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POPSSaddam Hussein Is Sentenced to Death International legal experts and human rights observers have questioned the impartiality of the trial court, which was created to try top leaders of the ousted government during the 15-month period of formal American occupation following the invasion in the spring of 2003. "We saw this trial, along with the others, as an opportunity to bring justice to those Iraqis who had suffered horribly under Baath Party rule," Richard Dicker, director of the international justice program at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement on Sunday. "Unfortunately, we believe the serious shortcomings in the fairness of the proceedings undermined the legitimacy and credibility of the trial."
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POPSIraq Has Two Virginia Techs Every Day I've been thinking this to myself privately but didn't wanna seem insensitive, but now that juan cole is with me I can raise the issue. This is not to say that you can really compare deaths and loss and grief, but its something to think about.
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POPSTHE BEAST... Beware the Video will shock!!!
These images might save a few kids the next time the Zionist are handing out lesson to Gaza on how they expect a subjugated ghetto to behave. The next time, and there will be a next time for sure if the world allows this time to pass without sanctions, there will be an entire wipe-out reminiscent of the earlier Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto! Not a brick on brick! No child alive. And we'll ring our hands and cry shame!!! The video carries an over 18s bar from UTube. One child has two rifle entries in his tiny chest. The shots are grouped so probably came from an experienced sniper. Either way, some IDF tug had to deliberately aim his rifle twice to achieve this result. How could any human being deliberated put two bullets in a child's chest? Target practice? Was he acting under order? Is there a bounty per death? Are there maniacs loose with guns in the Zionist army? More than 220 children were killed between 27 December 2008 and 6 January 2009 so that one Zionist criminal can
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POPSShooting Animals in Cages, EASY, once you've killed Children Why did they killed the animals? They must believe that they were Christian and Muslim lions and tigers. Little men with big guns needing to prove how great men they were by shooting caged animals. When they can aim at children to kill them, then lions and tigers in cages must to easy to brutes.
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POPSThe contemporary American culture - America's contribution to the World This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 426,000 cell phones retired every day. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.
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POPS19-Years Old and Dying 12,000 Miles Away From Home And he drops it in, and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load two or three of you on board. Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire, to the Doctors and Nurses. And, he kept coming back... fourteen times in all... and took about 30 of you and your buddies out, who would never have gotten out. Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died last Wednesday at the age of 80, in Boise, ID. May God rest his soul.
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POPS"Neo-Nazis attack concentration camp survivors . ."
continues: ewish leaders condemned Saturday's incidents, which marred events marking the 64th anniversary of the camp's liberation by U.S. troops. The attacks came near the Ebensee sub-camp of Mauthausen on Saturday in two separate incidents involving Italian and French survivors The prisoners at Ebensee worked in underground factories which manufactured Messerschmitt airplanes. More... * The pope who was once a member of the Hitler Youth arrives in the Holy Land and condemns anti-Semitism 'In the first instance a group of French survivors were attacked by four armed men clad in camouflage gear,' said Willy Mernyi, head of the Mauthausen Committee of Austria. 'The attackers shot at the group of fifteen survivors with what police assume was plastic air gun pellets. One person was hit in the head while another was injured by a shot in the neck. 'People come to remember the dead and pay their respects and are met with this kind of terror.' The second incide
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POPSStatistics on America in Photos This is amazing and really puts things in perspective. I wasn't able to clip everything on the page. Here's the link: http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php.
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POPSGoodbye, GM ...by Michael Moore
MM knows of which he writes 1. Just as President Roosevelt did after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the President must tell the nation that we are at war and we must immediately convert our auto factories to factories that build mass transit vehicles and alternative energy devices. Within months in Flint in 1942, GM halted all car production and immediately used the assembly lines to build planes, tanks and machine guns. The conversion took no time at all. Everyone pitched in. The fascists were defeated. We are now in a different kind of war -- a war that we have conducted against the ecosystem and has been conducted by our very own corporate leaders. This current war has two fronts. One is headquartered in Detroit. The products built in the factories of GM, Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps. The things we call "cars" may have been fun to drive, but they are like a million dagger
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POPSOne Friday After Prayers - Pt.1 The frequency with which the IDF set fire to the olive trees cannot be consequential. The excessive number of gas canisters are of no value against the demonstrators and only serve to destroy 100+ year old olive trees. These are all they will grown in the environment except with the use of excessive amounts of very scarce water. So the deliberate burning and up-rooting of the olive trees is policy and a part of ethnic cleansing.
