Politics

Joe Biden Visits Israel Pledging Unconstitutional U.S. Support

Editor's note: The term "unconstitutional" means that it is an illegal and criminal activity.
Reuters
Vice President Joe Biden began a visit to Israel and the West Bank on Monday, assuring Israelis in a newspaper interview that Washington would close ranks with them against any threat from a nuclear-armed Iran. Biden, the most senior U.S. official to visit Israel since President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, is widely expected to caution his hosts not to attack Iran pre-emptively while world powers pursue fresh sanctions against Tehran. He made no comment on his arrival at Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion airport and had no publicly scheduled meetings before talks on Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres.
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Billions in U.S. Public Money Unconstitutionally 'Spent in Iran'

Editor note: The term "unconstitutionaly" means that it is an illegal and criminal activity.
London Independent
The US taxpayer has given more than $107bn (£71bn)during the past decade to companies which are also doing business with Iran, it was revealed yesterday. That sum includes at least $15bn (£9.9bn) of US Government funds that were channelled to corporations which have defied international sanctions to help Iran develop its vast and strategically important oil and gas reserves. News of the payments comes as Washington seeks to coax Russia and China into supporting tough new measures against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's regime as punishment for its nuclear programme.
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Corrupt Afghans Stealing Millions From Aid Funds

Money that is supposed to help impoverished civilians and farmers is ending up in the hands of the Taliban, drug lords and profiteers. A major investigation has been launched into contracts awarded by coalition forces in Afghanistan that are worth hundreds of millions of pounds. The probe into construction and logistics contracts of the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) has been ordered by Major General Nick Carter, commander of Isaf forces in the south of the country. It is prompted by mounting concerns that the very money supposed to win over the hearts and minds of Afghans is ending up in the hands of the Taliban, drug lords or profiteers.
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U.S., NATO Intensify War Games Around Russia's Perimeter

Along with plans to base anti-ballistic missile facilities in Poland near Russia’s border (a 35 mile distance) and in Bulgaria and Romania across the Black Sea from Russia, Washington and the self-styled global military bloc it leads, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, have arranged a series of military exercises on and near Russia’s borders this year. While the White House, Pentagon and State Department pro forma identify al-Qaeda, Taliban, Iran, North Korea, climate change, cyber attacks and a host of other threats as those the U.S. is girding itself to combat, Washington is demonstrating its true strategic objectives by deploying interceptor missiles and staging war games along Russia’s western and southern borders.
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Obama Administration Set to Seize Millions of Acres in the West

Not satisfied with placing banks, insurance companies, and the car industry under the control of the federal government, President Obama has turned his sights on the American West. This is the startling revelation contained in a letter published Tuesday by the Washington Times penned by South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint. In the three-page exposé, Senator DeMint cites a 21-page secret Obama Administration document reportedly bearing the designation “Internal Draft-NOT FOR RELEASE” wherein the President sets forth his plan to federalize more than 10 million acres of land in the Western United States by placing it under the “protection” of the Department of the Interior. The pernicious nature of this scheme is illuminated when one discovers that the “federal government owns approximately 650 million acres nationwide, including about 80% of the land in Nevada and 63% of the land in Utah.”
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Justice Dept. Investigates Voting Machine Merger for Possible Anti-Trust Violation

Valued at $5 million, the September 2009 purchase of Premier Election Solutions Inc. by Election Systems & Software Inc. (ES&S) was not something that immediately captured headlines. But what the deal lacked in purchase price, it made up for in controversy, because the merger left ES&S in control of nearly 70% of the nation’s voting machines market. ES&S, the nation’s top seller of voting machines, wanted to buy No. 2 competitor Premier, a subsidiary of Diebold Inc.
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'Anti-Lobbyist' Obama Administration Recruited Lobbyists to Sell Bogus 'Green Jobs'

