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• Craig Murray and John Pilger on the “War on Terror”

  
  chtodelat news — Authority: 127
  The Fabulous Craig Murray , “ Uzbek Terror and the UK/USA” (interview on The Real News ; watch Craig’s recent talk on the same grim topic here and here ) John Pilger , “Breaking the Australian Silence” (Sydney Peace Prize acceptance speech): Last July, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said ...
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• Dies Irae

  
  V for Victory! — Authority: 417
  November 8th is the day on which the Order of Preachers remembers and prays for its deceased members. Today at 7:00 p.m. the Bl. Margaret of Castello chapter will recite the Office of the Dead (Vespers) for deceased Dominicans in the day chapel at St. Johns Cathedral in Boise. We will begin by chanting Dies Irae ...
  19 hours ago

• Extraordinary Measures Clip

  
  Teaser Trailer — Authority: 445
  Thanks to Entertainment Tonight we get to see some footage o... Movie Trailer http://teaser-trailer.com
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• Italy’s calling ‘extraordinary rendition’ illegal puts onus on U.S.

  
  freedetainees.org — Authority: 438
  Los Angeles editorial “Extrajudicial detentions” and “extraordinary renditions” were nicely scrubbed terms for the Bush administration’s policy of capturing suspects in one country and spiriting them away to another, where they were harshly interrogated and even tortured. Now an Italian court has called ...
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• CIA agents guilty of Kidnapping

  
  G2 Visual Design Salad and Other Healthy Appetizers — Authority: 128
  This is a story that hasn’t received anywhere near as much attention as it should have:An Italian judge has convicted 23 Americans – all but one of them CIA agents – and two Italian secret agents for the 2003 kidnap of a Muslim cleric.BBC Article for a good medium length summary.The CIA personnel were involved ...
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• Obama Gives Shout Out to Congressional Medal of Honor Winner Who Isnt

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 162
  The Washington Post this afternoon reported "President Obama delivers remarks on Ft. Hood shooting at end of tribal leaders conference." The transcript begins: SPEAKER: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA [*] OBAMA: Please, everybody, have a seat. Let me first of all just thank Ken and the entire Department of the Interior staff ...
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• Mixed week on renditions accountability

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 508
  This week saw two contrasting results emerging from courts in the United States and Italy regarding extraordinary rendition : ► In the United States, the case of Maher Arar (right) was once more rejected by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. (prior IntLawGrrls posts here ) ► In Italy, however, ...
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• Session 2 of Extraordinary Minds Was Great!

  
  MicroBusinessSpecialist Micro Business Specialist — Authority: 106
  Have you been listening in? Last night was the second session of the League of Extraordinary Minds , and what a great two hours it was. I think of myself as a pretty rational fellow, but after last night I can clearly see why some of my marketing materials built around that rational approach are not doing as well ...
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• Copper canyon daisy: In bloom this week

  
  Lifescapes — Authority: 108
  Delightful Tagetes lemmonii, or Copper canyon daisy--a tumble of bright marigold-like blossoms in the fall, a strong scent thats unforgettable...
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• Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 143
  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.Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and ...
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• Extraordinary Entrepreneur: Karen Hanton – founder of Toptable

  
  Women Unlimited — Authority: 130
  Toptable.com is the brain child of Karen Hanton , a truly daring entrepreneur with a passion for British cuisine.  Toptable is an online restaurant booking site which she created in 2000, and it is now the UK’s leading restaurant booking website, which allows diners to choose from around 5000 restaurants in 12 ...
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• Letter: C.I.A. Convictions in Italy

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  To the Editor:.
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• Deal to seek Obama’s birth certificate, tap ‘birther’ vote

  
  Fresh Loaf — Authority: 589
  Get your tinfoil hat right here!
  3 days ago

• Dick Cheney, Meet Sabrina deSouza

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  Sabrina deSouza is one of the 23 U.S. officials convicted in Italy for the illegal CIA rendition of an Egyptian terrorist suspect named Abu Omar. She concedes the United States “broke the law” in ordering and carrying out the rendition, and says , “we are paying for the mistakes right now, whoever authorized ...
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• linkage

  
  Ask Nicola — Authority: 602
  Still in Hild world, so heres some linkage instead of a real blog post. (Though Im considering making this a weekly feature, if I can work out how to make the time to be organised about it.) Secret copyright treaty leaks. Its bad. Very bad . Cory Doctorow opines on BoingBoing. The title says it all. Leaked ...
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• Italian Judge Convicts 23 Americans In Kidnap Case

  
  Blogger — Authority: 165
  An Italian judge has found 23 Americans and two Italians guilty of the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric from Milan. The Americans were convicted in absentia. The trial was the first in the world on extraordinary rendition. That’s the CIA practice of capturing terrorism suspects in one country and taking them ...
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• Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 133
  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. Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and ...
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• T13 – All About the Books

  
  Yellow Roses Garden — Authority: 110
        I’m a reader, I love to read. Give me a good book, I’m happy. Books take away the pain, books help you escape from the mundane, books take you on mini vacations and books enlighten us in ways we never saw coming.  The following are some books that have given me some pleasure in the past few months. ...
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• CIA chief jailed for kidnapping

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 143
  The former head of the CIA in Milan has been given an eight-year jail sentence for kidnapping at the end of the first trial anywhere in the world involving the agency’s “extraordinary rendition” programme.Robert Lady was tried in his absence and convicted of helping to organise the seizure of Osama Moustafa ...
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• CIA chief jailed for kidnapping

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 143
  The former head of the CIA in Milan has been given an eight-year jail sentence for kidnapping at the end of the first trial anywhere in the world involving the agency’s “extraordinary rendition” programme.Robert Lady was tried in his absence and convicted of helping to organise the seizure of Osama Moustafa ...
  3 days ago

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