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Thursday, December 16, 2004 |
BBC: "Detaining foreign terrorist suspects without trial breaks human rights laws, the UK's highest court has ruled.
In a blow to the government's anti-terror measures, the House of Lords ruled by an eight to one majority in favour of appeals by nine detainees."
This, together with the resignation of Home Secretary David Blunkett, is a heavy blow to Tony Blair. Reason and humanity have prevailed.
FAS: "A federal court today delivered a firm rebuff to the Bush Administration, rejecting its claim that a U.S. citizen detained abroad but under some measure of U.S. control cannot invoke habeas corpus to challenge the legality of his detention.
'The position advanced by the [Bush Administration] is sweeping,' the court declared. 'The authority sought would permit the executive, at his discretion, to deliver a United States citizen to a foreigncountry to avoid constitutional scrutiny, or, as is alleged and to some degree substantiated here, work through the intermediary of a foreign country to detain a United States citizen abroad.'
'The Court concludes that a citizen cannot be so easily separated from his constitutional rights,' wrote Judge John D. Bates in the case Abu Ali v. John Ashcroft."
9:13:23 PM 
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Guardian: "The media's failure to challenge official deception over Iraq was the product of a journalism with built-in bias."
1:13:00 PM
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MSNBC: "Newly released U.S. Navy documents portray a series of abuse cases stretching beyond Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison where photos surfaced this year of U.S. troops forcing prisoners - often naked - to pose in humiliating positions."
TimesArgus: "The Bush administration plans to ask for between $80 billion and $100 billion to fund military operations next year, rather than the $70 billion to $75 billion the White House privately told members of Congress before the election, according to Pentagon and White House officials."
SierraTimes: "A UN oversight board found irregularities in Iraq's oil export sales under US-led authorities between May 2003 and June 2004, including inadequate controls of extraction, use of non-competitive bidding and of barter transactions."
ICH: "So much for all the Bush administration's chatter about faith, morality and family values: It wants to take your children from you, change their moral values, and transform them into playing pieces for its global game of Risk."
MarionStar: "Dr. John Caulfield thought it had to be a mistake when the Army asked him to return to active duty. After all, he's 70 years old and had already retired - twice. He left the Army in 1980 and private practice two years ago."
The training of marines: "From the time they are driven onto the base, recruits are told to keep their heads down and eyes closed. The less they know about the base's layout, the less likely they are to try to escape."
Bloomberg: "Police officers don't have to give a reason at the time they arrest someone, the U.S. Supreme Court said in a ruling that shields officers from false-arrest lawsuits."
12:58:24 PM
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TruthOut: "A representative from Triad Systems came into a county board of elections office un-announced. He said he was just stopping by to see if they had any questions about the up-coming recount. He then headed into the back room where the Triad supplied Tabulator (a card reader and older PC with custom software) is kept. He told them there was a problem and the system had a bad battery and had 'lost all of its data'. He then took the computer apart and started swapping parts in and out of it and another 'spare' tower type PC also in the room. He may have had spare parts in his coat as one of the BOE people moved it and remarked as to how very heavy it was. He finally re-assembled everything and said it was working but to not turn it off.
He then asked which precinct would be counted for the 3% recount test, and the one which had been selected as it had the right number of votes, was relayed to him. He then went back and did something else to the tabulator computer.
The source of this report believes that the Triad representative was 'making the rounds' of visiting other counties also before the recount. This person also stated they would not pass on the suggestion of the 'posted' hidden totals, and would refuse to go along with it if it were suggested by the others in the office at the time."
12:47:42 PM
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Ukrainian politician Yushchenko claims he has been poisoned. Nevertheless, there are some strange things happening in this case. A Dutch Christian university has examined some blood samples, however, Yushchenko never came to Holland, the samples were sent from Austria. Highly irregular. And why did he go to Austria for examination? The results of the test have already been publicized a lot, but strangely enough, the official results have to wait until after the elections at the request of the man himself. Weird.
Read more about this strange case.
12:34:05 PM
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