JokingClown
24th September 2005, 18:46
xince I have a bunch of news links i decided to make just one thread with them.
World Bank in inequality warning:
"They tend to protect the interests of politically influential and wealthy people, often to the detriment of the majority.
"If the middle and poorer groups are not able to exploit their talent, society loses opportunities for innovation and investment."
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4264330.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4264330.stm)
The U.S. Justice Department has told a Texas court that a lawsuit accusing Pope Benedict XVI of conspiring to cover up the sexual molestation of three boys by a seminarian should be dismissed because the pontiff enjoys immunity as head of state of the Holy See.
Assistant U.S. Attorney General Peter Keisler said in Monday's filing that allowing the lawsuit to proceed would be ``incompatible with the United States' foreign policy interests.''
www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5291214,00.html] (http://
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www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5291214,00.html[/url]
Poll: Fewer than half think U.S. will win in Iraq (but what does win mean)
edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/22/iraq.poll/ (http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/22/iraq.poll/)
Two more US soldiers have been charged after an Afghanistan prisoner abuse investigation centred on two detainees who died in custody, the Army announced in Fort Bliss, Texas.
Sergeant Alan Driver and Spc Nathan Adam Jones, both reservists with the Cincinnati-based 377th Military Police Company, were the latest to be named in an investigation which has seen 14 soldiers charged with misconduct.
Driver faces charges of assault and maltreatment. Jones is accused of assault, maltreatment and making a false official statement.
Two Afghan detainees died after being taken into US custody in December 2002. Both were being held in a detention centre at Bagram Airfield.
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CDD0CC9C-88C3-4342-967C-1681866B9BF0.htm (http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CDD0CC9C-88C3-4342-967C-1681866B9BF0.htm)
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These bottom two should be read both, or not all all.
Quoting unnamed lawyers and officials, the newspaper said as many as 200 prisoners - more than a third of the camp’s population -- have refused food in recent weeks to protest conditions and prolonged confinement without trial.
While military officials put the number of those participating at 105, they acknowledge that 20 of them, whose health and survival are being threatened, are being kept at the camp’s hospital and fed through nasal tubes and sometimes given fluids intravenously, the report said.
www.jang.com.pk/thenews/sep2005-daily/19-09-2005/world/w7.html (http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/sep2005-daily/19-09-2005/world/w7.html)
According to pentagon, only 76 detainees are on strike, according to the lawyers, theres 200. Im notinclined to believe a lawyer or anyone from the pentagon.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4206908.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4206908.stm)
World Bank in inequality warning:
"They tend to protect the interests of politically influential and wealthy people, often to the detriment of the majority.
"If the middle and poorer groups are not able to exploit their talent, society loses opportunities for innovation and investment."
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4264330.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4264330.stm)
The U.S. Justice Department has told a Texas court that a lawsuit accusing Pope Benedict XVI of conspiring to cover up the sexual molestation of three boys by a seminarian should be dismissed because the pontiff enjoys immunity as head of state of the Holy See.
Assistant U.S. Attorney General Peter Keisler said in Monday's filing that allowing the lawsuit to proceed would be ``incompatible with the United States' foreign policy interests.''
www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5291214,00.html] (http://
[url)
www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5291214,00.html[/url]
Poll: Fewer than half think U.S. will win in Iraq (but what does win mean)
edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/22/iraq.poll/ (http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/22/iraq.poll/)
Two more US soldiers have been charged after an Afghanistan prisoner abuse investigation centred on two detainees who died in custody, the Army announced in Fort Bliss, Texas.
Sergeant Alan Driver and Spc Nathan Adam Jones, both reservists with the Cincinnati-based 377th Military Police Company, were the latest to be named in an investigation which has seen 14 soldiers charged with misconduct.
Driver faces charges of assault and maltreatment. Jones is accused of assault, maltreatment and making a false official statement.
Two Afghan detainees died after being taken into US custody in December 2002. Both were being held in a detention centre at Bagram Airfield.
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CDD0CC9C-88C3-4342-967C-1681866B9BF0.htm (http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CDD0CC9C-88C3-4342-967C-1681866B9BF0.htm)
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These bottom two should be read both, or not all all.
Quoting unnamed lawyers and officials, the newspaper said as many as 200 prisoners - more than a third of the camp’s population -- have refused food in recent weeks to protest conditions and prolonged confinement without trial.
While military officials put the number of those participating at 105, they acknowledge that 20 of them, whose health and survival are being threatened, are being kept at the camp’s hospital and fed through nasal tubes and sometimes given fluids intravenously, the report said.
www.jang.com.pk/thenews/sep2005-daily/19-09-2005/world/w7.html (http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/sep2005-daily/19-09-2005/world/w7.html)
According to pentagon, only 76 detainees are on strike, according to the lawyers, theres 200. Im notinclined to believe a lawyer or anyone from the pentagon.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4206908.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4206908.stm)