Für die EU-Minister ist wieder alles gut:

US-Außenministerin Rice konnte auch in Brüssel weiter mit Worten spielen, britische Lordrichter haben nun für Großbritannien eindeutig gegen Folter Stellung bezogen.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/21/21534/1.html

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Blair unter Druck: Folter vom Oberhaus verboten

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,389509,00.html

(SPON) Das englische Oberhaus hat als höchstes englisches Gericht die Verwendung von Geständnissen, die unter dem Einsatz von Folter erpresst wurden, verboten. Bisher hat die englische Regierung darauf bestanden, solche Geständnisse gerichtlich zu verwenden, wenn an die Folter nicht durch englischen Staatsbürger ausgeführt wurde.


G.Wendebourg / metainfo hamburg

Link zum Beitrag / Hintergrundinfo oder Pressehinweis: http://www.hh-online.com?lid=23151 und
http://links.net-hh.de?lid=23151

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Frontiers of Freedom
by Chris Adamo

12/08/05

Most profound among the many failures of the American 'educational' system has been its abominable distortion of this nation's history. In particular, the principles of constitutional law, once widely understood by the citizenry, are now treated as hazy and erudite philosophies, only fit for debate within intellectual circles. All too often, any agreeable sounding platitude serves as a worthy substitute. Thus Americans wander through life believing in 'constitutional rights' to employment, housing, recreation, or any other amenity they crave...

http://tinyurl.com/dj6ta


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Rock River Times
by Chad Bouman

12/08/05

A police state is emerging in the United States of America. Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies are usurping their powers in order to justifiably abuse them. ... We were warned by our predecessors (founding fathers) that a Demcracy poses a threat upon our Republic and is always followed by a dictatorship. We now stand as an imperialist county hated by all nations for this same democracy that has swallowed our nation into a downward spiral where our leaders are now vexing upon the Middle East, and next, the world. The founding fathers also told us that a revolution was necessary whenever the existing government poses a threat against our Constitutional Republic. We are to oust the tyrannical rulers by whatever means possible to keep and protect ourselves from traitorous dictators. This is the sole pupose for the SECOND AMENDMENT and is defined in a paragraph of the Declaration of Independence...

http://www.rockrivertimes.com/index.pl?cmd=viewstory&cat=4&id=11824


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Mother Jones
by Tom Engelhardt

12/08/05

[A]n afternoon spent in the lost world of September 5-10, 2001, reminds us that the savage attacks of the following day would, in fact, buy a faltering, confused, and weak administration as well as a dazed and disengaged President a new life, a 'calling' as he would put it, and almost four years to do its damnedest. It would be 2004 before the President's polling figures settled into the levels of that long-lost September 10th. It would be the summer of 2005 -- and the administration's disastrous handling of hurricanes Sheehan, Katrina, and Iraq -- before the President would again be criticized for his 'gone fishing' summer vacation; before the Democrats would again begin to attack; before newspapers would again be relatively uncowed; before the Republicans would again gather in those private (and then public) places and begin to complain; before Congress would again be up for grabs. Four long years to make it back to September 10th, 2001 in an American world now filled to the brim with horrors, a United States which is no longer a 'country,' but a 'homeland' and a Homeland Security State...

http://tinyurl.com/9wslj


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Gizz-ette
by John Gizzi

12/09/05

'We could be looking at a Democratic House in '06,' a senior Republican House member told me recently. The lawmaker was clearly nervous about the President's record-low poll numbers, the bad reports from Iraq continually pounded home by the liberal media, and the ongoing reports of scandal surrounding congressional Republicans connected with indicted influence peddler Jack Abramoff. Could this combination of negative factors be a formula for Democrats to make the net gain of 15 seats they would need to recapture a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time in a dozen years? 'Yes,' replied the Republican congressman without hesitation, whereupon he proceeded to tick off more than 20 Republican-held seats around the country that are in danger of flipping to the Democrats in the third congressional election cycle of the Bush presidency. The third cycle historically yields disastrous results for the party in the White House. He was not alone in this forecast...

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/blog-detail.php?id=10757


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

http://tinyurl.com/cj2pj


Informant: Rory Winter

MSNBC/Newsweek

12/08/05

European politicians demanding investigations into mysterious flights into their countries by suspected CIA-operated airplanes may find their own governments are as unenthusiastic about digging into the issue as top Bush administration officials. According to current and former U.S. counterterrorism officials, some European governments were informed of at least some of the details of the CIA flight operations before or as they happened...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10385133/site/newsweek/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Houston Chronicle
12/08/05

The judge in U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay's criminal case said today he is unlikely to allow DeLay to be tried separately from his co-defendants or on only one of the two money laundering charges still pending against him. 'It is unlikely that I will grant a severance of counts or even of defendants in the absence of a compelling reason to do so,' Senior District Judge Pat Priest said in letter to lawyers in the case....

http://tinyurl.com/a8bd3


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

USA Today

12/07/05

FEMA's top official was told more than a year before Hurricane Katrina that the agency's emergency response teams were unprepared for a major disaster and were operating under outdated plans, documents show. Additionally, e-mails obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press indicate that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff tried to call Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco the afternoon before Katrina hit. The e-mails indicate she could not be immediately reached and may have been napping...

http://tinyurl.com/7z73a


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Cincinnati Enquirer

12/08/05

Key Republicans from the House and Senate reached a White House-backed compromise Thursday to renew the broad powers granted to law enforcement agencies in the days after the 2001 terrorist attacks on American soil. GOP leaders pledged to pass the Patriot Act extension for President Bush's signature by the holidays, although bipartisan criticism flared. Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., threatened to filibuster a bill he said lacked adequate safeguards to protect constitutional freedoms...

http://tinyurl.com/awb4k


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp