U.S. Park Police have arrested about 60 anti-torture activists in front of the White House.
The protesters are wearing orange jumpsuits to represent Guantanamo Bay detainees who have been cleared for release, but remain in custody.
Earlier, protesters marched from the U.S Capitol to protest detention policies in the United States and what they call the government’s [...]
Entries from April 2009
April 30, 2009
Dozens of anti-torture activists arrested at rally at White House after marching from Capitol…
April 30, 2009
Russia launches new defense satellite to increase military presence on near-Earth orbit…
Russian Space Forces conducted a successful launch of the Soyuz-U booster rocket with a defense satellite on board on April 29. The satellite, which entered the predicted orbit, will now be referred to as Kosmos-2450, officials of the Russian Space Forces said.
The launch was performed normally at 21:03 Moscow time. The satellite was launched to [...]
April 30, 2009
Physicians offer chilling account of Gaza atrocities…
BEIRUT: Renowned Chinese-English physician Dr. Swee Ang gave a moving testimony on Saturday of Israel’s destruction in the Gaza Strip as witnessed in her recent trip to the tiny Palestinian enclave. “Cluster bombs, deliberate assassinations of whole families that they would line up and shoot,” Ang said as she listed a number of acts committed [...]
April 30, 2009
April deadliest month in a year as security in Iraq plummets…
BAGHDAD — April was the bloodiest month for violence in Baghdad in more than a year, another sign that Iraq’s security gains are beginning to reverse.
On Wednesday, a series of explosions killed at least 43 people, including at least 41 who were killed in Sadr City, a sprawling Shiite Muslim slum in east Baghdad. Three [...]
April 30, 2009
NASA micro-satellite eyes space bacteria…
NASA is preparing to launch a tiny satellite loaded with yeast and anti-fungal drugs early next month in order to better understand how bacteria becomes nastier in space.
The nanosatellite, known as PharmaSat, is only about the size of a loaf of bread and will hitch a ride as a secondary payload aboard a US Air [...]
April 30, 2009
US requests New Zealand SAS troops for war in Afghanistan…
The New Zealand National government of Prime Minister John Key revealed on April 19 that it had received an official request from the United States for the highly trained Special Air Services (SAS) combat unit to return to Afghanistan.
The announcement followed a meeting on April 7 between Foreign Minister Murray McCully and US Secretary of [...]
April 30, 2009
Britain to send 700 extra troops to Afghanistan…
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he’ll temporarily send 700 extra troops to Afghanistan to boost security for August elections.
Brown told lawmakers that Britain will increase its forces in Afghanistan from 8,300 to 9,000, but will reduce numbers to current levels by November.
He said Wednesday the troop increase forms part of a tougher approach to [...]
April 30, 2009
Obama’s 100 days – the mad men did well…
by John Pilger
Source: JohnPilger.com
The BBC’s American television soap Mad Men offers a rare glimpse of the power of corporate advertising. The promotion of smoking half a century ago by the “smart” people of Madison Avenue, who knew the truth, led to countless deaths. Advertising and its twin, public relations, became a way of deceiving dreamt [...]
April 30, 2009
Obama: Bond with Israel ‘unshakable’…
The US bond with Israel is “as unshakable as ever” as both nations pursue peace, President Barack Obama said on the state’s 61st birthday.
On behalf of the people of the United States, President Obama congratulates the people and government of Israel on the 61st anniversary of Israel’s independence,” the White House said in a statement [...]
April 30, 2009
Global warming alarmists out in cold…
IT’S snowing in April. Ice is spreading in Antarctica. The Great Barrier Reef is as healthy as ever.
And that’s just the news of the past week. Truly, it never rains but it pours – and all over our global warming alarmists.
Time’s up for this absurd scaremongering. The fears are being contradicted by the facts, and [...]
April 30, 2009
Rape-murder accused wanted ‘to kill all Iraqis’…
PADUCAH, Kentucky (AFP) – A US Army colonel has testified that a former soldier on trial for the murder-rape of an Iraqi girl and the killing of her family told him months earlier he wanted “to kill all Iraqis.”
But Colonel Todd Ebel, who had been asked to assess the mental condition of former private first [...]
April 30, 2009
Spanish judge opens probe into Guantanamo torture…
MADRID (AFP) — A Spanish judge on Wednesday opened an investigation into an alleged “systematic programme” of torture at the US Guantanamo Bay detention camp, following accusations by four former prisoners.
Judge Baltasar Garzon will probe the “perpetrators, the instigators, the necessary collaborators and accomplices” to crimes of torture at the prison at the US naval [...]
April 29, 2009
Swine Flu: Who Profits?
by James Corbett
Source: The Corbett Report
How Gore, Powell, Rumsfeld and other multi-millionaires stand to benefit from swine flu hysteria…
The well-known detective’s injunction to “follow the money” can apply equally well to investigations of flu epidemics as it can to conventional criminal investigations. Indeed, as surprising as it may be to some, there are people in [...]
