Friday, June 27, 2008

And now, designing torture tactics?

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Eric Mink: U.S. torture tactics harm our security



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Friday, June 27, 2008
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More pieces of the U.S. torture puzzle fell into place last week.The picture got clearer — and uglier: —On Wednesday, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Physicians for Human Rights released a 121-page report detailing the results of medical tests performed on nearly a dozen former prisoners of the U.S.military in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. All had been released after having been held in U.S. custody for periods ranging from six months to three years. None had been charged with any offense--------------


Friday, June 27, 2008


And now, designing torture tactics.

Vanity Fair reporter Katherine Eban unravels the central role of two CIA-contracted psychologists, James Elmer Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, in designing torture tactics for use on detainees held in secret CIA prisons around the world. In her article,Rorschach and Awe,America's coercive interrogation methods were reverse-engineered by two C.I.A. psychologists who had spent their careers training U.S. soldiers to endure Communist-style torture techniques. The spread of these tactics was fueled by a myth about a critical "black site" operation. As opposition grows over the APA's policy allowing psychologists to take part in military interrogations,there is a further point, a more serious charge.
Psychology and other social sciences might be doing actual harm to our society. You needn't be a scholar to sense this. In fact, scholarship is often a hindrance to understanding what is really happening. Despite the creation of a virtual army of psychiatrists, psychologists, psychometrists, counselors, and social workers, there has been no letup in the rate of mental illness, suicide, alcoholism, drug addiction, child abuse, divorce, murder, and general mayhem.And now, designing torture tactics.
Ted Rudow III,MA

Bully?

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Bully?
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Friday Jun 27th, 2008 10:39 AM
The U.S. is just used to having things its own way, and its leaders don't like people and nations who won't let them do what they want, when they want to do it, so they do all they can to paint them as the bad guys, since they consider themselves the good guys! And most of the mainstream media go right along with them, repeating the same government line and pumping out the same propaganda.


The U.S. has become the sort of bully that it used to accuse the Russians of being, trying to bully Russia and picking on other nations when it can get away with it—usually weak little nations that can hardly fight back, like Afghanistan and Iraq. You'd think the American government would almost be ashamed to pick fights with some of these weak little third world countries, full of poverty-stricken people and dinky little antiquated, untrained and under-equipped military forces!

So Russia is starting to stand its ground rather than give up any more ground. The U.S. isn't as bright and shiny and attractive as it used to be! The U.S., by its own blustering, bullying, self-righteous, obnoxious ways, is managing to turn nations and governments against it all by itself! So one so-called superpower is declining and it'll be interesting to see what—and who—comes next!
Ted Rudow III,MA

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With gasoline topping $4 per gallon, President Bush urged Congress on Wednesday to lift its long-standing ban on offshore oil and gas drilling, saying the United States needs to increase its energy production. Democrats quickly rejected the idea.


“There is no excuse for delay,” the president said in a statement in the Rose Garden. With the presidential election just months away, Bush made a pointed attack on Democrats, accusing them of obstructing his energy proposals and blaming them for high gasoline costs. His proposal echoed a call by Republican presidential candidate John McCain to open the Continental Shelf for exploration.


Bring the troops home. They managed to fool and lull the American public to sleep with a false sense of security and a don’t-rock-the-boat-attitude; Bush and his neo-cons will manage to win again? It is a lie. The Iraq war is running a tab of $12 billion a month — $16 billion including military action in Afghanistan.


And they maintain, the economic downturn resulting from it is likely to be the greatest since the Great Depression. “That total, itself well in excess of $1 trillion, is not included in our estimated $3 trillion cost of the war,” says Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist.


Ted Rudow III,MA

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Bring the troops home!!!

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Bring the troops home!!

