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Guantanamo Detainee Deaths
by Stephen Lendman
Under the direction of Professor Mark Denbeaux, Seton Hall University School of Law's Center for Policy & Research (CP&R) published 15 "GTMO Reports," including profiles of detainees held, allegations against them, and discrepancies in government accounts explaining reasons for reported deaths.
An earlier report analyzed unclassified government data (obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests) based on evidentiary summaries of 2004 military hearings on whether 517 detainees held at the time were "enemy combatants." Most were non-belligerents. In fact, a shocking 95% were seized randomly by bounty hunters, then sold to US forces for $5,000 per claimed Taliban and $25,000 for supposed Al Qaeda members. At least 20 were children, some as young as 13.
Throwing Our Energy at Impossible Dreams
P.F. Henshaw
"as mankind proceeded to get bigger and bigger we silently crossed a threshold"
Signs of cognition, maybe? In the haystack of contentious arguments at Copenhagen it seems only the occasional unofficial commentary pointed to the real solvable source of our monumental collision with the limits of the earth. Somehow in the process of growing ever bigger, mankind got "big", and continuing to grow still bigger is optional. Yes, it sort of "happened naturally", and is also natural for us to be a bit confused about the whole turn of events it precipitates, but it is still also definitely our own choice to be doing it too, and we're simply hiding from the problem it creates on the whole.
Recent and Current Economic Costs of Climate Change to Australia
Barrie Pittock [1] and Andrew Glikson [2]
Lake Eldon, Victoria.
Despite the strong conclusions of the international and Australian scientific communities there are people yet to be convinced that human-induced climate change is likely to or already having adverse impacts.
Climate scientists tend to focus on what might happen decades into the future based on scenarios of varying greenhouse gas emissions. However, the starting point should be the pre-industrial climate or at least the reliable climatic data of the 20th century. Observed trends of rising temperatures, more severe droughts, depleted water resources, more heatwaves, shifting storm tracks, rising sea levels and other more extreme events provide a good basis for looking at costs to date.
How to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Zahir Ebrahim Project Humanbeingsfirst.org
The Answer to the Burning Question du jour: Why was President Obama Gifted the Nobel Peace Prize?
Also see: Obama: Manufacturing A Savior––A Case Study In Social Engineering || The Brilliant Construction of World Order – Or a children's bedtime story
In complete realization of the 'change' mantra:
“We are gonna spread happiness,
Franklin Graham Repeats Attack on Islam
from: CAIR
Muslim civil rights group calls for meeting to clear up ‘misconceptions’
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 12/11/09) - A prominent national Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization today requested a meeting with Christian evangelist Franklin Graham to discuss his latest remarks attacking Islam.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said it has received a number of complaints from concerned Muslims who watched an interview last night on CNN during which Graham stated in part: “…we have many Muslims that live in this country. But true Islam cannot be practiced in this country. You can't beat your wife. You cannot murder your children if you think they've committed adultery or something like that, which they do practice in these other countries…I don't agree with the teachings of Islam and I find it to be a very violent religion.”
Washington – Tear Down Your Wall Against Currency Competition
by Ron Holland
On December 9, 2009, Congressman Ron Paul introduced the Free Competition in Currency Act before the US House. The need for this legislation is a clear indication of how far our financial rights and freedoms have fallen in the United States as much of the world outside Washington’s financial iron curtain already have free competition in currencies.
Rights groups call for Justice Department probe into Mumia Abu-Jamal case
Mary Shaw
December 9th marked the anniversary of the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. Journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal continues to sit in prison for the crime, which he maintains that he did not commit.
Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider an appeal by Abu-Jamal, thereby letting his murder conviction stand. The appeal argued that some blacks had been unfairly excluded from the jury. Prosecutors are currently seeking to reinstate Abu-Jamal's death sentence in follow-up to a 2008 order by the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeal for a new capital sentencing hearing over concerns that the original jury was improperly instructed.
At this point, it appears that Abu-Jamal is running out of options. And so his supporters are taking the matter to the U.S. Justice Department. And this is not just the work of a few radical black revolutionaries.
President Obama's Nobel Speech, Just Wars and just Stop It!
eileen fleming
On December 10, 2009, in Oslo, President Obama espoused the first heresy of Christianity in his Nobel speech when he cited the concept of a "just war" furthering the fallacy "that war is justified."
The first and greatest heresy in the Christian faith occurred in the third century when Augustine penned the "Just War Theory" which gave the church's OK to violence perpetuated by the empire and "our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system."-Dorothy Day
Clement, Tertillian, Polycarp and every other early Church Father taught that violence was a contradiction of what Christ was about, but as Gandhi commented, "Everyone but Christians understands that Jesus was nonviolent."
A NEEDED CRITICAL RESPONSE TO OBAMA'S NOBEL SPEECH
Allen L Roland
Reuters/Kevin Lamarque
President Obama's explicit pro-war speech, while accepting the Nobel Peace prize, is a glaring indication of America's morally tainted priorities and deserves an equally explicit critical pro-peace response:
President Obama's saber rattling Nobel Peace Prize speech where he evoked the concept of "just war" and argued for the use of force that is "necessary" and "morally justified " ~ seemingly legitimizing our illegal wars and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the attacks on Pakistan as necessary Wars for Peace ~ begs for a critical response and Ramzi Kysia , an Arab-American essayist and an organizer with the Free Gaza Movement, is more than up to that task.
To the soul of my father
Najwa Sheikh Ahmed
At the age of 80 my father passed away, after a long journey of suffering, and working hard to obtain us, his children decent life, a life that is better than his own. As many refugees my fathers’ life was not normal nor easy, he had to work harder than any body to change a reality that he has nothing to do with it, the reality of losing the home, the land, the reality of being a refugee, an adjective that stolen all his rights as a human being, the rights of having a home, and living in dignity and respect.
When my father passed away I felt so sad, overwhelmed with anger and pain that a person can hold, not only for loosing my father, but mainly because he passed away without fulfilling his main dream of seeing his homeland again for the last time. A wish that he was looking forward it, a year after a year, without any feeling of desperation or tireless.
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