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Beijing Olympic key chain souvenir cruel to fish?
by bouilloire
ah ces chinois ! toujours à la pointe pour respecter les droits des animaux... ah pardon j'oubliais que ça n'existait pas en Chine.
Cela dit le gars découvre le monde, il suffit d'aller faire les courses au Lotus pour trouver des petits poissons dans des tubes à essai dans le rayon crayons et piles et il n'y a personne pour nourrir les invendus du jour...
Amnesty International launches advert protesting against waterboarding | Media | guardian.co.uk
by mbertier
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Amnesty International is launching a new ad featuring a hard-hitting torture scene showing simulated "waterboarding" in a campaign to outlaw the controversial interrogation practice.
Declassified memo authorized US to torture "enemy combatants" - Boing Boing
by mbertier
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If a government defendant were to harm an enemy combatant during an interrogation in a manner that might arguably violate a criminal prohibition, he would be doing so in order to prevent further attacks on the United States by the al Qaeda terrorist network," Yoo wrote. "In that case, we believe that he could argue that the executive branch's constitutional authority to protect the nation from attack justified his actions.
BBC | CIA admits waterboarding inmates
by ravi
The CIA has for the first time publicly admitted using the controversial method of "waterboarding" on terror suspects.
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2007
Inside the CIA's notorious "black sites" | Salon News
by mbertier
A Yemeni man never charged by the U.S. details 19 months of brutality and psychological torture -- the first in-depth, first-person account from inside the secret U.S. prisons.
Calvaire (aka The Ordeal)
by Elvezio
Great survivalist-horror from Belgium with gifted and talented movie-maker Fabrice Du Welz who shoots a desperate descent into the nightmare of the human minds
Faut-il combattre la tyrannie avec les instruments des tyrans ? [Voltaire]
by dpansu
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À l’issue d’une longue enquête sur les enlèvements et vols secrets de la CIA en Europe, Dick Marty a établi que loin d’être des cas isolés, ils sont devenus une pratique courante. En définitive, le président de la Commission des Affaires juridiques du Conseil de l’Europe est arrivé à la conclusion qu’il s’agit d’un système organisé au vu et au su, sinon avec la complicité active, des États européens.
Band of children from the sewer stalks and kills mother and her daughter.
by Elvezio
And that's only the beginning of what happens in ILS (THEM), a wonderfully crafted masterpiece of suspense and violent action. Lensed in Romania by some french filmakers, you can find it in any video store!IT>ENG by Google.
Nice holiday in Brazil turns into organ theft nightmare!
by Elvezio
Really negative review for boring movie "Turistas", a Hostel-like story that never deliver.
2006
HORROR: BEST and WORST IN 2006
by Elvezio
A brief overview based on a poll regarding the best (and worst) horror movies of this year. Some titles may surprise you. Detailed results on end of page. Translation button included on top/right of page.
Fernando Botero
by Mal Burns
Some compelling images from an artist depicting treatment in Aby Grahib. Fine paintings with a highly destressing message.
informationliberation - Torture Bill States Non-Allegiance To Bush Is Terrorism
by karlcow
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Buried amongst the untold affronts to the Bill of Rights, the Constitution and the very spirit of America, the torture bill contains a definition of "wrongfully aiding the enemy" which labels all American citizens who breach their "allegiance" to President Bush and the actions of his government as terrorists subject to possible arrest, torture and conviction in front of a military tribunal.
No Rules, No Limits
by sabbah
Sexual assaults and fabrication of cases against journalists and activists in the Arab World!
2005
TheStar.com - Bush surrenders on torture ban
by multilinko
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In a political about-face, George W. Bush has bowed to the inevitable, agreeing to a blanket U.S. ban on torture and ceding the moral high ground to long-time rival John McCain.
Bush had threatened to use his presidential veto for the first time to block McCain's measures and Dick Cheney lobbied Republicans to give U.S. intelligence agents immunity, earning him the moniker "Vice-President for Torture."
After a Wednesday congressional vote, in which 121 Republicans bucked Bush, the U.S. president sat in the Oval Office with McCain yesterday, praising the Arizona senator he had beaten for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination.
"Senator McCain has been a leader to make sure that the United States of America upholds the values of America as we fight and win this war on terror," Bush said.
Fun Bits About American Torture / In many ways, the U.S. is now just as inhumane and brutal as any Third World regime. Oh well?
by multilinko
Oh my God, yes, yes we do torture, America that is, and we do it a lot, and we do it in ways that would make you sick to hear about, and we're doing it right now, all over the world, the CIA and the U.S. military, perhaps more often and more brutally than at any time in recent history and we use the exact same kind of techniques and excuses for it our numb-minded president cited as reasons we should declare war and oust the dictator of a defenseless pip-squeak nation that happened to be sitting on our oil.
House Backs McCain on Detainees, Defying Bush - New York Times
by multilinko
In an unusual bipartisan rebuke to the Bush administration, the House on Wednesday overwhelmingly endorsed Senator John McCain's measure to bar cruel and inhumane treatment of prisoners in American custody anywhere in the world.
Sarkozy inquiète l'ONU
by tomtom
The Committee was seriously concerned by the declarations of the Minister of the Interior asking prefects to order the immediate expulsion of people condemned during the recent riots, independently of their administrative status.
Comité contre la torture (ONU) - Audition de la France
by tomtom
Des questions ont été posées au sujet des expulsions décidées après les évènements dans les banlieues. Déclaration finale le 25.11.2005.
Torture's Terrible Toll - Newsweek National News - MSNBC.com
by multilinko
Torture's Terrible Toll
Abusive interrogation tactics produce bad intel, and undermine the values we hold dear. Why we must, as a nation, do better.
By Sen. John McCain
