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HOW A MAN WAS THROWN INTO GITMO AND TORTURED FOR CLICKING ON MY ARTICLE By Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com America in the Bush years was so vicious and stupid that it managed to take my freedom of speech and turn it into someone else's living hell. http://www.alternet.org/rights/128888/ OBAMA NEEDS TO SEEK JUSTICE FOR BUSH'S CRIMES By Cynthia Boaz, TruthOut.org Directly punishing their predecessors is something done by tyrants in authoritarian regimes, not by democratic leaders in an open society. http://www.alternet.org/rights/128463/ SECRET BUSH MEMOS RELEASED: READ THEM HERE! By Staff, Huffington Post Memos about warrantless wiretaps and warrantless search and seizures released today. http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/129722/ CONFIRMED: CIA DESTROYED 92 INTERROGATION TAPES By Liliana Segura, AlterNet The number is 'far higher' than the agency has ever admitted destroying. http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/129611/ WHO WATCHED THE 92 TORTURE TAPES BEFORE THE CIA HAD THEM DESTROYED? By Emptywheel, Firedoglake I'm curious whether Cheney, David Addington, or John Yoo might be among the list of folks who checked out the tapes before they were destroyed. http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/129676/

THE CASE FOR GIVING ELI LILLY THE CORPORATE DEATH PENALTY By Bruce E. Levine, AlterNet At this point, the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly is basically a public menace. http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/129709/the_case_for_giving_eli_lilly_the_corporate_death_penalty/

Our planet is warming at an alarming rate, but scientists say we can solve the climate crisis if we act quickly. That's why it's so important for President Obama to strengthen the target he has set for reducing global warming pollution by the year 2020. Unfortunately, Obama's current proposal is to return to 1990 pollution levels by 2020. This would be a significant reduction, but not nearly enough, fast enough. Let there be no mistake: if we fail to reduce pollution much more swiftly than the Obama administration is contemplating, we face the prospect of irreversible climate impacts that could devastate human civilization. In addition, the faster we cut emissions, the more jobs we can create by switching to a clean energy economy. That's why we're joining with our allies in asking you to take action today. Help President Obama and congressional leaders strengthen their goals for reducing global warming pollution: http://www.1sky.org/pollution-targets Why hasn't Obama strengthened his target? After all, he has made global warming a top priority and said his decisions will be grounded in science. A recent speech from Obama's top climate negotiator provides the answer. Speaking about the 2020 target, the negotiator said: "At the same time we are being guided by the science and doing the math, we cannot forget that we are engaged in a political process and that politics ? is the art of the possible." Any climate targets will have to pass Congress. President Obama is concerned there isn't enough political support for the strong pollution reductions that are needed--that corporate lobbyists and Washington insiders are more likely to pay attention to policy details like a 2020 emission reduction than citizens and voters like us. Let President Obama and congressional leaders know we'll provide the grassroots support that will make stronger pollution reduction targets possible. On behalf of the 1Sky team, Gillian Caldwell, Campaign Director, 1Sky

Anti-choice ideologues think you don't care about women in North Dakota. That's why they're pushing a so-called "personhood" bill through the North Dakota legislature -- a measure that would ban abortion and could lead to bans on birth control, stem-cell research, and in-vitro fertilization. Stand up for the women of North Dakota and stop this "guerilla warfare" on reproductive choice now. http://action.prochoiceamerica.org/site/R?i=8lTQq4VhxI8DlTx0L-48iw.. After losing the White House, critical seats in Congress, and three ballot measures last November, the anti-choice movement launched a new phase of their war on women's freedom and privacy. They vowed to return to their glory days of angry protests by waging "guerilla warfare" against a woman's right to choose.(1) The anti-choice movement is starting in North Dakota because they think no one will notice. And when they're done there, they'll move along to the next state. In fact, they're working to advance "personhood" measures in 16 states. Personhood USA, one of the organizations leading the fight, hopes their strategy leads to the end of the right to choose: "Establishing personhood closes what we call the 'hole' in Roe v. Wade." Sign the petition to the governor of North Dakota telling him to veto any abortion-ban bill that comes to his desk. http://action.prochoiceamerica.org/site/R?i=-HsEovoDdRIc-xCnLzpV4w.. North Dakota does not have a single pro-choice law on the books that helps prevent unintended pregnancy. Women in North Dakota have no safeguard against pharmacies that refuse to fill prescriptions for birth control. And they have no assurance that they can access emergency contraception at the hospital in the case of sexual assault. This new "personhood" bill would block women in North Dakota from ever receiving those protections. Thank you for standing with the women of North Dakota -- and women everywhere -- by taking action today. My best, Nancy Keenan President, NARAL Pro-Choice America (1) "Pro-Lifers In Obamaland," Newsweek.com, January 27, 2009, http://action.prochoiceamerica.org/site/R?i=HheaY3IqIaVUUHWkY99lzQ.. ** A political organization, NARAL Pro-Choice America is the nation's leading advocate for privacy and a woman's right to choose. Tell your friends about the Choice Action Network. http://action.prochoiceamerica.org/site/R?i=rLzRg80kbhBiglSV7IcspQ.. If you received this message from a friend, you can sign up for the Choice Action Network. http://action.prochoiceamerica.org/site/R?i=XTMLw1bxSHosfh9G3cL_xg..

