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The White House publicly acknowledged on Wednesday that President Bush has authorized the use of waterboarding, and that he may do so again in the future . The statements amount to an open admission of criminal activity on the part of the US government. The acknowledgement from White House deputy spokesman Tony Fratto came a day after testimony from CIA Director Michael Hayden before the Senate Intelligence Committee. For the first time, Hayden officially stated that the Bush administration had used waterboarding on three prisoners in 2002 and 2003. Waterboarding is a form of torture used since the Spanish Inquisition . It involves pouring water over a prisoner’s head to cause drowning, and has been prosecuted as torture by the United States government in the past. While the Bush administration is now stretching language and credulity to claim that it should not be categorized as torture, the director of national intelligence, Mike McConnell, acknowledged on Wednesday that “taken to i...

Indymedia, 10 June 2007 Major decisions about defence and economic policies for the entire Western world and official government strategy for tackling climate change are believed to have been made in secret at the Bilderberg Conference in Turkey just before the G8 summit in Germany. US president George Bush and British prime minister Tony Blair are said to have met with bankers, financiers, heads of transnational corporations, media tycoons and royalty to get their orders before attending the G8 meeting. The Bilderberg Conference met in total secrecy in the luxury Ritz-Carlton hotel guarded by Turkish police and plainclothes CIA agents, and no details of the meeting have so far emerged, nor are they likely to unless someone who was present leaks them. There has been speculation that a possible attack on Iran was discussed and there have also been rumours that Bilderberg may be planning to put microchips in peoples' brains to control the population. There is...

FRIDAY 8TH 8PM - NO NATIONS, NO BORDERS People from No Borders London are taking part in protets against the G8 Summit in Rostock, Germany in the first week in June 2007. Demonstrations and meetings around migration and racism will be a major strand of the week's events. On Friday 8th June, there will be a benefit night at RampARTs, London E1, featuring report backs from the G8. Films, footage & feedback from the G8 in Germany Followed by a benefit party for the Gatwick No Border Camp - 19-24 September 07 featuring HEADJAM (dub/ska/punk) + DJ & MC set by DubNeg

Bilderberg To Be Held In Istanbul TurkishPress.com, 19 May 2007 Following are the highlights from today`s Turkish daily VATAN. The Anadolu Agency is not responsible of opinions expressed or the context of the articles and does not vouch for their accuracy: The annual Bilderberg Meeting, which gathers high level officials from the world business, politics and media circles, will be held in Istanbul this year. The main topics of the meeting are Turkey, Iran and energy issue, Vatan daily writes. According to the daily, the 3-day meeting is an important event during which participants also determine the following year`s agenda. According to authoritative sources, the meeting which will be held from May 31st to June 3rd in Istanbul, will mainly focus on issues such as a probable operation against Iran, energy policies and Turkey`s EU membership process. Previously, two Bilderberg Meetings were held in Turkey, first one in 1959 in Istanbul and the other one in 1975 in Cesme town of Aegean ci...

MAKE THE PIE HIGHER by George W. Bush I think that we all agree, the past is over. This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses. Rarely is the question asked Is our children learning? Will the highways of the internet become more few? How many hands have I shaked? They misunderestimated me. I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity. I know that the human being and the fish can coexist. Families is where our nation finds hope, where Our wings take dream. Put food on your family! Knock down the tollbooth! Vulcanize society! Make the pie higher! Make the pie higher! (see more)

Hace 25 años, un siniestro régimen militar, cuya popularidad caía en picado, ordenó el desembarco de jóvenes soldados argentinos en las islas Malvinas sin una táctica ni una estrategia para enfrentar al poderío bélico británico. Preocupada por el creciente descontento popular, por la crisis económica y los atisbos de reorganización de los partidos políticos, la dictadura que gobernaba Argentina desde 1976 vio en la recuperación de la soberanía del archipiélago una oportunidad para alargar su agonía.( mas ). dos interesantes videos en el link de abajo. Cortos de 'iluminados por el fuego' 2005 Arg. Film basado en la guerra de las Malvinas. 1982: Argentina invades Falklands Argentina has invaded the British territory of the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic. The islands, off the coast of Argentina, have been a cause of friction between the two countries since Britain claimed them in 1833. ( read )

The same company that was involved in the slaughter of about 3000 banana farmers in Colombia in 1927 , admits paying paramilitary illegal groups in order to guarantee their security, again in Colombia. Have you ever heard the term 'Banana republic' ? Well it comes due to this company at the beginning of the 20th century regarding its policies in Latin-America. ( more )

Human Rights Concerns For more than two decades Colombia has suffered from a human rights crisis. The Colombian government of President Alvaro Uribe has recently argued that there are less killings and that it is taking action against paramilitary forces. Amnesty International has documented that there has been no substantive improvement in the human rights situation, that human rights conditions have worsened in several conflict zones, and that collusion between the armed forces and illegal paramilitary groups continues... more .