Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Fart Tuesday

Crap-O-Torture-Tapes !

In this undated photo provided by global security research and analysis enterprise Flashpoint Partners, a man who Flashpoint has identified as confessed 9/11 architect Ramzi Binalshibh is shown. Binalshibh is being held pending trial at a U.S. military facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AP Photo - Flashpoint Partners)

AP Exclusive: Terrorist interrogation tapes found
ADAM GOLDMAN
From Associated
Press
August 17, 2010 10:19 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA has videotapes, after all, of interrogations in a secret overseas prison of admitted 9/11 plotter Ramzi Binalshibh.

Discovered in a box under a desk at the CIA, the tapes could reveal how foreign governments aided the United States in holding and interrogating suspects. And they could complicate U.S. efforts to prosecute Binalshibh, who has been described as one of the "key plot facilitators" in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks... (Read More)


Sunday, August 15, 2010

Sunday Qualm

(Photo: John Wigham / Flickr)

The Climate Agency: A Letter to President Obama
Sunday 15 August 2010
by: Peter G. Cohen, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

Mr. President, I urge you to declare a climate change emergency. The American people have seen enough of violent storms and freezing cold, of sweltering heat and drying rivers to know how urgent it is that our climate be controlled. Once you have declared this emergency, it will be possible to create the Climate Change Agency to plan and direct a smooth changeover from fossil fuels to alternative energies. This giant task will require people with authority and a profound understanding of the issue. (Read More)