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POPSKentucky Pastor Tells Followers to Bring Guns to Church Of the 40 states with right-to-carry laws, 20 allow guns in churches. Watching the debate in Arkansas was John Phillips, pastor of the Central Church of Christ in Little Rock. In 1986, Mr. Phillips was preaching in a different church there when a gunman shot him and a parishioner. Both survived, but Mr. Phillips, 51, still has a bullet lodged in his spine. In a telephone interview, he said he found the idea of “packing in the pew” abhorrent.
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POPSRight-wing media and the fringe: A growing history of violence (and denial)
While right-wing media are certainly not legally culpable for any recent attacks, they are responsible for promoting a culture of fear, paranoia, and violence that is anti-government in the extreme -- a culture in which extremists, including von Brunn and Richard Poplawski, who fatally shot three Pittsburgh police officers, were apparently immersed. Poplawski was convinced that the Obama administration was going to take away his guns. Even though no evidence of such a policy exists, right-wing commentators and news organizations made the claim repeatedly before the shooting and have continued to do so since. Predictably, conservative media figures responded to the museum shooting by attempting to shift attention away from themselves and onto political liberals and even President Obama himself. On June 10, the day of the museum shooting, financial analyst and radio host Jim Lacamp said on Fox News that "we have an administration that's really done a lot of class warfare, a lot of cla
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POPSU.S. Military and Iraqis Agree: Blackwater unprovoked, Fired on Fleeing Citizens and Cars
More: U.S. soldiers did not find any bullets that came from AK-47 assault rifles or BKC machine guns used by Iraqi policemen and soldiers. They found evidence of ammunition used in American-made weapons, including M4 rifle 5.56mm brass casings, M240B machine gun 7.62mm casings, M203 40mm grenade launcher casings, and stun-grenade dunnage, or packing. At least two cars, a black four-door taxi and a blue Volkswagen sedan, had their back windshields shot out, but their front windshields were intact, indicating they were shot while driving away from the square, according to the photos and soldiers An Iraqi colonel walked up to Tarsa and described the Blackwater shooters as men in "tan uniforms, black helmets, and that flag," pointing at the U.S. flag on Tarsa's sleeve. Their actions underscore the long-standing tensions between the U.S. military and private security companies -- and the military's concerns that such shootings could undermine U.S. efforts to stabilize Iraq.
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POPSBBC: "Clinton admits US blame on drugs"!!!!! She also acknowledged that US efforts to ban drugs had so far been unsuccessful in stopping the narcotics trade. "Clearly, what we have been doing has not worked and it is unfair for our incapacity... to be creating a situation where people are holding the Mexican government and people responsible," she said. The BBC's Stephen Gibbs in Mexico says these points have been repeatedly made by Mexico, which sometimes sees itself as the setting for an American-financed and -armed war. In a joint news conference with Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa in Mexico City, Mrs Clinton stressed the importance of working together to build a "common future". ... BBC
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POPSTeen shot over vandalized McCain sign The teens admitted that they had defaced the McCain sign several times, Warren Township police Lt. Don Bishop told CNN. Rowles' is the only McCain sign on a street full of Obama signs, he said. Bishop said the teenagers probably will not be charged -- and are unlikely to damage campaign signs again, as the incident scared them. Warren Township is in Trumbull County not far from Cleveland, Ohio.
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POPSGone, for now, Leaving Death Behind. Like their rain of Cluster Bombs that they deliberately left behind as they scurried home with crap in their nappies from Lebanon in 2006, the inglorious IDF/IAF has left Gaza, for now, with the soiling of Palestinian land with unexploded US shells. Like the Nazis before them, they have left their calling card of children's deaths behind to prove that little men with big guns can boast to their wives and lovers how many kids that they maimed and killed. Brave brave men that kill defenceless kids, and animals
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POPSPentagon Overbudget by $295 Billion - Biggest Military Run-up since WW II More: This is not about the waste of taxpayer dollars – already pushing a trillion – in funding the Iraq war, which, while reprehensible enough, pales in comparison to the big-ticket military systems purchased in the wake of 9/11. The Government Accountability Office - The Bush Administration's worst enemy. McCain? Eight more years of Bush policies.
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POPSScouts Train to Fight Terrorists, and More From the article: "Many law enforcement officials, particularly those who work for the rapidly growing Border Patrol, part of the Homeland Security Department, have helped shape the program’s focus and see it as preparing the Explorers as potential employees. The Explorer posts are attached to various agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and local police and fire departments, that sponsor them much the way churches sponsor Boy Scout troops. “Our end goal is to create more agents,” said April McKee, a senior Border Patrol agent and mentor at the session here."
