Naval Information Center… Near death, I was taken to the hospital for the sixth time. The beatings had been so severe that my body was one big bruise. The blood clotted under my skin and all the hair on my body fell out. They pulled out all my fingernails. They poked needles through my sexual organs and used a rope to drag me across the floor by my testicles. Right afterwards they hung me upside down. They hung me handcuffed from a grating, removed my artificial leg, and tied my penis so l could not urinate. They forced me to stand on my one leg for three days without food or drink. They gave me so many drugs that my eardrums burst and I am impotent. They nailed my penis to a table for 24 hours. They tied me up like a pig and threw me into a pool so that I nearly drowned. They put me in a completely dark cell where I remained for 30 days urinating and defecating in the same place where I had to sleep. They fed me only bread soaked in water. They put me in a rubber box and turned on a siren. For three days I neither ate nor slept and I nearly went mad…” — Manuel de Conceicao, peasant leader in Brazil He was arrested in 1972 and brought before Brazilian security police who had been schooled at US army bases in the latest methods of counterinsurgency and interrogation. He was tortured by Brazilian army units — trained and equipped by US military-aid programs.A young Salvadoran deserted the Salvadoran army and fled to Mexico. His story was published in The Other Side magazine, 1982 Part of his training by eight American Green Berets consisted of “teaching how to torture.”He witnessed a boy of about fifteen, suspected of supporting the guerrillas, being subjected to a demonstration torture by the Green Berets They tore out the youth’s fingernails, broke his elbows, gouged out his eyes, and then burned him alive. The author reports that the torture sessions continued into the next day and included a thirteen year-old girl. Another victim had various parts of his body burned and was then taken up in a helicopter while still alive and thrown out at 14,000 feet. The defector noted that “often the army goes and throws people out over the sea.”(The editors of The Other Side withheld the Salvadoran informant’s name “for obvious reasons”but claimed that “the basic outline of his story has been corroborated by independent sources which we believe to be reliable.”)
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By: Ethan Allen and…Tags: ARTS CURRENT EVENTS EDUCATION HIDDEN HISTORY PROTESTS/REVOLUTION RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS SCIENCE/HEALTH/CLIMATE/NATURE VIDEOWHITE HOUSEJan2522:52
George Soros Finally Suspends His Lifelong War Against Russia
By: EliasTags: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA CURRENT EVENTS POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION PROTESTS/REVOLUTION RUSSIA/UKRAINE WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS WHITE HOUSEOn January 21st, George Soros, who has throughout his life been passionately opposed not just to communism but also to Russia, has finally stated in a Bloomberg News interview at the World Economic Forum, that the United States (and possibly the EU, but he says that the EU is in terrible economic shape itself) must now fund a new Marshall Plan for all of Europe, including, this time, even his bête noire: Russia.Jan2521:23
County Sheriff slams BLM and Understands Oregon Protestors
By: Ethan Allen and…Tags: CURRENT EVENTS DICTATORSHIP IMMIGRATION/NAU/GLOBALISM POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION PROTESTS/REVOLUTION RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS SCIENCE/HEALTH/CLIMATE/NATURE WHITE HOUSE(By Rick Dalton 17 January 2016) In a forceful rebuke of federal criminal activity against the Hammond Family of Burns, Oregon, Milwauke County, Wisconsin Sheriff Davie A. Clarke Jr., in a podcdast a week ago, talked about civil disobedience being sometimes necessary to correct the path of abusive federal agencies.Clarke’s show, which can be found on Stitcher.com, was devoted entirely to the Oregon standoff between citizens and the BLM.Jan2521:20
The Fed’s Own Data Says This Happens Next: “The Market Is About to See Half Its Value Wiped Out”
By: PatriotRisingTags: CONSUMER RIGHTS / PRODUCT REPORTS COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDACURRENT EVENTS DICTATORSHIP ECONOMY HIDDEN HISTORY POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTIONIf the Fed was right, the far more prophetic 1937 Fed that is not the current wealth effect-pandering iteration, then the market is about to see half its value wiped out.Jan2521:14
MU professor Melissa Click, who called for ‘muscle’ to remove reporter, charged with assault
By: Ethan Allen and…Tags: CURRENT EVENTS EDUCATION PROTESTS/REVOLUTION SCIENCE/HEALTH/CLIMATE/NATUREBy Jason Hancockjhancock@kcstar.comCOLUMBIAMelissa Click, the University of Missouri communications professor who garnered widespread scorn for trying to physically remove a student reporter from a campus protest, was formally charged with assault Monday morning.Jan2521:04
CT: Police ‘Gotta Cover Our Ass’ on Open Carry ~ VIDEO
By: PatriotRisingTags: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA CURRENT EVENTS DICTATORSHIPPOLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS TURKEYWe need activists to keep the police honest. Digital recorders and the Internet are helping make that happen. The police could simply have ignored Michael and done nothing, as it appears they should have done. Or, they could have calmly approached him and asked what he was doing. Instead, the video shows that they concocted a scheme to harass Michael with false charges to “Cover their Ass”. It is a grave miscarriage of justice, and it should not be tolerated.Jan2520:46
“God Bless America” (The Red Army Choir)
By: Ethan Allen and…Tags: ARTS ENTERTAINMENT RUSSIA/UKRAINE VIDEO WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRSIt’s a strange world.Jan2520:08
Davos Depression: Soros Predicts Devastating Deflation, Repeat of 2008
By: PatriotRisingTags: CONSUMER RIGHTS / PRODUCT REPORTS COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDACURRENT EVENTS DICTATORSHIP ECONOMY HIDDEN HISTORY POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTIONAt Davos, they want to point the blame at everyone but the true culprit: themselves — The truth of the matter is that the people of the world need to wake-up to this con game and stop supporting governments and central banks and move their assets into gold, silver and bitcoin.Jan2519:46
GMO industry hacks and shills trying to claim that healthy eating is a ‘mental disorder’
By: alexmarkTags: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA SCIENCE/HEALTH/CLIMATE/NATUREJan2519:43
Hillary to Bernie: Stop Sounding Like Ron Paul on Iran!
