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POPSPolitical Correctness Deadly Consequences
“We don’t know all the answers yet, and I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts,” Obama said. “What we do know is that there are families, friends and an entire nation grieving right now for the valiant men and women who came under attack ... in one of the worst mass shootings ever to take place on an American military base.” Obama followed up in his weekly address Saturday, noting that U.S. troops are “Americans of every race, faith and station. “They are Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus and nonbelievers,” he said. “They are descendants of immigrants and immigrants themselves. They reflect the diversity that makes this America. But what they share is a patriotism like no other.” Even as Obama treads cautiously, Connecticut Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman, the chairman of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, called the shooting “a terrorist act” and said he plans to begin an investigation into whether . . .
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POPSI've been betrayed by this Government, says Iraq War hero who won George Cross He said that when he received his George Cross, ‘the Queen told me she had not presented a GC for “such a long time” and that it was “a privilege” to give it to me’. Now 25, he tells the MAIL ON SUNDAY with typical bravery how his pride was soon eclipsed by anger at the Government's mistreatment of the Armed Forces and why he took the drastic step of quitting army life earlier this year... Read more: http://www.mailonsunday.ie/news/article-1224283/Ive-betrayed-Government-says-Iraq-War-hero-won-George-Cross-works-centre.html#ixzz0VeDJEqdd
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POPSUS Press Freedom Improves At the bottom of the list were Turkmenistan, North Korea and Eritrea "where media are so suppressed they are nonexistent," said Reporters Without Borders. Iran dropped to No. 172 from No. 166, with Reporters Without Borders saying the disputed reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had fostered a paranoia about journalists and bloggers. "Automatic prior censorship, state surveillance of journalists, mistreatment, journalists forced to flee the country, illegal arrests and imprisonment -- such is the state of press freedom this year in Iran," the group said. The ranking was compiled from hundreds of questionnaires completed by journalists and media experts around the world and reflecting press freedom violations that took place between Sept. 1, 2008 and Aug. 31, 2009. The complete ranking can be seen at www.rsf.org/en-classement1003-2009.html Read more at source.
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POPSLawsuit Over Research Monkeys Mistreatment The same old story. "Yes you did". "No I didn't". As a scientist in research myself (Bio-Chem), I know all too well what goes on in those labs, And I am glad to see someone is investigating these horrific atrocities committed upon these innocent creatures in the name of scientific research. There is nothing scientific about it. It is just maiming and torture under the disguise of surgery. I find this sort of thing absolutely disgusting. There is a related story on the same page. Click on the link to view that and the accompanying video. I think what irritated me in the first place was that this is going on in my home town, and is related to my line of work. These methods are becoming more antiquated as we progress further into the 21st century.
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POPSEU Opposes Israel Settlement Expansion
The demand to end Israeli settlement expansion couldn't be any clearer. The USA also quite firm and clear on this. Other major nations also speaking out on their own. This dramatic reversal from 60 years of turning a blind eye to Israeli's ongoing aggression appear to have -- thankfully -- turned. When members of my immediate family fought against Germany and Japan (3 silver stars, bronze stars, purple hearts) it wasn't for the Jews -- it was against the mistreatment, abuse, ruthless aggression against Anyone. That included six (6) million Poles, the Chinese in Manchuria, etc. Of course, like all wars, there were lies and hype, there was a blindness to one's own or one's past actions but, you know, if someone blows up your fleet or knocks over your tallest buildings, killing thousands, you gotta fight back, right or wrong, and then try to sort it out. We're trying to sort it out. The apartheid, collective punishment, starvation blockades and ceaseless Israeli aggression mus
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POPSU.S. Bush Era AG 2B Sued, Judge OK'd The Bush Era house of cards is indeed, falling. The scam here was to arrest and hold people in jail...a U.S. citizen...without charges, without trial, without his one phone call, without a lawyer - subject them to harsh conditions, screw up their life, and do all this based on the claim they were an important "witness," that needed to be held in custody for someone else's trial. This was a scam deliberately used to circumvent the laws that protect our civil liberties that are suppose to prevent this type of mistreatment. Trying to sue a police officer or the country's head prosecutor btw, is about as difficult as landing a man on the moon - they have a lot of 'extra protections,' because of their jobs (or else people would be suing them everyday) -- so for a federal court to say this case should go ahead is significant. Significant, as in: You can run but you can't hide. i.e., justice is coming. Putting such law-breaking former politicians in jail is NOT "politics," -- it's
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POPSThe Women's Crusade In the 19th century, the paramount moral challenge was slavery. In the 20th century, it was totalitarianism. In this century, it is the brutality inflicted on so many women and girls around the globe: sex trafficking, acid attacks, bride burnings and mass rape. Yet if the injustices that women in poor countries suffer are of paramount importance, in an economic and geopolitical sense the opportunity they represent is even greater. “Women hold up half the sky,” in the words of a Chinese saying, yet that’s mostly an aspiration: in a large slice of the world, girls are uneducated and women marginalized, and it’s not an accident that those same countries are disproportionately mired in poverty and riven by fundamentalism and chaos. There’s a growing recognition among everyone from the World Bank to the U.S. military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff to aid organizations like CARE that focusing on women and girls is the most effective way to fight global poverty and extremism.
