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Talking Headlines - April 2008

CIA HAVE SAME TORTURE BOUNDARIES AS THE NAZI SS

April 30th 2008 05:18

The CIA and MI6 have an open season for torture - and that means anyone and everyone. The Administration think there should be no boundaries. The Geneva Convention is out the window. If the torturers claim that they are behaving brutally only in the pursuit of terrorist information and not to personally humiliate a victim then go ahead, it's okay. The final arbiter, according to a US Justice Department report to Congress, is Mr Bush.

MI6 are a little more subtle. They are farming out their torture to agencies in Pakistan. Of course they indicate to what depths the torturers may descend but hey, if they get information - even if it's wrong, as information tends to be coming from torture victims - let's not quibble about how it was obtained.Your text goes here

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THE US SECRETLY PLANS TO KEEP IRAQ UNDER MILITARY RULE

April 29th 2008 02:14

Evidence mounts that the US secretly plans to keep Iraq under military rule until the oil runs out.

The most recent evidence is The Guardian reports indicating they have confidential draft agreements showing that provisions are being made for an open ended military presence. The agreement is dated March 7 and marked "secret and sensitive." It also includes content that precludes human rights legislation in Iraq. There is no time limit on their presence there although there is "spin" claiming they don't want permanent bases.

The essence of a successful presence will indeed be bases - Super Bases. There will be five, according to The London Review of Books last year, each capable of holding 20,000 troops. There will be recreational facilities and fast food outlets. The first is being constructed north of Baghdad.

All will be in the desert so there will be no continuing urban warfare unless the civil war continues between Iraqis.

There will be fewer casualties as the Super Bases are occupied so slowly Iraq will disappear from the headlines.

The economic logic behind such a strategy?

It is in the draft legislation prepared for the Iraqi Congress by the US. Under this proposed legislation the West will receive 80% of the 115 trillion barrels of oil already being tapped. Iraq will receive 20%. There is a further unconfirmed 350 trillion barrels of oil that has been estimated by oil companies. The West will receive $100% of this. As the war is costing around $3 trillion, Your text goes hereone has only to calculate that as a barrel cost over $100, the financing of the war is nothing more than birdseed.

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Planet's abalone industries be warned

April 28th 2008 01:14

The planet's abalone divers should be warned - your governments have no idea how to protect your industry from the changing environment. A virus is sweeping the south east of Australia off the coast of Victoria. The industry is pleading with the Victorian government to ban human activity off the wild section of the Victorian Coast. The Government says it can't, won't, and have no concept of how to do it. Neither can the Federal government help, although they are not saying anything at the moment.

But this is only a taste of what is to come. Farmers have felt this government impotence for some time. There is nothing they can do to prevent these extraordinary storms and droughts that are wiping out whole industries throughout the world. In fact they are all adding to the ferocity of the decay of the planet by encouraging developments in those industries they feel they can help. Dredging for larger ships is continuing through Europe, Asia and the Pacific.

Again Australian ignorance leads the world. In Port Phillip Bay dredging will continues for years as they attempt to help larger ships through toxic banks and plateaus of sand and rocks. The almost pristine Bay is on the verge of becoming dead water. The Bay was dying when commercial fisherman were dredging for scallops so they were stopped, only to have the present dredging, which is a thousand times worse, launched this year.