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Trump's new CIA director rightly called a 'war criminal' by critics

Cortney O'Brien
Townhall
Tue, 13 Mar 2018 20:15 UTC
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Gina Haspel, Trump's new nominee for CIA director, was a key figure in former President George W. Bush's enhanced interrogation program.

Haspel's leading role in the program was first spotlighted last year after she was named as the CIA's deputy director. The New York Times reported on how she supposedly helped torture two people suspected of terrorism.
As a clandestine officer at the Central Intelligence Agency in 2002, Gina Haspel oversaw the torture of two terrorism suspects and later took part in an order to destroy videotapes documenting their brutal interrogations at a secret prison in Thailand.
The New Yorker published a similar profile, with additional details about the techniques she helped employ against suspected terrorists.
From 2003 to 2005, Gina Haspel was a senior official overseeing a top-secret C.I.A. program that subjected dozens of suspected terrorists to savage interrogations, which included depriving them of sleep, squeezing them into coffins, and forcing water down their throats. In 2002, Haspel was among the C.I.A. officers present at the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, an Al Qaeda suspect who was tortured so brutally that at one point he appeared to be dead.

Comment: Isn't Trump supposed to be draining the swamp? See also:

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Stop

Innocent Kansas man imprisoned for 23 years receives no compensation from state


CBS News
Sat, 03 Mar 2018 13:36 UTC
Lamonte McIntyre
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When Lamonte McIntyre was exonerated for a double murder in October, he walked out of a Kansas prison with a clean record - but not a dime to his name, reports CBS News' Dean Reynolds. After losing 23 years of his life behind bars, the state is offering him nothing.

Kansas is one of 18 states that offer wrongfully convicted prisoners no compensation at all upon their release.

"I think it's unjust, but me being angry about it is not going to change it," McIntyre said.

Tricia Bushnell of the Midwest Innocence Project worked to win McIntyre's release. She said McIntyre has other reasons to be angry. She called this case the "perfect storm."

For example, at his trial in 1994 when he was 17, there was no physical evidence or motive presented. Worse, according to McIntyre's current lawyers, lead police detective Roger Golubski built the case by threatening witnesses. Bushnell said the fallout may impact other potential exonerations.
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Magic Hat

Employment and financial make-believe in America

Paul Craig Roberts
The Institute for Political Economy
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 20:32 UTC
homeless man
Americans live a never-never-land existence. The politicians and presstitutes make sure of that.

Consider something as simple as the unemployment rate. The US is said to have full employment with a January 2018 unemployment rate of 4.1 percent, down from 9.8 percent in January 2010.

However, the low rate of unemployment is contradicted by the long-term decline in the labor force participation rate. After a long rise during the Reagan 1980s, the labor force participation rate peaked in January 1990 at 66.8 percent, more or less holding to that rate for another decade until 2001 when decline set in accelerating in September 2008.

Today the labor force participation rate is the lowest since February 1978, reversing all of the gains of the Reagan years.
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Dominoes

Gun manufacturer who supported gun control makes hasty retreat after customer backlash

Beth Baumann
Townhall
Mon, 12 Mar 2018 20:33 UTC
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On Friday, Gun manufacturer Daniel Defense posted a message on their company Facebook page saying they support the 'Fix NICS' bill.

After receiving backlash from customers and the Second Amendment community as a whole, the company has since changed their position. Another message was posted to their company Facebook page saying they have rescinded their support for the bill:
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Star of David

As Gaza economy 'all but dead' thanks to Israel, 40,000 Palestinians have been arrested for debt in 2017

Mai Yaghi
Times of Israel
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 20:09 UTC
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Palestinians who are unable to pay off their debts, sit in a cell in a Hamas jail in Gaza City on February 20, 2018
Sameh al-Madhoun's eyes fill with tears as he recalls his fall from successful businessman to prisoner in a Hamas jail in Gaza.

Once the owner of a flourishing car dealership, he is one of more than 40,000 Gazans charged in the last year with failing to keep up debt payments as the economy in the Palestinian enclave collapses.

Madhoun, a 40-year-old father of four, has sold most of his possessions, including his house and some of his cars, in a bid to pay back the $3 million debt that dragged his business into bankruptcy.

"I have paid off half of it until now. I don't know how I will pay off the rest," he told AFP from his jail cell. "I don't own anything else now except these debts."
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Snowden rips into Trump over new CIA director's torture history

John Bowden
The Hill
Tue, 13 Mar 2018 19:38 UTC
Edward Snowden
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Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blasted the Trump administration on Tuesday for the selection of Gina Haspel to lead the CIA over Haspel's former management of a "black site" prison.

