Torturing Democracy

PART ONE
From 9/11 to waterboarding

PART TWO
From the CIA to Guantanamo
Copying harsh Communist interrogation methods

PART THREE
While hundreds of men remain imprisoned in Guantanamo, Congress grants immunity to U.S. officials who may have ordered torture

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/torturingdemocracy/program/

clipped from www.gwu.edu Annotated Transcript The annotated transcript of "Torturing Democracy" provides the script of every word spoken during the 90-minute documentary, backed up with specific citations, footnotes and links, and includes documentation for the dramatizations in the film. Posting the annotated transcript allows viewers to check the facts for themselves, and enables researchers to build on the reporting to take the story even further. To download this 385k file in PDF format, click here. clipped from www.gwu.edu watch the program: Part one | part two | part three clipped from www.gwu.edu Entire Archive The goal of the Torture Archive is to become the online institutional memory for essential evidence on torture. Specifically, the Torture Archive seeks to catalog and publish on the Web all primary source documents related to the detention and interrogation of individuals by the United States, in connection with the conduct of hostilities in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as in the broader context of the "global war on terror."

MASADA: Another MYTH Exploded.

All the remains were reburied at Masada as Jewish with full military honours on July 7, 1969. There's no doubt but that these were the remains of Roman soldiers, the enemy.

clipped from en.wikipedia.org Masada Josephus, a first-century Jewish Roman historian significant disagreement among historians as to the veracity of the Josephus story There is also considerable controversy in the archaeological reporting The primary archeologist, Yigael Yadin, has recently come under charges of professional misconduct After extensively studying Yadin's work documents, transcripts, and conversations, Ben-Yehuda concluded that Yadin conducted "a scheme of distortion which was aimed at providing Israelis with a spurious historical narrative of heroism" The actual record shows evidence of "different factions of Jews fighting and killing each other, of collective suicide by a group of terrorists and assassins whose "fighting spirit" was questionable there are the admissions of falsification by Yadin himself he later admitted he was pressured by the Israeli government to make that connection, even though the cave contained pig bones among the skeletons, a common sacrificial burial practice for Roman dead V Pl A T

Bombshell Lawsuit: Obama Not U.S. Citizen--Democrat Files Injunction

Democrat and former Asst. Attorney General of PA has filed a lawsuit saying that the republicans are waiting to launch this same attack after his nomination, i.e. a justifiable legal objection he claims disqualifying Obama for President per the Constitution and the laws that applied at the time of his birth and early life.

Berg argues that Barack Obama was born in Kenya in 1961 to an American woman, Stanley Ann Dunham, and a Kenyan man, Barack Hussein Obama Senior, as reportedly shown by a birth certificate from Mombasa Maternity Hospital. According to the law at that time, a parent could pass US citizenship on to a child born abroad if the parent was at least 19 years old. Obama's mother was only 18.

No hospital birth certificate has been produced to show Obama was born in Hawaii, only a certificate of birth registry after the fact, which forensics experts have denounced as a forgery.

McCain's citizenship has also been questioned in the past making this an issu

clipped from disc.yourwebapps.com BOMBSHELL: Barack Obama Is Not a US Citizen, Not Eligible to be US President. Birth Certificate Found in Kenya. Citizen of Kenya and Indonesia. Hawaiian Certificate Forged. Attorney Phil Berg on Federal Suit to Stop Obama, CoastToCoast AM Aug 23rd ca. 1 AM Eastern, plus Aug. 23rd, 2:00 - 2:30 p.m. EST World Crisis Radio with Webster Tarpley, http://www.gcnlive.com (and On Demand for the week following at http://gcnlive.com/Programs/WorldCrisisRadio/On_Demand.html ). On Aug. 21st attorney Philip J. Berg requested an injunction in Federal Court against the nomination of Barack Obama, citing evidence that candidate Barack Obama is not a US citizen, and "the obvious problems that will occur when the Republican Party raises these issues after Obama is nominated." See Berg's website, http://www.ObamaCrimes.com . See http://www.waronfreedom.org/dox/BO-NO-Citizen-BriefFacts.htm for factual background of Berg's suit.