With gasoline topping $4 a gallon, President Bush urged Congress on Wednesday to lift its long-standing ban on offshore oil and gas drilling, saying the United States needs to increase its energy production. Democrats quickly rejected the idea. "There is no excuse for delay," the president said in a statement in the Rose Garden. With the presidential election just months away, Bush made a pointed attack on Democrats, accusing them of obstructing his energy proposals and blaming them for high gasoline costs. His proposal echoed a call by Republican presidential candidate John McCain to open the Continental Shelf for exploration. Bring the troops home! They managed to fool and lull the American public to sleep with a false sense of security and a don't-rock-the-boat-attitude, Bush and his neo-cons will managed to win again? It is a lie! The Iraq war is running a tab of $12 billion a month -- $16 billion including military action in Afghanistan. And, they maintain, the economic downturn resulting from it is likely to be the greatest since the Great Depression. "That total, itself well in excess of $1 trillion, is not included in our estimated $3 trillion cost of the war," Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist.
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Renewed call for offshore oil drilling


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With gasoline topping $4 per gallon, President Bush urged Congress on Wednesday to lift its long-standing ban on offshore oil and gas drilling, saying the United States needs to increase its energy production. Democrats quickly rejected the idea.


“There is no excuse for delay,” the president said in a statement in the Rose Garden. With the presidential election just months away, Bush made a pointed attack on Democrats, accusing them of obstructing his energy proposals and blaming them for high gasoline costs. His proposal echoed a call by Republican presidential candidate John McCain to open the Continental Shelf for exploration.


Bring the troops home. They managed to fool and lull the American public to sleep with a false sense of security and a don’t-rock-the-boat-attitude; Bush and his neo-cons will manage to win again? It is a lie. The Iraq war is running a tab of $12 billion a month — $16 billion including military action in Afghanistan.


And they maintain, the economic downturn resulting from it is likely to be the greatest since the Great Depression. “That total, itself well in excess of $1 trillion, is not included in our estimated $3 trillion cost of the war,” says Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist.


Ted Rudow III,MA


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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Martial law?

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Martial law?
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Tuesday Jun 17th, 2008 5:11 PM
Since 9/11, and seemingly without the notice of most Americans, the US government has assumed the authority to institute martial law, arrest a wide swath of dissidents (citizen and non-citizen alike), and detain people without legal or constitutional recourse. Beginning in 1999, the government has entered into a series of single-bid contracts with Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) to build detention camps at undisclosed locations within the United States in the event of "an emergency influx of immigrants in the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs."

The government has also contracted with several companies to build thousands of railcars, some reportedly equipped with shackles, ostensibly to transport detainees.Section 1042 of the 2007 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies," gives the executive the power to invoke martial law. For the first time in more than a century, the president is now authorized to use the military in response to "a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, a terrorist attack or any other condition in which the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to the extent that state officials cannot maintain public order." An other law, individual members of the commission--"little Joe McCarthys"--would be allowed to tour the country holding their own hearings in order to "expose native terrorism."
On a world scale, the rest of the world is going to sympathise with the attempted overthrow of the American dictatorship, just as the rest of the world sympathised with the overthrow of Hitler! The American dictatorship has become a threat, just like Hitler and his dictatorship, a threat to the whole world, so they're going to all cooperate. We are going to absolutely go Nazi under this Bush! If it doesn't happen, I'll be surprised! For all I know it is already happening and it is going that way more and more, much worse off, much more in that direction. He is more Hitlerian than ever!
Ted Rudow III,MA

Saturday, June 14, 2008

War: What is it good for?

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“A long-delayed Senate committee report endorsed by Democrats and some Republicans concluded that President Bush and his aides built the public case for war against Iraq by exaggerating available intelligence and by ignoring disagreements among spy agencies about Iraq’s weapons programs and Saddam Hussein's links to Al Qaeda,” said Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane.


War is rarely necessary and never glorious. That’s one thing Americans should have learned from their experiences in Vietnam, and from seeing the daily horror and carnage of that war televised in their living rooms every night.


The U.S. government sure learned from it. They learned not to allow TV cameras to show so many dead or wounded GIs, or even enemy soldiers. They learned it’s safer to restrict photographers and TV crews to shots of awesome artillery barrages, powerful tanks, aircraft carriers and modern bombers taking off with their lethal payloads-the weapons of war, not their effects.


They don’t show the death and devastation in the little rural villages once full of farmers, the crippled children who happened to pick up cluster bombs, the charred corpses that are now called “collateral damage.” After all, showing such things would detract from the glory of war.


