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waterboarding by the CIA being publicly
confirmed, and the refusal of the Attorney
General to state that simulated drowning is
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torture by any US agent, anywhere in the
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'...secret evidence, hearsay
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Why they did it: Section 5.2, para. 4, of the official
9/11 Report:  'U.S. support for Israel, the
Philippines, and repressive governments in the
Arab world. '

U.S. Dept. of State Official Blog

2008 Human Rights Report:

Israel and the occupied territories
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices;
Feb. 25, '09;

Questions & Answers on Gaza; Stephen Shalom;
ZNet; Jan. 16, '09

Aspects Of The Post-Oil Community; Peter
Goodchild; Countercurrents: Feb. 25, '09;

Palestinian Children Behind Bars; ('07)

Former Speaker of the Israeli Parliament Avraham
Burg: “The Holocaust Is Over: We Must Rise from
its Ashes” - Democracy Now!

The Gaza Bombshell; David Rose; Vanity Fair;
Apr. '08 (Bush/Rice/Abrams backed an armed
force to overthrow Hamas.)

Alternet:  Israel's Leaders are frantically trying to
prevent war crimes proceedings

What if the entire tale of the Jewish Diaspora is
historically wrong? ;  
by Joshua Holland; Alternet; Jan. 28, 09

Israel 'Hides Settlement Data'; BBC Jan. 30

Erase my grandfather's name from Yad Vashem;
transl. to En. by Aimee Kligman; (orig. in Le Monde)

Israel denies Gaza access to clean water;
Press TV; Jan. 30

Israeli troops told to fire at anything that moved;
Press TV; Jan. 31

Dear Conservatives, Will You Help Save the
Republic From Military Takeover? by Naomi Wolf,
Oct. 18, '08; AlterNet

Film: Torturing Democracy (plus documents, time-
line)

SNAG FILMS: films on the issues you care about -
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Iraq veterans against the war: Winter Soldier
(clips)  ;

Timeline of the Great Depression   ;

1927 - 1933 Chart of the Pompous
Prognosticators  ;

Federal Ethics Committee ECNH - Dignity of living
beings ;


Best of the Web:

Foreign Policy:  The U.S.
Military Index, March/April 2008;
3,400 active and retired officers
polled on the state of the
military (In sum?  Not too good.)

GlobalResearch.ca:  Middle
East Internet Blackouts Spur
Geopolitical Suspicions by Paul
Joseph Watson; 02/02/08

San Francisco Chronicle
(martial law; detention camps):
Rule by Fear or Rule by Law?
Lewis Seiler, Dan Hamburg;
04/02/08

The Progressive:
Exclusive!  The FBI deputizes
business
Matthew Rothschild; 07/02/08

nzherald.co.nz (China; Russia):
Gwynn Dyer: The Real Reason
for Vast U.S. Defense Bill
Gwynn Dyer; 13/02/08

New report finds Gaza situation
worst in 40 years
Internet buzz:  Biden's chilling remarks at
fund raiser. What "incredibly tough"
foreign policy actions is Obama
preparing? Patrick Martin, Oct. 22, '08.
wsws.org

Colin Powell (YouTube): 'There's going
to be a crisis which will come along on
the 21st, 22 of January...' ????

Soldiers suffering PTSD being
redeployed to the front lines - ABC News
video reports: 12% of troops in Iraq, 17%
in Afghanistan taking anti-depressants
and other meds.

Foreclosures up 121% second quarter
from 2007:  RealtyTrac news; July, 2008
U.S. foreclosure filings up 71% in third
quarter, Oct. 23, '08; AP. By the end of the
 year RealtyTrac expects over a million
bank-owned properties, around a third of
all properties for sale, to have piled up in
the market.
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Israel:  Two People One Great Room;
Diane V. McLoughlin; 12/05/09;

Question to Clinton: What is a 'sufficient' Level of
Oppression?; Diane V. McLoughlin; 05/02/09;

Human vs. Human Means No More Humans;
by Diane V. McLoughlin; 22/02/09

I Blame the Rabbis; Diane V. McLoughlin; 05/02/09

Digg for Liberty Bring Back the Banned;
Diane V. McLoughlin; 02/02/09

Israel: Evidence of War Crimes in Gaza Grows by
the Day; Jan. 16, '09

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Flashback - Amira Hass of Haaretz,
'Don't shoot until you can see they're over the
age of 12'; Nov. 20, 2000.  Hass is interviewing
an IDF sharpshooter.  

    Excerpt:

    (Hass is the speaker without quotes).

    But nonetheless there are children who were hit,
    wounded or killed after they were hit in the head.
    Unless these were mistakes.

    "If they were children, they were mistakes."

    Do they talk about this?

    "They talk to us about this a lot. They forbid us to
    shoot at children."

    How do they say this?

    "You don't shoot a child who is 12 or younger."

    That is, a child of 12 or older is allowed?

    "Twelve and up is allowed. He's not a child any
    more, he's already after his bar mitzvah.
    Something like that."

    Thirteen is bar mitzvah age.

    "Twelve and up, you're allowed to shoot. That's
    what they tell us."

    Again: Twelve and up you're allowed to shoot
    children.

    "Because this already doesn't look to me like a
    child by definition, even though in the United
    States a child can be 23."

    Under international law, a child is defined as
    someone up to the age of 18.

    "Up until 18 is a child?"

    So, according to the IDF, it is 12?

    "According to what the IDF says to its soldiers. I
    don't know if this is what the IDF says to the
    media."

    And children are from 12 down. Is there no order
    that between 12 and 18 you shoot at the legs and
    not the head?

    "Of course we try to see to it that he really is over
    20."

    In the 10 seconds that you have.

    "In the 10 seconds that I have, I have to estimate
    how old he is."

    And in what direction the wind is blowing, and the
    deviation here and there, and which way he'll jump
    the next moment.

    "Yes, but there are hardly any mistakes by
    sharpshooters. The mistakes are made by people
    who aren't sharpshooters."

    And it turns out that they happen to hit the
    children's heads, and all this is just by chance?

    "If you say you have seen children that have been
    hit in the head a lot, then it is sharpshooters."

    So what you're saying is that our definition of
    children is different.

    "Your definition is different."

    Because for you it's someone who is 12.

    "Yes."
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