By: PatriotRisingTags: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA CURRENT EVENTS DICTATORSHIP IRANPOLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION WHITE HOUSEn other words, do not dare give peace a chance.Jan2519:33
Bombs out! Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bombers drop payload on ISIS near Deir ez-Zor
By: alexmarkTags: RUSSIA/UKRAINE SYRIAJan2519:32
More Jobs Lost as 8 Coal Mines Idle Operations In West Virginia
By: newsguy76Tags: ECONOMYJan2519:31
Congress is Writing the President a Blank Check for War — Ron Paul
By: PatriotRisingTags: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA CURRENT EVENTS DICTATORSHIPPOLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION TORTURE/WAR CRIMES WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS WHITE HOUSEWhile the Washington snowstorm dominated news coverage this week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was operating behind the scenes to rush through the Senate what may be the most massive transfer of power from the Legislative to the Executive branch in our history. The senior Senator from Kentucky is scheming, along with Sen. Lindsey Graham, to bypass normal Senate procedure to fast-track legislation to grant the president the authority to wage unlimited war for as long as he or his successors may wish.» 1 commentJan2519:25
68% of Americans destroy credit before age 30: Survey
By: PatriotRisingTags: CONSUMER RIGHTS / PRODUCT REPORTS CURRENT EVENTS DICTATORSHIPECONOMY POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTIONA whopping 68 percent of Americans make at least one major financial mistake, or “credit fumble,” before turning 30, leading to a negative mark on their credit report, according to a Credit Karma survey. These mistakes include overspending on credit cards, missing payments, defaulting on a loan or having an account sent into collections, the survey found.Jan2519:18
Walmart introduces five cent charge for plastic bags in Canada
By: newsguy76Tags: ECONOMYJan2519:09
WalMart Store Closures Leave Elderly Villagers With No Grocery Stores, Pharmacies
By: PatriotRisingTags: CONSUMER RIGHTS / PRODUCT REPORTS CURRENT EVENTS ECONOMYSCIENCE/HEALTH/CLIMATE/NATUREWe’re pretty sure this wasn’t what WalMart had in mind when they first announced that the company was prepared to appease the living wage crowd early last year, but now that the horse has left the barn, we wonder if perhaps the retailer has entered a terminal decline similar to what befell that other “Mart”…Jan2519:04
Video: Hillary Denies Being Bought By Goldman Sachs
By: PatriotRisingTags: CONSUMER RIGHTS / PRODUCT REPORTS COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDACURRENT EVENTS DICTATORSHIP POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION VIDEO WHITE HOUSEHillary Clinton has given several private speeches to big banks and taken huge amounts of money in return recently. She has earned $675,000 from Goldman Sachs alone. — This fact has prompted some to suggest Clinton is being bought by Wall Street. — In an appearance on Meet The Press Sunday, Clinton denied the accusations, when asked if the bankers are expecting “anything in return.”Jan2518:56
New AUMF allows an autocratic president to wage war anywhere in the world without congressional approval
By: PatriotRisingTags: CURRENT EVENTS DICTATORSHIP POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS WHITE HOUSEA week after Obama’s State of the Union address Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took a procedural step known as Rule 14 and put a measure on the floor and introduced a refashioned AUMF (Authorization for Use of Military Force) written by the Republican neocon Sen. Lindsey Graham.Jan2518:25
Depression has already arrived in the UK oilfield. A 72% rise in benefits claimants in December alone.
