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  • Judge Orders Release of Abu Ghraib Photos
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Judge Orders Release of Abu Ghraib Photos
    By LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press Writer 9 minutes ago
    Saying the United States "does not surrender to blackmail," a judge ruled Thursday that pictures of detainee abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison must be released over government claims that they could damage America’s image.
    U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein ordered the release of certain pictures in a 50-page decision that said terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan have proven they (…)

  • The verdict on Lynndie England, A major abuse and a minor sentence !
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The verdict on Lynndie England, A major abuse and a minor sentence !
    After more than a year of investigations and discussions by American Courts, the verdict by a military court has come to sentence Lynndie England to 3 years of imprisonment. The photos which have been disclosed about Lynndie have shown torture, sexual assault and humiliation of Iraqi detainee in Abu-Graib Prison. The pictures only show part of the suffering of those innocent detainee and only God knows what they have (…)

  • The buck stops with Lynndie
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Derrick Z. Jackson
    LYNNDIE ENGLAND is convicted. Donald Rumsfeld cackles. England, the 22-year-old private, was found guilty as prosecutors convinced an all-male Army jury that she bore full responsibility for ’’her own sick humor" in the infamous photographs of her at Abu Ghraib holding a naked prisoner on a leash and smiling as she pointed at a prisoner’s genitals.
    Defense lawyers depicted England as a depressed reservist, a mere file clerk who was compliant to authority and easy to (…)

  • ADL’s New ’Hate Bill’ The Death Knell For Talk Radio
    28 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Rev. Ted Pike 6-29-5 The Anti-Defamation League’s new, tougher hate bill, "The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2005," HR 2662, if passed, will very soon end FREE SPEECH and FREE SPEECH TALK RADIO. The ADL, through similar legislation, has already ended free speech in Canada. It wants to do the same in America. Here’s a summary of how this bill would make law. HR 2662 intends to enforce nation-wide the working ADL/federal definition that ’hate’ equals bias (…)

  • NEW FEDERAL “HATE” BILL MEANS FUNERAL OF FREE SPEECH
    27 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Rev. Ted Pike
    On Sept. 14, the US House of Representatives passed, 223-199, the ominous federal “anti-hate” bill, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2005. It was inserted as AMDT.2662 into the Children’s Safety Act. If approved unaltered by the senate judiciary, this legislation is ready for the President to sign into law.
    Here is a summary of what the bill would make law:
    Although AMDT.2662 ostensibly empowers the government to assist states in prosecution of (…)

  • An Open letter to Howard Dean.
    26 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This letter is in response to one sent by the DNC regarding the Roberts confirmation for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (original letter posted below my response.)
    Dear Mr. Dean,
    Although the Roberts confirmation is indeed an important issue, I think a much more important issue is voter fraud. What went down in Ohio on Nov 3, 2004 and after, is a frontal assault on our cherished Democracy. Why did Kerry concede and why did only 47 house reps led by John Conyers, and one Senator, (…)

  • Israeli troops say they were given shoot-to-kill order
    25 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Conal Urquhart in Tel Aviv
    Israeli military prosecutors have opened criminal investigations following allegations by soldiers that they carried out illegal shoot-to-kill orders against unarmed Palestinians.
    The 17 separate investigations were prompted by the testimony of dozens of troops collected by Breaking the Silence, a pressure group of former Israeli soldiers committed to exposing human rights abuses by the military in suppressing the Palestinian intifada. The investigations (…)

  • Union women unite in Detroit
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The 600 union members gathered Friday for a national convention in downtown Detroit were buzzing about the nomination of John Roberts to be the chief justice of the Supreme Court - because of his positions on issues such as reproductive rights and pay equity for women.
    At the plenary session at the Marriott Renaissance Center, speakers talked about cervical cancer and contraceptive equity. And among the topics for that afternoon’s workshops : A Man is not a Financial Plan, Personal Safety (…)

  • Frist’s HCA Stock Sale Being Investigated
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Posted: Friday, Sep 23, 2005 - 12:05:19 pm PDT By JONATHAN M. KATZ
    WASHINGTON - The Securities and Exchange Commission and federal prosecutors are investigating Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s sale of stock in HCA Inc., the hospital operating company founded by his family.
    In a statement released Friday, the Nashville-based company said federal prosecutors for the Southern District of New York issued a subpoena for documents HCA believes are related to the sale of its (…)

  • Scandal Visits the White House
    22 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Dan Froomkin
    The Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal reached into the White House yesterday, picking off President Bush’s top procurement official — who just barely had time to resign before being arrested.
    The federal charges against David Safavian stem from his tenure as chief of staff of the General Services Administration, predating his arrival at the White House a year ago. But his arrest nonetheless draws renewed attention to the ongoing corruption and influence-peddling inquiry (…)