After two studies refuted President Barack Obama’s assertions regarding the success of Spain's and Denmark's wind energy programs, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request reveals the Department of Energy turned to George Soros and to wind industry lobbyists to attack the studies. Via the FOIA request, the Competitive Enterprise Institute has learned that the Department of Energy — specifically the office headed by Al Gore’s company’s former CEO, Cathy Zoi — turned to George Soros’ Center for American Progress and other wind industry lobbyists to help push Obama’s wind energy proposals.
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U.S. Enriches Companies Defying Its Policy on Iran

The federal government has awarded more than $107 billion in contract payments, grants and other benefits over the past decade to foreign and multinational American companies while they were doing business in Iran, despite Washington’s efforts to discourage investment there, records show. That includes nearly $15 billion paid to companies that defied American sanctions law by making large investments that helped Iran develop its vast oil and gas reserves.
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Bilderberg Founder Dutch Prince Bernhard 'Was Member of Nazi Party'

Daily Telegraph
"Bernhard, a secret history" has revealed that the prince was a member of the German Nazi party until 1934, three years before he married Princess Juliana, the future queen of the Netherlands. Annejet van der Zijl, a Dutch historian, has found membership documents in Berlin's Humboldt University that prove Prince Bernhard, who studied there, had joined Deutsche Studentenschaft, a National Socialist student fraternity, as well as the Nazi NSDAP and its paramilitary wing, the Sturmabteilung. He left all the groups on leaving university in December 1934, when he went to work for the German chemical giant, IG Farben.
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Communist Chinese Foreign Minister Says U.S. Ties 'Disrupted'

Reuters
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said on Sunday that relations with the United States had been "seriously disrupted," after a rise in friction between the two big powers. "The responsibility does not lie with China," said Yang, speaking at a news conference on the sidelines of the annual session of China's parliament. Beijing and Washington have recently gone through a rough patch, with quarrels in January and February over Chinese Internet censorship, trade disputes, U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, and President Barack Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader.
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Violence Escalates in Mosul, Iraq ahead of Elections

ISTANBUL -- Political tensions ahead of parliamentary elections in Iraq on Sunday (March 7) have left at least eight Chaldean Christians dead in the last three weeks and hundreds of families fleeing Mosul. “The concern of Christians in Mosul is growing in the face of what is happening in the city,” said Chaldean Archbishop of Kirkuk Louis Sako. “The tension and struggle between political forces is creating an atmosphere of chaos and congestion. Christians are victims of political tension between political groups, but maybe also by fundamentalist sectarian cleansing.”
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Iraqi Christians Protest Over Killings

Hundreds of Iraqi Christians have taken part in protests calling for government action after a spate [sic] of killings. At least eight Christians have been killed in the past two weeks in the volatile northern city of Mosul. The killings prompted an appeal by Pope Benedict on Sunday for Iraqi authorities to protect vulnerable religious minorities. The UN says more than 680 Christian families have fled Mosul since the recent attacks. Sunday's protests took place in the town of Hamdaniyah, 35km (22 miles) east of Mosul, and also in the capital, Baghdad.
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N.Korean Worker Executed for Passing on News

A North Korean factory worker has been executed by firing squad for sneaking news out of the country on his illicit mobile phone, Seoul-based radio said. The armaments factory worker was accused of divulging the price of rice and other information on living conditions to a friend who had defected to South Korea years ago, Open Radio for North Korea reported. The man, surnamed Chong, made calls to the defector using an illegal Chinese mobile phone, according to an unnamed North Korean security agency official cited by the report. The execution took place by firing squad in late January in Hamhung, according to Open Radio for North Korea. The station broadcasts into North Korea, which tightly controls news.
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Baptists Fined In Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan's government continues to fine members of the Baptist Union and harass Protestant Christians, according to Forum 18 News. "Valery Konovalov has been forced to pay a fine, after he was forced to appear as a witness in the trial of three leaders of the Baptist Union," Forum 18 reported. "The three have themselves been forced to pay what the same court claimed was unpaid taxes and two were removed from their posts." In addition, the parents of children who attend Protestant schools in Uzbekistan have been warned to stop attending the churches. "The children were made to write statements promising that they would stop attending churches," a Christian told Forum 18. "People are afraid to talk to us when they find out we are Christians."
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British Police To Be Equipped With Mobile Fingerprint Scanners