By: alexmarkTags: ECONOMY EUROPE GREAT BRITAINJan2518:21
Israel, Saudi Arabia, Defense And Oil Spent Nearly One Trillion Urging DC For More War In 2015
By: BlacklistednewsTags: CURRENT EVENTS DICTATORSHIP ECONOMY ISRAEL MIDDLE EASTPOLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION SAUDI ARABIA WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRSThe defense industry spent millions lobbying the federal government last year, but they weren’t the only ones urging the country toward more war. Countries like Israel and Saudi Arabia, and even oil and computer industry representatives, also got in on the act. According to OpenSecrets, a project of the Center for Responsive Politics, the defense and aerospace industries spent a combined total of $56,272,948 on D.C. lobbying efforts last year. That’s down from the all-time high in 2013, when the industry spent over $78 million on lobbying.Jan2518:17
IG’s Letter: Hillary May Face Legal Problems Over E-mails
Tags: COMPUTERS/INTERNET/SECURITY CURRENT EVENTS DICTATORSHIP LIBYAPOLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION WHITE HOUSEThe former First Lady and current presidential candidate has steadfastly denied that she ever “sent or received any e-mail that was deemed classified, that was marked classified” from the private, unsecured e-mail server she used as secretary of state. If only it were that simple. The problem is that Clinton — like her husband — prefers to define her own terms. By making the point that the information contained in her e-mails was not “marked classified” and implying that that means it was not “deemed classified,” Clinton — and her campaign — have deliberately missed the point.Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus Myspace MSN Live Yahoo LinkedIn Orkut Digg Delicious» Permalink^Jan2518:16
Millions of Americans prepare to dig out after blizzard dumps tons of snow across Northeast, leaves at least 25 dead
Tags: CLIMATEGATEMillions of Americans are preparing to dig themselves out Sunday after a monstrous blizzard with hurricane-force winds and record-setting snowfall paralyzed the East Coast.Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus Myspace MSN Live Yahoo LinkedIn Orkut Digg Delicious» Permalink^Jan2518:15
THIS SEEMS FAIR TO ME: Bill allows suits over gun-free zone incidents.
By: alexmarkTags: POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION RIGHT TO BEAR ARMSJan2517:45
Science paper: The real purpose of modern medicine is ‘engineered genocide’ to reduce human population through covert infertility via vaccines, GMOs and drugs
By: alexmarkTags: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA SCIENCE/HEALTH/CLIMATE/NATUREJan2517:29
ECB Draghi: If inflation undershot, it would increase debt of households & comps by €700bn.
By: alexmarkTags: ECONOMY EUROPE POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTIONJan2517:24
Davos, Dalio, and a Depression?! So, How Does A Deflationary Depression Resolve Itself?
By: alexmarkTags: ECONOMYJan2517:24
So, clearly, the Fed does not help, and in fact hurts, Low – and Moderate – Income households.
By: alexmarkTags: ECONOMYJan2517:24
One of World’s Biggest Construction Companies to Hit the Wall?
By: alexmarkTags: ECONOMYJan2517:18
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to announce what time it is on the Doomsday Clock
By: PatriotRisingTags: CURRENT EVENTS HIDDEN HISTORY POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTIONSCIENCE/HEALTH/CLIMATE/NATURE WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRSWE will find out how close we are to Armageddon when the world’s most revered scientists gather in Washington DC to announce what time it is on the Doomsday Clock. The symbolic timekeeper of our impending destruction is currently set at three minutes to midnight — the closest we have ever been to that dreaded hour since the clock began ticking in 1947.Jan2517:07
Warning: Feds now foresee $30 trillion debt, blame looming tax hikes and Obamacare
By: PatriotRisingTags: CONSUMER RIGHTS / PRODUCT REPORTS COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDACURRENT EVENTS DICTATORSHIP ECONOMY RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS SCIENCE/HEALTH/CLIMATE/NATURE TAXES WHITE HOUSEThe federal government will be flirting with $30 trillion in debt within a decade, the Congressional Budget Office said Monday in a new report detailing a still-sluggish economy more than seven years into the Obama recovery.Jan2517:02
HILLARY THYROID DRAMA: MORE CHOKING FIT
By: PatriotRisingTags: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA CURRENT EVENTS POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION WHITE HOUSE(I’m more worried about her mental health) Democrat front-runner Hillary Clinton had a coughing fit on Monday that will do little to quell rumors the former U.S. secretary of state is in poor health.» 2 commentsJan2516:59
Obama Just Said Something About Trump That Could Give The Donald A Huge Boost
Tags: POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION WHITE HOUSEWith a clear focus on Donald Trump’s campaign, President Obama expressed a yearning Monday for Republicans to move away from the “unrecognizable” place they now inhabit.He also said he looks forward to the day when Republicans are done venting their frustrations and drop their support of Trump or Sen. Ted Cruz.Obama’s comments may not have the power to change the dynamics of the Republican race. Former Obama operative David Axelrod Monday called Trump “a perfect counterpoint” to Obama and the “antithesis” of the president.Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus Myspace MSN Live Yahoo LinkedIn Orkut Digg Delicious» Permalink^Jan2516:52
Shaken Schengen? EU to discuss suspension of free movement agreement
By: MTJTags: EUROPEEU ministers will meet in Amsterdam to discuss steps to allow states to reintroduce national border controls for two years, possibly spelling the end for the 30-year-old Schengen Agreement allowing passport-free travel across 26 states, according to reports.Jan2516:51
DeLay: FBI ‘Ready to Indict’ Hillary
By: PatriotRisingTags: COMPUTERS/INTERNET/SECURITY COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDACURRENT EVENTS DICTATORSHIP POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTIONThe FBI is ready to indict Hillary Clinton and if its recommendation isn’t followed by the U.S. attorney general, the agency’s investigators plan to blow the whistle and go public with their findings.Jan2516:50
Germany wants investors on the hook if Euro members ask for aid.
