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The Black Hole of CMU: Muslims isolated in special US prisons
Karin Friedemann
Communications Management Units (CMUs),Terre Haute, Indiana
Not much is known about the new federal prisons called Communications Management Units (CMUs), that house primarily Muslims and political activists, except that they are located in Terre Haute, Indiana and Marion, Illinois. Although the US government refuses to disclose the list of prisoners to the public, inmates include Enaam Arnaout, founder of Islamic charity Benevolence International Foundation, Dr. Rafil Dhafir, physician and founder of Iraqi charity Help the Needy, Ghassan Elashi, founder of Holy Land Foundation and CAIR Dallas, Randall Royer, Muslim civil rights activist, Yassin Aref, imam and Kurdish refugee, Sabri Benkahla, an American who was abducted the day before his wedding while studying in Saudi Arabia, and John Walker Lindh, an American convert to Islam who was captured in Afghanistan, plus some non-Muslim political activists. Most of these prisoners were falsely accused of terrorist offenses and then imprisoned for lesser charges but given sentences meant for serious terrorism-related crimes.
We’ve Only Just Begun
By Shawn Connors
According to the CIA’s World Factbook, Americas GDP for 2008 was $14.58 trillion dollars. Fox News reported The United States Government and The Federal Reserve have so far pledged & committed $23.7 trillion dollars, an amount that far exceeds the value of everything we produced in this country in 2008. Simply put, the zero oversight bailouts dwarf our U.S. Gross Domestic Product. California Representative Darryl Issa, ranking member of the oversight committee wrote “If you spent a million dollars a DAY going back to the birth of Jesus Christ, that wouldn’t come close to just $1 trillion….$23.7 trillion is a staggering figure”.
Urban Cavemen (living life out of balance)
Mickey Z.
Luddite
Balance: A harmonious or satisfying arrangement or proportion of parts or elements
In early 2000, I was walking through Manhattan with three friends on our way to meet a fourth member of our party. This was well before cell phones pressaction.com had become so completely pervasive but still, I was the only one in our group without one. I sarcastically commented on this and was prompted mocked as a Luddite. Then it was on to the essential business of figuring out how to meet up with friend #4.
Out came a cell phone. A call was placed to another cell phone. A meeting place was agreed upon and we were on our way. Friend #1 hung up his phone and turned to me, declaring that this was "one of those times" when a cell phone was indispensable. To which I replied:
July 28, 2009 Police search South Los Angeles neighborhood for suspected child killer
By Robert Singer
Are you trying to make sense of a human, no matter how sadistic, that would beat a 6-year-old to death?
Or what about John Allen Rubio and co-defendant Maria Angela Camacho who fatally stabbed and beheaded Rubio's 2 month old daughter, his 1 year old son and Camacho's 3 year old daughter.
A precedent for such evil is in the Bible.
According to Genesis, the flood was required to drown out all of the evil in the world because the sons of gods came down to earth and had sex with the comely daughters of men and beget giant children. Some believe the giant offspring of the fallen angels (Nephilim) were destroyed during the flood but a few chapters later we find God missed the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah. Those humans preferred to have sex with angels rather than Lot’s "virgin daughters” and God was forced to punish the men, women, children, infants, newborns in Sodom and Gomorrah by raining down "fire and brimstone from heaven."
Most of Christianity believes the flood removed the Nephilim from the planet but then where did Goliath, Amalek and the Kenites come from? Nephilim and the Annunaki are mentioned in Genesis 6:4 and the Book of Enoch. In the Sumerian language, the term Annunaki meant "from heaven who came to earth" and were known as “the heroes of old and men of renown”.
Whitewashing Hiroshima: The Uncritical Glorification of American Militarism
Gary G. Kohls, MD
Back in 1995, the Smithsonian was preparing an honest, historically-accurate display dealing with the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Amid much right-wing reactionary wrangling, from various ultrapatriotic veterans groups all the way up to the Newt Gingrich/GOP-dominated Congress, the Smithsonian was forced to eliminate all of the painful but historically important parts of the story - the Japanese civilian perspective. So again we had another example of powerful politically conservative groups influencing public policy - and history - because they couldn’t handle what was necessary to face up to unpleasant historical truths.
AUGUST 6,1945 / THE DAY OF INFAMY EXPOSED
Allen L Roland
Nuclear bomb victim in Hiroshima hospital
Most Americans are unaware that the war with Japan would have ended soon without the devastating atomic bombs. American intelligence was fully aware of Japan's desperate search for ways to honorably surrender weeks before the order was given for the mass slaughter of not only 80,000 innocent Japanese civilians but also 12 American Navy pilots incinerated in a Hiroshima jail:
I was a young child when America dropped an Atomic bomb on Hiroshima but I felt its enormous emotional impact. I literally shuddered when I imagined the devastating death toll and somehow innately knew that the world would never be the same again. I also, as an American, felt the gnawing sense of collective guilt that we, as a country, had a responsibility to at least warn the Japanese before inflicting such catastrophic damage.
Vaccination Myths and Truths
by Stephen Lendman
Alan G. Philips is an attorney with the following credentials:
-- he's one of the few American lawyers whose practice includes vaccine exemption and waiver issues;
-- he advises other attorneys seeking help for their own clients on vaccine exemptions;
-- he co-founded Citizens for Healthcare Freedom (CHF) as "a grassroots, nonprofit organization supporting an exciting new Consumer Health Freedom Act in North Carolina" where he lives and practices law;
Healthcare System or Disease Industry?
Walter Goodpastor
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it” - Adolf Hitler
Billions of dollars are pumped into the U.S. “healthcare” system annually, and therein lies the problem. According to Transparency International’s influential Global Corruption Report 2006- www.transparency.org/publications/gcr, medical care is one of the most corrupt industries in the world – precisely because such an enormous amount of public wealth is made available to those who profit from it.
Duty to Warn: The Bombing of Nagasaki August 9, 1945: The Untold Story
Gary G. Kohls, MD
St. Mary’s Cathedral, Nagasaki
64 years ago, on August 9th, 1945, the second of the only two atomic bombs ever used as instruments of mass destruction was dropped on the defenseless civilian city of Nagasaki, Japan, by an all-Christian bomb crew who had been training for this mission for months. The crew was only “doing it’s job,” and they did it with military efficiency and precision.
It had been only 3 days since the first bomb, a uranium bomb, had incinerated Hiroshima, with chaos and confusion in Tokyo, where Japan’s fascist military government leaders and the Emperor Hirohito had been searching for months for a way to an honorable end to the war, a war which had exhausted Japan to virtually moribund defenseless state.
What’s New?
Khaled Amayreh from occupied Jerusalem
A Palestinian demonstrator
runs for cover as Israelis
fire teargas in a West Bank
village near Ramallah
Is Washington retreating in the face of Israel's refusal to halt settlement building?
US officials visiting Israel this week have once again failed to convince the government of Binyamin Netanyahu to freeze Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates and US envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell held several rounds of talks with Israeli leaders, centring on efforts to revive the peace process with the Palestinians as well as on Iran's nuclear programme. As is customary, the two officials assured Israeli leaders of Washington's "iron- clad commitment to Israel's security" and of the two countries' "enduring special relations".
Two other American officials, National Security Advisor James Jones, and Special Assistant Dennis Ross, are due to arrive in Israel later.
Gates told Israel that the US was getting "tougher" with Iran, saying he understood Israeli fears over the Iranian nuclear programme.
Such reassurances have yet to convince the Israeli leadership to heed American demands for a settlement freeze as Israeli government officials almost daily vow to continue to build settlements in "the Land of Israel".
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