Every police force in England and Wales will be equipped with mobile fingerprint scanners to check the identity of suspects in the street. Up to 3,000 devices, the size of a mobile phone, will enable officers on patrol to cross-reference prints with national records. Senior officers claimed the scheme would speed up criminal inquiries, bring more people to justice and save thousands of hours of police time. But fears have arisen the technology could contribute to the so-called "surveillance state" and encourage random searches.
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Christians in Nigeria Decry Police Inaction in Church Burnings

LAGOS, Nigeria -- The head of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Zamfara state told Compass that he was disappointed in the lack of response by state police to recent church burnings by Muslim youths. “It is unfortunate that there has been no response from the police, and even the state governor has refused to meet with us,” said the acting state chairman of CAN, the Rev. Edwin Okpara. The Redeemed Christian Church of God building in Tudun Wada was partly burnt on Jan. 25, and Christian Faith Bible church and the Living Faith Foundation Chapel, both in Gusau, were partly burnt in attacks on Jan. 20 and 24 respectively. Zamfara state, one of the predominantly Muslim states in northern Nigeria, was the first in the country to implement Islamic law (sharia).
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Recent Incidents of Persecution in India by Hindus

PUNJAB, India -- Hindus from the Bajrang Dal and Shiv Sena on Feb. 20 beat Christians and vandalized two churches in Batala after a protest against an objectionable picture of Christ. Christians had noticed the picture posted as part of a composite poster for an upcoming Hindu festival, Ram Naumi. The poster contained pictures of other religious deities as they normally appear, while Jesus was portrayed with a cigarette and a beer, reported the Evangelical Fellowship of India. In response to the Christian protest, the Hindu extremists went on a rampage, beating the pastor of the Church of North India and a Salvation Army officer and burning and looting the two churches. With church leaders’ pressure, police registered a case against Hindu extremists Pratap Singh and Raj Kumar, who were said to have put up the picture of Jesus, for a “malicious act intended to outrage religious feelings of others” and “punishment of criminal conspiracy.”
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Muslim Groups Demand Closure of Large, Legal Church in Indonesia

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Hundreds of Muslims from outside the area where a 600-member church meets in West Java staged a protest there to call for its closure this month in an attempt to portray local opposition. Demonstrators from 16 Islamic organizations, including the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), gathered on Feb. 15 to demand a stop to all activities by the Galilea Protestant Church (GPIB) in the Galaxy area of Bekasi City.
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Pentagon Shooter Had History of Mental Illness

HOLLISTER, Calif. -- The man who opened fire in front of the Pentagon had a history of mental illness and had become so erratic that his parents reached out to local authorities weeks ago with a warning that he was unstable and might have a gun, authorities said Friday. It's still unclear why John Patrick Bedell opened fire Thursday at the Pentagon entrance, wounding two police officers before he was fatally shot. The two officers were hospitalized briefly with minor injuries. Bedell was diagnosed as bipolar, or manic depressive, and had been in and out of treatment programs for years. His psychiatrist, J. Michael Nelson, said Bedell tried to self-medicate with marijuana, inadvertently making his symptoms more pronounced.
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Obama Agrees to Supply Pakistan With Jets and Bomb Kits for Raids On Tribal Regions

Times Online
The United States is to deliver a thousand laser-guided bomb kits to Pakistan this month. The deal, which also includes the delivery of 18 new F16 fighter jets and a dozen surveillance drones later in the year, is an apparent pay-off for greater co-operation against al-Qaeda and the Taleban. US military officials said that the sales, mostly funded by US grants, were intended to enhance the Pakistani military’s capacity to strike militant targets accurately and with minimum civilian casualties in the tribal areas near the Afghan border. The Obama Administration appears to have decided to put Pakistan at the centre of its efforts to stabilise the region, while mollifying India by agreeing to also sell it billions of dollars’ worth of weaponry.
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State Dept. Helped Blackwater Guards 'Avoid Punishment': Report