Chavez

clipped from news.xinhuanet.com Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe (R) and Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega talk after they agreed to resolve a territorial dispute at the 20th Group of Rio Summit in Santo Domingo March 7, 2008. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)     SANTO DOMINGO, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Leaders of the four Andean nations, whose relations were bruised by Colombia's cross-border raid on rebels, broke off their diplomatic tensions on Friday with handshakes at a regional summit here.     Colombian President Alvaro Uribe apologized for his country's cross-border attack on rebels to Ecuadorian counterpart Rafeal Correa, who accepted Uribe's apology and shook hands with Uribe.     Later on, Uribe shook hands with his Venezuelan and Nicaraguan counterparts Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega.     But Uribe denied Correa's charge that Colombia violated Ecuador's territory, saying Colombia had informed Ecuador of the attack.

The Truth About Republican Economics and American Debt

The chart will SHOCK you into reality about the Conservative agenda to borrow until the dollar is completely worthless and America is owned by foreigners.

clipped from www.lafn.org Back in the 1980s Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan repeatedly complained that Ronald Reagan was running up the national debt in order to bankrupt the USA so that the Federal government could no longer afford any of its social programs, from Aid to Families with Dependent Children to Social Security to Medicare to veterans' benefits. He was right, but hardly anyone listened. The Republicans are still trying to bankrupt the Federal government and they're still trying to eliminate every Federal social program, not only the remnants of FDR's New Deal but even going back to Teddy Roosevelt's conservationist programs. Now, after 18 years of huge Republican deficits and Republican recessions, the National Debt has increased from $937 Billion -- LESS than $1 Trillion -- when Ronald Reagan took office to OVER $8.5 TRILLION !!! We will be paying off the debt added by Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush for the next 100 years and more!

The 6 Most Unsettling Medication Side Effects

Most of them only happen to an infinitesimally small group of people, but they can still happen.

clipped from www.cracked.com Alli Alli is a weight-loss medication that prevents fat absorption. Side effects may include ... nothing major, mind you, just things like "gas with oily spotting." a polite way of describing a fart that spackles your chair with a greasy stain of ass buckshot Requip Side effects may include ... "an unusual urge to gamble or increased sexual urges and/or behaviors." Propecia The fear of hair loss grips many a man Side effects may include ... "gynecomastia," means boobs that can make milk clipped from www.cracked.com Accutane acne treatments Side effects may include ... Side effects can include crying spells, rectal bleeding and bone fractures. hepatitis, psychosis and hirsutism Zoloft Anti-depressant Side effects may include... a "persistent, painful erection." This awful wood you're sporting also has the advantage of shooting blanks "ejaculation failure" Levaquin Treating bacterial infections Side effects may include ... It can turn you into a vampire. it can kill your ability to handle sunlight called "phototoxicity,"

Ex-CIA Official: Israel will Attack Iran

...and then drag U.S. into it. This is why the neoconservatives (in league with militant Zionists) need to be driven out of U.S. government.

clipped from www.jpost.com Ex-CIA official: Israel will attack Iran on its own "I came back from a trip to Israel in November convinced that Israel would attack Iran," Bruce Riedel, a former CIA official and senior adviser to three US presidents, George W. Bush among them, told the American Newsweek magazine in an article published Friday. Citing conversations he had in Israel with officials in Mossad and the Israeli defense establishment, Riedel concluded that "Israel is not going to allow its nuclear monopoly to be threatened." Riedel told the magazine his impression that Israel would venture a strike on Iran on its own was formed before the publication of the joint US intelligence agencies' report, the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE). "This [the NIE] makes it [a strike on Iran] even more likely," he said. In Israel, responses to the report ranged from subtle criticism of the report's conclusions to outright slamming of the US intelligence community's capabilities