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POPSCheney Enrages Iraqis with Demands for New Laws
* grants the U.S. long-term rights to maintain over 50 military bases in their California-sized country * allows the U.S. to strike any other country from within Iraqi territory without the permission of the Iraqi government * allows the U.S. to conduct military activities in Iraq without consulting with the local government * allows U.S. forces to arrest any Iraqi without consulting with Iraqi authorities * extends to U.S. troops and contracters immunity from Iraqi law * gives U.S. forces control of Iraqi airspace below 29,000ft. * places the Iraqi Defense, Interior and National Security ministries under American supervision for ten years * gives the U.S. responsibility for Iraqi armament contracts for ten years No doubt some key figures in the Bush administration have asked themselves that, and here's what they come up with. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York holds $ 50 billion of Iraq's foreign exchange reserves as a result of the UN sanct
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POPSYahoo answers: Question on Peace. This Last week I saw a video on youtube (below) that heartened me to ask this question on 'yahoo answers'. Review my question and the answers, (also below) you can vote on the best answer by following this link: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=20080530071903AAOUVEB Hmmm.... I wonder why there were so few responses... Maybe, it's one of those questions that have no answers. thinkingblue.blogspot.com
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POPS Surviving an unholy school war Growing up with the Catholic system. This is so similar to much of my Catholic "education" that I suspect others will agree. If you want to find out why your partner wakes up from nightmares from school, this could be it.
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POPSJust Another Week of Cruelty by Israel Do these people have consciences like normal human beings. How could they stand themselves after 60 years of this? If I had the choice of doing this to others or being killed, I would happily choose the latter. Israel has no conscience and no shame.
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POPSThe Sadomasochism of Power and Politics:Fromm Sadism and masochism as broad concepts (not excluding control of SM impulses by individuals) are key to Erich Fromm's psychoanalytical interpretation of how personality, ideology and politics are interwined.
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POPSMan hurts children with scalpels and pins This makes me so damn angry. This man is a pathetic and brutal bully. But I doubt he was born with such sadism within him, I just hope the two boys concerned can grow up without their perceptions of trust and love being too tainted.
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POPSBush On Torture Bush said he wouldn't discuss the techniques of torture because he doesn't want the enemy to adjust... Adjust?? How exactly do you adjust to waterboarding? To being hung in chains from the ceiling for hours and days on end? How do you adjust to sleep deprivation? Or sensory deprivation? Or being beaten with cables? Or hypothermia? Or murder? How exactly do you adjust Mr Bush? You are so FULL OF IT. As for the use of secret prisons, (which are against ALL common decency, not to mention International Law) Bush replies: "Yeah, so what?" Yeah, perhaps you're right Bush. By accepting torture and secret prisons, USA has sunken to such depths of moral depravity and stench, that the only way is up anyway... so who cares? Can't you come up with some other horrors and atrocities? Waterboarding is getting a little old, don't you think? How about some pulling of fingernails or hot irons? Or being eaten alive by ants! Be creative, Sir! Hmm... do they have ants in Afghanistan? :roll:
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POPSIt's WORSE Than Guantanamo And Abu Ghraib The clip does not do the article justice. It was impossible to relay the horrors in such a short space. This is a two page article, that everyone with an iota of humanity left in them MUST read. The U.S Administration and the U.S Military are engaged in widespread, worldwide, systematic torture, abuse, imprisonment and murder!. This is the new USA and what is stands for. I am so sickened, disgusted, angry and I can't even begin to express the outrage I feel. It's sick!! Are you proud of yourself Mr Bush? How do you friggin' sleep at night?!? Geeez... Bush and his fellow partners in crime, have to be removed from power and if there's an ounce of decency left in the citizens of the USA, these people must be stopped and held accountable for all the atrocities and crimes against humanity they have and continue to commit! :mad:
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POPSMurderer's Mother Blames Videogames for Sons's Actions It is staggering the lengths people will go to lay blame elsewhere. I knew he was playing the video games but we didn't really know what went on in them, how brutal and graphic they were. Indifference to your child's activities cannot be blamed on an entertainment medium. he donned a long dark wig, sunglasses and jacket from the ‘killing kit' he had spent 10 months amassing on eBay. He then headed out with a large hunting knife. and police discovered that, before the murder, Harling spent days on the internet talking to paedophiles and researching serial killers So the internet supplied the research and the materials, where is the outrage against the internet? "Stuart never gave us any reason to think he was violent at all. He was a very normal boy—quiet and reserved. Except that he was playing violent games and the using the internet to research serial killers and purchasing the equipment necessary to mimic them