As we have recently seen, the Texas-based polygamist sect (originally based in the Utah-Arizona border area) has been “employing” the women (and some of the children) in some sort of manufacturing activity. But what exactly were they making? How about aircraft parts under a no-bid $1.2 million Pentagon contract? Who set up this deal, what politicians were involved in the loan of nearly a million that went along with this?
Iraqi father murders daughter for socializing with occupying British soldier; meanwhile massive anti-US protests as the Green Zone is hit heavily by rockets and mortars during a sandstorm.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The United States is losing the war in Afghanistan.
A more important question was never asked in the White House Press Room. Watch this video and remember it every time you see another WH reporter besides Helen Thomas pretend to “get tough” on any issue. They’re full of shit. All of them.
In Birmingham, Alabama, in a hall where the Democrats pay the full rate when rent it, but he gets an 80% discount. Plus free labor from jail inmates.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Standing before a nearly shuttered factory pocked with broken windows in a city devastated by the erosion of its industrial base, John McCain on Tuesday urged Americans to reject the “siren song of protectionism” and embrace free trade.
He used his own recent political fortunes — a dramatic fade followed by an unexpected comeback to secure the Republican presidential nomination — to illustrate that depressed Rust Belt cities such as Youngstown can rebound.”A person learns along the way that if you hold on — if you don’t quit no matter what the odds — sometimes life will surprise you,” McCain said in a speech at Youngstown State University after meeting the five remaining workers at Fabart, a steel-fabricating factory that had more than 100 employees a few years ago.
The final record has officially been shattered; Bush is now the most disapproved President in the history of modern polling, which began in the FDR era. He’s beaten Nixon at resignation time and Truman during the height of the Korean war, in unpopularity.
This first hit the news when some of his inmates filed lawsuits in October, but it’s now part of a wave of Oklahoma sheriff resignations or retirements.
The US’s most senior general was “hoodwinked” by top Bush administration officials determined to push through aggressive interrogation techniques for terror suspects held at Guantánamo Bay, the Guardian can reveal.
The development led to the US military abandoning its age-old ban on the cruel and inhumane treatment of prisoners.
General Richard Myers, the chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff from 2001 to 2005, wrongly believed that inmates at Guantánamo and other prisons were protected by the Geneva conventions and from abuse tantamount to torture.
The way he was duped by senior officials in Washington - who believed the Geneva conventions and other traditional safeguards were out of date - is disclosed in a devastating account of their role, extracts from which will be published in tomorrow’s Guardian.
In his new book, Torture Team, Philippe Sands QC, a professor of law at University College London, reveals:
• Senior figures in the Bush administration pushed through previously outlawed measures with the help of unqualified and inexperienced military officials at Guantánamo.
• Myers believes he was a victim of “intrigue” by top lawyers at the department of justice, the office of the vice president, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld’s defence department.
• Myers wrongly believed interrogation techniques had been taken from the army’s field manual.
The lawyers who pushed through the interrogation techniques - all of them political appointees - were Alberto Gonzales, David Addingon and William Haynes.
Others involved were Doug Feith, Rumsfeld’s undersecretary for policy, and Jay Bybee and John Yoo, two assistant attorney generals.
Hi last performance, from March of this year. An underrated musician, sometimes called “Phantom Dan,” some beautiful playing here.