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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

2 March - Night Links


Health Freedom Alliance

Health Authorities Want Depression-Causing Drugs Added To Water Supply





National Security Counselors Sues the CIA over its FOIA Practices


The CIA’s routine violations of the letter and spirit of FOIA include:
  • Considering comments made by CIA FOIA analysts as blanketly exempt, regardless of the content.
  • Considering all training materials, guidelines, reference materials, etc., provided to FOIA analysts to be blanketly exempt, regardless of the content.
  • Invoking the Glomar response about FOIA requests referred by other agencies, even when these requests are marked UNCLASSIFIED.
  • Refusing to provide requesters with estimated dates of completion for their requests, as stipulated by law.
  • Refusing to provide requesters with information regarding records that the Agency has withheld in full, thereby leaving requesters unable to intelligently appeal the withholding decisions.
  • Refusing to specify which exemptions the agency applies to its redactions, often invoking the conjunction “and/or,” which hampers the requester’s ability to intelligently appeal.
  • Refusing to accept requests for aggregate data.
  • Using an overbroad interpretation of what constitutes a “reasonable description of the records sought.”
  • Canceling FOIA requests the Agency determines to be inadequate without ever contacting requesters.
  • And refusing to recognize legal assignments of rights in FOIA requests from one party to another.

  • Gawker FOIA's Rumsfeld's FOIA Request
  • Full text: UN Security Council draft resolution
  • The following is the full text of the draft UN Security Council resolution condemning continued Israeli settlements that the Obama administration vetoed late Friday. All other member states voted in favor.
  • The Excavator: Russian Whistleblower Dimitri Khalezov Says U.S. And Russia Are Framing Former Russian Military Officer Viktor Bout


The Truth Seeker

Killing People Starts with Making them Sick

I wanted to order Hernease (Wuhui Yushan) for my condition (now fixed) but the global pharmaceutical, blood sucking octopus is working to stamp out all Ayurvedic, Chinese Medicine and other natural treatments because of their effectiveness in treating something that their products don’t help, except symptomatically, maybe, and for which they cannot collect money. They are going after colloidal silver and all similar substances, which are seriously potent and not harmful. Harmful products are actually desirable to these vampire squid because they can manufacture and sell other products to offset the negative results of those products.

Iran Boosting Air Defense Power through Long-Range Radar Systems


Libyan rebels drive back government troops advancing on town of Zintan

Yemeni Leader Accuses U.S., Israel Of Plotting Unrest

"I am going to reveal a secret," Saleh said at Sanaa University. "There is an operations room in Tel Aviv with the aim of destabilizing the Arab world. The operations room is in Tel Aviv and run by the White House."
He said opposition figures meet regularly with the U.S. ambassador in Sanaa to coordinate efforts.
"Regrettably those [opposition figures] are sitting day and night with the American ambassador where they hand him reports and he gives them instructions," Saleh said. "The Americans also talk with the government officials about this [the protests], but they tell them, "Allow these people to demonstrate in the streets.'
"We say that this is a Zionist agenda," he said

UN. Official: 'Massive Evacuation' Needed For Refugees From Libya

I took this photo in western Madagascar in spr...Image via Wikipedia

Libya unrest: Aid crisis grows on Tunisia border


Anti-gay Christian couple lose battle to become foster parents

( Dare I say there should be nothing remarkable about a court enforcing a code demanding a fostering of equal rights before the law for its wards ?  That seems an unremarkable criteria for civic responsibility and citizenship...lack of inherent bias and intolerance. )


Asians more likely to be anti-immigration than white Britons


US military pulls out of key eastern Afghan valley



During the 1979-1989 Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, the Pech valley, located near the border with Pakistan, was the scene of some of the fiercest fighting between the Afghan resistance and Soviet soldiers.
The Soviets pulled out of the valley in 1988, and many Afghans saw it as a key turning moment in the war, the Times said. Within six months the mujahedeen resistance groups had taken the valley from the Soviet-supported Afghan army.

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