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Alleging responsibility for war crimes and torture at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison, a human rights group has filed a criminal complaint in Germany against US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top US officials.
The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Berlin’s Republican Lawyers’ Association said they and five Iraqi citizens mistreated by US soldiers were seeking a probe by German federal prosecutors of leading US policymakers.
They said they had chosen (…)

Germany’s top military official meets with military officials on Wednesday to discuss the allegations of abuse at training camps which are threatening to engulf the armed forces in a damaging scandal.
The investigation into the alleged abuse of young soldiers at Bundeswehr military training camps takes its first official step on Wednesday when German Defense Minister Peter Struck meets army chiefs to discuss the deepening scandal.
Struck, who announced a wide-ranging inquiry into the (…)

by New York Times
Ever since the Abu Ghraib scandal broke, the Bush administration has claimed that the abuses depicted in those horrible photos were an isolated problem that was immediately fixed. The White House has repeatedly proclaimed its respect for the Geneva Conventions, international law and American statutes governing the treatment of prisoners.
An article in The Times on Tuesday by Neil A. Lewis showed how hollow those assurances are. According to the International Committee (…)

2 + 2 = Five
By Lloyd Hart
There will never be another free and fair election in America ever again if George Bush is inaugurated as the President of the United States on January 20th. 2005 or at least until there is a civil war restablishing an open democracy. The 20 year long process of entrenching "Electronic Jim-Crow" will soon be complete. Now that the unverifiable paperless electronic voting systems have spread throughout most of the South they will now be entrenched in every (…)

Genocide By Omission
By Lloyd Hart
Earlier this fall it was finally admitted by scientists and researchers at the university of Harvard Medical School in Cambridge Mass. that Linus Pauling was absolutely correct in his research and findings in the 1980’s on the best way to combat AIDS. That way of course was to rebuild the immune system.
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is a disease where the immune system fails and allows the body to fall victim to opportunistic diseases it (…)

"9/11 IN PLANE SIGHT." A TOTALLY BOGUS PRODUCTION.
I finally got around to watching the video "9/11 In Plane Sight" by Dave vonKleist and friends.
You do not have to watch it for long to become aware that it is full of false information.
To quote Dave vonKleist:
"So, is it not also safe to assume if you find somebody, a group, an agency, a party, that is involved in the obfuscation, distraction, distortion or cover-up of any information involved in any of the events of 9/11 (eg Dave (…)

By Wayne Madsen Online Journal Contributing Writer
December 1, 2004-Five Star Trust, the entity that, according to well-placed business and U.S. intelligence sources, is tied to the financing of a scheme to pay individuals posing as U.S. law enforcement and electronic voting machine technicians to rig the vote in favor of George W. Bush in at least four key states-Florida, Texas, Ohio, and California-represents a Byzantine network of offshore shell corporations and individuals tied to (…)

The mutilated body of a Western woman found in Iraq in mid-November was not that of Margaret Hassan, the British Foreign Office said, adding that it believed the abducted aid worker had been murdered.
Dental tests had shown that the body found by US marines in the former rebel stronghold of Fallujah was not that of the 59-year-old woman, a Foreign Office spokesman in London said.
Ms Hassan, the British-Irish director of CARE International in Iraq and a longtime Baghdad resident with (…)

– 1. We need to add a push for mandated hand-counted paper ballots with multiple witnesses at every stage of the counting within the state, and public reporting of the final state-level numbers by the group of witnesses who are present at the state-level tabulation, in a joint statement, out in the open in a public place. This is the one way we can be reasonably sure there has been no manipulation of numbers. What we have now is an act of faith alone. 2. Candidates should all face an equal, (…)

Hand recount expected
(CNN) — Republican Dino Rossi was officially certified Tuesday as Washington state’s new governor-elect, giving Democrats until Friday to decide whether they want to challenge his election by paying for a hand recount that could push the uncertainty over the closest gubernatorial race in state history to Christmas — or beyond.
Rossi, a state senator from suburban Seattle, defeated Democratic Attorney General Christine Gregoire by just 42 votes out of more than 2.8 (…)