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The Black Hole of CMU: Muslims isolated in special US prisons
Karin Friedemann
Communications Management Units (CMUs),Terre Haute, Indiana
Not much is known about the new federal prisons called Communications Management Units (CMUs), that house primarily Muslims and political activists, except that they are located in Terre Haute, Indiana and Marion, Illinois. Although the US government refuses to disclose the list of prisoners to the public, inmates include Enaam Arnaout, founder of Islamic charity Benevolence International Foundation, Dr. Rafil Dhafir, physician and founder of Iraqi charity Help the Needy, Ghassan Elashi, founder of Holy Land Foundation and CAIR Dallas, Randall Royer, Muslim civil rights activist, Yassin Aref, imam and Kurdish refugee, Sabri Benkahla, an American who was abducted the day before his wedding while studying in Saudi Arabia, and John Walker Lindh, an American convert to Islam who was captured in Afghanistan, plus some non-Muslim political activists. Most of these prisoners were falsely accused of terrorist offenses and then imprisoned for lesser charges but given sentences meant for serious terrorism-related crimes.
We’ve Only Just Begun
By Shawn Connors
According to the CIA’s World Factbook, Americas GDP for 2008 was $14.58 trillion dollars. Fox News reported The United States Government and The Federal Reserve have so far pledged & committed $23.7 trillion dollars, an amount that far exceeds the value of everything we produced in this country in 2008. Simply put, the zero oversight bailouts dwarf our U.S. Gross Domestic Product. California Representative Darryl Issa, ranking member of the oversight committee wrote “If you spent a million dollars a DAY going back to the birth of Jesus Christ, that wouldn’t come close to just $1 trillion….$23.7 trillion is a staggering figure”.
Urban Cavemen (living life out of balance)
Mickey Z.
Luddite
Balance: A harmonious or satisfying arrangement or proportion of parts or elements
In early 2000, I was walking through Manhattan with three friends on our way to meet a fourth member of our party. This was well before cell phones pressaction.com had become so completely pervasive but still, I was the only one in our group without one. I sarcastically commented on this and was prompted mocked as a Luddite. Then it was on to the essential business of figuring out how to meet up with friend #4.
Out came a cell phone. A call was placed to another cell phone. A meeting place was agreed upon and we were on our way. Friend #1 hung up his phone and turned to me, declaring that this was "one of those times" when a cell phone was indispensable. To which I replied:
July 28, 2009 Police search South Los Angeles neighborhood for suspected child killer
By Robert Singer
Are you trying to make sense of a human, no matter how sadistic, that would beat a 6-year-old to death?
Or what about John Allen Rubio and co-defendant Maria Angela Camacho who fatally stabbed and beheaded Rubio's 2 month old daughter, his 1 year old son and Camacho's 3 year old daughter.
A precedent for such evil is in the Bible.
According to Genesis, the flood was required to drown out all of the evil in the world because the sons of gods came down to earth and had sex with the comely daughters of men and beget giant children. Some believe the giant offspring of the fallen angels (Nephilim) were destroyed during the flood but a few chapters later we find God missed the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah. Those humans preferred to have sex with angels rather than Lot’s "virgin daughters” and God was forced to punish the men, women, children, infants, newborns in Sodom and Gomorrah by raining down "fire and brimstone from heaven."
Most of Christianity believes the flood removed the Nephilim from the planet but then where did Goliath, Amalek and the Kenites come from? Nephilim and the Annunaki are mentioned in Genesis 6:4 and the Book of Enoch. In the Sumerian language, the term Annunaki meant "from heaven who came to earth" and were known as “the heroes of old and men of renown”.
Whitewashing Hiroshima: The Uncritical Glorification of American Militarism
Gary G. Kohls, MD
Back in 1995, the Smithsonian was preparing an honest, historically-accurate display dealing with the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Amid much right-wing reactionary wrangling, from various ultrapatriotic veterans groups all the way up to the Newt Gingrich/GOP-dominated Congress, the Smithsonian was forced to eliminate all of the painful but historically important parts of the story - the Japanese civilian perspective. So again we had another example of powerful politically conservative groups influencing public policy - and history - because they couldn’t handle what was necessary to face up to unpleasant historical truths.
