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Dec 10, 2014 7:46:10 GMT -5 lavender1 said:

Dec 9, 2014 17:50:25 GMT -5 lavender1 said:

www.intelligence.senate.gov/study2014/sscistudy1.pdf


www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/08/cia-torture-report-release-date-nears?CMP=ema_565

www.worldmeets.us/gazetawyborcza000043.shtml

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Elmer_Mitchell

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Jessen


tortureaccountability.org/bruce_jessen

www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/folterprogramm-der-cia-wasser-licht-und-country-musik-1.2263397

www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/14/new-evidence-links-cia-to-apas-war-on-terror-ethics/

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www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/10/close-military-encounters-russia-west-cold-war

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/full-list-of-incidents-involving-russian-military-and-nato-since-march-2014-9851309.html



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www.wolf-pac.com/petition?=Fb1013



blogs.reuters.com/jamesrgaines/2014/09/12/nearly-80-percent-of-americans-want-it-but-their-chance-of-getting-it-just-took-another-hit/



www.techdirt.com/articles/20140620/18010727643/awesome-stuff-crowdfunding-to-get-money-out-politics-now-with-steve-wozniak.shtml



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[lavender1]

Dec 12, 2014 10:53:30 GMT -5 lavender1 said:

Dec 10, 2014 7:46:10 GMT -5 lavender1 said:

www.worldmeets.us/gazetawyborcza000043.shtml

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Elmer_Mitchell

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Jessen


tortureaccountability.org/bruce_jessen

www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/folterprogramm-der-cia-wasser-licht-und-country-musik-1.2263397

www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/14/new-evidence-links-cia-to-apas-war-on-terror-ethics/

www.nytimes.com/2014/12/13/us/politics/amid-details-on-torture-data-on-26-held-in-error-.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0



rt.com/uk/213915-uk-intel-garcia-torture/

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11288239/Downing-Street-British-spies-discussed-redactions-in-CIA-torture-report.html

www.coe.int/T/E/Com/Files/Events/2006-cia/

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www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/12/-sp-shinzo-abe-japan-election-guardian-briefing

www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/11/japan-s-nasty-nazi-ish-elections.html

[lavender1]

lima, peru:

www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30443919

www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2014/dec/12/lima-climate-talks-final-day-live-coverage

unfccc.int/2860.php

[lavender1]

Dec 12, 2014 23:31:08 GMT -5 lavender1 said:

www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/10/close-military-encounters-russia-west-cold-war

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/full-list-of-incidents-involving-russian-military-and-nato-since-march-2014-9851309.html



once upon a time, a red telephone existed with a special purpose ....


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www.rferl.org/content/russia-sweden-plane-/26742843.html

www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/russischer-kampfjet-kollidiert-fast-mit-flugzeug-ueber-schweden-a-1008393.html

www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/13/russia-plane-near-miss-passenger-aircraft-sweden

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[lavender1]

www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/japan-waehlt-mit-abe-auch-rueckkehr-zur-atomkraft-a-1008441.html

www.theguardian.com/world/japan-earthquake-and-tsunami+environment/nuclearpower

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/japan-holds-vote-expected-to-back-abes-policies/2014/12/13/c2f24526-8325-11e4-b936-f3afab0155a7_story.html


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[lavender1]

www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/13/britain-link-cia-torture-us-senate-unredacted-report

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11291394/CIA-torture-report-Lets-set-the-record-straight-on-torture.html

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policyreview.info/articles/news/why-we-need-rebuild-legitimacy-our-foreign-intelligence-services/343

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soundcloud.com/rasmusfisker/slices

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www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/denmark-claims-north-pole--but-will-have-to-fight-it-out-with-canada-and-russia-9925667.html

metronews.ca/news/world/980914/the-far-north-turf-war-who-really-rules-the-arctic/

itar-tass.com/en/world/766899

www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/19/greenland-glaciers-melting-way-too-fast_n_5353226.html

www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/groenlands-gletscher-schmelzen-anders-als-gedacht-a-1008617.html

books.google.de/books?id=wvXRAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA35&lpg=PA35&dq=greenland%27s+glaciers+melting+different+to+anticipation&source=bl&ots=MmPNAm7Ape&sig=6HjVdwjAvgAcOH9h4C50vuFX54E&hl=de&sa=X&ei=UfCPVNLYHMjvUMaYg6gO&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=greenland%27s%20glaciers%20melting%20different%20to%20anticipation&f=false

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btw. ....


www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/ins-arihant-sails-out-of-harbour/article6693951.ece?homepage=true

www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/15/us-russia-space-idUSKBN0JT14R20141215

www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/Secret-surveillance-of-Norways-leaders-detected-7825278.html

www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/15/us-russia-cbank-rates-idUSKBN0JT2II20141215

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www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/15/us-pope-kerry-idUSKBN0JT1WI20141215

(Reuters) - The United States, which is seeking ways to close Guantanamo Bay prison camp and to transfer inmates to third countries, asked the Vatican on Monday for help finding "humanitarian solutions" for inmates, Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made the request at a meeting with Vatican counterpart Cardinal Pietro Parolin at the Holy See.