Ted Rudow III,MA

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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Their puppet

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Marie Cocco: Kucinich's articles of impeachment



......Besides Iraq, the war on terror and the warrant-less wiretapping of American citizens, Kucinich lays out many other stunning abuses, everything from the effort to keep a Medicare actuary from relaying to Congress accurate cost estimates about a new drug benefit, to the U.S.attorney scandal in which top prosecutors were pushed out of their jobs for their apparent refusal to bring political prosecutions that would please Republicans.Kucinich does not rant, but relies almost exclusively on the government's own documentation of wrongdoing -- accounts from inspectors general, congressional testimony, memos that surfaced or were subpoenaed. Some of Kucinich's charges truly outline high crimes; others just a blatant disregard for the public. And, politically speaking, they are at this point in time irrelevant.But if you really want to know "what happened" in the Bush era, take a pass on buying former White House press secretary Scott McClellan's new book. Read Kucinich's articles of impeachment in the Congressional Record -- for free -- instead.


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Their puppet


Bush really nothing but the front man for the rich to keep control.--He started out as their puppet, but puppets have a funny way of getting out of hand. So something very strange is happening in the world right now! This is why so many fascist takeovers happen. THE CLEVER SUBTLETY OF THIS REGIME--what smooth, suave, scientific and reasonable patriotic excuses it had for everything. It was all very logical and obviously supposed to be very good for you and good for everyone, good for the Country and even for the rest of the world. You were almost convinced yourself--into believing what they were doing was right and for the common good, and even necessary, so that you felt little or no resentment or resistance.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

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Pray for Burma

The Burmese military government is an evil one. It oppress and tyrannizes the people of its land in ways that few other governments do today. Those in power are for the most part arrogant and cruel and full of iniquity and darkness.

This cyclone that left destruction in its wake is also a push to those in power to allow others into their country. They have a choice between a devastated country that is theirs alone or accepting the aid of other countries, with the threat that control will increasingly slip from their grasp. They do not care for the people of that land as much as they care for control over them, thinking that they alone know what’s best for the country.

Pray that they will decide to crack open the door to the outside world.

Ted Rudow III,MA

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Monday, June 09, 2008

Obama

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by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday Jun 9th, 2008
Some say that Jewish money speaks. Perhaps they donate more than others for political causes. But the myth about all-powerful Jewish money has an anti-Semitic ring. After all, other lobbies, and most decidedly the huge multinational corporations, have given considerable sums of money to Obama (as well as to his opponents)
And Obama himself has proudly announced that hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens have sent him small donations, which have amounted to tens of millions.
True, it has been proven that the Jewish lobby can almost always block the election of a senator or a member of Congress who does not dance - and do so with fervor - to the Israeli tune. In some exemplary cases (which were indeed meant to be seen as examples) the lobby has defeated popular politicians by lending its political and financial clout to the election campaign of a practically unknown rival.
But in a presidential race? The transparent fawning of Obama on the Israel lobby stands out more than similar efforts by the other candidates.Why? Because his dizzying success in the primaries was entirely due to his promise to bring about a change, to put an end to the rotten practices of Washington and to replace the old cynics with a young, brave person who does not compromise his principles.
And lo and behold, the very first thing he does after securing the nomination of his party is to compromise his principles.
Ted Rudow III,MA

Sunday, June 08, 2008

Fool me once

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Saturday, June 7, 2008 said:

Can we afford?


CAN THE WORLD AFFORD TO HAVE SUCH A MADMAN ON THE LOOSE WITH ATOM BOMBS IN BOTH HANDS AND REELING DRUNKENLY FROM ONE CRISIS TO ANOTHER? How much longer can the world stand this emotionally unstable near-maniac and his irrational ravings while the earth totters on the brink of his brinkmanship? Does his stooped posture and odd shuffling gait indicate an arthritic condition medicated by some drug such as cortisone which induces delusion of grandeur and similar irrational behaviour? THEY SAY HITLER WAS INSANE, but the world put up with him long enough for him to nearly annihilate Europe, North Africa and threaten America, and along with the Japanese, the Pacific and Far East. MUST WE LET THIS MODERN HITLERIAN MADMAN GO SO FAR as to raise up a new fascist American power which threatens to destroy the Earth?