By Stephen Gutwillig, AlterNet. Posted March 3, 2009. It looks like the pot debate just got real. As the nation faces its worst economic crisis in generations, California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano has introduced a trailblazing bill to tax and regulate marijuana like alcohol. Hard on the heels of Michael Phelps’ nationally-resonant bong demo, Ammiano’s gesture is a whole lot more intentional. One hopes it will stir the long-overdue national examination of the financial and human price that we pay for criminalizing pot. The most widely used illicit drug in the western world, marijuana is a fact of life that’s been sampled by upwards of 100,000,000 Americans. Officially prohibited since 1937, we finally seem on the threshold of a promising moment in our nation’s tortured relationship to the drug. On November 4 alone, Massachusetts decriminalized personal pot use, Michigan became the thirteenth state to allow its medical use, and we elected a president who’s openly admitted to smoking it. National polls and the yawn that greeted the Phelps media frenzy indicate that Americans are reconciled to pot’s largely benign role in our culture. Nevertheless, the mindless prohibition enforcement machine rolls on. In 2007, over 800,000 Americans were arrested for marijuana-related crimes (nearly 90 percent of them for possession), with upwards of 85,000 of them serving sentences in jail or prison. In the U.S., incredibly there are more arrests for marijuana possession each year than for all violent crimes combined. This astounding human toll from enforcing the ban on marijuana costs taxpayers roughly $8 billion each year. And those wasted resources are further compounded by the total capitulation of the massive pot market to an underground economy to gangsters who laugh all the way to the bank. Amidst a national economic meltdown, California’s budget turmoil is the worst in the nation. After an excruciating three-month deadlock, the dysfunctional Sacramento legislature closed a $42 billion deficit by slashing aid to the most vulnerable in the state, raising a host of taxes and fees, and kicking the can down the road with billions more in borrowing. Meanwhile, California’s largest cash crop was studiously avoided in the frenzied search for politically-viable revenue sources. California’s marijuana yield is conservatively valued at $13.8 billion annually – nearly double the value of the state’s vegetable and grape crops combined. Reformers have long complained that massive marijuana revenues are routinely ceded to criminal syndicates. But that’s how prohibition works, until we come to our senses. The U.S. ended alcohol prohibition just over 75 years ago, when its failure could no longer be ignored. That unfortunate social experiment triggered a host of familiar outcomes – mass imprisonment, unchecked violence, official corruption, and routine violation of the law by millions of Americans. But what finally hastened its demise in 1933 was the Depression itself, as public opinion and a progressive new president insisted the waste of resources and potential revenue had to stop. The sheer scale of our current fiscal misery demands a similar reality check: Marijuana already plays a huge role in the California and national economies. It’s a revenue opportunity we literally can’t afford to ignore any longer. It’s time to end the unjust charade of marijuana prohibition, tax this flourishing multi-billion dollar market, and redirect criminal justice resources to matters of real public safety. Assemblyman Ammiano has done an enormous service by breaking the silence on this common-sense solution.

By Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet. Posted March 4, 2009. Seven newly released memos from the Bush Justice Department reveal a concerted strategy to cloak the President with power to override the Constitution. The memos provide "legal" rationales for the President to suspend freedom of speech and press; order warrantless searches and seizures, including wiretaps of U.S. citizens; lock up U.S. citizens indefinitely in the United States without criminal charges; send suspected terrorists to other countries where they will likely be tortured; and unilaterally abrogate treaties. According to the reasoning in the memos, Congress has no role to check and balance the executive. That is the definition of a police state. Who wrote these memos? All but one were crafted in whole or in part by the infamous John Yoo and Jay Bybee, authors of the so-called "torture memos" that redefined torture much more narrowly than the U.S. definition of torture, and counseled the President how to torture and get away with it. In one memo, Yoo said the Justice Department would not enforce U.S. laws against torture, assault, maiming and stalking, in the detention and interrogation of enemy combatants. What does the federal maiming statute prohibit? It makes it a crime for someone "with the intent to torture, maim, or disfigure" to "cut, bite, or slit the nose, ear or lip, or cut out or disable the tongue, or put out or destroy an eye, or cut off or disable a limb or any member of another person." It further prohibits individuals from "throwing or pouring upon another person any scalding water, corrosive acid, or caustic substance" with like intent. The two torture memos were later withdrawn after they became public because their legal reasoning was clearly defective. But they remained in effect long enough to authorize the torture and abuse of many prisoners in U.S. custody. The seven memos just made public were also eventually disavowed, several years after they were written. Steven Bradbury, the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in Bush's Department of Justice, issued two disclaimer memos -- on October 6, 2008 and January 15, 2009 -- that said the assertions in those seven memos did "not reflect the current views of this Office." Why Bradbury waited until Bush was almost out of office to issue the disclaimers remains a mystery. Some speculate that Bradbury, knowing the new administration would likely release the memos, was trying to cover his backside. Indeed, Yoo, Bybee and Bradbury are the three former Justice Department lawyers that the Office of Professional Responsibility singled out for criticism in its still unreleased report. The OPR could refer these lawyers for state bar discipline or even recommend criminal charges against them. In his memos, Yoo justified giving unchecked authority to the President because the United States was in a "state of armed conflict." Yoo wrote, "First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully." Yoo made the preposterous argument that since deadly force could legitimately be used in self-defense in criminal cases, the President could suspend the Fourth Amendment because privacy rights are less serious than protection from the use of deadly force. Bybee wrote in one of the memos that nothing can stop the President from sending al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners captured overseas to third countries, as long as he doesn't intend for them to be tortured. But the Convention Against Torture, to which the United States is a party, says that no country can expel, return or extradite a person to another country "where there are substantial grounds for believing that he would be in danger of being subjected to torture." Bybee claimed the Torture Convention didn't apply extraterritorially, a proposition roundly debunked by reputable scholars. The Bush administration reportedly engaged in this practice of extraordinary rendition 100 to 150 times as of March 2005. The same day that Attorney General Eric Holder released the memos, the government revealed that the CIA had destroyed 92 videotapes of harsh interrogations of Abu Zubaida and Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, both of whom were subjected to waterboarding. The memo that authorized the CIA to waterboard, written the same day as one of Yoo/Bybee's torture memos, has not yet been released. Bush insisted that Zubaida was a dangerous terrorist, in spite of the contention of one of the FBI's leading al Qaeda experts that Zubaida was schizophrenic, a bit player in the organization. Under torture, Zubaida admitted to everything under the sun -- his information was virtually worthless. There are more memos yet to be released. They will invariably implicate Bush officials and lawyers in the commission of torture, illegal surveillance, extraordinary rendition, and other violations of the law. Meanwhile, John Yoo remains on the faculty of Berkeley Law School and Jay Bybee is a federal judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. These men, who advised Bush on how to create a police state, should be investigated, prosecuted, and disbarred. Yoo should be fired and Bybee impeached.

*is always late* Where you at? lets hit up a Stutters Cruise

well, if ya believe....

bah! One Piece is still awesome! its the difference between a good writer and a hack

I forget sometimes but I guess the food in the USA just totally kicks ass We're a blend of people from around the world, they brought their culture pizza and tacos! no wonder we're such an obese country X'D

you guys don't have old el paso or ortaga taco shit in yer grocery stores? you got taco bell right? o.0

I'm surprised it wasn't a Mobile gas station

tis the nature of the writer we're dealing with Personally I'll remember Naruto as a series that had its moments but was eventually destroyed by its confused creator. I doubt I'll bother to read his shit again.

women needing a man for salvation hmm where have I heard that before? Oh yes, that would be from the religious nut jobs I would nuk out of existence first. pffft messiah up their ass. Get on my boat or fuckin die. I'm not taking no prisoners.

Send Your Email to Congress: Indict Bush Now! Senate to Investigate CIA's Actions Under Bush From the Los Angeles Times today: "The Senate Intelligence Committee is preparing to launch an investigation of the CIA's detention and interrogation programs under President Bush, setting the stage for a sweeping examination of some of most secretive and controversial operations in recent agency history. "The probe is aimed at uncovering new information on the origins of the programs as well as scrutinizing how they were executed -- from the conditions at clandestine CIA prison sites to the interrogation regimens used... 'The last administration justified torture, presided over the abuses at Abu Ghraib, destroyed tapes of harsh interrogations,' said Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), the chairman of [the Senate Judiciary] committee. "How can we restore our moral leadership and ensure transparent government if we ignore what has happened?'" Demand action from Congress We are urging all IndictBushNow members to send an email immediately to your elected officials (it only takes a second), telling them that Bush administration officials broke the law when they promoted a system of torture, secret prisons, and extraordinary renditions. Like millions of other people in the United States, we insist that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and other high officials be indicted and prosecuted for their criminal actions. Please take a moment right now and click here to use our easy-to-use mechanism to send a letter to your elected officials. http://www.impeachbush.org/site/R?i=Uvcgapvxu4iRA5Wyv4z7Lw.. People all around the country are insisting that Bush & Co. be held accountable. No one is above the law. Please make a donation today to help us keep building the pressure from the grassroots. http://www.impeachbush.org/site/R?i=UJDHPGgsnJ-M9TbY18agQw.. -- All of us at IndictBushNow.org

and just where do you think that thing is gonna fit ne? ya better start courting horses X'D

I actually did buy one just because it has an elastic piece to hold my tube of blistex

man, you just keep makin that hole yer in deeper fool Shall we see how well you manage yer asthma when I stop vacuuming up pet hair and dusting? Maybe you'd like a fast food diet to grow your ass and gut to epic proportion instead of healthy meals? And you can forget my lil internal furnace keeping your cold ass warm at night too. If you really want me to show my love only on Feb 14th I'm sure we can work that out

thats neat I can see it scaring the hell outta a few ppl X'D