By: alexmarkTags: ECONOMY EUROPE GERMANY POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTIONJan2516:50
‘Deploy military to Calais to put law & order back’ – UK haulage chief
By: MTJTags: GREAT BRITAIN WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRSUK haulage companies are calling on the French government to send in the army to protect lorries traveling through the port of Calais.Jan2516:46
Peter Schiff: The U.S. Is One Gigantic Bubble Economy
Tags: ECONOMYThe admission that the economy is so weak that it needs more QE is going to destroy the narrative that the U.S. economy is in great shape and it’s no longer going to be the safe haven for capital around the world…it’s going to prick the bubble in the dollar…and people are going to realize that we’ve never recovered from anything, the economy is sicker than ever, the Fed’s going to make it even sicker with more of its toxic monetary policy, the dollar’s going to tank and the price of gold is going to skyrocket – and people need to prepare for that now. – Peter Schiff on the Shadow of TruthShare: Facebook Twitter Google Plus Myspace MSN Live Yahoo LinkedIn Orkut Digg Delicious» Permalink^Jan2516:45
USA: Heavy snowfall hits Arlington, DC
Tags: CLIMATEGATEShare: Facebook Twitter Google Plus Myspace MSN Live Yahoo LinkedIn Orkut Digg Delicious» Permalink^Jan2516:42
Petraeus: ‘It’s Time To Unleash America’s Airpower in Afghanistan’
By: MTJTags: ASIAIn an Op-Ed printed in the Washington Post, former General David Petraeus says it is time to “unleash our airpower in support of our Afghan partners in the same way that we support our Iraqi and Syrian partners against extremists.”Jan2516:38
2016 Market Meltdown: We Have Never Seen A Year Start Quite Like This…
By: MTJTags: ECONOMYWe are about three weeks into 2016, and we are witnessing things that we have never seen before. There were two emergency market shutdowns in China within the first four trading days of this year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has never lost this many points within the first three weeks, and just yesterday we learned that global stocks had officially entered bear market territory.Jan2516:28
New Study Quantifies U.S. Fascism — Nearly Half of All Retired Congress Members Become Lobbyists
By: ActivistPostTags: POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTIONBy Jay SyrmopoulosAs a member of the U.S. Congress, one can expect to earn a substantial income of $174,000 per year – a very comfortable sum to live on. But it doesn’t stop there, now legislators are frequently using their political careers as a stepping-stone to a much larger payday upon retirement, often quintupling their income as an industry lobbyist.Three political scientists have tracked data all the way back to 1976 to analyze the lobbying activity of former members of Congress in an eye-opening new study…Jan2516:27
Haitian Elections Cancelled As Popular Dissent Against Ruling Party Intensifies
By: MTJTags: POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTIONAmid energetic protests fueled by shared criticisms from people in the streets and opposition political parties that the nation’s political process is awash with fraud, the ruling government of Haiti on Friday cancelled national elections scheduled for Sunday by saying it could not guarantee the safety of voters.Jan2516:26
The debt deception: How the banks have perverted the global economy
By: PatriotRisingTags: CONSUMER RIGHTS / PRODUCT REPORTS COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDACURRENT EVENTS DICTATORSHIP ECONOMY POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTIONCash is no longer king. Debt is. The bankers are thoroughly convinced that credit equals money. And the bankers are happy and consider it a success when they feel they have provided enough credit for the world.Jan2516:21
Top Gear: Chris Evans allegedly ‘threatened to quit’ the BBC show because of ‘meddling’ bosses
By: malterwittyTags: ENTERTAINMENTIn another blow for Chris Evans’s Top Gear, it has been reported that the BBC presenter threatened to quit the show because of ‘meddling’ BBC bosses.The Mirror claimed the 49-year-old grew frustrated after BBC2 controller Kim Shillinglaw – who recently left the show – was reluctant to give him the same creative control as ex-host Jeremy Clarkson.Sources told the paper that Evans was annoyed with the “constant interference” from the BBC chiefs, stating how he felt “drained and disheartened” after all the run-ins and recent set backs.Due to this “lack of faith” in his decision making, Evans reportedly considered quitting just six months into his three year contract.Jan2516:19
Yemen’s healthcare system left in tatters due to Saudi bombing campaign – supported by Britain
By: malterwittyTags: MIDDLE EAST TORTURE/WAR CRIMESYemen’s healthcare system is in tatters, with 130 attacks on facilities since a bombing campaign (supported by Britain) began. Enough is enough, says Médecins Sans FrontièresJan2516:19
They Tell Us Nothing But Lies — Paul Craig Roberts