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POPSBoston police wants permission to search without a warrant Davis said the program doesn't aim to incarcerate people. He said police won't search the homes of teenagers suspected in shootings or homicides whom investigators are trying to prosecute. If officers find drugs, it will be up to them whether to make an arrest. But police said modest amounts of drugs like marijuana will simply be confiscated. I think parents are able to search their own kids rooms without the help of Boston police.
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POPSGOOD News? BAD News! Don't count your Chickens!
Despite his vaunted "genius" for political skulduggery, in the end Rove too is a drab factotum, a bagman, a greasy cog in a vast machine that will keep grinding on, killing and corrupting, without him. (Assuming that Rove is actually stepping away from the machine, which is most unlikely.) Stories of far greater significance than the slinking exit of a dirt-smeared toady have appeared in the last two days -- items far more revelatory of the hellish world that the porcine minion has helped make on behalf of his masters. The boiling core of this hell is Iraq. Stories breaking while Rove and Bush were puddling up on the White House lawn revealed a new abyss of criminality in the war crime that the tearful tyrant and his henchman have engendered: the Mafia running guns to Bush's favored extremist factions in Iraq. As the Guardian reports, Italian anti-Mafia police, tracking down a drug deal, instead came across shipment of 105,000 AK-47s procured by the underworld for their paying clien
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POPSHomeland Security Is Obviously Not Tracking The Right Extremists Has anyone heard of Homeland Security or the Justice Department issuing warnings to law enforcement agencies to be looking for signs of suspicious activity from this very specific pool of potential terrorists? Before they struck twice in the past two weeks, I mean. I'd love to hear from those of you in law enforcement if such a warning had been issued. I'd hate to think that our current Presidential Administration would rather ignore the uncomfortable realities of real terrorist threats in favor of playing to the comforting silence of identity politics... but considering President Obama's ties to certain *terrorists/authors and the 20 years he spent in the congregation of a racial separatist church, I wouldn't put it past Dear Leader, either. *"Race Course: Against White Supremacy" by Bill Ayers/Bernardine Dohrn (Terrorists/Authors)
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POPSRED ALERT: Thousands Of Youths Train For Obama's "Civilian National Security Force" thousands of youths as counter-terror and immigration enforcement operators: The group uses compressed-air guns — known as airsoft guns, which fire tiny plastic pellets — in the training exercises, and sometimes they shoot real guns on a closed range. Boy Scouts used to to work on survival skills, science and engineering. So let me see if I understand. President Obama promised to build a "civilian national security force" with capabilities equal to those of our military. Now we discover thousands of armed teenagers training for the very first time to handle all sorts of domestic law enforcement and paramilitary scenarios. Anyone else concerned? Update: Even The New Republic's Marty Peretz is alarmed. http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_spine/archive/2009/05/14/have-the-boy-scouts-of-america-gone-completely-berserk.aspx
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POPSMan fed cats, kittens live to pit bulls I think that this guy should be injured and fed to some very big hungry cats, oh like maybe tigers or lions. Never one to wish harm on anyone, I cannot help myself when it comes to animals.
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POPSNew book exposes the myths of Columbine More: Read Columbine for the stunning reportage. Admire the heroism of students and teachers. Forgive, if you can, the police ineptitude and, later, their predictable cover-up. But pay particular attention to the back story: the evolution of two would-be mass murderers. And then, instead of feeling blessed that this nightmare didn't happen in your town, you might do better to ask yourself a variation of the line you hear on television at ten o'clock: Do you know who your children are?
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POPSWhite Supremacist Guns Down Guard at Holocaust Museum When the smoke cleared, von Brunn was critically wounded. "Two other . . . armed security officers opened fire with their service revolvers," the company said. "The intruder was hit at once" and wounded. Johns died at George Washington University Hospital. "There are no words to express our grief and shock over these events," the museum said in a statement, describing Johns as "an outstanding colleague who greeted us every day with a smile." Johns, a 1988 graduate of Crosslands High School in Temple Hills, lived in an apartment in the Temple Hills area. Friends said he had a son. "It's a heavy loss," said Assane Faye, the Washington district director of the Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America. Faye said that during contract negotiations with Wackenhut two years ago, the union pressed for company-issued protective vests. Although Wackenhut seemed open to the idea, vests have not been issued, Faye said.
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POPSTazered to Death: Wheel Chair Bound Woman More: According to a police report, one of the officers used her Taser gun nine times for a total of 160 seconds and the other officer discharged his Taser gun once for a total of no more than five seconds. A medical examiner found Delafield died from hypertensive heart disease and cited the Taser gun shock as a contributing factor, the report said. On her death certificate, the medical examiner ruled Delafield's death a homicide.
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