AUGUST 6,1945 / THE DAY OF INFAMY EXPOSED
Allen L Roland
Nuclear bomb victim in Hiroshima hospital
Most Americans are unaware that the war with Japan would have ended soon without the devastating atomic bombs. American intelligence was fully aware of Japan's desperate search for ways to honorably surrender weeks before the order was given for the mass slaughter of not only 80,000 innocent Japanese civilians but also 12 American Navy pilots incinerated in a Hiroshima jail:
I was a young child when America dropped an Atomic bomb on Hiroshima but I felt its enormous emotional impact. I literally shuddered when I imagined the devastating death toll and somehow innately knew that the world would never be the same again. I also, as an American, felt the gnawing sense of collective guilt that we, as a country, had a responsibility to at least warn the Japanese before inflicting such catastrophic damage.
Is It Israel or Jesus?
Tom Compton
An appeal requesting sponsors to send a member of my Sunday school class at my large evangelical church to Israel to help the Israel Defense Force (I.D.F.) through The National Project for Volunteers for Israel ("an international effort that assists the Israel Defense Force on military bases, primarily, and other places." Website: sar-el.org) was passed out last week. It stated that "Israel, the epicenter of our faith and the world, is surrounded by hostile forces putting much pressure on the Jewish people there…The roots of our faith are inextricably woven together with Israel and Jerusalem." As I understand the Bible, Jesus Christ, alone, is the epicenter of our faith and His death on the cross provided the means for salvation and the forgiveness of our sins constituting a New Covenant. According to John 14: 6 "Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me'."
Israel has become the new American Idol. The mantra of “We will always support Israel” is disturbing enough coming from the President, the Congress, and our media, but when Christian Evangelical Churches across America are the loudest voices in the chorus, it’s time to investigate.
Sodomized to Protect Our Freedoms
Allan Uthman
Would we really need debate on the torture question if we discussed the numerous acts of sodomy instead of the nuances of waterboarding?
"Yasser tearfully described that when he reached the top of the steps 'the party began. … They started to put the [muzzle] of the rifle [and] the wood from the broom into [my anus]. They entered my privates from behind.' ... Yasser estimated that he was penetrated five or six times during this initial sodomy incident and saw blood 'all over my feet' through a small hole in the hood covering his eyes." – by Physicians for Human Rights' "Broken Laws, Broken Lives," a report containing firsthand accounts of men who endured torture by U.S. personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay.
Vaccination Myths and Truths
by Stephen Lendman
Alan G. Philips is an attorney with the following credentials:
-- he's one of the few American lawyers whose practice includes vaccine exemption and waiver issues;
-- he advises other attorneys seeking help for their own clients on vaccine exemptions;
-- he co-founded Citizens for Healthcare Freedom (CHF) as "a grassroots, nonprofit organization supporting an exciting new Consumer Health Freedom Act in North Carolina" where he lives and practices law;
The Obama opiate -- crisis deepens, crowds cheer
Larry Chin
Six months since taking the reins, the Barack Obama administration has met its primary objective. It has swiftly ramped up the murderous imperial agenda inherited from Bush-Cheney while the masses, pacified and deceived by the appeal of the Obama image, pay no attention to realities.
No attention to the fact that the Obama administration’s global war strategy, which puts Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Latin America, and other regions into new military-intelligence crosshairs, promises the expansion of global instability, resource conquest, and “war on terrorism” ruin.
No attention to the fact the Obama administration is loaded with elites who are as dangerous and corrupt as those of the preceding administration.
No attention to the fact that nothing has “changed,” except that there is a “rock star” figurehead sitting in the Oval Office who is smart and not stupid; calculating rather than blatant.
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