By: MTJTags: RUSSIA/UKRAINEAs no evidence is provided for the surmise, we can conclude that this report on an unresolved event that happened a decade ago is part of the lies being used by the West to demonize Putin, just as the lies about MH-17 and “the Russian invasion of Ukraine.”Jan2516:18
Phony North Korean Threat to America
By: MTJTags: KOREAPyongyang long sought normalized relations with America and other Western nations. Washington wanting adversarial relations maintained prevents it.A previous article explained why North Korea wants nukes. It fears America for good reason. It knows it wages endless imperial wars, raping one country after another.Jan2516:18
Asia cold snap: Scores dead as freezing ‘polar vortex’ sweeps across eastern Asia
By: malterwittyTags: CLIMATEGATEWhile much international attention has been focussed on the heavy snowfalls in the eastern US, another cold snap has descended over Korea, China, Hong Kong and Japan.Temperatures dropped across Asia on Sunday due to a deep depression pulling cold weather down from the north. Major Chinese cities like Shanghai and Beijing hit -4/-5, while -18 was recorded in Seoul, South Korea.Taiwan saw some of the worst impacts, however, because its subtropical geography means most homes are without central heating.City officials in Taipei said on Monday that temperatures had hit a 16-year low of 4C,well below the average of around 16C.Jan2516:18
15+ Pics That Perfectly Capture How Insane #Blizzard2016 Is
Tags: CLIMATEGATEA massive snowstorm has blanketed the East Coast in snow, affecting more than 80 million people and bringing NYC and Washington DC to a standstill. The storm became the second largest ever in New York City and your facebook feed is probably already covered in snow photos.To better understand just how crazy the blizzard is, Bored Panda collected some photos and videos from the past couple of days.If you have a photo, be sure to add it to this list!Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus Myspace MSN Live Yahoo LinkedIn Orkut Digg Delicious» Permalink^Jan2516:17
Palestinian Woman Kicked in Head as Jewish Mob Debates Whether to Kill Her
Tags: ISRAEL PALESTINEShare: Facebook Twitter Google Plus Myspace MSN Live Yahoo LinkedIn Orkut Digg Delicious» Permalink^Jan2516:15
Tory Treasury minister says he can’t tell the public whether Google broke any tax laws
By: malterwittyTags: GREAT BRITAIN TAXESDavid Gauke says ministers are not privy to details about the deal despite having described it as a ‘major success’Jan2516:15
Terrible infections, bad practices, unclean kit – welcome to hospital IT
By: malterwittyTags: COMPUTERS/INTERNET/SECURITYWhen it comes to IT security, the medical world is by far the most inept at data security. So say top researchers at the first Usenix Enigma security conference, held this week in San Francisco.”As a tester who has worked in many industries, healthcare is the absolute worst in terms of security,” Avi Rubin, technical director of the Information Security Institute at the Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, told Enigma attendees.”What makes that really worrying is that we all interact with healthcare, but their data security practices were so far below every other industry we saw.”Jan2516:09
Lawmaker proposes tax credit for gun training
By: PatriotRisingTags: CURRENT EVENTS POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION RIGHT TO BEAR ARMSTAXESA state legislator in Arizona wants to increase public safety by offsetting the cost of concealed carry licensing and training with a tax credit.Jan2516:04
Grant Williams: Global Debt Problem Can’t Be Fixed
By: alexmarkTags: ECONOMYJan2516:01
Flint rewrites water testing directions blamed in lead pollution crisis
Tags: CURRENT EVENTS POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION SCIENCE/HEALTH/CLIMATE/NATUREMichigan city’s instructions called on residents to ‘pre-flush’ pipes, a process criticized by federal authorities for reducing levels of toxins detectedShare: Facebook Twitter Google Plus Myspace MSN Live Yahoo LinkedIn Orkut Digg Delicious» Permalink^Jan2516:00
90-Year-Old Pulls Gun For First Time In His Life On Home Intruder
By: PatriotRisingTags: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA CURRENT EVENTS POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION RIGHT TO BEAR ARMSA 90-year-old man had the first reason in his life to use his .38 spc revolver when an unknown intruder entered his home and attempted to sleep in a vacant bedroom in his house. As the Daily Breeze describes it, the home owner awoke to find the man in the vacant bedroom.Jan2516:00
Afghanistan Bans Toy Guns To Curb Culture of Violence
By: MTJTags: 911 AFGHANISTANThis one’s so funny that it must be some kind of U.S.-led initiative; I can’t believe the Afghans have this kind of a sense of humor.Jan2515:56
Grand jury indicts pair behind Planned Parenthood videos
By: newsguy76Tags: CURRENT EVENTSJan2515:56
Noam Chomsky’s First Campaign Contribution Was To Bernie Sanders
By: MTJTags: POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION PROTESTS/REVOLUTIONRadical intellectual Noam Chomsky has supported just two federal political candidates with campaign contributions over the past 18 years.Jan2515:56
The CIA Just Declassified Hundreds of UFO Documents… Just as X-Files Is Rebooted
