In the Midwestern heartland, police are encountering a new social evil: trafficking, often involving women and children who are forced to work as prostitutes or unpaid labour; and the outcomes can be brutal.By Paul Harris in Dayton, Ohio
November 22, 2009 "The Guardian" -- Human trafficking has become a major issue in the Midwest heartland of America, causing some camp… Continue
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Chris McGreal in Washington
America's leading human rights organisation has accused Israel and its supporters of an "organised campaign" of false allegations and misinformation, including "extremely personal attacks" on its staff, in an attempt to discredit the group over its reports of war crimes in Gaza.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) ties the campaign – which has included accusations that the group's reports on the Jewish state are written by "anti-Israel ideologues" and that it has sought funds… Continue
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This is something I read on our so great Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia--and it spurned a real disgust for the cognitive construct held by one single man named Royal S. Copeland who felt us consumers deserved a safer product than the elixirs peddled by 'snake-oil salesmen'. If you are not familiar with that term, look it up ! Yet, still understand that this guy was just doing what he thought was an act of 'saving the human race' noy destroying it here… Continue
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November 05, 2009 "Raw Story" -- November 04, 2009 --- The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country… Continue
Doctors and psychologists the CIA employed to monitor its "enhanced interrogation" of terror suspects came close to, and may even have committed, unlawful human experimentation, a medical ethics watchdog has alleged.
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), a not-for-profit group that has investigated the role of medical personnel in alleged incidents of torture at Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib, Bagram and other US detention sites, accuses doctors of being far more involved than hitherto understood.
PHR sa… Continue
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Last Words
by: H. L. Mencken (1926)
I have alluded somewhat vaguely to the merits of democracy. One of them is quite obvious: it is, perhaps, the most charming form of government ever devised by man. The reason is not far to seek. It is based upon propositions that are palpably not true and what is not true, as everyone knows, is always immensely more fascinating and satisfying to the vast majority of men than what is true. Truth has a harshness that alarms them, and an air of finality that col… Continue
An Afghan man detained for six-and-a-half years in Guantanamo Bay, the US military detention centre in Cuba, is to sue the US government, his lawyer has said.
Major Eric Montalvo, the US military lawyer representing Mohammed Jawad, said the former detainee's family will be suing for compensation in US courts.
Jawad was released after his confession to throwing a hand grenade that wounded two US soldiers was rejected as having been coerced out of him through the use of tortur… Continue
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Chilean health officials have confirmed that a flu outbreak detected on two turkey farms is identical to the pandemic influenza A(H1N1) virus and was transmitted by humans.
The outbreak was initially reported late on Thursday in two farms in the Valparaiso region, 160km west of the capital of Santiago, by the Chilean Agricultural and Livestock Service.
"Preliminary results from the analysis showed that the virus (found in the turkeys) is the same as that in Chile" during its current southern h… Continue
A former Israeli military commander has told the BBC that Palestinian youngsters are routinely ill-treated by Israeli soldiers while in custody, reports the BBC' s Katya Adler from Jerusalem and the West Bank.
"You take the kid, you blindfold him, you handcuff him, he's really shaking... Sometimes you cuff his legs too. Sometimes it cuts off the circulation.
"He doesn't understand a word of what's going on around him. He doesn't know what you're going to do with him. He just knows we are soldi… Continue
By AMANDA LEE MYERS
Associated Press Writer
Updated: July 27, 2009, 1:18 PM
Taser International unveiled its first new stun gun since 2003 Monday, a device that can shock three people without reloading.
Older Taser models, in use by 14,200 law enforcement agencies throughout the country, have to be reloaded after one shot, which can be a problem for an officer who has missed a target or has more than one suspect to subdue.
Scottsdale-based Taser unveiled the new device to hundreds of law enfo… Continue
Jeremiah 31: 31 “Look! There are days coming,” is the utterance of Jehovah, “and I will conclude with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant; 32 not one like the covenant that I concluded with their forefathers in the day of my taking hold of their ha… Continue
(LONDON) - The House of Commons will tonight be debating the interception of a boat in international waters by the Israeli Navy and the abduction of six British civilians on board. The debate[1] will be led by Emily Thornberry, MP, and constituent MP for Alex Harrison, a human rights worker who was one of those abducted.
On June 30th 2009 a small ferry, carrying 21 unarmed civilians and a small amount of humanitarian aid, was forcibly boarded by armed Israeli commandos as it sailed towards the… Continue
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by Barbara Loe Fisher, Co-Founder & President
National Vaccine Information Center
Presented to National Vaccine Advisory Committee
May 2, 1997
The National Vaccine Information Center represents a very different constituency from the one we represented when Kathi Williams, Jeff Schwartz and… Continue
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ISRAEL ATTACKS JUSTICE BOAT; KIDNAPS HUMAN RIGHTS WORKERS
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[23 miles off the coast of Gaza, 15:30pm] - Today Israeli Occupation Forces attacked and boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, abducting 21 human rights workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (see below for a complete list of passenger… Continue
Prison Planet Forum member Suzanne Mc Henry is living a nightmare right now. She is in prison facing a minimum 10 year sentence on trumped up charges after being falsely accused of Battery class Y felony in the state of Arkansas.
At a weekend cookout her 4 year old daughter Amie was in and out of the pool running around barefoot when she accidentally stepped on a lit cigarette. Asked at school what was wrong with her foot, the innocent child allegedly said 'Mommy burned me with a cigarette'.
T… Continue
May 12 (Bloomberg) -- The World Health Organization is investigating an Australian researcher’s claim that the swine flu virus circling the globe may have been created as a result
of human error.
Adrian Gibbs, 75, who collaborated on research that led to the develop
By Dion Nissenbaum | McClatchy Newspapers
EZBT ABED RABBO, Gaza Strip — The Israeli soldiers outside Majdi Abed Rabbo's home were after the three Hamas fighters holed up next door, and they wanted Abed Rabbo to be their point man.
For the next 24 hours, Abed Rabbo said, the soldiers repeatedly forced him to walk through the battle zone to see whether the militants were dead or alive.
Abed Ra… Continue
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