When the prosecution of five Blackwater guards over the 2007 Nisoor Square massacre in Baghdad fell apart in December, it was largely blamed on the State Department's granting of immunity to guards who spoke with State officials. Now, newly released court documents show an official at the US embassy in Iraq believed that was more than a mistake on the State Department's part. Department officials had "sought to block any serious investigation" of the massacre that took the lives of 17 Iraqi civilians, the New York Times reports.
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Leaked U.N. Documents Reveal Plan For 'Green World Order' By 2012

By Paul Joseph Watson / Global Research
Leaked policy documents reveal that the United Nations plans to create a “green world order” by 2012 which will be enforced by a structure of global governance and funded by a gargantuan $45 trillion transfer of wealth from richer countries, as the globalists’ insidious plan to centralize power, crush sovereignty while devastating the economy is exposed once again. As we warned at the time, the failure of Copenhagen in December did not spell the end of the global warming heist, but merely a roadblock in the UN’s agenda to create a world government funded by taxes paid by you on the very substance you exhale – carbon dioxide.
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British Police To Be Equipped With Mobile Fingerprint Scanners

Every police force in England and Wales will be equipped with mobile fingerprint scanners to check the identity of suspects in the street. Up to 3,000 devices, the size of a mobile phone, will enable officers on patrol to cross-reference prints with national records. Senior officers claimed the scheme would speed up criminal inquiries, bring more people to justice and save thousands of hours of police time. But fears have arisen the technology could contribute to the so-called "surveillance state" and encourage random searches.
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British Spy Chips Hidden In 2.5 Million Trashbins; Pay-As-You-Throw Tax

The growing threat of a stealth tax on the rubbish we throw away was exposed by startling figures yesterday. More than 2.5million homes now have wheelie bins fitted with microchips to weigh their contents. This is an increase of nearly two-thirds in just a year. The bins, which can be electronically identified and weighed, are designed for 'pay-as-you-throw' rubbish tax schemes. Under such schemes - which are likely to be hugely unpopular - families who put out more waste will pay higher taxes to their local council.
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One In Three Killed By Us Drones In Pakistan Is A Civilian, Report Claims

The report, by the Washington-based New America Foundation, will fuel growing criticism of the use of unmanned drones in the fight against al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, who use Pakistan as a base for attacks on Nato forces in Afghanistan. Critics say their use not only takes innocent lives, but amounts to unlawful extra-judicial killing of militants. The report by Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann found that 32 per cent of those killed in drone attacks since 2004 were civilians. The number of drone attacks has increased dramatically since Barack Obama replaced George W Bush as US president early last year. There were 45 drone attacks during Mr Bush's two terms of government, compared with 51 during the first year of Mr Obama's new administration. In the first two months of this year, up to 140 "militants" have been killed.
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'Mossad Agents Fled to US' After Murdering Hamas Leader

At least two suspected Israeli agents behind the murder of a senior Hamas official fled to the US during their escape, Dubai police now believe. Police have now cast their net wider in their investigation of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh's killing, which officials in the Gulf state are now certain was carried out by Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad. The Wall Street Journal reported today that one of the suspects carrying a British passport entered the US on February 14, while a second arrived on American soil on January 21, two days after the murder, using an Irish passport.
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Despite Deaths, Army Awards $2.8 BILLION Contract to KBR

Defense juggernaut KBR Inc. was awarded a contract potentially worth $2.8 billion for support work in Iraq as U.S. forces continue to leave the country, military authorities said Tuesday. KBR was notified of the award Friday, a day after the company told shareholders it lost about $25 million in award fees because of flawed electrical work in Iraq. The Houston-based company was charged with maintaining the barracks where Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth of Pittsburgh, a 24-year-old Green Beret, was electrocuted in 2008 while showering. The company has denied wrongdoing, and investigators said in August there was "insufficient evidence to prove or disprove" that anyone was criminally culpable in Maseth's death.
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Germany Unveils Next Generation 'Personal Security Card'

