U.N. seeks detailed Mali military intervention plan

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“The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution that gives regional leaders 45 days to provide specific plans for an international military intervention to oust rebels in northern Mali. The unanimous resolution marks a key step and speeds up preparations for a possible intervention to retake the region from al Qaeda-linked rebels. Mali plunged into chaos in March after a military ruler overthrew the president, shaking one of West Africa’s most stable democracies.”

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/13/world/africa/mali-un-resolution/index.html?hpt=wo_c2

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Two years after Mubarak, his prison torture apparatus still wounds Egypt

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“Human rights activists hoped a democratic government would bring reform to Egypt’s prison system, but two years after the revolution, they are still calling for an end to torture.”

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2012/1013/Two-years-after-Mubarak-his-prison-torture-apparatus-still-wounds-Egypt

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Michael Scheuer: Pity poor America: Obama, Romney, and Foreign Policy

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“When you clear your way through all the spurious hot air about ‘American exceptionalism’ and ‘a world eager for U.S. leadership,’ you will hear the ardent desire of two men, two parties, and almost all of the media to maintain and even increase the cultural and military interventionism in the Muslim world that has killed so many Americans at home and abroad in the past sixteen years; which has brought the United States numerous, shameful military defeats; and which has created nothing but the prospect of an ever larger and more costly war with much of Islam in the years ahead.”

http://non-intervention.com/1065/pity-poor-america-obama-romney-and-foreign-policy/

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U.S. military judge: ‘Torture’ is not ‘relevant’ in Guantanamo cases

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“Five alleged al-Qaeda conspirators accused of aiding the 9/11 hijackers all say they were tortured for years while in CIA custody, but sitting in a military courtroom on Monday, they all heard a judge insist that ‘torture’ is not ‘relevant’ to their cases. Critics of the Bush administration’s torture program have long argued that it could taint prosecutions with evidence obtained under duress, which is exactly what defense attorneys have argued on behalf of defendants Walid bin Attash, Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, and alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/16/u-s-military-judge-torture-is-not-relevant-in-guantanamo-cases/

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U.S. ‘influenced British government’s decision to introduce secret courts’

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“The government argues that CMPs are needed to prevent courtroom disclosure of sensitive evidence from causing damage to the so-called ‘control principle’ governing intelligence shared between states. Secret evidence, which is already used in terrorism-related immigration tribunals, allows government lawyers to rely on evidence that cannot be seen by victims or claimants, or their lawyers. The evidence can be seen by security-vetted barristers known as special advocates, but they cannot discuss what they have seen. The system is widely regarded as inherently unfair and would inevitably lead to legal challenges.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/16/u-s-influenced-british-governments-decision-to-introduce-secret-courts/

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Goldman Sachs Revenue More Than Doubles

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“Being a crony capitalist bankster organization pays. Lose money? Get the Federal Reserve to print up $$$$ to bail you out. Make money? Divide it amongst the banksters. Goldman Sachs reported earnings of $1.5 billion, or $2.85 per share, compared with a loss of $428 million, or 84 cents per share, a year earlier. Net revenue rose 133 percent to $8.35 billion from $3.6 billion. Goldman also raised its quarterly dividend to 50 cents per share from 46 cents per share.”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2012/10/goldman-sachs-revenue-more-than-doubles.html

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Mitt Romney: The Great Deformer – David Stockman

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“Having a trader’s facility for knowing when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em has virtually nothing to do with rectifying the massive fiscal hemorrhage and debt-burdened private economy before the American electorate. Indeed, the next president’s overriding task is restoring national solvency—an undertaking that will involve immense societywide pain, sacrifice, and denial and that will therefore require “fairness” as a defining principle. And that’s why heralding Romney’s record at Bain is so completely perverse. The record is actually all about the utter unfairness of windfall riches obtained under our anti-free market regime of bubble finance.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/14/david-stockman-mitt-romney-and-the-bain-drain.html

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$1.3 billion flowing through 2012 presidential race

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“Barack Obama may not like asking for money, but the hundreds of people willing to pay upwards of $40,000 a pop to attend star-studded fundraisers in his honor show there are plenty willing to reach deep into their pockets on his behalf. Since May, the president has gone to 69 fundraisers, each with ticket prices topping tens of thousands of dollars. His opponent, Republican Mitt Romney, has held 105 of the donor events, in a frenzied race for money that has already pushed this year’s presidential campaign coffers past $1.3 billion.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/14/1-3-billion-flowing-through-2012-presidential-race/

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Romney rakes in $170 million for September; Obama $181 million

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“Republican Mitt Romney raised more than $170 million in September, aides said Monday — a record for his campaign but shy of President Barack Obama’s $181 million haul for the same period. With the latest fundraising figures, the Romney campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC) plus state party participants now have more than $191 million cash on hand just 22 days before the general election.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/15/romney-rakes-in-170-million-for-september/

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Leaked Debate Agreement Shows Both Obama and Romney are Sniveling Cowards

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“The 21-page memorandum of understanding that the Obama and Romney campaigns negotiated with the Commission on Presidential Debates establishing the rules governing this month’s presidential and vice presidential face-offs shows that both campaigns are terrified at anything even remotely spontaneous happening. They aren’t permitted to ask each other questions, propose pledges to each other, or walk outside a ‘predesignated area.’ And for the town-hall-style debate tomorrow night, the audience members posing questions aren’t allowed to ask follow-ups (their mics will be cut off as soon as they get their questions out). Nor will moderator Candy Crowley.”

http://gawker.com/5951977/leaked-debate-agreement-shows-both-obama-and-romney-are-sniveling-cowards

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Monthly Archives: October 2012

U.N. seeks detailed Mali military intervention plan

Two years after Mubarak, his prison torture apparatus still wounds Egypt

Michael Scheuer: Pity poor America: Obama, Romney, and Foreign Policy

U.S. military judge: ‘Torture’ is not ‘relevant’ in Guantanamo cases

U.S. ‘influenced British government’s decision to introduce secret courts’

Goldman Sachs Revenue More Than Doubles

Mitt Romney: The Great Deformer – David Stockman

$1.3 billion flowing through 2012 presidential race

Romney rakes in $170 million for September; Obama $181 million

Leaked Debate Agreement Shows Both Obama and Romney are Sniveling Cowards