By: PatriotRisingTags: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA CURRENT EVENTS DICTATORSHIPENTERTAINMENT HIDDEN HISTORY POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTIONThe truth is out there, and we’re all going to get it from the CIA…. Right?Jan2515:55
Wow: Trump Campaign Just Made Gigantic Threat To Fox News And Megyn Kelly- ‘Let’s See What Happens…’
By: alexmarkTags: CORPORATE MEDIA CURRENT EVENTS POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTIONJan2515:51
‘My emails, phone calls monitored’: US govt digital spying exposed in online series
By: MTJTags: COMPUTERS/INTERNET/SECURITY POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTIONGovernments abusing technology to spy on activists is being documented in a new online series called ”Truth And Power”.Jan2515:45
Due Process is Dead: A Staggering 95% of All Inmates in America Have Never Received a Trial
By: PatriotRisingTags: CURRENT EVENTS DICTATORSHIP POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTIONWhile the rich and powerful, especially those associated with corporations and banks, are able to escape significant punishment — even when their crimes affect millions of people, such as those complicit in the 2008 financial crash — the poor, whether guilty or not, fall victim to this slanted system.Jan2515:45
Media Silent as US Helps Saudis Starve Half a Million Yemeni Children
Tags: MIDDLE EAST SAUDI ARABIA WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS WHITE HOUSEWhile the media was flooded with images of the starving children of Syria, the thousands of children suffering from Saudi Arabia’s U.S.-backed onslaught on Yemen made far fewer headlines.Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus Myspace MSN Live Yahoo LinkedIn Orkut Digg Delicious» Permalink^Jan2515:44
What Sanctions? – Russia, France to Sign Deal Worth Over $100 Million
Tags: ECONOMY FRANCE RUSSIA/UKRAINEThe two countries are now considering over 10 joint investment projectsShare: Facebook Twitter Google Plus Myspace MSN Live Yahoo LinkedIn Orkut Digg Delicious» Permalink^Jan2515:40
Report Underlines Recent Worker Hazards at Old Weapons Plants
By: MTJTags: CURRENT EVENTSThe toxic morass that was America’s nuclear weapons complex is no secret. Hazardous conditions in places like the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Ohio moved Congress in 2000 to create a compensation program for former workers who developed illnesses that may have been caused by radiation or chemical exposures.Jan2515:36
Michigan Welfare: U.S. WELFARE PAYS FOR 4 ‘WIVES’ Muslims PER HUSBAND
By: alexmarkTags: IMMIGRATION/NAU/GLOBALISM POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTIONJan2515:31
Hillary Cites Bin Laden Raid When Pressed on $200k Speaking Fees From ‘Big Banks’
Tags: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA LIBYA POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION WHITE HOUSESunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” Democartic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she gets paid over $200,000 for a speech because of interests in various matters including “a lot of interest in the bin Laden raid.”Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus Myspace MSN Live Yahoo LinkedIn Orkut Digg Delicious» Permalink^Jan2515:30
REPORTER FIGHTS HILLARY EMAIL DELAY
Tags: COMPUTERS/INTERNET/SECURITY CURRENT EVENTS DICTATORSHIP POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION WHITE HOUSEThe journalist who forced the State Department to release thousands of Hillary Clinton’s emails is opposing the government’s efforts to delay the final release by one month, warning the extension would cause “irrevocable harm.”On Monday, lawyers for Vice News reporter Jason Leopold filed a motion seeking to block the department from extending the amount of time that it has to release emails from the former secretary of State’s personal server.Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus Myspace MSN Live Yahoo LinkedIn Orkut Digg Delicious» Permalink^Jan2515:29
Media BLASTS Trump For ‘Mocking’ Turban-Wearing Protester- Then This Video Came Out
By: alexmarkTags: CORPORATE MEDIA CURRENT EVENTS POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTIONJan2515:28
New Jersey Towns Still Underwater from Winter Storm Jonas
By: alexmarkTags: CURRENT EVENTSJan2515:25
Netanyahu seeks to return Israeli army-evicted settlers to West Bank houses
Tags: ISRAEL PALESTINEPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he would allow Jewish settlers evicted by the Israeli army from two houses in the West Bank city of Hebron to return once proper permits were in place.Israeli settlements in occupied territory, deemed illegal by most countries, are a fundamental issue in the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process and a factor behind a recent wave of Palestinian stabbing attacks on Israelis.About 80 settlers were removed from Hebron on Friday a day after Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon withheld his required approval of their occupancy in apartments in a city where tensions between Israelis and Palestinians run high.Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus Myspace MSN Live Yahoo LinkedIn Orkut Digg Delicious» Permalink^Jan2515:22