In a series of tweets, the whistleblower, who fled the country after exposing classified information in 2013 about U.S. surveillance programs, attacked Haspel for her role in the 2002 torture of detainees at a secret CIA prison in Thailand.


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Attention

Manafort's judge: There's a real chance of 'spending the rest of his life in prison'

Kevin Daley
The Daily Caller
Tue, 13 Mar 2018 04:07 UTC
Paul Manafort
© Reuters/Brian Snyder
Manafort arrives for an arraignment at the federal courthouse in Alexandria, VA, March 8, 2018.
Judge Thomas Ellis III, who is presiding over the second prosecution of Paul Manafort, wrote in a new order that the deposed Trump campaign chief may well spend the rest of his life in prison.

Ellis imposed restrictive bond conditions against Manafort in the new order, concluding the severity of his alleged crimes and his considerable assets incentivize him to flee the country.
"Defendant faces the very real possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison," Ellis wrote. "In this regard, he poses a substantial risk of flight and the above-mentioned conditions are the least restrictive conditions that will reasonably assure defendant's appearance at trial."
Manafort faces federal prosecution in two jurisdictions. Special counsel Robert Mueller filed numerous charges against him including eighteen counts of tax fraud, bank fraud, and bank fraud conspiracy at a federal trial court in Alexandria, Va., and twelve counts of money laundering, conspiracy against the United States, and violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) at the federal trial court in Washington, D.C.

Each tax fraud charge carries a maximum sentence of five years and a $250,000 fine. The bank fraud charges carry a 30 year maximum sentence and a one million dollar fine. Though he is not likely to receive the maximum penalties, at 68, Manafort faces the serious prospect of life in prison, even with a reduced sentence.

Comment: Interesting that the judge has already put a judgement out there. New rules?

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Attention

CIA operative Khalifa Haftar continues war crimes in Libya, threatens Toubou tribe

Joanne M
Libyan War The Truth
Tue, 13 Mar 2018 01:14 UTC
Toubou Tribe
© Unknown
Toubou Tribe, Libya
The Toubou tribe of Libya resides in the deep south of Libya. They are a nomadic dark skinned tribe that has resided in Libya for thousands of years. They are a peaceful tribe and fully enjoyed their land and home under Ghadafi who supported all the nomadic tribes and gave them assistance, freedom and respect.

The Toubou tribes were aware that 2011 was a false flag criminal attack on the sovereign country of Libya and they stood with their Libyan brothers against the invaders. Because of this they have been targeted for genocide by the Zionist NWO cabal, just like the Tawergha dark skinned tribes located in central Libya.

3 Toubou women
© Unknown
In 2011, the Zionists owned media put out the lie that Ghadafi was bringing in mercenaries from Africa to fight the mercenaries brought into Libya by NATO. This was a blatant lie, but this lie was used by the NATO radical Islamic mercenaries as an excuse to destroy dark skinned tribes, their cities, their homes and kill their people. The genocide was horrendous and many mass graves exist today with thousands of black bodies, a war crime beyond imagining that the world turned, and still turns, a blind eye.
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Russian Flag

Breaking against stereotype, Russians under Putin are drinking less and living healthier lives

Kathrin Hille
Financial Times
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 11:35 UTC
russian skater
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Skaters in Moscow's Red Square. More than 36 per cent of the population aged between three and 79 years now practise sports regularly, up from just 22.5 per cent in 2012
Strictly speaking, using dumbbells outside the gym is forbidden. But the gym at the Youth Residential Complex Butovo gets so crowded that some weightlifters spill out into the corridor.

Every weeknight, people from the surrounding high-rises pour into this cramped basement for fitness training or boxing. "We're bursting at the seams," says Sergei Popovkin, manager of the sports centre and a former karate trainer. "When we opened in 1991, we would get 100 people a month. Now it's more than three times that number, plus another 200 for fitness alone."

The sports craze in Butovo, a residential suburb on the southern fringes of Moscow, reflects the enthusiasm for a healthy lifestyle that has gripped millions in Russia. "People really care about their health now - they've stopped drinking vodka and started eating kiwis," says Mr Popovkin.
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Ambulance

Indian doctors suspended after video surfaces of patient using his amputated leg as pillow (VIDEO)


Sputnik
Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:39 UTC
amputated leg patient pillow
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Investigation launched in India after patient's aputated leg was used as pillow.
Authorities in India's Uttar Pradesh state launched an investigation Sunday after video footage surfaced showing a patient's amputated leg being used as a pillow for the amputee.

The incident, which took place at the Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College, happened moments after doctors had severed the leg to prevent infection, according to reports. It's unclear who recorded the footage.
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