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Monday, April 3, 2006 |
Guardian: "Photographs of victims of a secret torture programme operated by British authorities during the early days of the cold war are published for the first time today after being concealed for almost 60 years.
The pictures show men who had suffered months of starvation, sleep deprivation, beatings and extreme cold at one of a number of interrogation centres run by the War Office in postwar Germany.
A few were starved or beaten to death, while British soldiers are alleged to have tortured some victims with thumb screws and shin screws recovered from a gestapo prison. The men in the photographs are not Nazis, however, but suspected communists, arrested in 1946 because they were thought to support the Soviet Union, an ally 18 months earlier."
There are some skeletons in the Western capitalist cupboard. If it weren't for the Communist advance on Berlin, Europe could still be under fascist rule now.
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When Chevrolet asked for contributions to a video contest, they hadn't expected this kind of video (from ExxposeExxon).
Some suggested name for such gas guzzlers: the Fiasco, the Dumbvee, the Valdez.
12:33:50 PM
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An extract from The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster, one of the best contemporary American writers.
Honey and Tom are discussing their election votes.
Honey struggles to suppress a smile. Tom is so damned earnest, she's itching to knock him from his high horse with some loopy, off-the-wall remark. I can see the joke coming, and I cross my fingers that it's a good one.
'Do you know what happened the last time a nation listened to a bush?' Honey asks.
No one says a word.
'Its people wandered in the desert for forty years.'
In spite of himself, Tom burst out laughing.
12:15:00 PM
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