Obama and GOP Unleash “Community Schools” to Replace Parents
Tags: DICTATORSHIP EDUCATIONParents, beware — Big Brother is coming for your kids. Buried deep inside the mammoth “bipartisan” so-called “education” legislation approved last month, dubbed the “Every Student Succeeds Act” (ESSA), is a radical expansion of what the statute refers to as “full-service community schools.” The controversial institutions, more accurately described as parental replacement centers, seek to oversee every aspect of your child’s life, ranging from their “mental health” and “well being” to nutrition and even dentistry. You are in the crosshairs, too, as the Obama administration defines parents as “equal partners” in child rearing. And those are just some of the many unconstitutional provisions in the bill and beyond that aim to turn government schools into parents, and parents into pariahs.Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus Myspace MSN Live Yahoo LinkedIn Orkut Digg Delicious» Permalink^Jan2515:20
Biden: US Ready to Impose Military Solution in Syria
Tags: SYRIASpeaking at a news conference today in Turkey, Vice President Joe Biden sought to downplay the remote chances of any sort of political settlement coming out of this week’s planned Geneva peace talks, saying the US and Turkey are fully prepared to bypass the process and impose a “military solution” on Syria.Here’s your rifle, Joe!Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus Myspace MSN Live Yahoo LinkedIn Orkut Digg Delicious» Permalink^Jan2515:19
As Detroit teachers head to court, politicians plot further attacks
By: MTJTags: EDUCATION POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION PROTESTS/REVOLUTIONOn Monday morning, 23 Detroit Public School (DPS) teachers will appear at the Michigan Court of Claims for a “show cause” hearing related to the mass sickouts that have called the nation’s attention to the deplorable conditions in Detroit schools.Jan2515:18
They Had no Answers at Davos
By: alexmarkTags: CURRENT EVENTS ECONOMY POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTIONJan2515:16
On Eve of Syria “Peace Talks,” Washington Threatens Escalation across Region
Tags: SYRIAWith Syria “peace talks” ostensibly set to begin in Geneva today, Washington has ratcheted up threats of US military escalation throughout the region. In the past few days, top US civilian and military officials have declared that they are prepared to seek a “military solution” in Syria, put “boots on the ground” in Iraq and launch another US-NATO war in Libya.The talks themselves, which are being convened under the auspices of the United Nations, are not expected to begin as scheduled because of continuing sharp differences over what forces will be invited to attend and how the proposed agenda for a “political transition” will affect the future of Syrian President Bashir al-Assad.Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus Myspace MSN Live Yahoo LinkedIn Orkut Digg Delicious» Permalink^Jan2515:14
Reporter Committed to Psychiatric Ward for “Conspiracy Theories”
Tags: DICTATORSHIPIn an interview from inside the Behavioral Mental Unit of the St. Cloud Hospital, St. Cloud, MN, Donny Gilson, reporter for Truth Frequency Radio, has been able to document his ordeal since a commitment based on family objections to his “conspiracy theories,” thus reporting on how many alternative media and free thinkers on the Internet are targeted by increased surveillance under “psychiatric” laws that hold “conspiracy research” to be a “mental disorder”.Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus Myspace MSN Live Yahoo LinkedIn Orkut Digg Delicious» Permalink^Jan2515:12
Oil Crash Only The Tip Of The Iceberg: Catastrophic Events Followed Almost Every Oil Price Slump
By: newsguy76Tags: ECONOMYJan2515:06
Mizzou professor charged with assault of student reporter during protest
By: 1newsjunkieTags: CURRENT EVENTSGOOD!Jan2515:05
Now Hillary faces claims her team cut and paste classified information from secure network to her secret server
Tags: COMPUTERS/INTERNET/SECURITY COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDACURRENT EVENTS LIBYA POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION WHITE HOUSEA new report this week says the FBI is looking into whether Hillary Clinton’s top aides at the State Department may have violated protocol by ‘cutting and pasting’ top-secret information from one computer network to another.The technique would have been used to allow highly secure intelligence could be routed to her private, home-based email server, agents said in the report by the New York Post.According to the report, Clinton’s senior aides may have used the technique to send information from a classified computer network administered by the Pentagon to a completely separate system used for higher-grade, Top-Secret communications.Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus Myspace MSN Live Yahoo LinkedIn Orkut Digg Delicious» Permalink^Jan2515:04
Are Criminal Medical Interventions Damaging Everyone?