While the Vatican gave no details on what kind of help the U.S. was seeking, a senior State Department official said Kerry reiterated Obama's commitment to closing the center and described recent progress in diplomatic efforts to transfer detainees to third countries, including Uruguay.

The United States asked for "the Holy See's assistance in seeking adequate humanitarian solutions for current inmates", Lombardi said in comments published on the Vatican Radio website.

U.S. President Barack Obama has been trying since he came to the White House in 2009 to shut the camp where terrorism suspects have been housed without trial since the 9/11 attacks, but has so far failed, partly because of resistance from Congress. It currently houses some 148 inmates.

[lavender1]

phys.org/news/2014-12-poll-americans-condone-brutal-interrogation.html

Does the American public condone torture when the goal is to prevent terrorist attacks? News headlines reporting the results of a Pew Research Center poll released on Dec. 9 indicate more than half of Americans do. But that finding isn't necessarily valid, says Richard Eichenberg, an associate professor of political science at Tufts, who argues that the poll is flawed because it is based on a faulty premise.

Pew reported on its poll about using torture to fight terrorism on the same day that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released an executive summary [PDF] of its report on the Central Intelligence Agency's detention and brutal interrogation program implemented after the 9/11 attacks.

The Senate findings, writes committee chair Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., "are highly critical of the CIA's actions, and rightfully so."

The Pew poll, conducted in August 2011, is one of those cases where paying careful attention to the wording of survey questions is important for really understanding public opinion about an issue, Eichenberg says. The Pew survey found that 53 percent of Americans believed torture could often or sometimes be justified, while 42 percent said it could only rarely be justified or is never warranted at all.

But the reason for these results, Eichenberg says, may lie in the Pew poll's slanted question: "Do you think the use of torture against suspected terrorists in order to gain important information can often be justified, sometimes be justified, rarely be justified or never be justified?"

"First, the poll is based on a false premise, in that it says to the survey respondent that torture is used to get important information, while we now know from the [Senate's report on the CIA program] that most of what you get is false information," Eichenberg says. "Second, the Pew poll offers just four responses, three of which endorse torture, at least in part. So basically you are stacking the cards in favor of torture by three to one."

While this may seem like methodology details in which only students of polling would be interested, Eichenberg argues that such distinctions are important because poll respondents can only respond to a question as it is posed. "If the question is flawed, then the answer is going to be flawed," he says.

A more accurate picture of the nation's attitude can be found in responses to polls conducted by Pew, Gallup and other news organizations and analyzed in a 2010 report. These surveys explained in graphic detail what interrogation techniques were being judged, Eichenberg says. The results were summarized in a journal article [PDF] by researchers at Reed College in Oregon, led by Paul Gronke, a political science professor.

"By and large, 70 to 80 percent of the people reject the techniques that are described in this month's Senate committee report, yet these findings are not getting into the public conversations," says Eichenberg. He points to the Reed researchers' compilation of survey numbers that show that 80 percent of Americans polled between 2004 and 2009 opposed electric shock, waterboarding, sexual humiliation and punching or kicking as interrogation techniques.

So while response to more general questions on the use of torture may continue to produce mixed reactions, Eichenberg says public support for torture will decline as more people become aware of the explicit details of torture techniques contained in the Senate report.

"The graphic details evoke disgust, and the more salient these details are in the press, the more the polls will reflect that disgust—even when the poll question might be fairly general," he says.

A change in sentiment, he says, could lead to public pressure on the U.S. government to adhere to its obligations under the United Nations Convention against Torture agreement that President Ronald Reagan signed in 1988 and the U.S. Senate ratified in 1994. The agreement, in part, calls for the investigation and prosecution of crimes that clearly fall under the definition of torture as cruel and inhumane treatment.

"Whether our government will live up to its obligations under the law of the land is still an open question," Eichenberg says.

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www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/folter-in-cia-lagern-gregor-gysi-erstattet-strafanzeige-a-1008723.html

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Gysi