The new identity card isn't just to verify who a person is. It's now a matter of personal security, according to German officials who showed off the country's newest ID technology at this year's CeBIT conference. According to reports from CeBIT, the new identity card will go into circulation for the first time in November 2010. It features an advanced biometric identification system and users have the option of associating a finger print with the card. The user's identity information and electronic signature is encrypted and broadcast by the card via radio frequency identity (RFID), which its creators believe will help facilitate e-commerce and e-government. The card could even be used to remember passwords on the Internet, according to a product description on the CeBIT Web site. Lost or stolen cards would be treated like credit cards today: once reported missing, they would no longer be accepted.
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Rove Admits to Error on Iraq As Bush Strategist

NEW YORK -- Republican strategist Karl Rove says in a new memoir that the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq badly damaged the Bush administration's credibility and led to dwindling public support for the war. The former White House political adviser blames himself for not pushing back against claims that President George W. Bush had taken the country to war under false pretenses, calling it one of the worst mistakes he made during the Bush presidency. The president, he adds, did not knowingly mislead the American public about the existence of such weapons.
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Breathtaking Devastation: Chile, Three Days Later Photos

Boston Globe Big Picture Gallery:
Three days after one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded struck the South American nation of Chile, the massive extent of the damage is becoming clearer, and the number of known victims has climbed to 723 deaths so far, many thousands still missing, and nearly 2 million displaced.
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U.S. Black Sea Military Buildup Could Trigger Missile War

By Rick Rozoff
Last month news reports confirmed that the United States is to station interceptor missiles in Bulgaria and Romania as an extension of the Pentagon’s European (and international) missile shield project. Details are still forthcoming, but what is all but certain is that the missiles are to be land-based versions of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System with Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) medium-range anti-ballistic missiles, though there is already speculation that even more advanced deployments are planned.
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Flawed Nuke Detection Program Dialed-Back by Department of Homeland Security

By Tom Burghardt / Antifascist Calling
Though production lines at the fear factory are still in overdrive, the Department of Homeland Security's Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) are scrapping plans for a new generation of "high-tech detectors for screening vehicles and cargo, saying they cost too much and do not work as effectively as security officials once maintained," The Washington Post reported. Nearly two years ago, Antifascist Calling revealed that when DNDO awarded contracts totaling some $1.2 billion over five years to defense and security giants Raytheon, Canberra Industries (a subsidiary of the French nuclear manufacturing titan, the Areva Group) and Thermo Scientific for Advanced Spectroscopic Portal (ASP) radiation monitors in 2006, it should have been "reality-check time."
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Iraq Civilian Deaths Spiked in February

Speaking today at Vanderbilt University, Gen. David Petraeus lauded the security situation in Iraq as "greatly improved," saying that violence had dropped but serious threats remain. Yet while the narrative of the improving situation in Iraq is a very popular one, Iraqi civilian deaths actually jumped dramatically over the past month, with 211 civilians killed in February alone, up from 135 in January.
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Blair Warned In 2000 Iraq War Was Illegal

An invasion of Iraq was discussed within the Government more than two years before military action was taken – with Foreign Office mandarins warning that an invasion would be illegal, that it would claim "considerable casualties" and could lead to the breakdown of Iraq, The Independent can reveal. The extent of Whitehall opposition to the policy eventually backed by Tony Blair emerges just three days before Gordon Brown will appear at the Iraq Inquiry, where he will be asked to explain his role in the Government's decision to invade.
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Thousands of US Marines to Remain in Marjah for 'Several Months'

