Racial Poverty Gaps in U.S. Amount to Human Rights Violation, Says U.N. Expert - Yahoo! News

Racial Poverty Gaps in U.S. Amount to Human Rights Violation, Says U.N. Expert - Yahoo! News: "'Resource constraints have limited the reach of the assistance programs and social discrimination has aggravated the problems in many situations resulting in poverty clearly seen as a violation of human rights,' Dr. Arjun Sengupta declared after visiting the United States last month.

'If the United States government designed and implemented the policies according to human rights standards much of the problem of poverty could be resolved,' he added.

Dr. Sengupta, an expert on human rights and extreme poverty of the world body's Commission on Human Rights, said he chose to visit the United States because he wanted to illustrate that extreme poverty was not only prevalent in developing countries, but a phenomenon that is found in most nations in the world, according to U.N. officials.

'The case of the United States was particularly interesting as it presented an apparent paradox: as the wealthiest country on Earth, with higher per capita income levels than any other country, the United States has also had one of the highest incidences of poverty among the rich industrialized nations,' Dr. Sengupta said."

Mike Malloy :: View topic - This isn't the real America - Jimmy Carter

Mike Malloy :: View topic - This isn't the real America - Jimmy Carter: "Of even greater concern is that the U.S. has repudiated the Geneva accords and espoused the use of torture in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, and secretly through proxy regimes elsewhere with the so-called extraordinary rendition program. It is embarrassing to see the president and vice president insisting that the CIA should be free to perpetrate 'cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment' on people in U.S. custody. "

Pierre Tristam: the Justice Deficit

Pierre Tristam: the Justice Deficit: "Embarrassing? No. Lawmakers getting caught smoking crack in a Vegas whorehouse is embarrassing. Lawmakers endorsing a counterfeit war that has killed almost 2,100 American soldiers and more than 30,000 Iraqis, that will soon have cost more than the entirety of the Vietnam War, that has no end in sight and that keeps being defended, by most of those very lawmakers, as a battle protecting American freedom and birthing Iraqi democracy (the two biggest lies of this poison-ridden war) -- those things aren't embarrassing; they're criminal. "

CNN.com - More War Crimes - Nov 22, 2005

CNN.com - U.S.: Al-Jazeera bomb story 'outlandish' - Nov 22, 2005: "Top Bush administration officials, particularly Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, have been sharply critical of Al-Jazeera in the past.

When U.S. troops went back into Falluja in November 2004, Rumsfeld called the network's account of civilian casualties during the American push to retake the city 'outrageous nonsense' and 'vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable.'

An Al-Jazeera reporter was killed and three other employees were wounded by an American airstrike during the U.S. push into Baghdad in 2003.

American bombs struck the network's Kabul office during the U.S. assault on Afghanistan in 2001.

During the 1999 air campaign over Kosovo, U.S. warplanes targeted Yugoslavia's state television network. NATO officials argued it was a legitimate target as the propaganda arm of the Yugoslav government."

Paul Craig Roberts: Lies and Official Secrets

Paul Craig Roberts: Lies and Official Secrets: "Consequently, the US and UK governments invaded a country for reasons that were different from the fabricated reasons used to make the case to the public. Thus did the highest officials in the two governments commit a plethora of crimes.

Under the Nuremberg standard, it is a war crime to initiate military aggression.

It is a criminal act both in the US and the UK to commit military forces to action under false pretenses.

Many aspects of the conduct of the war are criminal. Torture, murder of civilians, corruption in contracts. Prosecutors could build a list of charges against President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney, Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and Prime Minister Blair."

Research Dispels Bush Claims That Tax Cuts Create Jobs - Yahoo! News

Research Dispels Bush Claims That Tax Cuts Create Jobs - Yahoo! News: "'No workers have really benefited from
President Bush's tax policy,' says Gloribell Mota, a bilingual education specialist at UFE. 'But Blacks and Latinos have suffered disproportionately.'

The study shows that African American unemployment remains about twice as high as that of White workers. Moreover, it indicates no sign of growth in quality jobs (defined as paying at least 16 dollars per hour and including health benefits and a pension plan) for workers from any racial background, including Whites.

Last year, one million people fell below the poverty line, a disproportionate number of them children, while the number of billionaires rose to 374, the study says, adding that the number of people living in poverty rose from 11.3 percent in 2000 to 12.7 percent in 2004.

The study also shows that the percentage of American workers benefiting from employment-based health insurance was down from 63 percent in 2000 to less than 60 percent in 2004. This despite the fact that U.S. workers are spending more than 1800 hours per year at work while their counterparts in other technologically advanced nations work for 1600 hours a year--a difference of five full work weeks."

VDARE.com: 11/12/05 - Power Uber Alles

VDARE.com: 11/12/05 - Power Uber Alles: "What a hypocritical spectacle the Bush administration and the Republican Party have made of America. They boast of 'freedom and democracy' while they destroy habeas corpus and practice torture.

Americans must recognize the Bush administration and the Republican Party for what they are. They are tyrants. They are bringing evil to the world and tyranny to America.

According to the Washington Post (Nov. 11), there are 750 detainees at Guantanamo. These people have been held for 3 or 4 years. If the Bush administration had any evidence against them, it would be a simple matter to file charges.

But the Bush administration does not have any evidence against them. Most of the detainees are innocent travelers and Arab businessmen who were captured by warlords and armed gangs and sold to the Americans who offered payments for 'terrorists.'

The reason so many of them have been tortured is that the Bush administration has no evidence against them and is relying on pain and the hopelessness of indefinite detention to induce self-incrimination. The Bush administration is desperate to produce some 'terrorists.'