By: ActivistPostTags: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDAI find it hard to imagine that a system this corrupt can be a good thing, or that It is worth the vast amount of money spent on it. – Marcia Angell; Former editor, New England Journal of MedicineJan2515:03
Bakers Green Acres Farm Will Reopen For Veterans To Rebuild Lives After Combat
By: ActivistPostTags: VIDEOAfter several years of fighting both the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the USDA, Mark Baker of Bakers Green Acres recently announced what seemed like to many, including Baker himself, to be a long struggle of financial hardship and personal stress simply to end up where the authorities wanted him to…Jan2515:02
Medical Doctor Butchers Own Statistics For Annual Vaccine Propaganda Campaign
By: ActivistPostTags: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDAAlthough 2015 seemed to have a non-stop barrage of pro-vaccine propaganda, January 2016 brings with it the annual winter fear-fest regarding the lack of vaccination and the “anti-vaccine movement.” One such example is a small article in the KATV Little Rock, Arkansas ABC7 website. The article is essentially an interview with Dr….Jan2515:01
Revealed: Environmental officials warned Snyder administration not to use water that poisoned Flint
By: MTJTags: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDAA plan to use the Flint River as Flint, Michigan’s primary water source was initially rejected by a commission appointed by the state’s Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, but the governor’s office overruled officials and carried the plan forward anyway.Jan2514:58
Major Supermarket Bans Bee-Toxic Pesticides In Produce Production
By: ActivistPostTags: CURRENT EVENTSAldi Süd, the German supermarket chain with stores in the U.S., has become the first major European retailer to ban pesticides toxic to bees, including the neonicotinoids imidacloprid, clothianidin and thiamethoxam, from fruits and vegetables produced for their stores. Aldi has requested suppliers comply at the earliest possible time. In light of…Jan2514:53
The Beeb gets tea and biscuits instead of a grilling
By: MTJTags: CORPORATE MEDIA GREAT BRITAINIt seems that the spirit of deference that once sustained an empire remains alive within some of Holyrood’s committees. These pocket battleships of the Scottish parliament are deemed to be one of its most palpable successes; regularly eliciting clarity and exerting transparency from dozens of evasive, public sector executives on the gravy train. Yet, observing two of them at work in recent weeks revealed a marked difference in tone and attitude.Jan2514:50
Digging out from Global Warming
By: alexmarkTags: COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTIONSCIENCE/HEALTH/CLIMATE/NATURE TAXESJan2514:48
Snowden: ‘Encrypted’ Isis email in video is fake
By: 1newsjunkieTags: CURRENT EVENTSIf any official responds as if it’s real, push back.— Edward SnowdenJan2514:31
Monsanto sues California agency over plans to list Roundup as cancer-causing chemical
By: MTJTags: SCIENCE/HEALTH/CLIMATE/NATUREAgrochemical giant Monsanto has taken a fight for its leading weed killer to court in California, seeking to prevent glyphosate, the main ingredient in the Roundup herbicide, from making it on the state’s list of cancer-causing carcinogens.Jan2514:31
How Hillary Tells Us She Won’t Fight Wall Street
Tags: DICTATORSHIP ECONOMY POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION WHITE HOUSEHillary Clinton has a stronger, more detailed plan to regulate Wall Street than does Bernie Sanders, says the Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman. But, adds journalist Ezra Klein, many are skeptical that she will do what she says.“She has spoken out of both sides of her mouth on a number of issues,” agrees public banking campaigner Ellen Brown. “So it doesn’t seem like we can trust her.”Between savants and skeptics, policy wonks and the politically wary, how can ordinary voters decide for themselves? It isn’t easy.Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus Myspace MSN Live Yahoo LinkedIn Orkut Digg Delicious» Permalink^Jan2514:30
CONFLICT IN SYRIA ESCALATES AS RUSSIA AND US ESTABLISH AIR BASES ALONG TURKISH BORDER
Tags: RUSSIA/UKRAINE SYRIA TURKEYRussia and Turkey are preparing for a military confrontation along Syria’s border with Turkey.According to intelligence sources in the United States, Russia has dispatched engineers to the northeastern city of Qamishli on the border. In late October, according to Syria Direct, the Qamishli International Airport was closed to civilian air traffic and turned over to the Syrian military.Share: Facebook Twitter Google Plus Myspace MSN Live Yahoo LinkedIn Orkut Digg Delicious» Permalink^Jan2514:30
Hillary Clinton Exposed Again With New Emails
Tags: COMPUTERS/INTERNET/SECURITY COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDACURRENT EVENTS DICTATORSHIP LIBYA POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION WHITE HOUSEShare: Facebook Twitter Google Plus Myspace MSN Live Yahoo LinkedIn Orkut Digg Delicious» Permalink^Jan2514:29
Thousands In Poland Protest Internet Surveillance
By: alexmarkTags: COMPUTERS/INTERNET/SECURITY CURRENT EVENTS EUROPE POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTIONJan2514:26
EU ministers consider isolating Greece and its migrants
By: 1newsjunkieTags: CURRENT EVENTSJan2514:24
Canada Economy Food Inflation Currency Deflation! Government Massive Debt Plan!
By: alexmarkTags: CANADA ECONOMYJan2514:24
Edward Snowden: ‘Encrypted’ Isis email in video is fake
By: 1newsjunkieTags: CURRENT EVENTSGovernments and intelligence agencies around the world have long been concerned that Isis could be communicating using encrypted messaging tools like PGP, which would make it almost impossible for spies
So for last comment….My mistake in copying whole page when I was trying to post the top comment on what & whom US government trains to torture. Geez….