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POPSHilary Would Not Have Done This Slavery has often been “traditional and universally recognized," too. Also mistreatment of women. Guess we just have to shut SOMEBODY out. (May I suggest viruses? They might not even be alive -- we're safe there. No equal rights for viruses, I say.)
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POPSDocumentary about Japan's Obscene Dolphin trade O'Barry's band of outsiders proceeds with anarchic vigor. They thwart and enrage the local authorities in order to get their message on the radar. Part environmental documentary, part horror film, part spy thriller, The Cove is as suspenseful as it is enlightening as it shows exactly what film can do in the hands of those who aren’t afraid to risk it all for their cause.
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POPSBBC: "'Reduction' seen in abuse sites" "These websites, although reducing in number, represent an extremely serious problem," said Peter Robbins, chief executive of the IWF. In its report, the IWF said: "1,536 domains represent a problem of a scale which can be seriously targeted and significantly disrupted through international efforts." It said that about 69% of the children depicted in the images it saw were between zero and 10. About 24% involved children aged six or under. About 58% of the images seen showed the most serious sorts of abuse - involving rape or torture" ... BBC
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POPS The Bush Six to Be Indicted From the article: The six defendants—in addition to Gonzales, Federal Appeals Court Judge and former Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee, University of California law professor and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo, former Defense Department general counsel and current Chevron lawyer William J. Haynes II, Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff David Addington, and former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas J. Feith—are accused of having given the green light to the torture and mistreatment of prisoners held in U.S. detention in “the war on terror.” The case arises in the context of a pending proceeding before the court involving terrorism charges against five Spaniards formerly held at Guantánamo.
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POPSSpain Considering Torture Related Charges Aganist Bush Administration Officials
Con't: The move represents a step toward ascertaining the legal accountability of top Bush administration officials for allegations of torture and mistreatment of prisoners in the campaign against terrorism. But some American experts said that even if warrants were issued their significance could be more symbolic than practical, and that it was a near certainty that the warrants would not lead to arrests if the officials did not leave the United States. The complaint under review also names John C. Yoo, the former Justice Department lawyer who wrote secret legal opinions saying the president had the authority to circumvent the Geneva Conventions, and Douglas J. Feith, the former under secretary of defense for policy. The court case was not entirely unexpected, as several human rights groups have been asking judges in different countries to indict Bush administration officials. One group, the Center for Constitutional Rights, had asked a German prosecutor for such an indict
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POPSA Religious War in Israel’s Army In many cases, the religious nationalists have ascended to command positions from precisely the kind of premilitary college course that Mr. Zamir runs — but theirs are run by the religious movements rather than his secular one, meaning that the competition between him and them is both ideological and careerist. “The officer corps of the elite Golani Brigade is now heavily populated by religious right-wing graduates of the preparatory academies,” noted Moshe Halbertal, a Jewish philosophy professor who co-wrote the military code of ethics and who is himself religiously observant but politically liberal. “The religious right is trying to have an impact on Israeli society through the army.”
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POPSRNC chair candidate sends "Barack the Magic Negro" song Song from Limbaugh program sent as a gift to RNC committee members. Since it's a joke, he seems to reason, there's nothing offensive about it. If a chair candidate can't understand why that is offensive, it's not hard to see why the GOP is tanking.
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