Ted Rudow III,MA


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A despot's trick

Dear Editor:

When people fail to tell to the truth they are apt to become strongly deluded and believe a lie instead. This has been the favorite trick of despots and dictators throughout the ages. President Bush, Vice President Cheney and their crew lied day after day. and the media flooded the U.S and the world with their lies about weapons of mass destruction.

They told lies about Iraq producing atomic bombs and drones that could carry bomb^ and chemicals all the way to the U.S.. The list of lies goes on and on.

It's disgusting that Bush could lie his way into the Iraq war, causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and the deaths of 4.000 Amen can soldiers, and not suffer any consequences for it.

Congress hasn't impeached him - after all, they lie as much as he does - and the American people are either ignorant, apathetic or powerless!

Ted Rudow III,MA

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Scary parallels with the 1930s

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Paul Krugman: A return of 'That 70s Show'?



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Tuesday, June 3, 2008
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Which decade is it, anyway? Not long ago it seemed as if everyone watching the carnage in financial markets was drawing scary parallels with the 1930s....The emerging conventional wisdom, if what I heard is any indication, is that Bernanke has been fighting the wrong enemy all along: Inflation, not financial collapse, is the real threat. And to head off that threat, the critics say, the Fed has to reverse course and raise interest rates – never mind the risks of recession-----

Tuesday, June 3, 2008


Dollar

Roosevelt knew that if he abolished the Gold Standard the only way he could keep the dollar stable abroad (since foreign countries don't have faith in other country's currency) was to guarantee foreign payment for dollars in gold! So when he decided to take us off the Gold Standard, he made an agreement with foreign countries, promising to keep the dollar stable so it wouldn't take a nosedive. He made an agreement with the foreign countries that he would set the price of gold at Fort Knox at $35.00 per ounce, and he guaranteed the foreign governments that they could exchange their dollars any time they wanted to, for a guaranteed $35.00 an ounce in gold. This allayed their fears that they better dump their dollars or they would be worth nothing. In exchange for this guarantee, they agreed to set their currency at a fixed price--for example, the British Pound was set at approximately $2.40 per Pound.
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Sunday, June 01, 2008

Four justices overstepped

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Randy Thomasson: Four justices overstepped, should have let voters decide marriage issue



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Sunday, June 1, 2008
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Whether or not you believe marriage is naturally for a man and a woman, as an American you should intensely dislike the California Supreme Court's 4-3 opinion calling for same-sex "marriages" statewide.By just one vote, the court abandoned its role as the objective judiciary. Gone was the blindfolded Lady Justice. Gone was the plain reading of the California Constitution. And gone were the California statutes, our written law of the land.After the explosive ruling was made public, Chief Justice Ron George admitted his bias, telling the Los Angeles Times that his "gay marriage" opinion was highly influenced by a childhood trip to the segregated South. .....

Randy Thomasson: Four justices overstepped, should have let voters decide marriage issue

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Why "gay" isn't gay!

Leaders of the gay liberation movement use every modern means at their disposal to flood the minds of today's youth with the notion that homosexuality is a "gay" lifestyle. To help counteract this devious concept, here are several reasons why "gay" isn't gay!
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When people fail to say to the truth they are apt to become strongly deluded and believe a lie instead. This has been the favorite trick of despots and dictators throughout the ages. US President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and their crew lied day after day, and the media flooded the US and the world with their lies about weapons of mass destruction, which they claimed to know the specific amounts and locations of. They told lies about Iraq producing atomic bombs, with lies about Iraqi drones that could carry bombs and chemicals all the way to the US, and the list of lies goes on and on. It's disgusting that Bush could lie his way into the Iraq war, causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and the deaths of 4,000 American soldiers, not to mention the scores wounded on both sides, and not suffer any consequences for it. Congress hasn't impeached him - after all, they lie as much as he does - and the American people are either ignorant, apathetic, powerless!
Ted Rudow III,MA