What has become of the American people that they permit the despicable practices of tyrants to be practiced in their name? The Bush administration is in violation of the US Constitution, the rule of law, the Geneva Convention, the Nuremberg Standard, and basic humanity. It is a gang of criminals. The Republican Party is so terrified of losing power that it supports a tyrannical administration that has brought shame not just to the Republican name but to all Americans.

When a Republican next campaigns, all he can say is 'vote for me because I want power to lock you up and torture you.'

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FRONTLINE: the torture question: watch the full program online | PBS

FRONTLINE: the torture question: watch the full program online | PBS: "In mid-August, a FRONTLINE documentary crew made the perilous journey to the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Entering the 280-acre compound in the middle of the night, escorted by helicopters and a convoy of armed Humvees, the crew was following 50 detainees fresh from the battlefield. As they were ordered to kneel in formation on the concrete floor, one detainee nervously asked the FRONTLINE cameraman, 'Is this Abu Ghraib?' The answer brought a shudder."

Alison Weir: Memo to Jon Stewart on Torture

Alison Weir: Memo to Jon Stewart on Torture: "Dirani said he was interrogated around the clock for a month by six people, including a man known only as George, who threatened him, cursed him and repeatedly squeezed his testicles 'until I felt I would die,' Dirani said.

One day a uniformed soldier nicknamed 'Kojak' came into the room and dropped his pants, and George told Dirani the soldier would sodomize him if he did not talk, Dirani said.

Days later, Dirani was shackled and pushed down onto a bench, he said. 'I couldn't see or resist ... I was raped by the soldier. He said he would rape me, and he did,' he told the court.

'Two or three days later they started raping me with a police baton,' he said. 'It's impossible to describe the pain. I yelled to high heaven.'"

Still wonder where the soldiers from Abu Ghraib got there ideas?

GOP memo touts new terror attack as way to reverse party's decline

GOP memo touts new terror attack as way to reverse party's decline: "Comment: This document adds to the mountanous pile of smoking gun evidence of government complicity in staged terror attacks and other false flag operations. It has now been declassified, as we already knew, that the Gulf of Tonkin never happened. It was staged to get us into Vietnam. Operation Northwoods was the official US government plan to carry out 9/11 style attacks against the American people and blame it on foreign enemies as a pretext for war.

Read below as governmental leaders salivate over how wonderful a devastating terror attack would be against the American people for their policies, it would force us to accept total enslavement. It goes on to talk about our sorrow and pain and how it could be directed. I've been reading Capitol Hill Blue for years and they are one of the most impeccable sources we have found."

Asia Times Online :: Follow the drugs: US shown the way

Asia Times Online :: Central Asian News and current affairs, Russia, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan: "After the Taliban were ousted from Kabul in late 2001, opium production skyrocketed again, breaking all-time production records in 2004. Hundreds of tons of Afghan heroin are now transported annually to Europe, corrupting the continent's systems further - and much of it passes through Tajikistan."

Prize-Winning Cuban Scientist Denied Visa - Yahoo! News

Prize-Winning Cuban Scientist Denied Visa - Yahoo! News: "'It's incomprehensible that a civilized nation can confuse someone who has dedicated his life to saving the lives of children with someone who goes against the interests of the United States,' Verez-Bencomo said with a sigh. 'I wasn't going there to talk about politics, I was going to talk about science.'

Verez-Bencomo led a team that developed a vaccine for Haemophilus influenza type B, also known as Hib, a bacteria that causes meningitis and pneumonia. The diseases kill up to 700,000 children worldwide each year.

Before the development of a similar vaccine more than a decade ago, Hib was the biggest cause of meningitis among infants in the United States. That earlier vaccine has all but stamped out the disease in the western world, but mass immunizations are too expensive for many poor countries.

The synthetic vaccine created by Verez-Bencomo's team can be produced at a relatively low cost because antigens don't have to be grown in a bacterial culture, making it an attractive alternative for poorer nations.

So far more than 1 million doses have been administered to Cubans. Science Magazine last month said the vaccine 'may someday save millions of lives.'"

Fallujah - The Hidden Massacre

War Crimes by Americans shown on Italian TV.

It appears the Italian journalist was kidnapped by US authorities, and once she was freed, her captors, tried to kill her. The only persons with motive for attacking and killing a Italian journalist (unembbed), with a history and orders to kill journalists, are the forces of the US of A.

How does that make you feel?

Torture: It's the new American way - Los Angeles Times

Torture: It's the new American way - Los Angeles Times: "According to Dana Priest, the Washington Post investigative reporter who broke the story Wednesday, it all started on Sept. 17, 2001, when President Bush signed a secret executive order authorizing the CIA to kill, capture or detain Al Qaeda operatives.

There was only one problem: The CIA didn't know where to put the people it detained. Those detainees thought to be of 'high value' needed to be kept somewhere … special. Somewhere impregnable, like Alcatraz. And somewhere secret, far from the prying eyes of reporters or Red Cross officials. Because these high-value prisoners — so-called ghost detainees — were going to be subjected to 'enhanced interrogation techniques.' "

Defense Secretary Rumsfeld sees growth in Gilead stake - Oct. 31, 2005

Defense Secretary Rumsfeld sees growth in Gilead stake - Oct. 31, 2005: "NEW YORK (Fortune) - The prospect of a bird flu outbreak may be panicking people around the globe, but it's proving to be very good news for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other politically connected investors in Gilead Sciences, the California biotech company that owns the rights to Tamiflu, the influenza remedy that's now the most-sought after drug in the world."

Think about that, long and hard.