When some 15,000 US-led troops invaded the tiny farming community of Marjah last month, the strategy was supposed to be simple. Troops would quickly clear the region, an operation expected to take a matter of days, and then turn the region over to Afghan police to “hold.” But as the operation, presented by officials as a “test” for a much larger offensive against the city of Kandahar, has taken much longer than anticipated and the “hold” strategy seems to be falling apart as well.
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Regulating Third-Party Election Ads in West Virginia

The Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia's House of Delegates wants the Senate to consider regulating third-party election ads as well as political activity by in-state corporations. But largely party-line votes reflected GOP concerns that the two bills passed Monday are unconstitutional. Foes cited federal court orders targeting two previous rounds of such legislation. One of Monday's measures would require in-state corporations to obtain shareholder approval and then detail spending when devoting funds to politics. It reached the Senate 61-34.
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Who Put the 'L' in CPAC?

Brian Wilson / LewRockwell.com
Having returned from my 8th annual broadcasting pilgrimage to CPAC (Conservative Political Action Convention 2010) in the Logic Free Zone (Washington, DC), I am amazed and appalled how severely at odds otherwise professed Freedom Lovers remain over matters of what should be reflexive agreement and simple definition. Despite their avowed philosophical common denominators of Liberty, Limited Government, Lower Confiscatory Taxes, Firearms, Free Markets, Individual Responsibility and Constitutional Integrity, Republicans, Libertarians, Conservatives and the new "Tea Party" kids remain passionately conflicted over what really really constitutes the basis for their not-so-peaceful co-existence (or "movement") and mutual efforts to change the course of the Republic.
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Bush's Torture Psychologists Wanted to Use 'Mock Burials': Report

Two psychologists working on the Bush administration's enhanced interrogation techniques pushed for the use of "mock burials" on terror suspects, according to documents released by the Department of Justice. Blogger Marcy Wheeler reports that the Department of Justice rejected a request from psychologists Bruce Jessen and James Mitchell to give the CIA the power to pretend to bury terror suspects during interrogations in the years after the 9/11 attacks. A report (PDF, 289 pages) from the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility, released last Friday, documents ten interrogation techniques approved by Bush administration lawyers Jay Bybee and John Yoo.
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Pentagon Panel Has Contractor Contacts

USA Today
More than half of the panel members appointed to review the Pentagon's latest four-year strategy blueprint have financial ties to defense contractors with a stake in the planning process, a USA TODAY analysis shows. Congress created the 20-member panel in 2006 to analyze the Defense Department's four-year plan, known as the Quadrennial Defense Review. Lawmakers called for the committee to provide an independent "alternate view" of the Pentagon's plan, which shapes future military policy and spending on weapons and other needs.
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U.S.- Canada Border Security and Military Integration

By Dana Gabriel / BLN
Under the pretext of the war on terror and through initiatives such as the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), as well as other commitments, there has been an ongoing effort to further harmonize North American security priorities. The militarization of the continent, along with U.S.-Canada integration is taking place in areas of law enforcement, border services and the armed forces. More is being done to better protect the northern border, but somehow government needs to strike a balance between security and the movement of goods and people.
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Head of 'Climategate' Research Unit Admits He Hid Data – Because It Was 'Standard Practice'

The scientist at the heart of the 'Climategate' row over global warming hid data 'because it was standard practice', it emerged. Professor Phil Jones, director of the University of East Anglia's prestigious climatic research unit, today admitted to MPs that the centre withheld raw station data about global temperatures from around the world. The world-renowned research unit has been under fire since private emails, which sceptics claimed showed evidence of scientists manipulating climate data, were hacked from the university's server and posted online.
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British Government Wants Competence Tests Before You Can Be A Dog Owner

Every dog owner will have to take a costly ‘competence test’ to prove they can handle their pets, under new Government proposals designed to curb dangerous dogs. Owners of all breeds would also have to buy third-party insurance in case their pet attacked someone, and pay for the insertion of a microchip in their animal recording their name and address. The proposals are among a range of measures to overhaul dog laws in England and Wales being considered by senior Ministers, who are expected to announce a public consultation within weeks.
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